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When Science and Archaeological Conspiracy Theories Collide

There’s no doubt that technology has changed the field of archaeology in profound ways. New tools have taken archaeologists to places they couldn’t go before and opened the door to countless new discoveries. They’ve also shed some light on some of the—err—more creative interpretations of artifacts. Let’s just go ahead and call them what they…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

These guys and their crazy machine may save Humanity’s history one day

Hundreds of thousands of historical buildings have been destroyed by natural or human-caused disasters, which is why an organization called CyArk is scanning ancient landmarks all over the world in 3D. If someday something bad happens to them, we will be able to fix them with millimetric precision. Or at least have a digital copy…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Take a video tour inside Guillermo del Toro’s spooky house

If we could take a guided tour of one person’s home, the answer would always be Guillermo del Toro. And now we can. Back in 2009 GDT gave us a glimpse into his amazing workshop full of supernatural goodies and movie, TV and comic book memorabilia via Wired Magazine. But there’s an even more elaborate…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Finally, a Sofa That Puts Your Building Block Skills To Good Use

Unless you grew up to become an architect, you’re probably wondering if you wasted your toddler years playing with blocks when you could’ve been learning more valuable skills. But worry not—thanks to designer Scott Jones, anyone can put their longstanding block skills to good use with this lovely modular Bloc’d Sofa, which can be rearranged…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Incredible 3D Scans of Castles, Churches, and Even Mt. Rushmore

A laser first developed in the early 1990s to survey complex architectural structures in the petrochemical and nuclear industries is now being leveraged to preserve at-risk monuments— at least in digital form. The laser sits atop a standard tripod, where it spins around sending out tens of thousands of pulses of light per second. Based…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

CyArk Wants to Digitally Preserve 500 Heritage Sites In Just Five Years

Imagine creating a 3D digital archive of 500 of the world’s most at-risk heritage sites, preserved in virtual reality so that future generations can explore them in detail for centuries to come. That’s exactly what the CyArk 500 Challenge hopes to achieve—and it’s set itself the ambitious target of doing it in just five years.…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Finally, a functional flying car that actually looks pretty cool

People complain that we still don’t have flying cars, but that’s not entirely true. There’s the Terrafugia Transition, but it looks like a piece of crap — a plane that we’re supposed to believe is car. Thankfully we now have the Aeromobil Roadable Aircraft — a sexy Slovak-designed car that just made its first flight.…

io9 George Dvorsky

Heineken’s Countertop Sub Chills Beer Colder Than Your Fridge Can

Our kitchens have become a warzone for beverage makers battling to get their drink dispensing appliances on our counters. Pod-based coffeemakers and soda carbonators have taken an early lead, but now Heineken’s decided to enter the fray with a sleek beer dispenser called The Sub that promises to chill your suds to two degrees celsius—or…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

What color is an orgasm?

People with a condition known as synesthesia are prone to swapping their senses. They can feel colors, see music, and smell words. This raises an important question for science: What’s it like to have sex when you’ve got synesthesia? Thanks to some inquisitive researchers, we have the answer. Top photo by Tambako the Jaguar via…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Google Now Offers Free DDoS Protection

Google’s waving its pro-internet freedom flag again, launching a suite of anti-hacker software intended to help human rights and elections-related websites in vulnerable regions. It’s a nice thought, even if there’s a catch. The new program is called Project Shield (yes, like the TV show and the game controller) and aims to protect websites from…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Shedding tears of sadness could save your life

Humans are the only animals who shed tears during times of emotional distress. The reasons why have long been a mystery to science, but there are some fascinating ideas about how crying could be a survival technique for social creatures like ourselves. When adults cry, it’s usually very different from the crying of babies. Babies…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Scientists Just Took a Huge Step Towards Curing Baldness

Hair plugs, comb overs and toupées beware; a team of researchers from Columbia has developed a way to induce new human hair growth for the first time ever. It’s not just the fact that they can just grow hair that’s so exciting, though. It’s that they can grow your hair. The technique centers on the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This scientist with awesome hair found a method to cure baldness

