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Get a good awesome look at David Tennant, Vampire Hunter
See what the vampire-hunting David Tennant looks like, sans ridiculous wig and silly Las Vegas magician get up. It's not looking good for Collin Farrell's evil vampire. More »
Birds are the first non-human animals to use grammar
There are lots of animals, including dogs and apes, that can communicate in something we might understand as sentences. But only one non-human species has complex enough communication that they actually need grammatical rules. More »
The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
Fifteen years ago, aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin published The Case for Mars, and issued a clarion call to his fellow scientists, and the people of Earth. More »
The Cowboys & Aliens Movie That Never Was
A "Calamity Jane"-inspired cowgirl lassos a big alien reptile, in some concept art from Cowboys and Aliens. But wait - there aren't any big reptilian animals in Jon Favreau's movie, are there? It turns out Cowboys and Aliens has been in development as a movie a lot longer than anybody realized. More »
Why is this optical illusion hardwired into our brain?
The Motion Aftereffect is an optical illusion in which stationary objects appear to be in motion if a person has just been looking at a moving background. More »
Alternate ending to Limitless: Is Bradley Cooper heading for the ultimate hangover?
Did you think the ending of Limitless was too neat and tidy? Did you think Bradley Cooper got off too lightly after spiraling down the rabbit hole of brain-enhancement drugs and superdickery? More »
100 years ago today, a meteorite (possibly) vaporized a dog in Egypt
Here's a bizarre milestone. On June 28, 1911, a meteorite fell over the outskirts of Alexandria, Egypt. The meteorite broke into several smaller rocks, one of which may have reduced a dog to a burnt smear. More »
Fishermen bag 23-foot-long giant squid off of Florida
Last Sunday, fisherman 12 miles off the coast of Stuart, Flordia found themselves with a mollusk of a tale to tell some folks - they had hooked a specimen of Architeuthis Dux, or the Atlantic Giant Squid. More »
10 Avengers Villains We'd Love to See Joss Whedon Tackle
Who will be the ultimate villains in Joss Whedon's Avengers movie? Nobody really knows, even though speculation and rumors have been flying faster than a million quinjets. Which makes this the perfect time to assemble our own wishlist of Avengers villains that we'd like to see Whedon tackle. More »
In comics, Green Arrow trades bows for missiles and House MD goes Lovecraft
In the summertime, nothing beats a stack of ice-cold comics. Seriously, just put them in your freezer for two hours and slap them on your naked flesh like a tuxedo. More »
Hipster Lord of the Rings, where the Nazgul ride fixies!
Hipster Lord of the Rings, where the Nazgul ride fixies! More »
Jeff Bridges will bring The Giver to the big screen
The Dude has nabbed the rights to the influential novel The Giver by Lois Lowry. Bridges hopes to play the title role - the one person chosen to feel for the whole of a future community. Variety is reporting that Bridges is ready to produce and star in this movie adaptation of the book. More »
What will Anne Hathaway's costume look like in the Dark Knight Rises?
Joe Johnston explains how they turned Chris Evans into a 90-pound weakling for Captain America, while Kevin Feige explains the movie's earnest tone. Guillermo del Toro discusses the half-dozen projects he's working on, including what's next for Mountains of Madness. Spoilers from here on out! More »
True Blood's season premiere sneaks up on you from behind
True Blood is back! The first episode of the season started with a bang that rocketed us all to Faerieville. But don't worry, it had us back in time to be sexually assaulted by Eric. More »