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Are Wormholes a Scientific Dead End? - Gizmodo

To quote an astrophysicist’s answer to a young student’s question, a wormhole is “like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that cuts the travel time from one point to the other.” If w…

Ukraine Has Dealt a Big Blow to Russia’s AI and Cloud Infrastructure

The big story out of the Ukraine War for 2026 has been Ukraine’s ability to strike oil infrastructure deep inside Russia. These are new capabilities that stem...

Walmart Denies Plans for Surveillance Pricing Despite Holding Patents for Surveillance Pricing - Gizmodo

When is a patent just an idea and when is it a plan for the future? That question has been raised in recent weeks as the leading expert on surveillance pricing promoted her new book. Walmart is evide…

AI Agents Successfully Recreate the Gender Pay Gap - Gizmodo

We can replace human workers with AI agents, but we can’t take sexism out of the workplace. A recently published study from researchers at Ireland’s University of Limerick found that existing conscio…

The Most Amazing Cosplay of New York Comic Con 2026, Day 2 - Gizmodo

Why should you have to choose between Batman and the Joker when you can cosplay as both at the same time?

Free Meals and Other Perks From Big Pharma Really Do Sway Doctors, Review Finds - Gizmodo

Hubris threatens doctors in the same ways it does many of societys other technically daunting, well-paid professions: Its a hard club to get into, and if youre in there, well, you must be pretty smar…

Your Ozempic Prescription May Come With a Surprising Bonus: Slower Aging - Gizmodo

GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro and Zepbound) are reliably helping people lose weight and control their blood sugar. They may also be slowing biological ag…

A Student Found a New Giant Isopod That Had Been Mislabeled for Decades - Gizmodo

German paleontologist Dolf Seilacher had not yet won his Crafoordthe prestigious honor awarded by the same Swedish academy that gives out the Nobel Prizewhen he was collecting specimens in Puerto Ric…

Mars’s Weirdest Cloud Forms in a Way Scientists Thought Was Impossible - Gizmodo

During Mars’s dusty season, which runs through spring and summer in the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere, a wispy cloud of water ice appears downwind of the enormous Arsia Mons volcano. Aptly named t…

Latest 'Grand Theft Auto VI' Leak Features 25 Minutes of Gameplay and Jason's Concealed Weapon - Gizmodo

Unless youve been under a rock and off the internet for the last few monthsin which case, congratulationsyoull probably know that a) Grand Theft Auto VI is due out next month and b) someone inside it…

Man Who Spent Millions on Rare Pokémon and Magic Cards Found Guilty of Stealing Over $50 Million in Crypto - Gizmodo

A 36-year-old cybersecurity consultant and apparent trading card collector from Maryland was just convicted of computer fraud and money laundering in a case involving more than $50 million in stolen …

DNA Puts Humans in the Americas at the Height of the Last Ice Age, but the Debate Isn't Over - Gizmodo

Compared to the rest of the world, the American continent welcomed its first humans relatively later. Youd think that this (relative) proximity to modern times should make it easier to studybut reali…

The ‘Dune Messiah’ Graphic Novel Wastes No Time Answering What Happens to Muad’Dib Detractors [Exclusive]

Barbenheimer may be a relic of the recent past, but its spirit will live on when Avengers: Doomsday and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three go head-to-head in...

James Watson Suggested Rosalind Franklin Missed the DNA Double Helix. Her Notes Say Otherwise - Gizmodo

Biologist James D. Watson is famous for co-discovering DNAs double helix structure. However, Watson appears to have greatly underplayed Rosalind Franklins contributions to the Nobel-winning discovery…

Nature’s Goofy Side Takes Center Stage in the Funniest Wildlife Photos of the Year - Gizmodo

The natural world is often portrayed at its most majestic: soaring birds, prowling predators, and fierce wildlife perfectly adapted to survive in unforgiving conditions. But nature has a funny side t…

A Quantum Bubble Could End Reality as We Know It. Here’s Why It (Probably) Won’t - Gizmodo

Physicists have many delightful theories about how our universe might end, including one that suggests it isnt in its most stable state. If it transitions to that state, we could all be squelched int…

Japan’s Asteroid Probe Lost Its Last Working Engine. Engineers Have a Clever Fix - Gizmodo

On December 6, 2020, Japans Hayabusa2 probe dropped off samples from asteroid Ryugu in the Australian outback before beginning a second journey toward a smaller space rock. The spacecraft’s extended …

Microsoft’s MacBook Pro Rival Is Looking Even More Ridiculous - Gizmodo

At this point, the writing has been on the wall for Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra for some time. The company has been parading the thing around all summer, heralding its AI capabilities and demons…

An Unmapped Region of Antarctica Could Be Harboring a Major Threat - Gizmodo

A vast region of East Antarctica contains enough ice to cause a dramatic rise in global sea levels but was considered relatively stable before. Now, a new study is urging scientists to take a closer …

The Inca Dressed Llamas in Tassels and Face Paint—Then Likely Buried Them Alive - Gizmodo

The great Inca Empire is survived by its legacy in economics, science, art, religion, andan add-on to the last twosacrificial rituals. According to a new study, these holy proceedings also included l…

Amazon Dumps the MacBook Air (M5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) Before Prime Day, 1TB Models Marked Down Too - Gizmodo

Apple does not run sales on its own store, so a cheaper MacBook Air has to come from another retailer. A few days before Prime Big Deal Days, Amazon is that retailer: the 2026 13-inch MacBook Air wit…

Elon Musk Fully Surrenders to Trump on ‘Super Intelligence’

Elon Musk says he’s embracing the term “Super Intelligence” so completely that he’ll even rename one of his companies for apparent consistency. After an...

