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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute For those who’ve followed NASA’s Cassini mission these past 20 years, it’s still a bit hard to believe it’s gone. On Friday, September 15th, the spacecraft plunged itself into Saturn’s atmosphere, becoming part of the planet it had studied tirelessly for 13 years. While Cassini’s mission is over, there’s plenty of…

Image: AP Over the weekend, a confusing back-and-forth between the White House and the Wall Street Journal briefly reignited hopes that the US would remain an active participant in the Paris Climate Agreement. Following a climate change conference in Montreal, which the US was not attending in an official capacity, European Commissioner for Climate Action and…

Image: US Navy/Lockheed Martin Even though Microsoft has moved on from the Xbox 360 controller, the United States military still seems to think it is an ideal tool for operating some of the the latest manifestations of the military-industrial complex. On Friday The Virginia-Pilot reported that the US Navy is beginning to use Xbox 360…

GIF Illustration: Angelica Alzona/Gizmodo Online dating apps, pornography, advertising, and the continued existence of the human race all testify to a healthy, ongoing interest in sex among human beings, despite the fact that millennials appear to be having less of it. Until the day pills or radiation extinguish the last embers of human horniness, sex…

Image: Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller/Wikimedia Commons/Screenshot The history of science has a lot of really dark, racist, and outright horrible chapters. In an attempt to engage in the discussion on what to do with this history, the prestigious science journal Nature managed to piss off a large portion of the scientific community, by claiming that removing…

BAGHDAD – The Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi has Monday, formally, the suspension demanded by the referendum on independence that the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan has issued. The referendum is for Monday scheduled. The prime minister stepped out to the Iraqi federal supreme court to “the secession of any region or province of Iraq” unconstitutional…

DAR ES SALAAM – The police on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar wants to homosexuals “hunt down” and bring them to justice. Police commander Hassan Ali Nasri has said Monday. The police picked up Friday twenty alleged homosexual men and women who participated in a workshop on health care. They are now all released on…

MUNICH – The police at the Oktoberfest in Munich, a 37-year-old thief arrested, from whom both hands were amputated. “Very remarkable,” according to the police, that the undiminished pressure during the annual beer festival. Now the organization of the Oktoberfest to bring your own bags has been banned, they got rid of the tassendieven but…

iPhone X — new “frameless” smartphone that stands out from other new products recently unveiled by Apple. Despite its very high price, it is likely to prove so popular that in 2017 it will be quite difficult to buy. When completed the period of shortage of iPhone X and it will be enough for everyone?…

There is little doubt that robot-assisted surgery over time, if not replace “normal”, it will go with it hand in hand. Long known about the success of the Da Vinci robot, which has already performed many operations. But domestic medicine also does not stand still, and, according to the Minister of health, first domestic robot…