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On Sailor Moon Crystal, Sailor Jupiter Is The Worst Flirter Ever

This week’s Sailor Moon Crystal was a little all over the place. Instead of focusing on a single story like the excellent character piece for Sailor Mercury, it tried to be two things at once, never quite hitting highs in either. But it did tell us this: Sailor Jupiter seriously needs to step up her…

Amazing photos of naked people completely covered in honey (NSFW)

Beholdthe amazing photography of Black Little. This outstanding series belong to his latest monograph, called Preservation. It opens today at the Kopeikin Gallery in Culver City, California. If you are in Los Angeles, go see it. If you are not that lucky, you can see how beautiful it looks here [NSFW!] Blake Little is an…

The characters on House of Cards have terrible sleep hygiene. “I’ve been pretty appalled by the Underwoods’ poor sleep habits,” notes science writer Jordan Gaines Lewis on her blog. In observation of Sleep Awareness Week, she lists three simplesleep hygiene rulesthat Frank and Claire would be wise to follow.

Watching uranium emit radiation inside a cloud chamber is mesmerizing

Here’s a really neat, classic experiment that’s always fun to see. When you place uranium inside a cloud chamber, you can see it decay and emit bits of radiation. It’s like seeing little alpha particle torpedoes shooting out in every direction, leaving a trail behind. You can actually do this type of experiment at home…

Black bun fried frog burger looks scary but is probably delicious

Fried frogs can look frighteningly like failed science experiments and imagining eating them might conjure gooey liquid slime down your throat but they’re actually quite enjoyable to eat. So even though this black bun burger looks like it has disgustingly trapped a gross frog, I’m sure it tastes just fine. The burger is being sold…

Android Is Coming to Virtual Reality, WSJ Says

Well, if Google’s small cardboard-based foray into virtual reality last year wasn’t a big enough hint, a new report from the Wall Street Journal says that Google is about to get even more serious about VR—by trying to become the standard OS for headsets everywhere. The WSJ reports that two people “familiar with the situation”…

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

This week we upped our security game, obsessed a bit over smartphones, sequenced the genetic material in an apartment, and literally saw the future of VR. Here’s a look back. Everything We Think The Apple Watch Can Do The Apple Watch is one of the more intriguing pieces of hardware to come out of Cupertino…

What it looks like in the Arctic Circle when the Sun never sets

This time lapse shows what 24 hours of a summer day (and I guess, a summer night) looks like in the Arctic Circle. You can see the Sun rising and setting like it normally does anywhere else but instead of disappearing beyond the horizon as the Earth turns, it pops right back up and the…

What Is The Best Thing To Do When A Grenade Is Thrown At You?

Ideally you’ll never be in the situation in the first place, but let’s say a grenade is being lobbed at your face—what should you do? Dan Rosenthal, a U.S. Infantry veteran, schools us. Hint: unless you’re Captain America, don’t try to throw it back. Presumably if you’re in a place where grenades are getting thrown…

Iditarod Dog Race Moves 225 Miles North In Search Of Snow

After the rocky, injury-plagued, snow-light conditions of last year’s Iditarod Trail Sled DogRace, this year’s even warmer season means the starting line of the race will move 225 miles north. It will still end in Nome, Alaska, but it’ll begin in Fairbanks rather than Anchorage. The Seattle Times reports: A weather pattern that buried the…

What’s the First Thing You Ever Pirated? 

Tell us about your dark past … with downloading and sharing media or software. What’s the first thing you ever pirated? Were you sharing something you’d bought legally, or were you getting something for free? Pirating technology has come a long way since the early Napster days. Our torrent clients are even secretly mining Bitcoin!…

1970, The Year We Accidentally Bombed Mexico (Again)

The United States hasn’t always had a great relationship with Mexico, but in 1970 things were pretty congenial. Then, in July, an Athena rocket went off course with vials of radioactive material. Some say the resulting impact created the “Mapimi Silent Zone.” In 1947, a V-2 rocket, launched into the air by the United States,…

This Is What Lockheed’s New Laser Can Do

Lockheed Martin recently tested its new Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) laser—not to be confused with the Navy’s laser—on the Ford F-150 pictured above. The weapons system hit the truck’s running engine from a mile away. The engine doesn’t run any more. [Lockheed Martin] Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint:…

Windows 93: The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have With an Operating System

A few months ago, a pair of French hackers teased a new project called Windows 93. It was a wonderfully weird web-based operating system, some sort of spoof on Windows 95, packed to the gills with insidery internet jokes. And late last night, the digital artists released the full version. It’s still wonderfully weird, thank…

These Buildings Were All Built Around Trees

Oftentimes – too often, it seems – we clear trees to make way for buildings. These structures turn that expectation on its head; every entry in this collection has been built to accommodate a tree or trees, in surprising and creative ways. The HemLoft Treehouse, designed and constructed by Joel Allen in Whistler, Canada, 2008-2011…

A Vape Hoodie for the Casual Douche 

Do you like to be comfortable? Are you an asshole? Then boy do we have the garment for you. It’s the world’s first vape/hoodie combo, and Fred Durst just bought eight. The grammatically-questionabe vapRwear hoodie is touted as being “discreet” and “inconspicuous,” despite the big, grafitti-esque “vapRwear” printed across the chest. And despite the fact…

Gemini Cell Is A Great Love Story That Deals With The True Cost Of War

Myke Cole’s “military fantasy” Shadow Ops series has been unpredictable all along. In Control Point, he told the origin story. In Fortress Frontier, he narrated a quest, while in Breach Zone, he zoomed in on a single battle. With his latest installment, Gemini Cell, he does something really unexpected: a romance. Some spoilers ahead… Granted,…

This Chunk Of Fool’s Gold Naturally Formed In These Cubes

The golden color and shine of iron pyrite (which is responsible for its nickname, “fool’s gold”) may grab all the attention. But, there is another element of its appearance that is every bit as dramatic: It’s tendency to form into these incredibly precise, almost machine-like cubes.So how does it do it? The question was raised…

If You Want To Rant More Eloquently About Television, Read This Book

We all obsess endlessly about television, but we don’t really understand how those wavy images appear on our screens. Themore we try to demystify the process of making TV, the more mysterious it seems. That’s why it’s great that veteran TV writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach has written an ultimate book of knowledge. Grillo-Marxuach, who created the…

If Comic Heroes and Villains Had Business Cards, They’d Look Like This

Some of these make more sense (“Peter Parker, Photographer, The Daily Bugle”) than others (would Natasha Romanoff really have the need for business cards?), but The Vocations of Heroes & Villains is nonetheless an art print that’s quite fun to look at. Created by (and for sale at, in signed/numbered form) Pop Chart Lab, the…