Get Lost In A Brand-New Trailer For The Maze Runner

Get it? Maze? Get lost? Oh, fine. This second trailer for the movie based on the best-selling post-apocalyptic YA novels reveals a bit more about the mysterious world of the maze, more of lead character Thomas’ interactions with his fellow lost boys (including Jojen Reed), and a few more of the maze’s secrets. I mean,…

Why Bran And Arya No Longer Want To Be Rescued On Game Of Thrones

Season four of Game of Thrones contained some major departures from the books — and some of them underscored just how much Bran and Arya Stark no longer want or expect to be rescued. We caught up with Isaac Hempstead-Wright and Maisie Williams at Comic-Con, and they told us why things are only going to…

What If Batman Recruited A Bear To Be Robin?

There have been a handful of Robins over the years, but thus far, none of them has been a bear. As this animation by Cale Atkinson proves, that’s a rather large and hairy oversight. Atkinson has made two sets of animated gifs revealing the adventures of Batman and Bear-Robin. In the first (turned into a…

Running for as little as five minutes a day could add years to your life. And it doesn’t matter how fast you run. After studying 55,137 adults between the ages of 18 and 100, it was discovered that runners had a 30% lower risk of death from all causes and a 45% lower risk of…

Over 100 Geysers On Enceladus May Be Spouting Water Onto Its Surface

Scientists working on NASA’s Cassini mission have discovered no less than 101 distinct geysers on Saturn’s small icy moon Enceladus. Just as exciting is the possibility that liquid water may be reaching the surface — making Enceladus a major target for future exploration. Back in 2005, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sent back images showing what appeared…

NASA’s Opportunity Rover Just Smashed The Off-World Driving Record

The Opportunity rover has been trekking across the Martian surface since 2004, but this past Sunday its odometer clicked past the 25-mile (40-km) mark, establishing a new off-world distance record. It’s a remarkable achievement — so whose record did it smash? The answer is the Soviet Union’s Lunokhod 2 Rover. This probe trundled along the…

The Photoshop Party Is Here To Save The Movies From Themselves

You’ve got Photoshop, an idea about how to fix a movie, and the absolute certainty that it’s time to combine the two. Let’s do this thing. Show us the imaginary movies that would have been way better than the originals, whether you want to give every movie the Loki cameo it deserves, do a noir…

Do Rats On Drugs Listen To Miles Davis? Depends.

Years ago, this experiment got written up a few places with headlines like, “Your tax dollars at work!” But that’s what happens when your experiment gives rats cocaine and makes them listen to jazz. Of course, the experiment wasn’t about seeing if cocaine helped rats enjoy jazz (although it does). The first experiment involved rats…

You May Not Have to Wait 30 Years For The Next Mad Max Movie

The unbelievably good-looking Mad Max: Fury Road is set to premiere on May 15th, 2015. The last Mad Max movie before that was Beyond Thunderdome, released in 1985. That’s a long time! The good news is if Fury Road does well, director George Miller says the sequel is already written. Miller’s original plan was to…

Are There Star Wars and Avengers Characters We Don’t Know About Yet?

Benedict Cumberbatch and Zack Snyder both add to Star Wars speculation, while Joss Whedon teases a character for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Plus, details about the cast of characters populating American Horror Story: Freakshow. Get a look at concept art for Sleepy Hollow’s villains. And USA picks up a show set in near-future L.A. Spoilers…

A bill introduced in Congress could be an important step in clarifying property rights in outer space. The ASTEROIDS Act says that resources obtained from asteroids legally belong to the company or other entity that extracted them, but it has some kinks to work out, such as the legal definition of an “asteroid.”

Chris Pratt Stops an Interview to Show Off His French-Braiding Skills

Here are the pros and cons for this video: Pro – Chris Pratt continues his charm offensive and proves he is a treasure of a human being. Con – Entertainment Tonight is still having trouble figuring out what do with Guardians of the Galaxy. https://gizmodo.com/entertainment-tonight-has-figured-out-the-secret-to-gua-1596315513 Seriously, they give up talking about Guardians really quickly and…

Witches of East End Is All About Creepy Supernatural Sex This Season

We live in a world where Lifetime is perfectly willing to use the term “twincest.” And it won’t even be the most disturbing thing in the episode. Congrats, Witches of East End, for embracing the absurd. I feel personally victimized by this last episode. Like the show knew that we were betting about Wendy’s sex…

New King Kong Movie Skull Island Gets Ready For 2016

On Saturday, Legendary announced a new King Kong movie called Skull Island. At the time, that was all we knew. But now, it looks like the studio isn’t going to waste any time getting this out there. https://gizmodo.com/holy-shit-we-just-saw-a-teaser-for-a-new-king-kong-mov-1611456986 When Legendary announced Godzilla at Comic-Con, it was two years before we actually got the movie. And…

Orphan Black Should Just Use This As Its Season 3 Poster

Holy crap, this is so good. Down to the DNA coding in the background, it’s perfect. BBC America will have trouble topping it as a poster. It’s by Jasric, who you can find on tumblr, society6, and deviantART.

Amuse Yourself with This Vintage Pseudoscience Personality Test

The internet is filled to the brim with personality tests like, “What kind of flavored potato chip are you?” In the old days, we had to get our pseudoscience personality tests the hard way, through literature and word-of-mouth. I finally tracked down one test that made the rounds at my school for years. A husband…

True Blood Finally Resurrects The Monster Inside Vampire Bill

Cue up the Elton John, because The Bitch is Back. This week, True Blood brought back old bitchy Bill. And it was great, until Sookie made it all about her. You’re the worst, Sookie! Spoilers ahead. Straight up, I haven’t slept in 24 hours. So if shit gets weird, just go with it. Let’s do…

This Danish School Teaches Through LARPing… And It Works

While America keeps trying to devise a more standard standardized test system, the Osterskov Efterskole in Hobro, Denmark, is busy using live-action role-playing to teach its students while they’re having fun. I know, it sounds insane, but watch this documentary and tell me you don’t wish you’d gone there for school Thanks to Lizzie Stark…

The Tattered, Haunting Remains of Abandoned Airports

You’ve seen where airplanes go to die, but what happens to the airports we abandon? They slowly fall to pieces, like the ones in this gallery, looking like sad monuments to a future that never happened. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-most-bizarre-aircraft-graveyards-511526945 Nicosia International Airport, Nicosia, Cyprus, used between 1939 and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The site…

World Map Reveals How Countries Are Divided Between Cat And Dog Lovers

Overall, most states in the U.S. have a balanced cat-dog ratio. But, it’s a different story when you look at the rest of the world, where the loyalty of some countries clearly favors one type of furry companion over the other. The marketing firm Euromonitor provided the Washington Post with data estimates of the pet…