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Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope; Processing: Douglas Gardner Any Carl Sagan fan knows you’re made of star stuff. Protons don’t decay into any other particles (as far as we can tell), so you can reliably assume that most bits of you have been around since a second after the Big Bang. But if…

Photo: Getty A second lawsuit has been filed against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week over the secrecy shrouding its plans to kill off net neutrality. An investigative journalist filed paperwork suing the FCC in New York Wednesday afternoon, accusing the agency of improperly withholding records about a May cyberattack that it claims temporarily…

Image: Rob Brewer/Flickr Scientists from the UK caused quite a stir this week, when they announced that we don’t necessarily need to complete a full course of antibiotics in order to treat infections properly. It’s a provocative message, but skeptics say their advice is grossly premature—and even reckless. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is not caused by…

Image: Gizmodo Two more members of the Apple family just got put in the ground. On Thursday, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that it has “officially discontinued” the iPod Shuffle and the iPod Nano. As first noticed by MacRumors, Apple pulled both MP3 players from its website as available products today, something the…

Human embryonic stem cells. Image: Wikimedia China has long been ahead of the US when it comes to human genetic engineering—there, the idea seems far less morally fraught. But for the first time, scientists in the United States have now genetically modified a human embryo, according to a new report in the MIT Technology Review.…

What’s wrong, buddy? Image: AP It is likely that you, a human, can tell when your fellow humans are upset based on the sound of their voice. You might even be able to tell when your non-human pet is upset. But what about non-mammals, like frogs? What about birds? As far back as Darwin, folks…

Image Source: Fiverr, Wikimedia Commons We all know that the gig economy is just a terrifying innovation that makes it easier for the moneyed class to exploit workers. But one Fiverr drone recently found out that it’s also a perfect way to get framed for doing crimes. Back in April, a woman named Alexa Emerson…

AMMAN – The Jordanian king Abdullah demands of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu persecution from the Israeli security guard that Sunday, two Jordanians in the embassy in Amman has been shot. This he showed Thursday in a statement to know. The king warned that the way Israel was dealing with the incident ,,the direct…