Category: Science
Starship Has Finally Gone Orbital. Now Comes the Hard Part
Reaching orbit for the first time was a major milestone for Starship, but the road to commercial viability...
The Great Space Elevator
There are startups and then there are startups. Web 2.0 is all fine and dandy and I love...
Asteroid Bennu Came From an Unexpected Corner of the Solar System
A new study pinpoints Bennu's birthplace to a specific zone between the inner and outer solar system.
CERN to Morons: Large Hadron Collider Won’t Destroy Earth. Morons.
Contrary to the somewhat feverish claims laid out in an recent lawsuit, when our favorite particle-smashing, Force-finding Large...
A Mathematician Discovered a New Eight-Faced Shape. It Looks Like a Glitch in Reality
For a seemingly pointless exercise, these odd shapes can actually serve a practical purpose.
Gizmodo Animal Day (Just Because)
I asked Wilson why we had two animal posts on the page, back to back. Seems like overload...
This Gene-Tech Is More Impressive Than the Extinct Dire Wolves It Created. Here’s Why
Colossal Biosciences brought back 20 key segments of extinct dire wolf DNA into living, breathing, wolf pups—and the...
How Close Are We to Superconductors That Are Actually Practical?
For decades, physicists have used superconductors to explore the weirdest aspects of reality. But they always need to...
This Photon Survived an ‘Impossible’ Journey to Earth. To Explain it, Physicists Had to Break Einstein
To answer weird questions, come up with (reasonably) weird answers.
Physicists Detected a Signal That Defies Explanation. It Could Be Dark Matter—or Something Stranger
Researchers have been searching for this elusive substance for years. One team may have finally found something.
