Blasting humans into the unforgiving vacuum of space is cool and all, but do you really expect us to buy into it without snazzy poster art? NASA's thinking exactly. Blasting humans into the unforgiving vacuum of space is cool and all, but do you really expect us to buy into it without snazzy poster art? NASA's thinking exactly....
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Miniaturized television aerials made from gold nanorods could provide a way to control light on a chip — opening up the channels of quantum communication....
Another CBS golden boy, Skeet Ulrich, is going for a threepeat at the network. "The Jericho" alum is set to star on the John Wells-produced untitled medical drama pilot. Full story...
In her first regular broadcast series gig, actress-singer Ashley Tisdale has signed on to co-star on the CW pilot "Hellcats." Full story...
We already brought you the first featurette about Robert Rodriguez's Predators. Now the first trailer is up, via IGN, and it includes some new footage, including Laurence Fishburne's lessons on how to survive the Predator hunt... when you're the game. More »
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British study indicates wild dolphins experience "incredible stress" at the hands of well-meaning human swimmers and that such interactions harm dolphins' feeding, sleeping and socialization patterns......
Wolverine's a respectable bub. This is no small feat as he's spent most of the last 35 years wearing a banana-colored body condom and a Batman hat. Nonetheless, life has kicked the snikt out of Logan. Let's recap the humiliation. More »
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IGN has posted the first trailer for producer Robert Rodriguez's upcoming Predators movie, which you can view below.
Unlike the earlier behind-the-scenes footage, this teaser takes us deep into the story of the movie, which centers on a group of dangerous humans transported to another planet to be hunted by the title creatures....
I'm terrified of forgetting things, especially after reading about early-onset Alzheimer's. But sometimes I just wish I had that memory-eraser from Men In Black, to forget bad dates and crappy movies. Will we ever have total control of our memories? More »
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Think scientists are always tactful? Think again! Here are our five favorite insensitive paper titles of all time:
1.) Ashes to ashes: thermal contact burns in children caused by recreational fires.
2.) An unusual penpal: case report and literature review of posterior urethral injuries secondary to foreign body insertion.
3.) A lucky catch: Fishhook injury of the tongue.
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No space travel movie would be complete without someone getting shoved out of an airlock and dying horribly. This handy guide will help you ascertain how fake these airlockings really are - and get over your fear of sliding doors. More »
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Pictured here is an European Synchrotron Radiation Facility double mirror system handy for focusing X-ray beams down to the nanometer range. ESRF has used these fine beams to examine recently discovered interstellar dust collected in the Stardust spacecraft. Photographer Peter Ginter describes his process with this image: “I wanted to photograph this detection device, hidden [...]...
The assistant is a thin, plain woman named Molly. She has big eyes and a tiny crooked mouth and an elegant, ill-suited nose that isn’t quite three years old. Tattoos of black anchors cover her body, each anchor dipped in blood. Her forearms are sprinkled with burn scars. What might have been a bullet hole forms a crease on her long neck. Everyone who knows Molly has a favorite story about her wild past, but even the true stories fail to capture the magnificent awfulness of her first thirty years. The last four have been better, if only by comparison. Her present employer is a difficult, arrogant man who loves making impossible requests, and while she hasn’t done her present job cheerfully or perfectly, she’s proven a neurotic capacity to try almost anything to make her boss smile.
We have two treats for you this week: a new story, “The Next Invasion” by Robert Reed, and an interview with short fiction editor Ellen Datlow about her upcoming anthology, Darkness.
Pr... http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58916...
The first teaser trailer for Dreamworks' Megamind is out, and it perfectly encapsulates the hilarious insanity that we saw in the preview footage. But wait until you hear supervillain Will Ferrell spar with damsel in distress Tina Fey. More »
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“The Deadly Years”
Written by David P. Harmon
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Season 2, Episode 12
Production episode: 2x11
Original air date:December 8, 1967
Star date: 3478.2
Mission Summary:
Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Chekov, and Lt. Galway beam down to the surface of Gamma Hydra IV, a scientific outpost in need of resupply. The away team finds absolutely no one on the surface, though, and Kirk orders the party to spread out and look for the colony’s inhabitants. Poor Ensign Chekov gets the shock of his life when he enters a dark building to find an incredibly old man dead on a table. He screams, scared out of his wits, and informs the captain. When Dr. McCoy examines the man he finds that he’s died of extreme old age. Mr. Spock says this is impossible, because no one on the colony was over the age of thirty! But just then, a very old couple enter the building. Hard of hearing and near senility, the man reveals himself to be Robert Johnson, the twenty-nine-year-old leade... http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58920...
The 14th season premiere of Comedy Central's "South Park" was the most watched debut for the show since 1999.
