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UPS Now Offers 3-D Printing Nationwide

Fresh off its 3-D printing experiment with a measly 6 stores last year, UPS is now offering 3-D printing at 100 stores nationwide. If you’ve ever wanted your very own tiny thing made out of plastic, your hour is here. The printers themselves will be Stratasys uPrint SE Plus, which UPS (naturally) says are far…

This perfectly timed picture is not of a solar eclipse

I know this picture looks like the Moon is passing perfectly between the Earth and the Sun. And I know it seems like the people in the picture are trying to look at the eclipse. But this picture taken by Reddit user MDPPatrick is not of a solar eclipse. It’s just a perfectly timed snap…

We’re Finally Going to Be Able to Track Missing Airliners

It’s only taken two major crashes and untold millions in search operations, but the world is finally going to have the capability to track airliners anywhere in the world. A collaboration between Iridium and Nav Canada will see a constellation of 66 — count ’em — satellites in orbit by 2017, and hopefully the tracking…

Watching a falcon hunt down a crow in the air is pretty terrifying

Seeing a falcon hunt down a crow from the falcon’s point of view in an aerial pursuit is not unlike seeing an airplane dogfight or a crazy aerial chase scene from an action movie. Only this is happening in nature all the time. And this particular crow has no chance against the falcons. A Reddit…

This Is What Happens When You Give Cirque du Soleil a Bunch of Drones

When you think Cirque du Soleil, you probably think teams of sequin-suited acrobats doing improbable things in time to music, not quadrotors. Well, that’s where you’re wrong. The Montreal-based circus’s latest trick manages to take the mechanical, and make it wonderfully artistic. In collaboration with the Flying Machine Arena at ETH Zurich, the folks at…

7 things you probably didn’t know about Fight Club

As we all get excited about the new second part of Fight Club coming out in 2015, let’s take a look back at some fun facts that you probably didn’t know about the movie. Like how Brad Pitt’s outfits were even crazier than you thought and how perfect the blood dripping needed to be. CineFix…

Lyft, the pink ‘stache-sporting ride-sharing service, announced today that it’s acquiring Hitch, a service that tries to get multiple users into one taxi. Lyft has said that the acquisition will bolster its Lyft Line service (and hopefully stem the onwards flooding of the Uber tide). [Lyft]

Cartoons About Our Relationship To Facebook Are Clever But Depressing

Does Facebook ever leave you feeling like you’re alone in a crowd? Like you’re having more of a relationship with a website than the people you’re connecting with? Then these illustrations might look uncomfortably familiar. Polish cartoonist and illustrator Pawel Kuczynski creates editorial cartoons about the role of Facebook, taking a critical eye to certain…

This beastly sword with an arc reactor would make Iron Man even cooler

Though I think Tony Stark would try to invent some sort of laser if he made his own saber and that Iron Man doesn’t quite need a sword with all his weaponry, this beast of a sword made by Man At Arms: Reforged would still look pretty badass when used with Iron Man’s suit. The…

How Could Scientists Mistake Dust For A Spectacular Discovery?

An infographic at Quanta Magazine explains how scientists could’ve mistaken cosmic dust for gravitational waves as part of their special on the latest saga of the hazards of doing science in public. While disappointing, this just part of the halting, uncertain progress at uncovering the mysteries of the universe. http://io9.com/evidence-for-the-big-bang-theory-may-have-just-been-dus-1637576980/ https://gizmodo.com/have-physicists-detected-gravitational-waves-yes-1545591865 If you’re having a…

The Only Place to Eat After the Apocalypse

Though her directions were bad, it still wasn’t hard to find the restaurant. It was the only damn place with lights on in that stinking garbage pile of a city. Apparently she’d built it with a polymer the locals didn’t know about — one that withstood the onslaught. This haunting image is by Scarborough, UK,…

Get Ready for Miraculous Chainmail Made with “Star of David” Molecules

To build a better form of armor, a group of chemists have created a molecule that looks like a six-pointed “Star of David.” When millions of these molecules knit themselves together, the result could become the lightest, strongest shielding the world has ever known. Image of the molecule via David Leigh’s lab A group of…

Let’s Try to Settle This — Are Birds Dinosaurs?

The links between modern day birds and their dinosaur predecessors are many. So what makes a bird a bird, and is trying to separate birds and dinosaurs really just a distinction without a difference? In response to this post on a new on-screen T-Rex covered in a mixture of feathers and down, a discussion began…

The only way to save the incredible monarch butterfly is if three nations cooperate. And now, it looks like this just might be happening. It’s cause for cautious optimism.

Badass photo of an F-15 refueling

So the US Air Force is on Instagram and sometimes they post some nice shots. This one is not just nice. This one really kicks ass. It reminds me of Macross for some reason. The F-15 is still so damn cool. Members of the 121st Air Refueling Wing refuel an F-15E Strike Eagle using a…

Um, How Many Characters Might Die In Walking Dead‘s Season 5 Premiere?

It’s only 30 seconds long, but AMC has dubbed this video the “official” Walking Dead season 5 trailer. While it may be short, it’s also almost unbearably tense, making it look like Rick and the survivors have been on a goddamn picnic compared to what they’re about to go through. And then it gets worse.…

Hear Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury Sing A Duet, 33 Years Later

In 1981 Freddie Mercury recorded “There Must Be More to Life Than This,” which originally featured additional vocals from Michael Jackson. The song was eventually released without Jackson’s voice, but thanks to the new compilation Queen Forever, you can finally hear Freddie and Michael together. I admit, I got a little choked up listening to…

Size Matters: Narwhals With Longer Tusks Have Bigger Testicles

Narwhals grow long tusks, if they have the balls to do it. The spear at the end of the male sea unicorn has been variously thought to be a sensory organ, a device for battling other males, or an elaborate reproductive signal. New evidence shows they’re the whale version of peacock feathers. The latest research,…

A Game Of Thrones Ballet Set To Metal Sounds Just About Perfect

If you’re going to do a Game of Thrones inspired ballet, you could set it to traditional classical music. Or, you could do the right thing and perform it to music it deserves: savage, crushing heavy metal. Meet the Brutal Ballet company. Bridie Mayfield came up with the idea of metal ballet in Australia, but…

Escape from demolishing fire proves that cats have nine lives

Legend says that cats have nine lives. Science says that’s superstition based on uncanny reflexes and amazing flexibility. Whatever. Looking at this video of the fire of the Towers Hotel—a historic hotel in Dauphin, Manitoba—I’m saying nine damn lives and scientists can go poop in a litter box for all I care. Such a lucky…