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This Is NASA’s Secret Seaside Astronaut Hangout Pad

Preparing to plow up into the vacuum of space is no small task. It might even be a little stressful, even to the iron-nerved astro-gods at NASA. So before every launch, they retreat to this house for drinking and wives. The Cape Canaveral house, as Motherboard shows, is nothing fancy—about as spartan as the shuttle…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

The Space Shuttle Has Its Own Theme Song

There’s nothing like a good theme song to give a memorable moment some emotional oomph. It’s only fitting that tomorrows Space Shuttle launch has its own composition created by Bear McCreary, the man behind the Battlestar Galactica theme. The song, Fanfare for STS-135, captures both the “celebration and reflection” of the event says McCreary. It’s…

Space & Spaceflight Kelly

Would You Drink a Sports Drink Made From Urine? Because Nasa Wants Astronauts To

This so-called “sugar drink” will be made from urine using “forward osmosis” technology, and rather than providing astronauts with all the sugary nutrients they might need, it’s been invented as a way to recycle human waste and keep rocket-ships light. Apparently a bag of urine can be turned into a sugary drink in just a…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

The Smartphone Eyepiece That Diagnoses Cataracts

As cataracts is the main cause for blindness, a phone accessory that diagnoses cataracts could cut down on blindness, particularly in the developing world. As shown in the video here, MIT’s CATRA is a low-cost solution which not only detects cataracts, but also tracks the severity of them over time. Thanks to the low-cost supplies…

Health Kat Hannaford

A Five Minute Explanation of How the Earth’s Beautiful Northern Lights Arrive

Aurora borealis isn’t just very fun to say aloud—it’s absolutely beautiful to watch. But where does it come from? The whim of the gods? No, silly Ancient Roman—the sun’s plasma discharges are responsible. This video breaks it down. The sun is a giant crock pot of magnetic fields and incredible heat. The two collude and…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

Cyber-Grannies Can Track Their Pulse, Blood Pressure and Temp On This Cane

Oh, so Big Jim at the nursing home thinks he’s all that, with his cane that doubles up as an umbrella? Egle Ugintaite’s cane concept walks all over that, and then some. Sensors actually take readings from the user’s wrist, and track the pulse, blood pressure and body temperature, displaying the stats on the little…

Health Kat Hannaford

Government Sues Apollo Astronaut For Allegedly Stealing a Lunar Camera

NASA officials learned last March that a British auction house had an item labeled “Movie Camera from the Lunar Surface” as part of their Space History Sale. The camera was described in the catalog as being one of two used aboard Apollo 14’s lunar module, Antares, and had come directly from the collection of astronaut…

Space & Spaceflight Seth Abramovitch

This Supermassive Black Hole Fuels a Quasar 60 Trillion Times as Bright as the Sun. Trillion.

Sometimes I’m dissatisfied with this little spinning puffball we’re stuck on, but then I see that there’s a black hole out there with a mass of two billion of our suns, powering an unfathomably large quasar. Luckily, it’s very distant! How distant? Far away enough that it’s revealing facts about the way the universe sat…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

Robot Armpit Looks Hideous, Smells Hideous

The “fun” doesn’t end there, folks—Kevin Grennan has built a small army of robot bodyparts, each more disgusting than the last. He actually outfitted each robot with sweat glands that replicate the odor from each individual bodypart. So, you know, the armpits smell like armpits! (And the snozzberries definitely smell of snozzberries.) Grennan also built…

Health Kat Hannaford

The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

Fifteen years ago, aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin published The Case for Mars, and issued a clarion call to his fellow scientists, and the people of Earth. We need to plan our Mars colony, and we need to do it now. Zubrin has released an updated and revised version of his classic book, outlining the most…

Space & Spaceflight Robert Zubrin

We Annihilated Another Evil Disease From the Planet

You may not know what rinderpest was. But if you knew that this cattle killer was believed to have been a biblical plague and helped bring down the Roman Empire, you’d cheer that we wiped it off the face of the earth. Rinderpest, meaning “cattle plague” in German, was believed to have emerged at around…

Health Kwame Opam

Astronauts Evacuate to Soyuz Spacecraft as Junk Nearly Hits International Space Station

Astronauts on board the International Space Station had to rush into two docked Soyuz spaceships as space debris nearly missed their homebase, passing just 250 meters (820 feet) from it. In space, that’s a pretty close call. While this is not been the first time that the evacuation protocol has been activated—it happened once in…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Fasting Before a Run Probably Won’t Help You Lose Weight

There are all sorts of tech-inclined ways to attempt a workout. Some look pretty scary. But basic common sense still says you should take care of yourself. And even though some studies say different, having a snack before your run couldn’t hurt. https://gizmodo.com/this-exercise-office-chair-looks-like-torture-5706160 A recent study published in Strength and Conditioning Journal showed that working…

Health Kwame Opam

People Get Paid to Track Down Panda Doo Doo in China

It’s 2011 and that means it’s time for something you have no idea about so i’ll tell you: PANDA CENSUS. There are around 1500 Pandas alive these days, and the Chinese want to know exactly how many there are. So what do they do? Hire Panda trackers, of course. The Panda Census, which began in…

Biology Adrian Covert

A Space Age Dream Deferred

What you’re seeing are the remains of the Aerojet-Dade rocket manufacturing plant, built in 1963, deep in the Everglades. “Space Miami” documents how the people there hoped to put a man on the moon, and how those hopes were dashed. It’s amazing to see their efforts, and it’s a shame that they went to waste.…

Space & Spaceflight Kwame Opam

Cowardly Seagull Thief Steals GoPro and Flies Away

GoPro, just admit you’re paying animals to steal cameras as part of some adorable viral marketing scheme. First the lion, and now a seagull? How did the seagull get the camera? How did the guy find it? We want answers. https://gizmodo.com/lion-steals-and-chomps-on-gopro-while-filming-5805961 YouTube user opica1983 says he was filming in Cannes, France, when he apparently put…

Biology Sam Biddle

Fukushima Residents Peeing Out Radiation

The spread of radioactive material tens of miles away from their source has its consequences. It doesn’t just sit in the dirt—it finds its way into human bodies. And now it’s in their pee. https://gizmodo.com/more-radioactive-dirt-found-almost-40-miles-from-fukush-5810269 Japanese government and hospital workers conducted the study, which found radioactive levels of up to 3 millisieverts residents’ urine up…

Health Sam Biddle

NASA Autonomous Lander Hovers in Midair, in Infrared Video

Hovering landers or drones look as though they’re suspended in the air, because you can’t see the vortices caused by the propellers or the heat emitted by the thruster, or whatever mechanism enables the hovering. Well, here you can. And it proves that the act of hovering is anything but delicate. In a test earlier…

Space & Spaceflight Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

Astronomers Find Star Shooting 100,000,000 Amazon Rivers of Water at 120,000 MPH

Just in time for summer, sky-looking researchers have found a star so aquatically-powerful that’s literally spraying the universe. The water-shooting star would have been better a cosmic hot tub for winter, however, as its streams are 180,000 degrees Fahrenheit. So that’s extremely hot water moving extremely quickly—and there’s a galactic shit-ton of it. Don’t worry,…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

Dutch Building Looks Like It Landed on the Surface of Mars

Architecture firms tend to use their offices as a giant business card they can work inside. Decos’ is no exception—except it looks like an astronaut base, not a Dutch headquarters. Their inspiration? A meteorite impact. The building itself is situated in a business park dedicated to space-related commerce, so the other-planetary design should fit right…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

This Is NASA’s Secret Seaside Astronaut Hangout Pad

The Space Shuttle Has Its Own Theme Song

Would You Drink a Sports Drink Made From Urine? Because Nasa Wants Astronauts To

The Smartphone Eyepiece That Diagnoses Cataracts

A Five Minute Explanation of How the Earth’s Beautiful Northern Lights Arrive

Cyber-Grannies Can Track Their Pulse, Blood Pressure and Temp On This Cane

Government Sues Apollo Astronaut For Allegedly Stealing a Lunar Camera

This Supermassive Black Hole Fuels a Quasar 60 Trillion Times as Bright as the Sun. Trillion.

Robot Armpit Looks Hideous, Smells Hideous

The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

We Annihilated Another Evil Disease From the Planet

Astronauts Evacuate to Soyuz Spacecraft as Junk Nearly Hits International Space Station

Fasting Before a Run Probably Won’t Help You Lose Weight

People Get Paid to Track Down Panda Doo Doo in China

A Space Age Dream Deferred

Cowardly Seagull Thief Steals GoPro and Flies Away

Fukushima Residents Peeing Out Radiation

NASA Autonomous Lander Hovers in Midair, in Infrared Video

Astronomers Find Star Shooting 100,000,000 Amazon Rivers of Water at 120,000 MPH

Dutch Building Looks Like It Landed on the Surface of Mars

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

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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

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

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