Urban canals can cut temperatures by more than 2°C during heat waves
New research from The University of Manchester has found that urban canals can cool their immediate surroundings by more than 2°C during heat waves.
How 'Camp Miasma’s Crew Revived a Pre-CGI Technique with
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Published Aug 10, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
The movie's production designers break down its best and most impressive visual tricks
Image: MUBIKris (Hannah Einbinder) walks into the darkness of an abandoned summer camp mid-winter, in the dead of night, and turns to the camera. Her face, framed by a thick, wooly hooded coat, looks clear and crisp, but behind her, the sky is a dreamlike swirl of blues, pinks, and purples. It looks like a dream, but that's just the magic of the old-school movie effects that director Jane Schoenbrun and their team resurrected for their new movie, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
‘Long-range sanctions’: Ukraine hopes strikes cause Russia fear and losses
Eastern Ukraine – In a farm field in eastern Ukraine, a choking engine interrupts the sound of crickets and nightingales.
Then come indistinguishable shouts of male voices, followed by a crescendo – a loud sound like scissors tearing through wrapping paper.
Potatoes may have given Indigenous Andeans a digestive superpower
For thousands of years, potatoes have been central to life in the Andes. Indigenous Andean communities were the first to domesticate the starch-rich crop, turning it into a dietary staple long before potatoes spread around the world. Now, researchers have found evidence that this ancient reliance on potatoes may also have shaped human evolution.
Marvel Rivals hits the Ozempic, comes back 40 GB lighter
Incredible news, folks: Marvel Rivals has completely repackaged its assets. No, not those assets. Last Friday, the internet's most erogenous shooter announced that it was slimming down. As part of an "Optimized texture resource compression strategy across all platforms," Marvel Rivals now comes in about 40 GB lighter on PC than it did before.
'It's Complicated': Daredevil Star Charlie Cox Responds to Spider-Man: Brand New Day, And The Punisher's Claim He's Never Had a Friend Like Peter Parker
Daredevil actor Charlie Cox has been asked about a certain scene featuring Frank Castle in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Warning! Spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day follow...
Marvel's latest blockbuster features the first big screen appearance of Jon Bernthal's Punisher after almost a decade of appearing in a swathe of TV projects, frequently alongside Cox's horn-helmed Daredevil.
Game of Thrones Is Celebrating Its 15th Anniversary With a New 4K Steelbook Set of All 8 Seasons (It's Back in Stock at Amazon!)
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: Aug 10, 2026 11:10am UTC
In celebration of its big 15th anniversary this year, Game of Thrones is getting a massive complete series 4K steelbook set. If you're a diehard fan, this library case full of all eight seasons of the wildly popular show is now available to preorder at select retailers (see it at Gruv for $224.99), though its release date is still a little ways out on November 3.
Greenland glacier break creates new ice island
An international research team partly led by the University of Ottawa reports that Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland calved a 76.4 km² (29.5 square miles) ice island on Aug. 4, 2026, marking the glacier's largest loss of floating ice since 2012 and the largest Arctic calving event since 2020.
Sixteen AI-designed viruses offer a new route against drug-resistant bacteria
In a world first, scientists led by a team from Stanford University have created 16 viable viruses that do not exist in nature and were designed by AI. Their experiment, which is published in Science, could help in the fight against superbugs by allowing researchers to design customized viruses to kill drug-resistant bacteria. Thomas Inglesby and Moritz S. Hanke have published a Perspective piece on the work and its implications in the same edition of the journal.
And the Winners Are… Locarno Open Doors Program Unveils 2026 Awards
Open Doors, the Locarno Film Festival’s Locarno Pro-organized co-production platform and talent development program for filmmakers from regions where artistic expression is at risk, has wrapped up its 24th edition, its second with a focus on the African continent. And on Monday, its winners were unveiled.