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Volcanic Eruptions Are Even More Insane In Infrared

Volcanic eruptions don’t really need our help looking impressive. But with a pair of infrared goggles, one of nature’s most fearsome outbursts becomes downright psychedelic. Feast your eyes on the mind-bending glory that is a powerful volcanic eruption in infrared, and wonder how the Predator ever sleeps at night. Turrialba is an active volcano in…

Tech News Maddie Stone

More Details About the Villains of Justice League

Bryan Singer teases X-Men: Apocalypse’s post-credits sting. The Archie Comics series Riverdale gets a series. Pacific Rim 2 has found its writer. You’ll be waiting a while yet before the next season of Attack on Titan. Plus, new pictures from Warcraft, and the first clips from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. Spoilers! Justice League Following…

Television James Whitbrook

There’s Been Another Bank Breach Like the One Carried Out By the Typo Hackers

Earlier this year, a team of hackers tried to steal vast quantities of cash using vulnerabilities in the Swift international payment system. Now, another similar hack has occurred. Swift has announced that a hack has been performed using similar techniques to one that hit the central bank of Bangladesh in February. So far, Swift hasn’t…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Amazing Train Driver Sprints Through Cars to Warn of Inevitable Crash

When a Polish train driver noticed a truck blocking part of the track ahead of his vehicle, he didn’t have time to bring the carriages to a stop before impact. So he used the three seconds he had to sprint through the train, warning passengers of the impact. The BBC reports that the impact occurred…

Sploid Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Measure Smallest Ever Forces Between Atoms

Cast your mind back to high school chemistry and you might remember the van der Waals force: The weak bond between molecules, caused by the way their electrons shift at the atomic level. Now, for the first time, those tiny forces have been measured between two atoms. Van der Waals forces are caused by fluctuating…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Trump Thinks Amazon Is ‘Getting Away With Murder’

Donald Trump has hit out Jeff Bezos, accusing him of using the Washington Post “for political purposes… to save Amazon in terms of taxes.” Speaking on Fox News—you can watch the video below—he said: “This (Washington Post) is owned as a toy by Jeff Bezos, who controls Amazon. Amazon is getting away with murder tax-wise.…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

This Huge Art Installation Is Inspired By the LHC

The American artist Peter Halley has taken over 5,000 square feet of the Schirn Kunsthalle exhibition hall in Frankfurt, turning its huge rotunda into a futuristic exploration of architecture and space that’s inspired in part by the LHC. Best known for his Day-Glo paintings from the 1980s, Halley uses similar vivid glowing colors in this…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Solar Impulse Has Made It to Tulsa

Solar Impulse has chalked up another 1,000 miles in its bid to circumnavigate the globe. The all-electric solar-powered airplane successfully flew from Phoenix to Tulsa, landing in the dead of night. The flight took just over 18 hours, with the airplane—under the control of Bertrand Piccard—managing to hit an average speed of just 54 mph.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Facebook Admits Its Trending Section Includes Topics Not Actually Trending on Facebook [Update: Zuck Speaks]

This story was originally published at 6:35 p.m. EDT. It has been updated to add Mark Zuckerberg’s comments. Facebook’s Trending news section includes topics that aren’t actually trending on Facebook, according to a statement from the company today. The admission came after The Guardian published a trove of documents, including a copy of Facebook’s “Trending…

Social Media Michael Nunez

Neat Art Piece Hides Two Different Wire Sculptures Depending on Your Perspective

Here’s a fun art piece made by artist Matthieu Robert-Ortis: in one perspective, it looks like two giraffes standing opposite each other while in another, it looks like a single elephant staring straight at you. The piece plays on your perspective and hides two wire sculptures in one, what you see depends on which angle…

Sploid Casey Chan

Someone Is Trying to Make Movies Out of Centipede and Missile Command

Trace the history of video games back to its roots and, near the beginning, you’ll find Atari’s Centipede and Missile Command. The shoot-em-up games were early pioneers of the genre, and now they’re catching up with modern games by getting their very own movies. Deadline reports that Atari has teamed up with Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films to…

Movies Germain Lussier

ABC Has Canceled Marvel’s Agent Carter

After two seasons of fighting crime, Agent Carter has been given her walking papers. The ABC show, based on a character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has been canceled. The show’s ratings slipped considerably in the second season—and with star Hayley Atwell already signed for another show (it’s called Conviction), the writing was on the…

