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Scientists Identify a Whole New Way of Catching Prey: Kleptopredation

Food webs might seem clear to you—grass grows in the sun, cows eat the grass, you eat the cow, you play on the computer. But it doesn’t always work that way in the animal kingdom. Today’s word of the day is kleptopredation, a new way of eating that was recently discovered in a species of…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Tropical Protected Areas Are Keeping a Huge Amount of Carbon Out of the Air

Tropical protected areas aren’t just havens for wildlife. They’re playing a major, and majorly under-appreciated role in mitigating climate change. A new study estimates that on a global scale, tropical protected areas reduced carbon emissions associated with deforestation by nearly 5 billion tons, or 30%, between 2000 and 2012. That’s about half as much carbon…

Conservation Maddie Stone

Report: Marvel’s New Warriors Show Is Looking for a New Home

Shortly after it was announced, New Warriors was picked up straight-to-series at Freeform, ABC’s youth-oriented channel. But now Squirrel Girl and her friends are apparently looking for a new channel to air on—and reports suggest its options are limited. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Marvel and Freeform went separate ways for New Warriors after…

Television James Whitbrook

Maria Dredges Up Painful Memories for NYC Puerto Ricans Who Lived Through Sandy

Rain pitter-pattered outside her window on October 28, 2012, but Maria Quiñones wasn’t fazed. She was busy cooking for her mother’s 75th birthday. Typical Puerto Rican dishes were on the menu: jamon, arroz con garbanzos, potato salad, and ribs. Quiñones and her family will never forget that day. Just 24 hours later, Hurricane Sandy swept into…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

New Ant-Man and the Wasp Set Pictures Give Us a First Look at an Iconic Comics Character

Mark Ruffalo talks about Hulk’s new friendships in Avengers: Infinity War. Luke Skywalker wields an important artifact in a new The Last Jedi poster. The Flash is casting a few more comic book bad guys this season. Plus, a special guest star for The X-Files, Good Omens casts some Horsemen, and new Star Wars Rebels…

Television James Whitbrook

Sony’s Robotic Dog Aibo Is Back From the Dead

First released back in 1999, Sony’s robotic dog Aibo was so lifelike and animated that devoted owners are still doing everything they can to keep their aging pets alive, after Sony discontinued repair service on earlier models. But 18 years later, it might finally be time for them to say goodbye now that Sony has…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Wrap Up Your Halloween by Reading This Twitter Bot’s Weird Reddit-Generated Horror Stories

This year’s Tuesday-night Halloween means that most of the nation’s serial killers, monsters, and various stabby creatures have to turn in early for a bright and early hump day. But in lieu of being chased around by a low-budget demon, it’s not too late to wrap up your night by dimming the lights and reading…

Sploid Tom McKay

Sony’s Pivot to the PlayStation 4 Appears to Have Paid Off Big Time

Once-struggling tech giant Sony has had a very good 2017, buoyed in large part by the continued success of the Playstation 4, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. In its most recent quarterly filings, the company reported profits were up approximately 346 percent relative to the same period last year. According to the Post, the…

Gadgets Tom McKay

Survey: Most Americans Remain Blissfully Unaware of the Blockchain Revolution

With the cryptocurrency market cap now estimated to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars and a sort of familiar frenzy kicking into overdrive, here’s another reminder that widespread adoption by the U.S. public has not yet materialized. A September poll conducted by student loan refinancing market LendEDU found that 78.6 percent of Americans…

Tech News Tom McKay

You Won’t Believe the Insane Detail In These Incredible Movie Maps

If you frequent pop culture websites like ours, you see a lot of pop culture art. And at some point, it may all blend together. But one artist does something that’s so different, so out of the box, once you see it, you never forget it. That artist is Andrew DeGraff. DeGraff’s approach to pop…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

Breaking Down the Subtle Genius of John Carpenter’s Halloween

Most people would agree that John Carpenter’s Halloween is a legitimate masterpiece. Long before anyone was scared of Elm Street or Crystal Lake, the film basically invented the slasher genre. And while it’s easy to say how great it is, it’s harder to watch the film and point out exactly why that is. Thankfully, almost…

Movies Germain Lussier

Watch FX Wizards Create the Best Part of Valerian: The Movie’s Elaborate Spaceships

The silver lining of blockbuster sci-fi movies that end up being critical and box office disappointments is that you still get to see a bunch of neat spaceships on the big screen. But if, like most people, you didn’t bother seeing Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets in theaters, at least check out…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

