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This 90 Percent Successful Vaccine May Be Our Best Chance to Eradicate AIDS

Spanish researchers have completed the first human trial of a new vaccine against HIV. It has been successful in 90% of the HIV-free volunteers during phase I testing. This vaccine brings great hope to eradicate this plague forever. The team lead by Dr Mariano Esteban, a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council’s Biotechnology National…

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This Is the New Amazon Kindle Fire Color Tablet—and It’s Only $199! (Updated with Impressions)

This is incredible. The new Amazon Kindle Fire will cost only $199! This is a killer price for a color tablet. Even while it doesn’t match the iPad’s features, there’s going to be some fierce competition this year. Check out our up close and personal video to see it in action and keep reading for…

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Join a Space Visual Fest at the American Museum of Natural History

Atten-shun, spacenerds! The American Museum of Natural History and Vimeo are hosting a private screening party in anticipation for the museum’s next amazing exhibit: Beyond Planet Earth. If you are in NYC on October 4, you can’t miss this. If you are a Vimeo user, you would be able to see a special selection of…

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This Insane Sharp Aquos Is the First 80-Inch LCD TV That You Can Actually Buy

Check the size of this monster compared to human beings. It’s the Sharp Aquos 80-inch LCD television. 80 bloody inches—6.66 feet! And still, it’s price tag is only $5500, which feels low to me given its insane size. The Full HD 1080p TV runs at the obligatory 120Hz for smooth motion during fast action sequences…

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This Woman Had a Live Fragmentation Grenade Stuck Inside Her Face

Karla Flores was peacefully selling seafood on the street when she heard an explosion. An object hit her face, knocking her down. When she woke up she was in a hospital with a live fragmentation grenade stuck inside her face. Eight hours later, Karla had an operation that took out the deadly device that could…

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This Awesome Image of the Space Station Could Be a Lost Star Wars Frame

This blurry image could be a lost Star Wars frame but it’s real. I’ve spent about five minutes looking at it in silence, thinking about how would it feel to be that astronaut. His name is Ron Garan. This is how he spent his last day in space, on board the International Space Station: That’s…

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Scientists Can Now Extract, Record and Return Information To the Brain

This is uncanny: A Tel Aviv University team lead by Professor Matti Mintz have developed a synthetic cerebellum that can receive sensory inputs from the brain, analyze them, and return information to other parts of the brain! The device is now working in rats, and has effectively restored lost brain functions caused by damaged tissue.…

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Watch Washington Monument Shaking Like Beyonce’s Monumental Buttocks

The National Park Service has released a video that shows how the top of the Washington Monument looked from the inside during the August 23 earthquake. Obviously, there was a lot of shaking and people running around. https://gizmodo.com/all-the-videos-of-the-east-coast-earthquake-updating-5833659 The National Park Service says that the engineers have established that the building is structurally sound. Now…

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Did a Meteorite Really Kill a Woman and Destroy Some Buildings In Argentina?

Some media is reporting that a meteorite or a piece of a satellite struck a woman in Monte Grande, Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing her and injuring eight. Witnesses say that they saw a blue ball of fire striking a house: My daughter’s bedroom is on the front and she told me that, when she opened…

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How the Nazis Sunk the Largest Underwater Treasure In the World

It was a dark, ice-cold February. The merchant ship SS Gairsoppa was seeking refuge in Ireland when a Nazi U-boat sunk her. She was loaded with seven million ounces of silver. That’s worth $202.74 million in today’s dollars. According to the ship’s manifest, she also carried 1700 tons of tea and a fair amount of…

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Next-Generation High-Speed Bomber Looks Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before

I love the shape of Northrop Grumman’s high-speed bomber concept. It’s beautiful, like the unholy destructive child of a B-2 Spirit bomber and the SR-71 Blackbird conceived by Industrial Light & Magic. Bonus: A clear picture of the next-generation F-X fighter. https://gizmodo.com/b-2-stealth-bomber-crashes-1-2-billion-dollars-turn-to-360090 The high-speed bomber is nothing like Northrop Grumman’s heir for the B-2, the…

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Cat Scratch Turntable Is the Only Stupid Thingamajig That Actually Needs a USB Connection

If you have a cat, $23 and get easily amused, you should grab the Cat Scratch Turntable—a fake turntable with a rotating scratching pad that sadly can’t be connected to your iPod. [Suck UK via Oh Gizmo! via Wired]

