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Fringe Is on the Right Track With Code-Cracking Science The Fringe team encounters the Observers—strange men who keep a log of mysterious code that the agents must try to crack. PM spoke with etymologist Rex Curry about deciphering ancient codes and symbols to see how (and if) it can be done.
Obama Announces Winners of Smart-Grid Stimulus Today, President Barack Obama spoke at Florida Power and Light’s new DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center about $3.4 billion in stimulus money going to smart-grid projects that will help link renewables to consumers.
5 Companies Making Fuel From Algae Now Algae is now a burgeoning sector in biofuels with several high-profile start-ups, including Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics, and the interest of big-time investors like Bill Gates and ExxonMobil. Here are 5 projects leading the pack today.
Virginia Tech's Lumenhaus Sports Sliding Panels: Solar Decathlon Popular Mechanics visited Virginia Tech's Solar Decathlon entry, the Lumenhaus, on the National Mall in Washington. The team was putting the finishing touches on the house, in anticipation of the event, which opened to the public yesterday morning.
Exclusive Interview With Inventor and Innovator Dean Kamen PM editor in chief Jim Meigs and deputy editor Jerry Beilinson sat down with inventor Dean Kamen, the winner of PM's 2009 Leadership Award, to discuss innovation, his hope for the future of America and his hands-down favorite piece of technology ever. (Published in the November 2009 issue)
The Adventures of Inventor Dean Kamen: Timeline Follow Popular Mechanics 2009 Leadership Award winner Dean Kamen from when he hacked his parents house to his invention of the Segway and a cheap system for purifying water. (Published in the November 2009 issue)
Students Build the Solar Homes of the Future For the Solar Decathlon, 20 teams of college students strive to build the most technologically savvy sun-powered house. For two weeks in October their homes go head to head in a contest to consume the least energy. (Published in the October 2009 issue)
Spying For Science: Military Satellites Aid Civilian Research American spy satellites have been taking photographs of the Earth since the early days of the space race. Here are five times that spy photos contributed to science, even when the photos themselves remained classified.
MythBusters Announce Popular Mechanics Special Issue at Comic Con In addition to previewing clips from the upcoming season of MythBusters at Comic Con, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage premiered their cover of the September issue of Popular Mechanics, which they guest edited, for the first time.
Neuroscientist's Research Holds Clues About Short-Term Memory Raja Parasuraman was conducting a study of brain function among 650 participants when he stumbled across what he calls a "cognitive superstar." What is a cognitive superstar? One man's exceptional brain could help settle the debate of nature versus nurture.
8 Science Kit Reviews and 8 DIY Experiments You Can Do for Free In the name of science education—and fun—the editors at PM ordered eight science kits and tested an experiment from each. Then, we came up with complementary homemade experiments, for a cheap alternative. Here's how they compare.
Brighter Than Thou: Brookhaven Lab's Newest Particle Accelerator Work began on a $912 million particle accelerator that will produce the world's brightest light and could revolutionize medicine, alternative energy and nanotech. But what was wrong with the old one?
10 Geekiest Elements Ever Created in a Lab Cooking up new elements is an arduous process—years of wrangling over exactly what was really in that messy aftermath of atomic collisions that resulted in milliseconds of success. Here are 10 of the geekiest DIY elements that researchers have created so far.
Inside Amateur Science: The Best in Out-of-Lab Research Amateur scientists—researchers who work at home, without major funding—have made some of the most remarkable discoveries throughout history. Here are some of the top citizen scientists and programs that are influencing research now.
Does Angels & Demons Get Antimatter Science Right? (Warning, Spoilers!) When Ron Howard took on Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons, one of the first things he did was visit the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN. But did his scientific research pay off? Warning: Spoilers ahead.
Lost's Season Five Finale's Electromagnetic Science Makes the Grade Five seasons down, and only one to go. The two-hour finale of the fifth—and next-to-last—season of Lost, "The Incident," gave us some big twists to contemplate for the next nine months and if you haven't seen the finale, stop reading now!
Three Science Films at The Tribeca Film Fest While the Tribeca Film Festival is known for cramming its extensive list of films into a couple of weeks, it's not known for its selection of science documentaries and sci-fi flicks. Luckily, some geeky films have been added to this year's line-up.
Ocean Drilling Tech: Exploring Seabed History With 600,000 Pounds of Pipe PM's far-flung geological correspondent, Trevor Williams, reports from the JOIDES Resolution, where scientists in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program are plumbing the seafloor to unlock its ancient secrets.
Is Fringe's Genetic Monster Possible? In "Unleashed," a genetically generated monster terrorizes Boston—and the Fringe must find the transgenic animal. PM spoke with geneticists to find out just how close science is to creating a Fringe-style supermonster.
Up Close With Ocean Cores: JOIDES Scientists Put the Seabed Under the Microscope Last time we checked in on the crew of the scientific drilling ship JOIDES Resolution, they were on a remote patch of ocean 1250 miles southeast of Hawaii pulling cores of ancient ooze from 3 miles beneath the ocean floor.
Fringe's Stomach Science is Part Fact, Part Fiction After a month-long hiatus, Fringe is back—and right away, the show is throwing us out-there science claims. We get to the bottom of "Inner Child," an episode flirting with stomach science.
Rube Goldberg Machines Go Green at Indiana-Based Contest PM was at Purdue University's campus in West Lafayette, Ind., to catch the 22nd annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. The teams had one goal: Replace an incandescent light bulb with a more efficient CFL—as inefficiently as possible.
Knowing Blends Science Fact with Fiction (Beware: Spoilers!) In Knowing, numbers predict every major disaster for 50 years—and the upcoming end of the world. But just how much can scientists predict? PM talks to MIT physicist Dr. Edward Farhi to find out. Beware: Spoilers ahead!
The Seeing Machine: Retina Projection for the Visually Impaired Elizabeth Goldring became inspired to create a seeing machine for the visually impaired 20 years ago. That’s when Goldring, who is legally blind in one eye and partially blind in the other, first encountered a Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope. (Published in the April 2009 issue)
Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip Mars researchers plan to take a Humvee for a1200-mile off-road trip on thinning sea ice in the Arctic. Their pursuit? To answer questions about exploring Mars. Here are the dangers they will face and what they hope to uncover.
Does High-Tech Highway Design Make us Less Safe? When it comes to planning highways and roads, greater convenience does not necessarily mean fewer accidents. Perceived advances in safety may make drivers too comfortable. That’s when accident rates start to rise. (Published in the April 2009 issue)
Citizen Science: How Smartphones Can Aid Scientific Research A number of researchers are working on software applications that would enable smartphone users to help scientists gather data for research. Here are three projects that look to make citizens with smartphones into data collectors for science.
Solar Panel Drops to $1 per Watt: Is this a Milestone or the Bottom for Silicon-Based Panels? A milestone was reached when First Solar Inc brought its manufacturing costs for solar panels down to $1 per watt. A new study suggests that this might be the price-point if solar power is ever going to become competitive with other forms of energy.
Top 10 Ig Nobels: The Best of Science's Strangest Prize The Annals of Improbable research awards "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced," with the Ig Nobel. We looked back at 18 years of the prizes to bring you our 10 favorite Ig Nobels of all time.
The Window to Energy Saving While other countries may lead in the manufacturing of solar cells, the U.S. continues to be a solar-powered innovator. Exhibit A: Electricity-generating windows, from the Massachusetts-based MIT and California-based Covalent Solar. (Published in the March 2009 issue)
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