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  • Another Major Hurricane Is Brewing in the East Atlantic

    The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of Hurricane Irma at 11:15 am on August 31, 2017. (Image: NOAA) As the Gulf Coast continues to cope with the aftermath of Harvey, a new threat has emerged in the east Atlantic. Dubbed Irma, this latest storm…

  • Much-Hyped DNA Editing Study Under Fire

    Image: Bruno Vellutini/Flickr Science’s next space race isn’t in the stars, but in your DNA. People around the world are working to use the latest DNA-editing technology, called CRISPR-Cas9, to fix the gene-based ails that plague so many victims. But this is still science—which means every side faces scrutiny, even from the folks supposed to…

  • How a Team of Meteorologists With a Few Trucks Collected Some Unprecedented Data From the Heart of Hurricane Harvey

    Oklahoma University sent a radar truck to track Hurricane Harvey up close. Image: Addison Alford/Oklahoma University Last week, a team of intrepid storm chasers converged near Corpus Christi, Texas to witness the landfall of Hurricane Harvey, the storm that’s brought over 50 inches of rain to the Texas Gulf Coast and major flooding to the…

  • Alien-Like Blob Found in Lake is Actually a Living Thing

    Image: Vancouver Courier via YouTube Sometimes, we are all this blob—a large, gelatinous mound sitting in a lake, begging to be left alone. Recently, one such blob was found near the Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, Vancouver. While it might not look like something from Earth, the Blob is very much alive—and it contains multitudes.…

  • Why Computers Are Having Such a Hard Time With This Deceptively Simple Chess Puzzle

    Image: FlankerFF/Wikimedia A popular chess problem known as the Queen’s Puzzle has captivated mathematicians and computer scientists for years, yet no one has been able to write a computer program that can solve the conundrum quickly and efficiently. Researchers from the UK now claim that computers will never be up to the task—and they’re offering…

  • Millions of Time Warner Cable Customer Records Exposed in Third-Party Data Leak

    Photo: Getty Roughly 4 million records containing the personal details of Time Warner Cable (TWC) customers were discovered stored on an Amazon server without a password late last month. The files, more than 600GB in size, were discovered on August 24 by the Kromtech Security Center while its researchers were investigating an unrelated data breach…

  • The New Game by the Rock Band Creators Made Me Feel Like a DJ God

    All images: Andrew Liszweski/Gizmodo Yesterday my coworker laid the DropMix board out on a table and started dropping cards. Immediately catchy music played from her phone’s speaker and three passing coworkers stopped dead in their tracks. As she removed a card and added another the music changed to accomodate the new beat and one person…

  • Even if You Drink Coffee You Will Die

    I Can't Believe We Have to Tell You Not to Snort Chocolate Energy Drinks Won’t Make You a Coke Addict: Cocaine Will Make You A Coke Addict That New Pro-Vegan Documentary on Netflix Made Me Want to Die

  • Pittsburgh Is Going Green, But Who Is Getting Left Behind?

    Photo: AP PITTSBURGH — America’s storied “Steel City” is on the forefront of an energy revolution, transitioning from its long reliance on fossil fuels to renewables and energy efficient homes. In June, Mayor Bill Peduto joined an alliance of over 100 cities committing to solar and wind power. The announcement came only hours after President…

  • Mock national anthem a punishable offence in China

    BEIJING – Mock their national anthem can be Chinese from now on fifteen days in jail. The Chinese National people’s congress (NPC) has a law that the “dignity” of the song “march of the volunteers’ need to protect. In the law it is also established where and when the song played should be. So, it…