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The best thing about being in zero gravity (aside from being in zero gravity, of course) has to be how liquids become amorphous blobs that can just float around. Here’s a collection of awesome experiments that NASA has conducted of water in zero gravity. They’re amazing! SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook,…
This week was space habitats week at Gizmodo and io9, and we had a ton of great stories on the topic of exploring and colonizing the cosmos. We also played with some crazy futuristic tech at E3. Check out the favorites. Interplanetary Spacecraft, Ranked We may be dirty monkeys at heart, but humans have done…
John Hagmann’s misconduct hearing with the Virginia Board of Medicine was today. He didn’t show up. But students he had allegedly abused were there, and testified how Hagmann subjected them to invasive medical procedures, bizarre drug- and alcohol-fueled “cognition” experiments, and sexual assault. According to reporting by Reuters, Hagmann’s medical license was suspended in March,…
A new study suggests that thousands of species on Earth going extinct at a rate that far exceeds what’s typical. We are in the beginnings of a mass extinction, argue scientists, and it could lead to global starvation for humans — as well as many other animals. The new study, published today in Science Advances,…
Just a month after WikiLeaks officially started accepting documents again, it’s just unloaded two prominent troves of data. First up, yesterday it dropped a second bucket of Sony documents! Second, earlier today, the organization dumped a million diplomatic cables. So what’s in there? Well it’s hard to say for sure because these are tons of…
Here’s some bad news for Android users. Security researchers have discovered 100+ more apps that fail to encrypt your login data properly, making it frightfully easy for hackers to steal your password. What’s worse: the vast majority of the app makers aren’t doing anything about it. The specific issue, an HTTPS vulnerability, is hardly a…
Does Homeland Security have a sense of humor? This is Liberty City, the Grand Theft Auto inspired “urban obstacle course” where the department tests drones for potential public safety applications. Thanks to documents acquired through a FOIA request by MuckRock, we finally have more details about Homeland Security’s Robotic Aircraft for Public Safety (RAPS) program.…
Summer is a fantastic time to enjoy sparkling adult beverages, much more so than winter, where I sip on mead from my Chamber of Furs. Now that it’s warm, Champagne is an obvious drink choice, but I deeply hate spending more than $20 on anything, let alone booze, so I turn to prosecco. Prosecco is…
The abandoned halls of the Ganz Danubius Shipyard and Crane Factory in Budapest are the haunting remains of a once-flourishing industry established more than an hundred years ago in the Austro-Hungarian empire. During its long and complicated history, hundreds of boats and ships were designed, built, repaired and modernised here, on a small peninsula in…
All of Toshiba’s new laptops will let you summon Windows 10’s Cortana voice assistant with a dedicated keyboard key. Expect other manufacturers to follow suit. On Xbox One, you’ll need a Kinect to use Cortana.
The makers of those spherical Perplexus maze puzzles are masters at driving you to the brink of insanity. And now they’ve gone and created an even faster way to frustrate you with a miniature four-inch version of their original maze sphere requiring an even steadier hand to solve. The World’s Smallest Playable Perplexus is actually…
On Sunday, Frank Garcia reached the summit of Mt. Everest after pedaling a total of 165 miles across 17 hours and 18 minutes, averaging a 7% grade and consuming over 18,000 calories of food to make it. “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” he told us. Of course, riding a bicycle up Mt. Everest…
In 1966, England was ramping up to host the World Cup — which it would eventually win. But months before any players set foot on the field, the iconic gold Jules Rimet Trophy was stolen from its well-guarded display case. A week later, it was recovered … with a little help from a four-legged Londoner.…
It’s about damn time. Now that about half the states in the nation have passed laws banning revenge porn and several people have been convicted under those laws, Google says it will finally give revenge porn victims the option to get said revenge porn removed from searches. The search giant made the announcement today on…
For today’s Open Thread, we thought we’d mix it up and get Gizmodo’s staffers in to answer your questions and rejoice in the impending weekend together. What’s going on, Gizmodo? We’re still celebrating Space Habitats week here at Gizmodo HQ. Some of us are ready to live in an orbital or set up a city…
Yep, it’s creepy. Summer Lesson, a VR experiment for Sony’s Project Morpheus headset produced by Namco Bandai, is a powerful virtual reality experience. It’s also disturbing and awkward and, well, kind of pornographic. No, she doesn’t get naked. It’s not that kind of lesson — at least, not literally. And yet it’s clearly a strong…
A convict lawyer, sitting in jail, obsessed with a wacky theory that the government tracked him by sending secret rays into his house… ends up discovering a secret government cell phone tracking program. Sounds like bizarre noir, right? But it’s true. It happened to Daniel Rigmaiden, who found out that the government had used Stingrays—covert…
Going to the gas station in a car is a chore made to remind you of your own mortality. Going to the (metaphorical) gas station in a F-15 jet? That’s a delightful dessert made to show off our awesomeness. Here’s a video of a NASA F-15 jet taking a pit stop to get refueled while…
Here’s one dad who will probably be getting an extra tie this Father’s Day. When Tez Gelmir saw how much time his kid was wasting searching through his Lego collection instead of actually building, he was inspired to create this rolling storage unit to keep them all sorted and organized. There isn’t a Lego fan…
NASA’s Greased Lightning GL-10 is a beast of a drone (it has 10 engines!) that’s the closest thing we have to a Transformer in real life. It can flip itself into a helicopter and then fly like an airplane and then revert back to helicopter mode. It’s awesome seeing the wings tilt back and forth…
