Science Researching Your Bladder’s Wolverine-Like Healing Factor
While it’s unlikely your bladder will grow a funny haircut anytime soon, it does manage a fairly neat stunt your other organs can’t. It can lose approximately 75% of its mass and grow back, complete,...
View ArticleScience Builds A Tractor Beam. Well, Kinda.
The humble tractor beam doesn’t get nearly as much credit as the transporter and the phaser in terms of “Star Trek technology” everybody knows, but it actually turns out to be a lot more feasible than...
View ArticleDoctor Sonic Has A New Take On Your Favorite Marvel Characters
Many, many image blogs are fun, but goofy, whether they’re bad superhero cakes or the Avengers being unable to text. Doctor Sonic, on the other hand, is quite literally art. Everything the good Doctor...
View ArticleFamous Pop Culture Gunmen Wielding Zappers? Famous Pop Culture Gunmen...
Kent Sheely has a dream. A dream of taking famous movie stills, and replacing them with Nintendo Zappers. And he’s pretty far along in achieving that dream. What’s most impressive about these, beyond...
View ArticleHere’s The Creepiest/Greatest Ad For An Air Conditioner You’ve Ever Seen
It’s time to play everyone’s favorite game: Argentinian air conditioner ad, or short film by Charlie Kaufman? OK, so, if you read the title, you already know that this is not a (credited) Charlie...
View ArticleMarine Walks 5000 Miles Across Asia Using Only Google Maps
Today in inspiring and somewhat nerdy stories: meet Winston Fiore, a man who, using only Google Maps and apparently bottomless reserves of badass, walked 5000 miles to raise money for charity. Fiore is...
View ArticleAn Astronaut Has The Best Twitter Response To William Shatner Ever
Meet Commander Chris Hadfield. He’s a bitchin’ guitarist, as you can see, and also a Canadian astronaut. Yes, Canada has astronauts. Why wouldn’t it? He was launched back in December to the...
View ArticleThe U.S. Military Is Officially Installing Laser Weapons Into Fighter Jets
Laser weapons have been genuinely viable for a while, but they’ve been huge, heavy, and largely designed to destroy missiles while being schlepped around on a 747. No, what DARPA is going to start...
View Article'Big Ass Spider!' Is The Sensitive Drama It Sounds Like
It’s hard not to have an affection for giant insect movies. Granted, we’re not generally talking classics of film here, but then again, you don’t show up to a burger joint and complain about the lack...
View Article'Presidential Monsters' Turns Historical Figures Into Actual Nightmares
Many would argue you need the mindset of a monster to become a politician. So why not mash up famous presidents and Universal movie monsters? That seems to be the thrust of the Presidential Monsters...
View ArticleScience Makes The Spider-Sense A Reality
Spider-Man’s “spider-sense” may be a power that changes depending on the writer, but it is an actual “power” that insects have to some degree: The ability to sense oncoming forces and skitter out of...
View Article24Hz Sound Wave + Video + Water = Insane Optical Illusion
Video is just as capable of forming optical illusion as ink-and-pen drawing or photography. Like, for example, the latest video from Brusspup, an experienced optical illusionist. This time he’s created...
View ArticleThe Phaser Has Officially Been Invented. Sadly No Redshirts Were Killed.
It turns out that the phaser is actually a sound-based device. Who knew? Also it’s really tiny. OK, we’re fudging a little bit, here. The phaser in question is not a handheld directed-energy weapon, at...
View ArticleAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos May Have Found Apollo 11’s Rocket Engines
You’ve likely seen them countless times on video: The rocket engines that drove America to space and even to the moon, the F-1 engine. But you’ve never seen the actual engines themselves. They were...
View ArticleCourse Of The Force Relays A Lightsaber To San Diego Comic-Con
Good news, fans of sick kids getting their wishes granted: A bunch of dedicated Star Wars fans will be doing a relay race to raise money for Make-A-Wish again this year. The original Course of the...
View ArticleToddler Survival Horror Game ‘Among The Sleep’ Goes To Kickstarter
A while back we told you about Among The Sleep, a survival horror game told from the perspective of a toddler. Apparently it’s hard for an original idea to get privately funded, so they’re going to...
View Article‘Batman: Arkham Origins’ Gets A Trailer For Its Trailer
Remember when teaser trailers were trailers, instead of being sources for teasers to the teaser trailer, because the teaser trailer is usually leaked once the teaser trailer for the teaser trailer goes...
