J.J. Abrams Gets Lost Again
The new Fox series Fringe begins with a plane crash and ends with a whole lot of scientific freakiness. We spoke with creator J.J. Abrams about his latest show and what makes technology the perfect...
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Tech-savvy artist pushes for gadgets that everyone can use Twenty-two-time Grammy winner Stevie Wonder has created new sounds, even genres, by absorbing and reshaping every musical and audio...
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Denmark calls a global conference, and puts an American in charge Katherine Richardson is atypical. This American oceanographer is thriving at the University of Copenhagen, where she serves as Vice...
View ArticleCaptain Planet, He's Our Hero, Gonna Take Pollution Down to Zero (Sing it, Kids)
Captain Planet is back! PopSci.com brings you an exclusive Q&A; with Barbara Pyle, the show's co-producer and creator On the roster of 1990s cartoons, Captain Planet was definitely towards the top...
View ArticleThe Science Behind Unseen Phenomena
Science Ghosts, poltergeists, and telepathy, oh my! Can these phenomena be explained by science? A group of researchers at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory believed so and strove to explain the...
View ArticleScience and Religion: Bridging the Divide
Science An Interview with Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne, author of the new book, Questions of Truth: Fifty-One Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief Over the last century, science and...
View ArticleUndersea Mating Habits of the Stars
Science Popular Science talks to Isabella Rossellini about her new series of sexy science films Isabella Rossellini returns this month to the Sundance Channel with a new set of episodes of her Green...
View ArticleThe Science of a Really Bad Day
Science An interview with Peter J. Bentley, PhD, author of The Science of Why S*hit Happens Being a know-it-all is usually a bad thing—unless, that is, you really know your sh*t. In the case of Peter...
View ArticleInterview: NASA Scientist's Plan to Extract Moon Water Affordably Using...
Technology Last month, scientists confirmed the widespread presence of small amounts of water on the moon. This landmark finding was followed by NASA's crashing its LCROSS probe into a… Last month,...
View ArticleQ&A: Creating the Mars of John Carter
Technology Director Andrew Stanton and production designer Nathan Crowley talk about Mars, John Carter, and building a 100-year-old science fiction universe John Carter is a movie that has that has...
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