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You Can’t Help but Admire the Trash-Stealing Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos
Welcome to the first instalment of Gizmodo’s Animal Crime of the Week, a regular exploration of animals and their bad behaviour (but hey, it’s only natural). And what better place to start than by highlighting an animal crime ring so notorious that it’s now being intensively studied by scientists? Meet the trash-stealing cockatoo parrots. For…
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The Sun Just Spewed Material From Opposite Sides in Rare Phenomenon
No, you’re not seeing double. The Sun flung out two massive flares of radiation from opposite hemispheres at nearly the same exact moment, a sign that our host star is fast approaching a period of peak activity. In a rare moment captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory on Monday, two sunspots can be seen erupting…
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13 Things You Didn’t Know About the International Space Station
The International Space Station is so hot right now, with no less than two movies out featuring the orbital lab, namely I.S.S. and Constellation. Indeed, the ISS is an absolute icon and a fixture of popular culture. But beyond its well-known status as a pioneering space laboratory, it harbors a wealth of lesser-known facts and…
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Sunlight May Reignite Japan’s Struggling ‘Lunar Sniper’ on the Moon
Japan’s space agency, JAXA, achieved a historic soft landing with SLIM on Friday morning, but the lander ran into instant trouble by not being able to collect solar energy and generate electricity. Hopeful for some westerly sunshine, JAXA is cautiously optimistic that SLIM could spring back to life in a couple of weeks. Shortly after…