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This Week’s TV: Maleficent Teams Up With Ursula And Cruella De Vil

We’ve got a bunch of mid-seasons finales happening this weekend, including a showdown between the Flash and the Reverse-Flash, a Castiel family reunion on Supernatural, and Ra’s Al Ghul’s ultimatum on Arrow. But Once Upon a Time kicks off its cliffhanger with a story shift—and a Disney villain team-up. Monday Scorpion (9 PM, CBS) Sylvester…

Today,Vimeo is launching 4K video support—sort of. Pro subscribers will now be able to offer 4K downloads of their videos. (They have to be 4K videos to begin with, duh.) 4K streaming is “in the works,” according to Vimeo, but there are no concrete plans to launch a streaming option at this time.

Report: Sony’s PlayStation Store Goes Down Following Cyber Attack

Things aren’t getting any better for Sony. The Financial Times reports that Sony’s PlayStation online store went down for approximately two hours overnight following a cyber attack. Early reports seem to indicate that no passwords or sensitive information were compromised. While it’s clear that PSN did suffer an outage, the cyber attack hasn’t been confirmed…

Bonkers Korean Interstellar Spoof Gets All The Crying Right

Interstellar has just become the third most successful foreign film in South Korea, and that means SPOOFS! Watch the totally ridiculous Interstellar takedown from Korea’s Saturday Night Live (yes, there’s a Korean SNL!). While Interstellar climbs the charts in South Korea, the country’s own SNL TV series has taken a totally ridiculous satirical swing at…

Why Do Our Immune Systems Falter In Space?

Blasting off into space has a lot of strange consequences for the human body. One of the weirdest, though, is the slow flagging of the immune system in microgravity. So, just what’s happening to your body’s defenses? The exact mechanism behind why our immune systems become less effective in space isn’t completely understood yet. What…

Exciting New Details Emerge About The U.K.’s Proposed Lunar Mission

Scientists in the U.K. are raising money for a lunar mission that would see an exploratory robotic probe land on the moon within 10 years. Here’s what they’re hoping to achieve. It’s called Lunar Mission One, a crowdfunded project with the principle goal of surveying the Lunar South pole to learn more about the geology…

The Bitterest Scientific Duel in History Was Over “Geoheliocentrism”

Most people know Tycho Brahe as the silver-nose-wearing, elk-owning astronomer that they’d love to drink with. He was also an implacable grudge-holder. His bitterest fight involved three famous astronomers of the 16th century, and their battle over the best theory about how Earth was at the center of the universe. Tycho Brahe and Nicolaus Reimarus…

The Leftovers Will Be a Very Different Show in Season 2

This is an interesting move: a soft reboot for a show being done in for the second season. To fix what are presumably problems that worry the studio and/or the executive producers, season two of The Leftovers is going to have a new location and a lot of new cast members, basically keeping the premise…

Prepare yourself for a possible guacamole shortage. California accounts for about 95% of the avocados grown in the U.S., but the historic drought — the worst in 1,200 years — has taken its toll on the crop, which requires 74 gallons of water to produce one pound.

Orion Is Going Home

Captured on December 5th, somewhere on the infinite Pacific Ocean, this image shows the Orion crew module in the well deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage after Navy divers recovered it following the first and flawless exploration flight test. With the Orion crew module looking rather like an Apollo-era spacecraft but surrounded…

Slow-Mo Video Reveals Raindrops on Sand Behave Like Asteroid Impacts

There’s little more atmospheric than striding out across a beech in the driving rain—but what’s happening as those rain drops smash into the sand beneath your feet? This video, created by researchers from University of Minnesota, shows how drops of water landing on microscopic glass beads—just like the particles of sand on a beach—affect what…

​Which Historical Event Do You Most Wish You’d Been Around To See?

Whether it’s something you’d want to have seen for the pure spectacle of it or if it’s just a rather mysterious historical event that you’d like to shed some more light on, we want to know which bit of history you’d most like to have seen up-close. Tell us about the historical event in question,…

Japan Is Going To Start Making Its Own Godzilla Movies Again

Well, this is an interesting development. Toho has announced that they’ll be making their own sequel to this year’s hit relaunch of the Godzilla franchise, this one due in 2016 — two years before Sony’s official U.S. sequel is due. According to THR: “This is very good timing after the success of the American version…

A Proposed Redesign For U.S. Currency That Celebrates Science

Who would you rather see on a $50 bill: Ulysses S. Grant or the helmeted visage of a spacewalking astronaut? Idaho-born designer Travis Purrington believes that the U.S. would be better served commemorating the spirit of innovation and discovery instead of a dead president. In fact, Purrington feels that most of our greenbacks are long…

Parents, Does This Psychological Trick Work With Your Kids?

If you really, really want a child to stay away from something, what kind of punishment should you set? It’s possible a light punishment would be a better idea than a heavy one. It’s called the “insufficient punishment effect,” and it works by combining deceitfulness and reverse psychology. Two psychologists ran an experiment during which…

Uber Banned in Delhi Following Rape Allegations

After one of its drivers wasarrested on charges of raping a female passenger, Uber has now been banned in the Indian capital, Delhi. The Delhi transport department has today bannedUber in the city. The blacklisting is spurred by the arrest of Shiv Kumar Yadav who was arrested yesterday after allegedly raping a 25-year-old woman on…

Do We Know The Real Reason Why Star Trek 3 Is Changing Directors?

Today there’s a wild rumor about Lex Luthor’s Batman v. Superman ambitions. Plus a possible director for Ready Player One, and some information tying the new Bond movie to Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. Plus, James Brolin talks Thanos, and Oscar Isaac talks Star Wars and X-Men: Apocalypse. Spoilers now! Top image: Guardians of…

Judge: British Spying Doesn’t Violate Human Rights

GCHQ’s intelligence gathering practices, which include popping in on your webcam conversations and scanning the web connections of entire nations, do not violate the European Court of Human Rights’ safeguards for privacy and free speech. That’s according to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal, whose judges have been looking into the methods used by the British…

What’s The Strangest Thing You’ve Done to Get Cell Reception?

Finding some signal in areas with poor cell reception is the modern day’s version of black magic: stand on one leg, reach into the air arm outstretched, balance something on your nose and maybe you’ll get some data. Of course, you could just be going a little mad: chances are, that piece of tropical fruit…

This Is the 2,000,000 MPH Gaseous Vomit of a Galaxy

This isn’t a giant rainbow sperm, but instead an energetic burst of gases being spat out from the center of a galaxy thanks the the immense pressures of stars forming at its core. The observation of galaxy SDSS J0905+57 has been made by a team of scientists from the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Previously it…