Die indische Mondsonde Chandrayaan-2 soll im Jahr 2013 starten und aus einem Orbiter und einer Landesonde bestehen. Nun wurden sieben wissenschaftliche Instrumente zur Erkundung der Mondoberfläche ausgewählt.
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Researchers have figured out how to make flies control tiny robots as they navigate obstacle courses. Is this the first step toward creating micro-robots for surveillance? More »
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Last night was the debut of io9 pal Phil "bad astronomer" Plait's new Discovery show, Bad Universe. It was an explodey investigation of what would happen if Earth were hit with an asteroid, and how we could prevent it. More »
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In a never-before-seen interview from 1970 that just surfaced on YouTube, The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling talks with SF author James Gunn about his show, the stories he created and his own ability to actually write science fiction.
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Nach drei Jahren verabschiedet sich der TZN-Literatur-Newsletter "Unendliche Seiten" mit der elften und letzten Ausgabe.
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Although the film version of The Lord of the Rings was a massive worldwide success, getting J.R.R. Tolkien's prequel, The Hobbit, to the screen has proven much more difficult. With the rights finally sorted out after being tied up for years and a studio feud with Rings director Peter Jackson resolved, the project finally began moving forward in 2008—only to be stalled this year by the looming collapse of MGM, one of the two companies financing the production, should it fail to find a way out of its $4 billion debt.
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TempleofGhoul's Dejan Ognjanovic got his hands on a copy of Guillermo del Toro's script At the Mountains of Madness, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's novella of the same name. Based on his first impressions, the film is feels like "a Hellboy movie without Hellboy, with a light dose of Carpenter's The Thing. "
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Comic Book Movie has an inside source that says Fox wants to get Bruce Willis to play Ben Grimm in the new Fantastic Four reboot. Since most people seemed to hate the rubber costume that was used previously, the studio has decided to turn this version of The Thing into a CGI character. As a result, if Willis does end up taking the job, he'll mostly just be doing voice-over work.
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Teilen Syfy US schenkt den Fans von "Warehouse 13" eine weihnachtliche Spezialfolge, in der die beiden Secret Service Agenten Myka (Joanne Kelly) und Pete (Eddie McClintock) auf die Suche nach einem bösartigen Weihnachtsmann geschickt werden. Auch für Warehouse-Verwalter Artie (Saul...
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Sometimes a movie concept is so awesome that you have to make the sequel first. That's the case with Ghost Shark 2, a film from New Zealand about a shark so ghostly it can lurk in steam and ice! More »
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This week, Tia Carrere returns to Warehouse 13, the Scream Queens try comedy, the Ghost Hunters head to the zoo, Zahi runs into bats in Chasing Mummies, Leela leads the mutants in Futurama, Claire and Dylan take their revenge in The Gates—and it's season-finale rerun time for The Vampire Diaries, Smallville and Supernatural.
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Nordamerikanischer Kraton durch Subduktion mit jüngerer Gesteinsschicht unterfü
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You'd think James Cameron wouldn't need to knock someone else's film in order to promote his own, but that's exactly what he did this weekend as Avatar returned to theaters with that additional nine minutes of footage.
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Turns out the skies are a lot more crowded than we used to think! Back in 1980, we were aware of fewer than 9,000 asteroids. Today, we know about more than half a million of them. Check out a hypnotic video that captures the discovery of every one of them in three minutes.
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Ist dies ein Einschlagskrater, eine tektonische Struktur oder eine vulkanische Formation? Das Gebiet Orcus Patera auf dem Mars gibt seiner Entdeckung vor 40 Jahren immer noch Rätsel auf. Grund genug, es mit der High Resolution Stereo Camera an Bord der europäischen Sonde Mars Express zu erkunden.
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Not quite satisfied with the way Heroes finished out its fourth season? Wishing those heroes (and villains, too) would come together for one last hurrah? You're not the only one. Greg Grunberg, who portrayed the series' telepathic cop Matt Parkman, thinks a big-screen Heroes is necessary to finish out the story line.
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Kostenlos ohne versteckte Profitmacherei - Die fantastische Fantastische Woche.
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