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Badass New Dragon Ants Remind Us Nature Is Cooler Than Fantasy

While it can sometimes feel like we’ve turned over every last stone on this planet, it’s a fact that the natural world can still surprise us. Need some proof? Just feast your eyes on these badass new dragon ants, discovered deep in the tropical rainforest of New Guinea. Writing today in PLOS One, a team…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Legendary Is Turning Time-Twisting Game Series Life Is Strange Into a Digital Series

Excellent news for fans of DontNod’s excellent young adult adventure game Life Ils Strange—Legendary pictures has announced that it’s turning the series into a digital series. The episodic adventure series followed the story of Max Caulfield, a photography student returning to her quiet coastal hometown, only to discover she has the power to re-wind time—and…

Movies James Whitbrook

A Human Lego Minifigure Is All Your Nightmares Come True

There’s finally a good reason to not feel bad about missing San Diego Comic-Con last week. The team at Tested, working with Frank Ippolito, a special effects makeup artist, wondered what a Lego Minifig would look like if it were human. The results, as it turns out, will have you terrified of even looking at…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

The Main Reason Batman v Superman Sucked Isn’t What You Think It Is

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was a joyless movie that had none of the fun that comes with being a superhero flick (I mean, even Batman can have fun between grunts). But that wasn’t the main reason it sucked. Nerdwriter explains that its the movie’s over-reliance on moments versus scenes that makes the whole…

Sploid Casey Chan

Researchers Just Solved One of the Big Paradoxes About Jupiter’s Atmosphere

There’s a mystery above Jupiter. The planet is five times farther from the sun than Earth is—and yet has similar atmospheric temperatures to our own. So where’s all that extra heat coming from? It turns out, Jupiter may have a second heat source in its Big Red Spot. In a new paper out today in…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

The Dinosaur That Left This Record-Setting Footprint Was an Absolute Beast

A tourist guide working in Bolivia has stumbled upon an enormous dinosaur footprint measuring nearly four feet wide. Experts say it’s one of the largest prints ever found of a carnivorous dinosaur, and a record for South America. The enormous print, located about 40 miles from the Bolivian city of Sucre, was discovered by tourist…

Tech News George Dvorsky

James McAvoy Plays a Terrifying Bad Guy in New M. Night Shyamalan Trailer

In 2015, M. Night Shyamalan released his best film in years, found-footage nightmare The Visit. He returns to a conventional style with Split, which may or may not delve into the supernatural, but definitely flirts with some very weird science. It also has a killer cast; James McAvoy alone gets to play 24 different characters.…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Marvel’s Newest Hulk Isn’t Feeling Totally Awesome Right Now

Two weeks ago, 19-year-old super-genius Amadeus Cho suffered a painful loss, one that shocked readers in a big way. But, when you’re the newest Green Goliath in the Marvel Universe, it means you don’t get to be angry and upset without every other hero watching you suspiciously. It’s primarily understood as sad emotion, but grief…

io9 Evan Narcisse

The Walking Dead Comic Nearly Ended a Lot Sooner Than Anyone Expected

The Walking Dead comic has been around for over a decade now. The behemoth series has yielded over a whopping 156 issues so far, and of course, shambled into alternate mediums with seven seasons of the Walking Dead show. But according to Kirkman, at one point the comic was going to be a lot shorter…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Donald Trump Just Asked Russia to Hack Hillary Clinton’s Emails

During a news conference in Florida today, Donald J. Trump—a man who is running for what is arguably the most powerful job in the world—challenged Russia to hack into opponent Hillary Clinton’s email. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump said, according to the New…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Archer Live! Is Even Funnier Than the Animated Show

Most of Comic-Con is spent either waiting in line or huddled in crowded rooms, so the chance to see a live reading of an Archer episode aboard a yacht docked just behind the convention center was a welcome diversion. The entire cast of FX’s animated secret agent/drug kingpin/private-detective series was there, with special guest Christian…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Man Learns the Hard Way That Selling Meth on a Dating App Is a Bad Idea

Here’s a PSA for anyone who was thinking about selling meth on a dating app: Don’t do it! According to DNAInfo, 55-year-old Harold Gondrez Jr. was arrested on July 21st after police found a “large quantity” of methamphetamine and cocaine in his Manhattan apartment. Officers were tipped off by Gondrez Jr.’s activity on the dating…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

How Will We Know It’s Really Trump Doing His Reddit AMA Tonight?

