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What Is the Scariest Disease?

Whether you’re personally afraid of Ebola or not, you have to admit it’s a scary disease: no vaccine, no cure, and high fatality rate are just a few of its distinguishing features. Recently I polled my friends on what diseases they were afraid of, and many of the ones that made the list were things…

A vampire-fanged deer has been spotted in Afghanistan, 60 years after its last appearance. Kashmir musk deer use their fangs during mating season to fight males and impress females. Their population has dropped 50% in just 20 years—poachers sell their musk glands, which are believed to have medicinal properties. Image: Julie Larsen Maher at the…

This may only be a shot of military vehicles being loaded into a C-5M Super Galaxy, but the dramatic lighting, shiny ramp and crisp details of the aircraft interior make it feel like a vision from the future. [Staff Sgt. Jeremy Bowcock/USAF]

Tom Cruise outside of a plane at 5,000ft must be his craziest stunt yet

We have seen Tom Cruise doing some crazy stunts in the past,but this must be the craziest yet. The 52-year-old actor—who is shooting Mission Impossible—held to the door of an Airbus A400M Atlas military transport as it took off and flew at 5,000 feet above the British countryside. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

Why Your Best Hopes Should Lie With Your Worst Friends

If you fall into misfortune, it’s important to have a lot of good friends rally around you. They’ll get you through it, right? Nope! If you want to make successful connections, go to the people you barely know. Good friends are bound up in each other’s lives. They form social networks that, primarily, include only…

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Deployed Its Braking System Prematurely

Following the tragic accident on Friday which saw Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo fail catastrophically, engineers are now scrabbling to understand the cause. In a new briefing, the National Transportation Safety Board has explained that the craft deployed its braking system prematurely. The NTSB’s acting chairman, Christopher Hart, has explained that SpaceShipTwo’s tail stabilizers were extended earlier…

Another Big Game of Thrones Change! Plus The Weirdest Spidey Rumor Yet!

A new theory may explain the mystery brunette in Avengers: Age of Ultron. New hints about the reboots of The Crow and Hellraiser. Plus new details on the Superman characters who will join Supergirl. Spoilers now! Top image: Game of Thrones. Amazing Spider-Man 3 Rumors are once again circulating that Sony may seek to use…

Resurrection Suddenly Remembers and Resolves Last Season’s Cliffhanger

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been waiting for this show to resolve the question of Marty’s relationship to the Thompsons pretty much all season. We ended season one on the revelation of that, and we haven’t heard anything about that until now. Just in time to dispose of most of the Thompsons…

This Beautiful Stool Can Be Built From Four Parts in Seconds

This beautiful flat pack stool has just four parts and can be put together in seconds—by simply screwing a plumbing value right through its centre. The Yodessa stool by Tizumuka has a simple stool top, two sets of legs, and the required screw-in valve. Taken apart, it can be packed into a 680 x 400…

Cruise Ship Wi-Fi Just Got Ten Times Faster

If you’ve ever spent weeks at sea on a cruise, you’ll know that using the Internet is a bit like stepping back in time by a decade or more. But that’s all changing. Cruise ship operator Carnival has developed a new WiFi@Sea network for passengers aboard its vessels, and they claim that it supplies those…

BlackBerry’s newly Snapchattified BBM messenger is now available, so you can mad with some, err, corporate sexting?

CBS has made a commitment to produce a pilot for a Limitless series, based on the2011 moviestarring Bradley Cooper. The show was in development last year, but now you can officially get ready for Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman’s take on a drug that enhances the brain with some intense side affects. [Deadline]

New Details Reveal Just How Totally Bananas Superman Lives Could’ve Been

For whatever reason, the failed Tim Burton and Nicholas Cage Superman Lives is making news again. Each little detail we get is slightly weirder than the ones we started with. And given that one of the ones we started with was a giant mechanical spider, that’s saying something. Making the rounds last week was an…

Watch the Biggest Sunspot in 24 Years Traverse the Sun

You’re looking at the largest sunspot since 1990 as it crossed the surface of the Sun. Captured between October 17th and 29th, the spot was big enough to see without a telescope. Interestingly, despite its size and production of lots of flares, it “did not produce any significant coronal mass ejections,” according to Alex Young…

Rumor: Apple Watch Going on Sale in Spring 2015

While many are eager for Apple to start selling its new watch as soon as possible, a leaked internal message suggests that we might have to wait until spring of next year before we can put one on our wrists. According to Apple employees, reports 9to5mac, Apple Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores…

Marching Band Forms Real and Fictional Space Ships for Space-Themed Show

The Ohio State University Marching Band is at it again. While you might deduct points for relying too heavily on the music from the Abrams’ Star Trek films, they more than make up for it in their formations and their skill. Plus, they give special tribute to NASA, which is just awesome. [via Tastefully Offensive]

Turbulence Prevents Star Formation In Galaxy Clusters

Galaxy clusters are large clouds of hot gas, seemingly-ideal places to observe gas cooling and condensing into stars. Yet, we don’t see that happening. Here’s a look at how black holes and turbulence are conspiring to keep galaxy clusters underpopulated with hot new stars. Top image: Perseus (left) and Virgo (right) glow extremely brightly in…

Surprise! Two More Marvel Characters Are In Age of Ultron

In case everything else we’ve seen and heard about Avengers: Age of Ultron didn’t move you, maybe this will. See who the two are inside, including spoilery speculation about what they’re doing Speaking with The Telegraph, Elba said: “Ironically, yesterday I had to…” Elba chuckles. He’s not meant to talk about this, but he clearly…

Sci-Fi Action Movie Double Feature with Cyborg and Total Recall

It’s a wonderful Sunday evening for some science fiction, don’t you think? Luckily, Netflix has just reintroduced into the streaming wild two titles worthy of your attention: Cyborgand Total Recall. I am an absolute sucker for action films, but I only really like them if it’s completely unforgiving, 24/7, non-stop action. The best action movies…

La Luz: It’s Alive

Yesterday was the first day of fall where I audibly said the words “damn, it’s cold.” Now, I actually love colder months as opposed to the sweat-inducing alternative, but that doesn’t mean I don’t get nostalgic when I know I’ll soon be sentenced to the dreary, chapped-lipped months of northeastern winters. In these times of…