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Massive collection of high-res Star Trek pics show our amazing future

Get a big gorgeous look at the new Star Trek movie in this massive collection of 25 high-res stills. The future is stunning, and full of lens flare! Say what you will about this rebooted franchise, J.J. Abrams will always churn out a gorgeous movie.

Movies Meredith Woerner

What Revolution Needs to Do, to Get Us to Invest in These Characters

Revolution has all the ingredients of a great TV show. There’s a cool premise, nifty production values, a fascinating backstory and some meaty questions about the nature of society. And the characters seem like they ought to be fascinating, on paper. But this show just hasn’t made us care about any of these people. Why…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Attention idiots with too much money: “sex cereal” is now a thing

Looking to spend a wad of cash on some pseudoscientific sex-food? TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY. Via Discovery News: Billing itself as “the world’s first all-natural, GMO-free, gender-based breakfast cereal,” Sexcereal comes in two packages: “The Male cereal supports testosterone and energy levels,” according to the website, “while the Female cereal was created with hormonal…

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Which monster hunter do you wish you could make a nice cup of tea for?

It’s a hard life for a monster fighter. Vampire slayers and demon hunters watch all their friends die, and seldom know a moment of kindness. But which monster hunter do you especially wish you could make a nice cup of tea for? Possibly with oatmeal cookies? Share your selections below — and like always, please…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

This wild illusion causes you to see an object in three different ways

There are so many optical illusions that feature an object or picture that can be seen in two different ways. But have you ever seen an illusion that can be interpreted in three different ways? This remarkable illusion is called Three-fold cubes, and it was put together by Guy Wallis and David Lloyd from the…

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This episode of Warehouse 13 felt like Eureka… only a shade darker

Remember Eureka? Syfy’s other goofy show about quirky people who solve wacky problems, with a large dose of good humor? Eureka used to be known for its endless genre pastiches — and now, Warehouse 13 is doing them too. Except with a huge dose of metafiction, and a kernel of emotional pain. It works way…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Some of the World’s Rarest (and Strangest) Creatures

The world is full of wonders that few humans have ever seen. Even now, with the human race spreading across the planet and occupying every corner of the globe, there are living creatures so unusual, that few have laid eyes on them. Here are some of the most uncanny. Laotian Rock Rat (Laonastes aenigmamus), the…

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Eye-Popping Iron Man 3 Concept Art From The Big Malibu Attack Scene

This is absolutely amazing. Concept artist Rob McKinnon (Terminator Salvation, Inception), has revealed a bunch of concept art from Iron Man 3, focusing on the crucial sequence where the Mandarin attacks Tony’s Malibu house. And it’s astounding to look at. This art comes from an exclusive interview McKinnon gave to FilmSketchr, in which he says:…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

My Little Ponies to be turned into horrifying mutant Pony People

Get ready for the real life My Little High School Girls. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic will mutate its main characters into real people, in a direct-to-DVD movie, called Equestria Girls. Behold horses acting like people. The New York Times is reporting that the Equestria Girls movie is the first big move from Hasbro…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Another Spider-Man hangs up his tights in This Week’s Comics!

Given how miserable and dangerous it is being Spider-Man, it’s amazing the turnover rate is so low. Still, a new Spider-Person drops his suit in the trash, Tank Girl returns, Peter Pan fights Nazis, a group of astronauts watch the apocalypse from space and more, all in this week’s comic releases! New Issues Dark Horse:…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Defiance may be turning into the great scifi series we were promised

Welcome to the episode “The Serpent’s Egg,” or, as I prefer to call it, “The Bad-Mistake Express and the World’s Worst Deputy.” But while my alternate title might be snarky, I have nothing but praise for another strong episode, one that indicates that Defiance may actually live up to Syfy’s — and our — great…

Television Rob Bricken

Talk about the end of the world with Annalee Newitz and Seth Mnookin

Today from 12-1 PM PST, Annalee Newitz will be here talking about her new book, Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction. She’ll be in conversation with MIT science journalism professor Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus. And with you! Join us in a conversation about mass extinction, and whether…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Everything wrong with Jurassic Park in under 180 seconds

Jurassic Park got a lot of things right – driving home the point that birds are dinosaurs, for example. It also got a LOT of things wrong. https://gizmodo.com/back-to-jurassic-park-a-paleontological-view-470471393 CinemaSins counts 36. We – and others – have counted a lot more missteps than that, though most if not all of those have been of the…

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What are the rules of time travel in the J.J. Abrams Universe?

