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John Carpenter Has Developed Four New Horror and Science Fiction TV Shows

Adjust your eye patches and put on your sunglasses, John Carpenter fans, for this great bit of news that shook loose from horror podcast Killer POV: the famed genre director (Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China) is making a serious foray into television. Reported by both Blastr…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Infertile Worms May Be Immune to Brain Deterioration

Worms infected by bacteria often start showing signs of serious nerve damage in the brain. If a worm happens to be infertile, it can weather an infection without damage to its neurons. Scientists hope that figuring out why infertility and resistance to nerve damage are linked might help us someday fight human diseases like Alzheimer’s…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

I Am Drooling Over This Electronics Toolkit Right Now

iFixit makes the greatest tech tool kits out there, and now they’ve updated their bestselling Pro Tech toolkit for the next generation of gadgets in your life. And it’s just beautiful. I want one. I have the previous generation iFixit Pro Tech toolkit, which I keep in my office, within easy reach of most of…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

This moving 3D scan of life in Paris is truly stunning

Whoa. It’s like being able to have the vision to see the hidden skeleton of the city of light. Antoine Delach’s Ghost Cell is a “stereoscopic plunge into the guts of an organic Paris seen as a cell through a virtual microscope”. I just love how the look of daily life in Paris is seen…

Sploid Casey Chan

How Tumblr Users Transformed a Homophobic Post Into a Dystopian Science Fiction Lovefest

Tumblr users have taken a tired homophobic post and given it a futuristic twist, making it funny and inclusive instead of intolerant. While Tumblr can be known for its user battles over everything from social justice issues to fandom minutiae, the beauty of this reblog chain is its tongue-in-cheek positivity—and hilarity. Without anyone directly attacking…

io9 Kaila Hale-Stern

Spotify Is the Best Streaming Music Service

There, I said it. As countless Rdio fans sit back helplessly as their accounts go dark, it’s time to be blunt. Spotify continues to outpace its growing army of competitors, and if you’re going to spend money on a streaming music service, you should sign up for Spotify Premium. Or save a few bucks and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This Is Not A Typo: Tom Cruise Could Star In The Mummy Reboot

Tom Cruise is about to go full Brendan Fraser. According to Variety, the iconic actor is in talks to star in the brand new Universal reboot of The Mummy, which sets up a new connected Monsters universe. Cruise is one of those major stars who really can do anything he wants, so choosing to join…

Movies Germain Lussier

Why The Hunger Games Books Will Always Be Better Than the Movies

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 arrived this past weekend, and now it’s official: This outstanding series of dystopian young-adult novels have gotten an equally outstanding movie series. These films aren’t just financial successes like the Twilight series; they’re genuinely good, exciting and emotionally thrilling movies that stand on their own—but still, they’ll never be…

Movies Rob Bricken

Biologists Coax Worms Into Growing New Kinds of Heads

In what sounds like a plot line from a BioShock game, a team of biologists has coaxed an animal into growing a new head and brain resembling those of a different species. The bizarre accomplishment adds to a growing body of research highlighting the importance of non-DNA factors—collectively known as the ‘epigenome’—in determining the most…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Watch a ship’s anchor go completely out of control

Smoke, fire, chaos. That’s what happens when a freight ship’s anchor loses control and dives straight into the ocean. The chains just start spinning wildly and the friction of the metal goes nuts and there’s really no way to stop it other than to just let it continue to drop and burn. SPLOID is delicious…

Sploid Casey Chan

Rich Kids Who Killed Their Parents #3: The Narcissist and His Claw Hammer

Eighteen-year-old Brian Blackwell was so bright his nickname was “Brains.” But that intelligence, which earned him top marks in school, also enabled him to craft an elaborate fantasy world—one he needed his parents’ money to sustain, and one he was willing to kill for. Brits Sydney and Jacqueline Blackwell were 71 and 60 when Brian…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

This Colorful Snail Is Disappearing Because of Over-Fishing and Shell Collectors

This is the “flamingo tongue snail,” one of the most brightly colored snails on the reefs of the South Atlantic. It used to be a common sight, but in recent years has been disappearing, either because fate has a cruel sense of humor or people are uneducated jerks. Or both. The flamingo tongue snail spends…

Biology Esther Inglis-Arkell

Keep Track of All the World’s Territorial Disputes With This Amazing Interactive Map

