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A Brilliantly WTF Cartoon About Evil Teddy Bears Who Slaughter Unicorns

Sangre de Unicornio (Unicorn Blood) is an awesomely demented cartoon about a pair of teddy bear brothers who hunt unicorns for their blueberry-flavored blood. And the bizarre tale of brotherly love and betrayal is set to a perfect sludge metal soundtrack. Alberto Vazquez is the very, very strange mind behind this short film. The song…

The hypnotizing process of making a handmade steel knife

Damascus steel is a Middle Eastern type of steel famously known for its resilience and distinctive patterns. Its secret was a unique forging technique that has been long lost. Nowadays experts try to reproduce it and, while it may not be exactly the same process, watching them doing it feels like magic. The sound the…

With towering bones jutting out of the snow, Whale Bone Alley is Siberia’s answer to Stonehenge. The 600-year-old-structure — made from 34 whale jaw bones, each 16-feet-high — was erected by indigenous tribes to create a neutral place of worship. Recently, it’s become a popular destination for Western tourists.

Ultrasound Can Let You Touch and Feel 3D Shapes in Thin Air

Touch feedback has been advancing rapidly of recent time, and now we’ve gotten to the stage where ultrasound can be used to create entire 3D shapes to touch and feel in thin air. We’ve seen 2D surfaces rendered in thin air using ultrasound before, but now researchers from the Bristol Interaction and Graphics group have…

Behold NASA’s Awesome New Countdown Clock

In anticipation of its new deep space explorer, NASA has unveiled a sleek countdown display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The modern, digital LED display is replacing the iconic analog countdown clock. The new display, which resembles a stadium monitor, is similar in size to the historic clock. It features a screen nearly…

What From Today Will People Still Be Enjoying 100 Years From Now?

Sometimes it’s hard to see our own time clearly — especially what from it will last and what will fall away. Today we want to know what you think will stand the test of time. Maybe it’s a book or TV series that has yet to become a classic, but you believe will. Maybe it’s…

​Without Dark Matter, There Would Be No Life

The evolution of life is a 13.8 billion-year-long chain of events, from the Big Bang through the creation of chemical elements, galaxies, planets and the first self-replicating organisms. But without dark matter’s influence, says an astrophysicist, it’s hard to see how anything as complex as life could have emerged. James Bullock, a professor of physics…

Steve Jobs Will Testify from Beyond the Grave via a 2011 Recording

The long-running case against Apple for allegedly forcing iTunes users to use iPods is about to come to a head only nearly a decade too late, with a deposition from Jobs recorded six months before his death in 2011 the cornerstone of the case. The case claims Apple unfairly increased sales of iPods between 2006…

Is This TV’s New Supergirl?

The Vampire Diaries’ Claire Holt is in the running to play Kara Zor-El, the Kryptonian better known as Supergirl in CBS’s upcoming superhero TV series. I don’t know Holt’s work on VD (hey, that’s how The CW abbreviates the show), so you tell me — is this a good thing or a bad thing? I…

How Scientists (And Artists) Make See-Through Corpses

Labs, taxidermy stores, and movies about mad scientists are populated with semi-translucent creatures in jars. These are commonly called “diaphonized” creatures, and they’ve been in real labs since the 1970s. But what started as a way to get a good look at skeletons became art. The first step in the diaphonization process is a long…

Feeling intellectual? Then you’ll delight in the fact that Nature has made all of its archived scientific papers free to read—though sadly you can’t print them out.

How Scientists Gained the Ability to Reverse Overdoses

Naloxone can reverse an otherwise fatal heroin overdose within minutes. Carrie Arnold meets the doctors who put this remarkable drug in the hands of the police, families and addicts—and saved thousands of lives. Alexander Walley was a twentysomething medical student when he witnessed the power of naloxone. It was the midnight shift at the Emergency…

How Can the Rest of The Walking Dead‘s Season Get Even Darker?

There’s a new rumor about who Andy Serkis is playing in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — and it’s more than one character. Plus more filming for Avengers: Age of Ultron, and details for the Doctor Who Christmas special revealed! And David S. Goyer updates us on the Sandman movie. Spoilers now! Top image: The…

Black Mirror, the dark science fiction anthology series created by Charlie Brooker, now has both season 1 and season 2 available on Netflix. We loved this series and highly recommend checking it out, if you haven’t yet. Or, re-watching it if you have.

What Actually Happens When You Click on a Link

You see a link, you click on it, and it takes you somewhere. Simple, right? But actually, that remarkably straightforward user experience has a fairly complex series of computational processes going on in the background. In this video, Dr Richard Mortier essentially explains the basics of how links work. He does a pretty great job…

This Year, Google’s Santa Tracker Gets Kids to Code

Santa is under surveillance—but not by the NSA. Instead, Google is helping children of all ages to to keep tabs on the jelly-bellied gift giver, and even learn some new technical skills along the way. This year, Google’s Santa Tracker—no longer in conjunction with NORAD since they defected to Microsoft—is set in an interactive town,…

The FBI Has Warned That ‘Destructive’ Malware Attacks Could Hit the U.S.

The FBI has issued a confidential report to businesses in the wake of the Sony Pictures hack which explains that U.S. businesses should remain vigilant against new malicious software that can be used to launch “destructive” cyberattacks. While the report doesn’t name the Sony incident, it describes an attack thatcybersecurity experts tell Reuters is large-scale…

4 hilariously insane ways to remove your mustache that aren’t shaving

Is shaving the best way to remove hair? Mehdi Sadaghdar emphatically answers yes after performing stunts for this video. He hilariously tries crazy alternative hair removal methods—burning it off and electrocuting it off, for example—and decides that shaving is so much easier than any other way. This guy is funnier and crazier than the guys…

Here’s Thor Made Out of Coffee Cups. Because Coffee. And Australia.

As near as I can tell, this was a promotional gimmick for the Australian coffee chain The Coffee Club. The fact that the Coffee Club is Australian makes the choice of Chris Hemsworth understandable. It took 2000 coffee cups to make this. It would have taken longer if Thor was there smashing cups as they…

HP’s New Laptop Definitely Isn’t A Macbook Air

HP has just announced a new business laptop. But judging on looks alone, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s just a Macbook Air with a sticker over the Apple logo. Thankfully, there’s a few tricks inside to differentiate things. For starters, the Folio 1020 technically two laptops — there’s a standard edition, which weighs…