We’ve reported (and missed) an assortment of science and tech stories in Newspace, and we’re listing our top ones at year’s end. What did we still miss? And in what order would you rank these?
Also– just for fun– we’re going to bookend these with Batman-related footage. Above, the Dynamic Duo fights Spider-man at an MMA bout.
Below: the future, in progress.
Anna Paquin’s Rogue has been cut from the forthcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. The scenes, declared “extraneous” by director Bryan Singer, will turn up on home release.
Kirobo, the “first Space Robot” chatted with astronauts on board the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the next space-walk has been delayed until Christmas Eve.
Chris Hadfield meets Stephen Hawking.
Check out some must-see skywatching for 2014.
…includes a Japanese doc on cosplay and Star Wars-themed twist on a Christmas classic.
In a fit of either cluelessness or cackling villainy that will give conspiracy theorists fodder for years to come, the USA has launched a spy satellite with a world-squeezing octopus logo. Have political cartoons and pulp fiction taught them nothing?
In an unrelated science story, we may have already detected the elusive dark matter.
Retired astronaut Mark Kelly has joined the team at World View, offering private near-space balloon rides to paying customers. The first commercial flights should ascend in 2016.
Could churning, sub-ice oceans explain Europa’s strange surface?
And while claims that these oceans might contain life may or may not be bull, this recently unearthed marine reptile swam earth’s ancient seas.
BatKid saves San Francisco Gotham, courtesy of the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
A recent spat between two key members of the Rain City Superhero movement has led to accusations against “real-life superhero” Phoenix Jones and the resignation of El Cabellero.
If you haven’t yet seen Andreas Englund’s paintings of an aged superhero, check them out here.
A ten-year-old Nova Scotia boy has become the youngest person to discover a supernova—beating his sister’s record.
India has launched its first Mars mission.
Data from the Kepler telescope suggests that potentially habitable planets may exist in Star Trek, Drake Equation numbers. Indeed, the number of potentially earthlike planets in the Milky Way may outnumber the population of the earth. Well, maybe…. Continue reading →
Inspired by Gravity1, vlogbrothers look at past close shaves in space:
The crews of the International Space Station will soon be running science experiments proposed by private individuals.
And speaking of things in space, here’s a hilarious history of the earth—as a Facebook News Feed.
Here on the earth, the Bureau’s Alex Case has a new Online zine, Breaking It All Down.
Below: manga news and Con video:
JD’s a little to busy to post a new Newspace right now, but there’s a lot of cool stuff out there right now, so I’m filling in.
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Canadian Thanksgiving delayed this Newspace1, but here we go with a roundup of science and science-fiction news, followed by some highlights and cosplayers of NYC Comic-Con, this weekend’s other big event.
Impersonator Tom HIddleston does Owen Wilson as Loki:
And the Calvin and Hobbes doc will be out soon:
We came a baby step closer to a viable fusion reactor.
A malaria vaccine could be ready by 2015.
Look, just check just this out.
The privately-owned Cygnus supply ship reaches the international space station….
All of which might make us think more about off-planet legal and property issues.
On the space station, astronaut Karen Nyberg made this toy dinosaur out of scraps. She plans to give it to her son.
Meanwhile, below the jump: video of the Ohio meteor, last month’s Burning Man, recent Con Cosplay– and this clown:
String along with Bohemian Gravity:
Cygnus makes its test delivery to the International Space Station:
New research demonstrates how healthier living can alter the aging process.
If you haven’t yet visited Night Vale, you may want to make the trip before Halloween– but do not enter the dog park!
And below, we’ve found several great videos, including a fan attempt at new Batman, a Bureau-crat review of a 90s SF gem, an anniversary of a spaceship, and much more: