Photo: GoFundMe It should’ve been a simple, feel-good story. A homeless man used his last $20 to help a woman with car troubles, and she returned the favor by starting a GoFundMe that raised $400,000 to get the man on his feet. Now a judge has ordered all the funds handed over to the man’s…

SaturnImage: NASA, ESA & L. Lamy Sometimes, things line up just perfectly. For example, back in 2017, the Hubble Space Telescope got a full view of Saturn’s northern aurora. The newly-released image above isn’t exactly what Hubble saw—but it’s still exciting, I promise. This observation aligned with the Cassini mission’s grand finale. Working in tandem,…

FeudsIt's Feud Week at Gizmodo. We're exploring spats, gripes, and fights in tech, science, and entertainment.   In a world plagued by both fake news and “FAKE NEWS,” fact-checking has become something like a civic duty for nerds on the internet. For some, this is the culmination of a lifetime spent being an insufferable know-it-all at…

One of two coffins found in the tomb, amid bits of pottery.Image: Lassithi Ephorate of Antiquities Unbeknownst to a Greek farmer, a 3,400-year-old tomb containing two coffins and dozens of artifacts dating back to the Late Minoan era had been lying beneath his olive grove in southeast Crete. As reported in Cretapost, the unnamed farmer…

Scientists say they used the gene editing technology CRISPR in dogs to treat an incurable genetic disorder caused by a lack of the protein dystrophin. Above, an image of a dog’s diaphragm after the treatment, with the restored dystrophin seen in green. Image: Amoasii, et al (UT Southwestern) A new study of dogs published this…

Photo: Getty How our data is used—or rather, misused—has been a growing concern for the public. So it’s in tech companies’ best interest to signal to their users that they care about their privacy, and Apple has just taken a small step to put its users at ease. The tech giant announced to developers on…

Opium poppyPhoto: HonzaXJ (Wikimedia Commons) The opium poppy is famous for its ability to produce painkilling molecules. Now, by sequencing its genome, a team of scientists from China, the United Kingdom and Australia uncovered several events in the poppy’s history that, together, could have led to the evolution of its opium-producing behavior. Opium poppies and…