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These Frosted Neon Tables Will Bring Out Your 80’s Nostalgia

Remember Spectre, that Macintosh computer game where you drove around in a tank shooting Euclidean shapes under a neon-colored sky? Soon, you’ll be able to bring a little of that early 90’s nostalgia into your living room. In collaboration with Italian furniture maker Glas Italia, the designers at Nendo have just unveiled this set of…

This Puzzle Is So Simple It’s Hard

Every so often, a puzzle comes along with a solution that is so patently, painfully, groaningly obvious, you can’t help but overlook it. This is one of those puzzles. I am genuinely ashamed of how long it took me to solve this puzzle, the first time I encountered it. Sunday Puzzle #26: Links in a…

Urban Ants Love Junk Food, Too

Anyone who’s ever dropped an ice cream cone knows that ants love sugar. But for ants that live on city streets and pavements, junk food may be a matter of survival. “The ants that live alongside us in our cities also seem to be those same species that can eat the same food that we…

Fantastic Four Mini Featurettes Offer Insight Into The Casting Process

Not much here in the way of new footage, but these micro-clips, which feature on-screen commentary by Fantastic Four writer-producer Simon Kinberg and director Josh Trank, do offer up a few nuggets, like the fact that Miles Teller auditioned for Trank’s Chronicle, which ended up starring Michael B. Jordan. Fantastic Four is out August 7.…

Galactic Easter Eggs Are Cosmically Awesome

Tired of seeing the same old boring, pastel-colored Easter eggs every year? Allison Murray of Dream a Little Bigger decided to make Easter a bit more galactic, with stunning results. And with her step-by-step tutorial, you can recreate these little aliens at home! But what are you waiting for? Go make some space eggs! [Dream…

Sinister 2 Looks To Be Just As Nightmare-Inducing As The Original

Remember that time you found those creepy films in your murder-scene of a new house, and the mere act of watching them summoned a demon who looked kinda like a member of Immortal? Well, he’s back in Sinister 2, which features an all-new imperiled family. Check out the creepy teaser below. First, here’s a synopsis:…

Gremlins Cast Reunion, Tonight! ONE NIGHT ONLY

See Gremlins tonight at the Anthology Film Archives at 9:15 with Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman and Dick Miller, tonight, live and in person! And please, don’t get them wet! Contact the author at [email protected].

Sun and Moon Align to Create Stunning Two-Faced Ice Halo

It looks like the sky of an alien world, or a portent for the coming apocalypse, but this photo is actually a day and night composite—two images taken in the same spot along the coast of Östersund, Sweden, roughly ten hours apart. Astrophotographer Göran Strand captured both images on April 1st. What makes the composite…

There’s a 400 million dollar collectible sneaker economy on eBay

Remember those Back to the Future shoes we all freaked out over in 2011? They’re but one instance of rare collectible sneakers, which have grown into a 400 million dollar economy on Ebay. Who knew? And the number of collectors, or sneakerheads, is growing daily. According to Quartz: Today, the numbers point to a growing,…

Will The Next Generation of Displays Be 3D?

In a few short years, touchscreens have revolutionized the way we interact with technology. But to make the best use of our senses, the next generation of displays will not be flat, but have 3-dimensional, reconfigurable surfaces. At least, that’s the belief of Lancaster University’s Jason Alexander, whose lab is prototyping 3D displays to study…

This Is What A Super Typhoon Looks Like From Space

Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti snapped this image of Typhoon Maysak from the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 31 — the day it was bumped up to “super typhoon” status. The storm has since weakened but thousands have been evacuated ahead of its landfall in the Philippines tomorrow. Credit: AP Photo/NASA, Samantha Cristoforetti

It’s A Damn Good Time To Be A Sparrow In Japan

A sparrow enjoys the nectar of a cherry blossom in full bloom in Tokyo’s Ueno Park. AP photo by Shizuo Kambayashi

This Could Just Be The Absolute Best Weekend For Cosplay, Ever

There’s so much amazing cosplay happening this weekend. You’ve got Wondercon happening down in Anaheim, and up in the Northwest, there’s Sakura-Con and Fan Expo Vancouver. All of that adds up to one heck of a lot of incredible costumes. See for yourself! Top image: Honey Lemon cosplbay at Wondercon by The Stylish Geek, photo…

Fish in Death Valley Hold Their Breath For Five Hours At a Time

The desert pupfish, a fish on the verge of extinction due to the simple misfortune of living in Death Valley, has managed to survive by learning to hold its breath for up to five hours at a time. Having spent the bulk of its evolutionary history in cool waters, the last 10,000 have been rough…

An Alien Radio Beacon? Probably Not This Time.

For nearly a decade, astronomers have puzzled over powerful bursts of radio energy that seem to be hailing from billions of light years away. Recently, we received reports of a new wrinkle to this mystery: The bursts appear to follow a mathematical pattern, one that doesn’t line up with anything we know about cosmic physics.…

How To Make The Next Great Motorcycle Blog

There’s no good motorcycle content anymore. That’s a) partially my fault b) a damn shame and c) a great opportunity for an enterprising enthusiast. Here’s how to do it, do it right and make money doing it. Just so everyone’s on the same page: I have zero interest in ever again writing about motorcycles full…

A new open-access database of biosignatures has been designed to help astronomers map which alien planets may be capable of supporting life. It catalogues colors that reflect from 137 microbe species, a brilliant range “from the egg-yolk yellow of Halorubrum chaoviator” to “the deep blue-green of Dermocarpa violacea.” [Image via]

People Throw Themselves at Cars For Money More Often Than We Realized

So, apparently people jumping in front of cars and feigning injuries for money is a thing. But now, tough times have befallen these con artists, thanks to the fact that video cameras are literally everywhere. Auto insurance scams are a lot more common than you might think. According to one source, fraud factors into as…

The Hugo Awards Were Always Political. But Now They’re Only Political.

Last August, the Hugo Awards for science fiction and fantasy were swept by a younger group of women and people of color. At the time, we said “This was really a year that underscored that a younger generation of diverse writers are becoming central to the genre.” So maybe it’s not surprising that there was…

Welcome to the Future Zoo, Home to a Menagerie of Creepy Mutants

We love to imagine how biotechnology might one day enhance our fleshy bodies, but too often, Earth’s wildlife are left out of the future entirely. Enter Kathryn Fleming’s future zoo, filled with a menagerie of fantastical, slightly disturbing, genetically modified mutants. With last year’s sobering news that 40% of all wild vertebrates have disappeared from…