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Fly Through the Colossal 18-Mile-Long Ice Canyon In Antarctica

Remember the 18-mile-long canyon that was discovered by NASA at the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica? Their researchers just completed the three-dimensional mapping of all its surface with stunning detail, using Digital Mapping System photographs over Airborne Topographic Mapper data. https://gizmodo.com/this-future-iceberg-would-be-able-to-sink-a-thousand-ti-5855827 The crack formed in the ice shelf that extends from one of West Antarctica’s…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Vanity, Thy Name Is This Makeup Mirror Smartphone Case

It’s being sold as a handy way to take self-portraits, or as a kickstand for watching movies, but this Z’Smart mirror smartphone case was really designed with only one purpose in mind—vanity. Yes, it provides a little extra protection from bumps and scratches, but the pivoting mirror attachment on the back of this $20 case…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Woman admits to burning down 3,500-year-old tree while smoking meth

Why is it that so many of nature’s most awe-inspiring specimens seem to meet their end under such stupid circumstances? Some of you may recall reading about The Senator in recent weeks. The massive tree — which stood for over 3,500 years in what is now Longwood, Florida — was the oldest pond cypress tree…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How To Start Up a Boeing 737 Step By Step

Planning to steal a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320? Pranas Drulis at the Baltic Aviation Academy got you covered: these videos show how to start up these planes from cold to ready to taxi, step by step. Anyway, what happened to the days of jumping into a B-17 and shouting “Start up those mothers!…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

10 Places to Ride Out the Apocalypse

You’ve assembled your post-apocalyptic reading list. You’ve packed your bug-out bag. You’ve even practiced a little melee combat, just in case. But where should you go when the global pandemic hits or sky starts raining fire? https://gizmodo.com/survival-books-to-keep-on-your-bookshelf-in-case-of-the-5888333 If you can hang out in a self-sufficient rural community or get yourself adopted into a tribe of…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Oldest Forest Ever Discovered Was Hidden In the Catskills

This is the second fossilized forest that has stunned researchers this month, and it’s also the oldest. It’s 385 million years old, from the time when the earth’s first forests appeared. And it was all buried beneath a quarry in Upstate New York. https://gizmodo.com/extraordinary-298-million-year-old-forest-discovered-un-5886774 Scientists had found bits of evidence that these ancient trees existed…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Netflix Wants to Be Part of Your Cable Package

Reed Hastings has long argued that Netflix is a service that’s complementary to cable and will never be a solution for cord cutters. While speaking to a bunch of suits in San Francisco yesterday, Reed Hastings made known his desires to have Netflix bundled into our cable service. According to Paid Content, Hastings said that…

Television Adrian Covert

New Electric Car Battery Could Double Capacity and Halve Cost

Well, this is an exciting bit of news for green drivers. Envia Systems has come up with a new battery technology that could give a $20,000 electric car a range of 300 miles to a charge. Yes, please? The General Motors-backed Envia Systems has come up with a new process that creates a battery with…

Tech News Brent Rose

The New Avengers Trailer Shows Even More Awesomeness

Any time you put together Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk and Scarlett Johansson as a female superhero in a movie, well you got my attention. The Avengers just released its latest trailer and it shows even more explosions and awesomeness. Here’s the things I noticed on first watch: Robert Downey Jr. being good…

Movies Casey Chan

New Avengers trailer shows the mental damage Joss Whedon is ready to inflict on the Supers

“We’re not a team, we’re a time bomb!” warns Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner in this brand new Avengers trailer. This is the first real time we’re seeing how damaged each one of these supers really is. Hell, even Loki knows it when he asks, “How desperate are you that call on such lost creatures to…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

How the Quest for the Perfect Calendar Accidentally Created February 30

A year is almost exactly 365 days…almost, but not quite. For millennia, people have tried to create calendars that account for that “not quite” bit. It’s why we have leap days and why, just once, there was a February 30. The Moon’s Calendar It’s only relatively recently – say, the last 2,500 years or so…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Drill-Mounted Camera Makes Your World Spin

This video was posted over a year ago, but it’s too trippy not to share. The concept is simple. Mount a camera to a electric drill and see what happens. What you get is a completely abstracted image of the world. Wait for the night-shooting part, it gets even better. [Vimeo via Reddit]

Tech News Michael Hession

Are You Bolder Than An Eater of Chicken Gizzards?