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The Planck space telescope, which is surveying the entire sky in four massive sweeps, has nearly finished its first scan. Rotating in orbit, Planck...
Doctor Who's fifth season debut, "The Eleventh Hour," just had its premiere showing, and here's the first clip showing the TARDIS in trouble. The first reviews of the episode are already online, and so are some fascinating spoilers. More »
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A bitter controversy is brewing over a captive colony of endangered Virginia big-eared bats, founded inNovember as a hedge against disease driving the species to extinction in the wild.Of 40 bats put in the colony, only 10 have survived....
Universities crumble, religion withers, "dream logic" reigns. In a long essay for cerebral Web magazine The Edge, David Gelernter explores the future of the Internet, which he says is about to take on a far more significant role in human society....
Ars Technica Science Editor John Timmer appeared last night on CTV News in a segment about the war on cancer.
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Enver Gjokaj played Victor (and a whole bunch of other characters) on Joss Whedon's much-missed show Dollhouse. Now he's following in Whedon's footsteps, launching a new webseries called Previously On Point Dume. He told us it's "Twin Peaks meets Clue." More »
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At least one network has bid for Sarah Palin's reality show -- but it's not a major broadcaster.
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Shaun Rana, who is working on the incredible-sounding Days of Victory also has something even better. It's called Warren Lich. More »
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The sixth and final season of Lost continues and so does Tor.com’s weekly round table discussion with bloggers Theresa DeLucci, Rajan Khanna, and Bridget McGovern. Spoilers (and many Lost-related links) after the fold as I wonder what kind of woman could resist a contrite Sawyer on her doorstep offering a sad sunflower and a six-pack?
[And somehow an adorable teddy bear only makes not-Locke look more evil...]
Rajan: So, Sawyer. Looking back on the series, I never expected to like him as much as I do now. He’s one of my favorite characters, and far more complex than I anticipated back in Season One. Even disillusioned, get-me-off-this-island, Earth-1 Sawyer is nuanced—he wants off, but he wants to protect his friends. And he's playing both sides against the middle. What I enjoyed about Sawyer’s latest gambit is that he's telling everyone the truth. And it seems to be working to his favor. Because they’re all caught up in their own agendas. We’ve been seeing people e... http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58921...
Repo Men is a smorgasbord of absurdist futurism references, according to director Miguel Sapochnik. He showed us which science fiction classics he drew on, from Brazil to Clockwork Orange. But no, Repo! The Genetic Opera isn't on the list. More »
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If you haven’t already cluttered your car with talking gadgets and navigation systems, then here’s something else you might want to pop into your driving machine one day: a new augmented reality windshield that’s being developed by General Motors. While the windshield is still years away from the assembly line, car enthusiasts and tech geeks [...]...
When we last covered NASA’s Stardust mission a couple weeks ago, we noted that it was one of those missions that just keeps popping up as new findings from its data makes the news. But Stardust might by outdone by another: Cassini, which continues to reveal new surprises about Saturn and its moons—not to mention [...]...
Paula Abdul won't be judging "Star Search."
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Last week's episode of Caprica, "The Imperfections of Memory," confirmed my sense that this show isn't about powerful Graystones vs. immigrant Adamas. Instead it's about a futuristic cyborg, Zoe, vs. a crazy housewife, Amanda. This is both awesome and frustrating. More »
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A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving....
Authors never could resist the thrill of bringing Americans into the magic of Oz—perhaps because Oz had been introduced through the eyes of an American child in the very first book. In The Gnome King of Oz, Ruth Plumly Thompson again succumbed to this thrill, bringing an American boy named Peter, from Philadelphia, in what would be the first of his three appearances in Oz.
Peter differs from these other children in several significant ways. Although he certainly plans to return home (with treasure!), he is not questing for a home, either his old one, or a new one. And he is the first American child visitor with a distinct interest in finding treasure and plans for spending it. (He wants to buy a motorcycle.) He is also the first one to arrive alone, without any sort of companion. (Dorothy had travelled with various small animals; Betsy had Hank the Mule; Trot, Cap’n Bill; Button-Bright, Trot and Cap’n Bill. Even Bob Up had that horrible clown.) With the possib... http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58863...
Can you win and lose at the same time?
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Over at Suvudu, a series of fantasy cage matches have pitted the epic against the awesome and the dreadful against the fell. The first round is done—you can see the results here—and the second round is on. In one of the most exciting battles, everyone’s favorite sister-loving snarkmeister Jaime Lannister faces off against the great and powerful Cthulhu.
To support his creation, Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin has provided us with a lighthearted look behind the scenes as Jaime and Tyrion hash out a battle plan. How, exactly, do you fight a mountain with tentacles, the sight of which drives men insane with terror? If anyone can figure it out, it’s the brothers Lannister. Warning: contains mild spoilers through Storm of Swords but, as far as I can tell, none for Feast of Crows.
