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New Star Wars toys including this battle-scarred Boba Fett helmet will join the lineup of action figures and superhero-themed collectibles to be unveiled at Toy Fair 2010.
SAN FRANCISCO – More than 100 million Americans watched Sunday’s Super Bowl, but here at Wired.com, a couple dozen of our readers can probably brag they had the strangest viewing experience.
Sexy, bloody, cheap effects, and lookin' mighty good.Three gorgeous but deadly hired killers, Beretta, Blondie and Snowball, hole up in a small beachside community to keep a low profile.
A federal appellate panel on Tuesday blocked a court order requiring disclosure of e-mail between the White House, Justice Department, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence —
In Bob Fingerman’s hands, even the apocalypse is hilarious. Talk-show tyrants and cannibal foodies experimenting with dipping sauces that complement long pig are just part of the fun as Fingerman laughs his way through the End Times in his invented memoir, From the Ashes, due in collected...
A new interactive program that uses data from more than 100,000 stars reveals the spectacular light show you'd see if you wandered close to a black hole
SAN FRANCISCO — More than 100 million Americans watched Sunday’s Super Bowl, but here at Wired.com, a couple dozen of our readers can probably brag they had the strangest viewing experience.
With feathers that resonate at precisely 1,500 hertz, the male club-winged manakin is perhaps the bird world’s most perfectly tuned example of sexual selection.
Utah is only one state over, so when I see a website that tells me a fragment of a comet will hit it on March 1 of this year, I sit up and take notice.
Remember Bowlingual, the doggie translation device that won the Ig Nobel prize in 2002? This summer, it's slated to become available for iPhone. The iPhone version will also allow dog owners to send their dog's thoughts automatically to Twitter along with an icon of their dog.
Post-punk band Devo once mocked corporate banality and conformity without mercy, which is probably why this YouTube video featuring Devo Inc.’s COO Greg Scholl feels so strange.
Year: 2009Directors: Ti West Writers: Joshua Malkin / Randy Pearlstein / Ti WestIMDB: linkTrailer: linkAmazon: linkReview by: agentorangeRating: 6.7 out of 10 When Ti West publicly disowned Cabin Fever 2:
Noel Clarke is a talent to keep an eye on. The young TV and film star won himself a rising star BAFTA award for his work. Some may recognize him from his appearances on “Doctor Who” though I expect that rather quickly, he’s going to be a face we can’t get away from especially since he seems...
Today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: the hunt for the world's missing whales, how bright the stars really are, and how to make your food more filling
I thought I’d just re-post the Steampunk Reloaded anthology guidelines below. We’ve had a really good response so far and have taken several reprint stories submitted during this open reading period.
The Pentagon’s science fringe has been trying to lord over the natural elements for years now. They’ve talked about planet hacking and screwing with enemy climates, and they still want to harness the power of lightining.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Days after the Jan. 12 earthquake, a group of Haitians set up a small tent camp in an open field not far from the U.S. Embassy.
When Croatian director Nevio Marasovic caught wind of Charlie Brooker's Dead Set - a show about Big Brother contestants surviving a zombie holocaust - his heart sank.
Please, please, pretty please don’t leave the warzone. That seems to be today’s message from NATO headquarters in Afghanistan to the residents of central Helmand province.
Right now, every military command post and every training center is packed with PCs. In the future, many of those machines might be replaced with game consoles - if the armed forces can ever work out their disagreements with the console-makers.
The antiquated brightness scale developed by the ancient Greeks is about to get a long-overdue upgrade that could help reveal the true nature of dark energy
Scientists have unearthed an almost perfectly preserved spider fossil in China dating back to the middle Jurassic era, 165 million years ago. The fossilized spiders, Eoplectreurys gertschi, are older than the only two other specimens known by around 120 million years.
We're hearing that Steven Soderbergh has decided to fast track a new plague thriller by Scott Z. Burns (The Informant) called "Contagion" for a fall start.
The man who designed ray guns used in District 9’s alien shoot-out has been keeping busy since the film picked up its Best Picture Oscar nomination:
A federal court policy-making body is belatedly entering the internet age by proposing that judges clearly inform jurors they must not electronically discuss cases they are hearing.
Swedish investigators are probing a hacker U.S. authorities accuse of unlawfully intruding into Cisco Systems, NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, the authorities said Monday.
As the sun emerges from a long lull in activity, the star’s emissions in the radio band of the spectrum have also picked up. And from a shed on three acres of land outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcroft is making recordings of them available for download.
Captain America has not yet been cast, but whoever gets the nod to play the supersoldier in the upcoming live-action movie will need to take dance lessons.
A federal court policy making body is belatedly entering the internet age by proposing that judges clearly inform jurors they must not electronically discuss cases they are hearing.
That giant sucking sound you hear in Hollywood is the last bit of oxygen being inhaled by Heroes, before it exhales in Monday night’s Aldous Huxley-fied season finale, “Brave New World.”
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