#popular science
40 years ago today, on September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 launched and forever changed our understanding of the universe. 12 days later, Voyager 2 took off. One month before the two spacecraft departed from Earth, Popular Science went in-depth with the scientists behind the Voyager program to find out how it was planned, @nasa’s goals for the spacecraft, and what would happen if something went wrong with Voyager 1 or 2.
Read our original coverage here
(Pictured here—from the August 1977 issue of Popular Science—at NASAJet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., final touches are put on 1750-pound Voyager.)
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On this day in 1856, Nikola Tesla was born! We had the privilege of interviewing him back in November 1928 on his predictions for the future, and naturally, the experience blew our minds. Here’s what we said about the scientist: “To talk with Dr. Tesla is to become acquainted with an extraordinary life packed with adventure into uncharted realms of knowledge.”
Read more from our 1928 piece ‘A famous prophet of science looks into the future’
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Here are eight species living on the brink, thanks to weather and climate change
A volatile future will affect way more than just the polar bears.
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The abyss is back, and this time it spat up a penis (worm). At the end of May, we brought you a roundup of the strangest creatures dragged from the depths of the Australian abyssal zone, and you probably thought nature couldn’t get any weirder. Well, nature never ceases to amaze us.
The strange species of the Australian Eastern Abyss
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This tiny frog has transparent skin to show its organs off to the world
Hyalinobatrachium yaku—a newly discovered species of glassfrog from Ecuador—was recently spotted in the Amazonian lowlands. Most glassfrogs don’t have transparent underbellies, and even fewer have completely exposed organs, but H. yaku leaves nothing to the imagination.
