50 degrees of real-world dramaEntertainment
Star Trek’s famous alien rocks look like gray scratches from orbit
Landsat 9 turned a longtime science-fiction backdrop into a patch of curved gray stripes, revealing the real geology beneath the fiction.
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Survival changes valueEntertainment
Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars makes a farmer and a doctor the apocalypse's most valuable people
The new survival thriller puts a pilot, a military survivalist and a mysterious radio call inside a world where practical skill outranks status.
No. 2 after cancellationEntertainment
Coyote vs. Acme finally reached theaters and opened to an estimated $15.5 million
The finished movie took second place in the United States and Canada three years after Warner Bros. canceled its original release.
How they got 277Entertainment
The ticket limit was six. The FTC says one broker grabbed 277 seats anyway
A federal complaint describes 75 accounts, 109 transactions, and hundreds of Metallica tickets moving into the resale market.