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The Astounding Photos that Made America Fall in Love with Science

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:00:00 PST

Fritz Goro was one of the most important science photographers of all time, capturing the huge scientific advances after World War II, and the start of the Space Race. And now Life Magazine has a breathtaking gallery of Goro's most unforgettable images, which show us the cutting-edge science of the 1950s and 1960s. They're beautiful, but they also illuminate the world we live in today. More »

Perhaps the Most Beautiful Undersea Photography We've Ever Seen

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:00:00 PST

Russian photographer Alexander Semenov creates photographs of marine life that just burst with color and energy. You may have understood, on some intellectual level, that the ocean depths are an ecosystem, teeming with life and all connected. But looking at these stunning photos will make you see it in a new way. More »

First Photos of Scarlett Johansson as a Sexy Alien Who Picks Up Male Hitchhikers

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:00:00 PDT

Scarlett Johansson just started filming Under the Skin, and she's looking glamorously trashy as an alien who cruises around the back roads looking for fit male specimens to seduce and kidnap. Do you think that's ScarJo's real hair, or a wig? More »

Breathtaking time-lapse video shows two years of nature in constant flux

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:00:00 PDT

Prepare to be blown away by the constantly shifting glory of nature. Photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee with Evosia Studios has collected two years worth of gorgeous moments in one four-minute time lapse video that takes our breath away. More »

First New Photos of Fringe Season 4: What's wrong with Walter?

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:30:00 PDT

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Looks like Walter Bishop is in really bad shape in the season premiere of Fringe, judging from this grievous new photo from the fourth season opener of Fringe, "Neither Here Nor There." The new official photos also show Astrid in action, and a familiar ally back on the team. The studio also released some gorgeous new promotional images. More »

A Look at New Hi-Res Photos from The Amazing Spider-Man

Jonathan Wilkins — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:00:18 PDT

This Friday's edition of Entertainment Weekly features Andrew Garfield on the cover and includes new photos from The Amazing Spider-Man. Lo-res pictures from the article hit the internet earlier today, but now the amazing hi-res versions have finally arrived. More »

Gorgeous Tree of Life stills look like the greatest science epic of all time

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:45:00 PDT

Chances are, you've heard about the gorgeous cinematography and visual effects in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. But now you can see for yourself — the studio sent us a ton of high-res stills. Including the notorious dinosaurs. More »

Places on Earth that Aliens Might Find Hospitable

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:23:12 PDT

NASA released an absolutely stunning gallery of real-world locations where alien life forms might like to spend some time if they visited. These are the weird, extreme places where astrobiologists have studied unusual life forms and conditions. More »

Watch the first footage from NBC's new fall genre shows, Grimm and Awake

Meredith Woerner — Sun, 15 May 2011 14:05:00 PDT

NBC has jumped this week's upfront celebration early! They've already released photos and clips from their two new Fall 2011 genre shows: the magical cop procedural Grimm and the alternate reality drama Awake (starring Lucius Malfoy)! Watch them now! More »

Grimm Photos

Meredith Woerner — Sun, 15 May 2011 11:45:00 PDT

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First Wonder Woman costume photo will make your eyes bleed

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:16:58 PDT

Here it is your first look at Adrianne Palicki in full costume, for David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman TV series. Looks like Diana Prince has a brand new pair of shiny blue pleather pants. Oh dear. Full version below. More »

Absolutely Stunning Picture of the Sun Ejecting Plasma

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:30:00 PST

A cloud of ionized gas floats over the surface of the sun, in this mind-blowing photo by Alan Friedman. Using a filter that only records a narrow wavelength of light emitted by hydrogen, Friedman captured the sun's texture... and eruption. More »

The Strange Cuteness of Insect Portraits

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:30:00 PST

Usually when you see extreme close-ups of insects, they look like terrifying monsters. The segmented eyes, the tiny cilia, the barbed limbs, and so on. But award-winning photographer Igor Siwanowicz manages to make his insect micrography... cute? More »

Olivia Wilde's Evil Queen dares you to bite her poisoned apple

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:43:31 PST

We're pretty sure that the magic mirror would tell Olivia Wilde that yes, she's the fairest one of all. Check out this new portrait of Tron Legacy's siren as the Evil Queen from Snow White. More »

A treasure trove of amazing photos of conventions and SF events from the 1920s onwards

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:20:00 PST

Science Fiction Chronicle's Andrew I. Porter has posted a ton of amazing photos of fan gatherings going back as far as the 1920s — many of them sent to Porter by super-fan Forrest J. Ackerman. More »

Creating gorgeous space pictures out of raw data isn't as easy as it looks

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:30:00 PST

If you had access to a massive super-telescope, you could create to-die-for vistas of other galaxies, right? Maybe... but actually, it's harder than you'd think. The European Southern Observatory offered amateur astronomers the chance to turn its wealth of data into images, and here are some results. More »

Not a snapshot, but a painting

Esther Inglis-Arkell — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:30:00 PST

Enda O'Donoghue paints photos that he finds on the internet, seeking to document the images we as individuals find currently important, not images that our culture defines as immortal. Via Motherboard TV. More »

Get all up in the chicken-fish face of Green Lantern's alien Tomar-Re

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:06:54 PST

Here's a brand new look at the infamous space cop and crafty Green Lantern trainer Tomar-Re. Looks good, real good. So how is it that a half-fish alien can look infinitely better than Ryan Reynold's super suit? More »

National Zoo has two new cheetahs

Esther Inglis-Arkell — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:30:00 PST

The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute announced the birth of not one but two cheetah cubs. The two cubs were born to two separate mothers. Find out about the surprising challenges they face, and see some kitty pictures. More »

