How All Of American Horror Story‘s Seasons Are Connected

Horror TV series American Horror Story reboots itself every year, re-casting the handful of regular players in entirely different roles, in an entirely different location during an entirely different time period. So imagine our surprise when show co-creator said each season was connected! In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, creator Ryan Murphy revealed the return…

SpaceShipTwo’s Descent System Deployed “Without Being Commanded”

Investigators looking into Friday’s tragic crash of SpaceShipTwo are saying that a safety device on the Virgin Galactic spacecraft had been deployed prematurely — and that it may have gone off spontaneously. According to federal investigators, SpaceShipTwo’s unique tail section, which “feathers” at an angle to help the spacecraft make a safe descent, unfurled as…

All The Best, Spookiest, And Most Adorable Halloween Costumes!

The candy has all been passed out, the jack-o’-lanterns are way past their prime, and any cobwebs you run into are almost guaranteed to be real. Halloween is over. There’s only one thing left to wrap up: checking out all the most amazing entries in this year’s Halloween Costume Show! Here are our favorites from…

A vampire-fanged deer has been spotted in Afghanistan, 60 years after its last appearance. Kashmir musk deer use their fangs during mating season to fight males and impress females. Their population has dropped 50% in just 20 years—poachers sell their musk glands, which are believed to have medicinal properties. Image: Julie Larsen Maher at the…

Why Your Best Hopes Should Lie With Your Worst Friends

If you fall into misfortune, it’s important to have a lot of good friends rally around you. They’ll get you through it, right? Nope! If you want to make successful connections, go to the people you barely know. Good friends are bound up in each other’s lives. They form social networks that, primarily, include only…

Another Big Game of Thrones Change! Plus The Weirdest Spidey Rumor Yet!

A new theory may explain the mystery brunette in Avengers: Age of Ultron. New hints about the reboots of The Crow and Hellraiser. Plus new details on the Superman characters who will join Supergirl. Spoilers now! Top image: Game of Thrones. Amazing Spider-Man 3 Rumors are once again circulating that Sony may seek to use…

Resurrection Suddenly Remembers and Resolves Last Season’s Cliffhanger

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been waiting for this show to resolve the question of Marty’s relationship to the Thompsons pretty much all season. We ended season one on the revelation of that, and we haven’t heard anything about that until now. Just in time to dispose of most of the Thompsons…

CBS has made a commitment to produce a pilot for a Limitless series, based on the2011 moviestarring Bradley Cooper. The show was in development last year, but now you can officially get ready for Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman’s take on a drug that enhances the brain with some intense side affects. [Deadline]

New Details Reveal Just How Totally Bananas Superman Lives Could’ve Been

For whatever reason, the failed Tim Burton and Nicholas Cage Superman Lives is making news again. Each little detail we get is slightly weirder than the ones we started with. And given that one of the ones we started with was a giant mechanical spider, that’s saying something. Making the rounds last week was an…

Marching Band Forms Real and Fictional Space Ships for Space-Themed Show

The Ohio State University Marching Band is at it again. While you might deduct points for relying too heavily on the music from the Abrams’ Star Trek films, they more than make up for it in their formations and their skill. Plus, they give special tribute to NASA, which is just awesome. [via Tastefully Offensive]

Surprise! Two More Marvel Characters Are In Age of Ultron

In case everything else we’ve seen and heard about Avengers: Age of Ultron didn’t move you, maybe this will. See who the two are inside, including spoilery speculation about what they’re doing Speaking with The Telegraph, Elba said: “Ironically, yesterday I had to…” Elba chuckles. He’s not meant to talk about this, but he clearly…

Why Do Zombies Shuffle?

This headline isn’t the set up for a joke (although I obviously welcome your punchlines in the comments); it’s a real question. Is there a neuroscientific basis for the prototypic zombie’s lumbering gait? Neuroscientists Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek wrote Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? to provide readers a neuroscientific view of the zombie…

You Either Solve This Riddle, Or You Die

Answer this week’s riddle incorrectly, and your life – and the lives of 22 others – will be forfeit. Sunday Puzzle #5: 23 Prisoners, 2 Switches A warden meets with 23 newly arrived prisoners. He tells them, “You may meet today and plan a strategy. But after today, you will be in isolated cells and…

Researcher Who Found ‘Puppy Sized Spider’ Received Death Threats

Last month, Harvard entomologist Piotr Naskrecki’s wrote a blog post about finding a “puppy-sized” spider in South America. The post went viral. A few days later, Naskrecki was receiving death threats. Why? For collecting one of the specimens he described in his post, and placing it in a museum. Naskrecki appeared on NPR yesterday to…

The 10 Greatest Changes Of The Past Millennium

Historian Ian Mortimer, author of Centuries of Change, has assembled an intriguing list of the ten biggest changes of the last 1000 years. Above: The French Academy of Sciences was established in 1666 The list, published atThe Guardian, focuses mostly on the UK and Europe, though a Eurocentric perspective on the last 1000 years isn’t…

Jane Goodall To John Oliver: “I Don’t Like You”

John Oliver sat down with primatologist Jane Goodall recently to discuss the “objectivity” of scientific research and, more importantly, brainstorm dirty chimp names. It was a surprisingly productive meeting, notwithstanding Goodall’s feelings toward Oliver. Seriously, though. Jane Goodall is the best.

The “Ideal” Microbiome Is a Myth

Embracing the complexity of the microbiome means doing away with pat conceptions of its function. Your body is a habitat to trillions of microscopic organisms known, collectively, as your microbiome. Today, the microbiome is one of the hottest areas of biological research, and for good reason. This body-wide ecosystem not only adapts to our diets,…

What Was the World’s First Triboluminescent Technology?

Triboluminescence is light emitted by the mechanical stimulation of crystals. The first people to use it might have been a Native American tribe. Learn about the physics of glowing crystals and the people who used it. You can generate triboluminescence relatively cheaply. All it takes is some quartz, which most of you can pick up…

Will Clara Pay A High Cost For Trying To Be The Doctor On Doctor Who?

Doctor Who’s two-part season finale aired its first half tonight, and the story is almost entirely driven by Clara Oswald and her decisions. It’s a measure of how much she’s grown as a character that this works as splendidly as it does. But did Clara just learn the true cost of trying to be the…

You Know How This Experiment Ends, But You Should Watch It Anyway

Most of you know that any two objects dropped in a vacuum will fall at the same rate. Some of you have probably even seen it demonstrated in person. But you’ve never seen this classic experiment reproduced in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber – and you really should. Physicist Brian Cox recently visited NASA’s Space…