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Alerts New Shepard NS-14 lifting off from from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas earlier this year. Image: Blue Origin Blue Origin will attempt a suborbital test of an uncrewed New Shepard rocket on Wednesday. You can watch the flight and vertical landing, along with a planned astronaut dress rehearsal, live right here. Advertisement Update: 10:47 a.m. EDT: The hold is now cleared, according to Blue Origin. Launch is now scheduled for 11:56 a.m. EDT (10:56 a.m. CDT). Webcast (below)...

Photo: Craigslist (Other) One of the weirdest things you can do to a car is bolt the fuselage of a plane to it. (I am always saying this.—ED) This 1979 Fleetwood Pace Arrow motorhome for sale on Craigslist wears the body of a Convair CV-240, but that’s only the beginning. It was also built in-part by a fugitive on the run. Advertisement A reader originally sent me the ad for this thing about a month ago. Back then, the ad only had three small pictures and not a whole lot of information. I a...

Image: Orbit (Rosewater) isn’t out until October, but io9 has a sneak peek today with an exclusive cover reveal and an excerpt from Far From the Light of Heaven. It’s a standalone sci-fi novel that follows a high-stakes mystery that unfolds aboard a colony ship. Advertisement Here’s a brief description of Far From the Light of Heaven, which gives an idea of how the novel draws upon the British-born Thompson’s own Yoruba heritage to help set the scene. The colony ship Ragtime docks i...

The Little Stranger. But as any guest of Netflix’s Bly Manor can attest, restraint has its drawbacks. There’s a fine line between classily understated and boring. Advertisement Thankfully, boring is one word you couldn’t use to describe The Banishing, which defies expectations of understated British horror with giallo maximalism. Where so many directors would have made one choice, Christopher Smith ( Black Death) makes 10: Mirrors! Dolls! Masochist monks! Bishop gangsters! Nazis! Time tr...

Alerts Kelsey Rose Juliana, the lead plaintiff on the Juliana v. United States case, speaks at a rally in 2019. Photo: Steve Dipaola (AP) Since taking office, President Biden has positioned himself as the antidote to Trump on climate, passing sweeping executive ordersreversing the previous administration’s actions and launching aggressive infrastructure projects meant to bring the country into a low-carbon future. But moves made by the administration in two high-profile legal cases last week ...

Photo: Universal (Getty Images) Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Voyagers  now in theaters and Stowaway on Netflix next week, we’re looking to the stars for five days of space movies. Advertisement Apollo 13 (1995) Imagine hopping into a time machine, traveling back to mid-July of 1969, stopping by NASA, and telling folks there that half a century later, there still...

Photo: Courtesy of Netflix Netflix’s Mindy Kaling-helmed series Never Have I Everwon over fans with its painfully relatable portrayal of Indian-American teenage girl Devi (played by newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), who attempts to navigate complicated dynamics with crushes, a fraught relationship with her mom, and grief after the death of her dad, Mohan (Sendhil Ramamurthy). It became a refreshing show to binge-watch in quarantine; light enough to binge in a day or two and without the NSFW f...

4/07/21 9:31AM I dashed for two months earlier this year to counteract the pandemic bordom. I don’t need the money, it was just something to do. I don’t do it anymore... multiple reasons. 1. When I first started It seemed like there was plenty of work to go ‘round and I’d often get an extra $1 or $2. Once I hit the end of the first month I got put in the pool with everyone else and realized that there was not enough work and I was taking from people who actually needed the money. So I s...

  (ABC, 9 p.m., midseason premiere, back-to-back episodes, special time): We last saw the intrepid detectives of Dewell-Hoyt Investigations (Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick, respectively) back in February, when their first mystery came to an end with the death of one baddie and the flight of another. And while we’re guessing that we haven’t seen the last of Brian Geraghty’s Ronald, it’s time for some new villains to enter stage left. Tonight’s even bigger Big Sky kicks off an hou...

NASA Funds Interstellar Probe and Space Habitats Made From Fungi Alerts Artist’s conception of a radio dish built inside the crater on the far side of the Moon. Illustration: Vladimir Vustyansky The latest round of NASA funding to boost the development of advanced concepts includes a space-based neutrino detector, an interstellar probe powered by solar sails, and a radio telescope built inside a crater on the far side of the Moon. Advertisement NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) pr...