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You Have To See This French Animated Steampunk Movie

The French, steampunk anime April and the Extraordinary World is the rousing, science-based adventure you wanted Disney’s Tomorrowland to be. It’s simultaneously an exciting roller coaster ride, while...

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Airbus's Perlan 2 High Altitude Sailplane Soars For The First Time

The Airbus Perlan 2 glider made a successful first flight on Wednesday, paving the way for a promising future of high altitude soaring. The manned aircraft was towed to an altitude of 5,000 feet before...

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Soar Over The Surface Of Pluto’s Moon In This Close-Up Flyover Video

The latest feed from the New Horizons mission is here, allowing us all a view of what it’s like to fly over the largest of Pluto’s five moons, Charon. And it’s amazing.So amazing, in fact, that it’s...

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What Happens When Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak Plays The World's Best...

If Guillermo del Toro wasn’t making movies, he’d be a Fantastic Fest attendee. He’s just one of those guys who lives and breathes, not just cinema, but weird, creepy, tense and gory cinema. So for him...

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The Nile River is a Glowing River of Light Snaking Across a Darkened Planet

Our planet is truly gorgeous. The rich orange lights of cities marking the complex geography of humans scrabbling in the dust, the bright white clouds drifting with the winds, and the pale green...

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Jonathan Coulton's Brand New Portal Song Is a Fantastic Companion to "Still...

Who doesn’t love Jonathan Coulton’s contributions to the Portal games? They’re fantastic, entertaining songs, and he’s just written another one. You Wouldn’t Know was written for Lego Dimensions, and...

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In 1972, Science Fiction's Best-Known Authors Went On One Hell Of A Cruise

In 1972, a number of notable SF authors and scientists boarded the S.S. Statendam for a unique experience: witness the night launch of Apollo 17. Some of the biggest names in science fiction and...

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This is Video Highlights How Incredibly Slowly Philae Landed on its Comet

A new real-time video of Philae’s descent shows it took the probe longer to drift from Rosetta down to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko than it would’ve taken you to walk the same...

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A Firefighter Is Captivated By Flames In This Gorgeous Animated Short 

In Wildfire, a firefighter is utterly captivated by the flames which surround her, and it’s an obsession that begins to spill into her personal life. This short film is brilliantly animated, and it’s a...

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Join The Brainery Online Writer's Workshop To Level Up Your Short Fiction

Looking to level up your short fiction game? The Brainery Online Writer’s Workshop has a course in short fiction starting up this week!The short fiction workshop will be taught by Valerie Valdes and K....

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The Supermoon Eclipse Is This Weekend and Here's How to Watch It

Got plans for the weekend? You do now, friend! There’s a Supermoon Eclipse on Sunday night into Monday morning—and we’re all going to watch it. Here’s how, when, and also why to catch the Supermoon...

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Open Channel: Blood-Red, Supermoon Eclipse Edition 

So, tonight is the big #superbloodmooneclipse event that happens only every couple of decades. The next time this event will happen? 2033. Staying up tonight? Share your pictures and thoughts in the...

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Mobile Gaming Didn't Kill The Vita -- Sony Did

I have long been a fan of the PlayStation Vita. So this quote from one of Sony’s head honchos about portable gaming seriously bums me out.Here’s Shuhei Yoshida at a recent Q&A, as transcribed by...

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The Secrecy Surrounding New Star Wars Toys Is Even More Intense Than You Imagine

The mega-merchandisers behind the Star Wars tie-in empire have not yet begun to toy, according to a fine behind-the-scenes feature by Michael Grothaus in Co Design.The post takes us inside the...

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Deleted Age of Ultron Scene Explains Why Thor Was Playing in That Pool (Kind Of)

Avengers: Age of Ultron was pretty disjointed in places, but the disjointed-est moment had to be the scene of Thor thrashing about in that pool, hallucinating something-or-other, for no apparent...

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Why Did This Woman Live the Lie That She'd Been Murdered ... for 31 Years?

In 1984, 24-year-old Petra Pazsitka was living in Braunschweig, Germany, studying computer science—until the day she was reported as missing after failing to return from the dentist. At one point, the...

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This Week's TV: Is Agent Simmons Gone For Good on Agents of SHIELD?

How on Earth (or Asgard) is SHIELD going to get back its most amazing science expert? And will she be the same when she returns? Plus can Sleepy Hollow bounce back? Also, Parasyte makes its nocturnal...

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On Masters of Sex, Virginia Makes A Run For It, And I Don't Blame Her

How bad can one day of work at Masters and Johnson’s Reproductive Biology Research Foundation be? At this point in the season, bad enough to convince Virginia Johnson to park her kids with her dad, and...

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This Worm Is Shockingly Bad at Being a Worm

This worm is known informally as the “fried egg worm.” From the color scheme alone, you can tell it doesn’t want to be a worm, and its behavior proves it.Scientists only cataloged Archipheretima...

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High Rise Is One Of The Most Manic, Dark, And Oddly Watchable Films You'll...

The most amazing thing about Ben Wheatley’s High Rise is its tone. Its feeling. Some how it’s a film that’s intense, funny, scary, disturbing, and aloof all at the same time. Sometimes though, that mix...

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