The Editor's Letter From The September 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
I had lunch in Los Angeles recently with a friend who hosts science videos on the Web. She interviews scientists, explains fundamental scientific principles, tours amazing…
View ArticleThe Next Space Shuttle: Hybrid Engines Make Runway-To-Orbit Missions A Reality
A disembodied jet engine, attached to a hulking air vent, sits in an outdoor test facility at the Culham Science Center in Oxfordshire, England. When the engine screams to life, columns of steam...
View ArticleWatch A Dinosaur Fly In A Wind Tunnel
The 3-foot-long Microraptor, one of the smallest dinosaurs in the fossil record, had feathers on its arms, legs and tail. Its odd-looking five-wing gliding setup provides clues to the earliest...
View ArticleWhat Makes A Boomerang Come Back?
The boomerang is one of humanity's oldest heavier-than-air flying inventions. King Tutankhamen, who lived during the 14th century BC, owned an extensive collection, and aboriginal Australians used...
View ArticleHooray! You Can Use Your Gadgets On Flights
For too long, we have been held back by primitive, superstitious ideas about electronics on airplanes. No more! We are free! The FAA has announced that they will soon…
View ArticleThe Wright Brothers And The Birth Of The Airplane
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright took their famous first flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. After four years of experimentation, the brothers became the first to fly…
View ArticleHow Honey Bees Point Their Way To Food
Honey bees can give each other directions using polarized light as a landmark to find potential food. Light becomes polarized as it reaches us through the atmosphere, but…
View ArticleFlight MH-17 Investigation Points To An Attack
On July 17th, Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur fell out of the sky over eastern Ukraine. The crash killed everyone on board the plane,…
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Climate Change Could Make Your Airplane Trips Take Longer
Environment Transatlantic delays ahead That hop across the pond is about to get longer.
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7 Amazing Pictures Of Alaska's Erupting Volcano
Science A Pavlofian reaction On Sunday afternoon, Pavlof volcano roared to life in Alaska, sending a column of ash over 20,000 feet into the sky.
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