The SpongeBob Movie Could Be the Breakout Superhero Flick of 2015

Let's be honest: After a banner year for superhero movies with Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, 2015 suddenly looks a bit dull in comparison. If only there was a superhero movie on its way that seemed fun, inventive, and entirely out of left field. Oh, wait, there is. Could The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water be the superhero surprise of next year?

Next Mars Rover Will Have Better Lasers and X-Ray Vision

NASA announced today that its next Mars rover will have advanced cameras, more sophisticated lasers, and the ability to see underground as it explores the Red Planet starting in 2020. The mission, currently being called the Mars 2020 rover (until NASA can give it a better name), is a twin of the Curiosity rover currently […]

Go Inside the Lab Where GM Tears Apart Its Competitors’ Cars

Most General Motors workers spend their days making cars (or recalling them for repairs). Not the 100 or so employees who work in a giant room affectionately known as the Teardown Lab. Their job is to slowly and carefully rip apart cars produced by the competition to find out how they’re built—and what GM could […]

What’s Your Post-Apocalypse Gameplan?

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch is the product of the imagination of astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell, years of research, and several science fiction novels. Written as a manual for survival after doomsday has hit, it compiles information required to restart society, ranging from agriculture to making a radio. Over lattes at a […]

Hackers Can Control Your Phone Using a Tool That’s Already Built Into It

A lot of concern about the NSA’s seemingly omnipresent surveillance over the last year has focused on the agency’s efforts to install back doors in software and hardware. Those efforts are greatly aided, however, if the agency can piggyback on embedded software already on a system that can be exploited. Two researchers have uncovered such […]

The Gadgets and Gear We Couldn’t Get Enough of This Month

This is the stuff from our lives that we either own and never want to let go, or that we’ve been testing and are totally enamored with. This is July's most loved gear.

Finally, a Way to Teach Coding to the Touchscreen Generation

First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they’re going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation. For these kids, who learned to walk and talk as smartphones and tablets were saturating the cultural landscape, a computer with a physical keyboard is archaic and distant, a […]

Meet the Creative Crew Generating Some of the Internet’s Coolest GIFs

The GIF is growing up. In just the past couple years it’s graduated from grainy loops of LOLing babies to an artistic medium that’s endorsed by the venerable Saatchi Gallery in London and commissioned by newspaper heavyweights like The New York Times. New art forms tend to inspire an infrastructure of people and organizations: fans, […]

A Portrait of Priests and Nuns, Watching the Decline of Catholic Culture

Catholicism’s reach and influence in the western world has been waning for decades, a large yet incremental shift difficult to document with a camera. Photographer Mika Goodfriend does so, beautifully, by focusing on the small and the personal in his series Fraternité Sacerdotale. The series provides a glimpse into the lives of the priests and […]