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Here’s a Better Way To Save Articles on Android

Opening up links on your phone typically means switching back and forth between apps and screens—Flynx makes the process less painful by queueing up articles in the background until you’re ready to read them. It works like Instapaper for Android, and lets you continue perusing Facebook, Twitter, or whatever else without interruption. Installing and setting…

Don’t Giggle at Some of the Unusual Ways Giraffes Can Die

Featuring stunning proof that life sometimes imitates Far Side cartoons, this short piece on unusual giraffe deaths takes us through all the ways a creature with a long neck and no hands can perish, and there are some doozies. This one comes to us by way of Alexis Madrigal’s newsletter, Real Future. The post, courtesy…

How Broken Hyperlinks Are Screwing Up Science

For most of us, a hyperlink 404ing is a problem fixable with a quick visit to the Wayback Machine (or maybe just taking a walk away from the computer and reflecting on the importance of cat GIFs). But for academics, broken links present a more serious issue. In case (like me) you thought that broken…

Carnival of Space #361

This week’s Carnival of Space celebrates Cassini’s birthday, bringing citizen science to a Maker Fair, getting up close and personal with the new Orbital Carbon Observatory, and more. Read on for stories on new technology, citizen science, and astronomical prettiness. Astronaut Reid Wiseman captured just how intimidating Arthur is, even from space. Carnival of Space…

The Earth is a Weird and Wonderful Place

It’s easy to forget neglect the wonder of our planet in the bustle of the every-day, until you stop to really think about the terrific forces at play to shape the world around us. Here’s my quicklinks from around the web on amazing (and terrifying) things about our planet. NASA has a satellite photo gallery…

Carnival of Space #358

It’s time for the weekly roving collection of astronomy-themed links from around the web, Carnival of Space! We’re hosting this week, so here’s the list: Next Big Future has articles on NASA NIAC, which has funded new technology to improve mass and power savings by two orders of magnitude, and another solar electric space sail,…

This weeks’ Carnival of Space #356 of astronomy-links from around the web is live, with stories on comet-photography, X-ray astronomy, aging of elliptical galaxies, and even a tidbit on Titan’s atmosphere.

Goodbye, Hello, and Thank You!

In May, you spent 11,575,989 minutes ogling astronomy and physics, learning about disasters and planetary science, and otherwise indulging in the eclectic topics of the Space site. My 90 days as a Recruit have been intense and fun, but are over. But I’m not leaving; I’m just changing job titles. Here, check out Supernova 1006!…

Carnival of Space #355

The Carnival of Space is a roving showcase of astronomy articles from space blogs around the web. It’s a chance for us to share neat stories, meet new authors, and reach new audiences. This is the 355th week of delicious links for your browsing pleasure. This is io9’s first time hosting, with stories from Simostronomy,…

Space This Week

As always, a lot of things happened in astronomy and planetary sciences this week. Here’s your weekly round-up of stories from my subsite, and anywhere else that was downright interesting. It’s my last week as a Space Recruit. My numbers are healthy, but I still haven’t passed that critical 300k boundary for US People to…

Space this Week

The week is busy, and it’s easy for news to slip through the cracks, so here’s your dose of planetary science news in one tidy package for your viewing pleasure. × It’s that time of the week again! I’ll shamelessly plead for your help in bringing traffic into the Space subsite, then pass along all…

This Week in Space

It’s time for the weekly edition of In Case You Missed It from the Space subsite paired with links from around the web of news we didn’t cover here. It was a slow-traffic week for Space this week, so if you read something you like, pass it along to a friend! Quantum mechanics inspiring jewellery…

In Case You Missed It, Carnival of Space, and Links This Week

It’s time for the weekly round-up of all things Space-related. Settle down with a warm beverage, and prepare to lose far too much time clicking through to stories you missed during weekday chaos. A crazy dust storm in China advanced dramatically in just 2 hours on April 23. Image credit: NASA/Earth Observatory. Read more about…

In Case You Missed It…

The Space subsite covers all sorts of stories from stargazing to planetary exploration, and from explainers on geological phenomena to marvelling at pretty places. Here’s stories from April that you may have missed. Not everything gets shared to the io9 main page. Here’s the April stories exclusive to the Space Subsite: Stargazing at Dark Sky…

Space This Week

It’s time for another link-round-up of space-related stories that we didn’t cover this week! Consequences of the impending El Niño for 60 locations around the United States. Science history! How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery Building the Giant Magellan Telescope Astronomy graduate students can apply for a summer school on Education &…

This Week in Space

How is it Sunday already? Here’s links to things that were cool and not discussed on Space this week: Identify cities at night by their lights Determining small planet/large moon vs large planet/small moon is very tricky. Eye of the Storm is pure eye candy of ice caves, sunsets, and auroras. Colour in geological maps.…

This Week in Space

Ready to lose time to all the space-related stories we didn’t cover this week? Bras and space suits: How Playtex won the crucial design contest against military companies (with seriously cool photos!) Road trip to the ALMA Observatory Caroline Herschel, Comet-Hunter IPCC Climate Report translated into Snakes & Ladders game 2011 flashback: the ESA astronauts-in-caves…

This Week in Space

It’s time for weekly space-links of astronomy and planetary science stories that we didn’t cover on Space this week. New mineral Kuratite confirmed in a 1979 meteorite The fluid dynamics of a supernova type II core collapse is gorgeous. Anniversary of the first test flight for the Avro Arrow, Canada’s big hope and crushing disappointment…

This Week in Space

Astronomy & planetary science news this week that didn’t make the Space subsite: Volcanology around the solar system, a comparison of eruptions on Io and Venus An art project photographing chalkboards after quantum mechanics lectures. Air gaps: pretty much essential for marine navigation. How did the BICEP-2 team keep their results secret until the press…

Google Docs Auto-Search Just Made Linking Easier Than Ever

Google Docs (and Slides) just got an awesome, but subtle new trick. Now, every time you go to hyperlink a word, Google search results will automatically appear below your link box. Never open another tab to search for a Wikipedia page again. And to make matters even better, it’s not just a web search: Google…