This week, we return to the Star Trek universe that J.J. Abrams rebooted using time travel. And meanwhile, Abrams is adapting Stephen King’s book 11/22/63. So it’s a great time to ask: How does time travel work in the Abrams-verse? If you’re in a J.J. Abrams story and you build a time machine, what should…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Texting while driving now kills more teens than drunk driving

Nearly half of teens surveyed in a recent study admitted they’d texted while driving – a disquieting statistic, given that more than 3,000 teenagers died last year while sending/receiving SMS messages behind the wheel. (Compare that to the roughly 2,700 teens killed annually due to drunk driving.) The study – which was conducted by researchers…

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Still confused by Cloud Atlas? Infographic & featurettes break it down

There’s an awful lot going on in Cloud Atlas, the time-spanning, super-ambitious movie that’s out on DVD and Blu-ray today. Six time periods, tons of characters, the same actors playing different characters, all cutting back and forth. So here’s a super handy chart and some featurettes from the DVD, to explain it to you! We’re…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s the actual “teleporting bank robbery” scene from Now You See Me

How on Earth do they do this? The characters in Now You See Me are supposed to be just regular stage magicians, but then they seem to have the actual power to send a guy from Las Vegas to a Paris bank vault — and then create a hole in the universe for money to…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The eldest Weasley uses time travel to pick up chicks in About Time

There have been plenty of time travel movies that involve romance, but About Time — from Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually — takes a different view on it. Instead to using it to save a relationship, why not use it to make sure your new relationship stays awesome? That’s what Domnhall…

Movies Rob Bricken

Simon Pegg explains why the new Star Trek movie is all Kirk’s fault

What does the “Darkness” refer to in the Star Trek Into Darkness title, and why is it all Kirk’s fault? In our exclusive interview, Simon Pegg reveals why Starfleet should never become a military organization, along with what the hell he’s wearing (and drinking) when he’s off ship. Spoilers ahead… When you were off the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How to turn a high concept idea into an actual story

Every story begins with an idea. What’s amazing about science fiction stories is, they often start with a cool idea. Like a spin on space travel or robots that nobody’s ever thought of before. But how do you turn an idea into a story, with memorable characters and powerful moments? That’s often the hard part.…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Massive collection of high-res Star Trek pics show our amazing future

What Revolution Needs to Do, to Get Us to Invest in These Characters

Attention idiots with too much money: “sex cereal” is now a thing

Which monster hunter do you wish you could make a nice cup of tea for?

This wild illusion causes you to see an object in three different ways

This episode of Warehouse 13 felt like Eureka… only a shade darker

Some of the World’s Rarest (and Strangest) Creatures

Eye-Popping Iron Man 3 Concept Art From The Big Malibu Attack Scene

My Little Ponies to be turned into horrifying mutant Pony People

Another Spider-Man hangs up his tights in This Week’s Comics!

Defiance may be turning into the great scifi series we were promised

Talk about the end of the world with Annalee Newitz and Seth Mnookin

Everything wrong with Jurassic Park in under 180 seconds

What are the rules of time travel in the J.J. Abrams Universe?

Texting while driving now kills more teens than drunk driving

Still confused by Cloud Atlas? Infographic & featurettes break it down

Here’s the actual “teleporting bank robbery” scene from Now You See Me

The eldest Weasley uses time travel to pick up chicks in About Time

Simon Pegg explains why the new Star Trek movie is all Kirk’s fault

How to turn a high concept idea into an actual story

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

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