NerdistOctopuses ‘Stealthy Shrimp’ Battles Baby Octopus In the Underwater Bout of the Week!Nerdist - Matthew Hart People from all corners of the world, here today we present to you one of the most epic oceanic battles ever recorded in history. On October 15, …
NerdistMind Computationally Efficient ‘Slime Mold’ Unveiled at Paris ZooNerdist - Matthew Hart The Paris Zoological Park, or Parc zoologique de Paris if you feel like speaking to yourself in a French accent, has just unveiled a new exhibit …
NerdistWorms Watch An Army of Octopi Dine on a Whale CarcassNerdist - Matthew Hart Have you ever looked in the fridge late at night, hungry as a bear, and realized you had some leftover chicken or fish or $900 Costco cheese? It’s an …
NerdistChristina Koch First-Ever All-Female Spacewalk to Happen in Next 48 HoursNerdist - Matthew Hart NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon are set to be hugely inspiring, in part, because they will see the first woman in history set foot on …
NerdistNASA NASA Unveils New Spacesuits for Its Artemis Moon MissionsNerdist - Matthew Hart NASA’s Artemis Program, a campaign established in 2017, aims to take the first woman and next next man to the Moon by 2024, and ultimately “take the …
NerdistSpace Travel Tiny, Spider-like Robot Will Be Sent to the Moon in 2021Nerdist - Matthew Hart In a move that is both inspiring and slightly creepy, a U.K. company plans to send a relatively tiny spider-like robot to the Moon in 2021. The …
NerdistDeepfakes This Deepfake Detector May Be Critical for Deciding What’s Real OnlineNerdist - Matthew Hart There have been so many deepfake videos produced recently that they’re all starting to blend together—not just the people in the videos, but the …
NerdistNuclear Energy If a Nuclear Bomb Went off in a City, This Is What Would HappenNerdist - Matthew Hart Earlier this year, researchers at Princeton University put together a simulation of what a nuclear war would look like if it were to happen today, …
Nerdist3D Printing World’s Largest 3D Printer Makes World’s Largest 3D-Printed BoatNerdist - Matthew Hart If you’ve been following science and tech news lately, you’ve probably had a bunch of stories about AI and/or rockets rolling around in your head. …
NerdistNobel Prize Nobel Prize-Winning Astronomer Says We May Find Alien Life Within 30 YearsNerdist - Matthew Hart That whole “Storm Area 51” raid may have turned out to be a massive joke, but all kinds of people, including the most brilliant among us, still …
Nerdist Autonomous Trash Can Takes Itself Out to the CurbNerdist - Matthew Hart As a worldwide web of IoT (Internet of Things) gadgets comes online, daily life seems to take on more and more of a Futurama-esque quality. We all …
NerdistYouTube Your Voice Reveals A Lot About Who You Are As a PersonNerdist - Matthew Hart It’s always fun to learn a little bit more about the subliminal information people deliver to each other when they communicate. These tips on how to …
NerdistNorthern California PG&E’s Negligence Is Behind Massive Power Outages in CaliforniaNerdist - Matthew Hart It’s endlessly frustrating to find out that a given tragic environmental incident or major societal disruption is due to human negligence or greed …
NerdistAstronomy Discovery of 20 New Saturn Moons Gives Planet the Most in the Solar SystemNerdist - Matthew Hart When most people think of Saturn, they usually think of its rings, which are so grand they can easily be seen through a telescope here on Earth. But …
NerdistAnimals Sighting of Ultra-Rare Octopus Shows It Change from ‘Blob To An Octopus’Nerdist - Matthew Hart The Exploration Vessel Nautilus (or E/V Nautilus), a not-for-profit scientific research vessel that’s scoured the ocean’s floors with its submarines …
NerdistVaping Vaping Is Safer than Smoking, But Still May Not Be SafeNerdist - Matthew Hart A study recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that people who had died from vaping-related illnesses this year had …
NerdistCockroach Cockroach Milk Could Become a Trend Soon if The Science Is ThereNerdist - Matthew Hart Back in 2016 researchers took a look at cockroach embryos and found that “A single crystal [of cockroach milk] is estimated to contain more than …
NerdistMeat ‘Slaughter-Free’ Lab Meat Grown in Space for the First TimeNerdist - Matthew Hart The lyrics to “Hey Diddle Diddle” may finally need to be updated because lab-grown meat has been produced in space for the first time ever. And while …
NerdistExoskeletons Exoskeleton Prototype Helps Quadriplegic Regain Control of His BodyNerdist - Matthew Hart Numerous exoskeletons have been in the news over the last few years, with some of the more exciting ones looking like they came out of Edge of …
NerdistChernobyl Chernobyl Control Room Opened to Tourists in Bid to Improve ‘Ukraine’s Brand’Nerdist - Matthew Hart Anybody who’s watched HBO’s dramatic miniseries Chernobyl has seen a gritty, realistic look at what happened during and after the infamous 1986 …
NerdistVaping Vaping-Related Death Autopsies Reveal Lungs Ravaged by ‘Toxic Chemicals’Nerdist - Matthew Hart Mayo Clinic Surgical Pathologist Brandon Larsen says in the video below that what he and his colleagues have seen after performing autopsies on those …
Nerdist Precogs Exist and If You’re One of Them You May Be in for Big Cash PrizesNerdist - Matthew Hart It’s more than fair to say that the ability to predict the future is fundamental to intelligence. In fact, it’s an ability so prized that whomever is …
NerdistLoneliness Researchers Are Testing a Pill That Treats LonelinessNerdist - Matthew Hart Loneliness, in a very real sense, has become an epidemic in the modern world. If that sounds like hyperbole, we’d like to point you in the direction …
NerdistNeurophilosophy Scientists Fear Mixing Tiny Human Brains with Animal Brains May Lead to ‘Chimeras’Nerdist - Matthew Hart As scientific breakthroughs continue to happen at breakneck speed, ethical questions that require serious, well-thought-out answers are popping up …
NerdistOctopuses Octopus Takes Five Minutes To Ponder Its Jar-Opening StrategyNerdist - Matthew Hart Octopuses may not be aliens, but if they were aliens, nobody would be all that surprised, right? They constantly look like they’re planning …
NerdistBatman DIY Articulated Wings Will Make You Think You Can Fly (But Please Don’t Try)Nerdist - Matthew Hart The way you usually leave a group of people is probably pretty lackluster—maybe you say a few goodbyes, grab whatever’s left of your spaghetti …
NerdistCognition Here’s Why Below-Average People Think They’re AmazingNerdist - Matthew Hart The truth hurts. Which means people who fool themselves into believing they are exceptional when, in fact, they are anything but, may be in for some …
NerdistBill Nye Bill Nye’s Temporary Hotline Helps People Deal with ‘Scary’ ThingsNerdist - Matthew Hart Is there anything in your life that’s currently frightening you and/or making you feel like you’re in danger? If the answer to that question is yes, …
NerdistPope Francis Pope Francis Warns AI May ‘Poison Public Debates,’ Lead to BarbarismNerdist - Matthew Hart At a recent conference in Vatican City, Pope Francis spoke to a crowd of executives from Silicon Valley companies such as Facebook, Google, and …
