Science Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Grand Tour for the iPhone is a grand exploration of the solar system

by Mel Martin (Apr 6th, 2009)

I admit I have a real love for astronomy and other science apps. Mike Smithwick, the creator of Distant Suns [App Store link] has come up with another winner for the space minded. Grand Tour [App Store link] is a $4.99US application that will let you tour the solar system in very smooth and ...

Apple launches Science Productivity Lab

by Scott McNulty (Jul 1st, 2008)

Apple has just added a new section to the Science portion of its website (you did know Apple's website has a section devoted to science, right?). The Science Productivity Lab includes a number of video tutorials aimed at helping researchers and scientists use their Macs to share their work. Most of ...

MIT uses Macs to learn how children gain speech skills

by Mike Schramm (May 2nd, 2008)

Apple's Science page has a profile up for the folks over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- apparently two MITers, Deb Roy and Rupal Patel, are using Macs, including "five Apple Xserves and a 4.4TB Xserve RAID," to record and track every single moment of their son's early childhood. ...

Charge an iPod with an onion

by Mike Schramm (Nov 14th, 2007)

I think we somehow missed this at TUAW, but I have no idea how. Just in time for everyone to head home for the holidays (and forget their iPod chargers), here's a quick fix solution to get that battery back up and you back listening to The Cars' Greatest Hits. Household Hacker put this together, ...

BOINC client lets Mac users contribute cycles

by Michael Rose (Mar 5th, 2007)

If you encountered a labful or officeful of Macs in the early 2000s, chances are good that a bunch of them were running SETI@Home, the 'contributed computing' project to search through radioastronomy signals for the telltale signs of an extraterrestrial civilization. While the classic SETI@Home ...

Apple posts 'Mac at Work' site

by David Chartier (Jun 3rd, 2006)

So much for those "Apple isn't interested in the science/business/pro sector" theories. Behold, Mac at Work, a new promotional site from Apple with information, case studies, online seminars and real world event listings for just about every interest and sector besides consumers. Just look at the ...