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Photographer Robert Shults spent nine months shooting inside the Texas lab that hosts the intensely powerful Petawatt laser to create new collection The Superlative Light. He drew inspiration not just from his evocative subject, but from his favorite scifi movies, like Alphaville and The Fly.

Could the Next iPhone Be Completely Waterproof?

“Premium smartphones” often means powerful processors and stunning displays wrapped in an all-metal body, but what is consistently left off that feature list, unless your Sony and (formerly) Samsung, is waterproofing. Now, Apple is looking into how its next smartphone could completely repel water without changing design at all. Those rumors stem from a new…

How Many Of These Statements Are True?

This week’s puzzle poses an apparent paradox. Given ten self-referential statements, your task is to determine which of statements are true, and which are false. Sunday Puzzle #23: Statements of Truth This week’s puzzle is presented at the top of the post. I will repeat it here. Above, there are ten numbered statements. Which of…

Watch This Guy Troll London With a Super Long Selfie Stick

Love our selfie-obsessed culture or hate it, this video of a man walking around the bustling streets of London trying to photograph himself and his fellow pedestrians with an absurdly long, hand-crafted selfie stick is sure to make you smile. Apparently, the creator of the world’s longest selfie stick, the UK-based pranksters known as Trollstation,…

Just A Really Mesmerizing Video Of A Mochi Machine At Work

Watch this video of a mochi machine working its transformation magic on a portion of rice, and three things are pretty likely to happen: 1) You will feel very relaxed; 2) Your sweet tooth will start making demands; 3) If you’re me … both. [Via The Awesomer]

New Doc About Victorian-Era Taxidermy Puts The “Aww” In “Macabre”

Walter Potter: The Man Who Married Kittens is a short doc written and directed by Ronni Thomas, who’s the filmmaker-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum. It explores the macabre yet oddly adorable work of Victorian England taxidermist Walter Potter. DO WANT. Here’s a more detailed description from the Morbid Anatomy site: This film takes a…

Dubai’s 3D-Printed Museum of the Future Looks Like Science Fiction

Dubai’s newly announced “Museum of the Future” is doing its best to live up to the name. According to a report that appeared Friday in Arch Daily, the metallic oblong structure will be filled with holograms, state-of-the-art robots, and, yes, 3D printed rooms, hallways and auditoriums. The future museum will be open to the world…

World’s Most Powerful Solid Booster Set for Test Firing March 11

All systems are go for the inaugural ground test firing on March 11 of the world’s most powerful solid rocket booster ever built that will one day power NASA’s mammoth new Space Launch System (SLS) heavy lift rocket and propel astronauts to deep space destinations. Orbital ATK’s five segment rocket motor is assembled in its…

We Got to See This Supernova Explode Four Times Simultaneously

It’s not every day we get to see a supernova, and a single exploding star split into four images is an absolute first. Here’s how it happened. The stellar explosion in question was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and appears as four bright yellow dots in the zoomed-in image above, encircling an elliptical galaxy…

These 17 Women Changed The Face Of Physics

From discovering pulsars to correcting the optics of the fuzzy Hubble Space Telescope, here are 17 stories of women who made undeniably vital contributions to astronomy and physics. The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics put together a gallery of pioneering women in physics, writing: They discovered pulsars, found the first evidence of dark matter, pioneered…

Thor Stops By SNL To Do Running Man, Celebrate Victory Over Ultron

Last night’s Saturday Night Live was hosted by Chris Hemsworth. Naturally, Avengers: Age of Ultron … specifically its final scene … made for a ripe target. Watch the video below, but beware: SPOILERS GALORE! (Obviously not really). Booooom! H/T Uproxx

Mercury’s Caloris Basin Is Buried In Kilometers Of Lava

Once upon a time, the Caloris basin on Mercury was flooded with lava, forming a volcanic layer 2.5 to 3.5 kilometers thick with an occasional fresh crater punching through to the original basin floor. The image is enhanced-colour, revealing geological details. As NASA explains: This mosaic of Caloris basin is an enhanced-color composite overlain on…

This Is What Happens When You Load Uranium In A Cloud Chamber

What do you do onceyou’ve built a cloud chamber using party supplies? If you’re Cloudylabs, you load it up with a chunk of uranium and watch the physics happen. From the video description: This video shows the Cloudylabs’s cloud chamber running for approx. 50 min with an Uranium mineral. After 40 min, there is not…

There’s haunting, abandoned-building fascination galore, plus some intense graffiti, in this photo-heavy look at Long Island’s shuttered Kings Park Psychiatric Center. Unsurprisingly, multiple horror movies have been filmed there; it’s also the subject of a documentary made by a former patient.

The Silk Road Mastermind Just Applied For A Retrial

Last month, it took a jury of peers just four hours to convict Ross Ulbricht on seven counts related to his running of The Silk Road. But Ulbricht isn’t giving up that easy — his lawyer has applied for a do-over. In a court filing submitted yesterday and spotted by Ars Technica, Ulbricht’s superstar lawyer…

Goodyear’s Concept Tires Harvest Heat To Power Your Car

In the world of electric cars, efficiency is king — wasted energy is just more miles you can’t travel. While regenerative braking is old news, regenerative tires that use heat and vibration to recharge the battery would be something completely new. That’s the concept that Goodyear introduced at the Geneva Auto Show this week. The…

A Color-Saturated Look At Mercury’s Massive, Ancient Caloris Basin

Mercury’s Caloris Basin is seen in an enhanced color mosaic. The massive crater, formed some 4 billion years ago, is orange. Smaller craters made subsequently are rendered in blue, while orange splotches around the perimeter may be volcanic vents. (Side note: Props to the punster who titled the photo “All About that Basin” on the…

This Solar-Powered Plane Is About To Fly Around The World (Very Slowly)

After endless years of planning (and a not-so-successful dry run), the Solar Impulse sun-powered plane is about to take off on its around-the-world voyage — provided it’s not too cloudy, of course. The Solar Impulse 2 isn’t your average aircraft: it’s been designed from the ground up with this mission in mind. Over 17,000 solar…

Mars Loses an Ocean But Gains the Potential for Life

Looking at Mars’ dusty, dessicated landscape, it’s hard to believe that it once possessed a vast ocean. A recent NASA study of the Red Planet using the world’s most powerful infrared telescopes clearly indicate a planet that sustained a body of water larger than the Earth’s Arctic Ocean. NASA scientists have determined that a primitive…

Being A Human Cannonball Looks Completely Terrifying

Yes, it’s not exactly a surprise that being launched out of a compressed-air cannon is a stressful way to earn a living. But that doesn’t stop this GoPro footage of a woman being shot 40 feet into the air from being white-knuckle terrifying. Mashable persuaded 25-year-old Gemma Kirby to strap the GoPro on for one…