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Apparently, the Death Star Was Destroyed 1,500 Years Ago

This is U Camelopardalis, a carbon star 1,500 light years away from Earth, in the constellation of the same name, near the North Celestial Pole. U Cam—as it is known—is at the end of its life, erupting layers of material from time to time: Every few thousand years, U Cam coughs out a nearly spherical…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Twitter Search Now Has Autocomplete and Other Improvements

Search on Twitter has never been the most organized experience, and it’s unlikely it ever will be, but there are some new features coming to Twitter’s web client and apps that should be helpful. Autocomplete that suggests terms and Twitter accounts, for one, and spelling corrections. Searches on the web client can also sort your…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

A Confusion of Princes: a Spiffing Boy’s Own Space Opera

Australia’s megastar young adult author Garth Nix excites the imaginations of adults as well as young readers, with his startlingly original world-building. His Abhorsen Chronicles features necromancy vs. technology in a sorta alternate version of World War I. The recently reprinted Shade’s Children presents a future where for your fourteenth birthday, instead of a cake,…

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Rokinon 8mm Fisheye Cine-Lens Lightning Review: Extreme Wide Angle on a Budget

The fisheye lens is a staple of anyone photographing skateboarding and BMX. Rokinon’s latest lens—the 8mm T3.8 Cine Lens—should please DSLR videographers looking to get in on the action footage. What Is It? A $400 DSLR prime lens with a short focal length that produces an ultra-wide, exaggerated perspective. Who’s It For? Photographers and videographers…

Reviews Michael Hession

Six Designs That Would’ve Been Impossible Without Computer Modeling

After three decades on the market, Autodesk’s software has radically transformed modern architecture, science, and art. In downtown San Francisco, Autodesk exhibits a rotating gallery showing off twenty of its most impressive design feats. On a recent tour, Gizmodo saw the stunning range of the program’s capabilities. Engineers use it to plan the most the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How to survive the “snake-fight” portion of your Ph.D. defense

Most people think that Indiana Jones’ fear of snakes stemmed from a traumatic childhood experience. Wrong. In truth, his ophidiophobia came about after failing repeatedly to defend his Ph.D. thesis. Jones may have known his archaeology backwards and forwards, but all his hours of academic research did basically nothing to prepare him for one of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What’s in store for the second half of Continuum season one? Everything gets broken!

Check out a brand new promo for the final five episodes of Continuum season one, airing Sundays at 9 on Canada’s Showcase channel. Now that Edouard Kagame is back in charge of the Liber8 gang, it looks like he’s wasting no time starting a mass movement that will Occupy some people into the hospital. There…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

Ignore All of Your Friends and Get Away With It

Smartphones are incredible social tools. They give us the power to ignore other people like never before. In fact, not having to ever speak to humans might just be the best part. Here’s how to block everyone, every time, without ever facing any consequences. This best part of this pocket power to push people into…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Does oxygen deprivation make you stronger?

Everyone from NASA pilots to MMA fighters goes through oxygen deprivation testing and training. There are websites devoted to helping you train under conditions of reduced oxygen, in order to boost your athletic prowess. But does it work? And how could oxygen starvation possibly make you stronger? As part of its training facility, NASA has…

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This Lightning Reaction Reloaded Shocking Game Is Your Masochism-Party Deal Of The Day

Ah, the board game party. One of life’s most fulfilling evenings. Gathering together with your friends to really liven up your night with a little Trivia Pursuit and SceneIt! Maybe some Dungeons and Dragons or Magic: The Gathering for the geekier among you. Maybe that’s not your kinda party, though. Maybe you need a little…

Tech News J.D. Levite

Why We’re Glad Amazing Spider-Man Dropped Most of its “Untold Story”

Remember the scene in Amazing Spider-Man where the Lizard says to Peter Parker, “You want to know the truth about your parents? Come and get it”? Us neither. That bit was in a bunch of the trailers for the film — but got cut out before the movie hit theaters, joining many other instances of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Steampunk Spider-Man and his nemesis, Victorian-era Doctor Octopus

Steampunk superheroes are not an unfamiliar concept, but this particular batch was drafted by Italian artist Denis Medri — who was responsible for those delightful greaser Batman designs — so we’ll give them a pass. Behold such villains as Kraven, the Green Goblin, and Doctor Octopus, who I presume is named “Professor Cephalopod” in this…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Do You DVR Sporting Events?

