Science

IMPORTANT: BIG CATS VS. LASERS

All apologies to your domesticated furball, who I’m sure strikes adorably schizo poses chasing reflected light around your apartment, but come on. They can’t measure up against a freaking lioness versus a freaking laser. There’s just something so satisfying about biggie-sized feline frustration that doesn’t end in people getting torn to shreds by razor-sharp claws…

Biology Brian Barrett

This Is How 9/11 Looked From Space

Taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus camera on NASA’s Landsat 8, this image shows the 9/11 attack site. If you think that this is not impressive, think again: it was taken the next day, September 12 at 11:30am. The image shows New York and the smoke from the World Trade Center in true color.…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

7 Tools to Build the World’s Greatest POLICE DOG

Contrary to popular belief, DOGS (of either the WAR or POLICE variety) are not impervious to bullets. And yet! Man’s best friend still throws caution to the wind in order to serve and protect. In honor of these proud beasts—for whom Super Bowl MVP and True American Hero Ben Roethlisberger just bought some swank kevlar…

Biology Adrian Covert

Cuba’s Lung Cancer Vaccine Could Save Your Life

Cuba, famed maker of delicious (and cancery) cigars, may just have an anti-lung cancer vaccine that’s worth getting excited about. CimaVax-EGF isn’t preventative, but it may make this horrible deadly disease just a plain old horrible disease. The newly available CimaVax-EGF is the product of 25 years of cancer research by Cuban medical authorities. While…

Health Brent Rose

What Is This?

Is it a still from Transformers 4: Megan Fox Returns? Maybe an artist’s interpretation of the world splitting apart? Or HOLY CRAP is the world really splitting apart?! Sort of but not quite. What you’re looking at is a view of the Pakistan-India border from space. The stunning photo, which shows the orange floodlights and…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

Lab Chimps See Daylight For First Time

Imagine being locked up inside for 30 years, without ever seeing the sun. That’s what these lab chimps went through, while also being used as test subjects by a pharmaceutical company for HIV and hepatitis. The chimps, ranging in age from 20 to 30, were taken from their mothers in the wild shortly after birth.…

Biology Mat Honan

New Moon Landing Sites Photos Are So Sharp They Show Detailed Rover Tire Marks

NASA showed images of the lunar landing sites in 2009, punching all moronic conspiracy theorists a new stupid face, Buzz Aldrin style. Now they have released new higher resolution shots taken again by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. https://gizmodo.com/first-new-images-of-the-apollo-landing-sites-in-40-year-5317057 These images were taken with the low-altitude Narrow Angle Camera, according to Arizona State University researcher Mark…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Overused Sperm Means Bigger Risk of Brother/Sister Sexin’

Britain and France think it’s a good idea to set a limit on how many babies can be made from one sperm donor’s… donation. Why? Maybe to avoid the situation we’ve got in the US, the NYT reports: incest alert! The Times states, frankly, that nobody really knows how many children are conceived via artificial…

Health Sam Biddle

The Weirdest Things the FDA Thinks Will Kill You

At first glance, the FDA’s Flickr stream of recalled products seems a bit ridiculous. But if you’re constantly on Flickr and you care about your health, the life you save could be your own. Or, you, know, the laugh. The usual suspects are in there—eggs, cheeses, random vegetables—but we did find a few more surprising…

Health Roberto Baldwin

Seeing a Supernova Could Be the Best Part of Labor Day Weekend

After all the boozing and barbecuing on America day off from labor, take a sec to look up. What you’ll hopefully see is A supernova burning bright more than 21 million light years away. The type 1a supernova is actually an exploding White Dwarf that scientists discovered last in the Pinwheel Galaxy, and it’s the…

Space & Spaceflight Kwame Opam

12 Satellites Under Construction

This Labor day, be thankful that NASA engineers have worked so hard to keep the satellites they build from raining down upon the Earth like a biblical hell fire of scientific progress. And be thankful our friends at Oobject have assembled this incredible collection of satellites being built. Though if these aren’t enough to stimunlate…

Space & Spaceflight Oobject.com

Would You Rather Stand Or Sit At Your Desk All Day?