You’ve already read Adam Frucci’s opus on the subject…now prove to the world that you, in fact, are the King of Boldness, by sending your 500-word essay/blog post/epic poem/manifesto to Gizmodo at [email protected] with “My Boldest Experience” as the subject line. The best (funniest, most compelling, least lame) of the bunch will be published here…

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Bill Murray will NOT be in Ghostbusters 3, everything sucks

Dan Aykroyd has put to bed all those “will he, won’t he” Bill Murray rumors for Ghostbusters 3. Bill Murray will not be a part of the third installment of the franchise, Grumpy Old Ghostbusters. Also, the entire project is in limbo: In an interview with the Telegraph Aykroyd gave us a project update: I…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Prehistoric Penguin Was the Biggest Penguin Ever

If you thought emperor penguins were big, this prehistoric cousin put them to shame. In its day it stood over four feet tall and was 50 per cent heavier than the already pretty massive emperor we know today. Researchers from New Zealand have reconstructed the 26 million-year old fossilized skeleton, revealing a penguin unlike any…

Biology Jamie Condliffe

T. Rex‘s bite was the most powerful the world has ever known

Last year, we learned that Tyrannosaurus rex was up to 30% bigger than we once thought. Now, new evidence suggests we may have vastly underestimated its jaw strength, as well. https://gizmodo.com/tyrannosaurus-rex-was-much-much-bigger-than-we-thought-5849521 Recent computer models predict that the back teeth on an adult T. rex were capable of generating a bite force between 30,000 and 60,000…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What if The Avengers was an old-timey silent film?

Did The Artist’s big wins on Oscar night leave you with a hankering for more silent films? Do you long for an era when action scenes were played to piano music and witty repartee was spelled out title cards? This video parody, from Australia’s RatedComedy, recuts The Avengers trailer as a classy silent feature. I’m…

Movies Lauren Davis

How Did a Laser Cool This Semiconductor To Almost Absolute Zero?

It’s completely counterintuitive, but scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have succeeded in cooling a semiconductor membrane to −452.2°F, almost seven degrees above absolute zero, using a powerful laser we usually think of as only being able to burn. With a thickness of just 160 nanometers and a surface area of 1 millimeter square, the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

New Gorillaz music video involves a bowl full of severed ears, Andre 3000, and weirdness

For the latest Gorillaz track — “DoYaThing,” which you can download for free here — the cartoon band recruited LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Outkast’s Andre 3000 for a deranged journey through their morning saunter. It involves a bowl full of disembodied ears, violent product placement, and Andre’s rapping, which is giving me flashbacks to…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Exercise Makes You Smarter By Giving Your Brain Extra Energy

Everyone knows exercise is good for you, and studies have previously shown that it can boost learning and even stave off dementia in later life—though nobody knew why. New research suggests, though, that it’s because the brain takes advantage of energy delivery systems just as much as your muscles. When you exercise, your muscles create…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Fly Through the Colossal 18-Mile-Long Ice Canyon In Antarctica

Vanity, Thy Name Is This Makeup Mirror Smartphone Case

Woman admits to burning down 3,500-year-old tree while smoking meth

How To Start Up a Boeing 737 Step By Step

10 Places to Ride Out the Apocalypse

The Oldest Forest Ever Discovered Was Hidden In the Catskills

Netflix Wants to Be Part of Your Cable Package

New Electric Car Battery Could Double Capacity and Halve Cost

The New Avengers Trailer Shows Even More Awesomeness

New Avengers trailer shows the mental damage Joss Whedon is ready to inflict on the Supers

How the Quest for the Perfect Calendar Accidentally Created February 30

Drill-Mounted Camera Makes Your World Spin

Are You Bolder Than An Eater of Chicken Gizzards?

Bill Murray will NOT be in Ghostbusters 3, everything sucks

This Prehistoric Penguin Was the Biggest Penguin Ever

T. Rex‘s bite was the most powerful the world has ever known

What if The Avengers was an old-timey silent film?

How Did a Laser Cool This Semiconductor To Almost Absolute Zero?

New Gorillaz music video involves a bowl full of severed ears, Andre 3000, and weirdness

Exercise Makes You Smarter By Giving Your Brain Extra Energy

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