Watch Stephen Hawking Deliver a Mysterious Announcement on Space Exploration
Stuart Wilson / Getty imagesStephen Hawking will be making a big announcement today about space exploration. What will it be? Find out at noon, EST.Hawking and Yuri Milner of the Breakthrough Prize...
View ArticleWhy The Marvel Movies May Never Cross Over With Their TV Shows
If you’ve only been watching the movie portion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you’ve been missing a lot. Over on ABC’s Agents of SHIELD, an army of mutants Inhumans has been unleashed upon the...
View ArticleDaryl Gregory Wrote a Book About Psychics That Sounds Like a Hella Fun Ride
Today’s “Deal of the Day” at Publishers Marketplace involves Daryl Gregory, whom we called “a writer to watch” a year ago. He just sold a novel about psychics called Spoonbenders to Knopf in an...
View ArticleAnimated Video Beautifully Recreates Old Penny Arcade Machines
You know those old machines where you drop a coin in and it starts whirring and spinning and everything comes to life and you’re supposed to have fun as you watch the little people move in a set...
View ArticleYou’ll get to see the first footage from Doctor Strange tonight, when the...
You’ll get to see the first footage from Doctor Strange tonight, when the first trailer debuts on Jimmy Kimmel. Benedict Cumberbatch will be a guest to reveal the teaser trailer. In the mean time,...
View ArticleStephen Hawking and a Russian Billionaire Want to Build an Interstellar Starship
Image: HubbleLast year, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence got a major boost when Russian billionaire Yuri Milner unveiled a $100 million effort to scan the skies for radio and light signals...
View ArticleStory Of Your Life Could Be One of the Year's Most Magical Films
Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams present Story of Your Life at CinemaCon 2016. Image courtesy of Paramount PicturesA linguist and a theoretical physicist are the stars of the latest movie from the director...
View ArticleNow We Know the Familiar Face of DC's New Superwoman
We’ve known that there’s a Superwoman series coming in DC’s Rebirth shakeup ever since it announced its comics lineup at Wondercon last month. But now we know who the (obvious) choice is to be the new...
View ArticleThe New Secret Life of Pets Trailer Explores the World of Canine Sibling...
A pair of pups (Louis C.K. as the sassy terrier type; Eric Stonestreet as his massive, shaggy rival) must learn to share an owner—and survive their run-in with the dogcatcher—in this latest trailer for...
View ArticleWhen Things Go Viral and Everybody Wins
Smart Design/Shutterstock An intrepid team of postdocs at the Santa Fe Institute pulled off a hell of a feat last week. They gleaned some useful insights into how fads, technology, and new words spread...
View ArticleHawking: An Interstellar Space Mission Will Bring Benefits to People's Lives...
How cute is that little guy?Earlier today, Stephen Hawking and Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner announced a thrilling plan to deploy tiny “nanocrafts” to the second-closest star in search of...
View ArticleThe Space Tech of Today That Could Power Stephen Hawking's Interstellar Craft...
Stephen Hawking’s plan to create a starcraft that can traverse the inky blackness separating us and our cosmic neighbor is fantastically ambitious and filled with lots of “the tech will come”...
View ArticleWe Just Saw Some Beautiful New Footage From Wonder Woman
Warner Bros’ CinemaCon presentation started off with a bang tonight: a 15-minute spotlight on upcoming DC Films. It touted the huge success of Batman v Superman (and the head of WB confirmed that Ben...
View ArticleWatch Stephen Strange Become Doctor Strange in the First Trailer
Here it is, the first trailer for Doctor Strange. We see the accident that ends his medical career and hear him get a rousing pep talk from Tilda Swinton’s Ancient One. Life just gets better and better...
View ArticleMarvel's Spider-Man Movie Is Going to Be Called Spider-Man: Homecoming
Marvel made a historic deal to put Spider-Man in its cinematic universe and now, out of CinemaCon, we know that his solo movie will officially be called Spider-Man: Homecoming. Yes, it is a pun. The...
View ArticleWe Know the Title of the Men In Black/ 21 Jump Street Crossover
No, for real. A crossover movie joining Men in Black and 21 Jump Street is really happening. Sony put it in its huge CinemaCon 2016 presentation to theater owners and, to make it seem even more real,...
View ArticleCould There Be Even More Batman in Suicide Squad Than We Thought?
Anthony Russo teases a major sequence for Tony Stark in Civil War. The Kingsman sequel may have landed a crazy new cast member. Sophie Turner teases Sansa’s vengeance in Game of Thrones. Plus, an...
View ArticleChris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence's New Scifi Film Looks Absolutely Amazing
When a studio decides to release a scifi movie during Christmas, they think it has both commercial and awards potential. Both certainly seem possible for Passengers, starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer...
View ArticleThe Best Little Brain Reader Your Money Can't Buy (Yet)
Surf therapy: This is Australian reporter Denham Hitchcock’s brain on surfing. Credit: Neuroverse, Inc.Let’s be honest: it would be really cool to have a wearable personal brain-computer interface...
View ArticleHawking's Interstellar Starship Would Revolutionize the Search for Alien Life
Artist’s concept of Cassini probe flying near Enceladus’ south pole geyser. Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechYesterday, Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner made the mind-blowing announcement that they want to build...
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