At least six people were killed and more than 30 others were injured today when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device onboard a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd. What appears to be the blast was captured on a driver's dash cam video below.
It sounds like the beginning of Zombies on a plane—the movie starring Samuel L. Jackson that I want to see next year—but scientist have proven the existence of something called dark lightning, an invisible force that can expose unsuspecting airline passengers to sizable amounts of gamma ray radiation.
Are folks in California actually laid back? Are New Yorkers really rude? Wonder no longer, because now a team of researchers has mapped personality clusters across the US and presented them in this fascinating set of maps.
Ballistic facemasks aren't new. We've seen them in movies, comic books, video games like Army of Two. And we've seen them in real life, where they are utterly intimidating.
So you want a Star Wars poster featuring all the characters, but Jar Jar Binks and kid-Anakin keep polluting the scene? I feel your pain. But a new print by artist Max Dalton and put out by Spoke Art has you covered. It has all your favorite heroes...from episodes IV-VI and nothing else.
There will always be people out there picking weird names for their kids
Yesterday in a Reddit AMA, Col. Matrix took requests to repeat his most iconic lines of the past three decades. Among them: Predator (above), Conan the Barbarian (but not the prayer to Crom) Kindergarten Cop and, of course, The Terminator. How in the hell did nothing from Commando make it?
Located 26 claustrophobic stories below the surface of the earth, the Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern is not your run of the mill haunted house. It's so f*#@ing scary you might need therapy.
We think that, one day, with enough computational power and knowledge, we will be able to create an accurate model of weather or the human brain or any real world object or situation, thus gaining useful insight into the past, present or future. But as Esther Inglis-Arkell explains on io9, that's impossible:
What happens when you blow up a balloon, fill it with corn starch, and photograph it when it pops? Apparently, you make a powderflower. And it looks amazing.
The Natural History Museum in London has published its worldwide 2013 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards—always extraordinary and beautiful. I love this Japanese macaque by Dutch photographer Jasper Doest, suspended in a galaxy of snow and vapor in the hot springs of Jigokudani, central Japan. The winner, however, is this one:
First off, two things: the movie Gravity is likely the most realistic space travel-based movie ever made, and I'm about to spoil the crap out of it by revealing one huge flaw. So, if you don't like spoiled movie, you may want to leave. Okay, there's your fair warning. Everyone else, come along!
Brace yourselves, for science has taken a step into a path from which there's no way back: a group of researchers at Yale and Harvard have rewritten the entire genetic code of a living organism for the first in history. Not only that, but they have made it resistant to sickness in the process, Physorg reports:
What are the United States' best regional foodstuffs? Its worst? These are the questions that bedevil the mind of man—but no longer! For here, we have ranked them. Rigorously scientific (not), ardently researched (nope), and scrupulously fair (not even a little bit): this is the Great American Menu!
Chinese scientists have created a revolutionary way to connect to the internet using LED-based lightbulbs, Xinhua reports. Coupled with special microprocessors embedded in the bulbs, four computers were capable of connecting to the internet at very high speeds: 150 megabits per second, the speed of a typical FiOS fiberoptics connection. They call if LiFi, for Light Fidelity.
I look at these NSFW images of the Ureshino Sightseeing House of Hidden Treasures sex museum, in Japan, and I just can't understand them. Literal what the flying fucks all around.
This giant ball of fluff is not an anime character or an alien being for the next Star Trek. It's a real animal—an Angora bunny. I've seen other Angora bunnies in my life, but never anything like this. That beast can't be comfortable, but it must be so comfortable to use it as a pillow.
The first time you see an American nuclear super-carrier in person, you can't believe the size. It's simply astonishing.
It's a discovery that could change our understanding of early humans. An incredibly well-preserved, 1.8-million-year-old skull from Dmanisi, Georgia suggests the evolutionary tree of the genus Homo may have fewer branches than previously believed.
This prank is such pure evil genius that you can't help but laugh. And feel bad because you'd get freaked out too. Funny man Jack Vale scared the creepy crawly goosebumps out of people by asking strangers to take his picture with his iPhone. Why's that scary? Because Vale had pre-recorded a fake 'ghost' (or zombie)…
As of October 13, 2013, humans have discovered almost one thousand exo-planets, worlds outside our solar system. 998 planets in 759 planetary systems, most of them giant gas worlds. It seems like a lot, but it's nothing. Just look at the tiny space we have covered so far.
I love CineFix retro game versions of movies. Their 1990s Maniac Mansion style remake of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is begging for a real version for iPad. I want to play it. Badly.
NBC News has a list of nine things that costs less than the final bill of the government shutdown, estimated at $24 billion. Two of them: the 2014 budget of NASA ($17.7 billion) and running the International Space Station for almost eight years (cost per year: $3 billion). High five, Washington clowns.
This kickass collection of iconic movie car posters was designed by Calm the Ham, which has a pretty prolific movie-inspired design portfolio. From Breaking Bad's '86 Fleetwood Bounder and Pulp Fiction's '65 Chevy Nova, to Batman's Tumbler and Star Wars' Speeder Bike, these rides are beautifully badass.
South Koreans call them ScreenX theaters, a new filming and projection technology that shows movies as 270-degree panoramas. The weird part: instead of using a curved IMAX-like screen, they use the walls of the movie theater. I anticipate those walls to be covered with explosive vomit, as people get motion sickness and …
Space may be the final frontier of exploration, but there's plenty of Earth left unmapped, too—from the giant canyon recently discovered beneath Greenland
Please excuse the double Saturn with cheese posting today but this stunning composite image of the ringed world—as seen from the top—is too good not to mention here.
