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Droids, lightsabers and the Force return to theaters August 15th in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Get the lowdown on the science behind it all.
August 15, 2008 |
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It may have come from George Lucas's imagination, but there's plenty of science to be found in Jedis and droids hopping between planets
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See the softer, more digital side of Jedi Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Clone Wars
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How close has science brought us to clone armies squaring off against blaster-wielding droids?
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Get a first look at Anakin, Obi-Wan and a young Jedi trainee as they prepare to do battle with a new enemy in The Clone Wars
Excerpts from the book by Jeanne Cavelos
A look at some of our extreme planetary neighbors right here in the Milky Way Galaxy
How realistic are images of planets around other stars—and should they be?
A rhesus monkey uses thought to make a robot walk, paving the way for paralysis victims to move using brain-powered prosthetic limbs
A University of Florida researcher has plans on the drawing board for a saucer-shaped aircraft that turns the surrounding air into fuel
New approaches to space sail technology could give a much-needed push to interplanetary, and even interstellar, travel
But are the dangers as overplayed as the Pentagon's dreams of robot battalions?
Our intuitions about consciousness in other beings and objects reveal a lot about how we think.
Stem cells mend broken rat hearts, stone cold sober astronauts and more...
Meet the real Death Stars—gamma-ray bursts
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