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Lunar surface image taken during Apollo 11 mission.Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Flickr) The Moon today is not habitable. It’s covered in potentially killer dust and seemingly dry as a bone. But though it seems wild to think, a new perspective wonders: What if the Moon used to be friendly to life? Scientist Dirk…

Photo: Patrick Austin (Gizmodo) Google’s throwing its weight around and using its latest edition of its Chrome browser to make the web a little safer by shaming sites that haven’t implemented the more secure data transfer protocol HTTPS–which keeps bad actors from digitally watching over your shoulder as you browser. BBC reported the browser’s URL…

Photo: Christopher Furlong (Getty Images) A Dutch trial meant to study whether sildenafil, otherwise known as Viagra, can prevent children from being born with low birth weight has been halted early amid a wave of tragic deaths. Nearly 100 pregnant women were given the drug during their pregnancy in the trial, and 11 babies later…

Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) After numerous reports popped up claiming that Apple’s recently refreshed MacBook Pro were suffering from lackluster performance, in a statement released today, Apple officially confirmed issues related to excessive heat generation in new MBPs and promised that the company will release a patch to address the problem later today. Apple says…

The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, one of two labs that may one day host the Electron Ion ColliderPhoto: DOE’s Jefferson Lab A proposed billion-dollar American particle collider has received enthusiastic backing from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, according to a newly released report. This proposed “electron-ion collider,” or EIC, would…

Screenshot: arXiv The researchers concluded that the changes to eyes photographed less than five hours after death were not “pronounced enough” for their neural network to correctly classify them as alive or dead. These post-mortem indicators included blurring of the edges of the iris and changes to the pupil. Their system, however, had no problem with…

Photo: Impossible Foods The Silicon Valley startup behind the plant-based Impossible Burger seems to have evaded concerns that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would deem an ingredient in its food potentially unsafe. The New York Times reported a year ago that documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests by advocacy groups showed that an…

Illustration: Gizmodo / 2600 Over the past 10 months, software firm Rapid7 has conducted hundreds of penetration tests: simulated cyberattacks that test how a network holds up against actual threats. The results were compiled in a study called “Under the Hoodie 2018,” which not only perpetuates the stereotype of darkly cowled hackers but makes for…

Above, a good boy or girl.Photo: kandykandoo (Pixabay) Canine lovers hardly need more evidence that dogs are, in fact, good. But for any remaining heartless monsters, there’s this new study published on Monday in the journal of Learning and Behavior. It suggests that many dogs will rush over to comfort their owners if they think…