This animation from the Atlantic reveals how Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner wants to use a solar sail to explore the cosmos and go into interstellar space. Human spaceflight to our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, won’t be happening for many, many years but that doesn’t mean we can’t send robots there.

YouTube channel Nerdwriter’s (aka Evan Puschak) latest video essay takes a look at Jack Nicholson, focusing specifically on the fact that many of his characters seem to be very angry. Characters that are subject to sudden and dramatic outbursts of rage. And those outbursts take many shapes and forms.

Many of us can’t function without consuming a morning cup of coffee on the way to work (or two or three), but ASAPScience question whether or not you’re actually doing it right—and so whether or not you’re getting the most out of it to kickstart your day. It all has to do with your circadian [...]

YouTube channel Petrolicious meets Haven Jarel, a teenager who lives with his dad in a warehouse rammed with custom bikes, and a huge amount of tools. He’s not interested in TV or video games, but although he’s only a teen he can already build an award-winning motorcycle.

Forget about trying to get rid of that contemptible stench after the crime of you decorating the toilet bowl with your digested dinner. That’s too little too late, the person who has to use the office toilet after you will tell you that. Instead Air Wick has invented a pre-poo spray, and it doesn’t appear [...]

As anyone who has attempted it will know, flying with a baby can be a fraught and traumatic experience for the parent. Any advice is greatly received, so if you’re a parent who’s due to fly check out the latest ‘How to Dad’ tutorial from New Zealander dad, Jordan Watson, and his adorable daughter.

A Slovakian race car driver shows his girlfriend what he does in the day job, and it seems she’s somewhat freaked out by it. Which is totally understandable, and totally readable on her terrified face as he whizzes along careering around the track, screeching across corners, no doubt secretly enjoying showing off.

Cut video have previously shown what 10 strangers’ O faces look like and what people look like when they’re kissing. Now they’ve filmed 100 people crying in the latest iteration of their “100 People” series, so we get to see what old and young look like when they’re bawling their eyes out.

Thanks to the Marvel movies and the like, audiences are used to staying in their seats to watch a post credit scene. And it’s because we can’t get enough of the movies when they end that we want more. Filmmakers have always known this though, whether they’re linking us to a new movie, giving us [...]

Comedian Matt Gourley has, since being a pre-teen, been making movies with his friends and experimenting with special effects and pyrotechnics. Then he figured out how to fabricate a squib, which is a miniature explosive device used in the film industry, which, combined with a bag of fake blood, simulates a bullet hit.

It’s quite an achievement to run a marathon, it’s something else though to train and run one without talking about it incessantly. This brave and courageous woman did just that. She didn’t once take to social media to update statuses with how many miles she ran that morning, or how painful her legs feel.