First Look At Will McIntosh’s New Young-Adult Novel, Burning Midnight!

Will McIntosh has become one of our favorite new authors, thanks to books like Defenders and Love Minus Eighty. Now he’s written a young-adult novel called Burning Midnight, and we’ve got the exclusive first look! In Burning Midnight, mysterious spheres have shown up all over the world, and they have miraculous powers. Burn two spheres…

How Does A Creature Reproduce When It’s Four Separate Creatures?

Siphonophores are groups of creatures that live, connected, as one animal. And they’re incredibly confusing — they all have the same DNA. They can’t separate. They work together to achieve one goal. So why are we supposed to think of them as “colonies,” rather than a single entity? Siphonophores Roaming The Oceans The most famous…

Watch This Fish Perform One Of Nature’s Most Impressive Vanishing Acts

The slender filefish has evolved the ability to camouflage its body patterns and shape so effectively, it can render itself effectively invisible in a matter of seconds. At New Scientist, Agata Blaszczak-Boxe describes the findings of Justine Allen and her colleagues at Brown University, who have documented the fish’s disappearing act in the shallow waters…

Here’s The First Teaser For Zombie Spinoff Fear The Walking Dead

The sixth season of The Walking Dead is still a ways off, but AMC’s spinoff series, Fear the Walking Dead will be bringing more walkers to our TV screens in August. The first official teaser is out, and while it doesn’t give us any zombies, it still shows plenty of fear. That’s Frank Dillane’s character,…

Even He-Man Has A Comic Book Multiverse Now

Multiverses! Don’t you know the key to comic book superstardom is an interconnected mess of alternate realities? Everyone has one, whether they’re tearing them up into a zillion pieces or slowly stitching them back together for the umpteenth time. The latest Comic to jump on the bandwagon? Why, He-Man, of course. Minor spoilers for DC’s…

Kepler-138b Is Now The Lightest Exoplanet Ever Discovered

For the first time ever, astronomers have measured the size and mass of an exoplanet smaller than Earth. A team of astronomers from Penn State, NASA Ames, the University of Chicago, and the SETI Institute have measured the mass of a Mars-sized exoplanet located 200 light-years away. That’s astonishing, particularly considering that this planet, called…

Pixar Has A Brand New Masterpiece: Inside Out Will Make You Smarter

The concept of Inside Out sounds unbearably twee, not to mention borrowed from the sitcom Herman’s Head. We’re seeing inside the head of a young girl, where each of her emotions is a cartoon, voiced by a comedian. But Inside Out is actually a brilliant movie about the beginning of wisdom. What follows contains minor…

Watch As Waves Of Glowing Genes Build A Spine

Not only do you need all of your organs, you need them all in the proper proportion. How does one segment of the vertebra know how big to get compared to another? Now we can see the spine growing in incredible glowing waves. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) took a look at…

It’s Friday. You’re A GIF. And This Is A Party. 

Eat, drink, and be merry GIFs, for someday, you shall pixelate. Today, though, you shall only party. What tales and tricks have you to share with us this week? Settle in among our electronic punch bowls and tell us about it in the way that only you can: Through interpretive GIFing. GIF: Zack Dougherty (riffing…

Sony and Paramount will join Marvel in skipping Comic Con’s Hall H this year. It seems to be an issue of timing, with neither studio having anything appropriate to promote. A spokesperson told Variety, “It wasn’t a knock against Comic-Con, the film cycles just didn’t allow it.”

How We Discovered The Dark Side Of Wearable Fitness Trackers

Wearable technologies like fitness trackers are becoming hugely popular, leading many to speculate about the potential for implantable technologies to augment human biology. The question that is often not asked however is: “How do we feel about living with technology on (or in) our bodies 24/7?” You no longer have to look to science fiction…

One Major Game Of Thrones Character May Not Be As Dead As We Thought

Channing Tatum gives a definitive answer about Gambit appearing in X-Men: Apocalypse. Ron Perlman talks Hellboy 3. Rosario Dawson teases her most anticipated part of Daredevil season 2. Plus, Gillian Anderson on returning to X-Files, Paul Rudd on Civil War, and new clips from Star Wars Rebels. To me, my Spoilers! X-Men: Apocalypse During a…

Let’s Revisit the CW’s Beauty and the Beast: Is It As Bad As I Remember?

Spoiler alert: Yes. Oh my god, yes. It’s still as full of horrible people making horrible decisions as I remember. Two years ago, we stopped recapping the CW’s Beauty and the Beast, because it was bad, no one cared about it, and I was developing a facial tick whenever it was brought up. The absolute…

Here’s How the Scooby Doo Crew Would’ve Dressed Through the 20th Century

In her delightfully titled “Scooby Doo, When Are You?” series, artist Julia Wytrazek has perfectly imagined what Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Fred would have worn from 1910 through to the ’90s. I might be biased, but I like Velma’s looks the best. On her Behance page, Wytrazek explains how the show’s own reinventions over the…

A Glowing Dot of Light Goes On a Fantastic Journey

In “One Bright Dot,” the titular dot travels from the depths of the ocean up to the stars, finally coming to rest right where all adventures like this truly start. It’s a stunning short. If you want single images to inspect for their beauty, you can see them here. [via Everything Animated] Contact the author…

This Auction Of Vintage Science Fiction Movie Posters Is A Pulp Goldmine

“What’s beautiful about sci-fi posters from the 1950s and ’60s is that they’re so graphic, and the imagery is so over the top,” says Grey Smith, the director for Heritage Auctions’ new auction of vintage movie posters owned by collector Edward Sommer. Talking to Forbes Life, Smith says the above poster for Doris Wishman’s classic…

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Emergency Protocol — RUUUUUN!!!!!

In this week’s Concept Art Writing Prompt by Christian Bravery of Leading Light Design, a lunar mission stumbles across something very unexpected. You tell us: How the hell did they stumble across undiscovered monsters on the moon? Shake off your writers’ block with our weekly Concept Art Writing Prompt, where we invite you to write…

A Step-By-Step Guide To Mummification 

In this TED-Ed episode, we hear in delightfully morbid detail how the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead. Drain the brain, bottle the organs, salt the body and entomb for thousands of years. Simple as that! Big props to The Moving Company Animation Studio for their whimsical animation, which perfectly complements the tone of narrator Susan…

Honor Harrington Kicks Space-Bear Butt In This Trailer For Her New Comic

This week, Honor Harrington made her return to comic books in Tales of Honor: Bred To Kill, with a whole new adventure to fight her way out of. To celebrate, Top Cow and Image have release a short new trailer to celebrate, and— wait, is Honor fighting a giant space-bear thing!? Here’s a short description…

First Set Photos Of Female-Led Ghostbusters Show Our Heroines In Costume

Filming has begun for Paul Feig’s upcoming Ghostbusters movie, with Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones as the new proton pack-wielding foursome. And the first photos offer a few clues to what kinds of characters these ladies will be playing. Collider points us to a few set pictures that have gone out…