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Why Tesla’s Model 3 Can’t Fix Our Energy Problems

You know what’s hard? Trying to get anyone to say anything remotely critical about the Tesla Model 3. Everyone wants it to succeed because electric vehicles are good, and affordable electric vehicles are even better. But the Model 3 cannot be the hero for the US’s energy woes if we don’t fix a few serious…

Tech News Alissa Walker

A Modern Knifemaker’s Badass Take on an Ancient Samurai Dagger

Modern knives have something distinctly badass about them. Maybe it’s the materials. Maybe its the sleek ergonomic handles. But they also seem to be missing the sense of personality and specialness apparent in the work of ancient Japanese bladesmiths. That’s why knifemaker Walter Sorrells decided to make a tanto—a type of short dagger—whose handle has…

Sploid Avery Ellis

Rosetta’s Comet Looks Even Weirder When It’s Backlit By the Sun

In its ongoing exploration of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the Rosetta spacecraft captured this stunning silhouette of the two-lobed mass from a distance of 200 miles. Wow. The Philae comet lander may be dead, but its valiant mothership lives on. Rosetta recently ventured away from the comet to study its wider coma, tail, and plasma environment. At…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

All the New Things We Learned From the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray

What more can be said about Star Wars: The Force Awakens that already hasn’t? It’s literally been a topic of conversation for years, and you’d think it would slow down eventually. Instead, it’s the opposite—especially since the film hits digital download today and we found a ton of new info in the extras. Both the…

Movies Germain Lussier

NASA’s Opportunity Rover Got Stuck on a Hill on Mars

NASA’s Opportunity rover just attempted to take on the steepest hill a Martian rover has ever climbed—and promptly got stuck there. Oh dear. Opportunity sent back this harrowing photo of the view it saw when attempting to climb a slope to reach Mars’ Knudsen Ridge. The shortest route would have taken it over a 32…

Tech News Ria Misra

The Amazons Ride Into Action in New Wonder Woman Set Pictures

Although we recently gotour first good look at the Wonder Woman film’s Amazon aesthetic, many fans were a bit disappointed at the Amazon’s fanciful, heel-clad battle gear. They’re still wearing it in these new set pictures, but hey, but now they’re definitely showing off their warrior skills! The new pictures from the movie, which is…

Movies James Whitbrook

22 April Fools’ Day Products That Are Totally Fake But Should Be Real

Scientifically speaking, April Fools’ Day is the worst day of the year. And as consumers we have only two options to survive the horror that is brands flogging the dead horse known as April Fools’ Day. The first is to humor them by politely chuckling at their whipping of the stallion’s corpse. The second is…

Tech News Matt Novak

Tucker the Turtle Can’t Fart, Gets Treated For the Bends

Tucker the turtle can’t swim underwater because he has an abnormal build-up of bubbles in his body. To treat his “buoyancy problem,” researchers at Seattle’s Virginia Mason hospital put him in a hyperbaric chamber, making him the first nonhuman patient to receive such treatment. Last December, Tucker was found clinging to life along the coast…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Apple’s Lost Co-Founder: Steve Jobs Founded Apple With Some Apprehension

It’s been 40 years since Apple was founded, and by now, the story is a Silicon Valley legend: Two friends, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, built a multi-billion dollar empire right out of their parent’s garage. But what most people don’t know was that there was actually a third person critical to Apple’s origin. Apple’s…

Tech News Darren Orf

Today Is Awful, But Let’s Have a Gif Party Anyways

Today is April Fool’s Day, a planet-wide, 24-hour-long celebration of deceit and buffoonery that all good folk abhor. All those who value their time and dignity should, of course, abandon the internet entirely. But for those poor souls who do not have that luxury, we offer you a refuge: the Gif Party. You may not…

io9 Rob Bricken

Somehow the Giant Snake Is Still the Least Weird-Looking Animal in The Jungle Book

Okay, so a lot of the CG animals we’ve seen in the live-action Jungle Book movie venture a bit too far into the uncanny valley (uncanny jungle?), but Scarlett Johansson’s Kaa is looking great in this extended look at the movie, right down to the trippy hypnotic eyeballs. https://gizmodo.com/the-live-action-jungle-books-talking-animals-kind-of-fr-1766643347 This new trailer, released by Moviefone,…

Trailers James Whitbrook

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round, Even When the CIA Accidentally Leaves Explosives Onboard

