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Nintendo has restructured and rebranded a division that is now dedicated to developing films featuring the company’s characters, such as Mario and Zelda. Now titled Nintendo Stars, the subsidiary is tasked with “implementing and licensing various ancillary uses in films” of Nintendo intellectual property, the company announced today, in order to “familiarize people around the world with Nintendo IP and …

With infinite stars, why is the night sky dark?  Boing Boing Source link

We’ve made it. The preseason is officially over, and we can now turn our energy to the initial 53-man roster and Week 1. The San Francisco 49ers closed out the preseason with a 30-23 win over Trey Lance, Jim Harbaugh, and the Los Angeles Chargers in a game that felt like it took a lifetime to complete. The win on …

Tobias Arhelger/Shutterstock The Subaru logo isn’t just a neat design penned by a graphic artist merely just to look nice, it actually acts as a visual guide of how and when the automaker was established. Start with the name: Subaru means “unite” in Japanese, and that’s our first clue. See, back in …

DUBLIN — Rocco Becht passed for two touchdowns and ran for another score, helping No. 22 Iowa State beat No. 17 Kansas State 24-21 in the Aer Lingus Classic on Saturday. Becht was 14 for 28 for 183 yards. He found Dominic Overby for a 23-yard TD in the first quarter and passed to Brett Eskildsen for a 24-yard score …

Pulsar B1509-58 and a hand-shaped nebula known as MSH 15-52 – credit, NASA / CXC / Un Hong Kong Zhang et al. via SWNS A coalition of telescopes have allowed astronomers to produce an image of the nebula MSH 15-52 in unprecedented color and detail. Centered in the middle of the nebula is a pulsar, or the rapidly-spinning, extremely dense …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An X-ray jet blasts through wreckage surrounding a supernova. | Credit: NASA/Swift/Cruz deWilde Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better understand the process of stellar life and death in the distant universe. The blasts in …

An official cause of death has been determined for the late actress Loni Anderson, who passed earlier this month at age 79.  The WKRP in Cincinnati star died from metastatic uterine leiomyosarcoma, according to a death certificate obtained by TMZ, who noted the disease is an incredibly rare form of cancer that usually begins in the uterus and is able …

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our solar system, it would stretch to nearly the orbit of Saturn. But how can such a beast exist? The answer, as always, is physics. VY Canis Majoris is …

Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better understand the process of stellar life and death in the distant universe. The blasts in question are Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs), recently discovered outbursts of X-rays that last for just a few minutes. The source of FXTs has been shrouded in mystery. Now, with the …