NIU increases outreach efforts for students in the region Aug 5, 2008
During the past six years, the Department of Physics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences External Programing and Division of Administration and University Outreach have collaborated to provide energetic and popular science outreach programs to young students in the region. NIU Outreach will now manage a new university-wide STEM Outreach program, consolidating and expanding existing efforts across campus. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Gaining on Wait Aug 4, 2008
And invest in some decent magazine subscriptions for the waiting room that will cater to a variety of interests - sports, current events, popular science, fashion, fitness, parenting, and entertainment. (If my editor will let me get away with this, may I point out that my husband's magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research, would be an excellent addition to any doctor's waiting room. (Boston Globe)
Gulf Dead Zone Smaller Than Predicted Jul 29, 2008
Posted by: William Location: Salado on Jul 29, 2008 at 05:39 AM Well why don't we try and oxygenate the water there the same way, stir it up, I saw an article in Popular Science that stated that you could use large tubes that use thermal transition to move the water from the middle to the top that would have enough force to allow the water to oxygenate naturally at the cost of a couple hundred dollars a tube. Special Weather Features. (KWTX.com, TX)
'Queer Eye' alum's new series explores science-food connection Jul 24, 2008
With the help of editors from Popular Science magazine, each half-hour episode will involve experiments designed to answer age-old questions like, "Will an apple a day really keep the doctor away?" ... Teaming up with Popular Science was a good fit, Allen said, because the show's producers wanted a partner that could help them come up with valid experiments. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Solar-powerpioneer circles back Jul 23, 2008
So he figured out how to build parabolic concentrators and Stirling engines to capture the sun's energy, selling the plans for $4 apiece through ads in "Popular Science" magazine. Gross, now 49, is again building solar power projects, albeit after a lengthy detour through the early days of the Internet. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Internet entrepreneur returns to solar energy Jul 20, 2008
An aspiring engineer, he figured out how to build parabolic concentrators and Stirling engines to capture the sun's energy, selling the plans for $4 apiece through ads in Popular Science magazine. Gross, now 49, is again building solar power projects after a lengthy detour through the early days of the Internet. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Future of Sports Tour Jul 19, 2008
Technology expert David Gregg Technology expert David Gregg on talked about from Popular Science magazine. Email Story. (WOKR13 Rochester)
The Marion Hyper-Sub prototype, the Fathom, at 33 feet long by 13.5 feet wide, and six feet tall, rests serenely on the surface of Kingsley Lake in Clay County after its successful first dive in November 2007. FILE PHOTO Jul 19, 2008
Marion Hyper-Sub featured in Popular Science magazine ... Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008 6:13 AM EDT The Marion Hyper-Sub has been named Invention of the Month by Popular Science magazine for its August 2008 issue. (Lake City Reporter, FL)
Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist--But Not for Long Jul 15, 2008
Q&A with movement researcher E. Paul Zehr. BECOMING BATMAN: Is it possible. (Scientific American)
Einstein is 'relatively' right yet again Jul 7, 2008
That's the world's most popular science headline. And from beyond the grave, the frizzy-haired physics sensation added another trophy to his mantle last week. (USA Today -- Tech)
'Portal' Star Launches Machinima in the UK - With a Little Help From Rustlers Jun 28, 2008
Jonathan Coulton () is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lectures. No stranger to machinima, Jonathan has had several previous songs turned into video-game animated videos, including 'RE: Your Brains' and the track 'Still Alive', the acclaimed theme song from the hit game Portal (as featured in 'The Orange Box' from Electronic Arts). (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
On This Rock Jun 24, 2008
Yet Radosh s reporting shows that the universe of Christian pop culture its books and music, its gimmicks and gifts, even its popular science is often as pervasive and popular as anything in the larger secular world. Christian books regularly top bestseller lists when they are counted; Christian rock increasingly winds up on pop charts; polls consistently show that various forms of creationism are believed by a majority of the public. (The American Conservative)
Alternative medicines draws fire Jun 21, 2008
" Shapiro's credentials to make such assertions are uncertain, with her only public qualifications listed as a writer for different newspapers and magazines including health journals. However, her sentiments are echoed in another new book, titled and written by two British scientists professor of alternative medicine Edzard Ernst, who has worked as a clinical doctor and spent the past decade working out which CAM treatments work, and popular science author Dr Simon Singh, who has a PhD in... (Courier Mail)
Scientists fighting disease with climate forecasts Jun 19, 2008
that we build climate into these other types of long-term analyses rather than trying to separate it out," he said. "What we do know is it's probably going to hit the most vulnerable populations the hardest: The poor, children, the elderly, those in low- and middle-income countries with weak infrastructure, degraded ecological environments, poor health-delivery systems," he said. Yahoo! Buzz RECOMMEND THIS STORY Recommend It: Not at All Somewhat Moderately Highly Very Highly Average (Not Rated)... (Yahoo News)
Editorial: Saved for now from cap & tax Jun 14, 2008
Illusions wrote on Jun 13, 2008 1:48 PM:" Nope, I don't really care about his message...he is bringing it to the masses. Finding specious reasons to dump on the message troubles me because it is a form on antiscience that runs through some conservative thought patterns. It is not ok to kill the messenger because you can't refute the message. If you check, I have been taking the position that GCC is an issue for 5 or 6 years.I didn't even read his book, as I said before popular science books do... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Scientists find monkeys who know how to fish Jun 11, 2008
The most popular science news stories and photos. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo News)
Shoppers prefer locally-grown food, study finds Jun 10, 2008
