NewsScience
Black hole flare’s one heck of a blast!
NASA’s newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant…
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October 2012
NewsComputers
Apple releases its ‘Kindle-killer’ iPad mini!
Apple have gone live with their new iPad mini, with a design that is 23 percent thinner and 53 percent lighter than the…
ReviewScifi
Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton (book review)
I have completed the ‘Great North Road’ and it’s an epic trek taking you to places you would never otherwise visit, meeting both…
ReviewHorror
Paranormal Activity 4 – Frank’s Take (film review).
Well, at least there is the consistency of churning out another repetitive ‘Paranormal Activity’ installment around the Halloween festivities that is still in…
ReviewHorror
Shock Value by Jason Zinoman (book review).
They sure don’t make them like they used to. ‘Shock Value’ by New York Times film critic Jason Zinoman covers how a few…
NewsScience
Astronomers discover amazing new galactic trend!
A study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern…
TrailerScifi
Halo 4 trailer.
There’s a new trailer just out for the upcoming Halo 4 game which shows the kind of maltreatment you have to go through…
NewsScifi
Fatherly advice: a Sci-Fi perspective!
Now how can this author pen a column about Science Fiction mothers entitled ‘Motherly Instinct: A Sci-Fi Lullaby’ (September 18, 2012) and not…
NewsScifi
Post-Revolution map.
Here’s the map of the post-collapse USA as featured in the new TV series Revolution. It’s a bit unfair on the Wasteland, though,…
NewsScience
The planets of Alpha Centauri!
John Grunsfeld at NASA had this to say to SFcrowsnest about the discovery of an exo-planet around Alpha Centauri, our nearest solar system.…
TrailerHorror
Carrie (2013) trailer.
If this was a British movie, at least we could call it Carrie on Screaming. Or bleeding. Or something. Scary stuff. Hopefully for…
NewsHorror
Frankenweenie (2012) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper)
Tim Burton returns to his roots making a feature-length version of one of the two short films that made him famous. Filling the…