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A Curious Kid Uncovers a Bone-Chilling Truth In Scifi Short Monsters
io9 - Cheryl Eddy
On her 10th birthday, a curious girl sneaks out of the bunker where she’s spent her entire life, intent on seeing the fearsome creatures that she’s …
NBC is Jumping Into the Past With Time Travel Drama Timeless
io9 - Andrew Liptak
Despite the bloodbath of television cancellations last week, NBC is on a roll picking up new shows to fill the fall schedule. Today, it officially …
EXCLUSIVE: Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock came from two different planets but William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy bonded over Trek
dailymail.co.uk - Caroline Howe
They came from two different worlds – Planet Earth and Planet Vulcan – but Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock had much in common: Leonard Nimoy and William …
Time Travel
We've finally found gravitational waves, so can we time travel?
Mashable - Miriam Kramer
Physicists working with a powerful observatory on Earth announced Thursday that they have finally detected ripples in space and time created by two colliding black holes, confirming a prediction made Albert
The Expanse Is the New Battlestar Galactica
WIRED - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Culture Date of Publication: 12.12.15. Time of Publication: 7:00 am. 7:00 am Syfy’s new …
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In Search Of The Next "Battlestar Galactica"
BuzzFeed - Jarett Wieselman
As Syfy prepares to launch its most aggressive slate of programming ever, the futuristic network looks to the past.
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‘The Expanse’ Review: Space But Not A Lot Of Depth In Syfy Series
Deadline - Dominic Patten
The seemingly mysterious disappearance of a young woman from the elite of 200 years in the future sets up Syfy’s new space opera The Expanse, but …
Atlassian Closes Up 32%, Valuing The Company At $5.8B
TechCrunch - Matthew Lynley
Potentially the last tech IPO of the year ended its first day of trading with a bang. Atlassian, a maker of collaboration and software development tools, ended the day up about 32%. With that rise, Atlassian
The 24 Best Science Fiction Books Of 2015
BuzzFeed - By Tanner Greenring (BuzzFeed Staff) Jack Shepherd (BuzzFeed Staff) Isaac Fitzgerald (BuzzFeed News Reporter)
What a year for science fiction we've had, with epic new space operas, fascinating new worlds to explore, and the return of some of our favorite stories.
Actor Kurt Russell pushes back against anti-gun Hollywood interviewer: What are you going to do, ban everything?" https://t.co/lHEFvMu9ub
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SAG Awards: Matt Damon, Helen Mirren and the five biggest snubs and surprises
Los Angeles Times - By Steven Zeitchik
SAG Awards: Matt Damon, Helen Mirren and the five biggest snubs and surprises SAG Awards nominations can seem like one more guild prize in a season full of them, a rubber-stamping of movies everyone knew
10 Movies Based on Scientific Falsehoods
howstuffworks.com - Nathan Chandler
Hollywood is full of lies. Believe it or not, the movie-making industry isn't terribly concerned with truth telling. Instead, directors and producers …
This Brilliant Tip Will Make Any iPhone Run 10 Times Faster
House Beautiful - By Kayla Keegan
And it only takes 10 seconds. Say "goodbye" to crashing apps and Safari pages loading at a glacial pace forever. Thanks to Marc Forrest, an IT guru and the web world's new favorite iGuy, the internet been
Everything You Need to Know About Solar Panels for Your Home
freshome.com - By Danica Rog
Ever considered solar panels for your home? As costs decrease and climate awareness increases, more homeowners than ever are opting for sun-powered …
A lifetime of travel through Asia – in pictures
The Guardian - Roland and Sabrina Michaud
Photographers Roland and Sabrina Michaud, now in their 80s, have spent their life together travelling to remote and exotic places. Their latest book, Enchanted Lands, published by Prestel, showcases their
Computing with time travel
phys.org - National University of Singapore
Why send a message back in time, but lock it so that no one can ever read the contents? Because it may be the key to solving currently intractable …
Building The Worlds of SyFy's "The Expanse"
tested.com - By Norman Chan on Nov. 25, 2015 at 4:30 p.m.
This past Monday, SyFy network released the first episode of The Expanse online, with the rest of the season airing in mid-December. It's an ambitious …
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Syfy is Releasing a Film, De-Rebranding, and Becoming Super Interesting
Inverse - By Rowan Kaiser
Between '400 Days,' 'The Expanse,' and 'The Magicians,' the channel is making a strong speculative fiction play. Dane Cook is involved. This month, …
Syfy’s ‘The Expanse’ Sampled By 1.5 Million Viewers In Digital Launch
Deadline - Denise Petski
Syfy says the first episode of its futuristic space thriller The Expanse was sampled by 1.5 million viewers in the first week after its online debut …
I’m a NASA astronaut, and here’s what it takes to become a space voyager
Quartz - By Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger
I was teaching a third-period science class on April 12, 2004, when I got the phone call from NASA I’ll never forget. Soon I’d relocated to Houston, Texas, close to the Johnson Space Center, to begin to
The hunt for Einstein’s gravitational ripples in space-time is about to begin
Quartz - By Olivia Goldhill
More than 100 years ago, Albert Einstein set out his theory of general relativity, arguing that space and time are two aspects of a single fabric. Extremely large objects cause space-time to curve, he
A Mesmerizing Animation Shows Just How Weird Our Solar System Is
Gizmodo - Maddie Stone
NASA’s Kepler space telescope spotted thousands of worlds during its four-year mission, proving that our galaxy is filled with planets. But even more …
The 10 Most Realistic Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
outerplaces.com - Janey Tracey
The Martian comes out this weekend, and thanks to the acclaimed source material and some help from NASA, it is poised to become one of the most …
We Already Know How To Build a Time Machine—In Theory
Gizmodo - Jennifer Ouellette
New Scientist’s fledgling Explanimator series on YouTube has already explored the burning questions of how many friends you can have, and when you …
Light-Bending Microchip Could Fire Up Quantum Computers
Live Science - Charles Q. Choi
For the first time, scientists have achieved infinite speeds on a microchip. Although this advance will not enable faster-than-light starships, the …
15 TV Shows That Reinvented Science Fiction In The Past Decade
io9.com - Abhimanyu Das
How 'The Martian's' Ridley Scott Replicated Mars in the Middle East
hollywoodreporter.com
The director used the vast landscape of the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan (and the world's largest soundstage in Budapest) to realistically portray the …