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You Don’t Win Friends With Space Salad
If you’re ever on your lunch break in space, you might actually want to stay away from the salad. A team of scientists grew lettuce in a simulated microgravity environment on Earth and found that plants have a hard time protecting themselves against harmful bacteria in space. Space lettuce has been a hit on board…
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How the New Transformers Reinvented Optimus Prime While Navigating a Complex Franchise
For a child of the 1980s, it doesn’t get much better than getting to direct a Rocky movie followed by a Transformers movie. But for Steven Caple Jr., that’s exactly what happened. The filmmaker went from Creed II, which reunited two epic 1980s rivals in Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago, to Transformers: Rise of the…
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Losing Myself in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Helped Me Process My Depression Diagnosis
I’ve always gravitated to genre stories about heroes that are defined by their power to persist. Peter Parker, famously raising himself out from under a pile of rubble in Amazing Spider-Man #33, was burned into my mind as a kid, and Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Clayton Cowles’ Mister Miracle is one of my all…
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A Celestial Journey Begins in This Excerpt from Shea Earnshaw’s Wilderness of Stars
A young astronomer follows her mother’s dying wish and leaves her rural home — hoping her unique connection to the stars will help find a cure for a mysterious new illness that’s begun to spread. A Wilderness of Stars, the latest novel from Shea Earnshaw (The Wicked Deep), charts this perilous journey, and Gizmodo is…