Remember all those scary stories you heard as a child to get you to stop masturbating, like "you'll go blind" or "you'll get hairy palms." Well what if every time you masturbated, another guy died! That's the premise of a The Day The Earth Stopped Masturbating, a fake movie trailer by the website Golden Moustache. ... [Read More]

Don't worry, San Francisco isn't really under attack by giant monsters, known as Kaiju. It's just part of a viral marketing campaign for Director Guillermo del Toro's latest project, Pacific Rim. Extreme closeups obscure most of the monster but there is a quick shot of the creature's corpse being hauled on an aircraft ... [Read More]

First-time director Brandon Cronenberg, son of David Cronenberg (Videodrome and The Fly), is following in his father's footsteps and taking on the body horror genre, which features horrific transformation of the body. In Antiviral, Cronenberg shines a spotlight on celebrity obsessed culture. Fans feed their desire to be ... [Read More]

HIV and AIDS were discovered decades ago but progress in combating the disease has been very slow. Research has focused primarily on managing the disease through combinations of antiretroviral drugs known as the AIDS cocktail. Recently, there have been promising developments in the areas of vaccine, prevention, testing, and ... [Read More]

The Facebook page, Theories Of The Deep Understanding Of Things, has gone viral after setting a booby trap for the website's overzealous moderators. They uploaded a misleading photo, which at first glance appears to show a nude blonde with very large breasts but they're really just her elbows viewed from the side. The post ... [Read More]

Cadbury UK has filed a patent for what it calls "Temperature Tolerant Chocolate (TTC)." The normal melting temperature for chocolate is 93 degrees Fahrenheit but TTC can easily withstand temperatures of up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. It was accomplished not with chemical additives but by refining the "conching process," ... [Read More]

In 1958, the United States Air Force proposed exploding a Hiroshima-size atom bomb on the surface of the Moon. Project A119, or "A Study of Lunar Research Flights" as it was also known, was headed by physicist Leonard Reiffel. "People were worried very much by Gargarin and Sputnik and the very great accomplishments of the ... [Read More]