Everything We Know About the Insane Scandal Rocking Samsung and South Korea Exploding phones are the least of Samsung’s worries. On Thursday night, a South Korean court… Read more Lee is the son of Lee Kun-hee, who is currently the chairman of the Samsung Group but has been in a coma for about three years.…

Image: SKYGLOW Folks yak a lot of crap about the High Plains—mainly they complain about it being flat or boring as they drive down the infinitely straight highways. But a tour of places like Western Nebraska or South Dakota reveals a sublime landscape beneath a vast sky, accompanied by the humbling realization that you are…

All images: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo In August 2017, Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, and his disciples at Essential Products descended onto this mortal plane to grace us with the PH-1—a device that seeks to right the wrongs of modern smartphone design. Almost monolithic in appearance, the PH-1, or the Essential Phone as it’s more commonly…

Image: Journal of Parasitology Who among us hasn’t drunkenly slung back a few raw oysters at a fourth of July barbecue, or kicked back some uncooked clams just to feel alive? While it’s usually okay to enjoy a slimy shellfish or six, remains from very dead, mummified man show what happens when things go awry.…

Image: Alexis Mychajliw Many animals endemic to islands have gone the proverbial “way of the dodo,” including, well, the dodo. Island species face some of the toughest climate and human-induced challenges, and some of them just don’t make it out alive. But new research shows how one strange creature—the Solenodon—was able to escape extinction by…