Halloween

This Halloween scientists at MIT’s Media Lab are embarking on a massive social experiment. Called BeeMe, the project will let internet users control a real human actor. New Atlas reached out to Niccolo Pescetelli, one of the creators behind the experiment to find out exactly what is about to happen.

​​NASA has released a playlist of haunting audio clips created from real data collected by famous spacecraft, such as the late great Cassini and Voyager 1, as they unravel the secrets of our fascinating and diverse solar system.​

Astronomers have discovered a batch of rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 times the peak levels from our Sun. The stars, which spin so fast they've been squashed into pumpkin-like shapes, are thought to be the result of close binary systems where two sun-like stars merge.

Canadian dad Steve Sobchyshyn built his son an impressive Halo character costume, from scratch.

Just in time for Halloween, an actual pumpkin was outfitted with LED lights to create a playable Tetris game, with the stem converted into a joystick.

Mega Stomp Panic from ThinkGeek is designed to be your ultimate Halloween sound machine.