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A Tawaki penguin at sea. During their annual migrations, these aquatic birds can swim upwards of 50 miles (80 kilometers) each day.Image: Thomas Mattern New research into the migration habits of Tawaki penguins has revealed an absolutely marathon trek in which these aquatic birds travel upwards of 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) from home, sometimes swimming…

A perfectly fine deskPhoto: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) FeudsIt's Feud Week at Gizmodo. We're exploring spats, gripes, and fights in tech, science, and entertainment.   There I was, minding my own business, calmly enjoying my new standing desk, when the room erupted. Baffled, I looked up to catch a twinge of violence in their eyes just as…

Photo: Artisan’s Asylum, Inc. In recent years, the party drug and anesthetic ketamine has been embraced as a rapidly-acting, if still off-label, medication for some cases of depression and suicidal ideation that don’t respond to other treatments. But there’s still much we don’t understand about how it actually works so quickly to treat the crippling…

Clumps of gas (left) and dust (right) in the galaxy as imaged by ALMAImage: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tadaki et a Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has observed a galaxy that looks nothing like what researchers expected. It’s forming stars at an absolutely incredible rate. The “Monster Galaxy”, also known as COSMOS-AzTEC-1, formed just 2 billion…

Photo: Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion Last week, staff at the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion had a creeping feeling that something was wrong. Many of the science museum’s rare insects were missing from their displays. This wasn’t entirely unusual, but after checking the back room inventory, it quickly became apparent that thousands of specimens…

Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) threw their support behind Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) Protecting American Votes and Elections (PAVE) Act on Wednesday.Photo: Getty Democrats are pushing forward with a bill that, unlike competing legislation, would actually require the use of paper ballots and comprehensive audits in all federal elections. Today, Senators Bernie…

Researchers at Wake Forest University say they’ve created an experimental opioid that avoids the addictive potential of painkillers like Vicodin, seen above. Photo: Toby Talbot (AP) The ultimate goal of pain medicine—a powerful painkiller with few to no side effects, such as dependence or overdose—is still elusive. But a team of researchers from Wake Forest…

Just yesterday we wrote about the threat of blocking Yandex.Video if the team Yandex does not remove links to pirate sites from search results. Now the press service of Yandex, commented on the situation. According to Yandex, the requirements of the lock according to the law do not apply to search engines. The company said:…

The opening of the exhibition IFA 2018, which will be held from 31 August to 5 September in Berlin, LG Electronics introduced the world’s first OLED TV with a resolution of 8K (7680 x 4320). Model 8K LG OLED TV has a diagonal of 88 inches, a panel contains 33 million pixels samoobsluzhivaniya. LG also…

Figure of the day: 8 600 000 rubles will pay a Megaphone for copyright infringement on Iduna. The Moscow arbitration court sought with a Megaphone 8.6 million rubles compensation for copyright infringement on the image of the character Idun. This was told Russian Agency of legal and court information RAPSI. The copyright of Iduna in…