Growing up, the summer tennis season was always my favorite. Beginning with the French Open, and culminating with the U.S. Open, I spent many a lazy summer day watching the likes of Pete Sampras and Roger Federer demolish opponent after opponent. As as “adult,” being in the office every day makes that less of a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Why We Shouldn’t regulate Big Food… At Least, Not Yet

A recent article published by Kelly Brownell in PLos Medicine arguing for the regulation of the food industry has gone off like a hand grenade. Health, diet, and wellness websites are all abuzz this week over his contention that “Big Food” will always be a self-serving, socially irresponsible force — a problem that Brownell believes…

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15 of the World’s Smartest Men in Their Natural Habitat

Beyond the rock stars like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and multi-billion dollar, cutting-edge facilities like CERN, a lot of physics (especially the theoretical sort) is still done the same way it was at the turn of the last century—by hand, on blackboards. Our friends at Oobject have assembled a gallery of history’s brightest minds leveraging old-school…

Physics & Chemistry David Galbraith - Oobject.com

A Robot Walks Exactly Like a Human For the First Time

How do babies learn to walk? And how to victims of spinal cord injuries regain the ability to do so? We might soon have a bit more insight into these phenomena, because researchers at the University of Arizona have created the first pair of legs that can walk in in a biologically accurate way. So…

Health Leslie Horn

These Cthulhu LEGO sets will drive you insane with little plastic bricks

It’s unlikely LEGO will ever produce an H.P. Lovecraft-themed line of LEGO sets — what with the cosmic abominations and the creeping madness and unholy geometry and all that jazz —but that hasn’t stopped several intrepid builders from constructing their own eldritch play sets. Here are a dozen scenes inspired by the Cthulhu mythos. Unfathomable…

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A Luminescent Map of the World’s Earthquakes Since 1898

You’re looking at the latest work of John Nelson, who is becoming well known for combining natural-disaster data with brilliant visualizations. The Michigan-based designer first captured our attention with a series of fantastic maps of U.S. tornado data. Now, he’s used his talents to chart a century’s worth of earthquakes (a staggering 203,186 of them)…

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Incredible World-Translating App Word Lens Is Finally on Android

Basically the coolest and most futuristic app for iOS is finally on Android. Word Lens—the augmented reality app that translates signs, newspapers, menus, and anything else from one language to another in real time—is finally out on Android. After a few minutes of testing the Android version, this initial build is decent, but very jumpy.…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Explosive Fireworks Horrifically Severed and Blew Off a Paraplegic’s Leg

In a horrible July 4th accident, a paraplegic man’s leg was blown off while he was trying to light fireworks while still in his wheelchair. The fiery explosion blew the man’s leg 50 feet across the street where it smacked a neighbor’s house. That is not fun. The accident, which occurred at Hazel Park, Michigan,…

Tech News Casey Chan

Apparently, the Death Star Was Destroyed 1,500 Years Ago

Twitter Search Now Has Autocomplete and Other Improvements

A Confusion of Princes: a Spiffing Boy’s Own Space Opera

Rokinon 8mm Fisheye Cine-Lens Lightning Review: Extreme Wide Angle on a Budget

Six Designs That Would’ve Been Impossible Without Computer Modeling

How to survive the “snake-fight” portion of your Ph.D. defense

What’s in store for the second half of Continuum season one? Everything gets broken!

Ignore All of Your Friends and Get Away With It

Does oxygen deprivation make you stronger?

This Lightning Reaction Reloaded Shocking Game Is Your Masochism-Party Deal Of The Day

Why We’re Glad Amazing Spider-Man Dropped Most of its “Untold Story”

Steampunk Spider-Man and his nemesis, Victorian-era Doctor Octopus

Do You DVR Sporting Events?

Why We Shouldn’t regulate Big Food… At Least, Not Yet

15 of the World’s Smartest Men in Their Natural Habitat

A Robot Walks Exactly Like a Human For the First Time

These Cthulhu LEGO sets will drive you insane with little plastic bricks

A Luminescent Map of the World’s Earthquakes Since 1898

Incredible World-Translating App Word Lens Is Finally on Android

Explosive Fireworks Horrifically Severed and Blew Off a Paraplegic’s Leg

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