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NASA’s 3D-Printed Rocket Injector Spits Fire Like a Dragon

Last month, NASA successfully tested its first 3D-printed rocket injector. The test was successful and the pictures were great, but now we’ve got video. Nothing like a good science inferno. https://gizmodo.com/nasas-3d-printed-rocket-injector-test-a-beautiful-infe-746527818

Space & Spaceflight Eric Limer

How Astronauts Use the Toilet: It’s More Complicated Than You Think

Here’s our favorite astronaut and yours, Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, giving a simple, English language version of how going to the bathroom is complicated by being in space, the, ahem, dangers inherent in introducing poop to zero gravity environments. You might already know this stuff, or you might not, but Hadfield makes it as fun and…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle Wagner

An Endangered Animal Sperm Bank Will Let Us Bring Pandas to Space

Whether or not you think that certain endangered animals are worth all the fuss— *cough*pandas*cough*—judging by the internet’s recent, excited tittering over a potential panda pregnancy, the majority of people are very much pro-animal kingdom diversity. So much so, in fact, that a team of Japanese scientists has begun freeze-drying certain endangered animals’ sperm in…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg

Quantum Cryptography Could Make Your Phone Uncrackable Someday

As the world of cybersecurity becomes increasingly volatile, more advanced solutions to problems like encryption couldn’t come soon enough. This is why everybody’s excited about a team of British physicists’ testing a method that would put quantum cryptology in everybody’s pocket. Quantum cryptology is a slightly complicated but ultimately gamechanging thing. Put simply, it’s practically…

Physics & Chemistry Adam Clark Estes

Language Nerds Try Using Space Images to Make Latin Cool Again

A group of volunteers is attempting to bring the language of Latin back to the masses, by offering translated captions of Nasa’s photos of Mars in the wording favored by historians, posh people and the Pope. There are two outlets now boasting descriptions of Nasa’s high-resolution Martian imagery in Latin, theBeautiful Mars Latin Tumblr page…

Space & Spaceflight Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

How Many People Are Currently in Space Right Now?

If you’re ever curious about the exact number of people who are in space right now, the single-serving site aptly named how many people are in space right now? will tell you. The answer is 6. The lucky 6 who are currently living every kid’s dream? Americans Chris Cassidy and Karen Nyberg, Russians Pavel Vinogradov,…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

Whoa, This Sofa Balances On One Leg Thanks to Spacecraft Technology

Part of what artists are great at is re-contextualizing technology in weird and often amazing ways. That is exactly what artist Jacob Tonski did for a recent installation that involved balancing a 19th century sofa upright on one leg. The result is Inception-like wonderment. At first glance, you’d have to think Balance From Within is…

Space & Spaceflight Michael Hession

How Scientists Plan To Send Hibernating Astronauts to Mars

A lot of things are falling into place for NASA’s inevitable moonshot to Mars. (Mars-shot?) However, one of the original challenges remains one of the more elusive ones: How do you get the astronauts to live on a spaceship for six months without going crazy? You put them to sleep, that’s how. For the past…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

How the Milky Way Got Its Name (and What Other Languages Call It)

Today I found out why our galaxy is called the Milky Way and what it’s called in other languages. No, it has nothing to do with the candy bar. Like many words we use today, the English name of our galaxy is derived from its Latin name: Via Lactea. Translated, that means “the road of…

Space & Spaceflight Emily Upton - TodayIFoundOut.com

Are These Tear-Away Surgical Gloves Actually Safer?

Park Bomin, Jung Sumi, and Chu Yeunho won a Red Dot Design Award for what they believe to be a big improvement to the surgical gloves used in hospitals. The trio’s Safe Cut Surgical Gloves feature a pull tab that not only makes the gloves easier to remove, but also prevents them from ever being…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Venus, Please Be More Of A Badass In This Photo

This looks like your brain on drugs, but it’s actually a rare solar eclipse from last June in which Venus moved between the Sun and the Earth the way the Moon usually does. Venus looked like a thinner and thinner crescent until it was perfectly aligned with the Sun, creating a Venusian annular eclipse with…

Space & Spaceflight Lily Hay Newman

Where Exactly Did the Big Bang Actually Happen?

