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Proof that the sky is both a magical being and a terrifying force of nature

My favorite parts of Mike Olbinski’s Monsoon II isn’t the terrifying bits where the sky turns evil dark monster and decides to pour lightning and strike water down onto the ground but when it dances around like a balletic being and then notices that we’re watching and moves its clouds so it envelopes us all.…

Sploid Casey Chan

What’s The Best Outdoors Gear For Tall Women?

My girlfriend is 6 feet tall with a 36-inch inseam. Good: Legs! Bad: It’s impossible to find performance outerwear and base layers that go all the way up, while still fitting a slim waist and feminine proportions. What are your suggestions? This is the third in an irregular series — Ask IndefinitelyWild. In the first,…

Tech News Wes Siler

Rejoice, America! The Federal Government Has Built You a Moth Drone

Planes have long been used to drop pesticides and herbicides quickly and evenly over cropland, but the newest drone to drift quietly over us has something a little different waiting in its cargo-hold: thousands and thousands of sterilized moths. The pink bollwarm is a cotton pest that doesn’t show up often, but hits hard when…

Tech News Ria Misra

There Are Special Neurons That Tell the Brain It’s Time to Make Babies

Biologists already knew that one set of neurons play a big role in triggering puberty. A new study shows that these neurons don’t stop working once puberty ends, but keep running through adulthood, serving as a sort of reproductive timer. The neurons are found inside the arcuate nucleus, a part of the brain that also…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Fairphone 2: A Smartphone Made With Entirely Open Hardware

Are you sick of having smartphones that can’t be repaired? You wind up creating e-waste instead of just fixing the darn thing up and using it for another year, and that’s just annoying. Enter the Fairphone 2, which is made with open hardware and is designed to be completely fixable. The Fairphone won’t necessarily give…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Risk Is Getting a Complete Makeover in 2016

In the board game world, Monopoly has undergone more facelifts over the past few decades than an aging movie star. But now, after going mostly unchanged for over 50 years, it’s time for Risk to finally get some fresh paint, polish, and redesigned game tokens. The game’s troops, cavalry, and artillery figures have all been…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Special Metal Feet Let This Robot Walk Around a Hot Frying Pan Forever

Blending different metals together produces an alloy, but layering them instead creates a bimetal that often has unique properties. In this case, bimetal feet allow a tiny robot to walk across hot surfaces, without the need for any other power sources. To realize the Thermobot, researchers at the University of Tokyo took advantage of the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How many people has Jean-Claude Van Damme killed in all his movies?

Few people have given kids and movie watchers and just humans in general more joy than Jean-Claude Van Damme. His crazy fists and wild kicks and fun brand of martial arts just leaves you with a grin on your face. But to his enemies in movies, well, he leaves them dead. How many people has…

Sploid Casey Chan

Meanwhile in the Future: Nobody Cares About Your Gender

Nerf balls are for boys. Dolls are for girls. Romance movies are for women, and action flicks for men. Nearly everything in our world is gendered in some way. But what if we lived in a world where gender was more like hair color — something you could change at will, and that had little…

Tech News Rose Eveleth

New Scale Pinpoints Most Life-Friendly Alien Planets

Researchers at the University of Washington’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory have devised a new habitability index for judging how suitable alien planets might be for life. The point of the exercise is to help scientists prioritize future targets for close-ups from NASA’s yet-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope and other instruments. The top prospects on their list…

Tech News Alan Boyle—Universe Today

The Troubling, Still-Unsolved Case of the 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

The bare-bones facts would be disturbing enough on their own: in June 1977, three Girl Scouts—ages 8, 9, and 10—sharing the most remote tent at summer camp were found raped and brutally murdered. It’s the stuff of nightmares and horror movies. But the story got even worse. Prior to the murders, Camp Scott in Locust…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Can Crowdfunding Save This Town from White Supremacy?

