New Scientist

Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars – but it's surprisingly poignant

Brian Cory Dobbs's documentary promotes the baseless idea that Mars was once inhabited by an advanced civilisation. But there ...

10 years later, ‘The Martian’ is still Ridley Scott’s biggest hit and funniest movie

The scene explaining the Rich Purnell Maneuver embodies the tone of the movie. Rich Purnell, an astrophysicist played by Donald Glover, devises a plan to save Watney by having the Hermes accelerate ...

Program: How Malka Leifer was brought to justice, plus when America went mad for Mars

A new documentary recounts the 15-year struggle of three sisters from Melbourne's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community to bring their abuser and former-headmistress Malka Leifer to justice. Plus, science ...
The Atlantic

It Took 'Veronica Mars' Movie Less Than 10 Hours to Reach Its $2 Million Goal

If you paid any attention to Kickstarter on Wednesday, you probably already know all about the immediate, meteoric popularity of the Veronica Mars movie project. It is now officially successful, at ...