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The FDA is Considering a Landmark Approval of Gene Therapy to Cure Blindness

On Tuesday, a US Food and Drug Administration review committee published a document signaling that a historic moment in medicine may be on the horizon. The committee found that an experimental gene therapy for a rare inherited form of blindness improves vision, at least in the short term. If approved, the technique would be the…

Health Kristen V. Brown

All the Secrets About the Battles to Come Hidden in the New Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer

Last night we got a glorious Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer, packed with new looks at the war to come between the Resistance and the First Order. As ever for modern Star Wars, it’s a trailer that’s as cryptic as it is epic in scope, but it’s also filled with new hints and secrets…

Movies James Whitbrook

Photoshop Contest: Porg Edition

The world has seen mere seconds of Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s porgs, but already they’re a divisive character. Some people love them, others hate them. But no matter where you stand, everybody wants to photoshop them. Yes, this is the internet, so people are going to town on the latest cuddly creature to invade…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Gifted‘s Take on Anti-Mutant Hatred Is a Bleak One

In nearly every other X-Men film and television show, mutants are presented as a relatively new global phenomenon that mainstream humanity is still struggling to make sense of. It’s that “newness” that sometimes makes the concept of mutants having some sense of collective community and shared identity a little difficult to square away. But because…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

Prozac Makes Crabs Take Stupid, Deadly Risks

Antidepressants are immensely helpful for millions of people across the globe, but when they find their way into the environment and accumulate, their effect can be decidedly not helpful for wildlife. New research has revealed that environmental contamination with one popular antidepressant, Prozac, can have substantial impacts on the behavior of crabs living on shorelines…

Earther Jake Buehler

Accidental Dow Jones News Report Claims Google to Buy Apple for $9 Billion

The Dow Jones newswire reported some mind-blowing news this morning: Google is acquiring Apple for the relatively paltry price of $9 billion, thanks to an agreement revealed in Steve Jobs’ will. But the news—and the multiple alerts that the newswire blasted out—were bogus. “In a surprise move to anyone who is alive, Google said it’s…

Tech News Jennings Brown

North Korea Reportedly Hacked US-South Korean War Plans, Including How to Take Down Kim Jong-un

With a top Senate Republican warning that US leadership is edging us toward World War III, it’ll bring no one comfort to learn South Korean authorities believe that hackers working for the government of North Korea managed to steal highly-classified documents that included wartime contingency plans that were drawn up in 2015. https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-tweets-rex-tillerson-is-wasting-his-time-t-1819036965 Speaking with…

Tech News Rhett Jones

We Could Get More Batman ’66 Animated Films, Which Is Confusing

Batman vs. Two-Face was Adam West’s last Batman film before his death in June. Given how iconic the original Batman was, it seemed safe to assume that the Batman ‘66 animated films would be retired. However (and unfortunately), co-star Burt Ward says that might not be the case. In an interview with IGN, Ward was…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Why Shopping for Ikea Stuff on Amazon Sucks Way More Than Shopping at Ikea

Ikea recently announced that it would be selling more stuff online through third parties, like Amazon. But actually, you’ve been able to buy Ikea products on non-Ikea websites for quite a while. The concept seems appealing, too. Who wouldn’t want to buy cheap Ikea stuff without confronting the Saturday-destroying task of going to the store?…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The 19 Scariest, Freakiest Haunted Houses in Movies and TV

There’ve been a lot of haunted houses popping up on screens both large and small lately, including the dreaded 29 Neibolt Street house in It and the trippy centerpiece of Syfy’s Channel Zero: No-End House. That said, spooky houses are a long-running horror staple—and not all are created equal. Here are the ones that scare…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

A Damning Hollywood Film Probably Wouldn’t Help Uber Hire Women

When it comes to hiring women and underrepresented minorities into engineering positions at Uber, the company’s head of HR Liane Hornsey thinks “it’s going to be bloody hard.” Hornsey isn’t wrong. “We don’t think they’re all going to want to rush to Uber, but we want to build relationships with those people over time,” Hornsey…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

What Filthy Old Birds Can Tell Us About Air Pollution

By analyzing sooty birds housed in museum collections, scientists have been able to track patterns of US air pollution over the last 135 years. As the new study shows, air at the turn of the 20th century was even dirtier than we thought—a finding that will now be used to improve our climate models. Horned…

