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Tim Cook: We May Make a Medical Product, But It Isn’t the Apple Watch

Apple may make a medically approved device, but it won’t be the Apple Watch. At least that’s a according to Tim Cook in an interview with The Telegraph. In the interview, Cook explained that the disruption that FDA accreditation would cause to the product release cycle of the wearable would ultimately put him off having…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Back-Flipping Fish Look Before They Leap Across Land

Mummichogs are a type of oxygen-breathing fish that flourish in the small pools that form as the tide recedes. But sometimes that pool evaporates or becomes toxic for the fish. So mummichogs have figured out how to move short distances across land in search of the next shallow pool via a series of backward tail…

Biology Jennifer Ouellette

The Scorpion Fly’s Stinger Is for Mating, Not Defense

It’s easy to see how the scorpion fly got its name. The giant “stinger” at the back curls up just like the tail of a scorpion. The good news is, that’s not a stinger. Still, I would avoid touching it, if I were you. The scorpion fly is probably a common sight to Europeans, especially…

Biology Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Is Why It’s So Hard to Know If You Have Food Poisoning

You’re feeling queasy, your forehead is clammy, and all that tea you’ve been mainlining is doing nothing at all to perk you back up. What happens next is why it’s so hard to know if you had food poisoning or just a brush with the flu. There are 48 million cases of food poisoning in…

Health Ria Misra

SeaWorld Cancels Inhumane Killer Whale Show, Announces New Killer Whale Show About “Conservation”

So there’s good SeaWorld news and bad SeaWorld news. The good SeaWorld news is that, after decades of criticism, the park will phase out its infamous Shamu show next year. The bad SeaWorld news is that the killer whales will just star in a new show. Okay so there’s actually a little bit more bad…

Biology Adam Clark Estes

This Galaxy Cluster Is Home to the Most Powerful Explosion Since the Big Bang

Astronomers have compiled a stunning composite image of an extraordinarily large explosion that’s being powered by one of the largest supermassive black holes known to science. The blast is located in galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421, which is located 2.6 billion light-years from Earth. As reported in ABC Science, the explosion, an active galactic nucleus (AGN)…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

For the First Time, Physicists Have Measured the “Strong Force” of Antimatter

The nuclear strong force binds the smallest bits of matter together to form atoms, thereby making our material world possible. Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have made the first-ever measurement of a similar strong force for antimatter — the mirror image of regular matter that lies at the heart of one of our biggest cosmological…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

The Secret Origins of an Infamous, Polonium-Filled Kids Toy

A recent episode of QI mentioned a secret Lone Ranger Decoder Ring that contained polonium and let kids see the flashes it gave off. While never appropriate for children, this toy has an impressive scientific pedigree. The Lone Ranger Decoder Ring has graced this site before. It has also graced the hands of many children…

Physics & Chemistry Esther Inglis-Arkell

Venus’ South Pole Is an Ever-Swirling Hellish Mess

This striking combo image of Venus’ dynamic south pole was released today by the European Space Agency on the tenth anniversary of its Venus Express mission. It’a mess. ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft was launched on the 9th of November 2005. After a 153-day journey to the planet, the space probe spent eight years in orbit…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

This Is What the Orion Service Module’s Propulsion System Looks Like

Now this is some engineering. You’re looking at a model—though sadly, not a working one—of the propulsion systems that will power the Orion European Service Module (ESM). Developed by Airbus Defence and Space, the system is now being delivered to NASA’s Plum Brook Station facility, where will be checked and tested to determine whether it…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

These Amazing Scientists Shared This Year’s $22M Breakthrough Prizes

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, funded by Silicon Valley giants like Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, last night announced the recipients of its $22 million prize pot at its third annual awards ceremony. Here’s the amazing research that just got a shot in the arm. The Breakthrough Prizes are designed to raise awareness of cutting-edge math…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

We Need a Better Way to Get to Space

Human beings will always be explorers. We’ve pretty well surveyed our planet, our tiny blue dot, for answers and only found more questions. Why are we here? How did we get here? What does it mean? We’ve already taken baby steps out into the solar system. But cheap, affordable space travel would be revolutionary, heralding…

