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Perpetual Ocean NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio For whatever reason things grow popular, this NASA animation--titled "Perpetual Ocean"--has been making the rounds over...

Lost in Translation The DoD has long sought a universal translator that can help battlefield troops communicate with civilians in conflict zones.

Fiber Optic Cables rpongsaj (CC licensed) This week's outage in Africa reminds us of the vulnerable physicality of the Internet On Saturday, a ship waiting...

An Orion Capsule Directs Traffic on the Moon From the Far Side in this Concept Lockheed Martin via SPACE The NASA budget that went to...

Testing the Hardware Red Bull Felix Baumgartner would be the first human to go supersonic outside of a vehicle Man has never crossed the sound...

The Flyboard Some people go swimming with dolphins, enthralled with their easy movement through the water and the grace with which they occasionally breach the...

FRAC's Quadcopter Robosculptors Raffaello D'Andrea Regular readers of PopSci are no strangers to robotic quadcopters, or even to quadcopters that work together to build things.

Aerial 3D by Burton Using lasers to excite nitrogen and oxygen in the air, the Aerial 3D system produces natural 3-D images in space without...

TELESAR V via DigInfo Keio University researchers are taking telepresence to the next logical level with a new "telexistence" robot called TELESAR V, a robotic...

And a U.K.-based team is building it At the University of Nottingham, a team of researchers is spearheading an ambitious project that could pull synthetic...

Dubuque, Iowa Dirk via Wikimedia By providing its citizens with a steady stream of personalized, real-time data, the ninth-largest city in Iowa is changing the...

Japan's Spherical Drone We got our first look at Japan's Defense Ministry's spherical flying machine earlier this year, but at a recent technology expo in...

Qu8k Launches via ddeville.com Chasing the Carmack Prize, Qu8k goes to space A while back, John Carmack (of "Doom" and "Quake" fame, as well as...

Pipistrel's Taurus G4 NASA HQ Photo NASA has awarded the single largest prize handed down in aviation history to Team Pipistrel-USA.com for designing and demonstrating...

At 9:16 p.m. local time--that was at 9:16 a.m. eastern time here in the U.S.--China successfully lofted its first inhabitable space station module into orbit on...

CERN, near Geneva on the Franco-Swiss Border That's really fast Don't go throwing out your physics texts just yet, but there's some strange and unprecedented...

The Heat You Leave Behind Heat left behind on an ATM keypad can tell the hacker who comes after you exactly the code you keyed...

Atlantis Re-Enters the Atmosphere For the Last Time Click here for ginormity.

This is Actually Jell-O But you get the idea. markaud via Flickr Like a delicious, biocompatible computer NC State researchers have created a new kind...

To combat cyber attacks, the U.S. may need more than new cyber defenses.