" Buying food in season from a small farm in the immediate area, where marketing, packaging and shipping costs are lower, can be cheaper than out-of-season produce shipped from another country, he said. With the lately, this may become more and more true. Original Story: Visit for more daily news, views and scientific inquiry with an original, provocative point of view. reports amazing, real world breakthroughs, made simple and stimulating for people on the go. Check out our collection of , , ,... (Yahoo News)
Genes in the Media Jun 3, 2008
The differences are clear when an article about genetics from a popular science news magazine is compared to an article from a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Science for the Layperson. (Suite101.com)
End in Sight on Cleanup of WWII Nuclear Fuel Plant Jun 2, 2008
Popular Science magazine once listed "K-25 demolition worker" as one of the "worst jobs in science." A K-25 worker made the nomination, citing a workplace full of toxins, required head-to-toe protective gear and concerns that when you leave "you don't contaminate your car, your family or anything else.". The massive four-story U-shaped structure, a half-mile long, dominates a 1,500-acre site DOE has been working since 1996 to convert into an industrial park for the Oak Ridge community. (Newsmax)
Cheese mites and other wonders May 30, 2008
The film, made by Charles Urban and Francis Martin Duncan, marked the birth of the popular science documentary with startling imagery. According to Urban, the mites were "crawling and creeping about in all directions, looking like great uncanny crabs, bristling with long spiny hairs and legs". (BBC News -- UK)
Selling atheism in the shadow of religious fundamentalism May 29, 2008
Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia (KPG), which publishes the Indonesian translation of River out of Eden, a book by the card-carrying atheist Dawkins who happens to be an excellent writer on popular science, had considered translating The God Delusion, but abandoned the idea ... KPG, however, plans to publish The Selfish Gene, Dawkins' book that has now become a classic in popular science literature. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Zinio puts hundreds of digital magazines a click away May 29, 2008
"It's a cost-efficient way to get an issue to a subscriber who wants it immediately," says Peter Winn, a director in the consumer marketing department at Bonnier, which produces more than 40 magazines, including Field and Stream and Popular Science. Zinio is at the vanguard of digital publishing. (USA Today -- Tech)
Despite Bush comments, Jews will vote Obama May 18, 2008
MK wrote on May 16, 2008 3:01 PM:" The problem is Bugs can't prove anything. He won't believe credible scientific findings (google 9-11 conspiracy theories and click on Popular Science Link) that debunk these unfounded ideas that 9-11 was an inside job. The only thing he believes isn't corrupted by the government is himself, yet he wants to support a candidate that will put the government in charge of everything. Since he's probably confined to his house and has never left Wisconsin or Minnesota... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Monday Musings: Why not just ask for directions? May 13, 2008
Saucier s findings were discussed in a brief article by Corey Binns in the April issue of Popular Science. The article further says Saucier thinks this gender difference may go all the way back to prehistoric times. (Montana Standard, MT)
There's work to do after Boston summit May 9, 2008
Although room for improvement remains, the city's efforts to reduce transportation's impact on air quality are part of the reason we were named the third most sustainable city in the country by Popular Science magazine. BRYAN GLASCOCKDirector, Environment DepartmentCity of Boston. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Idaho team readies artificial beak for wounded bald eagle May 5, 2008
Secondary Navigation. By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 46 minutes ago. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Raytheon Sarcos Exoskeleton Robotic Suit Linked to Iron Man Superhero May 3, 2008
In its May issue, Popular Science magazine likens the Exoskeleton to the "Iron Man" in the movie of the same name and suggests a blurring of the lines between science fiction and reality. Made of a combination of sensors, actuators and controllers, the futuristic suit enables a test engineer to easily carry a man on his back or lift 200 pounds several hundred times without tiring. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Scientists: Big quake likely in Calif. Apr 16, 2008
The most popular science news stories and photos. Add headlines to your personalized My Yahoo. (Yahoo News)
Next stop for robots: your driveway Apr 9, 2008
Mr. Dooley cited the self-parking system in the Lexus LS flagship model as an example of robotic technologies "creeping their way into all aspects of your life," rather than appearing in the humanoid forms of popular science fiction. Science fiction aside, robotics for the past several decades has been largely an industrial affair -- so much so that the image of massive mechanical arms welding or assembling product parts has become an icon of modern manufacturing. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
No skunks in my family, please Apr 4, 2008
According to Paul Krebaum in the August issue of Popular Science, a mixture of one quart of (3 percent) hydrogen peroxide, one-quarter cup of baking soda and one teaspoon of liquid soap provides the best results. I looked up the logic to this and believe that it should work since it affects the different chemicals in a more logical sense. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
A Random Analysis Apr 3, 2008
One renowned and very brilliant contemporary popular science writer, in his book entitled 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Science, actually states in an entry on genetic mutations in his interesting dictionary that they can happen spontaneously. It never seems to occur to people in and out of science that when they speak of spontaneous events that they are speaking of the uncaused - of things taking beginning of themselves, and that the uncaused is, quite literally, the miraculous. (New York Times)
Top tax dawdling cities, the new retirement, planning green travel Apr 2, 2008
Portland and San Francisco are two eco-friendly destinations recently named the greenest cities in America by Popular Science magazine. . (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
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)
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)
Bad grades? Faulty memory could be to blame Mar 3, 2008
Faulty memory could be to blame - Yahoo. Secondary Navigation. (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)
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)
Ancient "devil frog" may have eaten baby dinosaurs Feb 20, 2008
The most popular science news stories and photos. NEWS ALERTS. (Yahoo News)
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
Secondary Navigation. Tue Jan 1, 10:39 PM ET. (Yahoo News)
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)