Megan Messinger used her big girl blogger voice to write this post; her fan voice is just saying “OHMIGOD SQUEE” over and over again. Go, Jaime!...
Bryan Singer, who made comic-book movies cool with the first X-Men movie, is returning to the franchise with the prequel X-Men: First Class, and he's talking about it for the first time.
The movie will deal with the early relationship between Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr/Magneto and the early days of the Xavier Academy, Singer told the Los Angeles Times:...
New image from Planck telescope shows cold interstellar dust reaching across Milky Way....
Two space station astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan despite stiff winds and freezing temperatures at their Central Asian landing site....
CoRoT mission finds gas giant exoplanet that most closely resembles Jupiter, Saturn....
Orbital Sciences' new Cygnus space freighter and Taurus 2 rocket for space station cargo flights draw on a solid history of spaceflight experience....
The moon will have close encounters this week with two star clusters: the Pleiades and Messier 35....
NASA's sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been used to locate vintage space hardware lobbed to the moon in the 1970s by the former Soviet Union....
NASA has unveiled a photo of Emerald Isle as it appears from space....
The Hubble Space Telescope has long been an icon of astronomy. Now a new IMAX movie is turning it into a 3D star....
A pair of primordial black holes have been spotted so far away that they likely formed relatively soon after the Big Bang, scientists announced Wednesday....
Every episode of what was probably the environmental movement's first television series is now available on the web....
My friend Eran Segev, an Aussie skeptic and all-around good guy, submitted a podcast to 365 Days of Astronomy dealing with the venerable Parkes radio dish and its support of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. It’s a good story — it was fictionalized in the very cute movie "The Dish" — and he interviews a [...]...
Since 2004, the probe has scrutinised the ringed planet in unprecedented detail – see the results in our gallery...
In his new book, The Predictioneer, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita describes a computer model based on game theory which he - and others - claim can predict the future with remarkable accuracy....
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Having been alerted to Aang’s presence at the Southern Water Tribe village, Zuko launches an attack. Sokka’s pitiful defenses don’t stand a chance against a squad of firebenders. The situation looks hopeless until Aang swoops in and shows Zuko that a fully trained airbender can hold his own in battle. Rather than risk the lives of the water tribe, Aang agrees to be taken as Zuko’s prisoner. Sokka and Katara set out on Appa to rescue their new friend. With Sokka and Katara’s help, Aang escapes Zuko’s ship, and the three set out on a journey to the North Pole, where Aang and Katara hope to learn waterbending from a master.
[A spoilery discussion of episode 102 begins after the cut.]
John
This episode does a lot to redeem my issues with episode 101. There’s lots of cool moments in this one, and by the end of the episode we have a much clearer idea of what the show is going to be like. There’s still some parts I found overly goofy (like when Aan... http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58909...
The most distant quasars found in the early universe, a mere 800 million years after the Big Bang, have been observed by astronomers....
"Hey you, get your damn hands off her." Those classic words were memorably spoken by George McFly before he laid out Biff Tannen in the classic ending to one of the most beloved films of the '80s, Back to the Future.
Crispin Glover will forever be synonymous with George McFly, despite the fact that he played the character only once and did not return for the sequels. In fact, the circumstances as to what exactly happened and why Glover did not return have been cause for some debate in the ensuing years....
All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: how machines could break down language barriers, the first natural event changed by global warming, and whether miaow-miaow should be banned...
Males of some social insects carry on the fight for females after insemination: their seminal fluid harms sperm of other males, but not their own...
Given their similarly dark gothic sensibilities, it's surprising that director Tim Burton hasn't had much to do with the weird world of Charles Addams before, but that may soon change: The guy behind the hit Alice in Wonderland is reportedly making a new 3-D stop-motion-animated version of The Addams Family....
An unprecedented effort to use world trade rules to save a species from rampant overfishing has failed, says Debora MacKenzie...
Disney has released these awesome new behind-the-scenes images from the set of Tron Legacy, which you can view below....
There are no Star Trek fanatics like science geek Trekkers, and a couple in Japan have created what we think is the tiniest model of the starship Enterprise ever, above.
How tiny? Try 8.8 microns. That's about the size of a human red blood cell....
At some point in evolutionary history dogs diverged from wolves thanks to domestication by humans. But just where did dogs first become man’s best friend? Robert Wayne and his team have many years invested in answering the question, and their newest findings, published this week in Nature, suggest that the answer is the Middle East.
Researchers [...]...
Lionsgate will make Dibbuk Box, a supernatural thriller a la The Shining, which will be written by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White and produced by Ghost House Pictures partners Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, Deadline Hollywood reported; the film, based on a true story, comes from a Los Angeles Times story about a family with a haunted box and an evil curse.
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