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This Complex 3D Heart Simulator Can Run on Just a Laptop

Supercomputers let us simulate everything from the weather, to a chess match against a master, to how the human body operates. But researchers at Japan’s National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center have created a detailed 3D simulation of a beating human heart that can run on a laptop, allowing even small hospitals to perform research and…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Super-Fast Space Travel Would Kill You in Minutes

Everyone thinks it would be cool to travel at the speed of light, which is why scientists devote their lives to working out if it would be possible and NASA is trying to develop its own warp drive. But easy, tiger: turns out super-fast space travel would be fatal. A paper published in Natural Science…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Will We Ever Be Able to Predict Everything?

As super computers get more and more super, you’d think that eventually we’d be able to calculate the position and interactions of every atom in the universe and be able to accurately predict the future. In fact, this was once a widely held belief in science, until quantum mechanics arrived and put an end to…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

Amazing Dude Climbs 103 Floors on a Brain-Powered Bionic Leg

When Zac Vawter lost his right leg in a motorbike accident, he thought he’d never walk properly again. Now, he’s managed to use a bionic limb, hardwired into his nervous system, to climb 103 flights of stairs in the annual SkyRise Chicago skyscraper climbing contest. Vawter’s prosthetic leg is worth $8 million, weighs 10 pounds…

Health Jamie Condliffe

How to Get a Text Message Alert Whenever the ISS Passes Overhead

If you’re a lazy astronomer, the kinda person who likes gazing into the night sky but never plans ahead, good news: NASA has launched a new service which will pop you a text message or email whenever the international space station is about to pass over your place, so you can dash outside and take…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

A Cobb Salad In a Crouton Cone Is a Fantastic Way To Eat Healthy

The unrecognized geniuses over at DudeFoods.com have come up with an absolutely brilliant way to eat healthy. Or at least kind of healthy, depending on how you dress this Cobb salad served in a crouton cone. It sounds pretty easy to make too. All you need to do is mix some crushed store-bought croutons with…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Augmented Reality System Curbs Your Appetite By Making You Think You’ve Eaten Larger Portions

If you’re trying to shed a few pounds but are having a hell of a time with portion control, researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a clever augmented reality system for dieters. A head-mounted display makes it appear as if you’re eating larger portions, which helps fool your mind into thinking you’re full.…

Health Andrew Liszewski

How Many Pets Would You Need To Power Your Home In an Emergency?

If you’re wondering why the crazy cat lady down the street still has power after hurricane Sandy and you don’t, maybe it’s because she’s putting all her pets to work. You can never be too prepared if you find yourself in the path of a terrible storm, and instead of buying a backup generator next…

Biology Andrew Liszewski

What’s Worse, Hiccups Or This Stick That Claims To Cure Them?

As this promotional video points out, there’s an endless list of ridiculous tricks that will supposedly cure a bout of hiccups. But for whatever reason the makers of the Hiccup Stick-which you bite on while drinking a glass of water-don’t feel this solution ranks among them. Not only that, they want you to shell out…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Astronaut Charles Duke Struggles Mightily to Collect the Biggest Lunar Sample Ever

Sure, traipsing about the lunar surface is all fun and games when you’ve got a golf club and a flag for planting but if you’re there to work, those puffy, sausage-fingered space suits are more hindrance than help. Just look at Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke as he valiantly muscles Lunar Sample 61016 from the…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

This Beautiful Aurora Is One Spiral in the Sky That Isn’t Out to Get You

All around is chaos and coming apocalypse, so take a moment to cast your eyes over this beautiful, calming aurora, snapped by David Cartier. Aurora—the ribbons of light caused by charged particles from the Sun which slam into the Earth’s magnetic field—often form fantastical shapes, but rarely this crisply. Cartier snapped this beautiful curl of…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Are Making Computer Chips of the Future Out of Carbon Nanotubes

Scientists have developed a way to manufacture a new breed of computer chips that use carbon nanotubes in the place of silicon. Nanotubes have plenty of superior electronic properties over silicon, but until now it’s been impossible to manufacture a chip with a high enough density of nanotubes to make an effective processing unit. Now,…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Do You Know the Rest of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation?

