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The Next Big Gravitational Waves Experiment Is Now Getting Started in Space  

On December 3rd, the LISA Pathfinder, humanity’s first bold attempt to hunt for gravitational waves from outer space, blasted into orbit. Two months and a million miles later, the first phase of LISA Pathfinder’s scientific operations has begun. In what’s being called a “major milestone,” the LISA pathfinder spacecraft released both of its gold-platinum test…

A New Mission Will Search for Ripples in Spacetime

In the distant reaches of the Universe, exploding stars and supermassive black holes are bending the very fabric of spacetime. It’s hard to wrap our brains around such tremendous forces, but we may be able to quantify them, in the form of gravitational waves. A new European Space Agency mission marks humanity’s first bold attempt…

Game of Thrones-inspired house sigils celebrate scientific exploration

In the Game of Science, you either win or you go back to the drawing board. Students from the Albert Einstein Institute created these Game of Thrones-style sigils to pay tribute to some of the most exciting projects in physics and space exploration, complete with house words for each. Behold the Houses of Awesome Exploration…

Lovely medical illustration of the human skull painted directly on a human head

Professional airbrush and bodypaint artist Lisa Berczel painted this bit of medical makeup for the International Make-Up Artist Trade Show in Los Angeles. Aside from some medical grade paper tape near the eye and brow blocking, this is all paint. Berczel has also done her share of (NSFW) pop culture painting, including on a glittery…

A short film about one roboticist’s obsessive quest for perfection

In a future where robots have replaced retail workers, androids and gynoids that can pass for human are highly valued. Anders Ohm is an expert at building and fine-tuning robots that seem human, but he takes issue with the little flaws that make us human. His obsession with perfection is especially pronounced when it comes…

Steve Jobs’ Biggest Apple Flops

In Steve Jobs’ two stints at Apple, the company made some great products. Their most amazing products. But no one’s perfect. Not even Steve Jobs. And Apple produced a few pieces of total crap during his reign. Here’re the worst. To ditch the gallery format, click here. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-biggest-apple-flops-5834321 Lisa The Apple Lisa, named after Jobs’…

Scientists Crack Mona Lisa’s Secret By X-Raying Her

Apparently, everyone has long been baffled by how Leonardo da Vinci created such subtle shadows and light on the Mona Lisa. So much so that scientists X-rayed the painting to discover his technique. Scientists have discovered that da Vinci used a well known renaissance painting technique known as sfumato. For the non art historians among…

Relativity To Be Tested With Three Spaceships and Lasers

55 years after Albert Einstein’s death, physicists will be testing something he scribed in his theory of general relativity report. Three spacecraft flying 3million miles apart will fire lasers at each other, overseen by Nasa and the European Space Agency. It sounds bonkers (and like a terrible waste of money), but once and for all…

The Best Sub-Light Propulsion System This Side of Luyten 726-8B

Today, we use ion thrusters to correct satellite orbits and visit asteroids. In 100 years, we might be using them to propel massive generation ships that send colonists to a different part of the galaxy. Your typical space craft is propelled by chemical rockets. It is basically riding a continuous explosion to get from point…

I Was In Love With Lisa

I once had a crush for a Swedish girl named Lisa. Now I wish it worked out, just to be able to wear this “In Love with Lisa” t-shirt and don’t feel like a total Apple dork. [iPhoneSavior via Etsy]

Giz Bounty: Bring Me the Head of the E-Tech Gadget Thief

Reward: Some dude took a demo gadget, a Japanese 5-second stopwatch guessing game, from Lisa’s e-tech talk, and she’s very upset about it. That’s me in the video, using the gadget a few days before. The man last seen using the stopwatch was sitting in a back row, unable to win or let other people…

Notes: Lisa on BoingBoing (and Other Loved Ones)

Lisa’s guest blogging for BoingBoing this week, which is a brilliant combination between one of the best Japan writers in the US, and well, BOINGBOING. I’d hire her for Gizmodo, but I’m not sure our personal relationship would last through a working relationship. Better to not push my luck by trying to fish an amazing…

BB Spot mocks iPhone rebates with 20-Year, $7k Apple Lisa rebate parody. “Sales figures from that year show that if all people who bought the computer claim the refund, Apple could be liable for almost $70,000.” LOL! [BBSpot]