When you think of the big bang, that cosmic explosion that jump-started the ever-expanding universe as we know it, it’s only natural to imagine it as a single point. One corner of space that just blew up into the galactic being. But where was it? https://gizmodo.com/what-happens-to-us-as-the-universe-expands-977415298 Well, it turns out it’s not quite that simple.…

Space & Spaceflight Eric Limer

Learn Everything About the Solar System with This Awesome Animation

Now this is fun. Kurzgesagt made a fantastic animation video detailing our solar system. Perfect for anyone who’s space curious (and that should be everyone), perfect to sit down and show your kid, perfect to learn everything about astronomy that you probably forgotten by now. It’s like taking a trip through a beautiful minimalist solar…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

You Can Buy NASA’s Giant Launch Platforms—Assuming You Can Move Them

The shuttle program is dead. That’s sad. But the parts that made up the shuttle program have morphed into one massively absurd estate sale, the likes of which hoarders have only ever dreamed of. And that’s absolutely wonderful. You’ll soon be able to bid on one of the three genuine, 4,115-ton launch platforms that shot…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg

New Silver, Porous Gel Sucks Bacteria Out of Dirty Water in Seconds

Though we often take it for granted, access to safe drinking water is a major problem in many parts of the world—especially in the wake of a natural disaster. Now, researchers have succesfully tested a new, lightweight, and—most importantly—cheap gel that sucks up water, kills bacteria in seconds, and returns the water in a perfectly…

Health Ashley Feinberg

New Camera Lets Astronomers Take Sharpest Ever Photos of the Universe

An international team of astronomers are having a blast with a new type of camera that can take photos of space that are twice as sharp as those taken by the Hubble Telescope. The technology’s been in the works for over 20 years, and when you see the pictures you can see why they were…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

This Is the World’s Most Precise Clock

Need the time? How about to the closest hundred trillionth of a second? No problem! Because this, officially now the world’s most precise clock, can tell the time more precisely than any other device ever has. Fuelled by the rather exotic element ytterbium, the clock is stable to one part in a quintillion. Like the…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

How NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Would Work

It’s not quite Armageddon but NASA revealed a concept video animation detailing how NASA would find, capture, re-direct and study a near-Earth asteroid. In the animation by NASA, you can see a crew of astronauts taking off on the Orion spacecraft and using the Moon to swing onto the captured asteroid. In NASA’s plans, Orion…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

NASA Resurrects a Dead Satellite to Hunt Asteroids

For nearly three years, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite was one of our most potent tools in the search for asteroids, discovering 33,500 of them (more than a dozen of which are potential impact threats) before being placed into hibernation in 2011. But with a new-found interest in asteroid mining, NASA’s Jet Propulsion…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

An Amazing Stabilized Spoon Lets Parkinson’s Sufferers Feed Themselves

The same way your fancy DSLR lens can automatically track and compensate for vibrations and shaking motions, Lift Labs’ incredibly innovative new Liftware Spoon lets those dealing with Parkinson’s disease—and the tremors associated with the condition—still feed themselves. Available next month for around $300, the spoon uses onboard sensors to detect even the subtlest of…

Health Andrew Liszewski

NASA’s 3D-Printed Rocket Injector Spits Fire Like a Dragon

How Astronauts Use the Toilet: It’s More Complicated Than You Think

An Endangered Animal Sperm Bank Will Let Us Bring Pandas to Space

Quantum Cryptography Could Make Your Phone Uncrackable Someday

Language Nerds Try Using Space Images to Make Latin Cool Again

How Many People Are Currently in Space Right Now?

Whoa, This Sofa Balances On One Leg Thanks to Spacecraft Technology

How Scientists Plan To Send Hibernating Astronauts to Mars

How the Milky Way Got Its Name (and What Other Languages Call It)

Are These Tear-Away Surgical Gloves Actually Safer?

Venus, Please Be More Of A Badass In This Photo

Where Exactly Did the Big Bang Actually Happen?

Learn Everything About the Solar System with This Awesome Animation

You Can Buy NASA’s Giant Launch Platforms—Assuming You Can Move Them

New Silver, Porous Gel Sucks Bacteria Out of Dirty Water in Seconds

New Camera Lets Astronomers Take Sharpest Ever Photos of the Universe

This Is the World’s Most Precise Clock

How NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Would Work

NASA Resurrects a Dead Satellite to Hunt Asteroids

An Amazing Stabilized Spoon Lets Parkinson’s Sufferers Feed Themselves

‘Butt Birth’-ing Rhinoceros from Ace Ventura Sequel Sold at Auction for a Whopping $60,000

The Ryan Gosling Sci-Fi Streak Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

Scientists Just Found the Salt Limit That Pushes Your Heart to the Breaking Point

White House Social Media Just Had Its Covfefe Moment

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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

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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