36 Questions About Last Night’s Completely Ridiculous Gotham Finale

Sorry, guys, but there’s really no other way to convey the complete WTFery of Gotham’s terrible but entertainingly insane season one finale than to list the many, many questions it left me with. Seriously, if anybody knows what the hell was up with the chicken, please let me know. 1. What the hell happened to…

The First Observation Of Atmospheric Changes On A Rocky Exoplanet

It may be a terrestrial planet, but the changing atmospheric conditions on the so-called “Diamond Planet” are absolutely nothing like what we experience here on Earth. 55 Cancri e is a super-Earth located about 40 light-years away. It has a radius about twice the size of Earth and a mass that’s nearly eight times larger.…

The Deadliest Ways To Try To Put Out A Fire

When you have a fire, you add water. Problem solved. Sometimes, though, adding water isn’t an option, which is why some fire systems involve adding materials that can decompose into poisons or smother everything in the building. The Deadly Choice Not all buildings use water to put out a fire. If you drench a museum,…

The Second Stand-Alone Star Wars Movie May Be A Boba Fett Origin Film

The Wrap is reporting that the second Star Wars anthology film — i.e., the second film not part of the sequel trilogy, and the one that was going to be directed by Josh Trank until he exited last week — will reveal the origin of the fan-favorite bounty hunter Boba Fett. My question is this:…

Wondering how many times Matt Murdock falls over and how much alcohol is drunk in Netflix’s Daredevil? The best fan video ever has your answer. And Chumbawamba.

What’s The Most Interesting Debate In Your Field?

Shoptalk rarely gets heard outside of whatever set of doors you close when you step into your work or classroom, but today we want to hear all about the debates raging on in your field that most people never hear about. Can you not agree on whether a kilobit is 1,000 or 1,024 bits? Is…

Satellite Pic Reveals A Nepali Village Obliterated By A Landslide

On April 25, the Nepal earthquake triggered an avalanche that completely buried the village of Langtang. These before-and-after images taken from space show the extent of the damage. As reported in the Nepali Times, nearly all of the 200 inhabitants of the tiny village, which is situated along a popular hiking route near the base…

How Agents Of SHIELD Will Repair An Avengers: Age Of Ultron Plot Hole

Independence Day 2 casts its President. Take a look at Captain America and Iron Man’s outfits for Captain America: Civil War, and Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad. Plus, Candice Patton talks Iris discovering Barry’s secrets on The Flash, and teasers for Person of Interest’s season finale. So many spoilers! Top image: Agents of SHIELD. It…

There Are Stars Being Born At the Center of This Photo

This Hubble Telescope image has several galaxies floating through it, but at the center is UGC 5797, which is currently making stars to populate itself. The blue glow indicates prolific star formation, and, in this image, you can even pick out large blue stars that result. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Contact the author at…

Bill Nye Explains How Holograms Work

Any time Bill Nye explains anything like this, I’m immediately back in elementary school science class. He does use Princess Leia’s “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope” hologram as an example of things we can’t do yet, but not Star Trek’s holodeck. And the latter is much more important, I think. Contact the…

Everything in Outlander Is Out to Get Jamie

Every week brings more information that one of our main characters is a cosmic chewtoy. Nothing has gone right for Jamie, ever. Even his love for Claire is marred by the, you know, time travel parts. This week, we add dead brother to Jamie’s dead parents, crippled best friend, price on his head, whipping, and…

HBO Doesn’t Trust TV Reviewers Anymore

You can’t stop internet piracy—it’s like a force of nature—but that isn’t stopping HBO from trying. The company’s latest a anti-piracy measure? It’s not giving TV reviewers DVDs anymore. It’s a subtle change to how the company does business with the media, but it’s a shift in trust: Apparently the four episodes of Game of…

Bruce Timm Reacts To Suicide Squad’s Live-Action Harley Quinn

Just yesterday, you saw the new look for the Suicide Squad movie’s Harley Quinn. And today, we’ve asked Harley Quinn co-creator Bruce Timm for his thoughts on the lady who loves Mr. J and got some additional information on his new web series Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles on Machinima. Paul Dini and Bruce…

SMBC’s Starpocalypse Is Just Plain Wrong, And I Can’t Stop Watching

At last it’s online — Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Theater’s Starpocalypse is here, and your universe will never be the same again! In keeping withthe SMBC webcomic, which we’ve featured many times over the years, this online comedy video is silly, goofy and all kinds of demented. There’s a distinct pantomime sensibility to Starpocalypse, in…

Some Of Comics’ Best Artists Have Drawn Covers For The Fight Club Sequel

On May 27th, Chuck Palahniuk unleashes the long-awaited comic sequel to his best-selling book and its hit movie adaptation, courtesy of Dark Horse. We’re excited to bring you this collection of the first issue’s many covers — including a few exclusive reveals! — as we get the artists to break the first rule of Fight…

Clive Barker, Bob Orci, And RoboCop Are All Getting New Web Series

Online urban legends like Jeff the Killer, theSlender Man and Ben Drowned are all getting their own web series thanks to horror guru Clive Barker! Plus there’s new a new season of Bruce Timm’s Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles to get excited about! Here’s what we know. Machinima held their own “newfronts” presentation today…

Today’s XKCD Finally Takes Physics To Task

To be fair, though, physics has had this coming for years. Had this coming. What do I mean by that? Back in 2008, Randall Munroe published “Purity,” a single-panel comic that characterized sociology as applied psychology, psychology as applied biology, biology as applied chemistry, chemistry as applied physics, and physics as applied math. Maybe you’ve…

The Magicians Adaptation Is Finally Coming To A TV Screen Near You

A bid back in 2012 to bring Lev Grossman’s Magicians fantasy trilogy to TV fell through, but round two has proven a success: Syfy has given its new pilot a 12-episode series order, and it will begin filming this summer. As Deadline reports, producer Michael London was also behind the earlier Magicians adaptation that did…

Here’s Why A Bottle Of Beer Overflows When You Tap It

A quick tap on the top of a freshly-opened beer brings up a massive wave of fizz. This video lets you see how that happens, and tells you what’s happening inside the bottle. Once a beer is opened, the major pressure-release has already happened, so why does tapping the top with another bottle of beer…

Deepen Your Appreciation Of Scifi Cinema With These Movie Supercuts

There are so many things to appreciate about individual movies — the acting, the sound, the character designs. Sometimes supercuts focusing on a very specific aspect of a movie, a genre, or a director’s catalogue helps us better study and appreciate the small decisions that go into making a film great. Xenomorph scenes from Aliens…