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What Life Is Like in Beijing During China's Worst Pollution Crisis Ever

The “airpocalypse” of smog swirling over Chinese cities has reached its most dangerous levels yet. Beijing issued its first-ever red alert today, closing schools and taking cars off the road. How bad...

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Neat size comparison video compares the size of spaceships from different movies

Whip ‘em out. Which science fiction movie has the biggest spaceship or station or cube thing or star planet? MetaBallStudios made this CGI video detailing the ships across movies like Star Wars and...

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Kotaku If Fallout 4 Looked Like Fallout 1 | Screengrabber Kevin Garnett...

Kotaku If Fallout 4 Looked Like Fallout 1 | Screengrabber Kevin Garnett Dunked The Hell Over Blake Griffin | Jezebel J. Crew’s Problems Go Far Beyond One Unpopular Cardigan | Gizmodo Apple’s New Smart...

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What It's Like To Step Inside The World of Lev Grossman's The Magicians

Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy has won legions of fans, in large part thanks to its vividly described world. And now, Syfy is bringing that world to life, and we’ve been there. We sat in the front...

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The Truth Behind That Crazy Batman v Superman Scene

Plus the movie confirms another superhero cameo. Find out if The Force Awakens will have a post-credits scene! The Russo brothers hint at Spider-Man’s costume in Civil War. Game of Thrones set reports...

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Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars Is Coming to TV, But You'll Never Guess Where

This is unexpected. There’s finally going to be a live-action adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s beloved Mars trilogy of novels. It’s going to be on Spike TV, best known for reality shows like Bar...

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Supergirl's Darkest Moment Only Helps Her To Shed More Light

Supergirl continues to find ways to tell compelling stories about people in costumes with other-worldly powers, without needing to turn dark, “gritty” and misanthropic. This flies in the face of...

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Is This Our First Fleeting Glimpse At What Benedict Cumberbatch Will Look...

Well... the answer’s maybe. As part of an ongoing roll-out teasing the special features in the Marvel Phase 2 box set, last night the company revealed a preview clip discussing the upcoming Doctor...

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Lionsgate Really Wants To Make Some Hunger Games Prequels

Looking for more from the world of Panem after Mockingjay came to a conclusion last month? Well, so is Lionsgate. It’s been discussed before repeatedly, but a new comment from Vice Chairman Michael...

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A Teenager Takes Charge of Her Psychic Powers In This Eerie Short

We don’t know who she is, or what’s happened to her in the past, but the mute young protagonist of short science fiction film Strawberries has a very special talent—and she’s had just about enough of...

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Margaret Atwood Is Writing A Part-Cat, Part-Owl, Part-Human Superhero Comic

This is perhaps one of the silliest, yet most exciting strings of words I’ve ever had to contemplate: Dark Horse have announced that iconic Canadian poet and novelist Margaret Atwood is writing her...

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Drax Drunkenly Explains His Tattoos in This New Guardians of the Galaxy...

Tucked away in the recently released Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 Blu-ray megaset are a few never-before-seen deleted scenes, including this one, where a drunken Drax the Destroyer discusses the...

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This Beautiful Zootopia Concept Art Explains How All Animals Live Together In...

Disney Animation has been on a roll recently and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to stop anytime soon. Their next film, Zootopia, hits theaters March 4 and it features a world just like ours, except...

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The State Of The PlayStation 4 In 2015

The PlayStation 4 is an unexciting video game console, all things considered. It’s a box that you put under your TV, and it plays video games. Slowly but surely, it’s getting better at doing that. The...

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Get Ready To Appreciate The Fantasy Art of Frank Frazetta on a Whole New...

Chances are you’ve admired the bold, dramatic paintings of Frank Frazetta. But you haven’t seen the best of his art. A huge collection of his sketches, drawings and watercolor paintings is going up for...

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Why Algae Could Be the Greatest—and Trickiest—Fuel Source of All

From powering airplanes to replacing nuclear energy, algae has been touted as a green energy miracle. So if our waterways are already filled with the stuff, why isn’t it filling the world’s skies with...

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Universal's Mummy Reboot May Have Found Its Mummy

Looks like those recent rumors about Universal looking to gender-swap some of the stars of their Universal Monsters reboots might have been true! New reports suggest that rising Kingsman: The Secret...

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Z-Grade Masterpiece The Garbage Pail Kids Movie Is Now Available On Blu-ray

The world is a scary place sometimes, but we can all take solace in the fact that the forces of good have come together and made this happen: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie has just been released on...

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Texan Fossil Shows That Pterosaurs Made Very Long Flights

A pterosaur fossil has been discovered in Texas. It has a relative that is close genetically but not geographically—meaning ancient pterosaurs could have made very, very long journeys.Cimoliopterus...

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This Is the Space Weather New Horizons Had to Fly Through to Get To Pluto—And...

New Horizons returned some amazingly detailed shots and data of Pluto over the course of its mission—but just what did it have to fly through to get there? So, so much.NASA put together this...

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