The #VeryRealisticYA Hashtag Shows The Truth About Teen Adventures

Our new favorite hashtag is #VeryRealisticYA, which in addition to pointing out all that is ridiculous about the red-hot but not always relatable YA genre, happens to be gut-bustingly hilarious. (Even better: it was created by an actual teen writer!) Here are some of our favorites. And from the hashtag’s young creator, who wondered on…

Vintage Cover Art Suggests Future Laden With Guns, Space Suits For Dogs

Behold, the first-edition cover art for Fredric Brown’s 1951 Space on My Hands. The classic science-fiction short-story collection contains “Knock,” which begins with two of the most evocative sentences ever: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door …” Later editions of Space on My Hands…

Secret Lives of Pandas Revealed by Electronic Stalking

Giant pandas turn out to be a lot more social — and flirtatious — than anyone had ever imagined, according to new research. The study, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Mammalogy, provides evidence that the iconic black and white bears are not always solitary creatures, as was once thought, but instead…

New Favorite Theory: All Of Kyle MacLachlan’s Roles Are The Same Person!

Nowadays everything is trying to be a shared universe mega-franchise to get some sweet Avengers level money. But what if there was a fan favorite crossover franchise spanning every genre, that you’ve already been watching for decades? We’re speaking, of course, of the unified Kyle MacLachlan Universe. Update: MacLachlan responds! With the prophesied return of…

Why Can’t Wonder Woman Toys Get Her Most Important Accessory Right? 

You can’t buy a Captain America action figure without his patriotic shield. Most Batman toys come with batarangs or at least some alternate bat-branded weaponry. So why is it nearly impossible to find a Wonder Woman action figure that comes with her iconic golden Lasso of Truth? Actually, many Wonder Woman toys include a Lasso…

The Most Mind-Blowing Cosplay From Emerald City Comicon…. So Far

Cosplay is our sartorial gateway to fantastical worlds and wonderful visions. We can never actually visit the places we watch and read about in science fiction and fantasy, but really great cosplay brings us closer to them. This weekend is Emerald City Comicon, and we’ve been blown away by some of the costumes thus far.…

Size matters: Elephants and whales are the only two animals that show up from space when tracked using “commercially available” resolutions. Satellite images have been used to prevent poaching, as well as to keep track of creatures that manage to be as elusive as they are enormous.

All Hail King Wallace As He Munches On His Iron Throne Made Of Carrots

Wallace the rabbit is already a budding YouTube celebrity, and now he’s the King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, and the happy owner of an Iron Throne carefully crafted from carrots. [Via Neatorama, Huffington Post]

Too Bad, That Rumor About A New Star Trek TV Show Is Absolutely False

We’d all love to see a brand new Star Trek TV series, as the show warps towards its 50th anniversary. Almost everyone agrees Trek belongs on television, where thoughtful stories and optimism can flourish. But the latest rumor about a Star Trek TV show in the works? Is absolutely 100 percent false. Top image: Star…

Man Plus Has The Kookiest And Therefore Greatest Plan To Colonize Mars

Between Mars One sounding fishy and Curiosity finding nitrogen, Mars is back in the news (if it ever really left). There’s still an interest in colonizing “The Angry Red Planet,” but that’s still a long way off from happening. I can only presume that’s because the folks at NASA and the other space exploration organizations…

Year in Space For Russian-American Crew Begins With Spectacular Launch

The first ever ‘One-Year Mission’ to the International Space Station (ISS) started with a bang March 27, with the spectacular nighttime launch of the Russian/American crew from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and culminated with a flawless docking. The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft is seen as it launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 43’s…

Now Marvel Wants You To Subscribe To Clothing, Too!

Not content with having a multimedia empire spanning comic books, TV, and movies, Marvel now has its eyes set on a new feather in its cap of conquest: MENSWEAR! Marvel has joined forces with clothier Five Four in its latest scheme to shake you upside-down until all your money falls out of your pants pockets.…

Regal Yet Goofy Chinstrap Penguin Welcomes You To Antarctica

In this remarkable shot taken January 20, 2015, a Chinstrap penguin offers a close-up look at the distinctive marking that gives the bird its moniker. The waddling creature was photographed near the town of Villa Las Estrellas on Antarctica’s King George Island. AP Photo by Natacha Pisarenko

Anybody Remember The Long Lost  Cartoon Super Turbo Atomic Mega Rabbit?

It’s a shame that Saturday morning animation blocks are now extinct. Was there ever a greater anthropomorphic action cartoon than Super Turbo Atomic Mega Rabbit? Thankfully YouTuber Mr GeekyGod has salvaged the intro from an old VHS and posted it online for your viewing pleasure: What, don’t you remember Super Turbo Atomic Mega Rabbit? How…

Decoding All The James Bond Clues In The Spectre Teaser Trailer

The first teaser trailer for the James Bond movie Spectre was more subdued than we were expecting, but it was also jam-packed with hints about the movie’s plot. We went through and screencapped every important shot, and here are the secrets of Spectre that we were able to find. The Bombed-Out Remains Of The MI6…

Creepy Trailer Alert: “The Scariest Norwegian Film Ever” Has A Sequel

Director Pål Øie’s 2003 Dark Woods was voted “the scariest Norwegian film ever” by one of the country’s biggest tabloids. So it’s with no small fanfare that Dark Woods 2 is here, and thankfully has abandoned its predecessor’s reality TV framework for a much spookier setting: an abandoned hospital. Suggested double-feature, since the films look…

There May Be A Disease That Makes An Octopus Eat Its Own Arms

Here’s a horror with which to start your weekend. Multiple octopuses have been spotted engaging in autophagy — otherwise known as self-eating. They will consume their own arms, and no one knows why. Many animals, including the octopus, will engage in a behavior called autotomy. The animal will break off a limb as part of…

How long would it take to fall through Earth? For years, physics students have been told the answer is 42 minutes. But a new calculation, published in the latest issue ofThe American Journal of Physics, gives a more accurate travel time of 38 minutes. Over atScience, Adrian Cho unpacks the new equation.

The New City Of Babel

To an outside observer, the city of Babiru looked chaotic. But when the only direction a city can build is up, its inhabitants learn the history behind every single story. Concept art by Nivanh Chanthara from his project Babiru. Chanthara is collaborating with Fred Rambaud on Babiru, which focuses on the survival of the people…

What’s James Bond’s Darkest Secret? First Teaser Trailer For SPECTRE!

The first teaser trailer for the new James Bond movie, Spectre, raises more questions than it answers. What’s the secret that James Bond won’t share with anyone, because he won’t trust anyone? And why is James Bond venturing into the shadowy world of secret organizations?