If you build a new Metro line in Rome, you have to worry about more than just engineering. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the construction team working on the Metro C, which will run through the center of the city, has now unearthed a huge suite of ancient barracks. Read more…
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Metro Engineers Unearth 10,000 Square Feet of Ruins Beneath Rome
More than 1, 600 years ago, a Roman ship full of carved statues, bronze lamps, and loads of coins was lost at sea. Just recently a group of divers stumbled upon the wreckage—and what they found is magnificent. Read more…
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Divers Discover an Ancient Roman Treasure Trove Inside an Untouched Shipwreck
Dung beetles have this really neat trick by which they’re able to use the positions of the stars to orient themselves along a straight line, making them the only known animal to use the Milky Way for navigation. Exactly how they do this has remained a mystery—until now. Read more…
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Dung Beetles Navigate by Storing Star Maps in Their Tiny Brains
This story was originally published at 6:35 p.m. EST. It has been updated to add Mark Zuckerberg’s comments. Read more…
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Facebook Admits Its Trending Section Includes Topics Not Actually Trending on Facebook [Update: Zuck Speaks]
In a universe full of planets, 2007 OR10 is something special. It’s big, just slightly smaller than the size of Pluto. And it’s close, within our very own solar system. So how did it still manage to take astronomers by surprise? Read more…
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A Huge Unnamed Dwarf Planet, Almost the Size of Pluto, Has Been Hiding in Our Solar System
The world’s oldest axe—dating back at least 46, 000 years—has been uncovered in Australia. And, already, there’s a mystery surrounding it. Read more…
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This Mysterious 46,000 Year Old Object Is the World’s Oldest Axe
A 19-year-old woman in Arpajon, France threw herself in front of a commuter train and died yesterday while livestreaming on Periscope. Officials in France are now investigating the incident. Read more…
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Teen Dies by Suicide While Livestreaming on Periscope
Earlier today, reports surfaced about an email sent to House of Representatives staffers about ransomware. Gizmodo has obtained the email in full. Read more…
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YahooMail Is So Bad That Congress Just Banned It
Using an unprecedented technique of matching stars to the locations of temples on Earth, a 15-year-old Canadian student says he’s discovered a forgotten Maya city in Central America. Images from space suggest he may actually be onto something. Read more…
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Teen Discovers Lost Maya City Using Ancient Star Maps
Fossils are cool and during an expedition earlier this year in Antarctica, scientists from the University of Queensland scientists collected a whole ton of them, some dating back to the Cretaceous era. Read more…
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An Expedition to Antarctica Uncovered a Treasure Trove of 71-Million-Year-Old Fossils