White supremacist poster boy Craig Cobb, founder of a whites-only religion called Creativity Movement, is trying to create a neighborhood for white supremacists in the tiny town of Antler, North Dakota. To stop him, the city had to spend so much money it went bankrupt. Earlier this year, Cobb tried to take over Antler and…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Burger King’s Halloween Burger Dyes Your Poop Green, and We Think We Know Why

Burger King’s Halloween Burger turns poop the kind of comically bright green that would humiliate most goths. The question on everybody’s lips, and other less-mentionable parts, is why? It’s been well-established that consuming this burger will likely leave you with lingering effects the next time you go to the bathroom. What goes in black will…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

Meet the US’s First Autonomous Buses

The robot cars are here! The robot cars are here! For the first time in the US, driverless shuttles will zip around employees of a Northern California office park. The first public trials are set to start next summer, pending local approval. The shuttles, which are designed by a company called EasyMile, will zip through…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Batmobile Slippers Make Those Dark Nights a Little Comfier

Do cold floors and stubbed toes have you purposely avoiding middle-of-the-night trips to the bathroom? With a pair of Batmobile slippers on your feet, you’ve got nothing to fear except your friends being jealous of how cool you look. Based on the Batmobile from Tim Burton’s original Batman flick, the $50 slippers feature elasticized openings…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Revisiting the Small Village That Was Completely Devastated By Toxic Red Sludge

Kolontár’s wounds are deep. Five years ago, on October 4, 2010, roughly one million cubic meters of liquid chemical waste burst from a red mud reservoir of the Ajka Alumina Plant. The 2-4 meters high wave of toxic sludge flooded the small village west of Budapest, and minutes later, six other villages and towns. Hungary’s…

Tech News Attila Nagy

The Pope’s Tablecloth Trick Was a Miracle! (of Modern Computer Graphics)

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, for the fantastic feats of Chill Pope! Today, he’s showing off a classic: The old ‘yank a tablecloth, leaving everything else on the table undisturbed’ trick. It’s a miracle! Except that it’s totally fake. The video showing Pope Francis doing the second coolest thing you can ever do (the…

Tech News Matt Novak

You Better Believe This Floating Slimer Prop Plays the Ghostbusters Theme

Halloween is most enjoyable when it’s spooky and campy, not terrifying. So instead of covering your front lawn with monsters and corpses, ThinkGeek has created this wonderful Slimer prop that ‘floats’ back and forth on a 15-foot rope. It’s not exactly cutting-edge special effects, but it will also only cost you $60 for a pretty…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Lumia 950 and 950XL Hands-On: Hello Again, Windows Phone

Windows Phone has always been a conundrum. It’s a platform filled with good ideas (I always liked Live Tiles I admit), but something kept it from being my smartphone go-to. With the Lumia 950 and 950XL, I’m experiencing a serious case of déjà vu. Panos Panay and the Microsoft Devices team just launched two new…

Tech News Darren Orf

Cthulhu Joins Up With the Only More Evil Entity in the Universe: Monopoly

In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits… to not pass go, and not collect $200? Sure. Let’s go with that. Cthulhu Monopoly draws on locations from Lovecraftian lore like Miskatonic University for its settings rather than the standard Monopoly streets, as you and your fellow Old-One-Loving cultists do board-game-based battle for new land to…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Proof that the sky is both a magical being and a terrifying force of nature

What’s The Best Outdoors Gear For Tall Women?

Rejoice, America! The Federal Government Has Built You a Moth Drone

There Are Special Neurons That Tell the Brain It’s Time to Make Babies

Fairphone 2: A Smartphone Made With Entirely Open Hardware

Risk Is Getting a Complete Makeover in 2016

Special Metal Feet Let This Robot Walk Around a Hot Frying Pan Forever

How many people has Jean-Claude Van Damme killed in all his movies?

Meanwhile in the Future: Nobody Cares About Your Gender

New Scale Pinpoints Most Life-Friendly Alien Planets

The Troubling, Still-Unsolved Case of the 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

Can Crowdfunding Save This Town from White Supremacy?

Burger King’s Halloween Burger Dyes Your Poop Green, and We Think We Know Why

Meet the US’s First Autonomous Buses

Batmobile Slippers Make Those Dark Nights a Little Comfier

Revisiting the Small Village That Was Completely Devastated By Toxic Red Sludge

The Pope’s Tablecloth Trick Was a Miracle! (of Modern Computer Graphics)

You Better Believe This Floating Slimer Prop Plays the Ghostbusters Theme

Lumia 950 and 950XL Hands-On: Hello Again, Windows Phone

Cthulhu Joins Up With the Only More Evil Entity in the Universe: Monopoly

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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