After being strapped onto the front of a 15-story controlled explosion and launched clear out of the atmosphere to live in an experimental laboratory orbiting around the Earth at thousands of miles an hour, the least NASA can do is give you a good meal. Read More >>

Pig farming is tough, foul-smelling, and dirty work. Turns out, that's the good part of it. See, since 2009 the American pig farming industry has been struck with an explosive pork poop problem—in that the decomposing porcine waste will go boom under the right conditions. Read More >>

Being a commercial airline pilot isn't as glamorous as Leonardo di Caprio would have you believe; in practice, it's more akin to long haul trucking than aerial acrobatics. So rather than force a human pilot to endure the monotony of maintaining course, a European research consortium wants to replace them entirely — with software. Read More >>

Flying sick was a bad choice. Your congested ears refuse to pop and now you're stuck on an international flight, cruising at 30,000 feet of ear-splitting agony. Here's how to fix it. Read More >>

If it glows like, works like, and even dims like an incandescent, it must be an incandescent bulb, right? Wrong. The 8W Philips EnduraLED only draws a fifth of the power to produce the same warm illumination as the filament bulbs you've already got. Read More >>

After spending all that time, money and effort delivering a crew of astronauts millions of miles through space to some distant celestial body, do we really expect them to trundle around like a pack of schmucks once they get there? Not a chance. That's why NASA's next explorers will roll deep in the Space Exploration Vehicle. Read More >>

Having captured the Joker, offed Two-Face, faked his own death, and passed the crimefighting torch to a new generation, Bruce Wayne is a man with a lot of time on his hands. So what better way to enjoy retirement than to drive this Tumbler across the US in the annual Gumball 3000 rally? Read More >>

Hospital infection rates are on the rise, according to CDC estimates, and in some instances people wind up more sick in hospital than when they arrived. These infections kill around 100,000 vulnerable patients and cost the healthcare industry £20 billion annually. To combat hyper-infectious agents like Clostridium difficile (C-diff) or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), doctors are turning to a different method of disinfection to destroy bacteria by tearing their DNA apart with UV light. Read More >>

It's not the motion of the ocean that matters to Lockheed's Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plant, only the temperature of the water. Read More >>

For as advanced and as lifelike as CGI effects have become over the last decade, physical props are still the bedrock of modern special effects—especially in movies about a guy in a robotic suit. Gizmodo recently sat down with two of Iron Man 3's effects masters, Shane Patrick Mahan and Lindsay MacGowan of Legacy Effects, who have worked on the groundbreaking effects of classic films like Terminator 2, Avatar, and Monster Squad, as well as Chris Townsend, the film's Visual Effects Supervisor, to find out how much of Iron Man is really real. Read More >>

Whether you think it's our fault or not, the simple fact of the matter is that the Earth is heating up—so much so that last summer's heat caused surface melting along an unprecedented 97 percent of the Greenland ice sheet. Now, researchers are turning to an ever-ready solar rover to survey the damage. Read More >>

Epilepsy affects some 60 million people worldwide, and for 40 per cent of them, the drugs don't work—conventional treatments show no effect against their disease. And while the seizures themselves are generally brief, the constant gnaw of not knowing when the next one will strike severely impacts patients' quality of life. This prototype early warning implant could give epileptics the freedom to live their lives. Read More >>

The Kalashnikov is one of the most well-known and widely-used weapons in history. More than 75 million of the Russian assault rifles have been produced since it entered service in 1949. And while AKs are renowned for their simplicity and durability, the 64 year old line is long overdue for a design update. But can modern materials and production techniques really build a better AK? Read More >>

Goose only wishes he had moves like these. This stunning dash cam footage from an F-16 attached to the USAF 51st Wing captured some intense aerial action at the recent Red Flag-Alaska exercises—including mid-air refuellings, targeted bomb strikes, low-altitude flybys, and even a cameo appearance by a B-2 stealth bomber.[The Aviationist] Read More >>

Watching ice hockey and playing ice hockey are two entirely different experiences. Or at least they were until Joseph Lallouz got his hands on a pair of Google's new wearable computer system and took it to his local skating rink. The result — awesome first person hockey. Hint, hint NHL/Premier League/cricket/golf. Read More >>