The Y: The Last Man movie might be dead, but that’s a good thing

The beloved comic series centered around the only male left on Earth, Y: The Last Man, may not become a movie. This is great news. In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Y: The Last Man co-creator Brian K. Vaughn revealed that production company New Line’s rights to this comic are about to lapse, which…

The genetics behind schizophrenia are more complex than we thought

An international team of researchers has found that the cause of schizophrenia is even more complex than already believed, with rare gene mutations contributing to the disorder. In two studies published in the journal Nature, they show that schizophrenia arises from the combined effects of many genes. Photo Credit: Alaina Abplanalp Photography. Blood DNA taken…

Rumors From the DC Movieverse: Lex Luthor Cast? Wonder Woman Movie?

And is Arrow going to cross into the Justice League movie? Plus Chris Pine wants Kirk to go “dark” in Star Trek 3. And there’s a chance of a T-Rex vs. robotic King Kong fight in Jurassic World. Go behind the scenes of RoboCop. And find out where Sleepy Hollow season three will pick up.…

Netflix Plans to Have a Three-Tiered Pricing Structure

Netflix is gearing up to overhaul it pricing structure. According to a shareholder letter and interviews with Gigaom, the streaming site will introduce a new three-tiered system for its customers. Writing in a fourth-quarter letter to its shareholders on Wednesday, CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells explained: “Last April we introduced a 4-concurrent stream…

Heart-melting Frozen fanart imagines life after the film

What happens in the Kingdom of Arendelle after the events of Frozen? Artist Vixen imagines castle life years after the film’s closing titles, and it’s pretty adorable. Frozen spoilers below. Vixen’s Frozen fanart series imagines Anna and Kristoff getting married and having a pair of children who very much take after their parents. You can…

Is this what Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles look like?

So far the only actual turtles we’ve seen from Michael Bay’s live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie have consisted of actors in Mocap suits and this creepy incognito turtle. But maybe this horrifying Halloween costume is our first real glimpse. In which case… there could be trouble. https://gizmodo.com/whats-inside-the-shells-of-michael-bays-cg-ninja-turtle-499065058 https://gizmodo.com/can-you-spot-the-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle-in-this-ph-850279339 TMNT spotted this allegedly official…

Researchers discover a new sensory ability in humans

“The human sense of smell is far better at guiding us through our everyday lives than we give it credit for,” said cognitive neuroscientist Johan Lundström. He was referring to what he and a research team just discovered, which is that humans can actually tell how much fat is in their food just by smelling…

Astronomers have spotted water plumes on dwarf planet Ceres

We’ve observed water on Ceres. The largest object in the asteroid belt, you may remember Ceres as the round, rock-ice body that was considered for reclassification as a planet in the midst of Pluto’s demotion. Astronomers observed the water in the form of vapor plumes, possibly issuing from volcano-like geysers on the dwarf planet’s surface.…

A new study suggests the Carthaginians sacrificed their own infant children, burying them with sacrificed animals and ritual inscriptions in special cemeteries to give thanks for favors from the gods. So this wasn’t Greek and Roman propaganda after all. Image: Giraud Patrick/Wikimedia Commons.

Man receives the creepiest letter ever from OfficeMax

It sounds like something out of a horror movie. Mike Seay, whose daughter died last year in a car accident, received a piece of junk mail from Office Max addressed to “Mike Seay, Daughter Killed In Car Crash.” How did OfficeMax have this information? The more he investigated, the more the story became science fiction.…

At last, The Originals adds real emotion to its random plot twists

Since The Originals started airing, it’s never been dull — the Vampire Diaries spinoff has followed in the footsteps of its parent show, throwing in plot twist after plot twist and betrayal on top of betrayal. But last night’s episode was the first time any of it felt emotionally powerful. Spoilers ahead… This show seems…

Crowley really does make everything on Supernatural 100 percent better

The meat of last night’s Supernatural was a “buddy-comedy” adventure in which Crowley, the King of Hell, replaces Sam as Dean’s partner in crime. The result is awesomeness, the likes of which this show hasn’t served up in ages. Spoilers ahead… What’s great about “First Born” is not just the whip-cracking repartee between Dean and…

California’s terrifying drought, summed up in two satellite images

California has declared a state of emergency after enduring months of a drought that has left the state with only half the rainfall of the lowest rainfall year on record. Nothing captures the foreboding more than these two stark images. California farms supply food to many other parts of the country and the world, so…

The Dark Knight trilogy makes for a strangely heartwarming comedy

Meet Batman-child, the Judd Apatow-ian protagonist in a brand-new comedy trailer assembled from all three films in The Dark Knight trilogy. Seeing as Bruce Wayne does, indeed, basically live in his parents’ basement, this video edit works out way too well. Calling it right now: James Franco as Scarecrow, Seth Rogen as Joker, Jason Segel…

The secret life of Star Trek

Miles O’Brien bridged the worlds between Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and a new fan theory explains why. After looking at these comics depicting the boredom of being the lone person working the Star Trek TNG transporter room, commenter Tolan advances this interesting theory: https://gizmodo.com/hilarious-comics-prove-obrien-had-the-crappiest-job-on-1506683204 Tolan Now I’m imagining…

Why you should avoid flu medication when you’re running a fever

Many of us take over-the-counter flu medication to suppress a fever, but as a Canadian mathematician has shown, this practice actually works to encourage its spread — a problem that costs as many as 1,000 preventable deaths in the U.S. each year. Fevers make us feel like crap, no doubt about it. But they actually…

Japan’s space agency, JAXA, is testing a giant, magnetic space net as a way to clean up space junk. Over at The New Scientist, they take a closer look at just what we can expect from the 700-meter long aluminum and steel net, set to launch next month.

Selfies In Space!

A selfie taken on Earth may not be that exciting, but snapped in space, the humble selfie suddenly becomes something pretty special. Here are some of the greatest spaces selfies ever to be snapped, ranging from the majestic, to the comic — even a few from before the selfie officially existed. Top image: Astronaut Mike…

Researchers predict Facebook will die out “like a disease”

By drawing similarities between Facebook’s rapid adoption and the proliferation of an infectious disease, researchers at Princeton have devised a model that predicts Facebook will lose 80% of its users by 2017. “Ideas, like diseases, have been shown to spread infectiously between people before eventually dying out, and have been successfully described with epidemiological models,”…

Which good book would be great, if you just changed one thing?

Sometimes a science fiction or fantasy novel is like a pure rush of storytelling awesome — with just one fatal flaw, that drags the whole thing down. It’s so frustrating, and makes you want to be a backseat author. Which good book would become great, if you made just one change to it? Please include…