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The Crazy New Subatomic Particle That May Rewrite the Rules of Matter

Two teams of physicists have stumbled across a weird new subatomic particle that’s unlike anything else we’ve ever seen—and it could rewrite the rules of matter as we know them. Researchers from both the Japanese High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in China have been studying a…

Researchers Discover 280 Hidden Craters on the Moon

By combining gravity and terrain mapping techniques, scientists from Australia have identified hundreds of previously uncharted craters on the Moon, including a handful on the far side. The researchers — Will Featherstone, Christian Hirt, and Michael Kuhn — used gravity and elevation data to develop the ultra-high resolution maps. Earlier, the same technology was used…

A Private Jet Catalog That Actually Flies: This Is How You Sell Luxury

When you’re dealing with clients who will potentially be spending millions of dollars on your product, it doesn’t hurt to splurge a little on your promotional items. After all, you’ve got to spend money to make money, so the brochure for Embraer’s new Lineage 1000 private jet was designed to fly just like the aircraft…

New Photos and Videos from the Godzilla and Transformers 4 Sets!

Check out new trailers and clips for Riddick and World War Z. Take a look behind the scenes of Despicable Me 2. The Sin City sequel got pushed back a year. Plus intriguing hints for what lies ahead on True Blood, Falling Skies, and Teen Wolf! Spoilers right now! Top image from Riddick. Godzilla Here…

Four Insane 60s Military Prototypes That Crashed and Burned

If the music‘s anything to go by, pretty much everyone was on something in the ’60s — and that includes the engineers. BAE Systems has recently dug up some totally batshit-crazy ideas that were seriously being kicked around by its ‘crack’ team of engineers, and they’re both totally ridiculous and dangerously awesome. The designs were…

This High-Speed Tracking Camera Could Snap the Flash’s Family Portrait

Convincing kids to sit still long enough to take their picture either takes a small army of distracting stuffed animals, or the University of Tokyo’s new high-speed camera tracking system which guarantees your subject is always in frame. Instead of moving the glass elements in a lens, or the camera’s sensor which can only compensate…

How the Hell Does a Quantum Computer Work?

You’ve probably heard people—including us—banging on about quantum computers for a long ol’ time. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you know exactly how they work. Fortunately this video is here to help. It goes straight from the basic of how quantum bit—a qubit—can carry more information than a normal bit, right the way up to…

Views Don’t Get Any Better Than This

Some people claim to have a great view from their bedroom window or work desk. Their claims are worth nothing compared to the view the astronauts in the ISS get. This image shows the view from the Cupola on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station, timed so that our planet entirely fills the…

This Could Maybe Possibly Be the Next iPhone’s Screen and Guts

It’s that time of the year again, where Apple’s next iPhone is probably being built in factories all over China, resulting in random parts being spat out onto the Internets. Today we have both a screen and logic board supposedly from the incoming iPhone 5S or whatever it ends up being called. If real, what…

You Can Download Adobe’s Creative Cloud Right Now

Adobe pulled the covers off its shiny new Creative Cloud earlier this month, but it’s now finally available for you to get your grubby little hands on. https://gizmodo.com/say-goodbye-to-creative-suite-adobe-rebrands-cs-as-cre-493155052 Head to the Creative Cloud website and you’ll be able to download what you need. From now on, you won’t buy be able to buy CS6 or…

Yahoo’s revealed that it received a staggering 12,000 US government data requests between December 1st 2012 and May 31st 2013—way more than Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and co.

Report: AMD Is Making Its First Ever ARM Chip

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AMD is taking a leap into unknown waters, as it readies its first ever ARM chip. The new chip—codenamed ‘Seattle’ and previously hinted at—is apparently based on the architecture designed by ARM which is now prolific in smartphones and tablets. Interestingly though, according to the Wall Street Journal,…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: TORMENTO BABASONICOS

Wow. That got out of hand really fast. I mean that spiralled from Chilean butt band weird to modern-day Heavy Metal in a blink. https://gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-thing-on-the-internet-tonight-panda-nsfw-5982243

Scientist Drinks the World’s Oldest Water: “It Tastes Terrible”

Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar drank water from the oldest undisturbed water cache ever—1.5 billion years old. She said to the LA Times that ‘it tastes terrible […] You would definitely not want to drink this stuff.’ It’s not surprising, knowing it’s ‘viscous and turns kind of orangey’ when exposed to air. Image by Shutterstock

Magnetic Origami Tables Shouldn’t Make Sense But They’re Perfect

When most of us hear the words “flatpack furniture,” we’re wracked with flashbacks of sitting amongst mountains of dowels and particle board, sobbing. But Ying Zhang and Ida Thonsgaard, two Berlin-based designers, are taking the concept beyond Ikea. Zhang and Thonsgaard are the authors of a system called Playtime: A collection of chairs and tables…

Lucky Drunk Survives 15-Floor Plunge From Balcony

A 20-year-old British man felt a “little tipsy” before he plummeted 15 floors off an apartment balcony at 2 a.m. in Auckland, New Zealand. Tom Stilwell lost his keys and then attempted to hop onto his 14th floor balcony directly beneath his neighbor’s apartment, but grossly misjudged his leap and wound up flailing to the…

The Periodic Table of Muppets Brings Order to Wocka Wocka

Not everybody’s into chemistry but you have to be a special kind of insane to not have a fondness for the Muppets. This periodic table of Muppetry is a wonderfully organized and colorful take on the history of the form than anyone (with a soul) can appreciate, chem-geek or not. Designed by Mike BaBoon, the…

True Blood premiere switches from vampire politics to threesomes

True Blood is BAAAAAaaaaaaack! And we’re so excited. Here it is — the first super spoilery recap to the 6th season premiere episode stuffed to the brim with HOT VAMPIRE BOOK READING ACTION. Let’s GET TO IT: Pro: The episode takes off right where we left off last season. With the creation of Billith. Which…

These Top Five Nuts Are the World’s Best!

There’s no way you won’t agree with nut journalist Hamilton Nolan that the top five nuts are the nuts he chose for Gawker’s Top Five Nuts series. All of the world’s favorite nuts are well represented, meaning there’s no mention at all of the lowly peanut, which is of course a legume and not a…

Man on Wire: How One Man Walked on a Tightrope Between the Twin Towers

In 1974, Philippe Petit walked across a wire between New York City’s Twin Towers. The feat was incredibly dangerous and incredibly illegal. Man on Wire is the amazing story of how he got there, told by the people who lived it. Petit discovered the World Trade Center in the early 1960s in a photo in…