The world has a new fastest camera, and it shoots at 10 trillion frames per second
The “slow motion” modes on modern smartphones crank up the speed of video recording so that when it’s played back at regular speed the motion …
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Study says over half of US citizens can be hunted down with a drop of their DNA
If you’ve ever succumbed to the temptation to have your DNA sequenced by a genealogy company you probably learned some pretty interesting things about your …
The failed Soyuz rocket looked like a giant needle and thread from space
Traveling to the International Space Station is a pretty special thing that only a very select group of people will ever have the opportunity to …
Astronomers now have the dumbest possible name for a moon that’s the moon of another moon
If you gaze up at the night sky there’s a good chance you’ll spot Earth’s only large natural satellite. We just called it “the Moon,” …
Japan forced to delay touchdown of asteroid probe because it’s too darn rough
Japan’s Hayabusa-2 asteroid probe has already completed a number of scientific firsts. It successfully entered orbit around the Ryugu asteroid, deployed a pair of rovers …
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot can now navigate obstacles Parkour-style and it’ll haunt your nightmares
Are we watching the birth of the robot rebellion before our eyes? Check out the latest video of Boston Dynamics’ freakishly talented Atlas robot, and …
The volcano that destroyed Pompeii caused heads to literally explode
Being in proximity to a volcano as it unleashes hellfire upon the land is, well, not good. The residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum likely never …
Banksy’s shredded painting stunt shouldn’t be a meme, and here’s the proof
For the past several days, everyone has been talking about Banksy’s latest stunt, in which the famously secretive artist activated a secret shredder hidden inside …
Bees act really strange when there’s a solar eclipse and scientists can’t explain it
The much-hyped total solar eclipse that streaked across the United States in 2017 changed how a lot of us behaved for a very short period …
The Pixel 3 won’t help the fact that Google just can’t seem to sell Pixel phones
Google earlier this week made a big deal about its previous Pixel phones, right before unveiling the Pixel 3 and all the other new hardware …
Astronauts headed for ISS forced to make emergency landing after in-flight rocket failure
It’s been an interesting couple of months for Russia’s space program. Everything had been going quite smoothly for Roscosmos ahead of the bizarre hole discovered …
More mysterious radio signals heard in deep space, and scientists are still baffled
Humans love staring at images of distant galaxies snapped from high-powered telescopes, but sometimes listening instead of looking can yield even more tantalizing hints at …
Report: Rupert Murdoch’s son James in line to succeed Elon Musk as Tesla chairman
It looks like James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox and the son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, is the favored candidate to …
Catch-and-release fishing might actually be doing more harm than good
Catching fish for food is something that has been done for, well, pretty much since the dawn of mankind, but fishing as a hobby or …
Hurricane Michael has arrived, and it’s stronger than anyone expected
Hurricane Michael just made landfall along the Florida panhandle and it’s packing much more of a punch than most assumed it would when warnings about …
Scientists claim we haven’t found alien life because we haven’t been looking hard enough
If intelligent alien life exists somewhere in space it’s abundantly clear that we haven’t made meaningful contact with it yet. Various scientific bodies have devoted …
Best Buy’s open-box sale features the first Apple Watch Series 4 discounts
We’re less than a month removed from the launch of the Apple Watch Series 4, but thanks to Best Buy’s latest open-box sale, you can …
Scientists discover massive volcano graveyard hidden off the coast of Australia
It’s often said that we know less about what is hiding in Earth’s oceans than we do about what lurks in the depths of space. …
Hand sanitizer might keep you safer than soap and water, study claims
Kids get sick. That’s just kinda what they do, and anyone who works with kids is forced to deal with the inevitable spread of minor …
NASA says it’s doing everything it can to keep Hubble alive as long as possible
It was just yesterday that news began to spread about NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope experiencing some downtime due to a gyroscope issue, and today NASA …
Google Pixel 3 event: Hands on with all of Google’s new devices
Google’s big Pixel 3 event in New York City is finally behind us and now that the dust has settled we can safely say that …
Google kills bid for $10 billion Pentagon contract after employee protests
Google has dropped a bid for a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing project, the company announced Monday. The about-face comes after Google employees protested and …
Google reveals Home Hub, a smart speaker with a smart screen
Google’s fall event is upon us and the company’s love affair with home tech is well represented by the all-new Home Hub. Following in the …
Bold beachgoers decide to dry off with the help of a few jet engines
A day at the beach is usually a pretty relaxing excursion, but tourists who find themselves at Maho Beach on the Caribbean island of Saint …
Google’s Pixel 3 event live stream: How to watch and what to expect
On Tuesday morning, Google will unveil a new slate of devices, including the latest Pixel smartphones. Google has yet to actually confirm anything that will …
Jupiter’s Europa might be a spiky, dangerous place to land a ship
As telescope technology and other observational tools has improved over the decades we’ve learned more and more about the planets and moons in our Solar …
NASA’s Voyager 2 is about to break out of the Solar System
NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft have been cruising through space since 1977. For the past forty years or so they’ve been speeding along …
Netflix buys its first studio in New Mexico and promises $1B of film and TV projects
It is a truth universally accepted that the strongest digital companies of the Internet age are increasingly trying to be more like the real-world counterparts …
NASA wants to save humanity from death by supervolcano
We live with the knowledge that any number of end-of-the-world scenarios could be right around the corner. From drug-resistant disease outbreaks to impacts from large …
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch gave California residents another scare
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space Sunday evening, ferrying a satellite into orbit and then successfully landing its rocket back down on land …
