Theory that shook the world Feb 15, 2009
It was a lot of money to spend back then, and a whopping lot to spend now for a popular science hardback. Just what is so remarkable about The Origin of Species, as it is more simply known today, that has kept Darwin in print and curious minds ever since. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
GEORGE B. KAUFFMAN: Birthday is the right time to study Darwin Feb 8, 2009
org/origins), and popular science magazines like Scientific American will have special issues on evolution (e. g., www. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
American Chemical Society Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 4, 2009 Feb 8, 2009
The American Chemical Society's Office of Public Affairs (OPA) new satellite press room has quickly become one of the most popular science news sites on Twitter with daily updates on the latest research from ACS' 34 peer-reviewed journals and other news, including links to compelling podcast series, information on the upcoming 237th National Meeting, and the latest recipients of ACS' national awards. To receive press room updates, create a free account at. (EurekAlert!)
Teacher's trial gets under way Mar 29, 2008
He testified the popular science teacher asked him to come back to his classroom later that night to help him with his photography equipment. Beier, the student said, asked him to bring a bathing suit to the classroom and pose for some test shots. (Howard County Times, MD)
Pre-Inca temple discovered in Peru Mar 15, 2008
Secondary Navigation. By ANDREW WHALEN, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 14, 7:09 PM ET. (Yahoo News)
Nielsen Business Media Announces Leadership Team for New Entertainment Group Mar 6, 2008
"In addition to Appelbaum, Mika and Bilbao, Byrne's Entertainment Group leadership team includes Jeff Black, Vice President and General Manager of Back Stage, and Bob Sunshine, Vice President of the Film Exposition Group.Howard Appelbaum, Billboard VP/PublisherAs Billboard VP/Publisher, Appelbaum manages all aspects of the Billboard business including editorial, charts, digital and mobile initiatives, advertising sales, and face-to-face events. He also continues to oversee Nielsen Business... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Can a Man Become a Magnet? Mar 4, 2008
Explainer thanks Adam Cohen of Harvard University, Martha Harbison of Popular Science, Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University, Jim Livingston of MIT, Don Pickrell of the R.B. Annis Company, and Mark Reed of Yale University. Explainer also thanks reader Ann Bartkowski for asking the question. (Slate)
Bad grades? Faulty memory could be to blame Mar 3, 2008
Faulty memory could be to blame - Yahoo. Secondary Navigation. (Yahoo News)
Japan looks to a robot future Mar 3, 2008
Secondary Navigation. By HIROKO TABUCHI, Associated Press Writer Sun Mar 2, 7:25 AM ET. (Yahoo News)
Beyond the potato cannon Feb 21, 2008
Gurstelle, who describes what he does as PG-13 science projects, compares Make to what Popular Science magazine was 25 years ago, full of projects made for people who like to take control of the gadgets and gizmos around them. Wilhelm started an early version of Instructables. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Ancient "devil frog" may have eaten baby dinosaurs Feb 20, 2008
The most popular science news stories and photos. NEWS ALERTS. (Yahoo News)
Do-it-yourself for geeks catching on Feb 20, 2008
Gurstelle, who describes what he does as "PG-13 science projects," compares Make to what Popular Science magazine was 25 years ago, full of projects made for people "who like to take control of the gadgets and gizmos around them.". Wilhelm started an early version of while still a starving grad student because he was seeking advice about how to make equipment to support his kite surfing hobby on the cheap. (North County Times)
Portland named greenest city in America Feb 16, 2008
In this month's Popular Science magazine Portland is called the "greenest" city in the United States ... As for that new "greenest city honor" Popular Science says Portland is tops in the nation because of its energy practices, transportation systems, recycling rate, and green building practices. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR)
UN calls water top priority Jan 25, 2008
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivers his speech during a session on "Time Is Running... RELATED QUOTES 36.01 0.00 59.88 0.00 1352.07 0.00 Delayed Data - 60 MINUTES ON YAHOO! NEWS Exploring the Foja Mountains of Indonesia, one the last places on earth untouched by man. Elsewhere on the Web Time.com: USATODAY.com: ASSIGNMENT EARTH Explore the world's wonders and the battle to save them. MOST POPULAR The most popular science news stories and photos. Add headlines to your personalized My Yahoo!... (Yahoo News)
Bonnier Titles Sign On to ABC's Rapid Report Jan 24, 2008
Bonnier said Parenting, Popular Science, Field & Stream and Outdoor Life would participate starting with their first issues of 2008. A spokesman for the company said more titles would be added in the future. (MediaWeek.com)
HLB Product Designs Win Multiple Awards and Help Launch an Initial Public Offering Jan 11, 2008
