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Incredible Slo-Mo Footage Reveals Hummingbirds Are Truly Nature’s Fighter Jets

Most birds get all the lift they need to fly with the downward stroke of their wings—meaning there’s no upward force being produced as they raise them back up. Hummingbirds, on the other hand, produce lift with both their upward and downward wing strokes, creating air vortices that the tiny birds use to fly with…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

The New Trailer for The Tick Shows Arthur in Action and Promises Glorious Absurdity

“Destiny’s on the line, Arthur. Accept the charges.” August 25 can’t get here fast enough. The newest teaser for Amazon’s revival of The Tick shows the title character and his meek boon companion taking on bad guys and doing some heavy-duty bonding. Some of the scenes here are from the pilot that aired last year…

Television Evan Narcisse

Why Is Greenland’s Ice Sheet Covered in Industrial Waste-Chowing Bacteria?

The Greenland ice sheet is vast, majestic, pristine….and peppered with bacteria that seem equipped to survive in industrial waste, according to a new study. Which really makes you question the whole the pristine bit, now, doesn’t it? In fact, scientists know that industrial contaminants, including heavy metals, pesticides, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), have been accumulating…

Health Maddie Stone

How Much TV Is President Trump Watching This Week?

Donald Trump is having a complicated week. His son released a bunch of emails that appear to show collusion with the Russian government. He got sued by a bunch of people he blocked on Twitter. Even the Drudge Report turned on him. How’s the president handling all this? Definitely not by watching a bunch of…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This New Interactive Documentary on Viruses Is Spellbinding

Golf balls, some buildings, and even a few works of religious art imitate viruses. Not in a bad way, but in their beauty. If you don’t believe me, just take a half hour or so to explore University of Edinburgh Computational Biology Ph.D. student Hamish Todd’s new interactive documentary. You’ll realize that human design and…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Only Way These Rick and Morty Shorts Could Be Better is If They Were Canonical

Rick and Morty’s willingness to blatantly riff on and make fun of narrative tropes seen in scifi/pop culture is a large part of what makes the show so fun. While the show works perfectly find as 2D animation, it’s even more satisfying to see Rick and Morty getting into all kinds of craziness in as…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

How Exactly Do You Get Rich Off the Hot New Cryptocurrency?

With the meteoric rise in popularity of Ethereum, cryptocurrencies and blockchains are back in the news again. Graphics card prices have soared with the promise that those who have the computers and know-how to do some serious mining can take home huge sums in a Bitcoin-like gold rush to snatch up as much virtual currency…

Gadgets David Nield

She-Venom May Join Sony’s Spider-Man Movie Universe

The Transformers spinoff finds its star, a banner contains the first look of the Wasp in Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Westworld adds a character who is visiting the park at the worst possible time. Spoilers ahead! Godzilla: King of the Monsters Elizabeth Ludlow has joined the cast in an undisclosed role. [Deadline] Bumblebee While…

Television James Whitbrook and Gordon Jackson

Antarctica Just Plopped a One Trillion Ton Iceberg Into the Ocean (Update)

As expected, an iceberg half the size of Jamaica has finally cut itself loose from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf. Dubbed A68, the 2,240 square mile (5,800 square km) chunk of ice one of the biggest ever recorded—but what happens now, both to the iceberg and the ice shelf, is anyone’s guess. The calving event…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

A Pair of Planet-Like Objects Is Romantically Hurtling Through the Void Together

What is love, if not braving the tempest of existence by someone’s side? Recently, astronomers at the University of Hawaii found a couple of “planetary mass objects” doing just this—waltzing through the final frontier, locked in each other’s embrace. Oddly enough, the star-crossed lovers don’t actually orbit a star at all—just each other. Using instruments…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Andy Serkis Reading President Trump’s Tweets as Gollum is a Bit Too Perfect

Andy Serkis, the actor who played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings series, was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. And Colbert, a huge LOTR nerd, had Serkis read President Trump’s tweets on air. It’s honestly just too perfect. Hearing Serkis say “the fake news media has never been so wrong”…

Tech News Matt Novak

This Photo of the Trump Sons Is Totally Fake

Have you seen this photo of Donald Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric? It made me do a double-take recently. But it’s not real. The photo has been altered to make the Trump brothers look like cartoon characters. Or something like that. Given the recent news stories about Donald Trump Jr.’s attempt to collude with…

Tech News Matt Novak

US Tests Alaskan Missile Defense System Following North Korea ICBM Launch

The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has released video of a test conducted yesterday using a dummy missile that was launched north of Hawaii. The missile was obliterated by another missile shot from Alaska by the THAAD defense system. And it’s a not-so-subtle message to North Korea that the US is ready to shoot down…

Tech News Matt Novak

Here’s How the Fast & Furious Franchise Could Get To Space

The heroes of The Fast and the Furious series have taken on the Yakuza, hordes of self-driving cars, and a goddamn submarine. Given that each Fast & Furious movie has gotten increasingly more insane, there’s only one way the franchise’s next installment is going to be able to top its predecessors: by blasting off. To put…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Hackers Stole Trump Hotel Guests’ Credit Card Details, Again

Less than a year after Trump Hotels settled with the victims of a security breach, the luxury chain reports that guests at 14 Trump properties have had their payment card information stolen. “We recently learned of an incident involving unauthorized access to guest information associated with certain hotel reservations,” a letter on the Trump company’s…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Dave Made a Maze Aims To Pull People Into a Crazy Cool Papercraft Adventure

The trailer for indie fantasy comedy Dave Made a Maze invokes the old Doctor Who TARDIS joke about being bigger on the inside. But the real appeal is in all the handmade environments and peril that the film’s characters will encounter. I’m someone who likes wonky scifi-adjacent movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,…

Movies Evan Narcisse

A Frontrunner to Direct Suicide Squad 2 Has Emerged, and It’s Not Mel Gibson

It’s Jaume Collet-Serra, who directed last year’s The Shallows. Deadline reports that Collet-Serra has emerged as the leading candidate to direct Suicide Squad 2, the sequel to the polarizing 2016 DC Comics hit that starred Will Smith, Margot Robbie, and Jared Leto. There’s no word on who from the original cast would return, but Smith and…

io9 Germain Lussier

Whose Han Solo Movie Wardrobe Appears in Ron Howard’s Sneaky Photos?

Director Ron Howard wants to know if we can match the Han Solo character to this closet full of costumes. Here’s the evidence: I mean, probably Lando, right? But maybe Elan Sleazebaggano is making a re-appearance. Or, judging by those set photos, it could even be Han. But wait! Here’s another angle. Tell us what…

Movies Germain Lussier

Behold the Tiniest Star Ever Discovered

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a star that’s barely bigger than Saturn, making it the smallest stellar object known to science. The title of this new Astronomy & Physics study pretty much says it all: “A Saturn-size low-mass star at the hydrogen-burning limit.” This tiny star, called EBLM J0555-57Ab, is about as…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Scientists Discover the Secret Behind Incredible Ant Towers

Ants, through their Borg-like powers, are capable of performing complex cooperative feats that make solitary insects look useless. In an extraordinary example of this collective behavior, researchers have shown how fire ants, when confronted by a barrier, swarm together to create towers with their bodies, allowing the lucky few at the tip of the structure…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Incredible Slo-Mo Footage Reveals Hummingbirds Are Truly Nature’s Fighter Jets

The New Trailer for The Tick Shows Arthur in Action and Promises Glorious Absurdity

Why Is Greenland’s Ice Sheet Covered in Industrial Waste-Chowing Bacteria?

How Much TV Is President Trump Watching This Week?

This New Interactive Documentary on Viruses Is Spellbinding

The Only Way These Rick and Morty Shorts Could Be Better is If They Were Canonical

How Exactly Do You Get Rich Off the Hot New Cryptocurrency?

She-Venom May Join Sony’s Spider-Man Movie Universe

Antarctica Just Plopped a One Trillion Ton Iceberg Into the Ocean (Update)

A Pair of Planet-Like Objects Is Romantically Hurtling Through the Void Together

Andy Serkis Reading President Trump’s Tweets as Gollum is a Bit Too Perfect

This Photo of the Trump Sons Is Totally Fake

US Tests Alaskan Missile Defense System Following North Korea ICBM Launch

Here’s How the Fast & Furious Franchise Could Get To Space

Hackers Stole Trump Hotel Guests’ Credit Card Details, Again

Dave Made a Maze Aims To Pull People Into a Crazy Cool Papercraft Adventure

A Frontrunner to Direct Suicide Squad 2 Has Emerged, and It’s Not Mel Gibson

Whose Han Solo Movie Wardrobe Appears in Ron Howard’s Sneaky Photos?

Behold the Tiniest Star Ever Discovered

Scientists Discover the Secret Behind Incredible Ant Towers

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