Adam Epstein

Do plane engineers care about how they look while on the job?

Ditching a cable or satellite TV subscription, or cord-cutting, is a very real phenomenon. Between Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, Sling TV, the upcoming online HBO service, and other services of questionable legality, there are plenty of ways to watch your favorite content on the internet without an expensive cable subscription filled with stuff you don’t care about.

Netflix already has a slew of Emmys, among other prestigious awards. Now, apparently, the streaming media giant is stalking the big prize of entertainment awards: the almighty Oscar.

One of the most active volcanoes in South America erupted early this morning, forcing thousands of nearby residents and tourists to flee.

A premium version of the mega-popular dating (read: hook-up) app Tinder is coming, but it’ll cost you. And if you’re of a certain age, it’ll cost you even more.

Leonard Nimoy, the actor known best for his role as Star Trek‘s Mr. Spock, has died at 83 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In a role that spanned over three decades, Nimoy imbued the half-Vulcan Spock with gentle poise, cool wisdom, and an earthly vitality that we now know were reflections of the man himself.

Yet another classic Ridley Scott film is getting a sequel. The French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve is in talks to direct the next installment of the director’s 1982 sci-fi movie Blade Runner, and Harrison Ford will reprise his role as the bounty hunter Rick Deckard. Production will begin in 2016—34 years after the original film was released.

Ah, the Hyperloop.

The most famous architectural structure in the world is now the world’s most famous icon to environmental sustainability.

Updated with a comment from Al Jazeera (5:28pm eastern time).

One of the more memorable moments from Sunday’s Oscars was the positively loony live-action performance of the song Everything is Awesome from The Lego Movie (video), during which performers gave some of the actors in the audience a Lego award statuette.

The most famous man-child in U.S. entertainment history is stepping back into your living room.

FIFA, the global football governing organization that is steeped in corruption, has proposed that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar be played from November to late December, instead of at its usual time from June to July. FIFA’s official reasoning is that it’s far too hot in Qatar in the summer (July temperatures can surpass 50 degrees Celsius, or 122 degrees Farenheit during the day). So in the best interest of the players and attending fans, FIFA said, it should be moved to cooler months.

After years of tense negotiations, boxing legends Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao will finally square off in Las Vegas on May 2. Not only is it a momentous fight for boxing—Mayweather and Pacquiao are the two greatest pugilists of this era—it will also shatter every revenue record in existence.

Last night’s Oscars ceremony was, arguably, the most politically charged evening in years of Academy Awards. Among its galvanizing moments was Patricia Arquette’s acceptance speech, which the actress used to draw attention to the gender pay gap in the US.

There are a lot of hunks of human-made machinery zipping around in the near and far reaches of space. Last year, Quartz visualized every active satellite within Earth’s orbit. Now there’s a website that elegantly details every active probe that’s outside of our orbit, exploring our solar system and beyond.

DC Comics superhero Aquaman has never appeared in a live-action film—and no, people, Vincent Chase’s Aquaman movie from Entourage doesn’t count (video). Aquaman doesn’t have the All-American appeal of Superman, nor the cool gadgetry or dark magnetism of Batman. In fact, Aquaman—whose telepathic connection to marine life is cool, but not exactly easy to portray on film—has been the brunt of superhero jokes for years (video).

Want to direct the next installment of a legendary sci-fi movie franchise? Just post some cool concept art of your fantasy project to social media, wait a few weeks, and voila. You’re directing the next Alien movie.

Packing a beloved pet into a box for an airline flight can be a traumatic experience, but pet owners may find comfort in knowing that the chance of Fido being hurt or dying on an airplane are quite low—one in 50,000, according to 2014 data, just released.

Mars One, the Dutch organization that hopes to one day establish a human colony on Mars, has narrowed its volunteer pool down from 200,000 to just 100—50 men and 50 women. For the lucky 24 who are ultimately selected to be the first human beings to touch Martian soil, there will be no return journey.

It’s been a fast 10 years, hasn’t it?

Hulu is sending James Franco back in time. The streaming video service, perhaps best known for the buttery voice that announces its promos, has enlisted Franco to star in a nine-episode adaptation of Stephen King’s 11/22/63, a novel about a man who travels back in time to stop the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy.

The force is strong with Commander Scott Kelly and the rest of the 45th Expedition to the International Space Station, as their Jedi-themed promo poster, above, makes quite clear.

While there’s a good chance your next TV will be a 4K set—that’s 4,000 pixels in horizontal resolution—it still won’t be able to do justice to the video above. Joe Capra of Scientifantastic captured this 10k time lapse of Rio de Janeiro with an 80-megapixel camera, which costs nearly $50,000 to assemble. The result is an insanely comprehensive video in which you can zoom in to near-telescopic magnitudes. It’s Rear Window on steroids.