All over the world, there are people who could live in one country or another. Some of these territorial disputes are relatively minor, while others could be the flashpoints that lead to all-out war. There are a lot of these, and they’re hard to keep track of. Enter Max Galka, a mapmaker whose work we’ve…

Tech News Charlie Jane Anders

24 Photos From Our Last Shooting Challenge

It’s been 6 great years, but our weekly Shooting Challenge is coming to an end. Here are the final submissions from all of you. Winner: Better Late Than Never I have thoroughly enjoyed viewing these contest, and am very sad to see them ending. I’ve always wanted to submit but have never been able to…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Fox Finally Admits It Doesn’t Want to Make a Fantastic Four Sequel

At least not anytime soon. The studio has rather quietly dropped the non-anticipated sequel from its production schedule, according to Box Office Mojo. The only question is why Fox ever announced it wanted to make a sequel in the first place. I mean, this year’s Fantastic Four movie was 1) bad and 2) a box…

Movies Rob Bricken

A 120-Year-Old Building Damaged in Japan’s 2011 Quake Is Reborn as This Beautiful Home

The Great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011 damaged over a million buildings in northeastern Japan. A century-old storehouse that barely survived has been redesigned into this gorgeous home— the Rebirth House, a symbol of both great architecture, and resilience. Ryo Matsui Architects, the firm behind the project, finished reconstruction on the Ibaraki prefecture-based home…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Well, Looks Like Supergirl Has Her Own Lex Luthor Now

Supergirl is busy laying all the groundwork for Kara to have all the stuff her cousin has, including her own versions of the Daily Planet and the Kents. And now, she’s got her own Lex Luthor, too. But is he nasty enough? Spoilers ahead… In last night’s episode, “How Does She Do It?”, the overt…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Your Doctor Does Not Give a Crap About Your Fitness Tracker Data

Patients are increasingly bringing their fitness-tracker data to their checkups. Not only are doctors ill-equipped to deal with this information—they’re skeptical that it’s even useful. As Andrew Rosenblum points out in his latest MIT Technology Review article, doctors are profoundly unimpressed with wearables manufactured by the likes of Fitbit, Apple, and Pebble. As patients disclose…

Health George Dvorsky

Hellboy Investigates A Haunted Pub With a Fantastic Name In This Exclusive Preview

I mean, let’s be honest: giant red crimefighting demon or not, wouldn’t you want a pint at a place called “Rawhead & Bloody Bones?” Well, as you’ll find out in this exclusive preview of Hellboy and the BPRD: 1953… not many people would. Following on from last month’s opening duology, Hellboy and the BRPD: 1953…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Here’s What the Aftermath of a Snowstorm Looks Like To a Satellite

Sure, satellites can track storms and precipitation–but they can also measure snowfall on the ground. This amazing satellite image shows snow on the ground after this weekend’s record-breaking blizzard, which hit quite a few Midwestern states. The blueprint-style image above was taken yesterday by a weather satellite, the Suomi NPP, using the satellite’s VIIRS (Visible…

Tech News Attila Nagy

John Carpenter Has Developed Four New Horror and Science Fiction TV Shows

Infertile Worms May Be Immune to Brain Deterioration

I Am Drooling Over This Electronics Toolkit Right Now

This moving 3D scan of life in Paris is truly stunning

How Tumblr Users Transformed a Homophobic Post Into a Dystopian Science Fiction Lovefest

Spotify Is the Best Streaming Music Service

This Is Not A Typo: Tom Cruise Could Star In The Mummy Reboot

Why The Hunger Games Books Will Always Be Better Than the Movies

Biologists Coax Worms Into Growing New Kinds of Heads

Watch a ship’s anchor go completely out of control

Rich Kids Who Killed Their Parents #3: The Narcissist and His Claw Hammer

This Colorful Snail Is Disappearing Because of Over-Fishing and Shell Collectors

Keep Track of All the World’s Territorial Disputes With This Amazing Interactive Map

24 Photos From Our Last Shooting Challenge

Fox Finally Admits It Doesn’t Want to Make a Fantastic Four Sequel

A 120-Year-Old Building Damaged in Japan’s 2011 Quake Is Reborn as This Beautiful Home

Well, Looks Like Supergirl Has Her Own Lex Luthor Now

Your Doctor Does Not Give a Crap About Your Fitness Tracker Data

Hellboy Investigates A Haunted Pub With a Fantastic Name In This Exclusive Preview

Here’s What the Aftermath of a Snowstorm Looks Like To a Satellite

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