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Global Emissions Might Have Started to Decrease in 2015

There might not be any better news as 196 countries head into a second week of climate negotiations in Paris. A Stanford-led study claims that we might have hit global peak emissions in 2014. But that’s not a call for complacency: There is still much work to be done. The study by the Global Carbon…

On Into the Badlands, the Story’s Getting as Good as the Fight Scenes

In between shifting alliances, and friendships that endure in the face of actual death—a.k.a. M.K.’s face—Into the Badlands finally drums up some emotional intensity that matches its milestone-setting, on-screen martial arts in the best episode of the season so far. I may never tire of M.K.-Tilda fight scenes. Not just because the two youngest main…

TV’s Supergirl Will Be Getting Her Own Comic Book

Although Supergirl has hit TV with some major ratings successes, DC isn’t capitalizing on the show’s debut; Supergirl doesn’t have an ongoing series after her New 52 comic came to an end earlier this year. But DC is changing that with a digital-first series that’s all about the TV series. The digital comic, which will…

Blasting Off is Anticlimactic When it’s Entirely Indoors

Astronaut John Glenn was one of the Mercury Seven, the first Americans trained for spaceflight. Before Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in his Friendship 7 mission on February 20, 1962, he went through a lot of training. In the photograph above, he practices for the Mercury mission in a spacecraft simulator,…

The Leftovers Capped Its Stunning Season With a Baffling Yet Satisfying End 

The Leftovers ended way more satisfyingly than it began—there were no Clan of the Cave Bear vibes in “I Live Here Now.” The finale allowed itself a few maudlin moments, but also had some very cruel ones. And while it solved a few riddles, it was mostly content to “let the mystery be,” as the…

Facebook quietly announced that its weird app experiment is over, and it will be closing the Creative Labs that led the initiative. That means apps like Slingshot (a Snapchat ripoff) and Rooms (a Reddit ripoff) will no longer be available for download. RIP Creative Labs. We never really knew you. Contact the author at [email protected].…

By 2080, Corn Won’t Be America’s Top Crop Anymore

America has a huge, sprawling, incredibly productive agricultural system, the slow-grown product of our history as a farming nation. But that system has already begun changing—and what we’re growing on those farms is going to change dramatically too. The Climate of the Future Using nine different climate future scenarios, the USDA recently put together a…

Oh No, Civil War II Really Is Happening

A few months ago, Marvel started teasing a sequel to its 2006 comic book event Civil War. Now, it looks like it’s really happening: the company have revealed the creative team that will pen the follow-up, as well as a potential release date (Spoilers: it’s conveniently just in time for the movie). https://gizmodo.com/looks-like-marvel-is-teasing-a-second-civil-war-comics-1734788234 A promotional…

Build an Incredibly Simple Electric Toy Car With Just a Battery and Two Magnets

You no longer need billions of dollars and a secret dream to take over the world like Elon Musk to build an electric car. If you can find a pair of round magnets and a AA battery that isn’t already dead, you can build this incredibly simple electric vehicle that’s better than watching TV. You…

Could Daredevil or Jessica Jones Show Up In Avengers: Infinity War?

Life is good for Marvel fans these days. Just when you thought things couldn’t get better than the ever expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Netflix shows are kicking ass, plus you have network shows too. It’s all been a great mix. But…will that mix ever become one? That’s the big question. The movies have already…

NASA Maps Show Just How Crazy The Storm Season Was in the Pacific

It was an uncharacteristically quiet hurricane season in the Atlantic, but the same cannot be said for the eastern Pacific and central Pacific basins, which got absolutely hammered this year. New maps by NASA and Unisys Weather show the extent of this year’s storm season. The hurricane season in the Atlantic and the eastern and…

Researchers Act Like Giant Weirdos While Holding a Door Open and Expect a Thank You For It

The world at large received yet more evidence that most psychological researchers have never interacted with a human being in this bizarre study about human behavior based involving, doors, pens, surveys, and researchers hiding from each other behind pillars like Cold War counter-espionage agents. In order to conduct controlled experiments, psychologists have to create bizarre…

Chip Zdarsky Dishes on the Action Figure Fantasies of His Wonderfully Bizarre Comic Kaptara

Earlier this year, we called Kaptara a sci-fi comic to watch out for, but it’s already so much more than that. We sat down with writer Chip Zdarsky to look at where the series is going, its sci-fi/fantasy twist, and the oodles of action figures that inspired the crazy world that Keith Kanga finds himself…

Once Upon a Time Is a Show About True Love Where True Love Is, Objectively, the Worst

You know how in most Disney versions of fairy tales, true love is the cure to all ills? Once Upon a Time is the opposite of that because true love makes everyone on this show—whether they’re involved in it or not—miserable. Spoilers for “Swan Song” follow. If I were ever on the fence about love,…

How Do You Test a Plutonium-Powered Spacecraft? Very Carefully.

The most important part of running a spacecraft on the heat from radioactive decay is to make sure the it’s actually decaying before you send it to space. All four of Cassini’s radioisotope thermoelectric generators underwent testing before the spacecraft was launched in 1997. Environmental Health Specialist Jamie A. Keeley used an ion chamber dose…

Dropbox Is Killing Mailbox and Carousel 

In an effort to get its business back on track, Dropbox will be shuttering two promising, yet unfulfilled ventures beyond its core cloud-storage service. Email app Mailbox will shut down in February, and photo app Carousel will follow suit in March. The company explained the rationale in a blog post this morning: Building new products…

The Trailer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny Is Literally Full of Beauty

I have no idea if it’s the insanely long period of time between the original movie and the long-awaited cinematic sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but this trailer looks great. But who knows if that’s any guarantee that it will be? Here’s the synopsis from the Netflix exclusive film: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword…

Microsoft Band 2 Review: Ugly, Uncomfortable, But Great for Workouts

Fitness wearables really only exist for one reason: To collect information about your health in order to coach and encourage you into being a better version of you. Even though the Band 2 sucks at being actually wearable, it’s still one of the best fitness trackers I’ve ever strapped on my wrist. What is it?…

Taylor Swift Mysteriously Reappears on Spotify as Convicted Pedophile’s Band

It appears we have a troll in our midst. Three days ago, Taylor Swift’s hit song “I Knew You Were Trouble” re-appeared on Spotify. But it wasn’t under infamous Spotify-hater’s name. The artist listed was Lostprophets, a Welsh band whose lead singer is a convicted pedophile. Spotify pulled the song down on Monday morning, though…

16 Hidden Chrome Settings Worth Tweaking

The chrome://flags page is a strange and wonderful trove of hidden settings for Google’s browser. It lets you peek under the hood of the application and tinker around with some experimental options not yet ready for prime time. Here are 16 of the most useful flag settings you might want to tweak. It’s worth re-emphasizing…