He’s synonymous with genius, but Albert Einstein is also best known for what is easily the world’s most famous equation, E=mc². But did you know that it’s actually a shortened version of a longer equation? E=mc² only describes objects that have mass but aren’t moving. The full equation, used for bodies in motion, is E²=(mc²)²+(pc)²…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

Paintball Pellets Could Deflect an Asteroid from Destroying Earth

It almost sounds as implausible as sending an oil driller to plant a nuclear bomb inside an asteroid over an Aerosmith soundtrack but MIT researchers say shooting paintball pellets at an asteroid could bump an asteroid off its course. It’s not automatic, of course. First of all, we’ll need about 20 years lead time to…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

This Is the First Picture Ever Taken From Space—and It Was Taken From a Nazi Rocket

This grainy picture was taken on October 24, 1946, almost 14 months after the end of World War II and almost 11 years before the Sputnik launch. It was taken by American military engineers and scientists, using a Nazi rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico. Yes, a Nazi rocket—the V-2.…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Video of Frankenstorm Sandy from Space (Updated)

Update: Here’s a new video of Sandy as it approaches the United States, captured from the International Space Station just a few minutes ago. The snowpocalyptic “frankenstorm”—as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls it—has “weaken a little.” https://gizmodo.com/how-hurricane-sandy-might-become-a-snowpocalyptic-frank-5955168 According to NOAA, Sandy is now about 430 miles south-souteast of Charleston, South Carolina. It has…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Neil Armstrong’s Postcard From the Moon

Maybe they thought there would be mailboxes on the moon, and that it would be brown. This postcard is a reminder of what an exciting, unknown frontier it was when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there 43 years ago. Though Armstrong left us in August, those first steps are still legendary. So the auctioneers’…

Space & Spaceflight Joanna Carver - New Scientist

If You Ever Wondered How People Take a Picture of a Cheetah Running at Full Speed

Cheetahs are super fast and to capture them running at full speed is damn near impossible. Well, almost impossible. National Geographic shows how they captured a running cheetah and it’s pretty impressive: over 400 foot of perfectly level dolly track, a bevy of cameras, an able and willing cheetah and really fast instincts. [YouTube via…

Biology Casey Chan

One Egg Created From Two Mothers Could Prevent Genetic Disorders

Scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center have discovered a crazy sci-fi way to possibly prevent genetically-inherited diseases. This sounds pretty unbelievable, but they actually combine the eggs from two different mothers to create one single stronger egg. It already works for mama monkeys; and it could help humans, too. Researchers are trying to…

Health Leslie Horn

The VISTA Telescope Camera Can Grab 9 Gigapixels Worth of Stars

To produce stunning images of our galaxy like this, your rinky-dink smartphone camera just isn’t going to cut it. No, to generate 9GP masterpieces, you’ll need to use the world’s largest infrared survey telescope outfitted with the world’s largest infrared camera. https://gizmodo.com/dive-right-into-the-largest-ever-image-of-our-galaxys-c-5954418 Located 2,518 meters above sea level at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile,…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

This Complex 3D Heart Simulator Can Run on Just a Laptop

Super-Fast Space Travel Would Kill You in Minutes

Will We Ever Be Able to Predict Everything?

Amazing Dude Climbs 103 Floors on a Brain-Powered Bionic Leg

How to Get a Text Message Alert Whenever the ISS Passes Overhead

A Cobb Salad In a Crouton Cone Is a Fantastic Way To Eat Healthy

Augmented Reality System Curbs Your Appetite By Making You Think You’ve Eaten Larger Portions

How Many Pets Would You Need To Power Your Home In an Emergency?

What’s Worse, Hiccups Or This Stick That Claims To Cure Them?

Astronaut Charles Duke Struggles Mightily to Collect the Biggest Lunar Sample Ever

This Beautiful Aurora Is One Spiral in the Sky That Isn’t Out to Get You

Scientists Are Making Computer Chips of the Future Out of Carbon Nanotubes

Do You Know the Rest of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation?

Paintball Pellets Could Deflect an Asteroid from Destroying Earth

This Is the First Picture Ever Taken From Space—and It Was Taken From a Nazi Rocket

Video of Frankenstorm Sandy from Space (Updated)

Neil Armstrong’s Postcard From the Moon

If You Ever Wondered How People Take a Picture of a Cheetah Running at Full Speed

One Egg Created From Two Mothers Could Prevent Genetic Disorders

The VISTA Telescope Camera Can Grab 9 Gigapixels Worth of Stars

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

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Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

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Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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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