Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth’s last major glaciation 300 million years ago. New evidence, however, indicates that cold temperatures in fact episodically gripped these equatorial latitudes at that time.

Geologist Gerilyn Soreghan of Oklahoma University found evidence for this conclusion in the preservation of an ancient glacial landscape […]

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‘I hate games for being better than comics at storytelling.’

In one of the first videogame-focused panels at Comic-Con, Activision invited Stan Lee to sit with some of the developers and writers behind upcoming Activsion games based on the Marvel superheroes that he helped create. Lee was joined on the panel by Chris Sholz from Shaba […]

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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Like wannabe Dark Knights answering the call of the "bat signal," throngs of grown men wearing tights and capes converge this week to revel in all manner of superhero lore and merchandising at the 39th annual Comic Con Convention.

More than 125,000 people are expected to attend the four-day event, which opens […]

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Superheroes saved Hollywood this summer, boosting box office to record heights and funneling $1 billion and counting into studio coffers. Now, emboldened by the success of The Dark Knight, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Wanted and Hellboy II, filmmakers are stampeding toward comic books and graphic novels to find bigger-than-life stories for the silver screen.

Longtime […]

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University of Florida and Florida Institute of Technology engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning, a feat that could one day help predict where lightning will strike.

Engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning, a feat that could one day help predict […]

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Frank Miller and Hollywood preps for mega event

When the hordes descend on San Diego’s Comic-Con on the last weekend in July, two movies, "Twilight" and "The Spirit," will be front and center. While neither involves a superhero, distribs Summit and Lionsgate are counting on Comic-Con fans to help turn their respective pics into household words […]

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Researchers at McGill University’s Department of Physics — along with colleagues from several countries — have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, via observations of a binary-pulsar star system.

The double pulsar PSR J0737-3039A/B consists of a binary system made up of two pulsars in a 2.4-hour orbit. Each pulsar emits […]

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LAS VEGAS (Hollywood Reporter) - Comic book legend Stan Lee, one of the forces behind Spider-Man and the X-Men, is helping to develop a new superhero property, "Legion of 5."

His production shingle POW! Entertainment has teamed up with Utah investment firm Brighton Partners and Vancouver-based producer Rainmaker Entertainment to turn the concept into a series […]

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Bad buzz. Creative infighting. Superhero gridlock at the multiplex. For Marvel Studios, handling gamma rays is starting to look like a cakewalk compared to turning “The Incredible Hulk” into a movie franchise.

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The Hulk from “The Incredible Hulk,” a coming film starring Edward Norton that has attracted some negative buzz.

The unjolly green giant, born from […]

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Andy Schmidt left his associate editor job at Marvel Comics about a year ago with thoughts of pursuing his other passions: spending time with his growing family, writing, and teaching. In the months following he’s created The Comics Experience, a school teaching writers and artists how to break into comics; he’s writing a […]

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