Are Geologists Able To Drill To The Center Of The Earth?

“Are geologists… better than engineers? … able to drill to the center of the Earth? … the sexiest man [sic] alive?” Geologist Miles Traer (previously here & here) typed “Are geologists…” into Google then used the rest of the alphabet and auto-complete to finish the questions. He then did his best to answer them. The…

The New Constantine Comic Is Way More Comfortable With His Bisexuality

This week saw the launch of Constantine: Hellblazer, a new DC ongoing series for everyone’s favorite British Occult Detective. And while its first issue is enjoyable in and of itself, it has one notable little element to it: The comic is portraying John Constantine’s bisexuality more openly than ever before. Minor spoilers ahead for Constantine:…

Mongooses Have The Stupidest (But Most Crucial) Superpower Ever

Banded mongooses live together in big troops. Unlike most troops of animals, the young don’t venture off into the world to find or found troops of their own. There are consequences to families staying together, and the mongoose avoids them in a way we still don’t understand. There’s a reason males and female animals tend…

Unprecedented Photos Show A Polar Bear Eating Dolphins

For the first time ever, scientists have observed a polar bear catching and eating white-beaked dolphins. It’s suspected that the dolphins ventured too far north and became stranded in the ice — a possible consequence of climate change. The observation was made by Jon Aars and his colleagues from the Norwegian Polar Institute on April…

The Strange Case of the $15,000 Magic Card

On the final weekend in May, Magic: the Gathering held a massive tournament in Las Vegas (and also in Chiba, Japan and Utrecht, Holland) that shattered attendance records, included at least one wedding, tons of cosplay, and one card opened from a new, current pack that ended up being worth almost $15,000. There are a…

Celebrate Sir Christopher Lee’s Career With His Many Cinematic Deaths

I’m devastated at the loss of the great Sir Christopher Lee, arguably cinema’s finest screen villain and certainly one of its most prolific. But as we mourn the man, we should also celebrate his incredible body of work — including this compilation of his many, many fantastic death scenes. Contact the author at [email protected].

Marine Iguanas Can Literally Make Themselves Shrink

We start small and we get bigger. That’s the way it works for almost all life, and all vertebrates – except one. The marine iguana, found in the Galapagos, can literally shrink itself down when times get tough. Life on an island can be difficult. Sure, islands provide a haven from predators, but when things…

Fox has moved up the release date of The Martian from Thanksgiving to October 2, 2015. It’s the same date that Gravity had two years ago. We so often hear of movies getting release dates pushed back, a vote of confidence like this has become a pleasant surprise. [via First Showing]

RIP Sir Christopher Lee, 1922-2015

The legendary British actor Sir Christopher Lee — known to many for his roles as Dracula, Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun, Saruman in The Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels — has died. Lee, who was suffering from respiratory problems, passed away in Hospital on Sunday.…

Have We Already Met Doctor Who‘s Next Companion?

SPECTRE shows off some new footage, and there’s another look at X-Men: Apocalypse. Plus, get a look at Mulder and Scully back in action on The X-Files, teases for season two of The Flash and iZombie, who is and who isn’t returning for Heroes Reborn, and more. Behold, spoilers! X-Men: Apocalypse Brian Singer has posted…

On the Finale of iZombie, Everyone Becomes a Villain

In “Blaine’s World,” we ended the season with every kind of villain possible. There were human villains and zombie villains. All joined together by one motive: selfishness. Spoilers… On the human side of things, we had Max Rager (and its CEO, Vaughn Du Clark), Cameron, and Major. On the zombie side, we have the Meat…

How Syfy’s Dark Matter Created the Ultimate Police Ship

In Syfy’s new series, Dark Matter, a crew of six wake up from hibernation with no memory of who they are or what their mission is. But they’re not alone in space, which is run by multi-planet conglomerates. The major policing force is the Galactic Authority, and we’ve got an exclusive look at how the…

Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters Casts Thor As Its Receptionist

In the new Ghostbusters, starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, the receptionist will be played by Chris Hemsworth. Oh please, oh please, let him have the same sort of deadpan reaction to everything that Janine had in the original. Here’s Paul Feig’s tweet: Look, I will give Sony all my money…

This Clip Makes Batman V. Superman XXX Look Like A Decent Fan Film

We have to wait until next March to see Batman v. Superman in theaters — but luckily, today sees the release on DVD of Axel Braun’s latest porn parody, Batman Vs. Superman XXX. We’ve got an exclusive safe-for-work clip, which actually makes this look like a pretty decent fan film. Here’s that clip, in which…

This Cartoon About Animals Loose On A Space Station Is Making Us Giggle

A chameleon isn’t exactly thrilled about its life in captivity aboard a space station, but things quickly get dangerous (not to mention wacky) when disaster strikes and the animals get loose in microgravity. Fortunately, even when it’s floating, our reptilian hero is fast on its feet. Li Wen Toh made Space Critters, a first-year film…

It’s Raining Lampreys In Fairbanks, Alaska

It seems hungry birds have been snatching the lampreys from their watery spawning grounds and dropping them over land when they lose their grip on the long, wriggly, toothy fish. The hypothesis comes from the experts at Lamprey Conservation and Management, who have seen this kind of thing before. “We recently observed a similar situation…

Dan Simmons Fan Bradley Cooper Is Finally Making His Hyperion Adaptation

Dan Simmons’ Hugo-winning Hyperion is set to become an “event series” on Syfy, courtesy of producers Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips (The Hangover), and Graham King (The Departed), plus Itamar Moses (Boardwalk Empire), who’ll write the adaptation of what’s often called scifi’s answer to The Canterbury Tales. Deadline reports: Set on the eve of Armageddon with…

Here’s How Trees Can Be Sources Of Pollution (And How They Can Stop)

We know the drill. Cities are gray pollution farms and forests are verdant planetary saviors. We also know it’s more complicated than that. Here’s an interesting way a seemingly “green” forest can be a source of pollution. Approximately 30 percent of forested land in Japan consists of plantations. Some of them are new, well-managed, and…

The Suicide Rate Among Female Veterans Is “Obscenely High”

Male suicides outnumber female in every country on Earth, usually by a lot. In the U.S., men kill themselves around four times as often as women. But results of a newly published study reveal America’s female veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women—a rate that approaches that of male veterans.…

Inflatable Tanks, Paradummies And More Incredible Fake Objects From WWII

Deception was imperative during WWII, and sometimes to the trickery got very surreal. In order to distract the enemy, militaries would create fake vehicles, weaponry, soldiers, and even entire towns. And they were pretty convincing — if you didn’t look too close. Inflatable tanks, utilized by a United States Army tactical deception unit (known as…