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The singing mouse gene

The singing mice of Costa Rica, which emit an audible birdlike trill as a mating call, have something unexpected in common with human beings. We share a gene called FOXP2 with these rodents, which is related to vocalization. When humans have damaged FOXP2 genes, it results in speech disorders that can be quite profound. Now…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Is This the iPad Mini’s Tiny New Screen? (Update: Probably Not)

A tipster with strong business ties to China just sent us this image—allegedly the display of the (rumored) iPad Mini. If it’s real, this is the very face of Apple’s newest mystery gadget. Update: Looks suspiciously like a Kindle Fire. Our source tells us the display measures in at 7.85 inches exactly (diagonally)—in line with…

Tech News Sam Biddle

New concept art shows the sleazy Taxi Driver underbelly of Star Wars

The new Star Wars video game, Star Wars 1313, promises to explore the dark underside of the Galaxy Far, Far Away. (Check out the first trailer here.) And some totally lovely concept art shows just how gritty and filthy this new version of Star Wars will look — half-naked Twi’leks, R2 units being used for…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

A Carbon Fiber Core Makes This Axe Lean and Mean

Aside from a few innovations in materials, axe design has been something that’s gone relatively unchanged for awhile now. But a new concept, dubbed the Zai Core, from designer Kacper Hamilton, which makes use of carbon fiber in the handle and a series of interchangable carbon steel blades, breathes new life into an old object…

Tech News Adrian Covert

HP Touts the “Unique” Features of Its Windows 8 Tablet

With Windows 8 just around the corner, HP has been flashing an unannounced tablet in an ad as of late. Now they’re beginning to acknowledge its existence in no uncertain terms, with some lofty talk. In an interview with CRN, sales VP John Solomon claims it will use “unique intellectual property.” How mysterious! What could…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Sizzle reel shows hints of the gritty Daredevil movie Fox won’t be making

A few days ago a deflated director Joe Carnahan (The Grey) took to Twitter to announce that his pitch for a Serpico-styled Daredevil movie had gone up in smoke. And now he’s released his exciting sizzle reel, cobbled together from Daredevil comics panels and past violent movies. Here’s the bloody “NC-17” version — think of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

It’s up to one pregnant teen to stop an alien attack in space

Teen pregnancy has probably existed as long as there have been people, so it was about time that young adult science fiction caught up to reality. Authors Martin Leicht and Isla Neal saw this gaping hole in the genre, and they’ve filled it with this quirky action-packed novel, Mothership: Book One of the Ever-Expanding Universe.…

io9 Michael Ann Dobbs

West German Weather Ball Lends Vintage Charm To Climate Change

The weather is changing, and fast. If you can’t beat it, the next best thing is to accurately measure its volatility. This vintage miniature weather center, from West Germany, is a meteorological device that would be equally at home in a fallout bunker, EV garage, or behind the scenes at the Weather Channel. Built in…

Gadgets Micah Fitzerman-Blue - Bureau of Trade

The Best Kitchen Drawer Drill

A cordless drill used to be a poor choice as a power tool—too heavy to take up a ladder and too weak to do the job. Then batteries got better, drills got smaller, and everything got cheaper. Cordless went from just a decent alternate to a viable replacement. Now, some seriously powerful hardware comes in…

Reviews Harry Sawyers

Companies that paid over $1 million to stop GMO labels on foods

If you live in the U.S., it’s likely that you eat a lot of GMO foods, and there is plenty of scientific evidence that these foods are perfectly safe. Still, many consumers want GMO foods to be labeled, simply because they want to know whether their food is the product of genetic engineering or not.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Prometheus’ list of deleted scenes reveals an ending we never saw

The Blu-ray release of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is right around the corner — and while we can’t wait to see the lovely scenes from Scott in glorious Blu-ray, we’d also like a few more answers. Thankfully a list of deleted scenes coming with the disc reveals there’s a ton of extra material, that might offer…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Dine Among the Peaks in This Aluminum-Scaled Alpine Eatery

After a long day scaling the Matterhorn, even the most sturdy of mountaineer is apt to be a bit peckish. Luckily, the Gipfelrestaurant is open for business—8700 feet above sea level. The Summit Restaurant, as it’s translated, is located atop Arosa Weisshorn and was designed by Swiss architect Tilla Theus. Built by Scherrer from a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Fall Movie Preview: 5 Movies We’re Sure Will Rule, and 21 That Could Surprise Us

