You’ve been able to pre-cache YouTube videos on Android to watch—while still online—for a while. But by November, you’ll be able to watch them offline, too. Read more…
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Offline Viewing Is Coming to YouTube’s Mobile Apps
Good news, Stargate fans! Original movie director Roland Emmerich wants to make more! The bad news? He doesn’t want to continue the massive original universe as seen in SG-1, Atlantis, Universe, Infinity , and The Legend of Curly’s Gold , but will reboot the franchise with a new movie trilogy. Read more…
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Stargate is getting rebooted into a new movie trilogy
A team of 20 researchers from University of Alberta proudly announced a commendable achievement on Thursday. Using no fewer than five different experimental methods, they’ve discovered over 3, 000 different chemical compounds in human urine. And it only took them seven years . Read more…
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After Seven Years of Research, We Finally Know What’s in Your Pee
Using images captured at a variety of wavelengths by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter, Riding with Robots creator Bill Dunford has crafted a composite image of the Red Planet’s south polar cap that’ll make you stop and stare. Read more…
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The Southern Pole of Mars is more beautiful than we ever imagined
Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of such films as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro , and countless other masterpieces, has announced his retirement from feature films. Read more…
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Legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki announces his retirement
An anonymous reader writes “Star Trek veterans such as Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Robert Picardo (the Doctor) and others are busy in pre-production of a professionally produced pilot episode for a suggested new online Star Trek series named Star Trek: Renegades, which will be faithful to the original Star Trek canon. The events of the series are placed a decade after Voyager’s return from Delta Quadrant. When the pilot is complete, they’ll present it to CBS in the hopes that it’ll be picked up. They have also opened an Indiegogo campaign, seeking more funds from Star Trek fans to help make the production even more professional. They’ve already reached their primary funding goal.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production
Gravity’s often assumed to be constant across the entire planet, but because the Earth varies in shape and density, that’s not really the case. Now, this super-accurate gravity map reveals that the fluctuations are even more extreme than scientists previously thought. Read more…
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A Super-Accurate Gravity Map Shows You Where You Can Weigh Less
A Florida prison says that a computer “glitch” is to blame after all of the doors in the maximum security wing opened without warning. Wired has news for them , though. Sometimes, these kinds of glitches are caused by sneaky characters called hackers. And this situation looks pretty suspect. Read more…
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A "Glitch" Made All the Doors in a Max. Security Prison Open at Once
So our dear friend Cmdr. Chris Hadfield shared a horrifying piece of trivia this morning: Soyuz astronauts get two enemas before launch. Which is a little uncomfortable, but necessary because, uh, Soyuz restroom looks like this. Read more…
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This Is What Astronauts Use to Poop in Space (Ew. Awesome. …Ew.)
Cutting edge imaging technology isn’t just helping us tiny humans — it’s helping solve a dinosaur identity crisis. Researchers have developed a brand-new imaging technique that builds a 3D image of a dinosaur skull, creating a CAT scan-style readout. They say this technique proves that what we thought were three separate species of dinosaur are actually the exact same creatures. Read more…
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Dinosaur CAT Scan Shows 3 Different Species Are Actually The Same