View ArticleCome With This Life-Sized Lego Terminator If You Want To Live
Nerds love Lego. And while this isn’t quite the achievement of a life-size X-wing out of Legos, this Lego Terminator all the more impressive for being something these guys did in their spare time....
View ArticleDad Builds Complete 737 Flight Simulator In His Son's Room
Laurent Aigon is not a flight engineer, or a pilot. He’s a waiter, but he has a young son who’s obsessed with airplanes and Aigon is an airplane fan himself. So Aigon built him a fully functioning...
View ArticlePhonebloks Is A Modular Phone Concept With An Odd Ad Campaign
One of the problems with smartphones is that they’re inherently disposable. They’re simply not built to last more than two years, because at the end of the two year cycle, you buy a new phone. But how...
View ArticleReddit Spotted The Granddaddy Of All ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Easter Eggs
A Redditor has spotted the granddaddy of easter eggs in the “Predator” mission of Grand Theft Auto V. Don’t look at anything below the cut if you don’t want it spoiled for you. Still there? Cool. Let’s...
View ArticleHere’s A Guitar Designed To Be Played One-Handed
Ben Heckendorn, better known as Ben Heck, is a beloved modder and engineer among nerds, mostly for his hobby of cramming game consoles into portable spaces. But in recent years, Heck’s turned his...
View ArticleChristian Bale talks Bat-kid and the ongoing legacy of Batman
It was hard to avoid mention of the Bat-kid online this weekend, and for good reason. It was an enormously sweet story with some amazing images available, a pretty great combination. Earlier today, I...
View ArticleMeet Cubli, The Cube That Walks
We joke about robots a lot around here, but often the scientific advances are more impressive for their implications than their ability to make confounding YouTube videos. Fortunately, the Cubli...
View ArticleNASA Has Discovered A Bizarre Mystery Rock On Mars
Opportunity was supposed to spend three months poking around the surface of Mars and showing us some stuff before breaking. That was ten years ago. It’s been trundling along, exploring the surface and...
View ArticleCelebrate The 30th Anniversary Of ‘Ghostbusters’ With This Very Important...
For those unfamiliar with it, the LEGO CUUSOO project allows us regular Joes to dream up our wildest LEGO creations and pitch them to the entire LEGO-loving community for approval. Once a design gets...
View ArticleWhee! Two Fun-Loving Dogs Took Their Owner’s Truck On A Joyride
Two Tulsa, Oklahoma dogs, Roscoe and Luna, went on a super fun joyride earlier this week when their owner left them unattended in his pickup truck for 15 minutes. One of the dogs somehow managed to...
View ArticleAnother Reason Why Dogs Are The Best: Meet This Golden Retriever That Saved...
Getty Image Otis Orth, a 52-year-old Trapper Creek, Alaska resident, owes his life to his two-year-old Golden Retriever, Amber, after a snowmobile crash left him unable to move Sunday afternoon. Orth...
View ArticleNASA Wants You To Vote On The Z-2 Spacesuit Design
It’s your tax dollars at work when we fling highly trained pilots/scientists into the cold, terrifying void of space, so the least NASA can do is let you vote on how they look. Hence, NASA is looking...
View ArticleDEKA Arm, The Mind-Reading Prosthetic Limb, Is Approved For American Consumption
Dean Kamen will go down in infamy as the inventor of the Segway, but in truth his inventiveness has saved a lot of lives. It was Kamen who invented the first drug infusion pump and made some major...
View ArticleThe Sun Never Sets On The First Vine From Space
Vine is a social network that exists mostly to show us short clips of dogs and Will Sasso vomiting up citrus. But it can also be used for sheer beauty, as the first Vine from space shows us. Courtesy...
View ArticleAmerican Astronaut Reid Wiseman Continues To Dazzle Us With Vines From Space
When you’re in space and have access to social media, you can basically win the internet on a constant basis with breathtaking views of our planet. Since we posted the first Vine from space, we’ve...
View ArticleJohnny Depp’s Bizarre Speech From The Hollywood Film Awards Is Amazing
According to everything I’ve read to this point, the Hollywood Film Awards are a joke. Everyone from James L. Brooks to Ben Affleck were poking fun at it, but it was Johnny Depp who truly set the tone...