Medgenics: A leading medical device company and provider of the Biopump, an implantable medical device, had a successful initial public offering Sears Craftsman: Received the Popular Mechanics Editor's Choice Award for its innovative AXS line of tool chests Westell: UltraLine Series3 residential gateway has been named an International CES Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Award honoree in the Home Networking product category Epson: New Ensemble HD Home Cinema System received the... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Sandy Nichols Ward: In his own words: my father's business Jan 4, 2008
"How I slipped into the hearing aid business goes back to my early interest in radios. I liked to build, innovate, and experiment with mechanical and electrical things while still in grammar school. "Popular Science" and "Popular Mechanics" were my favorite reading magazines in the Library. In the early 1920s at age of about 10, I succeeded in winding coils on oatmeal boxes, using World War One earphones, and a "cats whisker" hitting a hot spot on a galena crystal, to make a home made radio... (Danvers Herald, MA)
Purdue students sniff manure for science Jan 2, 2008
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Year's advances Jan 1, 2008
You'd think the magazines Science, Discover and Nature, not to mention Scientific American, Popular Science and Time, would agree on what in science has the greatest potential for affecting our lives. But they don't, not by a long shot. (Albany Times Union)
Ensemble Studios moving to Plano Dec 31, 2007
Ensemble Studios' current headline project, "Halo Wars," is a strategy game for the PC and Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, based on the popular science fiction universe. Patrick Hudson, executive producer at Ensemble Studios, said the company will shift operations to Plano in April. (Dallas Business Journal, TX)
The online list of all lists Dec 31, 2007
From Popular Science, a list of technologies developed and released in 2007 that will "drive the next 20 years of innovation.". Google 2007 Year-End Zeitgeist. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Just for whom do we write? Dec 23, 2007
Killing time in a doctor s waiting room, they will settle down with National Geographic and Popular Science. Thus, I would write for high school graduates in their most perceptive moments. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Why do those Christmas lights always knot up? Dec 20, 2007
Popular Science, Science News, New Scientist and Physics Today all wrote stories. Smith and Raymer's work was an elegantly simple attack on an interesting physics problem: Why does a string tangle when you shake it. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Bright ideas Dec 16, 2007
The company was featured in the February 2007 edition of Popular Science magazine for having the first LED flashlight to break the 1,000-lumen-limit barrier, Andrea said. Lumen is a unit of measure of perceived power of light. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
BAUER ON EMAP TRAIL Dec 7, 2007
"I'd absolutely characterize it as a full blown launch" said Mark Jannot, the editor-in-chief of Popular Science and Science Illustrated. He said the magazine is starting with what is a modest circulation of 100,000 with plans to raise it to 500,000 in five years. (New York Post -- Business)
Argonne bolsters efforts in security research Nov 29, 2007
Ross Anderson, a University of Cambridge professor of security research, said this about the VAT: "The most impressive physical security research team in the world is probably Roger Johnston's Vulnerability Assessment Team at Los Alamos." Indeed, the team has 10 U.S. patents, two Rawards, and was awarded Popular Science magazine's "Best of What's New Award," the LANL Fellows Prize for Outstanding Research, and the LANL Achievement Awards in 2007, 2004, 1999 and 1995. . (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
LA Auto Show: Driving Hondas Fuel-Cell FCX Nov 25, 2007
I m old enough to have been reading Popular Science in the 70 s, when fusion was touted as the soon-to-be answer to our power woes. It always seems to be perhaps 10 years away from becoming a reality. (New York Times)
An Unauthorized Autobiography of Science Nov 19, 2007
Chickens notwithstanding, such first-person accounts in popular science books that include the journey and not just the destination afford readers a glimpse into how science is really carried out. Formal science writing what I call the narrative of explanation presents a neat and tidy step-by-step process of Introduction-Methods-Results-Discussion, grounded in a nonexistent scientific method of Observation-Hypothesis-Prediction-Experiment followed in a linear fashion. (Nature News Service)
Canadian chosen as Discover's top scientist Nov 18, 2007
OTTAWA -- "We really want to go for the big fish," says David Charbonneau - the Canadian just chosen as 2007's top scientist by the popular science magazine Discover. It's an appropriate phrase for a guy who wanted to be a marine biologist when he went high school in Ottawa; but then Charbonneau went to university and found astronomy. (Canada.com)
There are many posts about Bush, religion, the war, illegal aliens, all with differing opinions. We can take some simple facts and leave out the hateful rhetoric. 1--Bush is the most ignorant President in our history. 2--Religion should keep out of the state. It is a private personal belief. 3--The illegal alien invasion is real. It is against the law to sneak across the border. Illegals should be deported. More... Nov 8, 2007
