We love this officially licensed, gender-swapped Doctor Who coat

Tired of playing the Tenth Doctor in a ill-fitting trenchcoat? No problem, ladies — the BBC has released an official, tailored Doctor Who coat. So awesome. Sure it’s a whopping $329.99, but it’s legit. [via The Mary Sue]

This ancient fish may have been the first animal to have a face

Meet Entelognathus primordialis, a 419 million-year-old carnivorous fish whose fossil is providing the earliest known evidence of basic facial bone structures in an animal. Oh, and you’re probably descended from it. Prior to this discovery, all fossils from this particular geological era — the Silurian period — featured sea creatures without a face — jawless…

The time a legendary physicist was nearly killed by Lady Godiva

Otto Frisch got a Nobel Prize for figuring out the mechanics of fission. It seemed like he would be the last person to underestimate it. But he came within a couple of seconds of getting killed by the fission tester he named Lady Godiva. Otto Frisch, while winding his way through Europe one step ahead…

See these lovely science fiction paintings for yourself

If you’re in New York City this evening, you should swing by the Society of Illustrators, where Hamilton King Award-winning artist Gregory Manchess is giving a lecture to go with a new exhibition of his work. Including some beautiful science fiction (and especially steampunk) images. Manchess’ exhibition “A Life in Paint” includes a ton of…

A disturbing and sad experiment that revealed the nature of phobias

John Watson and Rosalie Rayner were two researchers at Johns Hopkins University who innocently wondered what caused phobias. Their next move was not quite so innocent. They got themselves a baby, about nine months old, and experimented with drilling fear into a child’s mind. They called the baby Albert B. Albert’s mother was an employee…

7 Brilliant and Enticing Movies About the Lives of Sexologists

This weekend is the premiere of Showtime’s new series Masters of Sex, the story of famed sexologists William Masters and Virginia Johnson. But their tale of vibrators used as scientific instruments isn’t the only one out there. Here are seven more great stories of sexual science and its consequences. https://gizmodo.com/full-trailer-for-masters-of-sex-shows-the-long-hard-ro-1071122392 https://gizmodo.com/11-works-of-sexology-that-will-blow-your-mind-with-sci-5985191 https://gizmodo.com/the-biggest-sexology-breakthroughs-of-the-past-130-year-5142240 1. Kinsey Alfred…

Cloudy 2 isn’t quite as spicy a meatball as the original

Cloudy with a Change of Meatballs made me cry. A lot. I cried in the theater, cried on the way home, cried on the phone with my Dad where I tried to explain how a mind-reading sweatband (previously owned by a monkey) brought a father and son together. Unfortunately, the sequel does not deliver the…

Five of the six papers published in support of yesterday’s Mars water announcement required a paid subscription to Science to read. Citing Title 17of the U.S. Code, which states federal works are not subject to copyright protection, Berkeley biologist Michael Eisen decided to make them freely available on his blog. Viva la revolución.

This android’s muscles and tendons allow it to move like a human

You know how the original Terminator looks like a human — even on the inside? Well, that was probably a good design decision. As the designers of this android undoubtedly know, the best way to get a robot to look and move like a human is to give it an actual musculoskeletal system. Everyone, say…

A new photo emerges of Lincoln at Gettysburg

A Disney-animator has inadvertently stumbled upon what he thinks is only the second known photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken on the same day he delivered his famous speech at Gettysburg. Christopher Oakley discovered the photo — the second of a pair of stereographic images — while working on the Virtual Lincoln Project, an effort to…

Watch out: the trailer for In Fear might scare you out of your seat

Check out a brand new trailer for In Fear, a low-budget British horror movie that killed at Sundance and Frightfest. Featuring lines like, “We’re not lost, we’re in a maze” and “he had no face,” this trailer is one big creep-out. Apparently, this film was made without a full script, meaning actors Iain De Caestecker…

Russia’s flesh-eating drug Krokodil actually has origins in America

Having spent the last decade wreaking havoc in Russia, Krokodil – the cheap, addictive, heroin-like opioid(that also happens to eat your flesh) – has made landfall in the U.S. According to reports from Arizona’s Banner Poison Control Center, two recently documented cases of the drug’s use are believed to be the first in America. But…

First look at Meryl Streep’s witch from Disney’s Into The Woods

Even though some of the news from Disney’s movie adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods musical bums us out, casting of Meryl Streep as the evil witch gives us hope. And that hope is only magnified in the first ever on set photo of Streep in full witch mode. https://gizmodo.com/johnny-depp-will-now-seduce-a-12-year-old-in-disneys-i-1327477028 Granted, no one will…

IPCC Report: Humans are the ‘dominant cause’ of global warming

Our climate is changing, no doubt about it. The festering controversy we’re in has been about whether humans have anything to do with it. A comprehensive report by a UN-sponsored climate panel may now finally put the issue to rest — and we’re most certainly to blame. Top image: Global Patterns of Carbon Dioxide. Credit:…

The Florida Effect

How do a few words affect how you act? Perhaps quite a bit. And without you even knowing it. That’s the lesson that psychologists learned from the weird, subliminal Florida Effect. The Florida Effect is one of the earliest, and most powerful, examples of “priming.” Priming, in psychological terms, means the use of background factors…

We’re finally getting a Constantine TV show!

Hollywood is finally answering your “please turn this into a TV show” prayers: Constantine the comic series is becoming a TV series. ABOUT DAMN TIME. Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. TV and DC Comics are already to develop another yet another comic book series. Constantine (which non comic fans will remember from the Keanu…

Tell Us Your Best Trade Secret

Yesterday, we asked you to introduce yourselves in the comments and you told us that you are: molecular biologists, HAZMAT specialists, puppeteers, writers, park rangers, 3-d animators, librarians, fans, hobbyists, and relentless enthusiasts. Today, tell us one thing you’d like people to know about your area of expertise. https://gizmodo.com/who-are-you-introduce-yourselves-in-the-comments-1392330565 Maybe you want to tell us…

How to burn money — and still spend it later

With a little preparation, you can set a dollar (or pound, or euro) on fire, without scorching the actual bill. Find out how to amaze your friends and make your date think you’re a weirdo! Let’s face it, one of the main preoccupations in life is earning some precious, precious cash. So it’s not a…

Why do we live in three dimensions?

New Scientist’s MacGregor Campbell gives us the rundown on why – of all the dimensions – we live in the third one. What is the deal with space’s essential… three-ness? Many of you – especially those familiar with books like Edwin Abbott’s Flatland – will no doubt recognize the tautological silliness in explanations like “we…

Have Independence Day 2 and Jurassic World found their stars?

David S. Goyer wants to make it damn clear that the fans aren’t writing the Man of Steel sequel. J.J. Abrams might shoot parts of Episode VII with IMAX cameras. Michael Bay releases the most Michael Bay photo imaginable from the Transformers: Age of Extinction set. The Giver adds to its cast. It’s spoilers all…