A Major Synth Company Created This Fake Product to Attack a Journalist
Behringer issued a half-hearted apology after attacking a critic with a bizarre video that many saw as anti-semitic.
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Earth Has Captured a Temporary New “Mini-Moon” Called 2020 CD3 In Its Orbit
A likely “mini-moon” found orbiting Earth last month is moving away from our planet now, but it could be a harbinger of new small moons to come.
Marsquakes and ancient magnetic fields: InSight’s first data (PHOTOS)
Last year, we activated the first useful seismograph on Mars.
Breathtaking Photo Captures Aftermath of Stellar Collision (PHOTOS)
Astronomers have captured a truly incredible image of two stars locked in a fight to the death, producing a stunning, if violent, cosmic masterpiece in the process.
The Onion — News in Brief: DNC Mulls Asking Donald Trump To Run As Democrat In Effort To Stop Sanders
WASHINGTON—As the beginning of primary season upped the stakes in their search for an alternative candidate, Democratic National Committee officials reportedly mulled Monday asking Donald Trump to run for president Read More…
One of the brightest explosions ever seen was actually a giant star EATING its neighbor
The record-setting stellar explosion SN 2006gy was 50 billion times brighter than our sun, with a blast so energetic it baffled the scientific community. Now scientists think they have uncovered what made it so incredibly bright.
The Streets Weren’t Safe For Drug Users — So These Countries Made Spaces For Them.
The Swiss people took drastic measures to reduce the number of people dying from opioid overdose. Their approach is effective – and unorthodox. The first in a series describing how Europeans have tackled their overdose issues.
The Doomsday Clock Moves Closer Than Ever to Midnight
Since the advent of the clock—even during the peak years of the Cold War—the minute hand has never advanced past the 11:58 mark.
Switzerland Fights Heroin With Heroin
This is the second in our series exploring how Switzerland has dealt with opioid addiction in different — and sometimes controversial — ways cutting overdose deaths and related infections.
The core of massive dying galaxies already formed 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang
The most distant dying galaxy discovered so far, more massive than our Milky Way — with more than a trillion stars — has revealed that the ‘cores’ of these systems had formed already 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, about 1 billion years earlier than previous measurements revealed.
Switzerland Couldn’t Stop Drug Users — So It Started Supporting Them
The Swiss people took drastic measures to reduce the number of people dying from opioid overdose. Their approach is effective – and unorthodox. The first in a series describing how Europeans have tackled their overdose issues.
Taking the Temperature of Dark Matter
Physicists are using gravitational lensing to take the temperature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about a quarter of our universe.
Critical Windows 10 Vulnerability Used To Rickroll The NSA And Github
Attack demoed less than 24 hours after disclosure of bug-breaking certificate validation.
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The Link Between Drawing And Seeing In The Brain
Drawing an object and naming it engages the brain in similar ways, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. The finding demonstrates the importance of the visual processing system for producing drawings of an object.
Fighting Opioids With An Unlikely Supplemental Painkiller: Anti-Itch Medicine
Researchers are investigating whether an anti-itch medication that targets a specific part of our nerve cells can make morphine — which targets a different part–more effective. The findings suggest it can.