The shortlist is a smorgasbord of popular science writing offering a taste of evolutionary biology, statistics, archaeology, olfaction, good science and bad science

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...the new watch phone at the Consumer Electronics Show. More Articles

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Popular Science tackles your toughest (and most obscure) science questions

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Way back in 1919 Sigmund Freud postulated his concept of the uncanny. In the (cleverly named) The Uncanny, Freud explored a problem of aesthetics—when something is both familiar and unknown the experience of viewing it can be strongly unsettling.

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We spoke with creator J.J. Abrams about his latest show and what makes technology the perfect medium for dramatic terror.

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"I wish he'd take more notes and things. What's his publication record?" says Paul Zimansky, an archaeology professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "But I don't think anybody ever bought the ethos of Indiana Jones as a real career track."

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A fantastic article about how consensus science can often go awry. In the early 1900s, radioactive water was all the rage. Hard to believe smart people could fall for such twaddle--right?

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It's 10 minutes before showtime, and the crowd is already spilling out the doors of San Francisco's Axis Cafe. A high-energy buzz fills the air -- until the star of the evening steps onstage and fires up his PowerPoint presentation.

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(PopSci.com) -- Last winter, inventor John Kanzius was already attempting one seemingly impossible feat -- building a machine to cure cancer with radio waves -- when his device inadvertently succeeded in another: He made saltwater catch fire.

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And now for something completely different. PopSci has a cool slide show of what makes a modern video game a modern video game from the Cell Processor board to how to create fire physics.

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Summer's here, and 'tis the season to be compiling lists. One of the most eagerly awaited is the Ten Worst Jobs in Science, issued by Popular Science magazine.

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10. Whale-Feces Researcher: Talk about a job that "stinks."

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We untangle television invention from reality—manual-free.

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If you've seen a particularly eye-popping, out-of-this-world night photograph of a city skyline, or a particularly apocalyptic cloudscape with cartoonish color saturation making the rounds on blogs lately, there's a good chance it was made using high-dynamic-range imaging, or HDR …

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Over the last 15 years, a series of books and articles have told us that women talk a lot more than men do. According to Dr. Scott Halzman in Psychology Today, women use about 7,000 words a day, and men use about 2,000. On the other hand, Ruth E.

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In each of PopSci's ten Best of What's New categories, one innovation rose to the top to merit the title of Grand Award Winner. Here, meet the new heads of the class.

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Funny how the majority of the Wii hype isn't even being generated by Nintendo themselves. Popular Science has given its "Grand Award" for the Best of What's New 2006 to the upcoming console.

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This is something I'll be doing in the near future, so I thought I'd share (I love these How 2.0 articles). For $35 bucks and around an hour, make your old XBox a media center without cracking it open:

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A two-tiered Internet would create a fast lane for Web sites able to afford it and a slow lane for everyone else.

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From the backcountry to the rubble-strewn back alleys of a war-torn city, this mechanized pack animal will follow soldiers wherever duty calls them

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Popular Science shows you how to save a snowflake without it melting. Very cool

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