There was a time when a great video game just needed to be fun. In the days before 4K screens and season passes, it was all that mattered. It didn’t matter if the design was janky, if you could finish ...

Low energy nuclear reactions are possible in condensed matter because of image forces. They result from induced charges at the surface of metals or very polarizable media. The height and width of the ...

Not every film can be the Citizen Kane of its day. For every high-budget “A movie” that commands significant promotion and funding from its studio, there are piles of B movies that scratch and claw ...

A decade is an arbitrary measurement. They seem confined, these neat little symmetrical 10-year runs, but it's only in hindsight that we define them, that their signifiers and trends and shorthand ...

A great remix is a rare and precious thing, yet the qualities that make a remix great tend to elude easy definition. Sometimes it takes nothing less than total demolition, fucking with the formula so ...

The result: "Fresh lava," NASA says, "is bright red — the hot surface emits enough energy to saturate the instrument's shortwave infrared detectors. ... Snow is blue-green, because it absorbs ...

I’m not interested in taking sides in the gun control debate. I’m appalled by the human devastation caused by guns but at the same time feel the need for self protection. This is the paradox that many ...