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A Webcomic About Two Cosmic Scoundrels By A Creator Of Homestar Runner

When Homestar Runner co-creator Matt Chapman teams up with Samurai Jack artist Andy Suriano, magic happens. Space magic. Their webcomic Cosmic Scoundrels follows a pair of futuristic rogues and their ludicrous adventures on the wrong side of the law. Plus, expect plenty of Easter eggs. Love Savage and Roshambo are the titular pair of space-faring…

Night At The Museum 3 Trailer Is A Bittersweet Bit Of Magic

The Night at the Museum franchise channels a lot of magic, mostly thanks to the team of actors that make up the historical models from the Museum of Natural History, especially Robin Williams. Which is why the trailer for the third film, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is so bittersweet. The Night…

What West Point Cadets Learned By Studying A Classic Scifi Novel

When Chris Moseley, an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, decided to teach a “special topics” course on general relativity, he opted for an unusual supplementary textbook: Larry Niven’s 1973 novel Protector, which vividly depicts a battle between spaceships moving at relativistic speeds. Moseley writes in a paper that he had expected…

Scientists Are Sending Data-Carrying Spiral Lasers Across Entire Cities

Twisted laser beams may just be the key to unlimited bandwidth in the future—and now a team of scientists has used them to beam data through the air, from one side of Vienna to the other. We’ve already seen twisted laser beams transmit data at speeds of over 1.6 terabits per second via fiber-optic cable.…

Bette Midler Confirms All Hocus Pocus Witches Are Ready For A Sequel

Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy are all down for a sequel film to Hocus Pocus. Hey, Disney — get a shovel because it’s time to resurrect Thackery Binx in cat form! During a Reddit AMA, Bette Midler told the world the she and all her Sanderson Sister witches are ready for the…

Music video: The statistical facts of a romantic relationship

It’s fun to think of your own life in statistical terms. How many tacos al pastor did I eat in my entire life, how many kisses did I give, or how many trousers did I brake. This cool music video for the song Afterglow does that. It shows five years of a couple’s relationship summed…

What Common Mistake Drives You Crazy?

Whether it’s a grammatical error, a scientific misconception, a misattributed quote, or a piece of historical trivia that’s more legend than fact, now’s your chance to set the record straight. Tell us in the comments about the common errors that bother you the most and don’t forget to include the correct version. Then settle in…

The Cat Petting Simulator is choose-your-own-adventure game that allows you to role-play being a cat owner. I played this while my actual cats watched me, perplexed. [via Metafilter]

The Relationship Status of the U.S., Visualized

Ever wondered where people are more likely to get hitched, or perhaps live out their life solo? These maps, created by Nathan Yau, show how relationship status varies across the entire country. Taking data from the American Community Survey, which goes down to the county level, Yau created maps which show the proportion of married,…

Watch Philae Make Its Historic Landing On A Comet, Live On io9!

After 10 years of anticipation, the ESA’s Philae lander has finally detached from the Rosetta satellite and is currently making its descent to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko where it will land later today. Watch the events as they unfold live right here. Above: ESO simulation. UPDATE 11:29 AM ET: Success! The lander has made touchdown. For ongoing…

16 Fun Projects for Your New Raspberry Pi

The new Raspberry Pi is smaller, cheaper and more energy efficient—not a bad way to update a best-selling device. Whether you’ve taken the plunge on one of the new units or you want to put the original model to good use, we’ve collected together some of the most fun Pi-based projects on the planet for…

It’s not concrete with measles. In fact, this is how Olympus uses software to automatically differentiate between safe and unsafe air gaps in porous materials—too many pores, and the samples don’t make the cut. That’s particularly important for new kinds of foamed metals, that are increasingly used in airplanes. [Olympus]

Rumor: Lex Luthor’s Batman V. Superman Scheme Is Bigger Than We Thought

Plus there are hints about even more comic-book characters that might show up. Plus what do early reviews say about Mockingjay? And all the Grant Ward news from Agents of SHIELD. Spoilers now! Top image: Batman v. Superman Batman v. Superman An extra claims that there are at least two funerals in the film: one…

The Time Travelers Hidden In Thrift Store Paintings

We’ve mentioned a love for altered thrift store paintings before, and now we have a set that integrates science fiction travelers into the bland pastoral scenes. The only better would be if they were sold back to thrift stores for unsuspecting buyers to come across. These are works by Rochester-based Dave Pollot, whose work can…

Why Miracle Drugs Exist But You Can’t Have Them

It’s supposedly getting easier for innovative drugs for rare diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy to reach the market. So why, asks Andy Extance, is hesitancy still proving devastating to desperate families? Had it begun five years earlier, Leo Le Gal’s story would have followed a depressingly familiar pattern. Aged somewhere between 8 and 11, Leo…

Rosetta’s lander is now on its way to comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko

Everything is going according to plan. The lander Philae is now flying to the comet, en route for touchdown. Soon we will have images of Rosetta floating in space and Philae on its way to the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Follow the live coverage here.

Mozilla’s New Website Takes VR to the Internet

Most websites sit in your browser in boring old 2D. But Mozilla has decided that it’s time to change that, and the launch of MozVR.com brings virtual reality to the mainstream web. The page is especially designed to allow Oculus Rift owners to browse technology demonstrations that attempt to showcase how a future web, where…

Netflix now plays in 1080p on your iPhone 6 Plus. (Here’s some stuff you should watch.)

FCC Considering a Break With Obama’s Thinking on Net Neutrality

On Monday, Barack Obamafinally stood up for the internet—but the head of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, is said to be ‘frustrated’ with the President’s plan. And that means it may well break with Obama’s thinking. The Washington Post reports that Wheeler, talking to officials from Google, Yahoo and Etsy at the meeting were this news…

This is probably the most disgusting yet most satisfying surgery ever

Acute subdural hematoma is the technical name of one of the deadliest of all head injuries. This video shows how you get rid of it, which involves opening the brain and removing the clogged blood. It’s really gross, but incredibly fascinating too. Warning: STRONG IMAGES. The video contains the whole procedure, including opening the brain.…