Space & Spaceflight Leon Vanstone

Astronomers Found the Ghost of a Rare Giant Radio Galaxy

Astronomers in India have discovered a very unusual galaxy, and it’s dying. By now, in fact, it’s probably already dead. The new galaxy, known as J021659-044920, is 9 billion light years away from Earth. That means it’s really old in cosmic terms (but not quite as old as the oldest object astronomers have ever found,…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

Tour the Orion Nebula in This Gorgeous Image

The Orion Nebula has taught astronomers a great deal about how stars are born and how planetary systems form. Officially called M42, and also known (with a bit more pomp) as the Great Nebula in Orion, it’s a busy area of star formation, where huge clouds of interstellar gas are condensing and igniting into brilliant…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

World’s Largest Fusion Reactor is About to Switch On

If “The Stellarator” sounds like an energy source of comic book legend to you, you’re not that far off. It’s the largest nuclear fusion reactor in the world, and it’s set to turn on later this month. Housed at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator looks more like a psychotic…

Physics & Chemistry Maddie Stone

New Horizons is Officially Off to the Kuiper Belt!

With Pluto receding into the distance, New Horizons is speeding merrily along toward its next destination. On Wednesday, the spacecraft completed its fourth and final engine burn, placing it on course for 2014 MU69, an ancient, frozen body located more than a billion miles beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is like…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

This Insect Protects Its Eggs By Making Them Delicious

This animal seems to spend its entire life trying to get eaten. Not only does it coat its eggs in substances designed to lure ants to chew on them, but its main defense mechanism as an adult doubles as a salad dressing. When Extatosoma tiaratum lays it eggs, it gives them a special coating. Some…

Biology Esther Inglis-Arkell

Elephants Use Their Trunks as Leaf-Blowers to Reach Food

Two Asian elephants have been spotted making use of a new tool—their own breath. When they can’t get food in their enclosure, they use their trunks as leaf-blowers to bring it closer to them. In what was probably the most pleasant experiment in history—other than the one that led to Schaum’s Puppy Cuddling Theorem of…

Biology Esther Inglis-Arkell

Watch A Baby Black Rhino Being Born

This short video from the Howletts Wild Animal Park captures the moment an endangered black rhinoceros entered the world last month. It’s the grand finale of a 15 month long gestation. The first thing you see are the tiny front hooves. Then, like most mammals, the baby exits head-first. A twist of mom’s body strips…

Biology Diane Kelly

We Probably Haven’t Found Evidence for the Multiverse

Perhaps you saw the news this week about new evidence that we do, indeed, live ina multiverse. A scientist claims he’s found signs in the cosmic microwave background radiation — the afterglow, so to speak, from the Big Bang — that our universe collided with another universe early in our cosmic history. I don’t mean…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

Tim Cook: We May Make a Medical Product, But It Isn’t the Apple Watch

Back-Flipping Fish Look Before They Leap Across Land

The Scorpion Fly’s Stinger Is for Mating, Not Defense

This Is Why It’s So Hard to Know If You Have Food Poisoning

SeaWorld Cancels Inhumane Killer Whale Show, Announces New Killer Whale Show About “Conservation”

This Galaxy Cluster Is Home to the Most Powerful Explosion Since the Big Bang

For the First Time, Physicists Have Measured the “Strong Force” of Antimatter

The Secret Origins of an Infamous, Polonium-Filled Kids Toy

Venus’ South Pole Is an Ever-Swirling Hellish Mess

This Is What the Orion Service Module’s Propulsion System Looks Like

These Amazing Scientists Shared This Year’s $22M Breakthrough Prizes

We Need a Better Way to Get to Space

Astronomers Found the Ghost of a Rare Giant Radio Galaxy

Tour the Orion Nebula in This Gorgeous Image

World’s Largest Fusion Reactor is About to Switch On

New Horizons is Officially Off to the Kuiper Belt!

This Insect Protects Its Eggs By Making Them Delicious

Elephants Use Their Trunks as Leaf-Blowers to Reach Food

Watch A Baby Black Rhino Being Born

We Probably Haven’t Found Evidence for the Multiverse

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