Video: The Chemistry of Thanksgiving
If you want to arm yourself with some nice science trivia for tonight’s dinner conversation, check out this lecture by Diane Bunce, a professor of chemistry at The Catholic University in Washington,...
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DIY Home Sleep Research With Cameras, Accelerometers, EEGs
If you sleep like a princess, and wonder what keeps you tossing and turning at night, perhaps there’s a gadget that can find the pea under your mattress. Companies have begun selling electronics...
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10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist
Wired Classic: This gallery of futuristic weaponry from January 2010 is an all-time reader favorite. Sure, the gear may look like it came straight out of Avatar or Battlestar Galactica. But all of the...
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High-Tech Guns: Digital Revolvers, Koosh Bullets and Triple-Tasers
<< previous image | next image >> Not long after the smoke from the Consumer Electronics Show cleared, thousands of gun lovers converged upon the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas for...
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The First and Last Meeting of Everyone with a Fully Sequenced Genome
Nearly every person who has had their entire genome sequenced will gather in a single room near Boston on April 27. It’s the last time this will ever happen. Within a year, the dozens of people in this...
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Diagnosing Parasite Infections With Dye and a Blacklight
San Francisco — An inexpensive dye could give some of the world’s poorest people an early warning if they are infected with deadly parasites. The dye reacts with a molecule produced by trypanosomes,...
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From Bat Bombs to Goo Guns: Crazy Military Experiments
<< previous image | next image >> Military researchers have poured blood, sweat, tears and taxpayer dollars into all sorts of wacky experiments. There are plenty of reasons that they are...
View ArticleYoung Engineer Uses Webcam, Laser to Build Budget 3-D Scanner
Using little more than a webcam and a laser, a young engineer has built a cheap 3-D scanner that dovetails perfectly with the MakerBot and other desktop fabricators. It could be used as part of a...
View ArticleBreakthrough Medical Gadgets: The Future of Healthcare Hardware
Nearly a thousand of the brightest minds in medical R&D convened in San Diego last week for the TEDMED conference. Innovative new medical gadgets and other bleeding-edge healthcare hardware ran...
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Do Awesome Damage With an RPG-7 PET Bottle Launcher
The PET Bottle Launcher, a $370 bazooka-like toy from Marudai in Japan, lets you do a shoulder-mounted take on a classic middle school physics demo. Just put some water in a 1-liter bottle, screw it...
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