Biology George Dvorsky

Patty Jenkins Strove to Set an Example When Negotiating Her Wonder Woman 2 Deal

Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins knows that Diana of Themyscira is a role model for women everywhere, but what she’s also learned is she’s become a heroine for female filmmakers. And the desire to help them was an important drive in negotiating fair pay for the highly anticipated sequel. “I’ve never been more aware of…

Movies Beth Elderkin

This Freaky CG Title Sequence Is So Beautiful I Can’t Stop Watching

Forget the uncanny valley and not-quite-perfect CG humans freaking you out, this title sequence for London’s recent OFFF digital arts festival will make you so uncomfortable you’ll want to burn your laptop. But at the same time the animation is so beautiful you might find yourself watching it two or three times instead. The sequence…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

That Wild Chinese Telescope Is Already Discovering Its First Pulsars

By now, you may have seen the incredible pictures of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope or FAST, an enormous telescope in the Guizhou province of China that just turned on last year. You’ve also probably heard that, yes, many hope it will find signs of alien life. It’s already beginning to make discoveries. China’s…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Is Supergirl Allowed to Mope?

Supergirl returned from summer hiatus a darker and more brooding character. With her boyfriend gone—she presumes dead but we presume living in the 30th century with fun heroes like Saturn Girl—Kara Danvers is left with a void in her life and a turn at the corner of her mouth. This chick is positively grim, and…

Television Alex Cranz

Is Breast Milk Good for Grownups?

Today breast milk is recognized as a sort of liquid miracle for babies, but history is full of periods where people swapped in other things in its place. In the 15th century, it was cow and goat milk. In the 18th century, it was cereal or flour mixed with broth. More recently, it was baby…

Health Kristen V. Brown

You Can Own the Luxurious House Where Voldemort Killed Harry Potter’s Parents

For the cool price of $1.3 million, you can own the the charming cottage just outside London where Voldemort killed James and Lilly Potter. Imagine all of the enthralling stories you could tell guests when they came over for dinner. The De Vere House that appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

America’s Obsession With Saltwater Aquariums Is Endangering Hawaii’s Reef Fish

Rene Umberger has been fighting to shut down Hawaii’s commercial aquarium industry for years. As a former dive instructor, she’s seen with her own eyes the impacts the trade has had on near-shore reefs. “I knew that I had to do something,” she said. In September, Umberger, founder of the nonprofit For the Fishes, made…

Earther Katie Valentine

This Fake Cracking Effect On a 3,800-Foot High Glass Skywalk Might Be the Meanest Prank Ever

Modern materials engineering allows us to build what looks like precarious glass skywalks perched thousands of feet off the ground. They’re completely safe, but knowing that doesn’t make them any less terrifying to traverse—especially when the glass skywalk you’re on uses transparent LCD screens to make it look like it’s about to shatter and collapse.…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

The FDA is Considering a Landmark Approval of Gene Therapy to Cure Blindness

All the Secrets About the Battles to Come Hidden in the New Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer

Photoshop Contest: Porg Edition

The Gifted‘s Take on Anti-Mutant Hatred Is a Bleak One

Prozac Makes Crabs Take Stupid, Deadly Risks

Accidental Dow Jones News Report Claims Google to Buy Apple for $9 Billion

North Korea Reportedly Hacked US-South Korean War Plans, Including How to Take Down Kim Jong-un

We Could Get More Batman ’66 Animated Films, Which Is Confusing

Why Shopping for Ikea Stuff on Amazon Sucks Way More Than Shopping at Ikea

The 19 Scariest, Freakiest Haunted Houses in Movies and TV

A Damning Hollywood Film Probably Wouldn’t Help Uber Hire Women

What Filthy Old Birds Can Tell Us About Air Pollution

Patty Jenkins Strove to Set an Example When Negotiating Her Wonder Woman 2 Deal

This Freaky CG Title Sequence Is So Beautiful I Can’t Stop Watching

That Wild Chinese Telescope Is Already Discovering Its First Pulsars

Is Supergirl Allowed to Mope?

Is Breast Milk Good for Grownups?

You Can Own the Luxurious House Where Voldemort Killed Harry Potter’s Parents

America’s Obsession With Saltwater Aquariums Is Endangering Hawaii’s Reef Fish

This Fake Cracking Effect On a 3,800-Foot High Glass Skywalk Might Be the Meanest Prank Ever

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