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KRE-O’s Transformers Class of 1985 Includes Grimlock and Devastator

The KRE-O building toys are Hasbro’s answer to Lego, but with retro properties like G.I. Joe and Transformers at their disposal, they’re even more effective at luring in nostalgia seekers. So following up on last year’s San Diego Comic-Con exclusive Class of 1984 set of KREON figures, Hasbro is returning to SDCC this year with…

Tiny Electric Backup Engine For Planes Kicks In When All Else Fails

A commercial airliner with multiple engines can limp to a runway if one of them fails. But a small plane, driven by just a single propeller, is in more serious trouble when its engine stops. So researchers have created a tiny electric backup that kicks in during an emergency, ensuring the craft can safely get…

The New Constantine Comic Is Way More Comfortable With His Bisexuality

This week saw the launch of Constantine: Hellblazer, a new DC ongoing series for everyone’s favorite British Occult Detective. And while its first issue is enjoyable in and of itself, it has one notable little element to it: The comic is portraying John Constantine’s bisexuality more openly than ever before. Minor spoilers ahead for Constantine:…

Apple’s New Selling Point Is Privacy

Apple got caught up in a game of “me too” during this year’s WWDC keynote address, but if you listen closely, you notice that it’s starting to pitch products not just on their design or their power, but on how they protect a user’s privacy. Meet Apple’s new competitive point of difference. If you go…

The Danube Delta Looks Gorgeous Through Radar Eyes From Space

This so called interferogram was created by combining two Sentinel-1A radar scenes from over the Danube River Delta, which covers more than 4,180 square kilometers in Romania. European Space Agency’s Hydro-SAR project monitors wetlands, such as Danube Delta, playing an important role in sustainable water management with the help of satellite radar data. ESA explains…

Mongooses Have The Stupidest (But Most Crucial) Superpower Ever

Banded mongooses live together in big troops. Unlike most troops of animals, the young don’t venture off into the world to find or found troops of their own. There are consequences to families staying together, and the mongoose avoids them in a way we still don’t understand. There’s a reason males and female animals tend…

10 of the hardest movie scenes to shoot

When a movie does an epic scene right, it leaves your mouth gasping for air, sends your brain in a tizzy, flips your idea of reality on its head and makes you wonder just how in the hell they did that. Watch Mojo lists 10 scenes that do just that, 10 movie scenes that they…

The Troubled Ouya Console May Soon Be Under New Management

Ouya, the little Kickstarter Android console that was pretty popular until people actually started using it, has had a quiet year. But a new report says that Razer, who’s had there own troubles breaking the Android-based gaming market with Forge TV, might be joining forces with the little console that couldn’t. Technology is filled with…

For $125,000 You Can Buy Your Kid a Miniature Monster Truck

We all know what spoiled means, but for the truest definition of the word you don’t need to look any further than this miniature monster truck designed for kids that’s powered by a real four-cylinder Ford engine pushing it to a top speed of 25 miles per hour. It’s roughly half the size of real…

Unprecedented Photos Show A Polar Bear Eating Dolphins

For the first time ever, scientists have observed a polar bear catching and eating white-beaked dolphins. It’s suspected that the dolphins ventured too far north and became stranded in the ice — a possible consequence of climate change. The observation was made by Jon Aars and his colleagues from the Norwegian Polar Institute on April…

The Strange Case of the $15,000 Magic Card

On the final weekend in May, Magic: the Gathering held a massive tournament in Las Vegas (and also in Chiba, Japan and Utrecht, Holland) that shattered attendance records, included at least one wedding, tons of cosplay, and one card opened from a new, current pack that ended up being worth almost $15,000. There are a…

Celebrate Sir Christopher Lee’s Career With His Many Cinematic Deaths

I’m devastated at the loss of the great Sir Christopher Lee, arguably cinema’s finest screen villain and certainly one of its most prolific. But as we mourn the man, we should also celebrate his incredible body of work — including this compilation of his many, many fantastic death scenes. Contact the author at [email protected].

Why Do Other People’s Farts Smell Worse?

In 2005, two researchers published a series of articles investigating the subject of other people’s smelliness. They examined how much disgust people would feel and show after smelling a variety of odors, including armpits, garbage and farts. Among the stinks examined, farts elicited the strongest negative response, and across all body odors, people consistently rated…

The Surface Texture of This Material Is Tuned With a Simple Squeeze

This lump of polymer may look nice and smooth right now, but given a shove it can form complex pasterns of ridges or bumps on its surface—the result of 3D printing the harder, black material within a softer matrix. The material’s been created by a team from MIT using a 3D printing process to accurately…

Marine Iguanas Can Literally Make Themselves Shrink

We start small and we get bigger. That’s the way it works for almost all life, and all vertebrates – except one. The marine iguana, found in the Galapagos, can literally shrink itself down when times get tough. Life on an island can be difficult. Sure, islands provide a haven from predators, but when things…

Fox has moved up the release date of The Martian from Thanksgiving to October 2, 2015. It’s the same date that Gravity had two years ago. We so often hear of movies getting release dates pushed back, a vote of confidence like this has become a pleasant surprise. [via First Showing]

Watch This Beautiful Short About an Old Lady Struggling to Text Message

Here’s an amusing and emotional short film about an old woman in a nursing home who struggles to send a text message to her daughter. You should watch it. In case you need convincing, the video—produced by Mick Andrews and Brett O’Gorman—has won plaudits at film festivals around the world, snatching title of Best Short…

RIP Sir Christopher Lee, 1922-2015

The legendary British actor Sir Christopher Lee — known to many for his roles as Dracula, Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun, Saruman in The Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels — has died. Lee, who was suffering from respiratory problems, passed away in Hospital on Sunday.…

Have We Already Met Doctor Who‘s Next Companion?

SPECTRE shows off some new footage, and there’s another look at X-Men: Apocalypse. Plus, get a look at Mulder and Scully back in action on The X-Files, teases for season two of The Flash and iZombie, who is and who isn’t returning for Heroes Reborn, and more. Behold, spoilers! X-Men: Apocalypse Brian Singer has posted…

iPhone users will be able to block ads in Safair running on iOS 9.