Every few years, there are calls to retire the American penny (as cumbersome and too expensive to produce), and rebuttals to preserve it (for posterity and price stability). I don't know how or when this question will be answered. Personally, I would not miss the gobs of metal in my pockets, but I would miss the lettering. And the numbering.
An international team of researchers have finally discovered the source of a weird, low-frequency rhythmic sound that has puzzled scientists and submarine sonar operators for more than half a century. Listen to it.
Twentieth Century Fox has finalized a deal to bring Flash Gordon back to the big screen. The studio has also hired the writers who recently worked on the upcoming Star Trek 3 to write.
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Netflix inks Mitch Hurwitz, the producer and creator of Arrested Development, to a multi-year deal to create original programming for the site. Will there be an AD season 5?
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Nintendo and Tecmo Koei have announced development of a new Fatal Frame survival horror game for the Wii U, with the release to be pushed along by a multimedia blitz.
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You've never heard Strauss performed quite like this. The team at KMel Robotics has assembled a band of hexrotor drones that "have taken up new instruments to play some fresh songs." That "fresh" description isn't exactly serious, as each of the three pieces performed date back either multiple decades or hundreds of years. After kicking off the three song setlist with "Also sprach Zarathustra," the drones move on to "Carol of the Bells" and close with "The Star-Spangled Banner." And the end result sounds surprisingly great.
