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Watching this stunning kinetic chandelier move is like seeing magic

This is so cool. The Leningrad Center in St. Petersburg has this awesome kinetic chandelier hanging from its ceiling that can move and change the color of its 1089 lights to basically bend the concept of reality. It’s so fun to watch the lights work in concert to create mesmerizing patterns. Just check out some…

The Most Accurate Simulations Yet Of Massive Black Holes Merging

By applying the rules of Einsteinian general relativity to data pulled in by the Pan-STARRS telescope, scientist have developed two distinct simulations of supermassive black hole mergers that are considered the best yet. As reported in Nature News, these simulations were presented earlier this month at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore,…

Everything You Need to Know to Catch This Week’s Lyrid Meteor Shower

This year’s Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak between midnight and dawn on Wednesday, April 22 and Thursday, April 23rd. Here’s what you need to know to spot as many meteors as possible. Above: The 2012 Lyrid meteor shower, as seen from aboard the International Space Station. The flashes of white light are emanating…

We Saw 12 Minutes Of Terminator Genisys, Featuring Bizarro John Connor

We’ve seen a whole mess of footage from Terminator: Genisys. The good news is, the footage looks a lot better than what we’ve seen so far in the trailers, and this new bizarro John Connor is fun. The bad news? The complications of the rebooting this franchise look really intense. Spoilers ahead… Arnold Schwarzenegger took…

This Classy Iron Man Figure Looks Insanely Good

Last year, Ashley Wood’s radically different Invincible Iron Man figures made their grand début — but now the figure is back with a new, shiny White edition, and it’s still just as awesome and unique as it was the first time. You might draw some similarities to Wood’s equally wacky Doctor Doom figure revealed late…

10 Unbelivable But Real Architecture Photos From Major US Cities

You may think you know what a city looks like, but you’ve never seen them like this. Serbian photographer Nikola Olic lives and works in Dallas, and turns the sprawling cities of the United States into gorgeous abstractions that will trick your eyes. Olic has been recently “focusing on architectural photography and abstract structural quotes…

Harbinger And Bloodshot Lead Valiant Comics’ First Five Movies

The Valiant Comic Cinematic Universe took its first major step today as Sony Pictures announced a five-movie deal to bring the publisher’s heroes to life. First up: Two movies based on the X-Men-esque series Harbinger, two about the nanotech-infused assassin Bloodshot, and Harbinger Wars, a movie to combine them. Here’s the personnel we know so…

Meet the Futurist Politicians Who Want Free Education and Free Internet

The day is coming when designer babies are the norm, space travel is available to everyone, and robots have personhood and even pay taxes. It may not be coming soon, but a number of futurist political parties have emerged in the last few years to make sure we’re ready when it does. The fledgling parties…

From Metropolis To Ex Machina: Why Are So Many Robots Female?

The new movie Ex Machina has been pushing people’s buttons. It features a seemingly vulnerable robot named Ava, who’s as beautiful as she is mysterious. But Ava’s just the latest in a long line of artificial seductresses, girlfriends and mothers. Why are so many thinking machines female? Top image: All is Full of Love by…

There’s A Galaxy Quest TV Show In The Works

Because everything you ever loved is coming back again (except Firefly), the 1999 comedy Galaxy Quest may be getting a second life, this time as a TV series. So who gets to play ersatz Captain Kirk this time? Details are scant, but Deadline is reporting that Paramount has a Galaxy Quest series in development. It’s…

Peter Pan Origin Tale Pan Gets Its Release Date Pushed Back

Joe Wright’s Peter Pan prequel has been moved from a summer release date to October 9, 2015. Which is probably for the best, since the summer movie season is pretty cluttered. Pan, starring Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard, Garrett Hedlund as James Hook, Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily, Levi Miller as Peter Pan, and Amanda Seyfried…

This Week In Comics: The New Space Adventure Comic You MUST Read!

This week, Kaptara, a zany space adventure that we are very excited about, begins! There’s another batch of DC’s Convergence titles, and Marvel hyping up Age of Ultron via comics. But that’s not all for this week — there’s the escapades of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, and a comic about a sentient, foul-mouthed gun!…

How a Forensic Scientist Uses Dirt to Solve Murders 

Stuck to the bottom of your shoe is humble dirt that gives away where you’ve been and what you’ve been up to. It’s up to science to figure out it out. Nature has a fascinating profile of forensic geologist Lorna Dawson, who has used soil to solve decades-old cold cases. Okay, so CSI: Soil probably…

All the pepperoni that the US eats a year can circle the earth 50 times

Here’s a shocking number that speaks to the USA’s love for meat (and pizza): we eat so much pepperoni per year that if you put the slices side-by-side, they could circle the Earth 50 times over. The fact bit comes from Bill Gates look at Vaclav Smil’s interesting book Should We Eat Meat?. That’s, uh,…

“How Do I Find Porn?” Tell Us Your Nightmare Tales Of IT Support Calls

Telephones! For talking! They’re terrible, antiquated technology I hope we abandon someday to psychic brain implants. But phone assistance is still mandatory, especially in IT and tech support, and we know some of you have had to field ‘em. Give us your pain, your outrage, your unbridled hilarity. Gizmodo commenter NotYeezus kicks us off right:…

Large-Scale Study Confirms: Still No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism

The study, the results of which are published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, involved a cohort of nearly 100,000 children, and is the latest in a long line of research that shows no link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism spectrum disorders. Above: Luke Tanner, 7, receives the combined Measles Mumps…

What It Was Like to Work at the Birthplace of Cellphones and Lasers

A semi-rural New Jersey community about 45 miles outside of New York City seems like an unlikely home for the most important breakthroughs in telecommunications of the 20th century. But that’s exactly what happened at Bell Labs’ Holmdel facility in the 1960s. https://gizmodo.com/inside-bell-labs-where-the-future-is-being-built-1561723432 Holmdel was built by the legendary Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in 1962—inside,…

Video: Imagining how beautiful cities would look without light pollution

It’s easy to remember how big the universe is when you can just stare up at the night sky and find an uncountable number of stars and see every color of the cosmos staring right back at you. But it’s not like that anymore. Now we’re surrounded by city lights of our own creation and…

Is There A Mirror Universe?

Could there be a mirror universe, where everything is backwards – and everybody has goatees? How badly do you need to bend the laws of physics to make this happen? One of the great mysteries in cosmology is why the Universe is mostly matter and not antimatter. (If you want to learn more about that…

Japan’s maglev train has once again broken the world speed record. The seven-car train reached a top speed of 375 mph (603 km/h) Tuesday, breaking its own record that was set just days earlier. The “magnetic train” hovers above the tracks and is propelled by electrically charged magnets. The challenge now will be in building…