iPhone in a rocket
My brother found this, but he is too afraid of the internet to post something in the comments on my previous post about acceleration and the iphone. It turns out that this too awesome to just be in ...
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Strange Science? There’s an App for That
Think of almost anything you can do, and Apple claims there’s an app for that. But what about if you need the proteomes for several yeast and yeast strains right now. Oh, actually, there is an app for...
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Slick NASA iPhone App Puts Space in Your Pocket
Can there ever be too many space photos? Here at Wired Science, we believe the answer is no, there can never be too many, or even enough, space photos. And now NASA is aiding our addiction by putting...
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Driving Distracts Cellphone Users
Cellphone conversations don’t just interfere with driving. Driving dents the capacity to describe and remember cellphone messages, at least for some of the youngest and oldest drivers, a new study...
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NASA Brings the Dark Side of the Sun to Your iPhone
As the sun reawakens from an anomalously quiet period, keep track of solar flares, sunspots and coronal mass ejections with a new iPhone app that puts the real-time status of the sun in your hand....
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NASA Releases Lunar Rover iPhone Game
NASA has released its first iPhone game, as the agency continues its relentless conquest of new media Starting Monday, you can virtually drive a fictional Lunar Electric Rover on a future lunar...
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App Explores Movie Connections Like Scientists Study Genes
We live in an age of networks, with ever more appreciation for connections: among proteins, people, ecosystems and economies — or just about any system made up of linked units. And as...
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Free iPhone App Identifies Tree Leaves
By Mark Brown, Wired UK A new iPhone app called LeafSnap is a field guide for tech-friendly naturalists. It can identify a tree’s species by analyzing a photograph of its leaf. Point your smartphone’s...
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Final Space Shuttle Mission Will Feature iPhones
NASA’s final shuttle mission will feature outer space’s first iPhone, tricked out with an app to measure spacecraft radiation levels, orbital location and altitude. The iOS-based software, called...
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Help NASA Build Smartphone Apps
NASA wants you and your smartphone to help it address global problems. On Sept. 20, the agency announced the International Space Apps Competition asking scientists, engineers, and ordinary citizens to...
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iPhone Accelerometer Could Spy on Computer Keystrokes
The accelerometers on many smartphones could be used to decipher what you type into your PC keyboard — including passwords and e-mail content — according to computer scientists.
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Camera Trap App Sends Wild Animals to Your iPhone
Stuck in an airport this holiday season? Hiding from extended family? Or just looking to take a mobile phone safari? The Instant Wild app, free and newly released by the Zoological Society of London,...
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Glass Works: How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the...
Design Wants to Be Free The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World How Nerf Became the World’s Best Purveyor of Big Guns for Kids Don Stookey knew he had botched the experiment. One day...
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Video: What Toxins Lurk Inside Your iPhone 5?
The vast majority of iPhone users have no clue what goes into the guts of their coveted toy. That's no accident, since the phone's internal design and chemical content are closely guarded trade secrets...
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This iPhone App Can Read Your Heart
AliveCor's yet-to-be-released iPhone cover and accompanying app promise to help you monitor your heart. The case, which fits on the iPhone 4 and 4S, is essentially a portable electrocardiogram (ECG), a...
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