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Don’t like Episode VII‘s new title? Make one of your own!

Disney unveiledEpisode VII’s true name last week, and well… it’s certainly a title for a Star Wars movie. Not a fan? Well now there’s a neat little tool that lets you drum up a few Star Wars logos of your own. Using the power of, well, ITC Serif Gothic, the fine folks over at The…

NASA Finally Tests Its Shape-Shifting Airplane Wings

First revealed to the public earlier this year, NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory have finally begun testing what they hope will be a revolutionary new airplane wing design that replaces moving parts with shape-changing assemblies allowing wings to bend and twist to maneuver a craft through the air. In terms of engineering…

A landmark 20-year study indicates that 7 pesticides, some widely used, may be causing clinical depression in farmers. The precise reason remains unknown, but researchers suspect it’s related to the fact that the chemicals—designed to disrupt the nervous systems of insects—are also affecting human neurologic functions.

Why Your Farts Smell Okay And Everybody Else’s Farts Stink

Finally, AsapScience gets to the scientific questions I want to know! Namely, why people find the odor of their own farts more tolerable than other people’s. As it turns out, we should be focusing on why we find other people’s farts so noxious, not why ours smell okay. Man, the AsapScience artist really when to…

Obama’s Plan to Save the Internet

Good news, America. Our president, Barack Obama, is finally standing up for the internet, and asking the FCC to classify it as a public utility. In other words, he’s asking the agency not to allow destructive things like fast lanes (a.k.a. paid prioritization) or throttling. It’s a great day! At least, today’s news is a…

Natalie Dormer Introduces Her Propaganda Team In Latest Mockingjay Clip

We’ve been waiting to see how Game of Thrones actress Natalie Dormer and her asymmetrical haircut would play out in the third Hunger Games movie. In this clip, Dormer’s character Cressida introduces her pro-rebellion propaganda film crew. Nice to see Pollux is still an Avox in this clip (even if it’s not so good for…

How Many Tasks Can Our Brains Process At The Same Time?

The human brain has been described as a massively parallel computing machine. But just how powerful is it? A recent brain scan analysis is offering some unexpected results. Image: DiffusionMRI glyphs (a process similar to fMRI). Each of the brain’s voxel values is represented by an ellipsoid. (CC) Neuroscientist Harris Georgiou from the National Kapodistrian…

Stunning New Image Shows Saturn And Titan Shrouded In Darkness

In stark contrast to the brilliant colors of Saturn’s rings and the sunlit hydrocarbon seas of Titan, this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft makes them appear as menacing alien worlds. To us, they seem devoid of detail. But to the trained eyes of scientists, such images reveal crucial insights. High-phase observations — generally taken…

The Hungarian-Born Painter Who Immortalized America’s Space Program

In a way, artists are the most important men and women in the aerospace industry when it came to visualizing the visions of the near (or far) future from engineers, scientists and experts. The first piece of our new series showcasing the work of some of the most noted aerospace artists, is about to pay…

You Can Run PlayStation Games on a Smartwatch For Some Reason

Gadgets have come such a ridiculously long way in the past 15 or so years. Need proof? It’s totally possible to play the flagship console games of yore on a watch now. You know how that guy put Windows 95 on a smartwatch? Well it doesn’t end there. Using ePSXe, a Playstation emulator for Android,…

It’s Too Bad This Stunning Iron Man Mark II Statue Doesn’t Move

What Sideshow Collectible’s new Iron Man Mark II quarter-scale statue (based on the second suit Stark built in the 2008 film) lacks in articulation, it makes up for in size and detail. At 26-inches it’s just over two-feet tall, and features a perfect gloss metallic paint job, and light-up features in the helmet, chest, and…

Kids Today Barely Recognize Point-and-Shoot Cameras

Before cameras were a thing that was always in our pocket attached to our phones, human beings actually carried standalone gadgets for capturing casual photographs. Crazy, I know. Just ask these kids. In the latest installment of the Fine Bros’ Kids React series, they show a bunch of digital-era youngsters what looks like a 90’s…

This awesome poster celebrates the badass Women of Films and TV

Scott Park‘s latest poster is an awesome reminder that some of the coolest heroes on TV and in Movies are women – can you name every one of the 80 characters in his Hall of Heroes? Although it doesn’t highlight every great female character in Pop culture (wherefore art thou, Korra?, there’s a veritable who’s…

This Week’s TV: An All-Girls School Performs Supernatural: The Musical

That’s right, Supernatural is celebrating its 200th episode with a musical, and teenage girls are playing the roles of Sam and Dean. Atlantis returns for another season of mashed-up Greek mythology; Gravity Falls heads to time jail; and Z Nation has to deal with glowing, radioactive zombies. Get all the details below! Tonight Gotham (8…

Why a Superstar Designer Wanted to Make a Better Gene-Testing Machine

Odds are good you know industrial designer Yves Behar’s work, even if you don’t know his name. Behar’s studo, fuseproject, has designed fitness trackers, wireless speakers, smart locks, and vibrators. His latest project won’t be used by everyone—but that doesn’t mean we won’t benefit from it. Behar recently teamed up with Fluidigm to oversee a…

Has Suicide Squad Cast Two of Batman’s Most Famous Villains Already?

A photo from the Arrow set reveals a change coming for a major character. Set video from Chicago shows Lois Lane with Superman. James Gunn talks Guardians of the Galaxy 2. We’ve got more details for the Minority Report TV series and a mysterious new Flash character. Spoilers now! Top image: Batman v. Superman Suicide…

Ask All Your Questions About Computer Crime And Digital Warfare

Kim Zetter is here to answer all of your questions about computer crimes and security, Stuxnet and digital warfare, online surveillance and privacy, and how living online is changing the world. Zetter is the author of the new book Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon, which tells…

William Gibson On the Apocalypse, America, and The Peripheral’s Ending

William Gibson is laconic. Which isn’t too surprising, given that the author of Neuromancer is famous for his spare, incisive prose style. We sat down with him in late October to discuss his latest novel, The Peripheral, and wound up talking about a lot of things I never expected. I met Gibson in San Francisco’s…

Scientists Discover a Virus That Makes Humans Less Intelligent

U.S. scientists studying throat microbes have inadvertently stumbled upon an algae virus that appears to have a slight but measurable detrimental affect on cognitive functioning in humans, including visual processing and spatial orientation. Disturbingly, millions of us could already be infected. Called Chlorovirus ATCV-1, it’s a large DNA virus known to infect certain green algae.…

​The Terrible Secret Of Eugene’s Mullet Revealed On The Walking Dead

It’s practically impossible to discuss anything about this week’s episode without it being a spoiler, but suffice to say we got the most major revelation since we learned Terminus is A Bad Place. And we also got a crappier, less interesting revelation: Abraham is a crazy asshole. “Self-Help” is the title of tonight’s episode, which…