Featured in November 2009
What Would Happen If I Ate A Teaspoonful Of White Dwarf Star?
“Everything about it would be bad,” says Mark Hammergren, an astronomer at Adler Planetarium in Chicago, beginning with your attempt...
Green Dream: Custom-Made Aluminum Windows Save Money and Energy
Plus: four more green windows and doors for retrofitting your own home
Will a Shortage of Nuclear Isotopes Mean Less Effective Medical Tests?
The Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ontario doesn’t sell a watt of electricity. Never has. But when it sprang a...
Megapixels: Thinking Cap
Tiny surface electrodes could help paralyzed people move
My Quest To Analyze Every Man-Made Chemical In My Body
Every day we're exposed to thousands of man-made chemicals, some of which seep into our bodies and remain there for decades. What that means for our health, we don't fully understand--but I subjected myself to a battery of new tests in search of answers
The Martian Torture Chamber
Earthly organisms undergo tests in Mars-like conditions
You Built What?! A Real-Life Version of the Atari Classic Lunar Lander
The classic 1979 Atari videogame is transformed into three dimensions
A Material Based on Sharkskin Stops Bacterial Breakouts
A whale’s skin is easily glommed up with barnacles, algae, bacteria and other sea creatures, but sharks stay squeaky-clean. Although...
The First Snowmobile With Air Shocks Goes Farther, Faster
Yamaha's air-shock snowmobile lets adventurers explore more territory
How To Fix a Broken Collider: the LHC’s Restart Checklist
Before scientists can put the Large Hadron Collider back to work this month solving the mysteries of particle physics, the...