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Why Is This Zoo Giving Acupuncture to a Lion?

An 11-year-old, 418 pound Asiatic lion named Lucifer who lives at a UK zoo has a sore foot. He’s been given acupuncture, despite the complete inefficacy of the procedure. According to The Independent, Lucifer had a tumor removed from his foot. One of the wounds from his surgery was having trouble healing. The zoo’s apparent…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

The Ice-Diving Robot That Could Look for Alien Life on Jupiter’s Moon

The search for extraterrestrial life begins, often enough, on Earth. In this case, it’s an Alaskan glacier, where the robot VALKYRIE is proving its ice-chomping abilities in a field test. VALKYRIE is supposed to one day land on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, where it will drill through miles of ice to reach the liquid oceans that…

Space & Spaceflight Sarah Zhang

Get A Rocket’s View From Falcon 9 as It Lands on the Ocean

After boosting a communications satellite into orbit, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 reusable booster rocket performed a successful soft-landing on the Atlantic Ocean. Best of all? A camera strapped to the rocket captured it for our viewing pleasure. Rocket selfies are the best selfies. SpaceX is working towards a cheaper future of spaceflight by making their rockets…

Space & Spaceflight Mika McKinnon

A Brief History of Voyager 1 Not Quite Exiting the Solar System

You may have heard that Voyager 1 has exited the Solar System. And that it hasn’t. This is a chronicle of that probe’s greatest journey in headlines, including a few of our own. December 8, 2011 NASA’s Voyager 1 has reached the very fringes of our solar system, and is preparing to leave for good…

Space & Spaceflight Bob Sorokanich

Dogs Feel Jealousy, Raising Questions About Its Evolutionary Origin

Despite the wide variety of species that have complex social structures – elephants, monkeys, chimps, dolphins, giraffes, wolves, corvids, and lots more – many have argued that jealousy requires a sophisticated understanding of the self and of other’s social goals and desires. That skepticism has proven reasonable in the case of guilt. What many dog…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

America’s Next Big Space Launch Rocket Is a Total Beast

With its forthcoming Space Launch System, NASA hopes to send astronauts farther into space than it ever has ever before—to Mars and beyond. And when the first crew does leave to make interplanetary history, they’ll do so aboard these rocket engines. First developed nearly 30 years ago, the RS-25 rocket engine has been hailed as…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

China Is Turning Tiger Bones Into Wine

Chinese brewers are making wine from tiger bones despite specific regulations against the trade in tiger bones. And it’s not technically illegal, since they’re not actually selling the bones. What? The tigers’ modern plight in China began in 1959 when tigers were targeted for eradication by Mao’s “Great Leap Forward,” and in the more than…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

This Warehouse Holds All Illegal Wildlife Goods Confiscated In The U.S.

Crocodile purses, polar bear rugs, ivory chalices—they’re all illegal in the U.S. And no matter where they’re confiscated, these pieces ends up in a warehouse outside Denver named the National Wildlife Property Repository, a haunting space filled with the frozen faces of endangered and extinct creatures. The Atlantic took a tour of the facility, which…

Biology Alissa Walker

Is Eating Kosher Seafood Better for the Environment?

In some ways, absolutely yes. That’s the conclusion reached by researchers from NOAA and California State University, Channel Islands. And it mostly has to do with the distance that seafood travels from the ocean to your plate. Foods are now covered in all kinds of labels. Free range, organic, GMO-free, and all the rest. But…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

NASA’s Moon-Bound Geology Lab that Never Quite Got Off the Ground

The rigor of operating outside the atmosphere has often led to rather outlandish NASA vehicle designs, but few have been more alien than this mobile lunar field laboratory from the heyday of the Space Age. Shame it never actually made it past New Mexico. We had such big plans for the moon. After the crew…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Making Faster Optical “Cables” Using Nothing But Lasers and Air

Pulses of light are the absolute fastest way to transfer data (because nothing’s faster than light), but old school fiber optic cables can only go so many places. Scientists have a new idea: use high-powered lasers to make a column of low-density air that can carry a light signal just as well as a normal…

Space & Spaceflight Bob Sorokanich

Scientists Can Now Cut HIV Out of Human DNA

HIV is a sneaky virus. Its MO involves integrating its own genes into your DNA, so that even as antiretrovirals hold everything in check, HIV lurks quietly inside your cells. Now scientists have found a way to edit the virus straight out of the human genome—a potential cure for even latent infections. Genome editing is…

