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Arctic Sea Ice Hits Second Lowest Extent in Satellite Record

Arctic sea ice has reached its annual minimum. And according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), this year’s extent—1.6 million square miles—is the second lowest extent on record, trailing only 2012 when sea ice dropped to 1.37 million square miles. This year is tied with the minimums we saw in 2007 and…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

A Brain-Infecting Virus Carried by Mosquitoes Is Spreading Far and Wide This Year

Over the weekend, health officials in several states reported more cases and deaths linked to the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus. The number of cases, while still small, is set to make 2019 the worst recorded year for EEE in recent history—and it may be a sign of things to come in an ever-warming climate.…

Health Ed Cara

Magnetic Field on Mars Mysteriously Pulses at Night, NASA’s InSight Lander Finds

NASA’s Mars InSight lander has observed mysterious nighttime pulses that can last as long as two hours, according to a conference proceeding. National Geographic reports that the InSight team released several new results at the joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society. These results include measurements of the Martian magnetic…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Google’s Quantum Supremacy Announcement Shouldn’t Be a Surprise

Headlines have boldly proclaimed that Google achieved “quantum supremacy” after the Financial Times on Friday leaked a draft of Google’s quantum supremacy research paper. I’m here to tell you that this is not a big surprise, nor is it a big deal—at least, not for you, yet. But first, I’m going to ask you a…

Gadgets Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Cats Really Do Bond With Their Humans, Study Finds

It’s a widely held assumption, even by some cat owners, that domestic felines don’t get much socially from being our pets. But a new study out Monday is the latest to suggest that many cats form healthy bonds with their humans, in much the same way as dogs and human babies do. There’s a rich…

Biology Ed Cara

New Research Promises Electric Car Batteries That Last For a Million Miles

Electric motors guzzle electricity, which can be especially hard on a rechargeable battery. The power cells used in electric vehicles, like Teslas, have an expected lifespan of around 300,000 to 500,000 miles, but a team of battery researchers believes it has come up with a recipe that can double that, leading to batteries that could…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Area 51, Impossible Burger, and Duck Gifs: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Tomorrow marks the first day of fall 2019, though you’d be forgiven for not noticing in much of the country thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures predicted to extend into October through much of the nation (and, well, almost everywhere almost all the time now). And summer went out with a bang, with millions turning out…

Tech News Tom McKay

UN Report Warns That Five Year Period Ending in 2019 Is Hottest on Record

Fresh off of a nationwide climate strike on Friday, a United Nations report published on Sunday shows that the five-year period ending at the close of the year (2015-2019) is slated to be the hottest of any five-year period on record. The paper, based on data compiled by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization, found that…

Climate Change Tom McKay

World Health Organization Says Tanzania Is Withholding Info on Suspected Ebola Cases

In a statement on Saturday, the World Health Organization (WHO) accused the government of Tanzania of deliberately withholding information about suspected cases of Ebola virus disease, the Washington Post reported. The allegation follows reports of multiple cases throughout the nation, beginning in the capital city of Dar es Salaam, after which WHO said it was…

Health Tom McKay

Google Says It’s Achieved Quantum Supremacy, a World-First: Report

A Google researcher’s paper claiming to have achieved quantum supremacy, a major early milestone in the field of quantum computing, appeared on a NASA website this week before being removed, the Financial Times reports. Google, as well as IBM, Microsoft, Intel, and other large tech companies and startups, have been working to build quantum computers,…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

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A Woman’s Toothache Remedy Left Her With Horrifying Blue Blood

A Rhode Island women’s toothache ended up causing her a literal case of the blues, thanks to a bizarre reaction she had to pain medication. According to her doctors, the woman developed a rare and potentially life-threatening disorder that deprived her of precious oxygen and turned her blood dark blue. The women’s case was laid…

Health Ed Cara

Former Fukushima Bosses Cleared of Criminal Negligence Over Nuclear Disaster

The Tokyo District Court has acquitted three former Tokyo Electric Power Company executives charged with criminal negligence leading to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. On Thursday, the Japanese court ruled that ex-TEPCO chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, along with former vice-presidents Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto, were not criminally responsible for deaths and injuries caused by the…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Spooky ‘Black Hole’ on Jupiter Is Just a Big Shadow

NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently caught this ominous view of Jupiter, which shows a massive black spot atop the gas giant’s churning clouds. Looks scary, but there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation: It’s a shadow cast by Jupiter’s extremely volcanic moon, Io. Juno captured this stunning series of images on September 12, while participating in its 22nd…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Impossible Burgers Aren’t Healthy, and That’s the Whole Point

When you go to a restaurant and order a hamburger, do you think to yourself, “Ah, yes, this meal will be so nutritious”? Or do you try to ignore the calorie count while thinking, “I want the greasy sandwich that will taste so good but make me feel so bad”? I’m guessing it’s closer to…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Submerged for Decades, Spanish ‘Stonehenge’ Reemerges After Drought

Receding water levels in Spain’s Valdecañas Reservoir has exposed a stone monument dating back to between 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. Unusually warm weather produced drought conditions across much of Europe this past summer, including Spain. The lack of rain, while a headache for farmers and gardeners, has resulted in the complete re-emergence of an…

Human History George Dvorsky

North America Has Lost Almost 30 Percent of Its Birds Since 1970, Upsetting New Study Finds

There are almost 3 billion fewer North American birds in 2019 than there were in 1970, accounting for a 29 percent decline, according to a new study. It’s clear that humans have done a number on the environment, since the climate is warming and species are going extinct at an alarming rate. But birds in…

Conservation Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Non-Drinkers Can Still Get Liver Disease, Thanks to Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria

Researchers say they’ve stumbled upon a peculiar cause of liver disease: a kind of bacteria that produces alcohol inside our gut. According to lead author Jing Yuan, a doctor at the Capital Institute of Pediatrics in China, their discovery was completely accidental. He and his colleagues had been treating a patient with severe fatty liver…

Health Ed Cara

Researchers Think It’s a Good Idea to Secure Your Phone Using the One Thing You Perpetually Lose

Apple’s FaceID authentication system started moving smartphone users away from relying on fingerprints to secure their mobile devices, which are arguably less secure. But researchers think they’ve come up with an even better biometric tool for protecting a device that uses a part of the body that’s nearly impossible to spoof: a user’s ear canals.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Facial Reconstruction Shows What the Enigmatic Denisovans Might Have Looked Like

A pinky finger bone, some teeth, and a lower jaw. That’s all the physical evidence we have of the mysterious Denisovans, an extinct group of hominins closely related to the Neanderthals. Remarkable new research offers a physical reconstruction of the Denisovans based on genetic evidence, providing our first potential glimpse of this ancient human species.…

Human History George Dvorsky

The World Is ‘Grossly’ Unprepared for the Next Major Pandemic, Watchdog Finds

A report compiled by an independent group of experts claims that governments and NGOs are woefully unprepared for the next big pandemic, while subsequently warning of a “very real threat” for a global-scale pandemic to kill 50 million to 80 million people. “The world is at acute risk for devastating regional or global disease epidemics…

Health George Dvorsky

Arctic Sea Ice Hits Second Lowest Extent in Satellite Record

A Brain-Infecting Virus Carried by Mosquitoes Is Spreading Far and Wide This Year

Magnetic Field on Mars Mysteriously Pulses at Night, NASA’s InSight Lander Finds

Google’s Quantum Supremacy Announcement Shouldn’t Be a Surprise

Cats Really Do Bond With Their Humans, Study Finds

New Research Promises Electric Car Batteries That Last For a Million Miles

Area 51, Impossible Burger, and Duck Gifs: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

UN Report Warns That Five Year Period Ending in 2019 Is Hottest on Record

World Health Organization Says Tanzania Is Withholding Info on Suspected Ebola Cases

Google Says It’s Achieved Quantum Supremacy, a World-First: Report

A Woman’s Toothache Remedy Left Her With Horrifying Blue Blood

Former Fukushima Bosses Cleared of Criminal Negligence Over Nuclear Disaster

Spooky ‘Black Hole’ on Jupiter Is Just a Big Shadow

Impossible Burgers Aren’t Healthy, and That’s the Whole Point

Submerged for Decades, Spanish ‘Stonehenge’ Reemerges After Drought

North America Has Lost Almost 30 Percent of Its Birds Since 1970, Upsetting New Study Finds

Non-Drinkers Can Still Get Liver Disease, Thanks to Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria

Researchers Think It’s a Good Idea to Secure Your Phone Using the One Thing You Perpetually Lose

Facial Reconstruction Shows What the Enigmatic Denisovans Might Have Looked Like

The World Is ‘Grossly’ Unprepared for the Next Major Pandemic, Watchdog Finds

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