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Look On This Map of First Snowfalls Across America, Ye Mighty, and Despair 

A glorious, glorious heatwave is keeping most of the US toasty right now, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says we’re all living in denial—winter is coming, and it has a data visualization to prove it. Deke Arndt, the Climate Monitoring Branch Chief at the NOAA, put together this harrowing little piece of data…

Check out the difference between a new and used toothbrush in this cool microscopic view

The easiest way to be a lazy human with bad hygiene is to not change your toothbrush every so often. Maybe after watching this enlightening video from Applied Science, we all can change that. Using a powerful microscope, we get to see the difference between a brand new toothbrush and an old toothbrush. The new…

Into The Badlands Has Its Own Comic, and You Can Read It Right Now

AMC already hasa pretty good rep for comic bookTV shows, considering they run The Walking Dead and will soon have the intense-looking Preacher adaptation. But it turns out they can also turn their TV shows into comic books, as is the case with their upcoming martial arts series, Into The Badlands. AMC have released a…

Here’s What Designers Think About Twitter’s New Heart

Twitter morphing stars into hearts is being almost uniformly heralded as a business decision—numbers aren’t good; anything is better—but let’s look at it from an interaction design perspective. Could this tiny twist make more people literally heart Twitter? That’s the first thing I wondered. In a data-driven user-experience world where simply tweaking a shade of…

Agents of SHIELD‘s Latest Curveball Literally Came Out of Nowhere

Last night’s episode of Agents of SHIELD reveals its subtle theme early on, when Jemma Simmons talks about how too much therapeutic “kid gloves” treatment can make you feel weaker, not stronger. But maybe some people have a harder time getting over their issues than others? Spoilers ahead… The big reveal at the end of…

Only Die-Hard Star Wars Fans Will Buy a Vader Fridge That Holds a Single Can

Lucasfilm and Disney have approved the ultimate loyalty test for Star Wars fans. Aqua, better known for its obscenely over-priced R2-D2 mini fridge, now also has a Vader fridge that’s a perfect life-size replica of Darth’s helmet. That’s the good news. The bad news? It can only chill a single can. The tiny fridge isn’t…

It’s Our First Look at Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Entertainment Weekly has Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them star Eddie Redmayne on its cover, giving us our first glimpse of Newt Scamander. EW calls Fantastic Beasts a “Harry Potter prequel” and we can’t blame them. It’s a harder magazine cover sell to explain that the new movie, which exists in the same wizarding…

Solar Power Will Keep This Ice Hotel Nice and Cold All Year

Usually, ice and the blazing hot sun don’t mix. But at the famed IceHotel in Sweden, solar panels will keep the establishment frosty all day, all year. The ice hotel (the world’s first) is usually reconstructed every year out of snow and ice blocks, and stays open from fall to spring. But now, they’re announcing…

Set Up Multiple Netflix User Accounts for All of Your Moods

Netflix lets you set up a maximum of five different logins on your account, and this typically lets you grant access to someone else in the family or means you can keep the kids’ viewing history (and recommendations) separate from your own. However, even if you’re the only person who uses your Netflix account, these…

Here are 10 deleted Star Wars scenes that you probably never saw before

Some of these scenes were rightfully axed. Like Luke and Leia about to share a creepy intimate kiss before C-3P0 saves the day by interrupting them. Other scenes should have never been cut. Like the scene showing the Emperor demanding that the second Death Star be fired up to blow up the moon that Han…

This Motorized Halo Needler Replica Is Only Dangerous For Your Wallet

Fourteen years after first appearing in Halo: Combat Evolved on the original Xbox, the Needler still remains a popular choice of weaponry among the game’s fans. And as dangerous as it is to Master Chiefs and Covenant forces, NECA Toy’s new animated Needler replica is an even greater threat to your budget. The not-exactly-kid-friendly crystal…

Doctor Who May Be Part of The Lego Movie 2

Everything is, indeed, awesome. Following a deal with the BBC that saw the inclusion of Doctor Who in the video game Lego Dimensions as well as get its own fantastic Lego playset, it looks like the Doctor may be taking a trip to the big screen… to join Emmet, Wyldstyle and friends for The Lego…

Don’t Giggle at Some of the Unusual Ways Giraffes Can Die

Featuring stunning proof that life sometimes imitates Far Side cartoons, this short piece on unusual giraffe deaths takes us through all the ways a creature with a long neck and no hands can perish, and there are some doozies. This one comes to us by way of Alexis Madrigal’s newsletter, Real Future. The post, courtesy…

Watch how Photoshop magically transforms Halloween costumes into the real X-Men

Everyone should celebrate Halloween with graphic designers or expert Photoshoppers because they can turn silly group pictures on Halloween into a truly epic photo that looks more like a movie poster than something you’d be embarrassed to have on Facebook. Designers at Clearlink dressed up under an X-Men theme and then Photoshopped a group photo…

We’re One Step Closer to Green Rocket Fuel

Is it possible to have an eco-conscious rocket? While that may seem like a laughable concept, NASA is testing new green propellants to replace hydrazine, the current toxic and corrosive standard moseying around space. Nearly every satellite depends on hydrazine, the highly toxic and corrosive fuel that played a starring role in The Martian. NASA…

There Could Be Plans For More X-Files—Without Mulder And Scully

Lego Batman gets a butler. Tim Miller discusses which mutants could have been part of Deadpool. Andrew Kreisberg teases Cyborg Superman on Supergirl. Greg Nicotero thinks it’s unlikely a certain Walking Dead character will ever lose a limb. Plus, details on Rob Thomas’ new sci-fi show on The CW. Spoilers Now! Deadpool Director Tim Miller…

Sugar Molecules May Be the Key to Safer Chemo

The ability to aim chemotherapy drugs at cancer cells – and just cancer cells – has been a goal for medical researchers for a long time. So is the recent discovery of a malaria protein that appears to target the tumour and not the patient’s normal cells a significant step forward in the arms race…

Google Security Research Found 11 High-Impact Flaws on the Galaxy S6 Edge

Google’s Project Zero security team recently turned its attention to Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge, and the results make for awkward reading: it found it found a total of “11 high-impact security issues” with the smartphone, with OEM software introducing new vulnerabilities. In a blog post, the team details its findings and describes its motivations for…

Google’s EU Antitrust Defence: Search Is Free So Stop Complaining

Google says it shouldn’t be punished for allegedly abusing its search dominance in Europe because it provides a free service to users. The European Commission wants to slap the company with a hefty fine — possibly as high as $6.6 billion — but, Big G is convinced that the charges won’t stick. EU antitrust regulators…

Sprint’s parent company, Softbank, is struggling to turn as much profit as it would like. Sadly, the U.S. carrier is set to shoulder some of the responsibility—with “thousands” of jobs to be cut, according the Wall Street Journal.