02.09.
Überraschende Erkenntnis wirft Fragen zur chemischen Zusammensetzung von Sternen im Endstadium auf
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Träger starker Resistenz unterstützen schwächere auf Kosten der eigenen F
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Rund 300 Millionen Lichtjahre von uns entfernt befindet sich die Galaxie Haro 11 im südlichen Sternbild Bildhauer (Sculptor). Dieses Bild ist eine Kombination von Aufnahmen mit dem Very Large Telecope der Europäischen Südsternwarte ESO und des Weltraumteleskops Hubble.
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Neil Gaiman's landmark literary comic series The Sandman is being developed by Warner Bros. as a TV series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That's the good news. The bad news is, Neil isn't actually working on it.
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Last night's Warehouse 13 pursued the same "throw together a bunch of ideas at high speed" approach that has worked so well for the show lately... and it didn't quite gel this time around, for me at least. Spoilers ahead... More »
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Gravity was going to be a big 3-D sci-fi film billed as Cast Away in space, with Angelina Jolie playing the Tom Hanks bit (no word on what would Wilson would be made from). The problem is, Angelina doesn't actually want to be in the film, and now Gravity might never get made.
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This was first announced back in March, but today Syfy said production is going to start next week on its 4-hour Peter Pan prequel called Neverland. It's being written and directed by Nick Willing, who worked on Syfy's Tin Man and Alice, which were reimaginings of The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland.
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This Sharktopus plush toy showed up on the Blastr desk today, apparently made by the boyfriend of a friend of someone who works at Syfy (and a Sharktopus enthusiast). As mutant shark/octopus homemade plush toys go, we give it an A+.
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Fox released a new poster for Fringe, and it's stuffed full of hidden glyphs. Of course the fans over at Obsessed Fringey have already found 10 of them, which you can see in the image above.
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Ron "Battlestar Galactica" Moore is creating a new sci-fi pilot for NBC, a show Deadline calls "an adult Harry Potter set in a world ruled not by science but by magic."
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Ronald D. Moore meldet sich einmal mehr zurück mit einem interessanten neuen Projekt. Nach Serien wie Battlestar Galactica , dessen Spin-Off Caprica (dessen Schicksal noch immer ungewiß ist) oder The Wire macht sich der Produzent nun daran, eine Serie zu erschaffen, welche als Harry...
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Ronald D. Moore meldet sich einmal mehr mit einem interessanten neuen Projekt zurück. Nach Battlestar Galactica , dessen Spin-Off Caprica und dem Pilotfilm zu Virtuality macht sich der Produzent nun daran, eine Serie umzusetzen, die als Harry Potter für Erwachsene beschrieben wird.
Die...
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Neal Stephenson has always loved playing around with the format of books. He most notably created the fictional interactive tome Young Ladies Illustrated Primer in The Diamond Age, and he also built the Metaweb in the real world, a wiki site (since discontinued) where he annotated ideas
from his novel Quicksilver.
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Over at NeuroTribes, a new blog in the just-born science blog network at PLoS (it's one for your feed reader), Steve Silberman has an exclusive interview with celebrated neuroscientist Oliver Sacks. For the first time, Sacks is speaking out about the illness that nearly cost him his eyesight - a topic that he treats in depth in his forthcoming book, The Mind's Eye. Silberman has a lengthy interview with Sacks, which I highly recommend you read, and he begins by recounting a "geeky moment" in Sacks' book: More »
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Peter Wingfield's Methos was probably the most enigmatic and fascinating character in the Highlander TV series. So it's awesome that Wingfield has taken the time to answer 11 of your most pressing Highlander questions. More »
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Phil Plait is an astronomer and major scifi geek. He writes the Bad Astronomy Blog for Discover Magazine and is also the host of the Discovery Channel's science show "Phil Plait's Bad Universe". You can follow him on Twitter at @BadAstronomer.
My old friends know better than to go see movies with me. Sure, I always yell at the screen when a movie spaceship make a "whooshing" noise when it flies past, but at least I don't throw popcorm: at a pro-rated 10 cents or so per kernel, it's simply not cost-effective. But at my best I still mutter under my breath, and sometimes even take...
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Phil Plait is an astronomer and major sci-fi geek. He writes the Bad Astronomy Blog for Discover Magazine and is also the host of the Discovery Channel's science show "Phil Plait's Bad Universe." You can follow him on Twitter at @BadAstronomer.
My old friends know better than to go see movies with me. Sure, I always yell at the screen when a movie spaceship make a "whooshing" noise when it flies past, but at least I don't throw popcorm: At a prorated 10 cents or so per kernel, it's simply not cost-effective. But at my best I still mutter under my breath, and sometimes even take...
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We're now less than three weeks away from the return of Chuck, and NBC has released a few more pictures from the season premiere -- including the first shots of Linda Hamilton as Chuck's (Zachary Levi) mom.
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AMC is apparently pretty confident about its new zombie series The Walking Dead, because it's already ordered a second season before anyone's even seen a full episode. And executive producer Frank Darabont has a lot of ideas about what he wants to do with that second season, according to ComicBookMovie.com:
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Before he was Gandalf and before he was Magneto and before he was a knight, young Ian McKellen was STILL impossibly cool. And he apparently owned at least two pairs of shoes. Via tumblr.
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Sozialer Rang und Unterstützung der Mütter entscheidend für Paarungserfolg von Bonobo-Männch
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