This might be the strongest fall movie season we’ve ever seen. Almost every week has a movie coming out that we’re either excited about or curious about. After a pretty entertaining summer, the movies are giving us a mix of crazy action movies and thought-provoking weirdness for the fall. Here’s our list of 26 movies…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Researchers Might Have a Way to Beat Heroin Addiction

Morphine is just about the best painkiller out there, as any doctor or any person who’s ever been in an accident will tell you. There’s just one small problem—it’s incredibly addictive. But thanks to some researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of Adelaide, we may have outsmarted that propensity for dependency. They’ve…

Health Leslie Horn

These anatomical food sculptures are gruesome and lunch-meaty

Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov has an unsettling knack for sculpting and arranging everyday foodstuffs into forms that would be more at home in a gross anatomy lab than a kitchen. Cauliflower takes on the appearance of undulating folds of grey matter. Lunch meat is transformed into the muscles of the head. A meticulously carved watermelon…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Lego Star Wars Sith Fury-class Interceptor Is Your Lego-Is-My-Ally Deal of the Day

I’ve been a fan of these little building blocks since I was a kid and threw a temper tantrum when my weeks of saving allowance and doing extra chores turned out to be one week short of the money I needed for a Lego Space Shuttle. In the last two decades or so, Lego has…

Tech News J.D. Levite

Come Toast Gizmodo’s Tenth Birthday on Thursday, August 16

Gizmodo is 10 years old, and we want you to join us to celebrate hitting the double-digit mark. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-is-10-years-old-today-sort-of-5926187 We’re ringing in the big day with multi-city celebrations on August 16. New York will have the biggest official Meetup with most of Gizmodo staff at the Magician. We’re also having events in a few other…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Butterflies in the Fukushima region plagued by “genetic damage” and “severe abnormalities”

A study of the pale grass blue butterfly in the regions around the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, site of the 2011 radiation disaster, has revealed that the insects are giving birth to mutants at an alarming rate. Indeed, the butterflies collected from younger generations have more abnormalities than butterflies born directly after the power plant…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What Is Medium?

There is no shortage of platforms to post your ideas, photos, videos—whatever—online, but today we got another high-profile one. Medium announced itself with a lofty manifesto about publishing and media. But, um, what makes it different and why should anybody use it? Medium is a new publishing platform from the creators of Blogger and Twitter……

Tech News Mario Aguilar

A Geiger counter, in the style of H.R. Giger

After the release of Prometheus, craftmaker Steve was so inspired by a tweet by Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait that he went out and constructed his own “Giger Counter” using a half-scale model skeleton (and not other simulcra of the human anatomy). And luckily for Steve, his home made for a poor testing ground: Here’s a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The singing mouse gene

Is This the iPad Mini’s Tiny New Screen? (Update: Probably Not)

New concept art shows the sleazy Taxi Driver underbelly of Star Wars

A Carbon Fiber Core Makes This Axe Lean and Mean

HP Touts the “Unique” Features of Its Windows 8 Tablet

Sizzle reel shows hints of the gritty Daredevil movie Fox won’t be making

It’s up to one pregnant teen to stop an alien attack in space

West German Weather Ball Lends Vintage Charm To Climate Change

The Best Kitchen Drawer Drill

Companies that paid over $1 million to stop GMO labels on foods

Prometheus’ list of deleted scenes reveals an ending we never saw

Dine Among the Peaks in This Aluminum-Scaled Alpine Eatery

Fall Movie Preview: 5 Movies We’re Sure Will Rule, and 21 That Could Surprise Us

Researchers Might Have a Way to Beat Heroin Addiction

These anatomical food sculptures are gruesome and lunch-meaty

This Lego Star Wars Sith Fury-class Interceptor Is Your Lego-Is-My-Ally Deal of the Day

Come Toast Gizmodo’s Tenth Birthday on Thursday, August 16

Butterflies in the Fukushima region plagued by “genetic damage” and “severe abnormalities”

What Is Medium?

A Geiger counter, in the style of H.R. Giger

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