The woman with the awesome hair is Dr. Angela Christiano—a dermatology researcher at Columbia University’s Medical Center. Together with her colleagues, she has discovered a way to cure baldness on mice, as described in a new research paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper—titled Microenvironmental reprogramming by three-dimensional…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Beneath the Streets, Lost Cities

State-sponsored freeway construction can be a pain for commuters whose daily routines are upended by constant building and maintenance, but roadwork can also be a source of unexpected archaeological discovery. In California, every project approved by the state begins with a detailed look at the distant past of any future route, looking deep into a…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

A Secret Opera Erupts Inside California’s Biggest Train Depot

Headphones are part of daily life at train stations, an urban necessity used by commuters to drown out the flurry of action around them. But the other night at Union Station in Los Angeles, as I watched a woman crawl across the top of an information booth while a man’s voice from another room whispered…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The bizarre theory that predicted a new state of matter

You may have heard of the Bose-Einstein Condensate because it is one of the states of matter. Like gas, liquid, or solid, it has its own properties. Predicted by a maverick physicist back in the early twentieth century, it was only proven to exist in 1995. And it’s pretty damn weird. You undoubtedly know one…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This video of a Lego fan with accelerated aging will melt your heart

Sam Berns is a 17-year old living with progeria, a rare genetic disease where symptoms resemble aspects of rapid aging. Sam’s also a prolific Lego builder and the subject of HBO’s award-winning documentary, Life According to Sam, which premieres tonight. The film opens in Sam’s Lego room. According to filmmaker, Sean Fine, when he first…

Tech News Tatiana Danger

How Close Are We to Building a Full-Fledged Cyborg?

The dream of the cyborg is coming true at an exhilarating rate. As humans gets better and better at making machines, we keep attaching those machines to our bodies to make ourselves better humans. It seems at times that the only question left is if we can put a human brain in a robotic frame.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

6 Pieces of Real-Life Cursed Jewelry that Could Destroy You

They’re beautiful but deadly. Here is a collection of terrifying accessories that have killed their owners, or driven them mad — at least according to legend. From the Hope Diamond, to a stone that was almost worn to a recent Academy Awards, here’s our list of the most cursed pieces of real-life jewelry. 1. The…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Drone Mapping Lost Pyramids in the Andes

When Gizmodo last checked in with archaeologist Mark Willis, he was assembling huge 36 GB panoramic photographs of ancient rock art in the wilds of west Texas; now he’s flying drones over ancient pyramids in the Andes. https://gizmodo.com/36-gigapixel-image-captures-ancient-petroglyphs-in-texa-1410698528 Normally covered by fog, the landscape—dotted with “earthen mounds and platform pyramids… near Hacienda Zuleta”—is exceptionally difficult…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh

When Science and Archaeological Conspiracy Theories Collide

These guys and their crazy machine may save Humanity’s history one day

Take a video tour inside Guillermo del Toro’s spooky house

Finally, a Sofa That Puts Your Building Block Skills To Good Use

Incredible 3D Scans of Castles, Churches, and Even Mt. Rushmore

CyArk Wants to Digitally Preserve 500 Heritage Sites In Just Five Years

Finally, a functional flying car that actually looks pretty cool

Heineken’s Countertop Sub Chills Beer Colder Than Your Fridge Can

What color is an orgasm?

Google Now Offers Free DDoS Protection

Shedding tears of sadness could save your life

Scientists Just Took a Huge Step Towards Curing Baldness

This scientist with awesome hair found a method to cure baldness

Beneath the Streets, Lost Cities

A Secret Opera Erupts Inside California’s Biggest Train Depot

The bizarre theory that predicted a new state of matter

This video of a Lego fan with accelerated aging will melt your heart

How Close Are We to Building a Full-Fledged Cyborg?

6 Pieces of Real-Life Cursed Jewelry that Could Destroy You

Drone Mapping Lost Pyramids in the Andes

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