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Wondering how many times Matt Murdock falls over and how much alcohol is drunk in Netflix’s Daredevil? The best fan video ever has your answer. And Chumbawamba.

What’s The Most Interesting Debate In Your Field?

Shoptalk rarely gets heard outside of whatever set of doors you close when you step into your work or classroom, but today we want to hear all about the debates raging on in your field that most people never hear about. Can you not agree on whether a kilobit is 1,000 or 1,024 bits? Is…

This Is What Happens to Your Body After You Die

Most of us would rather not think about what happens to our bodies after death. But that breakdown gives birth to new life in unexpected ways, writes Moheb Costandi. “It might take a little bit of force to break this up,” says mortician Holly Williams, lifting John’s arm and gently bending it at the fingers,…

Satellite Pic Reveals A Nepali Village Obliterated By A Landslide

On April 25, the Nepal earthquake triggered an avalanche that completely buried the village of Langtang. These before-and-after images taken from space show the extent of the damage. As reported in the Nepali Times, nearly all of the 200 inhabitants of the tiny village, which is situated along a popular hiking route near the base…

BAE’s New Goggles Roll Together Night Vision and Thermal Imaging

In the dark, soldiers have two options if they’re to see: night vision or thermal imaging. Both have their advantages and disadvantages—but now, BAE’s new goggles mean there’s no need to choose. Usually night vision goggles are used to understand the immediate environment—they amplify the small amounts of available light—while thermal imaging is used to…

How Agents Of SHIELD Will Repair An Avengers: Age Of Ultron Plot Hole

Independence Day 2 casts its President. Take a look at Captain America and Iron Man’s outfits for Captain America: Civil War, and Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad. Plus, Candice Patton talks Iris discovering Barry’s secrets on The Flash, and teasers for Person of Interest’s season finale. So many spoilers! Top image: Agents of SHIELD. It…

Insurance Types Make a Difference to Survival, For Brain Tumors at Least

We all know that having health insurance can make it easier for people to a see a doctor, and with access to care, people can stay healthier. But socioeconomic inequalities in the United States affect access to health care, and thus treatment and patient outcomes as well. Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government…

The Sun Just Spat Out a Massive Solar Filament

Last week, the Sun spat out a massive solar filament that extended the star’s visible hemisphere by almost half. This image of that huge lick of plasma was captured by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Solar filaments are unstable strands of plasma that loop out of the sun because of strong magnetic fields that…

There Are Stars Being Born At the Center of This Photo

This Hubble Telescope image has several galaxies floating through it, but at the center is UGC 5797, which is currently making stars to populate itself. The blue glow indicates prolific star formation, and, in this image, you can even pick out large blue stars that result. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Contact the author at…

NYT: The Apple TV Remote Is Getting a Touch Pad

Like most of Apple’s products, the Apple TV remote is a thing of simple elegance. But despite the company’s long-held view that most remote controls are too complicated, the New York Times reports that the next Apple TV remote will be far bigger—even including a touch pad. The newspaper claims that the new remote “will…

Bill Nye Explains How Holograms Work

Any time Bill Nye explains anything like this, I’m immediately back in elementary school science class. He does use Princess Leia’s “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope” hologram as an example of things we can’t do yet, but not Star Trek’s holodeck. And the latter is much more important, I think. Contact the…

T-Mobile Gives Verizon Users 2-Week Phone Trial, $650 Contract Buy-Out

T-Mobile is known for aggressive plays, so here’s another to add to the list. If you’re a Verizon customer, T-Mobile will lend you a free phone for two weeks. If you’re happy with the service, it’ll then buy out your contract, up to a price of $650. The new Never Settle promotion is pretty simple.…

Everything in Outlander Is Out to Get Jamie

Every week brings more information that one of our main characters is a cosmic chewtoy. Nothing has gone right for Jamie, ever. Even his love for Claire is marred by the, you know, time travel parts. This week, we add dead brother to Jamie’s dead parents, crippled best friend, price on his head, whipping, and…

Relax, This Moon Isn’t A Death Star

Mimas is a 250 mile wide moon in orbit around Saturn, mostly nonedescript apart from its appearance: it looks creepily, unsettlingly like it’s about to vapourize Saturn and all of its pretty rings. This photo was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft10 years ago, 1.3 million miles away from Mimas. Since then, we’ve learned a lot…

Simple Code Turns Any USB Drive Into A Kill Switch For Your Computer

Master criminals, serial adulterers, and other tinfoil-hat-wearers spend their lives looking over their shoulders, scared of being caught with a powered-on laptop full of incriminating information in, say, a San Francisco public library. But some simple code and an empty USB drive could make life much harder for the police. USBKillis the latest iteration in…

Apple Doesn’t Want You To Build A Charging Band For Your Watch

Even before we had any details about the Apple Watch, accessory-makers were clamouring to sell you a $50 thing to strap to your $500 smartwatch. Apple has now finally released details about how third parties can make bands for the Watch. And it’s made things clear: no fancy connectors, no hidden ports, no charging. Just…

The Internet Archive Has Grown Up With A Gorgeous New Design

If you’ve logged onto the Internet Archive recently, you might’ve noticed that humanity’s ultimate information dump has a pretty new face. And about time too. The Internet Archive is a digital library with a Herculean task: providing “universal access to all knowledge”. It houses over 10 petabytes — that’s 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — of information. It’s…

HBO Doesn’t Trust TV Reviewers Anymore

You can’t stop internet piracy—it’s like a force of nature—but that isn’t stopping HBO from trying. The company’s latest a anti-piracy measure? It’s not giving TV reviewers DVDs anymore. It’s a subtle change to how the company does business with the media, but it’s a shift in trust: Apparently the four episodes of Game of…

How Bird Poop Helps Populate a New Volcanic Island With Life

In 2013, a new island was born off the coast of Japan. While some of these islands formed by volcanic eruptions are only temporary, Nii-jima (“new neighbor” in Japanese) kept growing, eventually consuming the nearby island of Nishino-shima as well. Now the entire landmass is coated in fresh lava just waiting for new lifeforms to…

More Students Refusing to Pay Loan Debts to Fraudulent Online Colleges

They call it a debt revolt. Hundreds of students who got loans to pay for degrees through online schools like Everest, owned by Corinthian Colleges, are refusing to pay them back. They argue that Corinthian lied about how many of their graduates landed jobs, and are asking the U.S. Education Department to forgive their loans.…