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The effects of global warming have reached even the ocean deep. New analyses – published in the latest issue of Science – reveal that water temperatures a kilometer below the surface of the Pacific Ocean have warmed 15 times faster in the last 60 years than at any time in the last 10,000. [New Scientist]

An Awesome Flexible Display That Wraps Around the Edges of Your Phone

As if we needed any further convincing of the wonderful potential of flexible displays, a Japanese company called SEL has developed a high-resolution screen that can be rolled to a tight four-millimeter radius, allowing it to wrap around the edge of a smartphone while still working. Made possible through the use of highly flexible but…

Bryan Singer breaks down everything in the Days of Future Past trailer!

Both Netflix and Amazon have commissioned science fiction series about eight people who are mysteriously connected, so find out what J. Michael Straczynski and Chris Carter have to say about their respective projects. And we may be seeing a new Addams Family from the writer of The Corpse Bride! Spoilers now! Ender’s Game It’s out…

The 12 Best Airline Safety Videos, Reviewed

Virgin America, the airline that invented the sassy in-flight safety video, has rolled out a brand new sassy in-flight safety video: A live-action musical number. It’s still heads and shoulders above most airlines, but is it the best? Airline safety videos have been around as long as in-flight entertainment systems but have really only taken…

This 3D Gesture-Detecting Chip Could Actually Make Smartwatches Useful

If idea of fiddling around with a tiny, wrist-mounted touchscreen is enough to make you want to give up on smartwatches before they even really arrive, then whoa. This 3D gesture-recognition might actually make these things useful. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Davis are developing a tiny chip which uses ultrasound…

Blowing Up a Building In Slo-Mo Is a Great Way To Start the Month

Is there a better way to ring in November than watching a controlled explosion? Sure there is, if said explosion was captured by a Phantom Flex high-speed camera at 2,500 fps. The Slow Mo Guys are back and after playing around with a couple of grenades (please don’t try that at home) they set their…

This Negative Space Chess Set Is Beautifully Simplistic

Chess sets can often be overly fussy, with intricate or unusual pieces distracting from the game at hand. Not so this gorgeous negative space chess set, though, with each piece represented by the void drilled into a transparent acrylic block. Created by American designer Stefan Gougherty, each of these transparent blocks has a central core…

iPad Air Teardown: Glorious Guts, But So Much Glue

We know it’s light, fast and beautiful already, but we still haven’t seen inside Apple’s new iPad Air. Fortunately, iFixit has had the good grace to rip the thing apart. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-air-meta-review-so-light-so-fast-so-beautiful-1454449034 So what’s lurking beneath that sleek outer casing? Here are some of the high- (or should that be low?) lights: So. Much. Adhesive. Not…

Exclusive: All the cool official minifigs from The Lego Movie

It had to happen, people: The Lego Movie is coming with its own set of never-before-seen minifigs. It includes William Shakespeare and Abraham Lincoln, which are two of my favorite minifigs in history already. These, like the rest of these minifig series, will become collector items. 71004 LEGO Minifigures Series 12: THE LEGO MOVIE. William…

The Moon May Have Been Made of ‘Magma Mush’ For Millions of Years

We’re used to thinking of the moon as a cold and unassuming lump of rock—but new research suggests that it could have been made of a strange magma mush for hundreds of millions of years before it solidified into the object we now see every night. Professor Sara Russell, head of the mineral and planetary…

The Math of The Simpsons: Pi, Algorithms and Counting on 8 Fingers

You might not have realized it, but The Simpsons is crammed with math. In this video, Simon Singh explains how Pi and algorithms crop up in the show—and why the characters work in a decimal world, despite only having eight fingers. I could go on to explain some of the stuff that Singh talks about,…

Report: Google’s Barge Will Be an Invite-Only Google X Showroom

CBS is reporting that Google’s barge will “feature luxury showrooms and a party deck” for the search giant to show off projects coming out of Google X to special, invite-only clients. Citing “multiple sources”, CBS explains that the barge has been in the planning for over a year, and was masterminded at Google X in…

You Can Go Buy an iPad Air Right Now

You can go buy the iPad Air right now . You can either order Apple’s new, thinner 9.7-inch tablet from the online Apple Store or buy it directly from a bricks-and-mortar retailer from at 8AM local time, wherever you are. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-air-meta-review-so-light-so-fast-so-beautiful-1454449034 The sleek new slate is available in in silver and space gray. It starts…

These incredible sky lights look like alien spaceships coming to Earth

It looks like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but it’s real—an awesome view of one of the weirdest sky phenomena you can watch from Earth, witnessed at the Levi ski resort, in the Finnish lapland. The photos were taken by photographer Pauli Hänninen: It was cold and very foggy, the temperature…

The world will soon be policed by Stormtroopers

Taiwan’s Special Forces just showed off its new uniforms and they’re totally stepping toward a Star Wars/Stormtroopers future. The gear is impressive: bulletproof masks, all-black duds and enough intimidation to win any war before the war even starts. https://gizmodo.com/taiwans-new-special-forces-uniforms-are-wearable-night-1456588256

Taiwan’s New Special Forces Uniforms Are Wearable Nightmare Fuel

Like the Samurai’s mempo, the uniforms of many of today’s Special Forces units play dual roles. Not only do they protect the wearer’s face and conceal his identity, they terrify the pants off of the enemy. Take the newly unveiled uniforms of Taiwan’s Special Forces for example. They look like something out of Army of…

Here’s what it’s like to have a bomb dropped right next to you

If you blink, you’re gonna miss it. Hell, even if you’re looking right at it, you still might not see it. But you’ll definitely feel it. The Aviationist found a video of a Syrian fighter bomber flying overhead and caught it dropping a bomb pretty much right on top of the cameraman. The plane sends…

TWTIT: Regress (Dichotomy (Freccia))

What started out as a bit of cover art for German artist Novoline has taken on a life of its own and mutated into this ominous digital blob. You can almost feel it pulsating through the screen and worming its way into the depths of your psyche. According to the video’s creator, Andreas Gysin, is…

Carl Sagan’s Jack-o’-lantern is also made of starstuff

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff,” said Dr. Sagan. Pumpkin pies too.

The Chinese government is really really bad at Photoshop

What was supposed to be a nice, heartwarming picture of four Chinese government officials visiting an elderly woman in a sign of respect and caring for the people and giving back and all that ended up being another Photoshop nightmare for China where three giant men plus a floating disappearing half man creepily hover over…