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Big Trouble in Little China: The Game Looks Fan-Freaking-Tastic
We first heard about Big Trouble in Little China: The Game last summer, and today we’re getting a first glimpse of what the box art, game art, and—most excitingly—the miniatures will look like in the final product. Three words: Mini Egg Shen. The still-in-development game is designed by Chris Batarlis and Boris Polonsky, who are … Continued
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If You’re Lost You Can Look—But You Won’t Find It, Time After Time (Because It Just Got Canceled)
Since there are approximately eleventy billion time travel shows on TV right now, you could have made a bundle betting on which one would get canceled first. If you had Time After Time, ABC’s reimagining of a 1979 movie involving H.G Wells (yes) and Jack the Ripper (yes, again) traveling on Wells’ time machine (third … Continued
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$1000 Reward if You Know Who Stole Death Valley’s Missing Fossils
National Parks exist for all Americans to share and enjoy. And when something like a fossil or footprint goes missing, it stinks for everyone, including us Americans and scientists who need to know the footprint’s location to help understand the animal that made it. A footprint fossil went missing from a lakebed at Death Valley … Continued
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Is Tony Stark the World’s Worst Re-Gifter?
The latest trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming has its share of hints and Easter eggs. Some big, others small. All of them pale in comparison to one shocking reveal, involving Tony Stark, Peter Parker, and a T-shirt. https://gizmodo.com/every-easter-egg-and-plot-detail-stuffed-into-the-new-s-1793714603 In the trailer, we see Tony and Peter walking through the halls of Avengers Tower as Tony explains … Continued
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Villagers Find Missing Man’s Corpse in Belly of Enormous Snake
Snakes are scary. Even small ones—the way they move, the prospect of venom, those little forked tongues—can send chills down your neck. But did you know that some snakes can eat human beings? A tragic incident in Indonesia recently reminded the world of this fact. A 25-year-old man named Akbar disappeared on Sunday when he … Continued
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The European Space Agency Will Send Its First Mars Rover to One of These Two Mysterious Sites
Mars rovers are great for many reasons, most importantly, because they allow us to live vicariously through a hunk of metal exploring the Red Planet. NASA’s currently working on a yet-to-be-named rover mission slated for 2020, and is in the process of narrowing down a landing location. Similarly, the European Space Agency (ESA) has just … Continued
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Deadpool 2‘s Potential Cables, Ranked
Over the last year, we’ve been drowning in rumor after rumor about just who will play time-traveling mutant Cable in Deadpool 2. We’ve had so many at this point, with no end in sight, we decided to do the only thing we could: scientifically rank all of the rumored candidates, in order of likeliness, desire, … Continued
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Today’s Congressional Hearing on Climate Change Was a Colossal Train Wreck
In the midst of today’s highly-anticipated House Science Committee hearing on climate science and the scientific method, right around the time that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher thundered that certain witnesses (the one mainstream climate scientist in the room, specifically) should be ashamed of themselves for daring to criticize the committee’s chairman, the livestream gave out. Part … Continued
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A Squishy Robotic Octopus Tentacle Might Not Actually Be Nightmare Fuel
Hollywood movies have used giant squids and octopi to inspire underwater nightmares for decades. But Festo, a German company that makes industrial machinery, has realized that an octopus’ amazing muscle-packed body and tentacles could actually be the ideal way to design and build a robot destined to work alongside humans. Robotic arms have already joined … Continued
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Black Magic Becomes One of the Stages of Grief in New Trailer for A Dark Song
Liam Gavin’s unconventional horror film A Dark Song impressed the hell out of us at Fantastic Fest last year, and now there’s an eerie new trailer ahead of its upcoming stateside release, as well as an appropriately sinister new poster. Here’s the official synopsis, followed by the new trailer: An unholy alliance between two damaged … Continued
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10 Banned, Censored, and Controversial Movies That Are Now Cult Classics
Recently, we shared a clip from Ken Russell’s The Devils, a racy 1971 horror film that’s finally available for streaming on Shudder after years of obscurity. That got us thinking about other cult movies once deemed so scandalous they were either censored, banned, or taken out of circulation for years. Some of these films have … Continued
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Trump’s Plan to Slash the NIH Budget Won’t Just Hurt Scientists—It Will Hurt Everyone
While the Trump Administration’s plan for massive cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency has caused a veritable national panic, much less discussed has been the proposal to slash the budget of the National Institutes of Health. On top of a 20%, $5.8 billion cut to the agency’s total budget revealed earlier this month as part … Continued
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New Short for Pixar’s Coco Is as Cute as a Dog With(out) a Bone
Disney Pixar has released a new short for its upcoming animated film Coco, introducing main character Miguel’s hairless dog, Dante. All he wants is a little snack, but as he learns the hard way, you shouldn’t rob the dead. Coco, directed by Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3) is about a young musician named Miguel (Anthony … Continued
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A ’90s Version of Snapchat Would Have Been a Whole Lot Less Confusing
Looking back at older versions of software makes you wonder how we even managed to use them years ago. Dusty iterations of programs like Word, Excel, and even Photoshop were crude as hell by today’s standards. But what if Snapchat—Mark Zuckerberg’s favorite ephemeral app—had existed on desktop computers in the ‘90s? It probably would have … Continued
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The Handmaid’s Tale Continues with an Audiobook ‘Radio Drama’ from Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s iconic scifi novel The Handmaid’s Tale left things on a final, yet somewhat ambiguous, note. Now, ahead of the upcoming Hulu adaptation, Atwood has released a new audiobook chapter that tells more about what happened after that closing line: “Are there any questions?” The Handmaid’s Tale concludes with an academic appraisal of the … Continued
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How to Hide Your Browsing History From Your Snooping ISP
Congress has moved to dismantle some Obama-era rules that would have protected the online privacy of everyday Americans. This sucks. The deregulation means it will be easier for huge telecom companies to track and sell their customers’ browsing history. This sucks! But not all is lost. Regardless of what the Capitol Hill-based wrecking ball does … Continued
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The First It Teaser Is Here, and Pennywise Looks Scary as Hell
The first teaser trailer for Andy Muscietti’s It opens with the ultimate loss of innocence, when raincoat-clad Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott) chases a paper boat right into the clutches of a certain sewer-dwelling clown. It only gets darker from there. We get missing posters, balloons drifting through classrooms, a spewing bathroom sink, kids prowling the … Continued
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This Elusive Giant Octopus Snacks on Giant Jellies
The giant deep-sea octopus Haliphron is so rare that marine biologists have seen it just three times in 27 years. Using a robotic sub, scientists have finally caught video footage of this animal at mealtime—revealing its distinct preference for gelatinous sea creatures. A new study published in Scientific Reports is providing the first observational evidence … Continued
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Jem and the Holograms Comic Finally Does What the Show Never Dared
The Jem and the Holograms comic is nearing the end of its 26 issue “Truly Outrageous” run, and Issue #24 shows it’s not afraid to go where the original TV series was afraid to go. Jerrica’s finally laying it all out on the table, for the one person who deserves the truth the most. In … Continued