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The Plan to Make California Wet By Bringing Back Beavers
Ending the drought in the West will require rain—not too much rain—and smarter ways to collect and store that water. But something else that can keep things moist? Believe it or not: Beavers.According...
View ArticleCheck Out The Creepy Trailer For Joe Hill's Upcoming Thriller, The Fireman
Joe Hill is one of our favorite authors out there, and his next novel, The Fireman, will be coming out in May of next year. Gollancz books has just released a trailer for the novel, which gives us some...
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Why Do We Smell the Change of Seasons?
Colorful foliage may be autumn’s hallmark, but humans can also smell the change of seasons. What exactly is that familiar scent that hits our noses every October? Turns out, it’s a lot more complicated...
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This Was Doctor Who At Its Most Spectacular And Heart-Breaking
Tonight’s Doctor Who episode had everything—spaceships, aliens, trickery, the power of stories, and the Doctor desperately struggling to win in an impossible situation. Twice. And it leads up to an...
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In Space, "Up" is a State of Mind
September 9, 2015: The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station for a ten-day mission, providing visual proof of a little bit of every day magic: in space, “up” is...
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Sunday's Best Deals: 4K Samsungs, Studio Ghibli, Logitech Gear, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on...
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Scott Kelly Reveals the Raw Beauty of the Sahara From Space
Scott Kelly must be feeling pretty chipper about breaking the U.S. spaceflight record yesterday, because the social media-friendly astronaut has been even busier than usual on Twitter, posting one...
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First Image From The War For The Planet Of The Apes Takes Us To A Familiar...
Matt Reeves posted up the first image from his upcoming War for the Planet of the Apes last night, signaling the start of production for the latest installment of the franchise. In it, it looks like...
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John Boyega Is Getting Us Pumped For Tomorrow's Force Awakens Trailer
John Boyega dropped a short clip of ... something on his Instagram feed last night: a short clip of him looking at a parachute. Is it a snippet of tomorrow’s The Force Awakens trailer? An easy...
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Sunday Comics: Tales From The Bush
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your pretty much weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October...
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Open Channel: Recast One Actor In A Science Fiction Film
We’ve all heard and seen the stories: some actors don’t make the cut for a film or passed on a role that later exploded. It got me thinking: what would have been different in a film if you replaced the...
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Scott Kelly Shares a Space Station Sunset
We’ve all seen sunsets, but most people never see a sunset like this one, with its last rays filtered through the solar panels of the International Space Station. ISS astronauts, of course, see sunsets...
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If You Send a Sloth to Space, You Better Expect it to Nap
Would a sloth make a good astronaut? Probably not, but it’s damn cute to watch one try.This little creature headed to NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) for International Sloth Day, a...
View ArticleThe Force Awakens Trailer Teasers Are Now Running On TV [Updated]
The big trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens isn’t due until tomorrow, but ESPN is now running teasers for the main event. Here’s one snippet that has some new footage.Here’s another, where we see...
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Watch Star Wars Evolve Through Its Spectacular History Of Posters
The poster for The Force Awakens dropped earlier today, and it looks fantastic. Star Wars has always had fantastic posters over the years, and we’re going to see tons more in the future. Here’s a look...
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Now We Can Grow Kidney Structures from Stem Cells
Two research teams in the last two months have published studies on kidney structures grown from stem cells, which might be a step toward personalized replacement organs grown from patients’ own cells....
View ArticleWatch Francis Ford Coppola's First Film, Battle Beyond The Sun
Here’s a film to close out the weekend with: Francis Ford Coppola’s first ever film, Battle Beyond The Sun, which came out in 1959. The interesting thing about this movie: it’s originally a Soviet...
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Happy 30th Birthday, Nintendo Entertainment System
On October 18, 1985 Nintendo of America took a huge gamble, releasing a console into a North American market that seemed to have washed its hands of video games completely. Thirty years later those...
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So You Want To Join The Empire: Belt It To Me
This last week, I’ve been working on one of the under-appreciated and more annoying components of Stormtrooper armor: the belt. This component is responsible for some of the headaches associated with...
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This Week in the Business: Virtual Reality Won't Be Expensive Forever
QUOTE | “It doesn’t matter what it will cost. If it costs too much this week it will cost the right amount a year from now.” - Oculus head of worldwide studios Jason Rubin, talking about why he’s a...
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