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Image: NASA On September 15th, Cassini’s 20-year-long exploration of the Saturnian system will finally—regrettably—come to an end. But even in its final act, the spacecraft has been sending back some of the most detailed images it’s ever taken. In one of its recent dives into the gap between Saturn and its rings, the spacecraft took…

Illustration: Jim Cooke/Gizmodo As the absurdity on our home planet grows, so does humanity’s curiosity about life beyond 1 AU. Of course, wildly speculating about aliens is nothing new: it’s been fueling many facets of science fiction for years. But recently-proposed missions to“Ocean worlds” that could harbor microbial life make the search for extraterrestrials less…

Uber Board Nears CEO Vote, With Jeffrey Immelt Out and Meg Whitman Reportedly Back in Uber’s board was widely expected to be prepared for a vote finalizing its punishing search for a… Read more The new CEO will be taking over at a time when the company has been consumed with high-profile lawsuits, rampant allegations of…

Billionaire and Trump advisor Peter Thiel. Image: Getty Images Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is among a group of investors backing the offshore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine—flouting US protections for patients in human clinical trials, in a move considered broadly unethical. Thiel, who is an advisor to President Donald Trump as well as…

NEW DELHI – An Indian court has the guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on Monday sentenced to ten years imprisonment for rape. Friday, he was already found guilty of the rape of two women in a case that dates back to 2002. Supporters of the self-proclaimed saint and leader of the spiritual organisation Dera Sacha…

We already told you about the so-called “chiplet” — thin silicon plates, in some way reinterpreted the concept of the traditional chips. Developed by engineers at Palo Alto Research Center (a division of Xerox) chipley can be tens and hundreds applied with a special printer on a flat surface. Apparently, the American military Agency DARPA…

HOUSTON – “It rains, it rains, it rains a lot and sometimes it rains quite a bit less hard.” The Dutch Annemieke Hollaar, who, with her family in a suburb of Houston resident, is already days sentenced to binnenblijven. And that remains, according to her, preliminary. “The local media are reporting that hurricane Harvey above…

DICKINSON – In total, fifteen elderly residents of the La Vita Bella nursing home in the American Dickinson (Texas), rescued from their precarious position. Due to the intense rainfall in Houston ran the children’s home and they were engaged in a precarious situation: the elderly could be due to their limited mobility is no problem…

WASHINGTON – The American president Donald Trump brings Tuesday a visit to Texas for the disastrous effects of the hurricane Harvey to behold. That has spokeswoman Sarah Sanders Sunday said. The White House, “co-ordinating logistics with the Texas government and the local authorities,” said Sanders. If the details are settled, she comes up with further…