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We Could Be Getting TWO Live-Action Versions of the Teen Titans Soon!

Tom Holland talks about what makes Spider-Man unique in the Marvel movieverse. Glean some hints from The Force Awakens’ soundtrack. The Arrow producers tease a dark moment for Oliver. Plus, a new glimpse at Agent Carter, clips from Supergirl, and new pictures from Doctor Who’s season finale. Spoilers! Cyborg/Teen Titans In an extensive report that…

How the Andrea Yates Tragedy Changed the Way We Think About Mental Illness

Even people who don’t follow crime know the name Andrea Yates. On June 20, 2001—six months after giving birth to her fifth baby in seven years—the former nurse, who suffered from severe postpartum depression, drowned each child in the family bathtub. Then, she called 911: “I just killed my kids.” True crime author Suzy Spencer’s…

Shameless self-promotion alert! If you haven’t been listening to the fascinating, mystery-centric Lineup Podcast, here’s a good episode to start your binge session: “Stranger than Fiction,” which features yours truly discussing a few cases that’ve been featured in past True Crime posts.

Curiosity Rover Eases Into First Exploration of Martian Dunes

A mix of rock and sand greeted the Curiosity Rover as it approaches the Bagnold Dune field, the dunes slowly encroaching on weathered outcrops. This is our first visit to active dunes anywhere but on Earth. Curiosity is currently taking photos as it inches closer and closer to the dark sands of the Bagnold Dunes.…

Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Choose: Millennium Falcon or USS Enterprise?

If you could only choose one of the Millennium Falcon or Starship Enterprise, which would it be? Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked just that—and he has a very, very clear answer. We won’t spoil the surprise for you, though. Watch the answer yourself, which appeared on National Geographic’s Star Talk. [National Geographic]

The Graceful Moment When a Commando Boat Goes Airborne

Airdrop operations never cease to amaze me. This photo shows a special training moment frozen in time: a commando boat slipping out of a Lockheed MC-130J transport aircraft. An MC-130J Commando II from the 9th Special Operations Squadron airdrops a Maritime Craft Aerial Delivery System over the Gulf of Mexico during a training exercise, Nov.…

Swatch’s New Analog Watch Will Let You Make Contactless Payments

You’re looking at Swatch’s new Bellamy watch. It’s a simple-looking analog timepiece, without an LED screen, mobile OS or computational brain—but it does contain an NFC chip that will allow you to make contactless payments using the otherwise dumb device. Swatch has announced that it’s partnering with Visa to launch the watch in the U.S..…

Zuckerberg, Gates and Bezos Launch Massive Clean Energy Fund

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have announced that they’re joining forces with other big names in the world of technology to create a new fund that will encourage private investment in clean energy. The Breakthrough Energy Coalition, announced by Zuckerberg in a Facebook post, will “invest in ideas that have the potential to transform the…

This Map Shows Just How Long Travel Took 100 Years Ago

You might have battled queues, delays and cancellations while you travelled over the holiday weekend, but be grateful you’re travelling in 2015 when travel time is measured in hours—rather than in days, the metric used in this 1914 map. Intelligent Life magazine has unearthed this wonderful isochronic map, which shows how long it would take—in…

Watch the City Melt Into Itself in This Experimental Timelapse

This week, the world’s great and good assemble in Paris to discuss the future of our planet. But, on a slightly less serious note, what if things on Earth got so hot that entire cities melted? Directed by Florian Rouzaud Cornabas, this video is an experimental time-lapse, with the forms taken from the urban realm…

These Pantone Bags Put Some Designer Color on Your Back

If you need a little more color in your luggage selection, one of the Pantone bags from Redland London could be just the trick. Don’t worry: they come in more than just the primary colors. The new range of bags uses exclusively Pantone shades for their fabrics. They’re available in four different styles, and the…

The Only Way to Save the Northern White Rhino Is a Jurassic Park-Style Intervention

It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood science-fiction movie. An alien species is dying. Their only hope is for a brood of artificially fertilised eggs created from the preserved DNA of some of the last survivors to be brought back to life in a future world where (hopefully) conditions are better suited to them.…

Canada Knows How to Party While Protesting Climate Change Inaction

This weekend, Climate March happened all over the world as restless citizens reminded their governments that they deeply care about the future of their planet. Here’s what we saw on the streets of Vancouver, British Columbia. The family that protests together stays together. Image credit: Mika McKinnon Vancouver’s Climate March happened at an interesting juncture…

Retro-Style Ads For The Force Awakens Dials the Hype Up to 11

Oh hey did you hear that there’s this new Star Wars movie coming out? In case you missed the trailers and teasers and new LEGO sets, here’s three new posters for the movies. You might just recognize the style. IGN got the scoop on the three new posters, provided by Disney to further the wave…

A Shop With 700 Flavors of Soda Is My Perfect Grocery Store

Galco’s Soda Pop Stop is a store in Highland Park, LA, with shelves full of an incomprehensible array of soda (and beer!). But it’s not just a novelty: it’s a trip back to a time when soda pop was a craft industry like modern microbreweries, and the entire nation wasn’t hooked on corn syrup. Tom…

It Takes a Demon to Really Bring the Team Together on Ash vs Evil Dead

With “The Host,” we’re halfway through Ash vs Evil Dead’s 10-episode first season. This week, Pablo, Kelly, and Ash go through hell, but it brings them even closer together—a good thing, because it’ll take strength in numbers to defeat what they’re ultimately going to face at the end of their journey. Spoilers! Of course, they’re…

Open Channel: Tell Us About Your NaNoWriMo Novel

We’re in the home stretch for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), where participants attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. If you’ve been on track, you should be really close to the end. So, tell us about it! How did your novel turn out? What was it about? Did you hit the…

The James Webb Space Telescope’s First Mirror Has Been Installed!

NASA has announced that they’ve installed the first of the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirrors. The part is one of eighteen that will eventually be bolted to the satellite, which is set to launch in 2018. The telescope is to replace the aging Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in orbit for 25 years. Once…

Here’s Our Closest Look At Amazon’s Drone Delivery Service 

Amazon has been talking about using drones to deliver packages for a couple of years, and today it debuted the drone in a commercial starring Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson, who explained how the company will get packages from their warehouses to your front yard. The hybrid drone looks different from that first image Amazon had…

A Photographer Toiled for Six Years To Capture This Kingfisher in Mid-Dive

It took six years and 720,000 exposures, but Scottish wildlife photographer Alan McFayden finally got his bird. He captured this stunning image of a female kingfisher in a rare mid-dive, perfectly mirrored in the water below. McFayden’s grandfather used to take him to watch kingfishers at a favorite nesting spot near Kirkcudbright, Scotland, 40 years…