When conducting CIA practice drills that involve both “explosive training material” and working school buses, it is usually a good idea to remove the material from the school buses when finished. That, however, did not happen last week in Loudoun County, Virginia. According to a report in the Washington Post, the CIA forgot to remove…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Turns Out Legends of Tomorrow‘s Time-Traveling Bounty Hunter Has a Secret

When we last left the Legends of Tomorrow, the time-traveling bounty hunter Chronos had tracked down the team yet again, forcing Rip to beat a hasty retreat in his timeship, and leave a few of his teammates behind in 1958. Last night we learned that the man behind Chronos’ mask is a bit more familiar…

Television Rob Bricken

Relive the Magic of the Latest Rocket Launch to Mars in Three Glorious Minutes

Two weeks ago, the European Space Agency launched ExoMars, a major new mission that’ll hunt for signs of alien life on the Red Planet. Now, the ESA has kindly cut us a sick highlight reel set to some orchestral dubstep so that we can all spend our Friday reliving the magic of six metric tons…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Oh Crap, That Awful Bat-Killing Disease Has Reached the US West Coast

A devastating fungal disease that has killed millions of bats in eastern North America has now reached Washington State, prompting serious concern among wildlife officials. It has been referred to as the worst US wildlife crisis in recent years. Since 2007, this blight—known as white-nose syndrome (WNS)—has spread to 28 U.S. states and five Canadian…

Tech News George Dvorsky

10 Clever Easter Eggs Hidden in Disney Movies

If there’s one thing animators love, its sneaking visual references into movies, and Disney’s geniuses are some of the best at it. Some of these—like the Finding Nemo shoutout in Brother Bear—last only a couple frames. Others are so overt that after they’re pointed out you feel foolish for not noticing them sooner. But take…

Sploid Avery Ellis

Captain America’s 7 Most Patriotic Moments

This year, Captain America, the most patriotic superhero in American comic book history, turns 75. Between getting his superpowered juice back in this week’s comic, and Civil War hitting theaters soon, it’s been a great year so far for Steve Rogers. To celebrate, we thought we’d take a look back at Cap’s most American moments.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

The Next Issue of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Comic

Because of course it is. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is nothing if not ceaselessly delightful. In a new interview with Comic Book Resources, creative team Ryan North and Erica Henderson revealed that this month’s Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #7, in which Doreen and her pals take on low-rent supervillain Swarm, will in fact let readers decide the…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Toy Story Moleskines Are a Convincing Reason to Switch Back to Pen and Paper

Even obsessive Evernote users might want to consider switching back to pen and paper now that Moleskine has a new line of Toy Story-themed notebooks featuring artwork from the character style guides that Pixar had created for the original film over 21 years ago. The new collection features four different Toy Story covers, with silkscreened…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

We Finally Know What’s Up With These Enormous Mounds on Mars

For forty years, astronomers have puzzled over the miles-high mounds rising from of the centers of Martian craters. Scientists have finally pieced together an origin story for the weird geologic pimples—and it reveals a critical moment in the Red Planet’s history. The mounds were sculpted by wind, following a shift in Mars’ climate that caused…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Why Tesla’s Model 3 Can’t Fix Our Energy Problems

A Modern Knifemaker’s Badass Take on an Ancient Samurai Dagger

Rosetta’s Comet Looks Even Weirder When It’s Backlit By the Sun

All the New Things We Learned From the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray

NASA’s Opportunity Rover Got Stuck on a Hill on Mars

The Amazons Ride Into Action in New Wonder Woman Set Pictures

22 April Fools’ Day Products That Are Totally Fake But Should Be Real

Tucker the Turtle Can’t Fart, Gets Treated For the Bends

Apple’s Lost Co-Founder: Steve Jobs Founded Apple With Some Apprehension

Today Is Awful, But Let’s Have a Gif Party Anyways

Somehow the Giant Snake Is Still the Least Weird-Looking Animal in The Jungle Book

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round, Even When the CIA Accidentally Leaves Explosives Onboard

Turns Out Legends of Tomorrow‘s Time-Traveling Bounty Hunter Has a Secret

Relive the Magic of the Latest Rocket Launch to Mars in Three Glorious Minutes

Oh Crap, That Awful Bat-Killing Disease Has Reached the US West Coast

10 Clever Easter Eggs Hidden in Disney Movies

Captain America’s 7 Most Patriotic Moments

The Next Issue of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Comic

Toy Story Moleskines Are a Convincing Reason to Switch Back to Pen and Paper

We Finally Know What’s Up With These Enormous Mounds on Mars

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