Television Germain Lussier

A Terrifying Interactive Map Visualizes the Devastation of Nuclear Fallout

The destructive power of nuclear bombs has been seared into our collective memory, thanks to archival images of the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There’s the blast itself, and then all the radioactive fallout to contend with. A new interactive map shows what the damage from fallout would be if nuclear bombs were dropped on…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

Suicide Squad‘s Joel Kinnaman Will Star In Netflix’s Altered Carbon Series

He’s already played a rebooted RoboCop and will next be seen as Rick Flag in Suicide Squad, but now Joel Kinnaman—a Swede whose big U.S. break was cop drama The Killing—is returning to the small screen. He’s set to star in Netflix’s series Altered Carbon, an adaptation of Richard Morgan’s gritty cyberpunk classic. The series…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Watch a Spear Get Forged Using Centuries-Old Methods

To make a spearhead like a Norman smith from the year 1066, you have to start with an iron steel sandwich. Yup, a piece of hard iron or steel gets sandwiched between two pieces of soft iron until they’re all hammered and welded together. After that, a socket needs to be made, which means the…

Sploid Casey Chan

Philadelphia Police Now Investigating Its Own Fake Google Maps Car

Yesterday we told you about the suspicious SUV in Pennsylvania that had a license plate reader mounted on the front and a Google Maps sticker on the side. The Pennsylvania State Police told us that it wasn’t their vehicle, despite the fact that it had a PSP placard in the window. We now know that…

Tech News Matt Novak

It’s Official: Season Two of Supergirl Will Be on the CW

As has been rumored for a while, Supergirl will get a second season. But it will move from CBS to the CW. As time ran out for CBS to renew Supergirl, the idea to cut costs and move the show to the CW became a serious option. Supergirl was an immensely expensive show for CBS,…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Preacher Goes Behind the Scenes, Where There’s a Table Just for Severed Limbs

Everything we’ve seen so far from Preacher looks amazing, and now AMC’s released a trio of videos that do nothing but whet our appetite. Of the three, “Greeting From Set,” is the one of most interest to the kind of nerd who’s been wondering how everything from the comics is getting put onscreen. There’s a…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Just Four Minutes of Matthew McConaughey Making Weird Noises

The same folks who realized Owen Wilson is contractually obligated to say “wow” in every film have stumbled upon something truly strange: Matthew McConaughey makes a lot of noises. Noises that are not words. Noises that do not convey almost any information other than “I am Matthew McConaughey and my mouth can make this sound.”…

Sploid Avery Ellis

Hubble Just Caught a Close-Up View of What Flying Into an Active Comet Looks Like

Comets brush by us all the time, but they’re usually not close enough for us to catch anything more than a glimpse as they streak through the sky. But, thanks to one very close comet, Hubble just got an incredible insider view. Last month, Comet 252P/LINEAR came within a little over three million miles of…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Volcanic Eruptions Are Even More Insane In Infrared

More Details About the Villains of Justice League

There’s Been Another Bank Breach Like the One Carried Out By the Typo Hackers

Amazing Train Driver Sprints Through Cars to Warn of Inevitable Crash

Scientists Measure Smallest Ever Forces Between Atoms

Trump Thinks Amazon Is ‘Getting Away With Murder’

This Huge Art Installation Is Inspired By the LHC

Solar Impulse Has Made It to Tulsa

Facebook Admits Its Trending Section Includes Topics Not Actually Trending on Facebook [Update: Zuck Speaks]

Neat Art Piece Hides Two Different Wire Sculptures Depending on Your Perspective

Someone Is Trying to Make Movies Out of Centipede and Missile Command

ABC Has Canceled Marvel’s Agent Carter

A Terrifying Interactive Map Visualizes the Devastation of Nuclear Fallout

Suicide Squad‘s Joel Kinnaman Will Star In Netflix’s Altered Carbon Series

Watch a Spear Get Forged Using Centuries-Old Methods

Philadelphia Police Now Investigating Its Own Fake Google Maps Car

It’s Official: Season Two of Supergirl Will Be on the CW

Preacher Goes Behind the Scenes, Where There’s a Table Just for Severed Limbs

Just Four Minutes of Matthew McConaughey Making Weird Noises

Hubble Just Caught a Close-Up View of What Flying Into an Active Comet Looks Like

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