Speed Bump is a Gunnison's prairie dog who lives in Wabash, Indiana. Gunnison's prairie dogs have a language that they use to communicate particular kinds of threats to the other prairie dogs. Photographer Vince Musi was...

Israel has developed a new weapon that should be less harmful than the rubber bullets they use against protesters. It's a liquid called Skunk, to be deployed from a water cannon. Imagine the worst, most foul thing you h...

"Eureka!" Archimedes screamed, then he ran outside naked ...Every high school physics student knows about Fourier’s Law of Heat Conduction and Hooke’s Law of Elasticity. But not many know th...

Design your own temporary tattoos and make them with your inkjet printer! Use your computer to make the design and print on specialty tattoo paper. They’ll last up to a week, or you can scrub them off when you want....

Gizmodo reader Rob Hoffmann sent in a photo of his Halloween costume: a giant LEGO minifig!The head is made from chicken wire (1/4 in. square mesh), yellow vinyl, some cotton batting (the mesh would have shown through th...

(YouTube link) Two crew members for the TV show Scrubs fell in love. When it came time to pop the question, the whole set was ready. I’m a sap for this sort of thing. -via a comment at mental_floss...

Photo: Ian Cannell & Caroline RabyTurns out "bird brain" isn't so stupid after all: western scrub jays can plan for the future by storing snacks when they detect that food will be in short supply in the nea...

Two scientific studies discovered that at least 3 animals may be able to plan ahead.Nicholas Mulcahy and Josep Call of the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany found that bonobo chimp and...