National Geographic Hostile Planet: a new animal series unlike any other you've seen Adam Gelbart

books Those 100-foot Korowai tree houses are mostly built for film crews Ellsworth Toohey

politics Paramount launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Rob Beschizza

Science Is 3I/ATLAS, the latest interstellar object, an alien spaceship? Rob Beschizza

"Biker Mice from Mars" ride again… for free speech! CBLDF's Comic-Con party is back for 2025 Gareth Branwyn

Games Somehow, The Alters has made survival games interesting again Grant St. Clair

nsa Chinese kill switches found in American energy infrastructure Séamus Bellamy

Mars Elon Musk offers sperm to seed a Mars colony Allan Rose Hill

twitter Twitter CEO praises Musk's bizarre "Go f*ck yourself" meltdown in memo to staff Mark Frauenfelder

Entertainment Watch Roddy McDowall's home movies of a morning in the filming of Planet of the Apes Ruben Bolling

dupe Making concrete on Mars by blending local dust with astronaut blood Clive Thompson

tabloids World War 3 and Royals at War in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

robots Robots made from ice to explore other planets David Pescovitz

delightful fungi The weird beauty of fungi: time-lapse videos Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

science fiction The Android's Prehistoric Menagerie A Merc Rustad

William S. Burroughs and the Dead-End Horror of the Centipede God Mark Dery

North Korea's creepy fake civilian village fools no one Alastair Bonnett