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DC Will Finally Credit Bill Finger As Co-Creator Of Batman

For decades, DC Comics has resisted crediting Bill Finger as one of the co-creators of Batman in screen adaptations. Following an agreement between the writer’s estate and the company, Finger’s name will appear in the credits of projects such as Gotham and Batman v. Superman. Finger was the writer who worked alongside artist Bob Kane…

Awful Tourists Turned Away Nesting Sea Turtles in Costa Rica

Hundreds of thousands of olive ridley sea turtles came ashore on Ostional Beach to lay their eggs, but thousands of tourists were already there, doing nearly everything you’re not supposed to do around a threatened species attempting to reproduce. Photos show the tourists crowding the shoreline so the turtles would have to crawl through the…

CBS Charts A Course For The Island Of Doctor Moreau

CBS is working on developing a show based on H.G. Wells’ 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, according to Variety. The show, to be named Moreau, comes from Sleepy Hollow co-creator Phillip Iscove. The show will revolve around Dr. Katherine Moreau, who will push “the boundaries of medicine through revolutionary scientific experimentation and treatments…

Anthophobia Is Your Dose Of Weird Horror For Today

I have a real love of Weird Horror fiction – the sort of stories with bizarre and surrealist imagery. Valentin Petit’s new short film, Anthophobia, hits all of the right buttons, and it’s impossible to look away from. The film starts off with a description: anthophobia is a morbid dislike or even fear of flowers.…

Watch the ISS Zoom Over the East Coast

Halfway through a year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly woke up to this amazing view. You’re looking at the east coast of the United States, viewed just before dawn on a clear morning from 249 miles above Earth’s surface. That’s Florida sticking out toward the lower right. In the foreground, you can see the International…

Watch Doctor Who‘s Series 9 Premiere Online For Free 

Shows foreign to the United States are a continual source of frustration due to copyright and licensing restrictions, especially when there’s a long wait time. Fortunately, the latest episode of Doctor Who can be viewed now! BBC America has posted up the latest episode, The Magician’s Apprentice, on their website and on Youtube, without restriction…

The Doctor And His Companion Cross Road To Recreate Album Cover

London’s Abby Road has attracted just about every tourist visiting the city to recreate the iconic Abby Road album cover shot. Earlier this week, the Doctor decided to stop by and follow in the Beatles footsteps. It’s a nice homage: they even got a cab and a Volkswagon Beetle in the original spot, and it…

You Can Print Your Own Homo Naledi Specimens

If you’re excited about last week’s announcement of a new human-like species discovered in South Africa, you can get your hands on the specimens — sort of. You can print your own 3D replicas of Homo naledi and several other important hominin finds. Anthropologist Lee Berger and his colleagues found 91 specimens, which they say…

Pixar’s SadLab Is Why You Cried So Hard During Inside Out

Internet Comedians Above Average have discovered the secret behind why each of Pixar’s films are a tearjerker: a cutting edge Sad lab that looks into all the best ways to make people cry. It makes total, perfect sense to me: Pixar’s films are notorious for pulling on your heartstrings, and we’re not going to rule…

Ernie Hudson Joins Ghostbusters On The Last Day Of Shooting

Ghostbusters wrapped its shoot yesterday and was joined by one of the remaining actors from the original movies: Ernie Hudson! Director Paul Feid tweeted out the news yesterday: Hudson, writing on his own twitter account, seemed pretty excited to be included: Hudson joined Dan Akroyd and Bill Murray for a cameo. No word yet on…

Meet The Crew Of Ares 3 In The Martian‘s Official Mission Guide

For each mission, NASA does a considerable amount of work publicizing their efforts to bring awareness of their mission to the general public. The same would be true for a manned Mars Mission, as the official Mission Guide for The Martian demonstrates. The guide looks like a slick magazine with a whole bunch of facts…

Doctor Who Shows Us The Doctor’s Arch-Enemies In A Whole New Light

Tonight’s Doctor Who season premiere is all about two of the show’s most iconic villains. We (and the Doctor) see them in a new light, and it’s enough to make you wonder if the show’s endless battle against evil is actually something more complicated. And if so, what does that mean for our hero, the…

New Satellite Images Show Just How Parched the Ground Is

It’s been a hot, thirsty, fire-ridden summer out West. But to really understand the severity of the drought, we need to look beneath the parched vegetation and deep into the ground. Spoilers: It’s looking awfully dry down there. That’s according to NASA’s latest series of soil and groundwater moisture maps, which pull together data from…

A Campaign to Bring Back Accent Marks is Sweeping the Internet

Internet shorthand is ubiquitous, but in our desire to get words out quickly, meaning can be muddled or lost. Case in point: Accent marks, one of the foremost linguistic casualties of the digital age. Now, defenders of the Spanish language are trying to bring the neglected markings back. Spanish speakers often replace simple accented words,…

In a settlement with California, Comcast will shell out $33 million in restitution fees for disclosing the personal information of about 75,000 customers who had paid for unlisted service. The confidential data was released online and made available via nationwide directory assistance. Thanks, Comcast. [Reuters]

This is the Best Footage Yet of an Exoplanet Orbiting its Star

And…it’s literally six seconds of pixelated blob. But before you laugh, know this: Capturing that planetary transit you just witnessed was no easy task. You’re looking at Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant ten to twelve times the mass of Jupiter that orbits a star over 60 light years away. That’s 3.527 × 1014 miles…

Let’s Assemble The Best Retro Geek Playlist To Rock Out To This Weekend!

I really love putting together playlists – my iTunes player has a ton of them, and I’m always tinkering with what I’m listening to. This weekend, let’s put together a playlist of videos that remind you of gaming in the 198s0/1990s. Think music that would have accompanied late night arcade runs, D&D gaming sessions, or…

It doesn’t take a lot to crash Chrome: Only sixteen characters. Just type (http://a/%%30%30) into a Chrome 45 or older address bar, hit enter or hover your cursor over the link to crash your browser. Or, you know, don’t. But you’ve officially been warned. [VB News]

What’s the One Device You Need to Survive the Apocalypse?

The zombie horde is coming. The pandemic is spreading. An EMP just fried the grid. One way or another, you need to get out of this soon-to-be-godforsaken city. You gaze forlornly at your glorious pile of technology, knowing you’ve gotta make a hard choice about what to bring. All week at Gizmodo, we’ve been exploring…

Scientists Have Drafted a Complete Tree of Life 

Humans, bacteria, daffodils: We’re a diverse bunch on the surface, but trace each and every Earthling back far enough, and you’ll arrive at a common ancestor. For the first time, scientists have built a comprehensive tree of life that binds us all together. A draft of the One Tree, published Friday in the Proceedings of…