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For months, we have pored over every screenshot, every glimpse of footage, and every toy package relating to Star…

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We gave you what we thought were pretty good guesses as to what twist J.J. Abrams has in store for Luke Skywalker.…

How did that tiny, complicated spiky tip on the Apollo modules transform into a usable tunnel for astronauts after…

Actually, there are a LOT of ways that Star Wars could troll its fans, and audiences in general. Almost a whole…

Everybody loves role-playing games (unless you’re irrationally worried about Satan.) Escaping into a fantasy world,…

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Among the many revelations about Pluto we’ve got in the last weeks was the existence of a very strangely-iced surface

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Our look at Pluto has been 85 years in the making—and this is what it meant to us.

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Out in Manchester, a remarkably powerful, 3,200 ton radio telescope has sat atop a field for almost 60 years. But…

Scientific labs are in the business of uncovering truths. But, when you look a little closer at how they work,…

In the 1950s, physicist Chien-Shiung Wu was doing research at Columbia University when two other physicists…

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Harold Ridley was an ophthalmologist treating the eye injuries of British fighter pilots during World War II, when…

Academic rivalries can sometimes result in some pretty impressive science. Here’s how a war between two…

When the Nazis invaded Denmark in 1940, Niels Bohr was in possession of two of the Nobel Prize’s gold medals for…

Scooby-Doo had plenty to teach us about meddling kids, hijinks, and the virtues of DIY van repair. But was there…

Over two thousand years ago, Archimedes invented a tool with huge implications for ancient Greek farmers — and we’re…