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Rich Larson Downs A Team Of Soldiers In This Visceral Short Story

Like military science fiction? Rich Larson’s got a fantastic story in the January issue of Clarkesworld: Extraction Request.The story follows a group of soldiers who have been shot down, and where they...

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The Discovery Of The Solar System Included Some Dead Ends In The Hunt For Vulcan

After he discovered the planet Neptune using mathematics, French astronomer Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier set his sights on a new discovery: the planet Vulcan.There’s a reason why we included this book...

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DARPA's Vertical Take Off And Landing Combat Drone Could Revolutionize Naval...

Northrop Grumman scored another win this last year after its Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) concept was tapped for full-scale demonstration. The DARPA and Office of Naval Research-led...

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There's Long Shadows On The Southern Hemisphere Of Ceres

NASA has released a new image from the DAWN Spacecraft orbiting Ceres, depicting the southern hemisphere of the dwarf planet. It’s a gorgeous image, and it really shows off how pitted and scarred the...

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A Pair of Conjoined Porcelain Dolls Make a Connection Through Music

“Valse à quatre mains” (“Waltz with four hands”) is a short animated film by a group from Supamonks Studio, which is gorgeous in its music and imagery. The attention to detail is amazing—just look at...

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Joss Whedon Explains How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Is More Separate Than...

Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones have all proven themselves as worthy entries into Marvel’s pantheon of shared live-action properties. But in a new interview, Avengers and...

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The First Firestorm Finally Is Coming Back to The Flash, But...

If you were waiting for the return of the first Firestorm to The Flash, I have some bad news. Technically, that’s not Firestorm pictured above, it’s someone else... someone sinister. You can tell...

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Today's Best Deals: Ab Workouts, 4K TVs, Scott Pilgrim Collections, and More

A popular ab roller, a cheap 4K TV, and $5 Scott Pilgrim volumes highlight today’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is independent of...

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How J.J. Abrams Found the Most Important Location in Star Wars: The Force...

As Star Wars: The Force Awakens inches toward becoming the highest-grossing film in history, you’re might be a touch curious about how it came to be. This new video gives us a rare peek...

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Oculus Rift Preorders Start Wednesday

The wait is over: Starting 11am EST Wednesday morning, you can preorder an Oculus Rift of your own. The company just made the announcement on its blog. No word yet on pricing or expected delivery...

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Live-tweeting while watching a TV show is standard practice these days, but...

Live-tweeting while watching a TV show is standard practice these days, but BBC America is taking it a bit further: upcoming repeats of Doctor Who will have fan-generated social media popping up during...

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How Ash Vs Evil Dead Took Everything We Loved From The Movies And Made It Better

With “The Dark One,” Ash vs Evil Dead has come to an end. For now. Thank goodness the best new show on TV will return for a second season. But for now, we’re still in awe of how well the show captured...

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It Took Less Than a Year for the Plot of Ex Machina to Become a Reality

Mark Zuckerberg just announced that his “personal challenge” for the new year is to build an artificial intelligence to help him around the house. Sound familiar? It’s basically the (horrifying)...

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The Expanse Concept Art Takes You Deep Into the Machines That Keep the Solar...

In addition to being the combination space opera/political thriller we’ve been waiting ages for, The Expanse is also home to some gorgeous spaceship and space station porn. And now that we’ve got a...

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Fallout 4's Factions All Suck

Picking a faction in Fallout 4 is the most agonizing choice in the entire game. Turns out, deciding the fate of the Commonwealth is very difficult when every group vying for dominance is awful in its...

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Galavant's Smaller, Sillier Moments Make the Show Worth Watching

Galavant—the musical mash-up of Disney, Medieval Times, The Princess Bride, and Game of Thrones Lite—is back! Season two’s first episode is titled “A New Season... AKA Suck It Cancelation Bear,” which...

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The Matrix Glitches as Black-and-White Comic The Walking Dead Becomes a...

The Walking Dead comic book is a relative rarity in the world of modern, mainstream comic, as each issue is in greyscale, rather than the normal full-color palette, making it a comic you could color at...

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See the Incredible Detail That Turned Anomalisa Into a Puppet Movie Masterpiece

Though it may feel like there’s only one movie currently playing at the theater, there’s actually another. It’s a smaller, fantastic film named Anomalisa, a stop-motion puppet film written and...

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Gizmodo The Science Stories We’ll Be Watching in 2016 | Gawker Second...

Gizmodo The Science Stories We’ll Be Watching in 2016 | Gawker Second Amendment Softie Ted Cruz Flip-Flops on Government Tyranny | Foxtrot Alpha Coalition Jets Will Do Seemingly Anything To Stay Away...

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show TV Remake Has Cast Its Brad and Janet

Orange Is the New Black breakout star Laverne Cox was cast as fishnet fatale Frank-N-Furter back in October, but now the Rocky Horror Picture Show remake—which willair on Fox in the fall—has cast the...

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