FINAL JOURNEY | The Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off on its final mission to the final frontier.
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Could Bloodrayne III: The Third Reich be Uwe Boll’s masterpiece?
Vampire Hitler attacks Rayne, the sexy young half-vampire heroine, in a crazy-pants dream sequence from Bloodrayne: The Third Reich. Yes, Uwe Boll’s World War II epic is out on DVD, and it’s chock full of crazy. More »
Everything You Need to Know about Torchwood
https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-torchwood-5819188
Torchwood is reborn tomorrow night, as a big-budget co-production with the American cable network Starz. But with three seasons of this British science fiction show already out there, what do you need to know to enjoy it? More »
The bizarre mathematical conundrum of Ulam’s Spiral
https://gizmodo.com/the-bizarre-mathematical-conundrum-of-ulams-spiral-5818900
If there’s anything we learn from math teachers and the Da Vinci Code, it’s that prime numbers are magic. They can do anything, and be anywhere. Including a doodle on a math paper. More »
Genetic evidence reveals that polar bears originally came from Ireland
https://gizmodo.com/genetic-evidence-reveals-that-polar-bears-originally-ca-5818013
Every polar bear alive today shares a common maternal ancestor, and it isn’t even a bear from the same species. Their mitochondrial DNA reveals a 100,000 year story of interbreeding and hybridization…and the story is far from over. More »
59,927,225 reasons why nobody truly understands what Transformers is about
https://gizmodo.com/59-927-225-reasons-why-nobody-truly-understands-what-tr-5819125
It’s not actually Michael Bay’s fault that the Transformers movies make no sense. More »
George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons: Worth The Wait
https://gizmodo.com/george-r-r-martins-a-dance-with-dragons-worth-the-wai-5819035
This Tuesday, the years of anticipation will be over, and the fifth book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series will finally be here. So does A Dance with Dragons live up to the near-insurmountable hype? Yes. More »
Sex evolved to prevent parasite infections, say scientists
https://gizmodo.com/sex-evolved-to-prevent-parasite-infections-say-scienti-5818015
Sexual reproduction that involves two partners is far less efficient than self-fertilization – at least, from the perspective of evolution. So why did creatures like humans ever start having sex with each other? More »
10 Characters that Game of Thrones season two could leave out
https://gizmodo.com/10-characters-that-game-of-thrones-season-two-could-lea-5817989
There were two miracles about Game of Thrones season one: that it was so true to the book, and that it was so brilliant on its own terms. For season two, the show will have to choose one miracle. More »
Mothman: An Exposé
https://gizmodo.com/mothman-an-expose-5818781
A bizarre creature terrorized a town in West Virginia in 1966 and 1967, leering at locals with glowing red eyes, flying over their cars and causing radiation burns and even the collapse of a major bridge over the Ohio River. More »
The Art of Pirate Geoengineering
https://gizmodo.com/the-art-of-pirate-geoengineering-5818864
Sometimes things go wrong. You make an ocean on the Moon, it sublimates too fast, and you’re left with a tanker rotting on regolith. But there’s still a beauty in it. More »
Did Futurama get the Banach-Tarski Paradox right?
https://gizmodo.com/did-futurama-get-the-banach-tarski-paradox-right-5818859
The Banach-Tarski Dupla-Shrinker recently made an appearance on an episode of Futurama. Using it, Bender got to make two, slightly smaller, copies of himself. More »
