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Scientists Clone a Mouse From a Single Drop of Blood

Japanese researchers have successfully cloned a mouse from a drop of blood taken from a donor’s tail. The breakthrough means that animals don’t have to be euthanized when extracting their cells, which could prove important if we’re ever going to clone endangered animals. Typically, somatic nuclear cell transfer — the same technique used to clone…

Specialized Turbo Test-Ride: Holy Crap This E-Bike Is Amazing

E-bikes are much-maligned by the cycling community and non-riders alike. They’re for lazy people. They’re so ugly and clunky looking. But Specialized has come up with an answer for both crowds. You will want to hate the Turbo. You will fail. This thing is so damn fun. Welcome to Fitmodo, Gizmodo’s gym for your brain…

Texas Governor Attacks State Senator For Being “Teen Mom”

Texas Governor Rick Perry can’t believe a “teen mom” would one day be a state senator defending the rights of women to choose whether or not they’re ready to have children. Shouldn’t Sen. Wendy Davis have aborted her child, since she hates babies so much?

This Silk-Screened Art Glows With Electroluminescent Ink

When someone brings up silk-screening, you might think of hand-made t-shirts or concert posters. What you probably don’t think of is electric current and glowing surfaces. But at the University of Pennsylvania, traditional screen-printing and high technology are colliding to create incredible, eye-melting artistic experiments. Orkan Telhan is an artist and Assistant Professor of Fine…

Salt and Pepper Spoon Shakers Give You Precisely Portioned Seasonings

Finally putting an end to the gag where someone unscrews the lid of a salt shaker, Jaemin Jaeminlee’s Sogum HuchuHuchu is a radical re-thinking of how we season our food at the table. They still require a bit of shaking to get the spices out, but instead of dumping it directly onto your food, the…

Why do we have sex at night?

Humans can have sex anytime we damn well please – so why do we mostly do it in the dark? Here’s what science has to say about our preference for nighttime hookups. The When Lots of studies have looked at the timing and frequency at which humans tend to have sex, over a range of…

Come and watch the best Doctor Who story of all time (and space)!

Doctor Who fans voted “The Caves of Androzani” the best story ever a few years back. Now here’s your chance to find out why. A digitally remastered copy of “Caves” is showing in San Francisco and New York (and possibly other cities) this Saturday. This event is courtesy of BBC Home Entertainment, and there will…

iOS 7 for iPad First Impressions: Messing With the Best

Since its inception, the iPad has been the gold standard for tablets. Nothing else has come close, really. A lot of credit goes to iOS, which has ceded plenty of ground to Android on phones but remains easily the friendliest tablet software. So changing up iOS 7 means changing up the very best tablet OS…

Meet Handibot, the First CNC MIll You Can Take With You

CNC mills are usually the antithesis of portable. Sometimes they’re as big as trucks. But ShopBot Tools, a North Carolina-based CNC Tool manufacturer, is trying to change that with the Handibot, a CNC Mill you can carry around. The Handibot is a three-axis CNC mill that’s run through a smartphone, tablet or desktop app. First,…

$35 For a Year of Xbox Live Gold Is Your Deal of the Day

Looks like the Xbox One will still require Xbox Live Gold to stream Netflix or play games online. That’s a bummer. But it only makes getting a deal on Xbox Live Gold even more important—so pick up a year right here for $35. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-live-gold-is-still-one-of-the-biggest-ripoffs-in-t-513093573 If you’re re-upping your current 360 subscription, this deal’s a no-brainer.…

Your First Look at the Epic Fantasy Novel Everybody’s Raving About

People from Karen Joy Fowler to John Crowley to Téa Obreht have been praising The Age of Ice, a debut fantasy novel by J.M. Sidorova. Now, here’s your first chance to sample it for yourself. Above is a map, created by the author. And below, we’ve got an exclusive look at the first dozen pages.…

Facebook is now letting Android users test out beta versions of its main app. But ironically you’ve got to sign up for Google Groups to get in on the fun.

Stallone & Schwarzenegger plan a superprison-break in The Escape Plan

Clearly, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger had such a good time working together on The Expendables that they decided to do another. Titled The Escape Plan, it’s all about the duo trying to break out of a prison called The Tomb, which is so futuristically high-tech the cells are clear. Madness! Also, the guards wear…

Would it be evil to build a functional brain inside a computer?

There’s been a lot of talk recently about using supercomputers to simulate the human brain. But as scientists get progressively closer to achieving this goal, they’re going to have to consider the ethics involved. By making minds that live inside machines, we run the risk of inflicting serious harm. https://gizmodo.com/new-1-6-billion-supercomputer-project-will-attempt-to-5980117 Brain mapping is all the…

Every Secret Agent Wannabe Needs a Quadcopter Belt of Death

You could probably argue there are worse offenders, but there’s no denying that James Bond’s Thunderball jetpack is definitely up there in the pantheon of ridiculous 00-gadgets. Tinkerer Rodger Cleye recently tried to put a more realistic spin on the concept, and the result is this still-ridiculous-but-fully-functioning quadcopter “belt.” Unfortunately, propelling a real human—00 agent…

Why you can’t get that damn ringtone out of your head

Certain kinds of music are more memorable than others. But why? Stanford music professor Jonathan Berger uses a common ringtone to explain why we can’t get certain tunes out of our minds. Berger has a fantastic, music-laced essay on Nautilus about how music can confound our expectations, and worm its way into our minds. The…

Magnetic Microbots Perform Eye Surgery Without a Single Incision

Our eyeballs are some of our more delicate organs, and the mere thought of them having to be sliced open for surgery is unsettling. So researchers at the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich have created a magnetically-guided microbot, barely larger than a few human hairs, that can be embedded in the eye and externally…

This Is NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s Secret Spotify Account (Confirmed)

There are too many damn people crammed into Spotify’s NYC offices because Mayor Mike is in the house! Or we’re told he will be at some point, but we’ve been sitting here for two hours. Us tech bloggers are all aflutter because we’re getting an audience with a real news maker that our moms have…

10 Great Books You Didn’t Know Were Science Fiction or Fantasy

These days, it seems like every other literary novel has speculative fiction ideas buried in it. This isn’t a trend that suddenly burst out of nowhere — “literary” writers have been playing with fantastical notions forever. Here are 10 great literary books you didn’t know were science fiction or fantasy. Top image: Heart of a…

No, Children of 1990, Computers Are Not the Devil

Computers may be ubiquitous now but in 1990 they were just beginning to enter the mainstream. And like any revolutionary technology, the desktop computer was viewed with more than a little skepticism by the average American. Luckily, David Neil of PBS’s Newton’s Apple was there to explain to a group of dubious high schoolers that…