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Astronaut Pee and Sweat Could Be the Key to Getting Humans to Mars
Image: The Martian In The Martian, Matt Damon used his own shit to fertilize potatoes and survive the Red Planet. While we all know Matt Damon isn’t actually an astronaut, we do know that human excrement is very much real—and it could be integral to getting real humans to Mars in the near future. Researchers…
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Verizon Will Totally Start Throttling Customers’ Video This Week
Verizon Says It Was Totally Just Testing How to Throttle Video After rumors spread on Reddit that Verizon Wireless customers were unable to achieve feeds of… Read more Verizon, along with AT&T, had abandoned unlimited mobile data plans until T-Mobile came along and introduced its own unlimited service that began to eat up market share.…
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This Snake Is So Deadly Its Venom Hasn’t Had to Change in 10 Million Years
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Fun Police Confiscate Thousands of Ecstasy Pills That Look Like Trump
Image: Osnabrück Polizei / Gizmodo German police confiscated some 5,000 orange ecstasy tablets shaped like Donald Trump’s head last weekend. That’s over $45,000 worth of fun drugs that European nightclub-goers will not be enjoying this August. Sad! But seriously, the pills are really funny-looking. The design is clearly Trump’s face, although it looks little bit…
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New Report Finds Police Have Used Tasers in a Staggering Number of Killings
Photo: Getty Axon (the company formerly known as Taser) claims that their stun guns have only directly killed 24 people, and that those deaths were due to falls or fires related to the strikes, not because of shocks to the body. But a new investigative report by Reuters found 1,005 cases in the United States…
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The Texting Bromance Behind Travis Kalanick’s Self-Driving Truck Joyride
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Cyborg Bacteria Beat Plants at the Photosynthesis Game
Image Source: NIAID/Gizmodo Reading science news all day can be real grim. Animals are dying, the climate is changing, the nuke’s a coming, yadda yadda. But sometimes (in fact, often) scientists do something that’s just neat, important, and won’t keep you up at night—that is, if you’re cool with photosynthesizing cyborg bacteria. Photosynthesis is a…
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These Bears Decided to Stop Eating Salmon Thanks to Climate Change
Image: Christoph Strässler/Flickr You may be familiar with the Big Buck Hunter bonus level where you pump a few dozen rounds into salmon flopping out of the river while grizzlies look on. This is not an especially good bonus level (I prefer the one with the basketballs or the electric eels), but it would be…
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Remember When Google Tango Seemed Like a Sick Idea?
All images: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo Every time a new platform comes out, the gadget world runs headfirst into a vicious Catch-22: How do you get people to adopt new technology when there isn’t any content, and if there isn’t anyone using the tech, how do you convince developers to make content for that platform? Recently, we’ve…
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’A lot of the heavier attacks in Spain planned’
BARCELONA – The terrorist cell that last week erupted in Spain had plans for much heavier attacks with explosives. That has to be one of the suspects, Mohamed Houli chemlal has, said Tuesday for the Spanish court. The note of the defendant does not come as a surprise. The Spanish authorities were already there from…