The Original Evangelion TV Series Is Finally Coming To Blu-Ray

The wait is almost over! Studio Khara — new owners of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime franchise — have announced that they will finally be remastering the classic ’90s TV series in HD for the show’s first-ever Blu-ray release. Right now, this of course refers to a specifically Japanese release, but if you think if…

King Richard III’s Remains Have Been Confirmed To 99.999% Accuracy

The case is officially closed on what’s being called the oldest forensic investigation in history. A new genetic analysis is providing incontrovertible evidence that the skeleton found under a parking lot in Leicester belonged to the king, while uncovering new truths about his appearance and lineage. Richard III was the last king of England to…

Cypher System RPG Opens Up New Worlds With Shotguns & Sorcery

Numenera and The Strange have been a massive success for Monte Cook Games, and now the core rules that drive both games will be licensed to other game designers and released as a multi-genre RPG toolbox. The first official license is the fantasy noir Shotguns & Sorcery. One of the great things about Numenera, aside…

The Walking Dead Spinoff Series Casts Baby Voldemort

Robert Kirkman and Sons of Anarchy writer Dave Erickson are currently hard at work developing a secret Walking Dead spinoff series. Set in another part of the post apocalyptic future, very little is known about it… until now. Deadline is reporting that the currently titled Walking Dead spinoff project, Cobalt (which isn’t the official project…

Stephen Colbert’s Defense Of The New Lightsaber Is Awesomely Nerdy

Stephen Colbert has something to say to all of the scruffy-looking nerfherders who insist that the crossguard lightsaber in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer is impractical: he’s been a Star Wars fan a whole two weeks longer than the rest of us and he’s using his knowledge to school us on lightsaber design.…

A Brilliantly WTF Cartoon About Evil Teddy Bears Who Slaughter Unicorns

Sangre de Unicornio (Unicorn Blood) is an awesomely demented cartoon about a pair of teddy bear brothers who hunt unicorns for their blueberry-flavored blood. And the bizarre tale of brotherly love and betrayal is set to a perfect sludge metal soundtrack. Alberto Vazquez is the very, very strange mind behind this short film. The song…

With towering bones jutting out of the snow, Whale Bone Alley is Siberia’s answer to Stonehenge. The 600-year-old-structure — made from 34 whale jaw bones, each 16-feet-high — was erected by indigenous tribes to create a neutral place of worship. Recently, it’s become a popular destination for Western tourists.

Behold NASA’s Awesome New Countdown Clock

In anticipation of its new deep space explorer, NASA has unveiled a sleek countdown display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The modern, digital LED display is replacing the iconic analog countdown clock. The new display, which resembles a stadium monitor, is similar in size to the historic clock. It features a screen nearly…

What From Today Will People Still Be Enjoying 100 Years From Now?

Sometimes it’s hard to see our own time clearly — especially what from it will last and what will fall away. Today we want to know what you think will stand the test of time. Maybe it’s a book or TV series that has yet to become a classic, but you believe will. Maybe it’s…

​Without Dark Matter, There Would Be No Life

The evolution of life is a 13.8 billion-year-long chain of events, from the Big Bang through the creation of chemical elements, galaxies, planets and the first self-replicating organisms. But without dark matter’s influence, says an astrophysicist, it’s hard to see how anything as complex as life could have emerged. James Bullock, a professor of physics…

Is This TV’s New Supergirl?

The Vampire Diaries’ Claire Holt is in the running to play Kara Zor-El, the Kryptonian better known as Supergirl in CBS’s upcoming superhero TV series. I don’t know Holt’s work on VD (hey, that’s how The CW abbreviates the show), so you tell me — is this a good thing or a bad thing? I…

How Scientists (And Artists) Make See-Through Corpses

Labs, taxidermy stores, and movies about mad scientists are populated with semi-translucent creatures in jars. These are commonly called “diaphonized” creatures, and they’ve been in real labs since the 1970s. But what started as a way to get a good look at skeletons became art. The first step in the diaphonization process is a long…

How Can the Rest of The Walking Dead‘s Season Get Even Darker?

There’s a new rumor about who Andy Serkis is playing in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — and it’s more than one character. Plus more filming for Avengers: Age of Ultron, and details for the Doctor Who Christmas special revealed! And David S. Goyer updates us on the Sandman movie. Spoilers now! Top image: The…

Black Mirror, the dark science fiction anthology series created by Charlie Brooker, now has both season 1 and season 2 available on Netflix. We loved this series and highly recommend checking it out, if you haven’t yet. Or, re-watching it if you have.

Here’s Thor Made Out of Coffee Cups. Because Coffee. And Australia.

As near as I can tell, this was a promotional gimmick for the Australian coffee chain The Coffee Club. The fact that the Coffee Club is Australian makes the choice of Chris Hemsworth understandable. It took 2000 coffee cups to make this. It would have taken longer if Thor was there smashing cups as they…

Christopher Nolan Was Asked to Bless The LEGO Movie‘s Jerk Batman

The LEGO Movie’s version of Batman is not exactly the same guy that prowled the streets of Christopher Nolan’s Gotham. So, according to producer Dan Lin, the production went to both Nolan and Warner Bros. to make sure Will Arnett’s horrible boyfriend version of Batman was okay. Speaking at the Animation Roundtable, Lin said: We…

This Typographic Analysis Of Alien Is Terrifyingly, Wonderfully Geeky

You might consider yourself an Alien expert. You may be able to quote the entire film, backwards, or know who was the third assistant focus-puller. But I guarantee that not even Ridley Scott has knowledge of the movie’s typography like this guy. Dave Addey is an Apple employee, but he also writes a blog called…

This Incredible Image Reveals the Shape of Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Field

What you’re seeing here are actually two aspects of our galaxy that your naked eye can’t perceive: its temperature, and its magnetic field. The colors show temperature, with dark red the hottest and dark blue the coldest. And the relief lines reveal the shape of the vast magnetic field that envelops our galaxy and protects…

Work-Safe Trailer For The X-Rated Hunger Games Parody, The Humper Games

I don’t know what’s more surprising: That it took this long to get a Hunger Games porn parody, or that the spoof includes jokes about the debate over whether Hunger Games ripped offBattle Royale. Plus Jennifer’s Lawrence’s real-life nudes getting leaked online. See for yourself, in the trailer for The Humper Games. This is from…

Who Had The Funniest Death Scene Of All Time?

A tragic death scene can be incredibly moving. Or cool. Or startling. Or just bizarre. But sometimes, a character dies, and it’s just screamingly funny. Either on purpose, or because the actor decided to go kind of over the top with it. What’s the funniest death scene ever? Please include a picture, poster, clip, book…