This Glowing Turtle Is the First Biofluorescent Reptile Ever Discovered

During a recent night dive near the Solomon Islands, a team of scientists were stunned to discover a glowing hawksbill sea turtle. It’s the first documented case of biofluorescence in a reptile. Not to be confused with bioluminescence (in which animals produce light through a chemical reaction), biofluorescence is a phenomenon in which organisms absorb…

I’ve Decided to Root for The Strain’s Evil Vampire Overlord

Because he’s the only character with the power to put these stupid, boring people out of my misery—and at this point, I don’t just main the main characters, I mean every single person in New York City. Let’s start with the boring: Despite the fact this is the penultimate episode of season two—yes, thank vampire…

Burning Mouth Syndrome Is Real, But We Don’t Know Why

The symptoms of Burning Mouth Syndrome are pretty much summed up by the name. The cause is still a mystery. So is the fact that the syndrome stops whenever you fall asleep. Imagine the pain in your lips, tongue, and gums just after you’ve swallowed a mouthful of scalding coffee. Now imagine it lasting for…

The Latest Game of Thrones Set Pictures Include A Hugely Revealing Costume Change!

Ridley Scott says that Alien: Paradise Lost will have ties to Ellen Ripley. Chris Evans reveals what brings Captain America and Iron Man to blows in Civil War. Plus our first look at the last Resident Evil movie, new clips from Agents of SHIELD, and what’s ahead on The Walking Dead. Spoilers Now! Alien: Paradise…

Open Channel: Blood-Red, Supermoon Eclipse Edition 

So, tonight is the big #superbloodmooneclipse event that happens only every couple of decades. The next time this event will happen? 2033. Staying up tonight? Share your pictures and thoughts in the comments tonight!

The Supermoon Eclipse Is This Weekend and Here’s How to Watch It

Got plans for the weekend? You do now, friend! There’s a Supermoon Eclipse on Sunday night into Monday morning—and we’re all going to watch it. Here’s how, when, and also why to catch the Supermoon Lunar Eclipse. Top image: A lunar eclipse (though not a Supermoon Eclipse, yet…) Bill Ingalls / NASA What’s a Supermoon…

Join The Brainery Online Writer’s Workshop To Level Up Your Short Fiction

Looking to level up your short fiction game? The Brainery Online Writer’s Workshop has a course in short fiction starting up this week! The short fiction workshop will be taught by Valerie Valdes and K. Tempest Bradford, and is dedicated to crafting short speculative fiction through a collaborative, workshop experience with a bunch of other…

A Firefighter Is Captivated By Flames In This Gorgeous Animated Short 

In Wildfire, a firefighter is utterly captivated by the flames which surround her, and it’s an obsession that begins to spill into her personal life. This short film is brilliantly animated, and it’s a beautiful, poetic affair: a firefighter who can’t seem to escape a morbid fascination with the flames that she’s supposed to fight…

In 1972, Science Fiction’s Best-Known Authors Went On One Hell Of A Cruise

In 1972, a number of notable SF authors and scientists boarded the S.S. Statendam for a unique experience: witness the night launch of Apollo 17. Some of the biggest names in science fiction and science were aboard the ship: Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Heinlein, and Carl Sagan, among others. https://gizmodo.com/the-real-story-of-apollo-17-and-why-we-never-went-ba-1670503448 In the…

Jonathan Coulton’s Brand New Portal Song Is a Fantastic Companion to “Still Alive”

Who doesn’t love Jonathan Coulton’s contributions to the Portal games? They’re fantastic, entertaining songs, and he’s just written another one. You Wouldn’t Know was written for Lego Dimensions, and pairs Coulton up again with GLaDOS voice actor Ellen McLain. Compared to the last couple of songs, this one is quite a bit happier. It’s a…

What Happens When Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak Plays The World’s Best Genre Film Festival?

If Guillermo del Toro wasn’t making movies, he’d be a Fantastic Fest attendee. He’s just one of those guys who lives and breathes, not just cinema, but weird, creepy, tense and gory cinema. So for him to bring his latest film, Crimson Peak, to the intensely genre film festival was a big deal. Crimson Peak…

You Have To See This French Animated Steampunk Movie

The French, steampunk anime April and the Extraordinary World is the rousing, science-based adventure you wanted Disney’s Tomorrowland to be. It’s simultaneously an exciting roller coaster ride, while also stimulating your intellect by presenting a fascinating alternate history. In April and the Extraordinary World, history didn’t quite turn out the way we remember it. Napoleon…

This Toy And Action Figure Museum Is Looking For A New Director 

The Toy and Action Figure Museum of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma is looking for a new Executive Director. Start working on your resume for what looks like the best job ever. The museum will be celebrating its tenth year in the middle of October, and holds over 13,000 individual action figures. The facility came together as…

Doctor Who and the Deconstruction of the Daleks

Tonight’s Doctor Who episode continues the show’s recent trend of deconstructing the Daleks, his armored “space Nazi” adversaries. And just like with the recent “Asylum of the Daleks” and “Into the Dalek,” we discover that Dalek nature is both sadder and more complicated than we’d previously thought. Spoilers ahead… At the heart of “The Witch’s…

We Just Saw The Insanely Weird, Utterly Brilliant Films Everyone Will Be Raving About Soon

Two of the year’s best movies also happen to be among the weirdest movies we’ve seen in ages. Just insanely weird. The Lobster is about humans who must find a mate, or they’ll be turned to animals. Anomalisa is Charlie Kaufman’s latest movie, and it’s all about highly articulated puppets ruminating on family, life and…

You Can Now Rent H.P. Lovecraft’s Old Apartment

Are you an H.P. Lovecraft aficionado? Like weird horror? Don’t mind odd squeaks and *probably* a ghost or two? You can now rent the author’s former home in Providence, Rhode Island. The one-bedroom studio apartment was home to the author in April 1926 to May 1933, according to the ad, which helpfully includes a couple…

Philip Pullman’s fantasy novel The Golden Compass turned 20 in July, and over on NPR, Weekend Edition host Scott Simon interviewed Pullman about the book’s legacy in the last two decades.

In Comic Crits, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora Is All About Earth

I’m a big fan of John Bonner’s Comic Crits, and in his latest installment, he’s reviewed Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel, Aurora. As usual, he has some astute observations about the book. https://gizmodo.com/seveneves-is-an-engineers-wish-according-to-comic-crit-1716787875 Aurora is about a generation ship headed to Tau Ceti, but after reading through the book, Bonner comes to the conclusion that…

More Sad Remains Of The Soviet Buran Space Shuttle Program

Pictures of the Soviet Space Shuttle in its hanger have been making the rounds on the internet recently, but there’s another shuttle out there. Russian photographer Aleksander Markin came across the remains of the original wooden model, used for wind tunnel testing. https://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-sad-remains-of-the-soviet-space-shuttle-p-1710827956 The pictures were uploaded back in 2013, and show off the 1:3…

Duncan Jones Is Fighting To Film His Passion Project, Mute

Mute is one of those passion films that directors want to make. Duncan Jones has been talking about it ever since his fantastic film Moon came out, and it looks like he’s still fighting to make it happen. In a tweet yesterday, he indicated that he’s still working on it, and that there’s been some…