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NASA’s Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Is Back From The Dead!

After an almost year-long hiatus, NASA’s prolific Kepler mission is back in business. The Agency announced today that the K2 mission to revive the defunct telescope has been approved! https://gizmodo.com/keplers-latest-exoplanet-hoard-graphed-1534690734 http://space.io9.com/kepler-is-a-planet-hunting-powerhouse-1543642014/+riamisra Above: Artist’s concept of the K2 mission, showing the telescope in two-wheel operation mode while observing in the ecliptic. Credit: NASA/W. Stenzel One year…

How to Fight the Battle for Net Neutrality

It’s game time, people. After months—some might say years—of contentious deliberation, the FCC is moving forward with a set of open internet rules that basically destroys net neutrality as we know it. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The real deliberation begins now. While folks on both sides of the debate have speculated…

Interstellar may be the first movie that shows realistic warp travel

At last we got to see the full trailer for Chris Nolan’s Insterstellar. The drama seems centered around a worldwide food crisis fired by climate change and resource depletion—a quite probable future. The space travel part seems equally plausible, showing what may be the first realistic depiction of a real warp drive. Of course, warp…

Coolest Dad Ever Cooks Pancakes That Look Like Cephalopods

It’s seafood for breakfast in the home of Nathan Shields. Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and even a few extinct critters have found their way onto his kids’ breakfast plates. It’s an adventure in taxonomy and cookery, all at once! Shields isn’t the only creator of scientific deliciousness. There are some space pancakes, too. The only question…

This Is the Bike Tech of the Future (And Soon It Could Be Yours)

A bike painted with a coating that glows at night! Wheels that charge your phone! Rims that turn your bike into a moving rave! Be prepared to have your mind blown at Gizmodo’s Commuters of the Future Bike Event on May 18—where inventors and designers will be demoing awesome cycling tech (you could even win…

Southern California Fires Demand New Techniques in Fire Science

The fires in Southern California are genuinely different than in the rest of the United States, breaking the well-established rules of fire control developed elsewhere in the country. Research into what makes these fires so different is critical to more effective firefighting. Fires in Escondido, California on Thursday May 15, 2014. Image credit: Gregory Bull/AP…

How We Brewed the Beer of the Future

It’s time for the final chapter in the story of our collaboration with Sixpoint to make Hop Tech 431, the beer of the future. First, we found an experimental hop and we designed a brand-new recipe, then we trained a swarm of autonomous robots to do the brewing. Just kidding. Instead, we brewed it the…

12 Happy Accidents that Helped Save Science Fiction

Science fiction history is full of strange occurrences, and it’s easy to imagine some wild alternate histories of the genre. And without some bolts from the blue, science fiction could have turned into something way less interesting. Here are 12 happy accidents that helped save science fiction. Top image: Martian Chronicles, art by Meinert Hansen.…

Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery, Green Arrow Vol. 4, Free Amazon Coins

90 minutes of deleted scenes! One of television’s best, and one of my favorite shows ever finally gets the awesome package it deserves with Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery. Pre-order to save (at least) $40. Ships July 29. [Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery, $91] pre-order and save on Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which has been…

An Anti-Kidnapping Watch Band Hides the Tools You’ll Need to Escape

The odds of the average citizen getting kidnapped are pretty low, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be prepared for such a scenario. This $20 anti-kidnapping band that attaches to any watch strap should appeal to the well-prepared and paranoid alike, since it hides a set of basic tools for escaping from handcuffs, rope, tip…

This Rube Goldberg Device Puts A Human Inside the Machine

Every year, students from across the U.S. compete in Purdue University’s Rube Goldberg Machine contest. This year’s winners were invited to Jimmy Kimmel Live to present their 75-step zipper-zipping contraption – the first Rube Goldberg Machine in the competition’s 31-year history to put a human inside the machine. [JKL]

Godzilla trailer’s audio track matches Jurassic Park perfectly

The Awesomer found this masterful mashup by Zach Prewitt using the entire audio track from the new Godzilla trailer to create an entirely new trailer for Jurassic Park. Everything matches perfectly, which shows the magic of good editing—and perhaps the fact that most movies nowadays are cookie-cutter films at heart. SPLOID is a new blog…

This seems like the hardest way to make an animated GIF

Street artist INSA mixes graffiti and animation and calls it GIF-iti. He thinks big and doesn’t shirk, producing multiple super sized wall filling works which he digitises and repeatedly overpaints, rendering the results. Street art is by its nature temporal but INSA’s work will last forever—or at least until they pull the plug on the…

You Can Wheelie Indoors on the Electric Motorcycle of the Future

Gizmodo just took delivery of a Zero SR electric motorcycle for our Home of the Future. It’s fast. It’s beautiful. And with no exhaust fumes to worry about, you can even ride it indoors. In the future, you can pop sweet wheelies anywhere you want. https://gizmodo.com/save-the-date-for-the-gizmodo-home-of-the-future-1567214872 No kidding: when Zach Schieffelin from Brooklyn’s Carbon Negative…

Adidas Is Letting You Make Instagram Shoes Because Everything’s Terrible

Looking at every meal, snowflake, and sunset through a sepia-toned screen is nice, sure, but you’re going to run out of battery at some point. Now, thanks to Adidas, you’ll never have to spend another Kelvin-free minute again—just look down. A new teaser ad has popped up on Instagram to announce the adidas Photo Print…

New Pilots From Regular Show Writers Are Fantastic

Cartoon Network pulled a sneaky move by releasing two new pilots from Regular Show staff members without much fanfare, but these require your attention right away. AJ’s Infinite Summer is the story of AJ and his two best friends (who are a couple), goofing off all summer. If it sounds simple, that’s because it is.…

Should we get rid of expiration dates? A new proposal set to go before the agricultural ministers of the EU next week says this would reduce food waste. Reuters got a look at the proposal, which points out that almost half of the food on grocery shelves is tossed out, unused.

Even More Free Android App Credit, GoPros, Dashcam, Cosmos

Yesterday, we showed you a way to get $20 in Amazon App Store coins with the purchase of GTA San Andreas for $7. But today, Amazon’s gone even further off the deep end with $9 of free Amazon Coins just for downloading nine free photo editing apps (listed below). The apps are normally paid, and…

The First Full-Length Interstellar Trailer Is Spectacular

We’ve been excited about Christopher Nolan’s new epic, Interstellar, for some time. But the arrival of a brand new trailer, revealing an emotional Matthew McConaughey preparing to save us Earthlings from imminent starvation, is still thrilling. It’s like the Great Depression meets 2001: A Space Odyssey—in a good way. https://gizmodo.com/interstellar-trailer-a-brief-history-of-flying-1483329080

Vader At The Bat

Japan pro-baseball’s Pacific League produced commercials commemorating a Star Wars Day match-up between the Eagles and Hawks. Though the outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Imperial nine that day, the Dark Lord of the Sith came through with a home run — albeit with disastrous results. Via AOL News Japan and RocketNews24.