ENGLISH AND BAD ENGLISH | A gorgeous matte painting from The Fifth Element by artist Wayne Haag. See more of his incredible work here. Can you grow a beard with consistent applications of Rogaine? If you lack a lovely beard and are well past puberty, could you use a hair growth treatment to... More »
The always wonderful DrFaustusAU is back to his Dr. Seussian hijinks, this time giving some of Star Wars' less celebrated character the limelight and a little rhyme. DrFaustusAU has worked magic with Seussian renditions of Batman villains and The Call of Cthulhu. More »
Mo'ynoq was once a thriving port city on the Aral Sea in western Uzbekistan, famed for its fishing and canning industries. Today, most of Mo'ynoq's visitors come to view its haunting graveyard of ships, lying in the sands where the waters once flowed. We've written about the recession of the Aral... More »
With his moon-based Nazi flick Iron Sky in the can, director Timo Vuorensola is turning his filmmaking eye toward a different breed of science fiction Nazi: More »
Artist Istvan Laszlo combines the bone structure of famous artists, activists, and politicians with their trademark features and hair lines to create unique portraits of what lies beneath and above their skin. Up top is Laszlo's skull portrait of Freddie Mercury, complete with mustache marks. More »
Do you take your significant other, for better taste or worse, in Doctor Who reruns and marathon Portal sessions? Do you pledge to re-read Harry Potter together and listen to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays on long car trips? More »
Leonardo da Vinci may have been a forward-thinking engineer, but what if he had gotten into the particle physics game? CERN researcher Dr. Sergio Cittolin brought out his (not so) inner Renaissance Man with these illustrations of the Large Hadron Collider in Leonardo's style. Cittolin works on the... More »
When I was a kid – and who am I kidding; when I was an adult too – I made fun of the science in movies. "That's so fakey!" I would cry out loud when a spaceship roared past, or a slimy alien stalked our heroes. Eventually, my verbal exclamations evolved into written ones. More »
Detroit's population is shrinking. The city boasts 60% fewer residents today than it did in 1950, and, as we've seen, many of its grand buildings have been left to rot. More »
What do the creatures from your closet use to add a floral quality to their chocolate souffle? The lavender-scented salts derived the tears of human sorrow. More »
There are eight million stories in the Clockwork City; will you write one of them? This week's Concept Art Writing Prompt is all about location, location. More »
Not content to star merely in Once Upon a Time, Snow White and the Huntsman, and Mirror, Mirror (not to mention all those Fables comics), Snow White brings her songbird-summoning voice and lips as red as blood to the rest of 2012's big movies, from Prometheus to Abraham Lincoln: More »
In the first half of 1955, the United States performed more than a dozen tests of atomic weapons in Nevada, studying the destructive power of the country's most powerful weapons. More »
Ridley Scott's incredible attention to detail in Blade Runner stretched all the way to the newsstands sitting in the background. He asked concept artist Tom Southwell to create these magazine covers for his dystopian Los Angeles. These covers actually appear in the film, sitting on a newsstand... More »
A New Moon is rising in the next few days, giving us a chance to bathe in the Earthshine, the light from the Earth that illuminates the Moon. Earth shines bright for the Moon, and the Moon shines for the Earth, but what's the shiniest thing in the solar system? Right now is the perfect time to... More »
If people can ride around in lion-shaped mechas, why can't cats cruise in their own bipedal mecha suits? Reddit user Tastybread crafted this bad-ass cat bed for his cardboard-loving kitty. More »
The only certainties in life are death and taxes, but how do you handle the taxes when death doesn't go quite as planned? Law professor Adam Chodorow takes a stab at estate planning for the undead in perhaps the only legal paper to cite both the Internal Revenue Code and Weekend at Bernie's... More »
If paleontologists had access to time machines, they could solve innumerable mysteries about the terrible lizards who once walked the Earth. But if the past is anything like Michael Stearns' webcomic Dawn of Time, the age of dinosaurs may not be quite what they expected. More »
After the Tenth Doctor lit the London 2012 Olympic Flame in the Doctor Who episode "Fear Her," many Who fans were clamoring for David Tennant or Matt Smith to carry the Olympic Torch. More »
Now here's a revamping of the original trilogy we can get behind! At this year's Emerald City Comic Con, cartoon voice actors Billy West, Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, John DiMaggio, Kevin Conroy, Jess Harnell, and Rob Paulsen read scenes from the original three Star Wars movies in the voices of... More »