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Taylor Swift’s New Video Is A Better Fairytale Movie Than Maleficent and Mirror Mirror Put Together

Seriously, Hollywood keeps making weird-ass fairytale movies. And they really ought to take a note from this insane new Taylor Swift video for “Out of the Woods,” which does for fairytales what her “Bad Blood” vid did for action movies. I can’t wait to see all of the GIFs that people make from this video.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Get It On in Our New Year’s Eve Distributed Party

Welcome to the future! The past? Timezones are confusing. It’s 2016 somewhere, so come join the party. What are you futuristic hopes and dreams for the coming year? What are you happy to leave behind? Grab a drink, pull up a keyboard, and join the New Year’s Eve open channel. And can someone get these…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

New Year’s Evil is the Sleazy Slasher Classic You Should Be Watching Right Now

New Year’s Evil is a 1980 slasher film from B-movie gods Golan-Globus; it stars Roz Kelly—a.k.a. Fonzie’s girlfriend, Pinky Tuscadero, on Happy Days—as Blaze, “the first lady of rock.” It’s about a prank-calling killer who menaces Blaze as she hosts a live music show (which has an on-stage phone bank) for NYE. “I’M GOING TO…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Welcome to the Modern-Day Space Race

Between competing government space agencies, commercial enterprises, humans, and robots, we have one very odd space race going on. Here’s the highs and lows of exploration for 2015! Even Akatsuki’s first-light instrument tests are producing new data on Venus. Image credit: JAXA Epic Win for Japan: Recovering a Wayward Venus Orbiter The Japanese Space Agency…

Space & Spaceflight Mika McKinnon

Here Are Our Favorite Gizmodo Stories From 2015

Drones and Apple Watches. Lost planets and lurking chaos. The truth about dogs and cats. Star Wars—lots of Star Wars. Behold, our favorite stories from the past 364 days. We asked all the Gizmodo contributors to send along their favorite story from 2015. (If they were too humble to comply, we picked our favorites.) These…

Tech News Gizmodo Staff

One Rocket, Slightly Used but Ready to Fly Again!

Wait a minute…. Did Elon Musk just hint SpaceX will fly its victorious Falcon 9 rocket a second time?! We knew reusability was the long-term plan, but if they pull it off on the first attempt it’ll bump their celebrations up to a whole new level. We were all impressed when SpaceX literally landed spot-on…

Space & Spaceflight Mika McKinnon

Someday Scientists Could Reprogram Carpenter Ants To Do Our Bidding

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to modify the behavior of carpenter ants using epigenetics—the science of how a gene gets turned into a physical body part or a character trait. They reported their findings last week in the journal Science. Are you ready to be a Beastmaster? Camponotus floridanus —…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

Japanese Physicists Win Naming Rights for Element 113

Japanese particle physicists just received a welcome New Year’s gift: they won the right to name the superheavy element they spent a dozen years trying to create in an accelerator laboratory. Added bonus: it’s the first time a team of Asian physicists has had the honor of naming a new element. They beat out a…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

The Childhood’s End Miniseries Has Given Us Some Utterly Superb Spaceship Art

Syfy’s ambitious miniseries based on Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End served up some beautiful spaceship visuals. Including the alien mothership, which looks striking and angelic. Concept artist Ben Mauro shared with us some of his beautiful Childhood’s End spaceship designs. First off, Mauro went through an “early design exploration” phase, which was “quick, dirty and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

They Use Every Part of the Creature

When the giant sea beasts beach themselves, everyone scavenges whatever they can—meat, teeth, skin. And the remaining carcass becomes shelter. This is “Empty Chest” by Mateusz Ozminski (artozi on deviantArt), who made this particular bit of art for as a thirty minute sketch for the Daily Spitpaint Facebook group. Contact the author at [email protected].

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

The Very Best in Bears for 2015

This was an adorable year for the bearcam in Katmai National Park. Here’s our ten favorite moments of coastal brown bears catching salmon, playing with their cubs, sleepily lazing the day away, and frolicking through the Alaskan wilderness in 2015. Katmai National Park, Alaska is home to approximately 2,200 bears. Many of these coastal brown…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Madame Wu and the Holiday Experiment That Changed Physics Forever

While most of us will ring in the new year with family and friends, science doesn’t take a holiday. And neither do the scientists responsible for big ongoing experiments. One of the more famous historical examples of this is the case of physicist Chien-Shiung Wu—often referred to as “Madame Wu”—who gave up vacationing with her…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

What Was The Most Tragic Disappointment of 2015?

