What's the best way to get people to do what you want them to do? Make them believe that they're the kind of person who would do what you want to do.

Here's an awesome video from a few years ago. where Neil DeGrasse Tyson and other astrophysicists praise Star Trek for making an "admirable attempt" to portray space travel with actual scientific explanations. Star Wars? Not so much.

But can you make Timecop without Jean Claude Van Damme? And if you can, why would you?

Here's how to turn a bar of titanium into a ring with LED-illuminated jewels that light up when they're near a power source. One: fall in love. Two: a bunch of other stuff. Three: boom, magic-ring.

Tony Stark has been to a lot of cool places in that Iron Man get-up of his. But low Earth orbit might still be a bit beyond our operational flight envelope. Not so for the developers of the revolutionary RL Mark VI Space Diving suit.

Those who feel that Alice Eve's underwear scene in Star Trek Into Darkness was gratuitous, this might make you feel better — director J.J. Abrams debuted a deleted, but equally gratuitous scene from the film of Benedict Cumberbatch showering on Conan last night.

Harvard engineers have a devised a technique for designing and producing intricate microscopic models, called "hierarchical microarchitectures," and the tiny sculptures it produces are nothing short of incredible.

"What's "Captain America's shield made out of?" "Name me some of the stones in the Infinity Gauntlet!" "Where does the Dark Surfer trap Thanos and Captain Marvel?" BOOM! YOU JUST GOT SCHOOLED BY A LITTLE GIRL.