See Adorable, Bumbling Attempts to Make History in the Minions Trailer

If you wondered where Despicable Me’s minions came from, what their motivations are, or their history, then this trailer has all your answers. Extra points for the whole thing being presented like a nature documentary, by the way. We would totally watch that.

First Teaser For Archer Season 6 Shows A Call To Action

The whole team is back in Archer season six, and this brief music-video teaser gives our first glimpses of what they’ve been doing since season five. Not to mention, what they’ll be doing when the show returns in January. Spoilers ahead… Looks like the whole gang is back to the spy biz, after a foray…

Yet Another Bat-Villain Is Coming To Gotham… But With A Twist

It should be no surprise that another classic Batman villain is going to show up on Gotham during the show’s already jam-packed first season. But this new villain is coming with a unique twist: he’s the same age as Bruce Wayne. Spoilers ahead… Sure, young Selina Kyle is approximately the same age as young Bruce…

A new study suggests that Americans live in a “culture of miserliness.” Why do Americans give away so little of their money and time, compared to people in other cultures? And is it making people in the U.S. more unhappy? The authors of an analysis of the study say it is.

It’s Looking More and More Likely That We Live in a Multiverse

Could our massive universe be just one of many, like a bubble in a frothy stream of cosmos-spawning stuff? It sounds like something out of a 1970s British scifi novel, but it’s become a popular explanation for the origin of our universe. But how can we test this hypothesis, when we’re stuck in just one…

Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn Directing The Female-Led Neon Demon

It’s officially happening — Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn’s female-driven horror movie previously known as I Walk With The Dead is getting made. Let’s hope Carey Mulligan, who was previously reported as starring in it, still has a big role. Not much is known about the plot of Neon Demon. It’s just described as a…

What’s The Absolute Worst Name Of Any Comic Book Character Ever?

Comics have a terrific sense of heightened reality, especially old superhero comics. And that’s how you get characters named things like Batroc the Leaper, the Commuter, and Frog-Man. (Sometimes they’re intentionally ludicrous, to be fair.) But what’s the worst or silliest character name in comics? Please include a picture, comics panel, piece of artwork or…

This Bizarre, Glittering Cloud Just Appeared in the Sky over Australia

The ABC is reporting an incredible sight in the skies over east Victoria, in the Gippsland area. It looks like a UFO, but it’s entirely natural. Photo by Peter Fell via ABC News No, it’s not chemtrails. Instead, it’s a type of cloud called a Fallstreak Hole. You may recognize that it glimmers in a…

Spoof Infographic Lists All The (Fake) Superhero Movies From 2020-2025

Were you floored by ComicsAlliance’s timeline, laying out the next six years of scheduled superhero movies? Well this spoof timeline looks even farther into the future, when we’ll have ill-advised crossover movies, superhero vacation flicks, and endless Deadpool films. The folks at Dorkly came up with this gag timeline, imagining a dystopian future of superhero…

Behold The Official Marvel Super Heroes/Attack On Titan Crossover

The crossover no one said could happen, because no one even considered it a possibility! Marvel’s C.B. Cebulski just tweeted the above picture of Spider-Man fleeing Attack on Titan’s terrifying, carnivorous giants — announcing that the American superheroes and the hit manga will share an official crossover. Cebulski says it’s a Japanese release, naturally, but…

The Moon Is A Laboratory

Our moon missions have served a variety of purposes ranging from technical ones to the satisfaction of our curiosity. But the moon has also served one very practical and immediate purpose: It’s a laboratory. Here’s a history of how we’ve used the moon as a scientific facility — and how we might do it in…

Comics Remove One Letter From Film Titles And Give Them Goofy New Plots

Here’s a fun game: remove one letter from a movie’s title and then reimagine the movie’s plot based on the new title. Artist Austin Light takes the game a step further, illustrating Pup Fiction, Jurassic Par, Finding Emo, and Twilight: New Moo. Light made these drawings based on typo movie titles submitted by reddit users…

This Time-Warping Novel Won China’s Version Of The Nebula Award

In Ruins of Time by Bao Shu, a disastrous time experiment locks the entire world into a time loop that lasts just 20 hours. And this Groundhog Day scenario just won China’s version of the Nebula Award, the Xingyun Award. Also honored with a Xingyun Award: Ken Liu, who translated the bestselling Chinese science fiction…

You’ll Adore The Winner Of This Year’s Dance Your Ph.D. Contest

Each year, the Dance Your Ph.D. contest challenges scientists to express their research through the medium of dance. Yeah, not easy. So you can image the lengths that contest winner Uma Nagendra had to go through to convey her paper on the beneficial ecological effects of tornadoes. Nagendra, who hails from New Orleans, is a…

Watching Once Upon A Time Feels Like Being Trapped Forever In Frozen

Last night’s Once Upon A Time squandered a pretty cool slow burn. But that’s OK, because there was plenty of Frozen shoehorned nods throughout the episode. It’s been 341 days since Frozen came out. It’s time to let Frozen die, people. I have had enough Frozen. I’m done. I cannot spend any more time in…

Here’s How the Apollo Team Trained for Their Historic Space Missions

The astronauts who flew in the Apollo space missions have been immortalized in images of their trips to space, and to the Moon. But in these photographs we see their human sides, as they prepped to leave the planet by training in some of the most forbidding locations on Earth. Fourteen NASA astronauts pose for…

Watch The American Civil War As It Rages Across Four Agonizing Years

Amateur military historian EmperorTigerstar has created a fascinating timelapse video showing the changing front lines of the American Civil War for each day of the conflict. First, check out that stifling Union blockade. It doesn’t change for the duration of the conflict, a chokehold the prevented the South from exporting resources, like cotton, and smuggling…

Neill Blomkamp’s Robot Chappie Is Super Happy, Has A Gun

Here’s a good look at Neill Blomkamp’s new comedy movie Chappie, starring a robot of the same name AND Die Antwoord. We’re still not sure about the tone of this film, but this poster is channeling a lot of excellent weirdness. [via Twitter]

​What If Dark Matter Were Actually A Vast Electric Field?

There isn’t enough visible matter in the universe to account for the gravitational force that holds galaxies together. That’s why scientists are searching for evidence of the missing “dark matter” that makes it possible. Now, one researcher has advanced an odd theory: dark matter is actually a galactic-scale electric field. Over the decades, astrophysicists have…

This Adorable Robotic Penguin Is Changing The Way We Study Animals

Observing animals in the wild while not disturbing them is a classic challenge for behavioral ecologists. But as a new study shows, the use of remotely operated robots to observe penguins and seals in their natural habitats can result in significantly lower and shorter stress responses. For the new study, Yvon Le Maho of the…