DD Wiz wrote on Nov 5, 2007 10:10 PM:" The posted response from "Reardon" (11/5 - 12:04pm) challenged my earlier assertion of unanimity of scientific consensus in peer-reviewed scientific journals by claiming to cite dissenting views in very recently-published scholarly articles. All of those cited are within the last three months, after my most recent compilation, and are at least partially in response to the recent IPCC (UN) panel report on climate change. I promised to review these items and... (North County Times)
When Dissent Goes Too Far Nov 2, 2007
Apparently, these nut jobs haven't read Popular Science magazine's description of how the towers fell. Or Purdue University's study, one of the most prestigious engineering universities in the country. (The New Hampshire, NH)
Writing home about nothing Oct 29, 2007
So despite more than 20 years of writing popular science books, a stint as head of communication and public education at CERN, a season as the Royal Institution's Christmas lecturer and a clutch of awards for his science writing, when we settle down in the dingy basement caf down the street with the tape machine running, he plays down any suggestion he's a literary master of any kind ... Sitting neatly on a sofa, still with his radio voice on after tangling with Melvyn Bragg, he draws a... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Hanging with CMU professor and genius Luis von Ahn Oct 23, 2007
Last year's included a $500,000 MacArthur "genius" grant and a spot on Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10" list. Now the Guatemala-born researcher has been named one of the nation's top young innovators by Smithsonian magazine. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Northern Rock 'is still overpriced' Oct 22, 2007
Chairman Matt Ridley, better known as the author of popular science books on evolution and genetics, stood down as chairman last week and was replaced by Bryan , former chairman of. Gadhia also said the Northern Rock name would go. (This is Money)
Scientist apologizes for hurtful remarks Oct 19, 2007
Secondary Navigation. By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Thu Oct 18, 10:10 PM ET. (Yahoo News)
Princeton professor to give lecture, performance Oct 16, 2007
In 2002, Popular Science magazine named him to its Brilliant 10 list of scientists who are shaking up their fields. Still, he gets the most satisfaction out of teaching. (Winona Daily News, MN)
'Brilliant' minds think alike for good of mankind Oct 15, 2007
By John B. Carnett for Popular Science ... By John B. Carnett for Popular Science ... By John B. Carnett for Popular Science. (USA Today -- Tech)
Think about flexing your mental muscles Oct 8, 2007
I have Popular Science, The Economist, a psychology book and the U.S. Tax Code sitting in my bathroom. I ask every successful person I meet for the last few great books they've read, so that I don't miss out. (Albany Times Union)
Back down to Earth Oct 3, 2007
And to my knowledge, there has never been a bestselling popular science book about the differences between right- and left-handed people. Handedness makes an instructive comparison with sex, because it too is associated with differences in the organisation of the brain. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Isoclima S.p.A. prsentera son nouveau verre CromaLite SPD-intelligent dans des salons commerciaux de renom qui dbutent ce mois-ci Oct 2, 2007
compense de la meilleure innovation) par le magazine Popular Science pour la technologie de l'habitation ; elle a. galement re. (BusinessWire)
There are three crucial steps to successful reattachment of limbs Oct 2, 2007
The first case, in April, got wide publicity because of a huge photo in Popular Science magazine. What the photo showed was an alligator at a Taipei zoo standing there with the guy's arm in his mouth. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
What language barrier? Oct 1, 2007
Readers who prefer something a little harder-edged can turn to a genre of popular science books with titles such as Brain Sex, Sex on the Brain, The Essential Difference, and Why Men Don't Iron ... The literature of Mars and Venus, in both the self-help and popular science genres, is remarkably patronising towards men ... In 2006, for instance, a popular science book called The Female Brain claimed that women on average utter 20,000 words a day, while men on average utter only 7,000. (Guardian Unlimited)
The Really Hard Science Sep 20, 2007
ADVERTISEMENT (article continues below) Between technical and popular science writing is what I call integrative science, a process that blends data, theory and narrative. Without all three of these metaphorical legs, the seat on which the enterprise of science rests would collapse. (Scientific American)
Report: NYC tech force dwarfs Silicon Valley's Sep 10, 2007
By contrast, Popular Science magazine in 2005 rated New York 39th among high-tech cities. The new study looked at more than 180 companies that rely heavily on technology. (Newsday -- New York City)
Life after 'Potter Sep 10, 2007
Orson Scott Card's popular science fiction novel "Ender's Game," for instance, came out in a young-adult edition. And author James Patterson actually transitioned from adult novels to a youth series, in the "Maximum Ride" books. (Pensacola News Journal)
MPA to Honor Talk Vet Brown, Hachette's Kliger Sep 6, 2007