Contest-Winning Microscope Video Is Full of AI Confabulations, Scientists Say - Gizmodo

Japanese optics company Nikon has stated it is “carefully re-reviewing” information submitted by National University of Singapore optical engineer Ning Xu after commenters accused him of using AI in …

Childhood Chickenpox Shots May Be Slashing Shingles Cases Decades Later—by Quite a Bit - Gizmodo

Millennials across America (at least in our own minds) have a lot to grouse over: graduating into a labor market ravaged by the 2008 financial crisis, hamstrung by arcane systems of predatory student…

Scientists Thought Mars’s North Polar Ice Was 25% Dust. They Were Way Off - Gizmodo

When NASA’s Mars Phoenix mission successfully sampled ice from the Martian arctic regions, it made astrobiological history. This sample, along with others that followed, led scientists to realize tha…

‘Fast & Furious’ Is Officially Getting That Live-Action TV Show

Setting aside for a moment those Universal Studios neighbors suffering earaches from the new Fast & Furious roller coaster, it’s a stellar time for the long-r...

Scientists Invent Underwater Umbrellas to Protect Coral Reefs—and It Appears to Be Working - Gizmodo

Earth is in the midst of its fourth global coral bleaching event. Scientists expect that by 2050, the world’s oceans will have warmed so much that most reefs suffer mass bleaching every year. A surpr…

No, No, No—Don’t Peel the Nano-Texture Layer off the iPhone Duo’s Inner Screen - Gizmodo

I can’t believe I even have to say this out loud: do not be the idiot who breaks their new $2,000 iPhone Duo by peeling off the nano-texture layer that covers the inner screen. This morning, YouTube…

Bradley Cooper Will Lead Danny McBride’s ‘G.I. Joe’ Movie - Gizmodo

The new G.I. Joe has its leader. Months after Danny McBride was tapped to direct a film based on the Hasbro toy series for Paramount, he’s cast none other than Bradley Cooper as the leader of the Joe…

Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs—and Not Just Once - Gizmodo

Earth is definitely not flat, but its not perfectly spherical, either. Due to its constant rotation, our Earth is closer to a squashed elliptoid. What this also means is that occasionally, the geogra…

Slow Earthquakes Sometimes Come Before Big Ones. The Sun and Moon May Be Setting Them Off - Gizmodo

The British Geological Survey says scientists have seriously contemplated the role of solar and lunar activity on earthquakes for over 100 years. But they werent able to find a compelling explanation…

This AI Can Estimate How Long You’ve Been Dead. How It Works Is the Weird Part - Gizmodo

Artificial intelligence can solve theoretical math problems, identify a mysterious enzyme system in viruses, potentially render humans extinct by the end of the decade, and, according to new research…

1 in 8 Cancers Are Caused by Infections. The Biggest Culprit Isn’t HPV - Gizmodo

Some infections can exact a lingering toll on our body, long after their initial bout of illness. Research out this week shows that infectious diseases contribute to millions of new cancer cases ever…

Something Strange Happens When an Old Heart Is Transplanted Into a Young Body - Gizmodo

Hundreds of people die each year while waiting for the right organ to perform a high-stakes transplant surgery. Its the kind of resource scarcity that has led to some daring alternatives, including a…

A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit - Gizmodo

An American spy satellite unexpectedly shattered into pieces, creating a cloud of debris in low-Earth orbit. The U.S. Space Force’s satellite tracking system confirmed the satellite, officially desi…

This Pill Will Change Cancer Treatment Forever - gizmodo.com

Revolution Medicines is the winner of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for its research and development of Rasonque (daraxonrasib), the first approved cancer drug of its kind. The question Can we find…

Scientists Dated the Catastrophic Pompeii Eruption Using Only Rocks. Here's How Close They Got - gizmodo.com

Argon-argon dating is a common technique scientists use to reveal when a geological event, such as a volcanic eruption, took place. The problem is that its difficult to apply to recent occurrences. T…

Boeing’s Starliner Faces a Critical Test This Year as NASA Runs Out of Options - Gizmodo

After months of unmet timelines, NASA shared the most concrete timeline yet for Boeing’s beleaguered spacecraft. And it looks like Starliner may finally get a chance to redeem itself as a viable opti…

A Buried Oklahoma Crater Was Dated to the Wrong Era—and It Actually Lines Up With a Mass Extinction - Gizmodo

In 1991, an oil company discovered a giant crater buried under Ames, Oklahoma. Subsequent investigations led researchers to propose the meteor responsible for the structure belonged to the many meteo…

Asteroid Bennu Came From an Unexpected Corner of the Solar System - Gizmodo

Six years after NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached out and snagged a sample from the asteroid Bennu, scientists may finally have an answer to a fundamental question: Where did this ancient space roc…