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If This CPR iPhone App Doesn’t Save Lives, Well, We’re Doomed

The Fire Department app connects those trained in CPR with those who need it, much like your colleagues who’ve put their hands up to be the building’s first-aid volunteers. Using the iPhone’s GPS, it alerts trained users of nearby casualties. Once you elect to be tracked by the app, you basically sign over your permission…

Health Kat Hannaford

Cat Piano iPad App Approximates Katy Perry’s Voice With Surprising Fidelity

Let’s pause (paws?) briefly to appreciate this oddly enjoyable cover of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” made entirely with iPad apps, including an app called Cat Piano playing the vocal melody. As YouTube commenter miesvanderrobot notes, it’s “actually surprisingly apt.” [YouTube]

Biology Kyle VanHemert

British Satellites Will Beam Info Down From Space Using Android Smartphones

The communication components in smartphones and satellites aren’t all that different, except that satellite guts are better rated for external factors like temperature and impact. But one British aerospace firm wants to see how well a smartphone fares in space. Wired says that the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited are working together…

Space & Spaceflight Adrian Covert

The “Blueberries” You’re Eating Might Be Made Out of Chemicals

Blueberries! They’re good for you! High in antioxidants! Delicious! Except when they’re made out of “sugar, corn syrup, starch, hydrogenated oil, artificial flavors and artificial food dye blue No. 2 and red No. 40,” as found in a new report. The investigation, conducted by NaturalNewsTV, reveals the truth staring you in the face from the…

Health Sam Biddle

Pretend Mars Mission Nearing Its Thrilling, Fake Martian Touchdown

Rejoice! Six fake astronauts near the end of their simulated Mars mission, and will set foot on Earth, which they will pretend is Mars. It’s the closest a human will get to the real thing for a very long time. The journey will ultimately take 520 days, during which time these international pseudo-nauts will have…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

A Failed Prototype: The Hamster Ball Spacesuit

Space suits are insanely cool. Except this one. This prototype hamster ball suit was designed by engineers at John Hopkins and actually presented to NASA in 1964. The engineers claimed astronauts would be more mobile with this thing on. I’m not kidding, this bubbleboy thing was real and it was called the Spherical Experiment #1…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

Woman Speaks First Words in 10 Years After Voice-Box Transplant

Brenda Jensen is speaking again, after ten years using an electronic voicebox, thanks to an ambitious larynx transplant. And before you ask—it’s her own voice, and not that of the larynx donor, even though that would be cool.

Health Max Read

Giant F*cking Rocket Carries Spy Satellite Into Orbit

Sure, it’s just another Delta IV rocket carrying another top-secret spy satellite into orbit, but it’s also a reminder that WE CAN SEND SHIT INTO SPACE, and that’s always awesome. Like watching space ships and fire? Peep the video. https://gizmodo.com/us-spy-satellite-is-the-largest-satellite-in-the-world-5696611 At 1:10PM PST, the this Delta IV, the largest spacecraft in the world, took off…

Space & Spaceflight Joe Brown

Malaria Parasite’s Brutal Blood Cell Invasion Finally Caught on Video

Click to viewThe eerie video you’re about to watch captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell—this is the first time that such an event has been caught in moving pictures. The Plasmodium parasite responsible for malaria is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes, and is thought to kill…

Health Wendy Zukerman - NewScientist

Presenting the Remote Controlled Super Doggie

Dogs are smart—they deftly navigate obstacles and help us locate contraband like weapons and drugs—but they’re easily distracted. This new GPS- and radio-equipped harness allows computers to keep trained pups on task remotely with sounds and vibrations. The harness, developed at Auburn University, solves the foremost shortcoming of trained canines: they must remain in close…

Biology Kyle VanHemert

Happy Birthday New Horizons, the Little Probe (Still) Racing for Pluto

We’ve launched probes all over the place. We’ve snapped and beamed back pictures of every spot in the solar system. Except Pluto. Call it a planet. Call it a dwarf planet. Either way, it’s the last unknown. Not for long. New Horizons‘ January 2006 launch beat Pluto’s highly controversial downgrade later that year. But even…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

What the Soviet Space Shuttle Program Looks Like Today

In the mid-1970s, the Soviets conceived of the Buran program as their answer to NASA and the U.S. Space Shuttle program. Though the ambitious project faltered after only one unmanned flight, many of its remnants still stand spectacularly today. The construction of the Soviet shuttles proceeded throughout the 1980s, culminating in an unmanned launch of…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