Kliger, president and CEO of Hachette Filipacchi Media and a champion for audience measurement of magazines, will receive MPA s Henry Johnson Fisher Award, named for the founding publisher of Popular Science. Marlene Kahan, executive director, ASME, called Brown a reigning force in popular culture, while Kliger was praised for championing innovation and excellence in the magazine industry. (MediaWeek.com)
Bonnier Geeks Out With Science Illustrated Sep 3, 2007
With Americans bombarded by terms like global warming and stem-cell research, executives at Bonnier Corp., publisher of Popular Science, are betting the time is right for a science magazine that translates complex science and research subject matter for the masses. Bonnier, the U.S. outpost of Sweden s Bonnier Group, is readying the launch of Science Illustrated, an English-language version of Bonnier Group s Scandinavian science magazine. (MediaWeek.com)
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Elizabeth Svoboda is a freelance writer based in San Jose, California, and a contributing editor at Popular Science. Feedback: loop@fastcompany. (FastCompany)
The Great Beyond Aug 24, 2007
Our up-to-the-minute digest of what is being reported elsewhere. An out-of-control computer game is providing insights into how virulent diseases spread in the real world. (Nature News Service)
More Articles You Need to Read Aug 21, 2007
From the pages of Popular Science, TIME and National Geographic comes another trio of articles sure to update your take on things ... Popular Science July, 2007, by ELIZABETH SVOBODA. (Suite101.com)
Woodbury's Research Frontiers heralds 'smart' glass Jul 31, 2007
The technology won the 2002 Best of What's New award from Popular Science magazine for home technology. "Our model is a lot like a biotech company," said Joseph Harary, president of Research Frontiers. (Newsday -- Business)
Study: Nevada has big temperature gains Jul 26, 2007
The most popular science news stories and photos. Add headlines to your personalized My Yahoo. (Yahoo News)
Earth observation satellites in peril Jul 26, 2007
By Laura Allen Popular Science. () -- The American Association for the Advancement of Science calls it a crisis. (CNN -- Tech)
Quadruple Sunsets Possible Jul 26, 2007
" Not uncommon The stars that make up each stellar doublet orbit around each other, and the two pairs circle one another as well. Worlds with multiple sunsets are not uncommon. Astronomers used to think that strong gravitational forces from multiple stars might interfere with planet formation, but have revealed that the dusty debris disks that function like nurseries for new planets are as common around double star systems as they are around single ones. A few systems are even known. "Since many... (Yahoo News)
Q & A with southpaw Jeff Francis Jul 24, 2007
You majored in physics at the University of British Columbia, and you read Popular Science magazine in the clubhouse sometimes. Are you the smartest guy you know. (MLB.com -- Colorado Rockies)
Bonnier expands Web presence Jul 21, 2007
The magazines include Saveur, Yachting, Caribbean Travel & Life and Popular Science. (Nasdaq: ONSM), is an online service provider of live and on- demand, digital media communications and applications. (Orlando Business Journal)
Scientist: Human Origin Impossible to Pinpoint Jul 20, 2007
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New games come out swinging Jul 17, 2007
With Bioshock due from 2K Games and Crysis from Electronic Arts on Aug. 21 and Sept. 1 respectively (most PC titles are $50), "we're seeing a couple of marquee titles that are going to show off just how good PC graphics can be," says game journalist Steve Morgenstern, who covered E3 for Popular Science. Each takes advantage of the advanced multimedia capabilities built into Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista. (USA Today)
Natural-gas guzzler Jul 10, 2007
By Eric Adams and the PopSci staff Popular Science. () -- Behold the car that could displace the Toyota Prius as the eco-ride of choice. (CNN -- Tech)
Intercytex artificial skin heals wounds in tests Jul 10, 2007
The most popular science news stories and photos. . (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Boeing unveils 'green' Dreamliner passenger jet Jul 7, 2007
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Squash grown 10,000 years ago in Peru Jun 29, 2007
Secondary Navigation. By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer Thu Jun 28, 6:09 PM ET. (Yahoo News)
U.S. bald eagle numbers making recovery Jun 28, 2007
Secondary Navigation. By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Wed Jun 27, 10:35 PM ET. (Yahoo News)
System protects ports from deadly cargo Jun 28, 2007
System would move cargo screening 14 miles offshore Plan calls for platforms anchored outside world's major ports It monitors for chemical, biological and nuclear traces on ships Each system will cost $100-million By Mark Schrope Popular Science Adjust font size. . (CNN -- Tech)
MS security hits 'worst jobs' list Jun 27, 2007
The Microsoft Security Response Center made Popular Science's list of the worst jobs in science because the daunting work is 'hard and thankless ... They all made Popular Science magazine's 2007 of the absolute worst jobs in science ... Popular Science has been compiling the list since 2003, as "a way to celebrate the crazy variety of jobs that there are in science," said Michael Moyer, the magazine's executive editor. (InfoWorld)
