Slime

Nature-Inspired Breakthrough Yields Thinnest 3D-Printed Fibers Yet

The 3D-printed fibers are just 1.5 microns thick, which is up to 100 times thinner than paper.

This Slime Generates Electricity When Squeezed

Scientists in Canada have invented an electricity-generating slime that could revolutionize medicine, robotics, and even how we power our steps.

Winning Close-Up Photos Show Life in Sync With Water

From dragonflies to fungi, living things find sanctuary in good ol' H2O.

The Joyful Mechanical Design of Akira Toriyama

The beloved Dragon Ball creator, who died last week, has a swath of iconic character designs—but one consistent highlight was his teeny, delightful vehicles.

High-Stakes Tamagotchi: Living Smartwatch Literally Dies if You Don’t Feed It

Researchers from the University of Chicago are trying to change our relationships with our gadgets.

The Best Back To School Toys for Pissing Off Your Teacher

Not that we condone getting kicked out of the classroom, but these are fun.

The Newest Ghostbusters Video Game Lets You Bust or Be Busted

Four players will try to trap a player-controlled specter in the upcoming, in-continuity game.

Gonk Gonk, the Best Toys of the Week Are Here

Welcome back to [GONK GONK], io9’s regular roundup of the [GONK GONK] toys we’ve seen tempting our [GONK GONK] this week. We’ve got a [GONK GONK] little Kirby, one of Magneto’s [GONK GONK] costumes in years getting a [GONK GONK], and, of course, we’ve got [GONK GONK]. [GONK GONK]? [GONK GONK]! Hot Toys Sixth-Scale Star…

Blood Feasts, Cashless Stores, and Quantum Computing: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Excellent news here at Gizmodo, where I presume what’s left of our blogger-chewed Forbidden Sandwich is still festering in the back of a fridge. We have discovered yet more ingredients to add to the mix, including head cheese from an ancient species of Pleistocene wolf found preserved in Siberia, cannabis residue scraped from a brazier…

What Makes Things Slimy?

Probably no more than ten people on Earth have a “favorite” texture, and these are almost certainly not people you would like to know. Conversely, pretty much everyone has a least-favorite texture. What do slugs, unsightly thigh boils, and disease-ridden swamps all have in common? They are all, of course, slimy. But how did they…

The Mad Scientists at Jell-O Have Figured Out How to Make Edible Slime

Your body is probably still digesting yesterday’s fantastic feast (and bracing for leftovers) but it’s already time to start planning next year’s Thanksgiving dinner, and now that Kraft Foods has seemingly done the impossible and invented edible slime, grandma’s Jell-O salad will never be the same. Not content with just re-engineering the classic Jell-O formula…

The Most Googled ‘How-Tos’ of 2017 Prove Our Insatiable Lust for Slime and Bitcoin

Every December, Google releases “The Year in Search,” which sheds light on what the world was most interested in during the last spin around the sun. This year, the company added the most popular “how-to” searches to its global list—and in 2017 they are strange and kind of bleak. In a blog post about “the…

Life As We Know Could Have Come From Algae on Steroids

What was life really like here on planet Earth before animals were big enough to leave fossils behind? How did living things turn from dinky capsules of genetic material into the intelligent, complex organisms that do things like fart and type curse words into posts on the internet? Scientists think they’ve found the answer… in…

Putting Dry Ice in Slime Spawns Some Really Weird Bubbles

Throw dry ice in everything just to see what happens, if you ask me. Crazy Russian Hacker put dry ice in some green slime and a bunch of bubbles started forming out of nowhere. The bubbles eventually pop in a small explosion of smoke but when they first appear underneath that muck of green goo,…

An Enormous Green Blob Just Bubbled Out of a Storm Drain in Utah

Residents of Bluffdale, Utah received quite a shock yesterday when an enormous blob of pale green foam sprung forth, seemingly out of nowhere, from a roadside irrigation gate. The road was quickly closed off by the city as Salt Lake County Health Department officials were called out investigate. Initially, residents were concerned that the foaming…

‘A Whisper of Vomit’: The Ghostbusters Cast Describes the First Time They Got Slimed

Ghosts and slime. It’s the peanut butter and jelly of Ghostbusters’ beloved supernatural phenomena. But also? It’s pretty gross. That’s something the new team of Ghostbusters can definitely attest to, as they described the process in the most unpleasant way they can. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly during a recent set visit, the cast talked about…

How to Make Your Own Magnetic Slime Using White Glue and Iron Filings

If you’re not sure the novelty of putty that reacts to magnets will hold your attention long enough to spend $15 on a whole can of it, Dave Hax shows you how to make your own on the cheap using just Elmer’s white glue, some Borax (sodium borate) powder, and iron filings. The results work…

Watch the slimy conveyor belt way a snail moves

The GIF, which was found onReddit, is sped up to reveal the mechanics behind how a snail slimes and glides and smooths its way over a surface. The body roll looks like a conveyor belt and is both gross and a weird sort of beautiful. Cool party trick. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

Why is slime, specifically snot-like green slime of the “I’ve-been-slimed!” variety, so endlessly fascinating? This impressively detailed article traces the history and lasting appeal of the gloriously gross substance, from Dr. Seuss to the Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles to Nickelodeon, and beyond.

You Know What Today Needs? Slime.

Goopey, slippery, stretchy slime is easy to make, and way too much fun. If you need a proper, dignified justification for mixing up a batch of messy, squishy goop to play with, consider this a lesson in applied material science. Last time, we mixed up flour and oil to create silky sand. This time, the…