WANT: Raygun Robin’s Elder Sign Dress

We’ve featured Raygun Robin’s clothes here before, but some things can’t be discussed enough–like how awesome the dresses from Robin’s shop are. Now, aside from the Firefly, Squid Tentacle and TARDIS versions, Robin has a new option: The Elder Sign Dress. Now you can protect yourself against the Darkness You Shall Not Name in 55% cotton, […]


A Live, Beating Human Heart in a Box – For Science! [Video]

Since Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful heart transplant in 1967, medical science has been kind of stuck with transporting organs on ice, quickly, to the recipient. Maybe not for long, though–if the breakthrough method of organ transport and storage shown in the video below receives FDA approval, the lifetime of a donor heart […]

Andreas Englund’s Aging Superhero

Swedish artist Andreas Englund has created a series of paintings that examine what might happen if supers weren’t granted the gift of eternal youth, as we’re accustomed to seeing. They’re funny, and sometimes sweet, but awesome overall. Obligatory artist’s statement: “Humor can be the carrier of messages that are otherwise hard to convey. For me, […]

First Realistic Simulation of the Formation of the Milky Way

For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way realistically. Now astrophysicists from the University of Zurich present the world´s first realistic simulation of the formation of our home galaxy together with astronomers from the University of California at Santa Cruz. The new results […]