Isaac Schultz, Author at Gizmodo

Photo: Motes-Rodrigo et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0

ScienceAnimals

These Orangutans Got Suspiciously Close to Inventing Stone Tools

Untrained orangutans seemed to instinctively use a stone hammer and cutting implement, surprising researchers.

By Isaac Schultz Published February 16, 2022

EartherClimate Change

Devastating NOAA Report Warns Sea Levels Along U.S. Coasts Will Rise a Foot by 2050

Coastal flooding will become more common and more severe as ocean levels rise.

By Isaac Schultz Published February 15, 2022

ScienceAnimals

Disturbing Video of Hundreds of Blackbirds Crashing Into the Ground Not as Weird as You Think

The event is just the latest in a pattern of bird falls in recent years.

By Isaac Schultz Published February 15, 2022

EartherConservation

The ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Is Taking in New Samples

A new round of plant varieties is headed to the Arctic seed vault, where the genes of essential crops are protected in underground chambers.

By Isaac Schultz Published February 14, 2022

ScienceSpace

Astronomers Find ‘Weird’ Stars Covered in Burned-Up Helium

The rare objects may be the result of unusual stellar mergers.

By Isaac Schultz Published February 14, 2022

ScienceSpace

NASA’s Future Mars Aircraft May Create a Purple Glow, but Don’t Be Alarmed

The glow would be caused by the spinning rotor blades, which interact with the planet’s atmosphere.

By Isaac Schultz Published February 2, 2022

ScienceSpace

NASA’s Asteroid Detector Was Upgraded to Scan the Entire Sky Every Day

With the addition of two southern hemisphere telescopes, the ATLAS system can do full sky searches.

By Isaac Schultz Published February 1, 2022

Image: Northwestern University/SAORO/Oxford University

ScienceSpace

Astrophysicists Found 1,000 Magnetic Milky Way ‘Strands’

The discovery dramatically increases the number of known galactic filaments.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 31, 2022

Photo: Dr Alvin Helden, Anglia Ruskin University

ScienceAnimals

Newly Discovered Insect Looks Like Mothman

The last sighting of a leafhopper in this genus was more than 50 years ago.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 28, 2022

SciencePhysics

Physicists Spotted a Rare ‘X’ Particle From the Beginning of the Universe

X (3872) is a short-lived particle that was recently resurrected in Switzerland.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 28, 2022

ScienceSpaceflight

Perseverance Rover Has Shaken Out the Pebbles Stuck in Its Sampling System

A wiggle here and a rotation there have fixed the Mars rover’s pebble problem.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 27, 2022

ScienceSpace

Astrophysicists May Have Found a Rare Species of Black Hole in the Andromeda Galaxy

The researchers suspect a globular cluster contains an elusive intermediate-mass black hole.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 25, 2022

ScienceSpace

Webb Space Telescope Completes Its Million-Mile Journey Today

The observatory has been traveling for nearly a month to reach the second Lagrange point.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 24, 2022

Illustration: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF

SciencePhysics

There Are 40,000,000,000,000,000,000+ Black Holes in the Observable Universe, Says New Estimate

The team of astrophysicists found that 1% of ordinary matter may be stored away in the lightless spheres.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 20, 2022

ScienceSpace

Webb Space Telescope’s Mirrors Are Fully Deployed

The $10 billion telescope is nearly at its destination in deep space.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 20, 2022

ScienceSpace

The Moon’s Far Side Is Covered in Sticky Soil and Fresh Craters

China's Yutu-2 lunar rover has discovered some interesting features of the far side of the Moon.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 19, 2022

SciencePhysics

Scientists Tried to Quantum Entangle a Tardigrade

A recent experiment claimed to entangle a living animal, but other researchers are skeptical.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 19, 2022

ScienceSpace

NASA Has a Plan to Dislodge the Pebbles Stuck in Perseverance Rover

Debris is temporarily stopping the rover’s rock-sampling mission.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 18, 2022

Photo: Glenn Schwartz / John Hopkins University.

ScienceGenetics

Oldest Known Human-Bred Hybrid Animal Was a ‘Kunga’

Genome sequencing has revealed the identity of the kunga, a donkey-wild ass hybrid.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 14, 2022

Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute / PS124 AWI OFOBS team

ScienceAnimals

Biologists Shocked to Find Millions of Icefish Nesting Near Antarctica

A colony 1,000 feet below the ocean's surface contains an unprecedented number of the prehistoric-looking fish.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 13, 2022