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What Would You Hear on the Radio If You Were Light Years From Earth?

Radio waves hurtle from Earth out into the Universe. That means the older a broadcast is, the farther it’s traveled into the final frontier. Now, a group of developers has built an eye-popping simulator that shows how many light years our music has traveled — and what you’d hear if you were billions of miles…

No, We Aren’t Heading Into a “Mini Ice Age”

Recent headlines are warning that the Earth will enter into a “mini ice age” in about 20 years because the sun is heading towards a period of very low output. Here’s why this scenario is extremely unlikely. Wouldn’t it be great if scientists could make their minds up? One minute they’re telling us our planet…

Does The Walking Dead Spinoff Hold Up? Here’s Our Spoiler-Free Review!

We’re totally excited about AMC’s companion show to The Walking Dead: new characters, a new setting, and a story that takes place “during Rick’s coma,” according to the AMC exec who introduced the Comic-Con screening of the Fear the Walking Dead. Here are our spoiler-free first impressions! The timing of the show is important, for…

Video: Deep fried brain and bone marrow is a deliciously killer combo

Hamburger and fries. Spaghetti and meatballs. And brain and bone marrow… I guess? Our friend Anna Péter, from the Hungarian food blog Malackaraj, shows us how she makes deep fried brain and bone marrow and because the universal rule across all types of cooking is that deep frying things and adding bone marrow is always…

The World’s First Figure-8 Ferris Wheel Hangs 430 Feet In the Air 

If Las Vegas has taught us anything, it’s that you can’t open a new casino without some kind of gimmick. Be it a fancy exclusive restaurant, an amazing waterworks show, or the world’s first ferris wheel shaped like a figure-8 that also happens to be perched 430 feet above the city of Cotai in Macau.…

There’s a new version of Adobe Flash that Mozilla’s Firefox web browser isn’t blocking by default. It’s version 18.0.0.209, and you can get it right here. [Adobe]

How Ex Machina‘s Director Wants To Film VanderMeer’s Crazy Annihilation

Ex Machina rocked our world with its story of artificial intelligence and messed-up dynamics. And its director, Alex Garland, is in line to direct the movie of Jeff VanderMeer’s acclaimed book Annihilation next. Is that really going to happen? How do you pull that off? We asked him. Yesterday, we were lucky enough to talk…

Does Talking Count as Exercise? Even a Little Bit? Asking for a Friend.

I’d classify this question as so dumb it’s actually kind of interesting, in a hair-splitting, pedantic sort of way. At Popular Science, Daniel Engber takes a stab at answering it: For a study published in 1998, speech-language pathologist Bridget Russell, of the State University of New York at Fredonia, asked participants to read aloud using…

Another Study Proving That Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism Won’t Do Any Good

It’s time to stop trying to prove that autism and vaccines aren’t linked. Why? Because parents who believe in the link, and believe that Big Pharma is covering it up, have much more in common with Big Pharma than they think. To clarify: I don’t mean that doctors who are interested in the technical aspects…

How Much Rain Would End the Drought?

What’s the best way to get people to stop watering their lawns? Why aren’t we investing in desalination? Will we ever get used to the idea of drinking our own (recycled) pee? And most importantly, when will this drought be over? You had a lot of questions about water, so we turned to two experts…

6 Hyperactive Hyperlapses

Hyperlapse is the best invention in photography since the Walden filter. And here are 6 videos, filmed by you, that prove it. Winner: Fast Fireworks I actually use Hyperlapse for timelapses quite a bit. I have an old iPhone 5 in a Lifeproof that’s basically made it an extra GoPro, sans fish eye. On Friday…

What It’s Like To Be Attacked By An Attack Dog

Meet Fritz. He’s a 125lbs Belgian Malinois employed as a Military Working Dog by the Air Force. They figured it’d be a good idea to get him to attack me so I could write you an article about it. Let’s see how that goes. My girlfriend and I have been living on a United States…

This Transforming Lego Optimus Prime Must Be Bending the Laws of Physics

Half of me wants to believe that this amazing Lego version of Optimus Prime (the Michael Bay movie version) that can actually transform into a robot is legit. But the other half of me is having a hard time believing that Ralph Savelsberg didn’t just hire Industrial Light & Magic to help fake these photos…

An Ancient Viking-Age Hut Has Been Uncovered in Downtown Reykjavik

A team of Icelandic archaeologists working in central Reykjavik were looking for the remnants of a farm cottage built in 1799—so imagine their surprise when they found a longhouse dating back to the 9th century AD instead. Above: The “long fire” in the center of the hut. As reported in the Iceland Monitor, the longhouse…

We Cannot Allow This Awful Idea for Airport Design to Become Real

Airports and cities don’t get along for a few specific reasons—namely, air pollution, noise pollution, and plain old risk. As such, some designers think that a future of increased urban density could be an opportunity to mix things up. This concept for a new airport in downtown Stockholm is simply mixed up. An architecture graduate…

What Did Pythagoras Mean By “All Things Are Number”?

We all know that numbers can help us understand the beauty of nature. But in this excerpt from the new book A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek, he shows how it goes a lot deeper than that. Did the ancient mathematician Pythagoras know something we don’t? ALL THINGS…

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Comcast’s Fancy Cable Box Now Doubles As a Streaming Game Console

The rumors were true: Two of the most hated companies in America have teamed up to stream games to your cable box. If you pay for Comcast’s fancy X1 service, you could soon be playing titles like Plants vs. Zombies, Real Racing 2 and NBA Jam on your TV without so much as a disc…

8 People Who Didn’t Realize They Were Dead

For some people, dying is a traumatic event. For others, not so much. In fact, for some ghosts, it seems that dying is something that is very hard to notice or remember—because they have no idea that they’re actually dead. Here are some spooks who should have paid more attention to their mortality (or loss…

Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Talk About The Importance of Reaching Pluto

Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t classify Pluto as a planet. But he thinks it’s pretty damn important that we got there. We were at a special “Breakfast at Pluto” event bright and early this morning at the American Museum of Natural History. Co-hosted by Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson (known for the new Cosmos series…