While much of the initial fanbase that helped turn Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into a pop culture phenomenon aged out following the original cartoon (1987-1996) and live action movies (1990-1993), the property has continued to flourish with reboots in TV, film, and comics every few years. If the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
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Scientists are constantly searching for better ways to store renewable energy, and MIT researchers have now found a way to turn cement and an ancient material into a giant supercapacitor. Potentially, this electrified cement could turn building foundations and roads into almost limitless batteries. To create the new substance, a team from the Massachusetts Institute
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Inspired by classic Saturday Morning Cartoons, NECA’s line of “Toony Terrors” toys keeps on getting bigger, and the company previews the upcoming Series 9 this week. NECA previews, “Standing approximately 6 inches tall, the Series 9 action figure assortment includes the iconic The Fiend (mascot of The Misfits) with candelabra and potion bottle, Vincent Price
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Calling all pizza-loving, crime-fighting Turtles fans! BoxLunch, the pop culture retailer with a cause, is launching its latest merchandise collection, inspired by the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books and the original animated series. Apparel, including T-shirts, raglan tees, and the iconic pizza Turtles flannel, feature all four Turtles and their love for cheesy
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WASHINGTON — Innovative Rocket Technologies, known as iRocket, has signed an agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory to jointly develop and test rocket propulsion hardware.  The New York-based startup, founded in 2018, develops rocket engines and plans to build a small launch vehicle. iRocket signed a four-year cooperative research and development agreement, or CRADA,
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Looking to find its way and pull boys in, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is getting a mid-week start here with previews yesterday grossing $3.85M. Showtimes started at 2PM for the Jeff Rowe-directed feature and the outlook is $30M over 5-days for the net $70M production. Some trackers have it at $40M. Mutant Mayheim
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Writer/Director Zach Clark (Little Sister) takes familiar science fiction concepts, namely body-hopping aliens attempting to assimilate themselves on Earth, to awkward results and gets even weirder with it. The Becomers defies easy categorization as it blends absurdist humor with gross-out sci-fi and quirky rom-com conventions. It’s an ambitious voyage aimed to challenge perceptions and occasionally the gag reflex as
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The Booker Prize, first awarded in 1969, recognizes the best novel written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. The 2023 prize considers books published between October 1st 2022 and September 30th 2023. They have just announced their 13-book longlist. The 6-book shortlist will come out September 21st, with the winner announced November
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The earliest impact scars from asteroids that bombarded Earth’s surface may be lost forever to the ravages of time. According to a new analysis, there’s a reason scientists have been unable to find any craters older than about 2 billion years. The constant erosion and geological processes on Earth have likely erased them from the
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Our friends over at Terror Vision are celebrating Halloween in a MASSIVE way this year with #13WeeksOfHalloween, which will run from August 1 straight through October 31. Starting August 1st and running through October 31st, Terror Vision will be dropping titles every single Tuesday (#TerrorVisionTuesday) with exciting new releases ranging from the early 1900s to
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Hasbro announced and launched the pre-order for a brand-new Monopoly: Barbie Edition board game – right on the heels of the record-setting Barbie film release. Fans can pre-order the new Monopoly: Barbie Edition Game on Amazon today and purchase the game at most major retailers starting October 1. With the Monopoly: Barbie Edition board game, players can imagine slipping into
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Last week, a group of South Korean physicists made a startling claim. In two papers uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, they say they have created a material that “opens a new era for humankind”. LK-99, a lead-based compound, is purportedly a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor. Such a material, which conducts electricity without any resistance under
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