New X-Men: First Class set pics reveal a few new mutant sneak peeks

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:30:00 PST

You've seen the arial shots of the nasty carnage happening on set of Matthew Vaughan's mutant origins movie X-Men: First Class. Now get a closer look inside the production, and check out a few young mutants. More »

Total Mutant Catastrophe: The Latest X-Men Set Pics

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:06:00 PST

A batch of new set pics from the set of Matthew Vaughan's X-Men: First Class reveal the filming of a crucial scene where disaster strikes mutantkind. Spoilery pics and speculation below. More »

Justice League Porn: Wonder Woman is going to have her hands full

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:30:00 PST

The first pics for Justice League: A Hardcore Parody have been released, and now we all know what really happens in the Watchtower... superpowered gangbangs! Shudder. More pictures below, if you dare. More »

First reviews for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan flutter in

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:00:00 PDT

No one really knows what to think about director Darren Aronofsky's genre-bending flick Black Swan. And neither do the first batch of festival reviews of the picture. Critics are calling it everything from Cronenberg-eque to something "approaching grand guignol." Spoilers... More »

The next best thing to landscape photography on other planets

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:00:00 PDT

Photographer Allison Davies hasn't yet been able to leave Earth for other biospheres. But the photographer has made it to some of Earth's most otherworldly locations, in between her assignments as an undercover investigator for a private detective firm. More »

This is what 8,000 cubic yards of rock being blasted looks like

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:30:00 PDT

This once-in-a-lifetime photo captures a blast that tears through 8,000 cubic yards of rock in an old phosphate mine. It's just one of the marvels captured in the best engineering photos of 2009. More »

Breathtaking SLR photos show life aboard the ISS

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:30:00 PDT

Yes, that's an apple floating in zero gravity. This is just one of a bunch of arresting images that just went online. Nikon sent a high-res SLR camera aboard the International Space Station with NASA's astronauts. More pics below. More »

Look Out! Russia Just Got Turned Into An Urban Fantasy Book Cover!

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:35:11 PDT

A crazy-looking full moon rises over the angel statue atop the Alexander Column in the Palace Square of St. Petersburg, Russia. Photo by AP/Dmitry Lovetsky. More »

What Would Mr. Fantastic Look Like If He Ran Around Naked? [Maybe NSFW]

Cyriaque Lamar — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:39:57 PST

Frederic Fontenoy's photo series Metamorphose depicts a nude, distended form traipsing across beaches and forests. The subject may be human, but the camera makes him alien. Is this what Reed Richards would look like if he hadn't invented unstable molecules? More »

Looking At Stars Wars Candid Shots Is Like Looking At Your Old Prom Photos

Cyriaque Lamar — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:40:00 PST

There's an endearingly goofy nostalgia about these vintage Star Wars pics. It's like seeing photos of old friends and laughing about their atrocious haircuts. Check out C-3PO smoking cigs, a boneless Chewie, and a Hoth family portrait after the jump. More »

Otherworldly Winter Photos Captured Dangerously - While Paragliding

Sonia Zjawinski — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:30:00 PST

Is that fungi from another planet? Evidence of nuclear fallout? Nope. Just aerials of Poland's landscape — taken while photographer Kacper Kowalski was paragliding hundreds of feet above. More »

Naked, Bald Werewolf Gals Have Our Full Attention Also, ZEBRAMAN

Meredith Woerner — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:00:00 PST

There's a new mysterious werewolf movie on the rise, plus the latest trailer for The Crazies remake is out, making us question just how we feel about this remake: Is it CRAZY enough? And how much crazy is too crazy? More »

The Tenth Doctor Marches Into The Darkness, One Last Time

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:30:00 PST

Here's your first official photo from David Tennant's final Doctor Who story, which apparently is still called "The End Of Time." He does not look happy. [Digital Spy] More »

3-D Model Of Lee Harvey Oswald's Head: A Setback For Conspiracy Theorists

Charlie Jane Anders — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST

For decades, JFK conspiracy theorists have claimed this photo of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle and a Marxist newspaper was a fake. Dartmouth College digital forensics expert Hany Farid built a 3-D model of Oswald's head and proved otherwise. More »

Where "Douchey" Scifi Writer Ronald Chevalier Found His Character Inspiration

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PDT

Jemaine Clement shares his thoughts on how his scifi writer Ronald Chevalier came to be. Many of you have taken issues with the Napoleon Dynamite-esque feel to this film, but Clement's performance alone should spark some curiosity. More »

Doug Jones On Legion's Biblical Violence: "All Heaven Breaks Loose"

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:20:00 PDT

You may remember Doug Jones' freaktastic galloping entrance in the Legion trailer. We asked the melty ice-cream man of death himself, Doug Jones, about his role and whether this boil-popping thriller is going to get even more disgusting. More »

Perseid Meteors Shower the Sky

Lauren Davis — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:00:00 PDT

Didn't get a chance to see this week's Perseid meteor shower? Amateur and professor astronomy photographers have captured images of the shooting meteors from all over the world. More »

There Is No Happily Ever After In Fallen Princesses

Graeme McMillan — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:00:02 PDT

Dina Goldstein's photo series Fallen Princesses revisits the origins of classic fairy tale heroines and finds things not exactly as we remember them from childhood tales. Click through for more. More »

Is The Fashion Industry The First Step In Robot World Domination?

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:30:38 PDT

All over the place, women fashion models are being transformed into something metallic and unearthly. Their shoulders are getting squarer, their faces shinier and more impassive, and their bodies silvery and hard. Could it be the first stage in the impending robot takeover? Warning: gallery includes photo of see-thru top. More »