This was a pretty good year for pop culture, but there were some terrible misfires along the way. Including some stuff that we’d all had high hopes for. But what was the biggest pop-culture letdown of the year for you? Please include a picture, poster, clip, book cover, comics panel or other illustration for your…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Books About Artificial Intelligence That You MUST Read, According to Ex Machina‘s Alex Garland

Ex Machina remains a strong contender for the best science fiction film of 2015. It’s jam-packed with ideas along with all that psychosexual weirdness. And now at last, writer-director Alex Garland has unpacked where some of those ideas come from. In case you missed it, Ex Machina is a film where Poe Dameron invites General…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s Why Researchers are Pushing for a New Safer Strain of Polio

Thanks to the miracle of vaccines, we’re close to wiping out the polio virus. But that very success brings its own set of fresh challenges. We need some safe form of the virus in order to keep manufacturing vaccines, but those are in short supply the closer we come to eradicating polio entirely. Now a…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

These Are Our Favorite Earth Images of 2015

With astronauts becoming bonafide Instagram celebrities and new high-tech satellites blasting into orbit, it was a tremendous year for planetary imagery. From the Bahamas to the Sahara to the far side of the Moon, our Blue Marble never ceased to dazzle us. There was too much great Earth art this year to include it all,…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Aww Yeah, the James Webb Space Telescope Has Half Its Mirrors!

What better way to spend the holidays than watching NASA technicians scurry around assembling mirror segments on the James Webb Space Telescope? With the 9th of 18 segments installed last week, we’re that much closer to hunting for signs of life on alien worlds and making our universe a little less lonely. A third of…

Space & Spaceflight Mika McKinnon

Bats Respond to Too Much Noise the Same Way Children Do

Bats find their way around at night by emitting noise and listening to the way it bounces back to them. But since bats often congregate in large groups, how do they keep from losing their own signal in the din? A new study found that they do this much in the same way children do:…

Biology Esther Inglis-Arkell

Ponder the Physics of Chocolate Fountains During Your New Year’s Revels

New Year’s revelers will be heading out to all kinds of parties tonight, and chances are a good percentage will be tempted by the presence of a chocolate fountain—just a teensy bit of indulgence before those resolutions kick in. Perhaps those with a scientific bent could find themselves pondering, just for a moment, the complicated…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

This Is What an Entire Day Where the Sun Doesn’t Set Looks Like

While we’re wrapping up winter, Antarctica is getting fully into the swing of summer—and there that can mean an entire day of sunlight. Here’s what that looks like. The above panoramic image was stitched together from the ESA’s Concordia research base in Antarctica by a visiting U.K. physician, Eoin Macdonald-Nethercott. During antarctic winter, areas can…

Tech News Ria Misra

Taylor Swift’s New Video Is A Better Fairytale Movie Than Maleficent and Mirror Mirror Put Together

Get It On in Our New Year’s Eve Distributed Party

New Year’s Evil is the Sleazy Slasher Classic You Should Be Watching Right Now

Welcome to the Modern-Day Space Race

Here Are Our Favorite Gizmodo Stories From 2015

One Rocket, Slightly Used but Ready to Fly Again!

Someday Scientists Could Reprogram Carpenter Ants To Do Our Bidding

Japanese Physicists Win Naming Rights for Element 113

The Childhood’s End Miniseries Has Given Us Some Utterly Superb Spaceship Art

They Use Every Part of the Creature

The Very Best in Bears for 2015

Madame Wu and the Holiday Experiment That Changed Physics Forever

What Was The Most Tragic Disappointment of 2015?

The Books About Artificial Intelligence That You MUST Read, According to Ex Machina‘s Alex Garland

Here’s Why Researchers are Pushing for a New Safer Strain of Polio

These Are Our Favorite Earth Images of 2015

Aww Yeah, the James Webb Space Telescope Has Half Its Mirrors!

Bats Respond to Too Much Noise the Same Way Children Do

Ponder the Physics of Chocolate Fountains During Your New Year’s Revels

This Is What an Entire Day Where the Sun Doesn’t Set Looks Like

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