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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Weekend Update Figures Available at Comic Con

If you’re lucky enough to be heading to the 2015 San Diego Comic Con in July, you’ll be one of the first people able to buy this limited edition Tiny Fey/Amy Poehler SNL Weekend Update action figure set from Entertainment Earth that even comes with a fold-out cardboard news desk. You can actually pre-order the…

3D-Printed Eggs Can Even Fool Wild Birds Into Thinking They’re Real

Maybe you’re familiar with the asshole behavior of cowbirds. Known as “brood parasites,” cowbirds lay eggs in another bird’s nest and trick the host bird into raising cowbird offspring at the expense of her own. Like I said, assholes. But birds can learn to recognize imposter eggs. That’s where 3D printing comes in. To study…

This Element Is So Radioactive It Actually Glows

Radium watch dials put the idea of glowing green radioactive elements in the public consciousness, but radium doesn’t actually glow. If you want to see the glow of radiation, take a look at the blue light coming off actinium. Technically, actinium, or more specifically actinium-227, doesn’t glow on its own. What it does is emit…

Will a Planetary Alignment Cause a 9.8 Earthquake This Week? [Updated]

An earth-shattering 9.8 earthquake is coming this week! At least according to your weird uncle’s Facebook page. The Big One is supposed to hit this Thursday, May 28th, thanks to a planetary alignment predicted by Nostradamus and some random guy in the Netherlands. Except that it’s all bullshit. The video below already has over half…

The New Global Strategy to Counter Drug-Resistant Microbes

The World Health Organization has a new strategy for fighting drug-resistant diseases like MRSA and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, which cost lives and strain healthcare systems around the world. A multitude of fungi, viruses, parasites, and bacteria can infect the human body, and we rely on drugs to fight them off—but no drug is 100% effective, and…

Lego’s new see-through case is a better way to show off your Minifigs

You spent hours in toy stores squeezing and groping those blind-bagged Minifigs to ensure you’re buying exactly the characters you want, so Lego is rewarding your efforts with an updated display case that’s completely see-through to best show off your hard-earned collection. Lego hasn’t officially revealed the new Minifigure Display Case just yet, but it…

Slow motion footage of double barreled pistols firing bullets is crazy

Watch as we slow down time to see this guy fire off 20 bullets in just 1.5 seconds from two double barreled pistols. It’s a ballistics ballet that looks almost unreal at certain angles. The top down look of the guns firing is especially cool to see, like a first person shooter video game view…

This Is How You Fix A Space Robot 140 Million Miles Away From A Mechanic

The Curiosity Rover has been a remarkably resilient piece of machinery, but even the toughest robot occasionally needs a tune up. So how does that happen when we’re down here and Curiosity is all by its lonesome up on Mars? It only makes sense for Curiosity to be as autonomous as possible; it’s way up…

Robotic Cockroaches Are Perfect Tiny Aircraft Carriers for Robotic Birds

Humanity wouldn’t be where it is today if we didn’t learn how to work together, but robots have once again demonstrated that they’re much faster at adapting than us because a robotic cockroach is now helping a robotic bird take flight without the need for a human to launch it. UC Berkeley’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab…

Chameleons Are So Good At Hiding, We Didn’t Know They Were 10 Species

The panther chameleon changes color to display itself. When scientists did a genetic work up on it, they found out that behind its display it was hiding 10 extra species. Check out a flow chart that can give you a hint as to which panther chameleon you’re looking at. Biologists at the University of Geneva…

The World’s Cutest Car Meets the World’s Most Adorable Muppet

It’s hard to argue that the Isetta, an extremely tiny front-loading car built by companies like BMW decades ago, isn’t one of the cutest vehicles to ever hit the road. And it’s all but impossible to argue that Elmo isn’t the most adorable muppet to ever wander down Sesame Street. So why has it taken…

Disney’s Developing Robots That Walk Like Its Cartoon Characters

In an attempt to make its theme parks even more magical, Disney’s Research division is working to develop bi-pedal robots and animatronic characters that walk and move like the lively cartoon characters in its animated films and TV shows. Starting with a 3D animated model that walks with the same exaggerated gait and motion as…

DC and Star Wars: Two Very Different Approaches To Sprawling Backstories

Massive continuities are a blessing and a curse for the epic franchises that dominate popular culture. There’s a rich lore to draw on, but how do you keep the complicated backstories understandable to newcomers? DC Comics and Star Wars have taken very different approaches, that illuminate the importance of the past in pop adventures. DC:…

Spock’s Home Office Would Include This USS Enterprise Desk and Chair

Adam Savage recently built his own flawless replica of Kirk’s captain’s chair, but the talented designers behind Super-Fan Builds have taken that idea to the next level by turning the entire USS Enterprise into a glowing computer desk and office chair that looks ready to hit warp nine. The most recent episode of the web…

Periscope, Twitter’s popular live-streaming app and Meerkat slayer, has finally migrated to Android. Now you can snoop around on people’s lives in realtime on either one of the two largest mobile operating systems out there. Neat.

John Scalzi Signs A Massive 10-Year, 13-Book Publishing Deal

John Scalzi just got paid. The celebrated scifi author just signed one of the biggest publishing deals the genre has ever seen, as Tor Books will pay him $3.4 million for his next 13 novels over the next 10 years. The deal covers three YA novels and 10 “regular” books, including further installments of the…

A Speculative Look at the Future of Google’s Nexus Devices

Google’s huge developer conference, Google I/O, is this week(!), and while it’s not normally a place for a hardware announcements, a lot of rumors surrounding Google’s 2015 Nexus devices are already frothing toward the surface. Bottom line: Smartphones are in, tablets are out. Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors and speculation — real…

Science explains that you’re probably drinking coffee at the wrong time

So many of us wake up in the morning and immediately seek out coffee like the brown water addicted fools we are. ASAP Science, however, explains that that is completely the wrong way to do it. We’re not maximizing the caffeine or our body’s natural energy, instead, the right way to drink coffee is to…

Microsoft’s Cortana Is Coming to Android and iPhone

Starting in June, you’ll be able to download Cortana as an app on your Galaxy or iPhone even if you’d rather die than use Windows. The rumors are true: Microsoft is giving the non-Windows crowd a taste of its powerful voice assistant, bringing Cortana to Android and iOS. People love Cortana so much, some developers…

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Pinterest Master

What Pinterest lacks in user numbers it makes up for in aspiration: beautiful buildings, artwork, crafts, technology, outfits and landscapes. Whether you’re a keen Pinterest user or a newcomer who’s in the early stages of poking around, here are 10 useful tips to improve your pinning experience and get more from the platform. 1. Find…