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How Should We Look For Aliens?

The search for extraterrestrial life is the ultimate hybrid of creativity and science, the quest to discover something we can’t even describe yet. Jill Tarter embodies that creativity in her work with...

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Constantine's Arrow Appearance Was Probably His Last Ever

Star Wars Episode VIII might be getting rewrites to shine a spotlight on certain characters. Supergirl casts its young Superman. Robert Kirkman teases The Walking Dead’s next big badass. Plus, a huge...

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Dark Souls Is Getting Its Own Comic Series

Praise the sun, Dark Souls fans! The wildly popular dark fantasy video game series about dying again and again (and again) is heading to the world of comics, where it’s likely also to tell tales of...

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Everything We Pieced Together From the Frenetic Suicide Squad Trailer

You’ve undoubtedly already seen last night’s jaw-dropping Suicide Squad trailer (if not, get to it), but there was so much awesomeness packed into it, that it was hard to catch every important detail....

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How Disney Fixed a Huge Mistake With Zootopia, Just One Year Before Release

In November 2014, the team behind Disney’s Zootopia had a very bad day. After years of development and production, they realized a huge aspect of their movie didn’t work. There were two main...

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The Original Captain America Is Coming Back

Right now, there’s only one Captain America flying through the skies of Marvel’s mainline comic-book universe. But later this year, the original super-soldier will be back in the red-white-and-blue....

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Darth Vader Baby Onesie Recalled... For Choking Hazard

Coming as a surprise to no one who’s seen the original Star Wars trilogy, yesterday the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall for a Darth Vader infant bodysuit that poses a potential...

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Mysterious Planet X Could Be the Ninth Planet In Our Solar System

There could be a new ninth planet floating beyond the dark edges of our solar system, according to new research published in The Astronomical Journal from CalTech professors Mike Brown and Konstantin...

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Today's Best Deals: Protein Powder, Samsung Monitor, 1Password, and More

Save on protein products, a 1080p Samsung monitor, 1Password, and more in 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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All the Other Movie News and Footage From Last Night's DC Special

While treating us to the first footage from the Wonder Woman movie and that outstanding Suicide Squad trailer, last night’s DC special was basically an infomercial for the upcoming movies. Here’s...

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2015 Shattered All Temperature Records, and It Wasn't Just El Niño

In a joint statement this morning, NASA and NOAA confirmed that 2015 was the hottest year on record by a huge margin. We basically knew this—scientists have been calling it since at least July—but now...

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Freddy Krueger Will Host Valentine's Day Horror Marathon on the El Rey Network

We may have lost Wes Craven last year, but we’ll always have the terrifying films he created—and as long as actor Robert Englund is willing, we still have Freddy Krueger. He’ll be hosting El Rey...

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The Legendary Filmmaker Werner Herzog Has Made A Documentary about Robotics...

For anyone who has seen a Werner Herzog film, his voice isn’t something you’ll soon forget. Now the director is bringing that authoritative voice, and storytelling prowess, to brand new subject:...

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Physicists Successfully Tie the Very First Quantum Knots

Theoretical physicists have been predicting that it should be possible for knots to form in quantum fields for decades, but nobody could figure out how to accomplish this feat experimentally. Now an...

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The Classic Cyberpunk Novel Altered Carbon Is Becoming A Netflix Series

Add another entry to the long list of amazing things Netflix is doing with their original programming. They’ve just picked up the rights to Altered Carbon, a 10-episode-series based on the brilliant...

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If You Loved The X-Files, You'll Probably Still Like The New X-Files

This Sunday, The X-Files returns for a six-episode miniseries. It’s been eight years since the last movie, and fourteen since the last TV episode. We’ve already watched the first three episodes of the...

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Newly Discovered Prime Number Is 22 Million Digits and Would Take About 127...

Assuming you can say two digits a second and have evolved beyond the need for food, sleep, or a social life, the largest prime number ever discovered would take you more than four months to even say....

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This Poster for Fantasy Parody Dudes & Dragons Is Suitably Goofy 

Wigs, pointy ears, swords, and a lotta fake fire—all make a robust showing on this brand-new poster for fantasy parody Dudes & Dragons, which slathers layers of cheese on the Lord of the Rings...

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Wild West Novels Have Suddenly Gotten A Whole New Exciting Lease on Life

Lately, the Western novel has been getting really fun again. Most of us probably think of Louis L’Amour’s, or maybe Joe Lansdale’s classic Weird West stories. But there’s a slew of new Westerns,...

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The Best Silver Surfer Series Comes Back This Week

The Silver Surfer is one of those superheroes who’s always looked cooler than he actually was. The character’s visuals point to an ideal of unfettered freedom and navigating the cosmos with a slick,...

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