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First Human Supersonic Space Jump Aborted (Updated With Video)

Felix Baumgartner is going to jump from the edge of space. If successful, he’s going to become the first man in history to go supersonic without any mechanical propulsion aid whatsoever. He’s now getting ready. Update: the launch was aborted. You can watch the video of the abort and the aftermath here. He will break…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

A Girl’s Stomach Was Removed Because She Drank a Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail

When you’re celebrating your birthday, it’s completely normal to get a little crazy! Everybody does it. So you have to feel sorry for poor Gaby Scanlon, a British teenager, who ended her 18th birthday night with an emergency operation to remove her stomach. What? It’s because she drank a cocktail that had liquid nitrogen. As…

Health Casey Chan

Scientists Are Killing Cancer With Magnets

Scientists are developing a new offensive tactic against cancer—killing the bad cells with magnets? There’s a problem with a lot of cancer treatment—often methods like chemo can’t tell which cells are bad and which ones are healthy, so the good ones are taken out too. But South Korean researchers might have found a solution. They…

Health Leslie Horn

This Smartphone App Can (Mostly) Tell Your Pills Apart

If you’re sometimes unsure which pill you’re supposed to be taking, help might be at hand. A researcher from the National Institutes of Health is developing an app which can tell apart your drugs using a simple smartphone snap. While you can use sites like the aptly-named drugs.com to distinguish between pills, it’s a bit…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Watch the SpaceX CRS-1 Blast Off Towards the ISS Live

Back in May, the SpaceX Dragon made a historic rendezvous with the International Space Station as a demonstration. It went so well, that NASA contracted 12 more flights, and now the time has come for the first one to launch. Can they pull it off again? https://gizmodo.com/watch-space-x-dragon-make-its-historic-iss-dock-live-u-5913298 Tonight at 8:35 pm Eastern Time, a Dragon…

Space & Spaceflight Eric Limer

How Real-Life Physics Fakes Telekinesis

We all know telekinesis can’t be real. As hard as you try, you can’t will the remote into your hand from five feet away, at least not in this reality. But still, all kinds of seemingly telekinetic forces operate around us all the time. How do they do that? Neil Turok, filling in for MinutePhysics,…

Physics & Chemistry Eric Limer

This Unbelievable Footage Literally Shows a Bird’s Eye View of the Entire World

Everyone has wanted to fly at some point in their life. Unfortunately for most of us, watching this unbelievable trailer about Discovery’s Winged Planet is the closest we’ll ever come to actually flying. That’s okay thought because the footage is unbelievable—cameras were mounted onto birds to see life from their point of view. Though we’ve…

Biology Casey Chan

The World’s Most Adorable Satellites Can Fit in the Palm of Your Hand

You don’t need to be big to be impressive. This trio of tiny cubesats launched from the International Space Station yesterday, and looked totally badass floating out in the infinite ether. The stunning picture was tweeted out by Chris Hadfield, soon to be commander of the ISS. The cubesats it features, measuring just four inches…

Space & Spaceflight Eric Limer

Ballistic Gas Clouds Could Sweep Away Space Junk

Gassy outbursts from a suborbital rocket may be the cleanest way to get rid of hazardous space debris, suggests a new US patent application filed on 27 September by aerospace giant Boeing of Chicago. Space junk – derelict rocket bodies, broken or used-up satellites and debris generated by their endless collisions – is becoming the…

Space & Spaceflight Joana Carver - New Scientist

It’s Official: Special K Makes You Feel Good

Researchers at Yale have clinically demonstrated that ketamine can very rapidly reverse synaptic dysfunction tied to depression and stress. In other words, science just proved what zillions of kids in the K hole have known for decades: Ketamine is a very effective way to make yourself feel good. According to the study published in Science,…

Health Mario Aguilar

You Can Follow the Daredevil Jumping from the Edge of Space Live at Discovery

On October 8th, Felix Baumgartner will jump 23 miles, from the edge of the stratosphere, and land on the Earth for the Red Bull Stratos mission. It’s an amazing stunt, and Discovery News and Velocity are literally covering it live, from space, basically. You’ll be able to stream the jump live at 9AM EDT on…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle Wagner

