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Between competing government space agencies, commercial enterprises, humans, and robots, we have one very odd space race going on. Here’s the highs and lows of exploration for 2015! Even Akatsuki’s first-light instrument tests are producing new data on Venus. Image credit: JAXA Epic Win for Japan: Recovering a Wayward Venus Orbiter The Japanese Space Agency…

Drones and Apple Watches. Lost planets and lurking chaos. The truth about dogs and cats. Star Wars—lots of Star Wars. Behold, our favorite stories from the past 364 days. We asked all the Gizmodo contributors to send along their favorite story from 2015. (If they were too humble to comply, we picked our favorites.) These…

Video: so great is a Mercedes G63 AMG 6×6 Posted on 26-03-2014 at 19:05 by robbie – 26 Comments” So a Lamborghini is slightly lower than the average car, but the contrast with the massive Mercedes G63 AMG 6×6 is very large. What this spot is all the more remarkable is the fact that this…

Autoblog wish you a happy new year! Posted on 01-01-2016 at 0:01 by MauritsH – 45 Comments” We have also had. 2015 is already behind us, and what was the a autojaar. We have everything all tidy for you in a row, so that we go no further uitkauwen. It is interesting to look ahead…

Japanese particle physicists just received a welcome New Year’s gift: they won the right to name the superheavy element they spent a dozen years trying to create in an accelerator laboratory. Added bonus: it’s the first a team of Asian physicists has had the honor of naming a new element. They beat out a rival…

What better way to spend the holidays than watching NASA technicians scurry around assembling mirror segments on the James Webb Space Telescope? With the 9th of 18 segments installed last week, we’re that much closer to hunting for signs of life on alien worlds and making our universe a little less lonely. A third of…

While most of us will ring in the new year with family and friends, science doesn’t take a holiday. And neither do the scientists responsible for big ongoing experiments. One of the more famous historical examples of this is the case of physicist Chien-Shiung Wu—often referred to as “Madame Wu”—who gave up vacationing with her…

This was an adorable year for the bearcam in Katmai National Park. Here’s our ten favorite moments of coastal brown bears catching salmon, playing with their cubs, sleepily lazing the day away, and frolicking through the Alaskan wilderness in 2015. Katmai National Park, Alaska is home to approximately 2,200 bears. Many of these coastal brown…

Nailed it: Pagani-replica based on Ford Scorpio! Posted on 03-02-2015 at 22:02 by MauritsH – 27 Comments” Well, the appearance of this piece of homework will not win prizes, but yet we have respect for this man. The reason for this? That is located under the hood. The Brit Nick Truman looked at the collection…

Sick: man throws stone to moving ambulance in Rotterdam Posted on 03-02-2015 at 22:36 by MauritsH – 48 Comments” What possesses some people? The ambulance in question was on the way to an emergency. In a corridor of 80 km/h threw a complete idiot an object (probably a stone) in the direction of the discotaxi,…