The first trailer for The Apparition looks so relentlessly cheesetastic, we can hardly stand it. This movie has everything: feckless scientific researchers who set out to prove that you can summon supernatural entities with the power of the mind, a monster that is sort of like a virus and sort of like a ghost, and a silly rule: "As soon as you believe in it, you die." More »
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Over at Scientific American, amazing science artist Glendon Mellow has posted my current favorite picture in the entire universe: An anatomy drawing he did a few years ago of Hulk's skull, based on the skulls of actual early hominids. (Click to enlarge — we've also got the text below.) More »
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SpaceX has done it. At 12:02 p.m. EDT, the company's Dragon capsule became the first commercial spacecraft in history to be captured and berthed to the International Space Station, and the first U.S. spacecraft to visit the ISS since the Space Shuttle Atlantis last July. More »
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I'm at WisCon this week, so we got special guest host Veronica Belmont from Tekzilla to co-host We Come from the Future! We look at the top movie tropes that get a F in science. Plus, in this week's Esther Gets Experimental we show you how to create plasma using a humble grape and your microwave. And can you help solve the mystery of the forgotten movies and books from our latest Lost Media cases? All this and more on our show this week! More »
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We can all think of characters that we'd like as sidekicks. But sometimes things aren't all about us, personally. There are people out there who just plain need those sidekicks more. (And some need to have those sidekicks inflicted on them more.) Here are ten fictional sidekicks that we want to pair up with ten actual people. More »
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If Disney ever decided to animate Marvel Comics' mutant roster, the final product might just look like these character designs by Matthew Humphreys. Bonus points for mohawk Storm, and I can appreciate how he utilized Psylocke's blindingly purple 1980s armor. Hat tip to Mogo! More »
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The difference between a locally grown heirloom tomato and the mass produced one is pretty obvious to anyone with a palette — but amongst the infinite variation of different varieties of a fruit, is there something you can link directly to deliciousness? More »
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Will Smith has starred in lots of formulaic movies. And he knows better than anyone that there's something comforting as well as exhilarating about a movie that plays out according to a set of steps. Which is what makes Men in Black 3 so weird: it's a movie where the blockbuster formula is the opposite of comforting. More »
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In the so-so thriller The Chernobyl Diaries — which was co-produced and co-created by Paranormal Activity franchise magnate Oren Peli — a group of affably nondescript American twentysomethings go on an "extreme vacation" to Pripyat, Ukraine. Once there, everything goes predictably wackadoo. More »
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Could the next wave of Occupy protests be ripped apart by rubber bullets and tear gas launched by remote-controlled robots hovering overhead, steered by police offers miles away? It's not a futurist scenario anymore. According to CBSDC: More »
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Catnip drive felines crazy, causing them to roll around on the floor and paw at invisible birds flying in their vicinity, but why? More »
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Here's a pastry that has too much technical merit to be so callously consumed. Confectionary sculptor Alexandre Dubosc has created this edible zoetrope has a tribute to the oeuvre of Tim Burton. Watch as monster eyeballs morph into Jack Skellington and Batman's insignia. If all cakes were this aesthetically thrilling, we'd always skip dessert. More »
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It's one of the most impressive photographs of Mars' Endeavour crater ever taken, but the image featured here is special for another reason, as well: it features the photographer (or, at least, the photographer's shadow). More »
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Darth Vader is no stranger to run-ins with the law, whether heisting banks in Long Island, participating in dubiously conceived Ukrainian land use legislation, or receiving parking tickets in Brooklyn. More »
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Check out videos for The Amazing Spider-Man, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and Prometheus. Jenna-Louise Coleman starts Doctor Who filming. Charlize Theron promises Max Mad: Fury Road is happening real soon. Plus a video game star joins the Star Trek sequel! More »
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WE'RE ON OUR WAY | A ship glides over a shining lake in this art by Yun Ling. See tons more art at the link. More »
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If you lack a lovely beard and are well past puberty, could you use a hair growth treatment to create one? More »
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The indie rock band The National has been making some serious guest spots on some geeky soundtracks. After contributing a song to Portal 2 way back when, the band has now performed the Lannister-praising tune "The Rains of Castamere" for the upcoming Game of Thrones second season soundtrack. More »
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"Scumbag," sounds like the kind of hokey insult that would get you laughed at if you used it. When it was used in a New York Times, it got protests from some older readers, because once upon a time it meant "a used condom." Think about every time you've seen Batman refer, in children's cartoon, to criminals as scum, and you'll begin to understand how obscenity evolves. More »
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When we try to imagine the world after an apocalypse, we often end up thinking of a particular era from history. It's not surprising — because the end of the world as we know it often means we'll lose a lot of the fruits of progress. People often talk about bombing someone "back to the Stone Age," for example. More »
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The dream of nanotechnology includes unbelievably tiny electronic devices — including medical devices that could work at the microscopic level. But how do you assemble nanoparticles into larger systems, like nanocrystals? You can't exactly use a pair of tweezers. More »
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The Doctor! Amy! Weeping freaking Angels! They're all in this just-released mini-episode, titled "Good as Gold," the winning entry in the Doctor Who Script-to-Screen competition. According to BBC One: More »
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The love of Star Trek and other classic space operas is built on compromise, and a certain amount of irony. So many tropes in these shows are stylized to the point of unreality, and things happen to punch up the story, rather than for any real reason. Especially the deaths of "redshirts," or random extras. More »
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Remember that image from a few weeks back that showed Earth with all its water gathered up in a sphere beside it? Well here's that image again, only this time, it also features Jupiter's moon Europa, along with all of its water. Notice anything interesting? More »
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Thanks to The Twilight Zone, it's not easy to succeed as a ventriloquist in this day and age. No matter how hard you and your dummy try to bring joy to the world, your audience is left silently wondering who will be next. They laugh out of fear and obligation, not mirth. It is less vaudeville, more hostage crisis. More »
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