Just how real were the worlds seen in Star Wars? In a familiar scene from the famous first film, Luke Skywalker looks over barren and dusty Tatooine as the planet’s two suns set in the distance. Now a scientist from St. Andrews University in Scotland has studied what exactly life …
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Now we know why we fall asleep at the movies. It’s the math. A cognitive psychologist from Cornell University studied over 150 films from the past 70 years, shot by shot, to find out just what makes one a snoozer and another an edge-of-the seat thriller. And the answer, says …
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Despite a slow start, the Atlantic hurricane season still looks to be a doozy. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency announced a revision to its Atlantic hurricane outlook Thursday, decreasing the overall number of forecasts it expects to see this year — but stressing that the 2010 hurricane season will …
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