Donald Trump is doing a Reddit AMA tonight at 7pm ET, 4pm PT. AMA, of course, stands for Ask Me Anything, and people are already filling up the page with questions. But here at Gizmodo we’ve been wondering, how will we know that it’s actually Trump answering the questions? In the past we’ve explored Donald…

Tech News Matt Novak

Divers Just Found a Sweet Tub of Cheese in a 17th-Century Shipwreck

An on-going excavation of a Swedish warship sunk in the 17th century recently yielded quite the haul. The newly found treasure includes gold coins, a diamond ring, and a 340-year-old pot of cheese. Truly, the ocean is full of wonders. The Kronan was a 105-gun battleship sunk in the Baltic Sea in 1676 during a…

Tech News Ria Misra

This Batman Figure Is Wonderfully Gross

Square-Enix’s Play Arts Kai DC figures have turned Batman into all sorts of crazy things—cowboys, a giant robo-dragon, a samurai, the list goes on—but now they’re turning him into his own villains, starting with this wonderful Two-Face mashup. Yes, you can never have enough Batman variants according to Square-Enix, who revealed this past weekend at…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Oh Great, We’re Naming Our Children After Pokémon Now

Pokémon Go has been responsible for a few unseemly things since being released: armed robberies, a murder hoax, car crashes, and sending people towards a nuclear disaster site. Now it’s even ruining future generations. Baby name tracking site Babycenter noticed an alarming uptick in parents saddling their offspring with the names of fictional monsters who…

Tech News Avery Ellis

This Robotic Crawler Helps Babies at Risk for Cerebral Palsy

Robotics and AI often get a bad rap for the whole destroyer of the human race thing. But when you watch a motorized machine help a baby crawl, you can’t help put feel like robots aren’t so bad after all. And that’s exactly the kind of machine that researchers at the University of Oklahoma built.…

Tech News Darren Orf

Catch Up on the History of Classic Games Once Nintendo’s Tiny NES Is Out

Come November, Nintendo will be scratching a lot of nostalgic itches with its miniature NES Classic Edition console that comes pre-installed with 30 retro games. But between catching up on your favorite titles, you can now learn how many of them came to be with a new book that sounds like the perfect sidekick to…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski

The 16 Most Horrible Alternate Realities

It’s 2016, and things are looking pretty grim. As prognosticators of the future, io9 is here to assess the present, and remind everyone that as bad things are, they can always get much, much worse—and they are much, much worse in mirror universes and parallel worlds. Here are 16 alternate realities that make the original…

io9 Gordon Jackson

Virtual 3D Oil Painting Perfectly Simulates How the Brush, Paint, and Canvas Interact

Nvidia and Adobe teamed up to develop a 3D-painting app that is sure to become an essential tool for modern day art forgers. The software accurately simulates the 3D texture of oil paints, and how the bristles of a brush work to smear it across a canvas. If you’ve ever examined an oil painting up…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Badass New Dragon Ants Remind Us Nature Is Cooler Than Fantasy

Legendary Is Turning Time-Twisting Game Series Life Is Strange Into a Digital Series

A Human Lego Minifigure Is All Your Nightmares Come True

The Main Reason Batman v Superman Sucked Isn’t What You Think It Is

Researchers Just Solved One of the Big Paradoxes About Jupiter’s Atmosphere

The Dinosaur That Left This Record-Setting Footprint Was an Absolute Beast

James McAvoy Plays a Terrifying Bad Guy in New M. Night Shyamalan Trailer

Marvel’s Newest Hulk Isn’t Feeling Totally Awesome Right Now

The Walking Dead Comic Nearly Ended a Lot Sooner Than Anyone Expected

Donald Trump Just Asked Russia to Hack Hillary Clinton’s Emails

Archer Live! Is Even Funnier Than the Animated Show

Man Learns the Hard Way That Selling Meth on a Dating App Is a Bad Idea

How Will We Know It’s Really Trump Doing His Reddit AMA Tonight?

Divers Just Found a Sweet Tub of Cheese in a 17th-Century Shipwreck

This Batman Figure Is Wonderfully Gross

Oh Great, We’re Naming Our Children After Pokémon Now

This Robotic Crawler Helps Babies at Risk for Cerebral Palsy

Catch Up on the History of Classic Games Once Nintendo’s Tiny NES Is Out

The 16 Most Horrible Alternate Realities

Virtual 3D Oil Painting Perfectly Simulates How the Brush, Paint, and Canvas Interact

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