The shape is both talon and ocean wave, cresting into foam and bone. It seems to move, but also to undermine the very idea of motion. It is about to turn your life into nothing but an insane dream of having once lived.
Tuberculosis is one of the most common infectious diseases on the planet: about a third of the current global population has had TB. It's also one of the most deadly. Left untreated, it kills about half of all those it infects. Now it seems the disease could date back to humanity's origins in Africa.
No animal deserves a monument more than a dinosaur. That's why some of the weirdest, biggest, and most awesome (in the original sense of the word) statues in the world are devoted to these extinct beasts. Here are some of the most mind-boggling.
Want to follow the Hugo Awards? You can watch them live via UStream (unless it gets taken down again), or read the official liveblog. Plus @WWEnd and @LightspeedMag will Livetweet. Plus check back here for the complete list of winners later this evening!
What if Khal Drogo, the Dothraki horselord, came over to the Dark Side? It would probably look a lot like this. Behold Darth Drogo by jbcasacop on Deviant Art, the first in a new series called Star Wars: The Throne Wars. Check out the whole thing below.
The mainstream media has finally realized that climate change is real, and that including deniers in their "balanced" coverage is the same thing as including flat-Earthers in an article about globes. So says Phil Plait over at Slate.
Almost everyone knows how the Doctor Who story "The Tenth Planet" ends — it's the last story where William Hartnell plays the mysterious time-traveling Doctor. Except that a newly unearthed draft script by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis leaves out the Doctor's regeneration.
Learn from the future... today! The University of California at Riverside is launching a program in Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies, for people who want to study how science fiction addresses our anxieties around technological change.
Nobody is sure how life emerged from the primordial chemistry of Earth. But now we have more evidence that Earthlike life could have evolved on Mars.
On Earth, superheroes can soar through the air and swing through the urban jungle like Tarzan. But when costumed crime-fighters go into deep space, they often need a ship to zoom around in. Here's a round up of insane and awesome superhero space vehicles.
Fantastic art by Heather on Tumblr
Corn syrup may be sending us toward a slow death, but in the meantime, it can create pretty swirling colors. Why? Because it's an optically active material, and can turn polarized light into a rainbow.
People have long believed that there was a link between air pollution and an increased risk of heart attack. But a new study shows that link is negligible. Instead, there is strong evidence that the main environmental factor in heart attacks is low temperatures. Here's what this means for you.
Zombies. They're your ultimate nightmare. But the only thing that's more intense than regular zombies? Is space zombies. Because zombies are automatically way more terrifying when there's noplace to run. Here are the 10 greatest space zombies of all time!
We don't see enough Drew Struzan-ish poster art for upcoming movies any more. Luckily, there's this gorgeous artwork for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, featuring lots of elf and dwarf action.
Justin Timberlake wants to play the Riddler in the next Batman movie — but he should aim higher. Robbie Williams, lead singer from Take That!, came surprisingly close to playing the Doctor on Doctor Who. In the animated adventure "Scream of the Shalka," that is.
Playable Qunari. Tactical top-down combat. Large armies and controllable keeps. A massive world that the team compares to Skyrim, complete with interactive environments and graphics that scream "holy crap, this is next-gen!"
Each year in Atlanta there is a convergence of three groups of extreme fandom on a single weekend. First, we have these folks:
Almost 14 billion years ago an incredible event took place. It was a giant explosion where everything began: matter, energy, time and even space itself. Our whole universe came into existence from a single point. What would it be like to live through the end of all that? It depends on whose theory you believe.