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This Is the First Boeing Dreamliner to Enter Service

Rejoice, for Boeing has delivered its first 787 Dreamliner after three years of delay. It has been handed to All Nippon Airways yesterday and it’ll arrive to its base in Tokyo today. It will begin commercial flying on November 11. https://gizmodo.com/boeing-dreamliner-turns-into-nightmareliner-after-new-d-379003 The first line would be local, from Tokyo to Okayama-Hiroshima, presumably to get the…

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Full Color Berlin Looked Great In 1936—Except for the Bloody Red Flags

Perhaps it is because I’m used to see it in black and white, but it’s fascinating to see how incredibly modern Berlin looks in this color film from 1936. It was a beautiful city. Except for the bloody Nazis. You may want to turn off the music, as it made me want to invade Poland.…

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The Rolling Stones: Rocks Off

Bob Dylan says that The Rolling Stones are the greatest rock band in history. I agree with you, Robert Allen Zimmerman. The Stones affected everything and everyone, touching every rock ‘n’ roll and blues musician in the planet. But beyond their universality, beyond Mick’s showmanship, Keef’s genius and Charlie’s perfect simplicity, for me the Stones…

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Get These Spacenerdgasmic NASA Ringtones for Your iPhone and Android

Attenshun space nerds with NASA underpants! NASA is now offering some really awesome ringtones for your iPhone, Android or whatever other phone you have. You must must must get these. MUST. They include classics like Apollo 11’s “Tranquility Base here—the Eagle has landed”, Apollo 13’s “Houston, we have a problem” or JFK’s thrilling “We choose…

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Watch Why and How Seasons Change From Space

Today the summer ends. The season is changing because Earth is tilted. As it rotates around the Sun, the light reaches regions at a different angle for a longer or shorter time. This is how it looks from space: This video shows how the line between the night and day—called the terminator—changes its angle from…

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Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment

UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen. I just can’t believe this is happening for real, but according to Professor Jack Gallant—UC Berkeley neuroscientist…

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Robotic Cannon Fires 1,000 Metal Pellets Per Minute

The Beatty Family build robots. Armored robots with targeting rotating cannons. Armored robots that can detect foes using eight ultra-sonic sensors and fire 1,000 plastic or metal pellets per minute. The Beatty Family rocks. [Beatty Robotics via PC World]

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This Incredible Space Aurora Video Trumps Any Earth Fly-By—Ever

This breathtaking time-lapse of Earth’s auroras as seen from the flying International Space Station is one of the most beautiful videos I’ve seen in my life. I can’t even begin to imagine the feelings that astronauts must experience when they watch this in real time. It truly must be the most exhilarating yet most humbling…

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This 90 Percent Successful Vaccine May Be Our Best Chance to Eradicate AIDS

This Is the New Amazon Kindle Fire Color Tablet—and It’s Only $199! (Updated with Impressions)

Join a Space Visual Fest at the American Museum of Natural History

This Insane Sharp Aquos Is the First 80-Inch LCD TV That You Can Actually Buy

This Woman Had a Live Fragmentation Grenade Stuck Inside Her Face

This Awesome Image of the Space Station Could Be a Lost Star Wars Frame

Scientists Can Now Extract, Record and Return Information To the Brain

Watch Washington Monument Shaking Like Beyonce’s Monumental Buttocks

Did a Meteorite Really Kill a Woman and Destroy Some Buildings In Argentina?

How the Nazis Sunk the Largest Underwater Treasure In the World

Next-Generation High-Speed Bomber Looks Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before

Cat Scratch Turntable Is the Only Stupid Thingamajig That Actually Needs a USB Connection

This Is the First Boeing Dreamliner to Enter Service

Full Color Berlin Looked Great In 1936—Except for the Bloody Red Flags

The Rolling Stones: Rocks Off

Get These Spacenerdgasmic NASA Ringtones for Your iPhone and Android

Watch Why and How Seasons Change From Space

Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment

Robotic Cannon Fires 1,000 Metal Pellets Per Minute

This Incredible Space Aurora Video Trumps Any Earth Fly-By—Ever

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

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Source Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Leaks at the Exact Wrong Time

SpaceX Starlink Satellite Malfunctions, Breaks Apart in Orbit

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

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Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

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Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset