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Hospitals Are Needlessly Irradiating Their Patients

Medicare outpatient claims for 2008 are showing that thousands of Medicare patients received unnecessary double CT scans that year. The practice not only costs the Medicare program millions of dollars, but exposes patients to potentially dangerous doses of radiation. Claims for 2008 were the most recent forms available, but those who’ve seen the numbers believe…

Health Kwame Opam

Ultra-Bright Burst of Light Marks the Death Throes of a Star Being Eaten Alive

Astronomers have solved the mystery of a gargantuan cosmic explosion first spotted in March: A black hole did it, by killing and eating a star the size of our sun. A couple months ago, we told you about an unusually bright and long-lasting blast of energy emanating from the center of a galaxy 3.8 billion…

Space & Spaceflight Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

Why Satellites are the New God for Farmers

Farmers have been using GPS-tracking to better organize their fields for a while but now they have a new god who watches them from space: Satellites that tell them exactly what they need to make perfect crops. RapidEye is based in Germany but they have a view of the entire world thanks to their fleet…

Space & Spaceflight Michael Zhao

What Does a 268MP Image Sensor Look Like?

Space photography requires a camera—a really big camera. One with 32 CCD sensors that snaps pictures at a mind-bending 268-megapixel resolution. Go ahead, you can call it the OmegaCam. You may want to take this one home with you, but you can’t. It weighs a whopping 1700lbs and produces about 30TBs of data per year.…

Space & Spaceflight Kelly

World’s Largest Radio Telescope Being Built in China, Hopefully Not For Evil

I’ve just reread the entire plot of Goldeneye thanks to China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), and am now concerned some serious shit might go on down here once it’s completed in 2016. It’ll not only be the world’s largest, but it will also be the world’s most sensitive radio telescope, taking over from Puerto…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

The Plane of The Future Will Be Transparent and Bird-Like

Airbus looked ahead forty years and designed the perfect plane for its future customers. The plane of the future will drop the idea of classes and replace it with zones for tech and relaxation. The relaxation zone will include biomorphing seats that monitor your vital signs and offer massage, acupuncture and other revitalizing techniques. The…

Health Kelly

Meet the Gömböc, one of the strangest shapes in the world

Invented by Hungarian mathematicians, the Gömböc can’t ever be kept down. It’s the world’s only artificial, self-righting shape. There are plenty of things that come back up after being knocked down. Angry roadies do, for example. But they get up under their own power. Weebles and inflatable clowns do. But they only manage it because…

Physics & Chemistry Esther Inglis-Arkell

Newt Gingrich Is a “Big Fan of Going into Space” and Wants to Kill NASA

Last night’s GOP debate didn’t just tap the tectonic plate-moving question of whether Ron Paul likes iPhones (he doesn’t!). Newt Gingrich was hit with an actually non-bullshit question: should we de-fund NASA? He didn’t really answer, but loves space! https://gizmodo.com/ron-paul-chooses-blackberry-over-iphone-in-pivotal-deba-5811737 Whether he meant the notion of humankind blasting into the vacuum, or some hitherto covert…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

Spacecrafts Blasting Off Underwater

Photographer Owen Silverwood snapped photos of these model NASA spacecraft launching underwater. Titled “Inner Space,” the cloud these rockets kick up while lifting off captures some of the awe you’d feel while watching a real launch. [Owen Silverwood via Neatorama]

Space & Spaceflight Kwame Opam

Animals’ Most Amazing Acoustic Feats

From deafening monkey howls to snapping crustacean claws, animals use powerful sounds to do everything from claim territory to stun prey. “There’s such an enormous range of abilities and loudness in animals, it’s very easy to get swept up by it all. I just love this stuff,” said bioacoustician Christopher Clark of Cornell University. While…

Biology Max Behrman

Fermilab’s Claim of New Subatomic Particle Discredited by Rival Team

Fermilab believed they hit the motherlode this past April after findings from the Tevatron particle accelerator suggested a new subatomic particle was out there. A second, independent group has analyzed that same data and claim there is no new particle. https://gizmodo.com/have-scientists-discovered-a-new-elementary-particle-5789701 The research team DZero has a detector of their own in a different section…

Physics & Chemistry Adrian Covert

Implant Jamming Shield Will Keep Body Hackers from Giving You a Heart Attack

Wirelessly-connected medical implants are convenient, smart, and save a lot of lives. But the prospect of murdering someone by remotely-screwing their, say, pacemaker, isn’t that remote. And researchers at MIT are working to protect you from implant assassins. Making it easier for implants to talk to doctors through the air means better treatment for people…

Health Sam Biddle

ISS Lamp Illuminates When the Space Station Is “Near”

Nathan Bergey wanted to know when that manmade wonder, the International Space Station, was shooting by above his head in orbit, so he did what any skilled tinkerer would do: He built a lamp that lights up whenever it’s overhead. Bergrev provides the full source code for this project as well as this brief, inspirational…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Of Body Hacking, Ben Franklin and Your Data-Driven Future

In colonial times, Benjamin Franklin was fond of keeping a list of “13 virtues.” If he violeted one, he would check it off, and use it as motivation to improve his moral standing. He was an original body hacker. Today, body hacking is a much more elaborate, much more technical affair. Practitioners graph and plot…

Health Jack Loftus

3M’s Silicone Medical Tape Will Make Bandage Removal a Painless Process

Imagine taking off a band-aid or medical tape, not grimacing in pain as the bandage adhesive pulls hair and skin cells with it. That is what 3M is promising with their new silicone tape technology, which bonds with skin in a way that other tape adhesives don’t. The unique properties of the tape’s silicone adhesive…

Health Adrian Covert

Videos of the Covert Rescue Team Saving Fukushima’s Atomic Animals

The daring volunteers who saved two canines from the contaminated environs of Fukushima have released this video of their mission, showing the bold infiltration into the evacuation zone and bringing the pups to safety. But this was just one mission. https://gizmodo.com/animal-lovers-raid-fukushima-to-save-radioactive-dogs-5810659 The same team’s gone to Fukushima, hazmat suits donned, for the sake of rescuing…

Biology Sam Biddle

Two Lucky iPhones Will Be Guests On The Last Space Shuttle Mission

Some companies have all the luck. While Google’s green Android robot sits on the sidelines, Apple gets to send two of its iPhone 4 handsets into space with the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The iPhones were approved for the flight and will have the SpaceLab for iOS app installed on them. They will be used in…

Space & Spaceflight Kelly

Why This Is the Last Photo Ever Taken by This Camera

Paolo Nespoli, the Italian astronaut who took this photo, left Earth with three, professional-grade Nikon DSLRs worth over $20,000. He returned with none of them. The images of Endeavor docked to the ISS were his cameras’ last. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-and-last-time-you-will-see-the-space-shuttle-5809902 Standard procedure for the Soyuz spacecraft he was riding in dictates that no extra weight can be…

Space & Spaceflight Michael Zhao

Cows In China Are Now Producing Human Breast Milk

Amidst all the concern going around that cows’ milk is bad for you, Chinese scientists have found a way to fix the problem: By genetically engineering cows to produce human breast milk. Is soy milk just not in favor yet? Researchers at the Agricultural University in Beijing managed to produce milk with the same healthful…

Health Kwame Opam

Apple’s New “Design + Health” Kit: Even Employees Need To Be Thinner and Lighter

Kudos to ZDNET on this one. Thanks to designer Carl Jeffers, here is a look at the very internal campaign Apple has taken on in Cupertino to keep their design staff as slim and trim as their phones. Now you have the Design + Health kit to keep you on track. We don’t just design…

Health Kwame Opam

Hospitals Are Needlessly Irradiating Their Patients

Ultra-Bright Burst of Light Marks the Death Throes of a Star Being Eaten Alive

Why Satellites are the New God for Farmers

What Does a 268MP Image Sensor Look Like?

World’s Largest Radio Telescope Being Built in China, Hopefully Not For Evil

The Plane of The Future Will Be Transparent and Bird-Like

Meet the Gömböc, one of the strangest shapes in the world

Newt Gingrich Is a “Big Fan of Going into Space” and Wants to Kill NASA

Spacecrafts Blasting Off Underwater

Animals’ Most Amazing Acoustic Feats

Fermilab’s Claim of New Subatomic Particle Discredited by Rival Team

Implant Jamming Shield Will Keep Body Hackers from Giving You a Heart Attack

ISS Lamp Illuminates When the Space Station Is “Near”

Of Body Hacking, Ben Franklin and Your Data-Driven Future

3M’s Silicone Medical Tape Will Make Bandage Removal a Painless Process

Videos of the Covert Rescue Team Saving Fukushima’s Atomic Animals

Two Lucky iPhones Will Be Guests On The Last Space Shuttle Mission

Why This Is the Last Photo Ever Taken by This Camera

Cows In China Are Now Producing Human Breast Milk

Apple’s New “Design + Health” Kit: Even Employees Need To Be Thinner and Lighter

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

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

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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