We Should Be Banking Our Poop for Future Use, Scientists Argue
Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) Experts at Harvard and elsewhere are proposing a new type of bank be set up nationwide: a poop bank. In a paper this week, they argue that…
New Firefox Update Can Stop Certain URLs Tracking You
Photo: PixieMe (Shutterstock) Mozilla’s latest version of Firefox might just be the answer for users who hate being tracked when clicking on links off sites like Facebook. Bleeping Computer first…
Mad Mad Director Almost Mad Sagan’s Book
Contact could have been a George Miller movie, if a few things went differently.Image: Warner Bros. Hollywood is filled with fascinating “What if?Scenarios. So and so director almost made so…
Scientists Are Testing a Universal Flu Vaccine In People
Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) The race to one of medicine’s elusive goals — a universal flu vaccine — is heating up. On Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health announced the phase…
NanoAvionics Small Satellite Uses GoPro for Selfie in Space
A view of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from low Earth orbit (shown at 8x normal speed). Gif: NanoAvionics / Gizmodo Proprietary space-grade cameras are expensive, limited, and a pain to…
NASA Completes Its First Commercial Space Launch From Australia
A view of Monday’s launch. Photo: NASA NASA launched a rocket from Australia’s Northern Territory yesterday, marking the agency’s first launch from below in over 25 years, as well as…
Meta Allowed Misleading Ads for Cancer Treatments on Facebook
Facebook and its parent company, Meta, do not exactly have a great track record when it comes to combatting online disinformation. At the start of the covid-19 pandemic, Meta came…
OpenAI Taught an AI to Play Minecraft
Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images) Chess, Barkand now—Minecraft. Artificial intelligence models have added a new victory to their gaming kill list. Using a mix of unlabeled Minecraft videos and a…
Hot Toys Thor 4, Tonka Transformers
Image: Hasbro, Hot Toys, and EXO-6 Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the latest toy news on the internet. This week, Transformers finally makes what should’ve…
Likely Crash Site of Mystery Space Junk Spotted on Moon’s Far Side
The newly formed double crater, spotted on the far side of the Moon near Hertzsprung crater. Image: NASA / Goddard / Arizona State University Observations made by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance…