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Repairmen Show Up At A Mad Science Lab The Night The Experiments Escape

Tessa Stone’s violently funny webcomic really does have the perfect title: Not Drunk Enough. Because that’s certainly how repairman Logan feels when he and a coworker show up to a corporate lab for what should be a simple job — and find the place overrun by nightmarish monsters. In fairness, Logan’s night wasn’t going well…

Japan Plans to Explore Martian Moons With Asteroid-Probing Tech

Countries are scrambling to get to Mars in a good ol’ fashioned space race. But focus might be shifting to the red planet’s two moons. According to reports, Japan announced plans yesterday to bring its asteroid-probing technology to the tiny Martian satellites. JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, says it wants to scope out Phobos…

Alec Guinness Stars In The Best Science Fiction Movie You’ve Never Seen

No, not Star Wars. A full quarter century before he played Obi-Wan Kenobi, Alec Guinness starred in one of the purest, most science-focused science fiction films ever made. The Man in the White Suit is about scientific progress, and the law of unintended consequences, and it’s brilliant. The Man in the White Suit is an…

The Synchronous Fireflies Of The Smokies Are A Sight Unlike Any Other

Earlier this month, I visited the Smoky Mountain National Park in hopes of capturing the annual firefly “light show” on camera — but it took some seriously creative thinking to make it happen. Above: At the lower left-hand corner of my image, a female firefly seems to be rhythmically flashing while walking around a single…

One Big List of the New Privacy and Security Features in iOS 9

As Apple had its annual celebration of its own awesomeness, I tuned in to see how Apple’s new operating system will provide better security and privacy to its users. Apple “cares about privacy” During the Keynote, Craig Federighi has made it really clear that Apple “seriously don’t want to know [your personal information]”. This has…

Is the New Power Rangers Movie Trying to Be Absurdly Gritty?

The villain of the Power Rangers reboot movie may have been revealed. This comes from an unconfirmed source, but if it’s true, it may indicate that the filmmakers may be trying to take the Mighty Morphin heroes to a darker place — and even if it’s not true, it’s hilarious. So according to Heroic Hollywood,…

In Mice, A Hormonal Switch Turns Off The Smell of Sex

Imagine that you could only smell food when you were hungry. Walk into a bakery after a full meal, and the tempting smells of chocolate, caramelized sugar, and baking dough would be absent. Your nose would only turn those smells back on after your stomach emptied. It’d be great for your diet. Now imagine that…

EPA To Establish Rules For Airplane Emissions

The New York Times reports the Environmental Protection Agency will soon establish emissions rules for airplanes, as it has for motor vehicles and power plants, to limit airlines’ contributions to global warming. The announcement represents the latest of Mr. Obama’s major initiatives to combat global warming. Next week, the agency is expected to propose new…

Scientists Have Figured Out the Perfect Way To Build a Fire

Grab your s’mores fixin’s because a professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University believes he figured out how to build and engineer the perfect fire that burns with the maximum amount of heat as possible. But here’s the real interesting part: it turns out that humans have already known the ideal shape for a fire—a…

A Scientist Responds… To Deep Impact

In our new series, A Scientist Responds, we’re dredging up the great and terrible disaster flicks of days past—and we’re making scientists watch them. Today’s movie: 1998’s asteroid thriller, Deep Impact. The scientist: io9’s resident geophysicist, Mika McKinnon. The Movie: Deep Impact Deep Impact is a tale of comets, politics, total destruction, and the increasingly…

Prelude to a Robot Uprising

Gizmodo visits the the DARPA Robotics Challenge in California for a glimpse of the future.

Fall Asleep to Music on iOS

Sure, iOS 9 is stealing all the headlines right now, but there’s a good three months until we’re going to be able to get our fingers on it, and in the meantime there’s plenty of usefulness in existing versions of iOS. Today’s tip from the ‘you-might-not-have-known-this’ drawer is falling asleep with iOS playing the soothing…

Marriott Makes Locking Yourself In Your Room Less Boring With Netflix

Marriott just hatched a deal with Netflix to make your streaming account accessible from its hotel room. Forget boring channels! You’ve got House of Cards. It’s pretty simple. In the Marriott TV interface, you’ll have the option to watch “internet TV.” You’ll need to login to use the service, but if you’re not a member,…

A Humidifying Toaster Ensures Breakfast Isn’t a Dried-Out Disappointment

Did you know that you’ve been toasting bread wrong all this time? Well, maybe not wrong, but vastly inferior to how Balmuda’s new humidifying toaster oven can do it. The intelligent appliance ensures your toast comes out not only perfectly browned on both sides, but also still soft and fluffy on the inside. But don’t…

First Look At The Animal Heroes Of Disney’s Next Animated Movie Zootopia

We’ve seen two-dimensional artwork from Disney Animation’s next feature Zootopia, but now we’re finally getting a look at the mismatched pair of critters at the heart of the film. Meet Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), a con-artist fox, and Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin), a rookie rabbit cop hoping to crack a major case. USA Today snagged…

Video: Sushi food porn is always the best food porn

We learned from watching Jiro that sushi is perhaps the most visually arresting type of food you can capture on film. The colors, the details, the process, the simplicity and complexity of it all makes for salivating footage that can make your eyes hungrier than you’ve ever felt. Here’s more food porn of sushi from…

This Sensational Murder Case Spurred The UK To Outlaw Capital Punishment

Ruth Ellis had a difficult life leading up to the night she shot her on-and-off boyfriend, David Blakely, in 1955. Variously described as a “model” and “nightclub hostess,” she was literally apprehended holding a smoking gun, and refused to alter her bleached-blonde locks to make a good impression during her trial. Though she confessed to…

10 Animal-Plant Mash-Ups That Would Be Unstoppable Killers

If we can mash-up a tarantula with a volcano (in fiction, at least) we should be able to combine animals and plants into terrifyingly deadly combinations. Let’s look at animal-plant hybrids that would leave the world awash in blood and wonder. 10) The Bearungus Say what you will about grizzly bears, you generally know whether…

A Glimpse at What the Hyperloop Might Actually Be Like

What we know about the Hyperloop thus far can be summed up in a few exclamatory phrases: It’s visionary! It’s crazy! It’s impossible! But we haven’t really understood much about how Elon Musk’s totally tubular transportation system might actually work—until now. These Hyperloop imaginings come to us as the final project of Suprastudio, a masters-level…