Health Sarah Zhang

Live Chat: What Happens When Your Son Has an Illness Unknown to Science

For most of his life, six-year-old Bertrand Might has bounced from hospital to hospital with an illness no doctor had ever seen. Then came two turning points: first, he finally received a diagnosis, and second—perhaps more surprisingly—his father wrote a blog post that blew up on the internet. That blog post, titled “Hunting Down My…

Health Sarah Zhang

Watch NASA’s Full TV Broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Right Here

Exactly 45 years ago today, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to set foot on the moon. And right now, NASA is replaying the full TV broadcast from that fateful day in real-time. Watch it below—it’s just as exhilarating today as it must have been 45 years ago. The footage may…

Space & Spaceflight Bob Sorokanich

This Pacemaker Is Made By Injecting a Virus Right into a Pig’s Heart

Pacemakers are—even at their tiniest—intrusive bits of metal wired into the heart. But now scientists have come up with something completely different: a “biological pacemaker” in a pig made by reprogramming the heart’s own cells with a modified virus carrying a specific gene. The biological pacemaker is created through gene therapy, a much ballyhooed idea…

Health Sarah Zhang

Read the Apollo 11 Flight Plan in Its 353-Page Entirety

Exactly 45 years ago today, after months of preparation, Apollo 11 embarked on its now-legendary mission to the moon. But what exactly does it take to send three men into the great, vacuous unknown? See for yourself. This 353-page document is the entire Apollo 11 flight plan in all its scientific glory. And if it…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg

Why Neil Armstrong Got to Take the First Step on the Moon

On July 20th, 1969, with “one small step,” Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. But why did he get to go first? Since that date forty five years ago, the moon landing has been the subject of intense study and historical analysis. From what Armstrong actually said with his first…

Space & Spaceflight Matt Blitz - TodayIFoundOut.com

Learn How To Talk To Animals

The BBC has a new series all about animal communication called Talk to the Animals. Someone has posted the first episode online in its entirety, and it’s well worth a watch. Lucy Cooke, TV presenter and zoologist, begins the series with segments on vocal communication in mongooses, hippos, and frogs; on visual communication in fireflies;…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

Buzz Aldrin: Second Man on the Moon, But First to Take a Space Selfie

This weekend is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, when man first set foot on the moon, but Buzz Aldrin just tipped us off to another of his many accomplishments: He took the world’s first space selfie back in 1966. Eat your heart out, Instagram. The photo Col. Aldrin refers to was snapped…

Space & Spaceflight Bob Sorokanich

How NASA Would Have Handled a Failed Apollo 11

This weekend marks the 45 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission landing the first men on the moon. Like all missions, NASA had a contingency plan. Space historian Amy Shira Teitel explains the astronauts’ grim orders if a lunar lander malfunction had left Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stranded on the moon. Yes, even…

Space & Spaceflight Bob Sorokanich

Why Is This Zoo Giving Acupuncture to a Lion?

The Ice-Diving Robot That Could Look for Alien Life on Jupiter’s Moon

Get A Rocket’s View From Falcon 9 as It Lands on the Ocean

A Brief History of Voyager 1 Not Quite Exiting the Solar System

Dogs Feel Jealousy, Raising Questions About Its Evolutionary Origin

America’s Next Big Space Launch Rocket Is a Total Beast

China Is Turning Tiger Bones Into Wine

This Warehouse Holds All Illegal Wildlife Goods Confiscated In The U.S.

Is Eating Kosher Seafood Better for the Environment?

NASA’s Moon-Bound Geology Lab that Never Quite Got Off the Ground

Making Faster Optical “Cables” Using Nothing But Lasers and Air

Scientists Can Now Cut HIV Out of Human DNA

Live Chat: What Happens When Your Son Has an Illness Unknown to Science

Watch NASA’s Full TV Broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Right Here

This Pacemaker Is Made By Injecting a Virus Right into a Pig’s Heart

Read the Apollo 11 Flight Plan in Its 353-Page Entirety

Why Neil Armstrong Got to Take the First Step on the Moon

Learn How To Talk To Animals

Buzz Aldrin: Second Man on the Moon, But First to Take a Space Selfie

How NASA Would Have Handled a Failed Apollo 11

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