Gizmodo : Environment

Hurricane Lee is still churning out in the Atlantic Ocean. Since the storm formed earlier this month, it has not made landfall over the contiguous U.S. But it has continued to move northward and is becoming a legitimate threat to the Northeast.

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Gizmodo : Environment

Scientists in Japan say they’ve discovered some new little guys—four new species of insect-like creatures called springtails, to be more specific. The animals were found living in decayed wood across various locations in the country. The most distinctive of these new species is a small, colorful, six-eyed blue bug.

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Gizmodo : Environment

Brazilian scientists have found some new species of spiders that will hopefully live long and prosper. Researchers with the Emilio Goeldi Paraense Museum have identified the three new species and named them after some iconic characters from Star Trek.

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Gizmodo : Politics, Environment

North Korea may soon be getting technological assistance to help launch its satellites as Russia vows to contribute to its space ambitions.

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Gizmodo : Environment

A radio telescope in Australia recently captured a stunning image of NGC 4632, a galaxy some 56 million light-years from Earth. The image reveals a halo of cool hydrogen orbiting perpendicular to the galaxy itself.

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Gizmodo : Environment

If there’s one drink you should pack with you on a future trip to space, let it be kombucha. The fizzy, fermented drink has not only taken over trendy spots in Brooklyn, but it can also be found in low Earth orbit as part of an ongoing experiment of its resilience in the harsh space environment.

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Gizmodo : Environment

A mighty spacecraft is headed towards Earth, carrying rock and dust from a distant asteroid to hand off to eager scientists waiting to analyze the precious sample. The OSIRIS-REx mission recently fired its thrusters to set itself on a course towards the sample drop-off site, with its rendezvous on Earth scheduled for…

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Gizmodo : Environment

Heating and cooling homes can be expensive, but thankfully, there are heat pumps. And these electric home coolers and heaters are efficient home systems even in extremely cold temperatures, new research has found.

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Gizmodo : Environment

The Webb Space Telescope recently turned its focus to a nearby exoplanet and found that it may be a Hycean world, or a world completely covered in a single global ocean, and with a hydrogen atmosphere. And what’s more, the telescope detected a possible detection—note, possible detection, of dimethyl sulfide, a…

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