Exoskeleton

Earth Defense Force 5, the latest of Sandlot’s ridiculous B-movie themed shooters (not counting third-party spinoffs), is headed to PC. Earlier than I expected, too, as the UFOs land this Thursday, July 11th. As well as the usual armies of giant ants, spiders…

In order for clothes to be called haute couture, they must adhere to a very strict set of rules laid out by French fashions governing body. One of those is that couture must be made entirely by hand, meaning that even in 2019, couture is still distinctly anal…

So, the other day I was talking to a friend about this homemade deodorant for sensitive skin, and she wondered aloud if she really needed to buy “a whole bag of this diatomaceous earth stuff just to make deodorant.” And I was like, WAIT, YOU DON’T HAVE SOME …

Why cant audiences get enough of shark movies? Kaitlyn Flannagan Youll never go into the water again. Dont get left behind. Pleased to eat you. It doesnt really matter what your tagline is. If youre making a shark movie, odds are you have a hit on your ha…

Estate Brassaï/RMN-Grand Palais/Adagp, ParisBrassaï: Dora Maar in her workshop, rue de Savoie, 1943 Theres an eerie moment, as you emerge from the rue Saint-Merri, with its bars and pavement cafés and look down into the square before the Centre Pompidou. Bel…

Thanks to the landscape-shifting success of properties like Game of Thrones and Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, we’ve entered a golden age of sci-fi and fantasy being developed for film and television. It seems that nearly every network and studio has snatched u…

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced its annual shortlist of the best new architecture from around the world. Featuring a whopping 534 buildings hailing from 70 countries, it's a truly global event that includes projects from some of the best f…

Hello and good day, you good animals. It is I, a collection of elements that were once spread out across a vast and silent universe and one day came together in this improbably sentient, miraculously animate skin suit that is here interpreting the esoteric me…

An incredible video shows the moment a shrimp bursts out of its old exoskeleton in a process called 'molting'. The video was taken by an unknown spectator who captured the rare process in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.  Molting is one of the most important physiolog…

Chinese researchers have found two previously unknown species of parasitic wasps in a swarm hovering 11,000 feet (3,400m) above the sea in Tibet. The two species look very similar to each other because they belonged to the same genus (Microplitis), according…