View ArticleThe World’s Luckiest Kid Is Now Swinging From This Life-Sized Groot Swing
According to Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, there’s a new reality show entitled Super Fans Super Builds coming soon. He wasn’t clear about which network it will appear on or even what...
View ArticleFive Sci-Fi Technologies That Became Reality At CES 2015
The great thing about the future is that it is constantly arriving. What’s fiction now will be reality with shocking speed. And the Consumer Electronics Show is proof; here are five technologies that...
View ArticleThis Seven Year Old Got A Badass ‘Stars Wars’-Themed Prosthetic Arm
What the people over at E-NablingTheFuture do is nothing short of miraculous. We have spoken of their altruistic awesomeness before, and here we are again with another story that will rekindle your...
View ArticleThis Isn’t The Batmobile Stroller Your Baby Needs. It’s The One It Deserves.
If you know any new parents, you know that getting a stroller is fairly serious business. There are dozens of makes and models, lots of features, and lots of attempts to guilt-trip parents into...
View ArticleArtist Jamie Hewlett Possibly Confirmed The Return Of Gorillaz Through Instagram
Gorillaz are the groundbreaking band created by the stylish artist Jame Hewlett and the talented Blur frontman Damon Albarn. The idea was to see if they could create a virtual band and actually have...
View ArticleThis Adorable Little Robot Octopus Is The Fastest Underwater Vehicle
The humble octopus is a fascinating creature in many respects, not least for how it gets around in the water. See, an octopus is actually a living jet engine: It draws in water and forces it out at...
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Tattoo Removal Is Now As Simple As Rubbing On A Cream
Stock Image via Shutterstock Tattoos are, supposedly, permanent. That is, after all, the entire appeal. If you’ve decided that your back piece of Link and Sonic in a passionate embrace was a bad idea,...
View ArticleMuch Of What We Knew About Early Human Evolution Might Be Wrong
April 1 is a terrible time to announce that we might have gotten two major steps in human evolution completely wrong, and that we have to start a new search for the various missing links that make up...
View ArticleThis New Virtual Reality Theme Park Looks Seriously Amazing
There’s a new virtual reality park opening up in Utah, and if this promo is any indication, it’s going to be incredible. Visitors will be able to do anything, from fighting orcs to slaying dragons to...
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Meet The Girl Who’s Got The Best Yearbook Quote Of 2015
Shutterstock Rafika Alami is a senior at Summit High School in California and this year’s winner of “best yearbook quote ever.” Her quote game is so strong, in fact, that Alami has now gone viral...
View ArticleYou Can Now Play Video Games Featured On ‘The Simpsons’
Cancel your Friday plans, because you’re going to want to spend your evening playing all those Simpsons games that you wished were real but sadly weren’t. That’s right, we’re talking about Kevin...
View ArticleSo Yeah, You Can Now Buy An Eight-Inch Gummy Pizza For Lunch
Just because we’re all adults here doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy the delicious (and refined) taste of gummies shaped into other foods from time to time. And while the gummy pizzas you may have seen...
View ArticleTaylor Swift Just Dropped The Sickest Burn On An Idiot Troll
It’s a universally acknowledged fact that once Kanye upstages your Grammy award, there’s no Internet troll that can take you down. That’s why Taylor Swift is so fearless in the face of keyboard...
View ArticleMeet The Kid Who Was Surprised With A Personal Injury Lawyer-Themed Birthday...
Some kids are always thinking about the future. Take a second to look at the ad above. It’s the standard fare you see during all your morning talk shows (well, that and commercials urging you to go...
View ArticleThis Woman Couldn’t Give Less Of A Damn About Some Dumb Dancing Teens
Sometimes, people do things in public that trap others into watching them for extended periods of time regardless of their desire to do so. Sometimes those people are dancers doing their thing in the...
View ArticleThis 3D-Printed Skittles Sorter Will Help You Get Rid Of The Green Ones
Remember when Skittles decided to change the green candies from lime-flavored to green apple and you lost your f’n mind? Maybe that was just me. No, it was not just me. Everyone agrees that the green...
View ArticleTwo Guys From Boston Just Found The Black Box From Eastern Airlines Flight...
The mysteries of downed airplanes have always captivated us. Long before there was EgyptAir Flight 804 or Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, there was Flight 990 in 1999 and Flight 712 in 1968. A lesser...
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