Watch Me Try to Break Face ID a Bunch of Different Ways

I’ve now had the iPhone X for just 24 hours—the majority of which have been spent trying to break Face ID. For the most part, Face ID has worked as described—opening my phone when I’m sitting in the dark, or wearing a variety of glasses. It works whether my hair is up, down, or in…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Pipeline Protest Pumpkins Send a Halloween Message to Louisiana’s Governor

It’s Halloween, but some environmentalists can’t take a break. In Louisiana, opponents to the proposed 163-mile long Bayou Bridge Pipeline headed to the Capitol today. And they brought pumpkins. Roughly 20 people went to demand Gov. John Bel Edwards require an environmental impact statement for the proposed crude oil pipeline, Cherri Foytlin, state director of…

Earther Yessenia Funes

The Villain of Steven Universe‘s New Video Game May Have an Important Connection to the Show

Steven Universe: Save the Light picks up right when the last video game based on the hit animated show left off with Steven and the Crystal Gems having tamed a destructive Homeworld Gem weapon that was once used to raise entire armies made entirely out of hard light soldiers. Though the White Light Weapon decides…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

The EPA’s Science Advisory Board Will Now Be Stocked By Industry Shills

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the best scientists in the country won’t be able to advise the agency on environmental science. Rumors of the announcement had been swirling for months after the EPA canned most of its science advisory board members. Scott Pruitt made it official on Tuesday by signing…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Go Download Your New iPhone Emoji Right Now

Remember earlier this year when we told you a bunch of new emoji were on the way? Well, they’ve finally arrived for the iPhone in the iOS 11.1 update. Just go to Settings > General > Software Update. The new emoji first showed up on Android Oreo back in August, but they looked less like…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Artificial Intelligence Detects Suicidal Tendencies in People Using Brain Scans

Recent scientific progress has allowed us to begin decoding the significance of many different patterns of activity in the brain. Researchers have begun to understand patterns associated with disorders such as depression, in hopes of correcting it. Other research has zeroed in on how language and speech is signaled in the brain. In one often-cited…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Genndy Tartakovsky Wishes He Had More Time to Show Samurai Jack‘s Final Battle

The epic tale of Samurai Jack came to a conclusive end earlier this year with a final showdown between Jack and Aku. But even with a full season to build up to the ultimate end, Tartakovsky felt a little pressed for time. Discussing the final two episodes in a dense, wide-ranging interview on Samurai Jack’s…

Television Julie Muncy

Tech Giants Google, Facebook, and Twitter Testify Before Congress on Russian Election Meddling

Attorneys for Facebook, Google, and Twitter on Tuesday appeared on Capitol Hill to testify as part of the ongoing investigations into Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election. The companies—all of which were initially slow to acknowledge their role in the information war that took root as early as 2015—have as of this month…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Scientists Identify a Whole New Way of Catching Prey: Kleptopredation

Tropical Protected Areas Are Keeping a Huge Amount of Carbon Out of the Air

Report: Marvel’s New Warriors Show Is Looking for a New Home

Maria Dredges Up Painful Memories for NYC Puerto Ricans Who Lived Through Sandy

New Ant-Man and the Wasp Set Pictures Give Us a First Look at an Iconic Comics Character

Sony’s Robotic Dog Aibo Is Back From the Dead

Wrap Up Your Halloween by Reading This Twitter Bot’s Weird Reddit-Generated Horror Stories

Sony’s Pivot to the PlayStation 4 Appears to Have Paid Off Big Time

Survey: Most Americans Remain Blissfully Unaware of the Blockchain Revolution

You Won’t Believe the Insane Detail In These Incredible Movie Maps

Breaking Down the Subtle Genius of John Carpenter’s Halloween

Watch FX Wizards Create the Best Part of Valerian: The Movie’s Elaborate Spaceships

Watch Me Try to Break Face ID a Bunch of Different Ways

Pipeline Protest Pumpkins Send a Halloween Message to Louisiana’s Governor

The Villain of Steven Universe‘s New Video Game May Have an Important Connection to the Show

The EPA’s Science Advisory Board Will Now Be Stocked By Industry Shills

Go Download Your New iPhone Emoji Right Now

Artificial Intelligence Detects Suicidal Tendencies in People Using Brain Scans

Genndy Tartakovsky Wishes He Had More Time to Show Samurai Jack‘s Final Battle

Tech Giants Google, Facebook, and Twitter Testify Before Congress on Russian Election Meddling

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