Welp, this is disastrous. A giant, state-of-art balloon carrying a telescope to detect gamma rays invisible to human eyes was supposed to fly over Antarctica for 100 days—NASA's longest and most ambitious scientific balloon mission ever. Instead, the balloon sprung a leak almost immediately, taking down the entire mission with it.
The bright ball that hovers over Times Square on New Year's Eve is a little bit reborn this year. Sure, it's iconic and colorful and mesmerizing as it always is. This year, however, the ball will captivate the world with 288 new crystals. And, boy, is it pretty.
New Year's Eve is the Las Vegas of holidays: An overhyped, boozy moneypit beloved by thirsty amateurs and precision-engineered to facilitate paralyzing morning-after regrets that are only tolerable if you're 10000% booty-faced. There is no app that will make it *good* but some apps can make it less bad.
We've covered our "practical" gift ideas, we've petitioned the elves-in-charge for more extravagant presents and now we fire off our wishes for the future. Some of them are implausible. Others might be more than a year away. But we still have hope, right?
Every year, casual wear enthusiast and Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg embarks upon a singular self-betterment goal. Past goals have included learning Mandarin and only eating animals he personally murdered. But for 2015? Zuckerberg doesn't have a goal set yet, and is crowdsourcing for suggestions.
Sony Pictures has officially opened the floodgates. According to THR, the company announced that The Interview, that one comedy with all the North Korean hacking and terrorist threats and lukewarm reviews, is now available on almost every digital streaming platform available, including Cable VOD services from Bright House Networks, Comcast, Cox Communications, Time-Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Cablevision, AT&T Uverse, FiOS, DirecTV, and VUDU.
Antarctica's melting ice sheets have been a major contributor to global sea level increases over the last decade, and the losses are expected to accelerate over the next two centuries. But researchers attempting to study the rate at which these sheets move and melt have been hamstrung by conventional monitoring methods. That's why a team from the UBL's Laboratoire de Glaciologie has gone ahead and connected one such ice sheet to the Internet of Things.
When your TV show's writing staff includes folks with PhDs in maths and sciences, you're bound to end up with some spectacularly nerdy jokes. And if you dig a little deeper into some of the jokes in Futurama, you won't just laugh — you may actually learn something.