The latest office trend sweeping the nation is stand up desks, according to the Wall Street Journal. A growing number of employees at companies like Facebook and Google are tossing aside their chair and asking to work while standing. The stand-up desk has a raised surface that is the proper height for a person to…

Health Kelly

This Bottle Contains the Breath of the Greatest Space Heroes of All Time

It looks like a tiny bottle of liquid, but you are looking at the breath of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the crew of Apollo 11, the first humans to land on the Moon, condensed into liquid: https://gizmodo.com/a-fascinating-view-on-the-apollo-11-launch-5526231 A sample of wastewater taken from the Apollo 11 command module after its return to…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

First Quantum Computer Simulator Operates at the Speed of Light

Celebrated physicist Richard Feynman first proposed it in 1982, and now it exists: the first universal, digital quantum simulator. Austrian scientists, who published how they created the mind-blowing simulator in the September 1 issue of journal Science, haven’t yet returned my emails (they’re probably popping champers), but they’ve got to be are pretty stoked. “We…

Physics & Chemistry Kristen Philipkoski

Chinese Scientists Want to Lasso an Asteroid

Everybody knows the best method of dealing with dangerous asteroids—it’s called Bruce Willis. But what if said asteroid wasn’t on a collision course with us and we wanted to study, rather than explode, it? A team of Chinese researchers may have the solution. A team from Tsinghua University in Beijing, led by Hexi Baoyin, wants…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Unique Video Captures the Sun Changing Its Spots

We knew that sunspots change quite rapidly from photos, but this video shows how fast this phenomenon is. The video was made from visible light frames captured by the NASA SDO’s Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager. [NASA Goddard Flickr]

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

The First Hi-Res Simulation of the Milky Way’s Formation

It took nine months and 1.4 million processor-hours of work from NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer but a group of researchers from UC Santa Cruz have discovered how, exactly, our galaxy was born. The Cold Dark Matter theory posits that right after the Big Bang, gravitational forces influenced the minute variations in density of dark matter, slowly…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Black Death DNA ID’d by Scientists and What It Means For the Next Zombie Plague

The source of Black Death, a plague that devastated Europe in the 14th century, has finally been pinpointed thanks to an analysis of rotting bones and teeth extracted a mass burial site in London. Until this study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, some scientists were skeptical that the incredibly deadly…

Health Kristen Philipkoski

Could Schizophrenia Be Treated With Nicotine?

Smoking is bad for you blah blah we know. But you couldn’t really tell that to the 80% of American schizophrenic patients who smoke. The jury is still out on why that number’s so high, but could some form of treatment come out of this? That so many schizophrenics smoke was actually established in a…

Health Kwame Opam

Putting Smart Collars on Wild Animals Will Help Us Predict Their Wild Behavior

Though adding “smart collars” to animals in the wild doesn’t do anything for the animal, it helps us humans better understand their habits. Which hopefully means we end up helping the animals. Traditional collars have used GPS before but these new ones, which are expected to be implemented in the next few years, use GPS…

Biology Casey Chan

IMPORTANT: BIG CATS VS. LASERS

This Is How 9/11 Looked From Space

7 Tools to Build the World’s Greatest POLICE DOG

Cuba’s Lung Cancer Vaccine Could Save Your Life

What Is This?

Lab Chimps See Daylight For First Time

New Moon Landing Sites Photos Are So Sharp They Show Detailed Rover Tire Marks

Overused Sperm Means Bigger Risk of Brother/Sister Sexin’

The Weirdest Things the FDA Thinks Will Kill You

Seeing a Supernova Could Be the Best Part of Labor Day Weekend

12 Satellites Under Construction

Would You Rather Stand Or Sit At Your Desk All Day?

This Bottle Contains the Breath of the Greatest Space Heroes of All Time

First Quantum Computer Simulator Operates at the Speed of Light

Chinese Scientists Want to Lasso an Asteroid

Unique Video Captures the Sun Changing Its Spots

The First Hi-Res Simulation of the Milky Way’s Formation

Black Death DNA ID’d by Scientists and What It Means For the Next Zombie Plague

Could Schizophrenia Be Treated With Nicotine?

Putting Smart Collars on Wild Animals Will Help Us Predict Their Wild Behavior

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

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

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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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