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Astronaut Chris Hadfield enjoying a tortilla. (Image: Screen Shot via YouTube) Living in space is rife with challenges, among them, grappling with a gaping void of loneliness and dealing with a subpar food selection. Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have the unique torture of being so close to Earth, yet so far away…

Image: AP When people talk about the gene-editing technology CRISPR, it’s usually accompanied by adjectives like “revolutionary” or “world-changing.” For this reason, it’s no surprise that a study out last month questioning just how game-changing the technology really is caused quite a stir. It’s well-known that using CRISPR can sometimes also result in some unintended…

Image: Sam Heads “It was a bit of surprise,” Heads told Gizmodo. It was in a collection of fossil insects, after all. The team named their find Gondwanagaricites magnificus, essentially meaning that it was a magnificent mushroom from the Gondwana supercontinent. It comes from Brazil’s Crato formation, a spot with lots of especially well-preserved fossil…

Image: NASA Of the eight planets in our solar system, Jupiter is indubitably the most swole. It is large, with a radius of 43,440 miles (69,911 kilometers). It also has a bit of a rage problem, as the planet’s constantly shifting storms are notoriously chaotic. While the Jovian origin story has always been a bit…

Image: Wikimedia Over two billion people around the world are now affected by weight problems, according to new research published today in The New England Journal of Medicine. At the same time, more people are dying from weight-related health conditions than ever before—a development the authors are describing as a “growing and disturbing global public…

Image: NASA Stargazers on the East Coast of the US will get a special spectral treat tonight as NASA prepares its sixth attempt at a rocket launch. Later this evening, the space agency will create artificial, colorful clouds as a way to study auroras and the ionosphere. According to NASA, the most recent attempt on…

Photo: Getty As the mortar of brick and mortar businesses slowly crumbles, retailers are scrambling to come up with a reason why you should use them instead of companies like Amazon and… well, pretty much just Amazon. Best Buy’s solution? Be more like Blockbuster Video. How to Buy Second-Hand Tech Without Getting Ripped Off There…

SAN FRANCISCO – Again, a U.s. court of appeals temporarily re-entry ban that president Donald Trump issued to residents of six predominantly muslim countries rejected. The judgment of a lower court remained largely intact. The 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco, that the case in appeal, treated, came Monday to the conclusion that the judgment…