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From Quantum Spam to Quantum Minds: Why the 'Best' Revolution in Physics Is Only Getting Started Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.

Gizmodo reporter Gayoung Lee spoke to physicist Paul Davies about his new book, "Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology." Read the interview for some neat physics history and how it led to the current AI boom:

We have a hidden column on the NASA Exoplanet Archive called 'Number of exomoons' and I AM SO READY TO BUST IT OUT WHEN NEEDED.

Burly, flightless Kākāpōs are Kings and Queens of Chonk, which makes the tininess of this newly hatched chick even more endearingly ridiculous

2025 Year In Review — Hubble Space Telescope #shorts YouTube video by Space Telescope Science Institute

2025 was a stellar year for the Hubble Space Telescope! From tracking "blue lurker" stars to catching colliding asteroids in nearby Fomalhaut, Hubble has added to its list of discoveries from the last three decades. 🔭

Congrats Jessie!!

mars rover socks showing zoomed in view perseverance rover analysing a rock and ingenuity flying above

james webb space telescope christmas ornament

jwst jewelry set featuring earrings and pendant necklace based on the 18 hexagon primary mirror

Curiosity rover wheel pendant necklace in sterling silver being held in hand

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They’re Huge, They’re Creepy, and They’re Back—An Expert’s Tips for Joro Spider Season An entomologist answers your questions about the Joro invasion this fall.

Joro spiders want 3 things: to not be touched or held, to not be in your house, and to not bite you.

Great new article by Gayoung Lee @gizmodo.com!

gizmodo.com/theyre-huge-...

History Smelled. Here’s How We’re Sniffing It Out How can reconstructing long-lost smells of ancient artifacts help us connect with the past?

Really nice coverage on our research on ancient scents by @sciam.bsky.social and @gayoung.bsky.social
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Gizmodo's Best Tech of 2025 Awards! From the best in smartphones to great headphones, the Best Tech of 2025 Awards highlight the most innovative hardware of the year.

This morning, we published @gizmodo.com's Best Tech of 2025 Awards! My team chose winners for 45 product categories (some more coming soon in next few weeks). It was a big undertaking but I'm proud of the list. Check it out and lemme what you think!

gizmodo.com/gizmodo-best...

History Smelled. Here’s How We’re Sniffing It Out How can reconstructing long-lost smells of ancient artifacts help us connect with the past?

"The past often gets presented to us as odorless. But that overlooks the huge roll smell likely played in many historical realities..." 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

I held my breath for a full 16 seconds

Using Deep Sea Submersibles, Researchers Have Uncovered an Almost Alien World in the Hadal Trenches Learn more about the Hadal Trenches and the types of life that thrive in the deep.

A recent @nature.com depicts life in the Kuril–Kamchatka & W Aleutian Trenches, two hadal trenches in the W Pacific that were explored with submersible Fendouzhe.

@sarafnovak.bsky.social
www.discovermagazine.com/using-deep-s...

Quantum Tunneling Is a Big Deal. This Year's Nobel Physics Prize Shows Why The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum computing

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum computing

After stretching a bit last year, this year the Nobel committee was determined to give the prize to the physicsiest physics that ever physicsed.

Photo plate of Hubble's famous "VAR!" discovery. This is a photonegative plate of an image of the Andromeda Galaxy, with several small annotations made in grease pencil. One of them was previously marked "N" for "nova," but the N has been crossed out and replaced with an excited "VAR!" to indicate a Cepheid Variable.

VAR!

In the early morning hours #OTD in 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photo plate of M31 that showed a Cepheid variable star.

Using Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s distance-luminosity relationship, Hubble concluded that M31 is another galaxy outside the Milky Way. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Image: Carnegie Observatories

These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.

This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000!

To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NASA’s First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: NASA’s next-gen Habitable Worlds Observatory may be our best chance to find alien life. But can a nation busy ripping itself apart unite to launch a mission to solve life’s cosmic mysteries? By @nadiadrake.bsky.social (and me).

www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

Gizmondo headline "LIGO’s Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory" above an artistic image of a binary black hole merger in a soothing blue by Maggie Chiang for Simons Foundation

"Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace"

@gayoung.bsky.social writes in @gizmodo.com about #GW250114

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#O4IsHere #EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight #KerrWasRight 🔭🧪⚛️

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The Winners of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair An experiment that transformed lead into gold, a satellite designed to manufacture drugs in space, and many other fascinating projects all took home trophies at this year’s Science Fair.

It's that most wonderful time of the year for us at Gizmodo's science desk: The Gizmodo Science Fair!

Every year, we get the chance to highlight research projects and achievements on the cusp of changing lives or shaking up their scientific fields—or that already have! gizmodo.com/the-winners-...

Oh this is very cool

#MathNerds

LIGO's Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace.

LIGO's Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory https://gizmodo.com/ligos-sharpest-detection-yet-confirms-famous-stephen-hawking-theory-2000656839

Switch 2 Two-Month Review: What We Love, What We Hate YouTube video by Gizmodo

My 2-month Nintendo Switch 2 review video with @kylebarr.bsky.social is now live on @gizmodo.com's YouTube channel. We're getting back into "regular" tech review videos so go easy on us. Each video will get better. I promise!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdpc...

Today, Scientific American turns 180—the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S. 🎉

Since 1845, we’ve shared the wonders of science with the world.

💫 Dive into 180 years of discovery: sciam.com/180
🧬 Explore pivotal moments in science: bit.ly/4mNTpGY
🎁 Win prizes: sciam.com/180contest

CHALLENGER!!!!

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A striking image of the plasma jet in the blazar PKS 1424+240, seen head-on. The jet is threaded by a nearly perfect toroidal magnetic field (visualized in orange). Due to special relativity, high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos are strongly beamed toward Earth, even though the jet appears slow-moving from our perspective.

15 years of radio observations yielded this amazing view down the throat of a black hole.

We're looking into a jet of plasma shooting out from a supermassive black hole, called PKS 1424+240. The lines depict intense magnetic fields threaded through the jet. 🧪🔭

www.mpg.de/25171297/eye...

Meet Meschers, MIT's Tool for Building Paradoxical Digital Objects A new tool developed by MIT researchers enables users to create detailed computer representations of mathematically impossible objects.

Meschers got picked up by Gizmodo!

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Thanks to @gayoung.bsky.social for the story!

Requirements for Joint Orbital Characterization of Cold Giants and Habitable Worlds with Habitable Worlds Observatory We determine optimal requirements for the joint detection of habitable-zone planets and cold giant planets with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). Analysis of 164 nearby stars shows that a corona...

A timely paper for #HWO25: is it enough to find Earth-like planets around other nearby stars? No! We need their planetary system contexts. Does life on Earth depend on Jupiter?

@sabinastro.bsky.social led this nice analysis of HWO requirements to detect Earths + Jupiters.

arxiv.org/abs/2507.21443

If you want know all things #HabitableWorldsObservatory then follow @drjovian.bsky.social for the next two days as she posts from the #HWO25 meeting in Washington DC.
Thanks Jo for keeping us posted ☺️