NASA Discovers Android—Brings NASA Spinoff App to Google Phones

NASA’s HD iPad app is a fantastic creation, so it’s great to see the space people finally bring something to Android. But it’s not one of its most exciting creations, instead offering a mobile version of its NASA Spinoff portal. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-hd-ipad-app-clears-the-tower-5629333 If you can live with the app’s bizarre purple layout—inspired by the Crab Nebula?—there’s…

Space & Spaceflight Gary Cutlack

Humble Radish Survives 30 Minutes In the Vacuum of Space

Radish Log, 2011.15: Took those bastards 30 minutes in a vacuum to finally wilt me. Thirty minutes in hell, or 29 minutes longer than that human sap back in ’65. I’m king of the world and I’m just a radish. What the hell is that radish talking about, you ask? It’s actually pretty simple, and…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Hunter Becomes Hunted: A Fox Shoots a Man

When a fox was shot by a hunter, it didn’t die. Instead, when the hunter tried to finish the fox off with the butt of his gun, the animal pulled the trigger of the gun and shot the hunter right back. The man (who remains anonymous) was hunting for foxes in Belarus (who aren’t protected…

Biology Casey Chan

Stop Being Lazy And Come Play Nike+ Tag With Your Friends

If you need competition of sorts in order to get motivated, then you’ll love the new TAG feature in the Nike+ GPS iPhone app. It basically lets you challenge friends based on distance, time, or who’s the last to run. The way the feature works is that you’re prompted to invite friends to play tag…

Health Rosa Golijan

2013: The Year We Resumed Vacationing Aboard the International Space Station

Beginning in 2013, Space Adventures will once again sell seats aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft headed straight for the International Space Station. Previously sending seven people to the ISS, Space Adventures will now send 3 people a year. https://gizmodo.com/the-loneliest-spacecraft-in-the-universe-5713232 According to the MIT Technology Review, the space tourism company restruck a deal with the Russian…

Space & Spaceflight Adrian Covert

This is For Anyone Who’s Ever Tried Photographing a Black Dog Before

The book In Almost Every Picture #9: Black Dog follows one family’s struggle in capturing their black pup’s face over the years. Compiled by Erik Kessels, it’s the ninth book in a series of hilarious amateur photography-plights. [Lensculture via Brainpickings]

Biology Kat Hannaford

This Isn’t an Outpost on Another Planet, It’s the South Pole

Does it get cooler than this? A telescope, called BICEP, collecting data on BLACK BATTER, located on the SOUTH POLE. I think that it does not. It’s hard to believe something this incredible looking is found on earth. Those red lights you see are actually meant to improve visibility within the telescope, blocking out ambient…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

Crab Nebula Should Be Renamed Smoking Blue Jellyfish Nebula

Believe it or not, this is the Crab Nebula, one of the most famous cosmic objects. Except that this image—9.8 light years across—doesn’t look like the Crab Nebula at all, but the Electric Blue Puff Puff Jellyfish. You don’t recognize it because that’s the X-ray image taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. And it’s precisely…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

If This CPR iPhone App Doesn’t Save Lives, Well, We’re Doomed

Cat Piano iPad App Approximates Katy Perry’s Voice With Surprising Fidelity

British Satellites Will Beam Info Down From Space Using Android Smartphones

The “Blueberries” You’re Eating Might Be Made Out of Chemicals

Pretend Mars Mission Nearing Its Thrilling, Fake Martian Touchdown

A Failed Prototype: The Hamster Ball Spacesuit

Woman Speaks First Words in 10 Years After Voice-Box Transplant

Giant F*cking Rocket Carries Spy Satellite Into Orbit

Malaria Parasite’s Brutal Blood Cell Invasion Finally Caught on Video

Presenting the Remote Controlled Super Doggie

Happy Birthday New Horizons, the Little Probe (Still) Racing for Pluto

What the Soviet Space Shuttle Program Looks Like Today

NASA Discovers Android—Brings NASA Spinoff App to Google Phones

Humble Radish Survives 30 Minutes In the Vacuum of Space

Hunter Becomes Hunted: A Fox Shoots a Man

Stop Being Lazy And Come Play Nike+ Tag With Your Friends

2013: The Year We Resumed Vacationing Aboard the International Space Station

This is For Anyone Who’s Ever Tried Photographing a Black Dog Before

This Isn’t an Outpost on Another Planet, It’s the South Pole

Crab Nebula Should Be Renamed Smoking Blue Jellyfish Nebula

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