This Week’s TV: Season Finales Of Teen Wolf, Helix, and Walking Dead!

We’ve got clips teasing the major showdowns on Teen Wolf, Helix, and The Walking Dead, while Being Human counts down its final episodes. Plus, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop debuts its reality show and two Birds of Prey meet on Arrow. Check out all the details below! Tonight Bitten (8 PM, Syfy) When the Mutts attack,…

First Teaser For ​Rosemary’s Baby Gives Zoe Saldana The Horror Haircut

We’re actually fairly excited for NBC’s upcoming Rosemary’s Baby remake, and not just because they have main character Zoe Saldana in the Mia Farrow haircut (although that helps). But overall we’re just genuinely excited for more TV horror! Check out the first stills and teaser from the miniseries right now. Jason Isaacs (Awake) and Patrick…

What Happens To The Surrounding Stars When One Of Them Goes Supernova?

What happens to a pair of binary stars when one of them goes supernova? These gorgeous shots of a binary star, in which one went supernova and the other remained intact, gives us one answer to that question. https://gizmodo.com/companion-to-a-supernova-1549709337

Oh God, ​The Walking Dead Is Setting Us Up For a Brutal Season Finale

Do you know what was wrong with the penultimate episode of season four of The Walking Dead? It’s that nothing really went wrong. In fact, it had a happy ending, which I think we all realize means next week’s actual season finale is going to destroy us. The episode, which was titled “Us” but should…

What Invention Has Made The Biggest Difference To You Personally?

There are innovations that are aimed at the changing the world (smartphones! the internet!) and then there are those with a much smaller focus group: you. Today, we want to know about the technological invention that has been most helpful to you personally. Is it a new lab technique that you changed the way you…

Check the TV Ratings of Any Show on IMDB Using This Cool Data Viz Tool

Ever wondered just how long it took for The Wire to get popular? Or why Prison Break got cancelled when it did? This interactive data viz lets you mine all of IMDB’s ratings data to find out. Put together by Kevin Wu, this data viz tool mines IMDB television ratings, then plots them against time.…

The Sleep Deprivation Publicity Stunt That Drove One Man Crazy

Back in 1959, science, charity, and publicity all came together in a particular stunt pulled by radio dj Peter Tripp. He would stay awake for 200 hours. And it literally drove him mad. Peter Tripp, a radio DJ, decided to stay awake for 200 hours, broadcasting his regular show at its regular time, as a…

The Future Is F@#$ed In An All-New X-Men: Days Of Future Past Trailer

Holy crap, you guys. This second X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer delivers the goods that the first one only hinted at: Sentinels in action! Bolivar Trask! Apocalyptic future New York! Young Professor X and Magneto smoldering at each other! I’m still super-confused at why Beast has reverted back to human form for a bit,…

Tons Of Details On Game of Thrones, Including What’s Not In The Books!

Could X-Men: Apocalypse bring back Gambit and Nightcrawler? Find out what’s in store in the third Hobbit movie. There are details about what The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s Oscorp is up to. Find out what’s going on with the Mass Effect movie. Plus, Marc Guggenheim pitches another Arrow spinoff. Spoilers now! X-Men: Apocalypse Speaking with Cine…

Prometheus 2 is (probably) arriving on March 4th, 2016. At the moment, it’s slotted for “an unnamed Ridley Scott project,” but since Scott recently confirmed the Prometheus 2 script is finished, it’s a likely guess. Are you ready for the continuing adventures of Space Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender’s severed head?

The ISS Has an Instrument Specifically Designed to Study Lightning

It’s called the Firestation, and it’s designed, in part, to study what comes out of the top of thunderstorms. Mika McKinnon has the details below. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-mysterious-gamma-ray-bursts-1549723614

This Gyrating Animatronic Doll Will Haunt Your Dreams

The thing dancing in this video is not a person. It’s a humanoid installation piece, featuring facial recognition technology that allows it to focus on and follow you with its gaze. And yes, it is freaky as all hell. On display March 6 – April 19 at David Zwirner Art Gallery in NYC, the unnamed…

Animals Could Help Reveal Why Humans Fall For Illusions

Visual illusions, such as the rabbit-duck (shown above) and café wall (shown below) are fascinating because they remind us of the discrepancy between perception and reality. But our knowledge of such illusions has been largely limited to studying humans. That is now changing. There is mounting evidence that other animals can fall prey to the…

What if Test Dummies Were Conscious for the Crash?

Two minutes. That’s all the time Malek Rizkallah needs to get thew viewer empathizing with the pair of crash test dummies in his unsettling animated short Crush. We’re really digging Crush’s stark look and feel; the film’s aesthetic is almost antiseptic, its central concept pretty undemanding. And yet, it manages to be effective in spite…

This Tumblr is the “Where Have I Seen That Guy Before?” of Costumes

For the costume nerds and those of us who can’t help but go “Haven’t I seen that before?” and take to Google, Recycled Movie Costumes is there for us. Star Trek and Gilligan’s Island share this coat. Doctor Who shared one of Romana’s costumes with Blake’s 7. And this dress has shown up just everywhere.…

Can Skepticism Blind You to the Truth?

An odd experiment, done by a believer in paranormal phenomena, opens a few questions about how everyone perceives the world. We know that belief can blind people – but can disbelief do the same thing? Arthur Ellison, a professor of electrical engineering and prank enthusiast, decided to end a lecture in an entertaining way. He…

Don’t Tell Me How to Be Inspired

This is a rant. It’s a rant because, sometimes, you’ve heard something just one too many times. And sometimes, things link together in my head. I had a conversation with a friend the other day. He was shaking his head over a girl he was seeing. She called herself a fantasy fan…but she had never…

Watch This Pianist Duel Against His Own Hologram

Japanese pianist Yoshiki faces off against a holographic version of himself in a piano battle for the ages. This strikes us as a more inventive use of the whole holographic-performer schtick than, say, Will.I.Am’s pointless CNN appearance in 2008. Still, I can’t help but feel like we could do better. Here’s some free advice: Somebody…

Cute Field Guide Helps You Remember Bird Calls with Beer, Cheeseburgers

We’re pretty infatuated with this brand new print from nature cartoonist Rosemary Mosco, creator of Bird and Moon comics. The premise is simple: Assign each a bird a catch phrase that sounds similar to the sound it makes in the wild. By remembering the catch phrase, you can better identify the sound – and the…

That Time Penis Bravado Caused NASA to Change its Condom Sizes

After the jump you’ll find a video, the first 33 seconds of which contain the best statement ever: The early astronaut urination system used condoms, sized small, medium, and large. But sizes were renamed “large, gigantic, and humongous” when the men would all grab the larges, regardless of their true size. Magical. [Editor’s note: This…