Luke Skywalker Comes Home: A Talk with Mark Hamill at Celebration V

By Mark Edlitz Guest Blogger Mark Hamill was met with deafening applause when he took the stage in August for a rare personal appearance at the Star Wars Celebration V that was held in Orlando, Florida. He charmed the audience by calling them “UPFs”–his term for ultra-passionate fans. He said his goal was to make […]

Feature: 16 of the Best SciFi Cartoons

Science fiction and animation are a natural combination. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper to draw an alien landscape covered in space ships than it is to create one in a studio. Too often forgotten as just “kid’s stuff”, there have been some truly excellent cartoons that combine science fiction and animation in absolutely […]

Science explains inexplicable goal

When Brazil’s Roberto Carlos struck a soccer ball from 35 meters against France and it appeared to change direction in mid-air on its way into the goal, the phrase “defied physics” was uttered by numerous pundits. Now physicists say it did nothing of the sorts. Four French scientists (Guillaume Dupeux, Anne Le Goff, David Quéré […]