Chris Pratt Looks Absurdly Good On The Set Of Jurassic World

The first official image of Chris Pratt on the set of Jurassic World is out and wow. He looks good. Like, really good. Really, really, really good. Thanks to The Onion’s A.V. Club, we now have these glorious shots of Chris Pratt in character on the set of Jurassic World. Note: not only is he…

Exclusive Look Inside Syfy’s Post-Apocalyptic Angel Drama Dominion

Here is everything you need to know about Syfy’s new, bloody angel series Dominion. Get a good look at post-apocalyptic wasteland that humanity clings to after a 25-year holy war, as well as the evil angels that have turned on humankind. This is actually a good crop of footage from the new series. It’s really…

Rigor Mortis Tries to Reinvent Hopping Vampires for the Modern Age

In Chinese legend, the jiangshi is a vampire-like monster known for leaping after the living in order to drain their life force. Both scary and silly, they inspired a whole genre in Hong Kong cinema, one that director Juno Mak has tried to modernize in Rigor Mortis. He failed, but it’s still a fascinating failure.…

The CIA’s drone strike program in Pakistan, once the mainstay of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism effort, is winding down. One reason: the targeted killing operation relies on drones flown from — and intelligence gathered by — bases in Afghanistan, which will be closing down as the U.S. withdraws.

Can You Recognize Earth’s Most Famous Landmarks From 500 Miles Above?

You may know these sites at a glance from ground-level. But can you still identify them when looking down from space? The ESA put together this look at some of the most famous spots on earth from far above to see which ones are still recognizable. Some of them, like the famous set of islands…

Boeing’s New “Space Taxi” Will Launch Astronauts To Space From US Soil

Earlier this week, Boeing unveiled a full scale mockup of its CST-100commercial “space taxi” at the new home of its future manufacturing site at the Kennedy Space Center — the same facility that was used to prepare NASA’s space shuttle orbiters for missions. All images: Ken Kramer/Universe Today. The overriding goal is restart the United…

Praise Batman The Redeemer, It’s A New Zero Theorem Trailer!

Terry Gilliam’s bewilderingly awesome new movie The Zero Theorem can’t get here soon enough. Hopefully this new international trailer, chock full of new footage and more clues to what the movie is about, will help tide us all over until the movie’s release (whenever the hell that’ll be).

Does A New Photo Reveal Who Oscar Isaac Is Playing In Star Wars?

There’s a first look at the building that will stand in for LexCorp in Batman V. Superman. Star Wars will stay in the United Kingdom for another movie. Brian K. Vaughan has left Under The Dome. Brian Bendis talks about the Powers TV show. And there’s a profile on The Flash’s science team. Spoilers now!…

Why Can’t We Have More B-TV?

We used to have a lot of lower-budget shows, usually syndicated, that were tons of fun to watch. We loved them, even if they weren’t perfect in their executions. So where did all the Xenas and Herculeses go? And should we have them back? Remember when? Back in the 90s and into the very early…

Trailer for Turtle Power Documentary Reminds Us Why We Love the Turtles

The documentary’ll be available August 12, just four days after the Michael Bay-ified movie version comes out. Think of it like a palate cleanser. Here’s a description of the documentary from Comic Book Resources: Work on “Turtle Power” first started in 2009, with the producers stating more than a “hundred hours of interviews from every…

The Skies Are Coming After Those of Us on the Ground

Camille Seaman, 2013 TED presenter on storm chasing, has been photographing storms since 2008. Her now six year-old collection is called The Big Cloud, a title which is very, very accurate. But more than that, her photos show the storms as the heavens reaching down to us. Here are two more clouds that seem to…

Stephen Colbert Addresses the Android Threat

With the Turing test all over the news, Stephen Colbert asks “How close are we to having to battle AI for existence?” He also answers that question with “Now.” The Colbert Report Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Colbert Report on Facebook The Colbert Report Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The…

A New Webcomic Short Story By A Master Of Fairytale Horror

When it comes to creepy webcomics, nobody makes them like Emily Carroll. In her latest unnerving comic, a girl is lured into a ghost story through a series of fairytale dreams. “The Hole the Fox Did Make” is deceptively simple at first. Carroll’s comics are often built for the web, using different sizes and styles…

Could El Niño Save California From This Year’s Drought?

El Niño seems to be on its way this year, with current odds placing it at 80% that we’ll see it by the fall. But would El Niño’s arrival really mean a little relief for drought-stricken California? A look at the last 60 years of what El Niño has done to the state is pretty…

Comedy-Bot Makes You Scream In Terror Long Before It Makes You Laugh

We last mentioned Dorian, the Japanese robot programmed with seven distinctly terrifying expressions, way back in 2009. Since then, he’s been upgraded to be funny, and we now have actual footage of Dorian in action. Even though the robot is “joking,” you may never goddamned laugh again. Dorian — who was named well before Michael…

Mastodon Music Video Is An Impressive Tale of A Geek Hero’s Journey

Mastodon is back, and heralding their return is an epic LARP-centric video of one small hero’s epic journey. And it kicks so much ass. It’s really just a good watch from the start all the way to the end. “High Road” was directed by Robert Schober (who has filmed many of our favorite music videos).

A Latin Poem So Filthy, It Wasn’t Translated Until The 20th Century

Any student of Latin lyric poetry will tell you that Catullus’ poems get pretty raunchy, obsessed with genitalia, semen, and sex in general. But one of his poems is so vulgar that an uncensored modern English translation wasn’t published until the 20th century. The text below includes a translation of the poem which is NSFW…

What The Night Sky Would Look Like From Inside A Globular Cluster

Globular clusters are incredibly dense structures often featuring hundreds of thousands of stars packed into a relatively small space. So what would it be like to live inside such a thing? A team of astronomers recently created a simulation to find out. All images by William Harris and Jeremy Webb; used here with permission. For…

Legend Of Korra Trailer Reveals More Airbenders—And Old Man Zuko!

There is no dialogue in the first official trailer for The Legend of Korra: Book 3—just sweet, sweet action. And it’s hitting all the things we want: more Lin, more Asami, some fearsome-looking foes, and an aged but still ass-kicking Zuko. The second book of Korra had plenty of hiccups, but we’re hoping that the…

Scientists Have Created an “Absolutely Crazy” Deadly Airborne Flu Virus

Researchers led by controversial influenza researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka have genetically engineered a “1918-flu like virus composed of avian influenza virus segments” they claim is more pathogenic than the original (which killed 50-million people). Above: Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Avian influenza A H5N1 viruses | Photo Credit: Centers for Disease Control / Cynthia Goldsmith; Jacqueline…