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Celebrate The Upcoming Wasp Marvel Movie With This Beautiful Concept Art

If the fact Marvel is making an Ant-Man sequel wasn’t cool enough, the fact it’s called Ant-Man and the Wasp is simply amazing. Evangeline Lilly’s character Hope Van Dyne was a highlight of the first film and to see her team up with Paul Rudd should be an exciting and unique addition to the MCU.…

Meet Styx, the Wee Moon of Pluto

Styx, the faintest moon of Pluto, is absolutely miniscule. This fuzzball of a rock is just a few kilometers across, and is making me squeal in unconstrained glee. Styx is even smaller than we first estimated: the highly-elongated moon is just 7 kilometers (4.5 miles) long and 5 kilometers (3 miles) across. The smaller revised…

Citizen Jack Is The Best New Comic About Politics, And The Perfect Cure For The Election Blues 

With the 2016 Presidential Election breathing down your neck, Citizen Jack is the perfect antidote to political overload. It’s the story of an ordinary man running for President, with one twist: this Average Joe has the support of a 12-foot-tall demon. We’ve read the first two issues of Citizen Jack, and it’s a compelling mix…

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

You can stop making that face right now because it’s FRIDAY! The first full week of fall and it’s 100 degrees at my house here in LA. Monster Godzilla Bruce Lee Chris Farley El Niño, save me! What about you: Any big pumpkin-spiced plans for the weekend? Or are you going to work on your…

Wet Hop Beer: The Real Seasonal Brew You Should Be Drinking This Fall

Late fall brings us a preponderance of seasonal brews, from ciders to Christmas porters to Glögg. But one you may not have heard of—and one you should definitely try—is wet-hopped beer, which is suddenly popping up in taprooms and being written about in Bon Appetit. So what is it? It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it…

Betamax and chill but one of you is a robot and the other is a seal

1984: The Tot robot, manufactured by the now-defunct company Comro, puts a California sea lion through a series of tests during a demonstration at the New York Aquarium at Coney Island. The aquarium said at the time that they had plans to study the feasibility of incorporating a robot into its marine mammal shows. [Associated…

Seeing this surfer stand underneath the barrel of the wave is totally surreal

Since most of us uncoordinated plebeians will never be able to even stand up on a surfboard, this is very probably the closest we’ll ever get to the unbelievable beauty that is riding through the barrel of the wave. Bruno Santos shows us a completely surreal view of what it’s like and man, it’s gorgeous.…

Adventure Time is Finally Telling The Whole Story of Marceline the Vampire Queen 

Marceline the Vampire Queen has long been one of the most fascinating characters on Adventure Time. And now, it looks like we’re going to be getting our most in-depth look at her backstory yet, with a new miniseries. We caught our first glimpse at New York Comic Con. Season seven of Adventure Time returns November…

Watch Water Get Tied in a Knot

How do you tie water in a knot? First you make parts of it into vortices, which move more like long continuous strings than groups of autonomous molecules. Then you need to tangle those strings together. Scientists have known that water can be tied in a knot for some time, and actually succeeded in “tying…

How A $300 Fiat Inspired The First Leatherman Multitool

Today, they’re ubiquitous, but would you believe Tim Leatherman struggled for years to find a buyer for the first-ever multitool? He was inspired to invent it after a 20-country drive through Europe on a shoestring budget. In 1975, Tim and his wife flew to Europe, embarking on a budget driving tour that would take them…

What Are the Unwritten Rules of Winning a Nobel Prize?

The Nobel Prizes are the “Oscars of Science,” making waves not only in the scientific community, but the lay community as well. Everyone knows there are unofficial rules to adhere to if you want to win an Oscar. Are there similar rules for the Nobels? We asked a Nobel predictor and one of the “pickers”…

Behold the Beauty of This Bouncing Blob of Liquid Loveliness on the Space Station

Astronauts on the International Space Station have stepped up the entertainment factor of their fluid dynamics antics. They’ve added food colouring to the already-excellent combination of zero gravity, water droplet, and antacid tablet, creating a sparkly disco ball of pure joy. NASA astronaut Terry Virts captured beautiful footage of an antacid tablet within a floating…

NASA astronauts rock the internet, but how do they get so good at social media? This is how the astronauts pick a platform, find their personal voices, and get help from a ground on sharing their unique experience with us, becoming social media superstars.

NASA Climatologist: Godzilla El Niño Is “Too Big to Fail”

We’ve reached the point of no return. The tiny chance that the Monster Godzilla Bruce Lee Chris Farley El Niño might cancel its highly anticipated trip to the West Coast this winter is gone, according to Bill Patzert, climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. “There’s no longer a possibility that El Niño wimps out at…

New Amazon Fire TV Review: Now With 4K But Still Not a Roku

Amazon’s Fire TV is the Amazon Fire of set top boxes. I’m not saying that to sound like an idiot. I’m trying to emphasize how Amazon’s affinity for highly proprietary and basically functional hardware spans categories. The fancy new Fire TV is no exception. What makes the new Fire TV fancy is simple: It supports…

The Most Heartbreakingly Beautiful Movie Posters That Will Never Be Released 

If you think the posters Mondo releases are cool, wait until you see the ones they can’t. For every poster that makes it to print, several alternate versions are canceled, for a slew of different reasons. Once a year, Mondo pulls back the curtain on its most beautiful failures. Mondo is the poster and collectable…

Where does gold come from and can we just make our own?

Where does gold come from? The answer: space, basically. Supernovae, specifically. Alchemy, sort of. So gold doesn’t actually originate from the core of Earth but actually from a star explosion that showers the universe with debris and well, gold. That means there’s not that much of it actually on Earth (all the gold mined in…

A Whole Book Full of Incredible Never-Before-Seen Star Trek Costume Pictures

We’re pretty obsessed with the costumes from Star Trek, both the original series and the later iterations. After all, Trek has a long and proud record of pushing the fashion envelope, from its military pajamas to its alien lingerie. Here’s a look inside a stunning new book about Star Trek’s greatest costumes. Star Trek: Costumes:…

For Some Godforsaken Reason, Disney Is “Fast-Tracking” a Cruella de Vil Movie

It’s a day ending in ‘y,’ so Disney has another live-action, villain-focused adaptation of one of their classic animated films in the works. This one coming from the screenwriter Kelly Marcel, who wrote the 50 Shades of Grey script. Excuse me while I weep for a bit. All the way back in April of this…

Iron Man, Frozen, and Star Wars Prosthetics Will Boost Kids’ Confidence

A prosthetic hand is about more than just improving the wearer’s physical capabilities. It’s also about improving their self-confidence. So Open Bionics, makers of low-cost but highly capable prosthetic robotic hands, have teamed up with Disney to realize some very cool designs. Kids can be bullied for something as innocuous as wearing the wrong shirt;…