If You Didn't Love Avengers: Age of Ultron, The New DVD Won't Change Your Mind
I was kind of hoping to write a review of the Avengers: Age of Ultron DVD/Blu-Ray that went something like, “If you were one of the people who didn’t love the Avengers sequel, this new DVD will change...
View ArticleValiant's Fangirl Superhero Is Finally Getting Her Own Comic
Ever since Valiant relaunched in 2012, fans have been dying to know whether Zephyr—better known by her real identity as the nerdy sci-fi superfan Faith Herbert—would join in on the fun and get her own...
View ArticleAlan Moore's Iconic Comic Watchmen Could Become A HBO Series
Watchmen is one of those comic books people hold incredibly near and dear to their hearts. It’s difficult, it’s dark, and it’s been incredibly influential on everything that followed. Which is why, no...
View ArticleKick Off Halloween Season By (Re-)Watching The Italian Horror Cult Classic...
“The sleep of reason gives birth to monsters,” warns the movie-within-a-movie in Demons, and it’s a meta-statement that holds true for the characters within the movie proper, as well as for the viewer:...
View ArticleDoctor Who Is Getting Another Spinoff Show... About School Kids?
Well, this is surprising. With Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures long over, Doctor Who has been a standalone show for a while... until now. Next year, the series is getting a brand new spinoff:...
View ArticleMapping the 88 Million Ways That Humans Are Genetically Different
An international team of scientists has scanned the genomes of 2,504 people from around the world to create the world’s largest catalog of human genetic variation (HGV). The extensive database will...
View Article8 Places Where the Curiosity Rover Left Drill Holes on Mars
Every time the Curiosity Rover drills into Mars, it creates a beautiful dime-sized hole and a pile of powdered rock just waiting for analysis. Here’s why these drill holes are so important—and all the...
View ArticleA Young Woman Ponders the Next Step of Her Journey. But Where Is She Going?
Halfway across a bridge spanning a deep ravine in a darkened forest, a young woman sets down her lantern and pauses to take in the glowing view. Who is she, where has she been, and where is she going?...
View ArticleSleepy Hollow Is Back, and It’s as Surprised as You Are!
Let’s be honest—after season 2 of Sleepy Hollow, which always seemed an inch away from texting you directly asking for advice, we were wary about it coming back. Turns out, the show was, too!In some...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Interviews Pewdiepie, Nails It
YouTube’s biggest star was on the Late Show last night—and the segment was actually pretty good.Really, I’d say that Colbert gave Jimmy Kimmel a master class in how to cover the phenomenon that is...
View ArticleMeet the Jedi-Hunting Inquisitor Sarah Michelle Gellar Is Playing on Star...
Earlier this year, genre fans got pumped up when Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, was announced as a cast member on Star Wars Rebels season 2. Speculation ran rampant about who she’d be playing...
View ArticleAre You a Nighttime Tooth Grinder? Here's How To Tell—And What to Do About It
Teeth grinding is a problem that affects nearly one in ten individuals, yet many of us don’t even realize we’re doing it. And that’s a problem given just how harmful it can be to our health. Here’s how...
View ArticleThe Team Behind the Excellent Daredevil Comic Is Making a New Black Widow...
Oh my god. We’ve known for a while that Black Widow would be getting her own series in Marvel’s upcoming “All-New, All-Different” reboot—but we didn’t know who, and now we do, it’s safe to say Natasha...
View ArticleThis Narcopolis Clip Puts An Uber-Futuristic Spin on a Classic Thriller Scene
Ah, the high-tech break-in—an expected scene in any contemporary thriller, and that goes double for a movie set in the future. In Narcopolis, the debut feature from UK writer-director Justin Trefgarne,...
View ArticleParts of Chile Moved More Than a Meter in the Illapel Earthquake
The Illapel earthquake that hit Chile in September shifted the ground by up to 1.4 meters. That’s awfully far to move the not-so-steady rock below our feet.A magnitude 8.3 earthquake hit Chile on...
View ArticleMysterious Culprit That Killed 7 Million Pigs Finally Revealed: It Was Tote Bags
Yes, reusable tote bags may be good for making us feel smug in the grocery store check-out. But the USDA just traced a deadly virus that has killed millions of pigs to an unlikely culprit: tote bags....
View ArticleThat T-Junction in Your Sewer Line Is a Trap
Your sewers have T-junctions—places were two pipes come together and form a “T” shape. So do your arteries. A new study has found that these junctions can trap tiny particles of matter, blocking normal...
View Articleio9 Newsstand is Excited To Go Paragliding on the Moon
This week’s story is about pushing the limits of endurance, about finding one’s fearlessness once more, about staying true to one’s self and one’s beliefs—even when a night lasts for months, and the...
View ArticleA Damage Control TV Series May Be Headed To The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marvel’s live-action universe may be getting a little bigger. Variety is reporting that ABC is planning to make a comedy show set in the Marvel universe—and it’s going to be based on the oddball...
View ArticleHere's Our First Glimpse of the Rosetta Comet’s Dark Side
The Rosetta spacecraft has taken hundreds of stunning photographs of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko over the past year, but a portion of the comet was obscured due to its odd seasonal shifts. Now,...
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