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GIF Image: Australian Government It can be hard to look for the bright side in a tragedy. But resolving tragedies often requires an immense amount of human effort, and that effort results in new knowledge. New genetic forensics techniques emerged from the identification of 9/11 victims, for example. Another tragedy, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines…

DUNE prototypes at CERN (Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum) Particle physics is rarely a cheap-and-easy endeavor. Just think about the Large Hadron Collider, buried deep beneath the Swiss-French border—it cost over 13 billion dollars to find the Higgs Boson. Well, today at 4:20PM (nice), America is breaking ground on another enormous particle physics experiment. DUNE, or…

We found some tweets that Scaramucci might want to delete while he’s at it. For instance, here’s another tweet from 2012 expressing disappointment in Trump’s endorsement of Gingrich: And these tweets showing Scaramucci salivating over Jeb Bush before the financier jumped on the Trump Train: Especially this one suggesting that “staying classy” was Bush’s path…

Image: Getty Variety reported today that VICE Media has laid off approximately 2 percent of its staff, amounting to around 60 people, in order to focus more on video operations and expand internationally. While this was going on, the staff of VICE News had a literal field day. A tipster sent Gizmodo a Instagram screenshot…

Image: Nicolas Mathevon Yelling at each other online is a beloved human tradition. Other animals like to shout at each other too, they just don’t have the luxury of a screen separating them. But of all the petty creatures in the animal kingdom, it turns out elephant seals might be most like humans when it…