Departures, polls, and impressive sales: This was a quiet week in games, but there's still some stuff to talk about. Brace yourself, because the big early year releases are about to drop. Frankly, let's enjoy the quiet while it lasts. The Nintendo Switch Sells Like Hotcakes Artisanal Avocado Toast The ultimate dream of the Nintendo […]
Recently, 25 sea slugs were served an underwater buffet to study their tastes. Offered a choice of brine shrimp and hydroid polyps (small coral-like organisms), the slugs opted for polyps that had swallowed the shrimp—a clever caloric twofer. Using a novel feeding strategy, they were jumping the line in the food chain to devour their […]
On a wall at the South Bronx Community Gym, a poster hangs with the words "Rise Up" in large block letters. An image of a basketball player mid-motion, as if executing a layup, completes the frame. Steps away on the court, sports agent Ray Burke (André Holland) has swapped his designer suits for basketball shorts. […]
Big offshore wind farms power Europe’s drive for a carbon-free society, while rows of spinning turbines across America’s heartland churn enough energy to power 25 million US homes. But a new study predicts that a changing climate will weaken winds that blow across much of the Northern hemisphere, possibly leading to big drops in clean […]
Having Hope Van Dyne be front-and-center in Ant-Man and the Wasp was a big deal. Before that film, a female hero had never had her name on a Marvel Cinematic Universe film. Her appearance, and subsequent success, shifted the Marvel movie landscape in way that hadn’t happened in 19 previous films. So yeah, it was […]
The Expanse should just change their post credits for each episode to include a list of homework questions. Seriously—there are so many great things to explore in this hard science fiction show. In a recent episode, one of the large spaceships (the Navoo) rotates in order to create artificial gravity (that's not really a spoiler). […]
Full disclosure: I’m a sucker for a teen soap. I blame Beverly Hills, 90210. Maybe Dawson’s Creek. Also anything John Hughes touched in the 1980s. (Though those definitely became problematic faves as I grew up.) I understand that very few, if any, teen dramas would fit squarely into the category we now call Prestige TV, […]
The long-awaited Falcon Heavy rocket roared to life on Wednesday at 12:30 pm Eastern, as SpaceX fired up the 27 Merlin engines that power the triple-booster rocket at Kennedy Space Center. Perched atop what CEO Elon Musk claims will be the most powerful lift vehicle in the world is the billionaire’s Tesla Roadster, which will […]
Barry's hair has long gone gray, his face lined with deep signs of age. Sitting across from me in his pressed blue shirt, he looks like an uncle, maybe even a grandfather. But Barry's employment file is … not a fun read. He told a coworker she was a "whiner," and his colleagues have filed […]
Behold the stomach-clenching spectacle of the quad cork 1800. The dizzying snowboarding trick—first landed by British Olympian Billy Morgan, above—involves catapulting off a ramp into four off-axis flips (called corks) and five full spins. Only four people have ever completed the 1,800-degree stunt. But this month in Pyeongchang, South Korea, expect to see more attempts […]