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A Successful Launch Means it’s About to Get Crowded on the Space Station

The latest trio of astronauts are safely space-bound after an early morning launch out of Kazakhstan. Soyuz will take the scenic route to meet the International Space Station, which is in a higher-than-usual orbit after avoiding space junk. After docking, the station’s crew will temporarily grow to nine astronauts. Astronauts Aidyn Aimbetov, Sergey Volkov and…

GoPro Just Made It Way Easier to Share Your Epic Moments

Remember: if you do something rad, but you don’t share a video of it instantly on at least three social media channels, it probably didn’t happen. Thankfully, the world’s leading purveyor of radness-capturing cameras has just made the whole process a lot easier. In an update to the GoPro smartphone app, and the GoPro camera…

This Light-Up Bottle Does More Than Just Hold Water

If you’ve ever wanted to try being invisible, cycling on a busy road at night is a good start. Adding front and rear lights is obviously a good move, but for side-on visibility, things get a little more tricky. Italian cycling company Elite is trying to solve that with something surprisingly simple: a light-up water…

Four Storms on the Move | NASA’s GOES-West satellite captured this image of four tropical cyclones all at once in the Pacific Ocean. From left to right, there’s Typhoon Kilo, Hurricane Ignacio, Hurricane Jimena and Tropical Depression 14E.

Los Angeles Is the New US Bid City for the 2024 Olympics

After a dramatic few months, Los Angeles has replaced Boston as the US contender for the 2024 Summer Olympics. I think you know what this means—JETPACK DUDE HERE WE COME! At at a press conference today that was spilling over with Olympians like Janet Evans, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the official awarding of the…

Which One of These Flags Should New Zealand Pick?

It’s down to four: These are the designs that will advance to the next round of New Zealand’s flag referendum. Now the public will rank these four designs in a November vote. But which fern will win? As you might remember New Zealand narrowed over 10,000 entries to40 contenders last month, and a panel of…

I Touched All Your Stuff Documentary Trailer Suggests True Crime at its Truly Weirdest

Chris Kirk is an American imprisoned for drug smuggling in Brazil. How he got there isn’t explained in the enigmatic trailer for Maíra Bühler and Matias Mariani’s documentary I Touched All Your Stuff, but reviews mention a “Hitchcockian chance-encounter with a femme fatale” and “Pablo Escobar’s hippos.” Needless to say, it sounds rather intriguing for…

A Hidden Figure in a Famous Rembrandt Has Been Uncovered Using X-Rays

Rembrandt’s An Old Man in Military Costume is a 380-year-old masterpiece with a secret. Beneath the famous figure in the feathered cap hides a much younger man, one that researchers are uncovering in color using advanced x-ray technology. Scientists first caught whiff of the hidden figure when scanning the painting with x-rays in 1968. But…

CBS Sports Will Stream Two of the Worst Football Games of 2015 For Free Online

CBS announced today it would stream a few regular season games online for free! That’ll probably cost ad revenue or something so it’s awfully kind of the network. Let’s see what games they are. First up: The October 4th matchup between The New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins. Seriously?!?! These teams won a combined…

Comcast’s New All-You-Can Internet Fee Sounds Like a Trick

Comcastis trying out a new fee that offers an all-you-can internet upgrade to customers with data caps. The so-called “Unlimited Data Option” allows you to use the internet as much as you want. The fee is $30, in addition to what customers are already paying for service. Wait, what? This is just a test. It’s…

Five-Foot-Long Sea Scorpion Proves the Ancient Oceans Were a Terrifying Place

Beach-goers often fret over sharks and jellyfish, but modern day oceans are downright tame compared to Earth’s geologic past. 460 million years ago, a five-foot-long, scorpion-like monster straight out a 1950s science fiction flick ruled the seas. Meet Pentecopterus, a fearsome predator of a bygone geologic period that paleontologists just unveiled in a new scientific…

In Jonathan Franzen’s New Novel Purity, the Internet Is the Villain  

Is Jonathan Franzen trolling us? The Great Literary Curmudgeon famously detests the internet, and in his latest novel, Purity, the internet plays a central role to the pulpy plot: It’s the villain. (Spoilers ahead. A lot of them.) Franzen’s protagonist is a capital-M Millennial called Pip. (Full name: Purity. I know.) She’s recruited to work…

The Co-Creator of Arrow Is Making A “Hot Gothic” Show About The Brides of Dracula

Are you ready for another sexy vampire soap opera? Just a couple years after its Dracula show crashed and burned, NBC is ready to try again. Greg Berlanti, producer of The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl will make a pilot called Brides, which follows three female vampires as they live in modern New York City. These…

Google’s Logo Killed Serifs Because Serifs Had It Coming

Google debuted a serif-free logo today—the first real change to its logo since 1999. And although it’s much prettier than the 16-year-old wordmark, the company claimed it was more about functionality than looks: The Google logo has become more and more problematic throughout its existence, and it had everything to do with those serifs. First,…

Tokyo’s Olympic Logo Is Axed But The Internet Already Has Awesome Backups

It’s been a big day in the world of logos: First, Google revealed its brand new, sans serif emblem. Meanwhile, the scandal-stricken icon for Tokyo’s 2020 Summer Olympics was officially killed today following plagiarism allegations. Fortunately, the Internet has already had some replacements in mind. Not long after designer Kenjiro Saro’s logo was revealed last…

Steven Spielberg Is Looking For His Next Action Heroine For Ready Player One

Steven Spielberg is literally working on three movies at once. He’s got Bridge of Spies out next month, The BFG next Summer and then Ready Player One in December 2017. That’s the furthest off—but the casting process is already underway, and there’s even a shortlist for one of the lead roles. The Wrap reports that…

Clever Editing Brings Together Three Creepy Encounters With Three Hannibal Lecters

Filmmaker Matthew Morettini may also be a mind-reader, because he’s crafted something I’ve been waiting for since my ascent from casual Hannibal viewer to full-blown Fannibal: a short video juxtaposing the same Hannibal Lecter/Will Graham scene from each of the works in which it’s appeared. Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon provides the source material and the…

Sing Muse and Bring Us Your Best Science Poetry

Left brain, right brain, BS! Today we are uniting the arts and the sciences, which means that we want your best science-based poetry. Haiku, sonnet, free verse—even the lowly limerick. All are welcome. Here’s an attempt of my very own: Water seems simple But drink too much, too quickly And get water drunk. Contact the…

Video: This completely mirrored world is so trippy to see

Sometimes the world in this video by Joe Pease is mirrored horizontally, like a city folding itself on top of itself. Other times, it’s mirrored vertically, like in perfect symmetry. But what makes the video even more mind bending than seeing a world mirrored is seeing how certain people are able to break it and…

Watch The Fan-Made Trailer For A Boba Fett Movie That Needs To Happen RIGHT NOW

In the next decade, fans are going to see Boba Fett back on the big screen. Lucasfilm has almost certainly been working on a spinoff film starring the famous bounty hunter and while it’s not yet confirmed, it’s coming. What might it look like? Director Eric Demeusy has an idea he’d like to show you.…