NASA Is Engineering Space Bugs To Produce Bricks on Mars

There’s a fundamental stumbling block when it comes to building a base on Mars, and that’s getting all the building materials there in the first place. No problem, though, because NASA is busy engineering space bugs that will turn the crap on the planet into building materials to help make the hostile planet habitable. New…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

This Machine Can Sequence a Genome in Just Two Days

Researchers at a hospital in Kansas have been using this machine to crank out entire genome sequences of just-born babies in two days—which could be fast enough to change treatment regimes and save their wonderful little lives. Usually, gene testing in neonatal intensive care units takes over a month, which means babies expect aggressive or…

Health Jamie Condliffe

The International Space Station Will Execute an Evasive Maneuver Tonight

The International Space Station is executing an evasive maneuver in a few hours, following the protocol for when there’s more than a one in 10,000 chance of a space collision. According to Nadyezhda Zavyalova—spokeswoman for the ISS Mission Control in Moscow—the Russian Zvevda module will fire its rocket engines at 10:22pm EDT tonight (Thursday at…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Contact Lenses Could Soon Stop Nearsightedness Dead

Nearsightedness is a pain in the ass that affects over 40 percent of the US population—and it only gets worse with age. Soon, though, children that are identified as myopic will be able to wear special contact lenses that will stop the condition in its tracks. A team of researchers from the State University of…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Weirdly, Venus Is Both Hotter and Colder Than Earth

Earth’s hotter, meaner twin is blowing hot and cold. This picture from Venus Express, the European Space Agency‘s planetary orbiter, shows Venus’s south pole in transition between day and night. As it turns out, sweltering Venus – average temperature a balmy 464 °C – hides a cold layer in its atmosphere. At 125 kilometres above…

Space & Spaceflight Joana Carver - New Scientist

Why Fat People Can’t Help Getting Even Fatter

Put down those bear claws. No, both of them! Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have found that once you’re fat, you’re probably just going to get fatter. They found that the body has invariant natural killer T-cells (iNKT) that help fight obesity and can prevent metabolic syndrome, which in some cases leads to diabetes and…

Health Leslie Horn

Early Detection Plan: Know Your Risk For Breast Cancer

PSA: October is breast cancer awareness month, so it’s a good opportunity to make sure you’re up to date on your exams. Early Detection plan is a free iPhone app that will help you do just that. What does it do? Reminds you to do self-exams and tips you when it’s time to for your…

Health Leslie Horn

Astronomers Discover Huge Comet Hurtling Towards Us

The Mayan Apocalypse nutcases will pass out when they learn that two Russian astronomers have discovered a new and gigantic comet coming in our direction—a huge two-mile wide ball of ice and rock that “may [become] one of the brightest in history.” The comet is now passing by Saturn, gaining speed and becoming brighter by…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

What Doctors Don’t Know About the Drugs They Prescribe

TED talks have become a bit of a yawn-fest these days, with grand ideas that really amount to nothing. But here’s one that’s really important: Ben Goldacre talking about how the pharmaceutical industry skews published scientific research, and why that’s really bad. Often, the results from drug tests go unpublished if the findings are negative…

Health Jamie Condliffe

First Human Supersonic Space Jump Aborted (Updated With Video)

A Girl’s Stomach Was Removed Because She Drank a Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail

Scientists Are Killing Cancer With Magnets

This Smartphone App Can (Mostly) Tell Your Pills Apart

Watch the SpaceX CRS-1 Blast Off Towards the ISS Live

How Real-Life Physics Fakes Telekinesis

This Unbelievable Footage Literally Shows a Bird’s Eye View of the Entire World

The World’s Most Adorable Satellites Can Fit in the Palm of Your Hand

Ballistic Gas Clouds Could Sweep Away Space Junk

It’s Official: Special K Makes You Feel Good

You Can Follow the Daredevil Jumping from the Edge of Space Live at Discovery

NASA Is Engineering Space Bugs To Produce Bricks on Mars

This Machine Can Sequence a Genome in Just Two Days

The International Space Station Will Execute an Evasive Maneuver Tonight

Contact Lenses Could Soon Stop Nearsightedness Dead

Weirdly, Venus Is Both Hotter and Colder Than Earth

Why Fat People Can’t Help Getting Even Fatter

Early Detection Plan: Know Your Risk For Breast Cancer

Astronomers Discover Huge Comet Hurtling Towards Us

What Doctors Don’t Know About the Drugs They Prescribe

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

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

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Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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