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Image: damn_unique/Flickr Evolution has already solved many of the challenges engineers are confronted with on a daily basis. Think about octopuses, for example. We frequently report on soft robotics here at Gizmodo. Octopuses are essentially brilliant, eight-armed soft robots. So when it comes to solving other underwater challenges, like adhesives staying sticky underwater, a team…

Image: Henk Tanis “This case concerns the second known case of twinning, the first case of conjoined twins in Phocoena phocoena, the fourth known case of parapagus dicephalus in a cetacean species and the tenth known case of conjoined twinning in a cetacean species,” the researchers wrote. Their work has been published in Deinsea. Not…

Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum/US DOE/Renee Comet/Keith Weller/Wikimedia Commons There are a vocal minority of folks who simply don’t want to drink pasteurized milk. Maybe they’re worried about the nutritional content, or not getting the good bacteria they need. Sure, they’re potentially subjecting themselves to tuberculosis or a Listeria infection, but it’s still a vocal group.…

E3 is here and that means it’s crazy gaming gear time! From Microsoft’s latest Xbox to a tiny Atari 2600, here’s the coolest stuff we saw this week. Microsoft Xbox One X The name reveals someone’s love of the letter X, but the console itself is pretty cool. Six months after Sony launched its 4K…

Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum/Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff/katoisi/Wikimedia Commons Despite thousands of years of pant-crapping history, there’s a surprising amount we don’t know about diarrhea. There’s a couple ways we’ve figured out how to treat the symptom. But lots of scientists’ understanding of diarrhea—from illnesses like traveler’s diarrhea—is more based on intuition than data. An international team of researchers…

Image: Antarctic Heritage Fund Fantastic news: the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust has recovered a 118-year-old watercolor painting from famed polar explorer, Dr. Edward Wilson. The painting was almost perfectly preserved, but hidden among dust, mold, and penguin shit. Apparently, penguins can’t be bothered with fine art. Antarctic Heritage Trust paper conservator Josefin Bergmark-Jimenez found…

GIF GIF: Gizmodo Wireless charging has struggled for years to gain ground in consumer electronics. For one hot second, it looked like the option would be available in every smartphone, then manufacturers started to bail out, then it started to come back. And now, we have the biggest confirmation yet that Apple is jumping into…