Now Live: The January 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Jacob Ward, editor-in-chief of Popular Science, explains why he's excited for 2013. brightcove.createExperiences(); I believe 2013 will be a grand year. Big things are coming. First of all, astronomers expect a cloud of gas roughly three times the mass of Earth to begin falling into a supermassive black hole in September. It's not just going to be amazing (blasts of x-rays and radio waves!), it will be the first time such a thing happens within range of human instrumentation, which means we get to watch. This is also the first year we expect private spaceflight to begin delivering payloads into orbit at the regularly scheduled intervals with which we move big things around here on Earth. Also, the post-Higgs era begins this year. Like I say, lots to look forward to. But what will make 2013 truly grand is not the big, cosmic stuff. 2013 is going to rock because of all...