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29 Anatomical Models That Will Haunt Your Dreams Tonight

Since the early days of medicine, it’s been a huge challenge to communicate anatomical discovery with an audience without any actual human dissection. But thanks to the creativity of the medical experts and artists, a huge variety of anatomical models: From wax figures and ivory manikins to papier mache dolls and multi-color portfolio prints. The…

In a bipartisan vote, the House passed legislation that would prohibit the search of government databases for information on U.S. citizens without a warrant. It would also cut off funding for the CIA and NSA to build security “backdoors” into domestic tech products or services for surveillance purposes.

Yo’s Now a Security Threat as Well as Being Stupid

Yo is having some problems, and not just because it’s so silly. Turns out that it only required three college students to find out that the app contains more security holes than a colander. https://gizmodo.com/yo-review-yo-1593276009 TechCrunch reports that the app—which has amazingly entered the US App Store’s Top 10 list—has already been hacked. The students…

New Zealand Just Mistook Google’s Project Loon for a Crashing Airplane

Filling the skies with whimsical, internet-providing balloons is bound to have the occasional hitch—and down in New Zealand, one of Google’s Project Loon balloons was just mistaken for an airplane crashing, causing emergency services to flock. https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-use-balloons-to-cover-the-world-in-wi-f-513537918 The Wall Street Journal reports that New Zealand’s emergency services were dispatched today—including a rescue helicopter—after onlookers believed…

Why People Look More Attractive When You’re Drinking

Anyone who has been in a crowded bar around closing time would agree that the higher your alcohol consumption, the more attractive you seem to find whoever you happen to be flirting with at last call. Their smile is radiant; their eyes are sparkling- everything about them is sexy, alluring and irresistible. However, if you…

Big Bang Discovery Researchers Backtrack on Original Claims

Remember how a Harvard team found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang? Well, now it’s published its findings—and it’s backtracking on its original claims. Back in March, the team announced that it had used data from the telescope BICEP2 and observed primordial B-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background…

Oh No! It’s the Attack of the 30 Foot Marilyn Monroe!

This is magical. There’s no reason why this statue was abandoned at a garbage disposal company in Guigang, China. It just appeared. And there is something so wrong about seeing this thing tipped onto its face. A thirty-foot, eight-ton statue of Marilyn Monroe, which took several artists two years to make was was left at…

Why Humans Can’t Re-Grow Limbs (Yet)

Starfish can re-grow arms; lizards can sprout fresh legs; and hell, flatworms can essentially rematerialize from barely nothing. So why can’t humans do the same? Well, we can regenerate a little—wounds heal, after all—but we lack a fundamental ability to do anything more than repair small quantities of damage. In this video, SciShow explains what…

House Has Passed an Amendment to Cut NSA Search Funding

The US House of Representatives passed an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill designed to cut funding for NSA backdoors. The amendment passed overwhelmingly with strong bipartisan support: 293 ayes, 123 nays, and 1 present. Currently, the NSA collects emails, browsing and chat history under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, and searches this…

Look How Much the Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Changing

When the Earth’s magnetic field switches, strange things happen. Now, the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite system has revealed exactly how our planets magnetism is changing. https://gizmodo.com/what-will-happen-when-the-earth-s-magnetic-field-switch-1564164183 Launched in 2013, Swarm is made up of three satellites which measure the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field remotely. These new results are based on changes in…

Google is investing investing $50 million in projects designed to help get more females involved in the field of computer science, by encouraging girls to code. Good work, Google.

WSJ: Apple’s Smartwatch Will Come in Different Sizes, Pack 10 Sensors

Hot on the heels of a Reuters report yesterday, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is planning to launch a smart watch that will be available in multiple screen sizes. https://gizmodo.com/report-apple-smartwatch-production-starts-in-july-1593352240 The new report is at odds with yesterday’s from Reuters, which claimed that the new wearable would be available only with a…

Doctor Strange Director Will Write the Outer Limits Movie

Scott Derrickson’s going to be very busy. The recently-named Doctor Strange director has been tapped for another project that’s been a long time coming: MGM’s Outer Limits. Derrickson’s re-teaming with his Sinister co-writer C. Robert Cargill for the project, which sounds like a great fit. They’re going to be adapting Harlan Ellison’s 1964 Outer Limits…

A Gorgeous Look at the Rest of Panem in the Latest The Hunger Games Art

The Hunger Games’ marketing team has done some great portraits in the past, but the latest set isn’t of anyone we know. Instead, they’ve got propaganda posters made by the Capitol “honoring” the districts. They’re beautiful. And there’s a definite Life vibe to these. From the red box in the corner to the single block…

How can anyone take this awesomeness for granted?

Think about it. Really. Think about what you are looking at right now. That’s Oleg Artemyev and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov—photographed today by Reid Wiseman—just doing their job, floating between Earth and the nothingness at 4.8 miles per second. If that’s not awesome, I don’t know what is. Can you see them? SPLOID is a new…

How Bad Would It Be to Eat This Whole Discworld Cake?

I realize that polite society frowns on plunging your hand right into the middle of a cake and then shoveling that cake into your mouth, but sometimes you can’t help the impulse. And I JUST WANT TO DEMOLISH THIS WHOLE CAKE. I came to Discworld relatively late — in the sense that I was a…

Genius guy transforms plastic bottles into super strength plastic rope

Look, I have no idea what I’m going to do with super strength plastic rope either but oh my genius, this recycler’s idea of turning plastic bottles into plastic rope is just brilliant. The video is perfect, he shows you the plastic rope, shows you what to do with it and then shows you how…

I totally feel like I’m on drugs when I look at these awesome GIFs

Instead of popping pills or eating shrooms, just look at these wonderful GIFs made by Micaël Reynaud. He’s a maestro when it comes to using camera tricks to create dizzying effects and a genius at taking the typical GIF to the next level with slit-scanning, timelapse and perfect masking to stitch together digital lysergic acid…

A Timelapse of the Earth’s Magnetic Field

While we’ve previously looked at models of the Earth’s magnetic field, now a trio of new satellites are monitoring the field. Here’s a six-month timelapse of our turbulent field flickering in the interplanetary wind. https://gizmodo.com/an-interplanetary-magnetic-dance-1574133730 https://gizmodo.com/a-timelapse-of-our-planets-surprisingly-turbulent-magne-1593233853

Why the future of a solar powered life isn’t here yet

You’d think that with all the solar farms we’ve been building up and all those solar panels on people’s roofs we would figure out how to use solar power to replace those old smoking power plants of ours. But we can’t yet. Because of stupid clouds. The future isn’t quite here. Ted-Ed explains why in…