Category: NEWS
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Bill Nye On How to Prep For the Solar Eclipse
[ad_1] The Science Guy, Bill Nye, has made a career out of being psyched about science and figuring out ways to make the rest of us psyched about it too. While his famous educational program Bill Nye the Science Guy has been off the air since 1999, Nye is still busily teaching the world about science…
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Why Resident Alien Featured an “In Memory” for Kenny Frost in Season 3 Finale
[ad_1] The Season 3 finale of SYFY’s hit sci-fi series Resident Alien ended with one wild cliffhanger featuring everyone’s favorite alien Harry — but it also featured a remembrance to someone who meant quite a lot to the crew who bring the beloved comedy to life. A man who played a key role behind the…
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NASA Proposes Moon Standard Time with Slightly Shorter Seconds
[ad_1] If you’re planning to leave Earth for an extended period (or forever, like the crew of SYFY’s The Ark) then you’re going to have to go without a bunch of things you take for granted on terra firma. You can say goodbye to feeling sunshine or the wind on your face, and you can…
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Oscars 2024: Robert Downey Jr. Wins Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer: Watch His Speech
[ad_1] At the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday Night, Robert Downey Jr. nabbed his very first Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor thanks to his portrayal of Lewis Strauss — Chairman of the newly-established Atomic Energy Commission and fierce political rival of J. Robert Oppenheimer — in Christopher Nolan’s critically-acclaimed atomic bomb thriller, Oppenheimer (now streaming exclusively on…
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Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer Star Cillian Murphy Wins Best Actor – Watch Acceptance Speech
[ad_1] Cillian Murphy can certainly hear the music after winning a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as theoretical physicist and “father of the atomic bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (now streaming exclusively on Peacock). The World War II biopic centered around Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project — which received universal critical acclaim and grossed…
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Oscars 2024: Christopher Nolan Wins Best Director for Oppenheimer – Watch Acceptance Speech
[ad_1] At long last, Christopher Nolan has won himself an Oscar! It only took *checks notes* 24 years. The ambitious filmmaker — who previously landed Oscar noms for Memento, Inception, and Dunkirk — was named Best Director at the 96th annual Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night for his exceptional work on Oppenheimer (now streaming exclusively on…
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How a Late Night Comedy Sketch Almost Derailed Xena: Warrior Princess
[ad_1] Xena: Warrior Princess is a show packed with stunt work, from horseback riding to fight choreography and everything in between. If someone got hurt over the course of that show’s six seasons, it would be understandable due to the sheer volume of potentially dangerous stuff happening on camera. But for Lucy Lawless, the biggest Xena injury came…
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The Best Animated Series Gems Now Streaming on Peacock
[ad_1] We love animation here at SYFY WIRE, so we’re always delighted to scroll through the Peacock library to discover their huge collection of animated kids originals that people might have missed throughout the years. In the Kids TV section on NBCUniversal’s streaming service, you’ll find everything from popular contemporary shows to nostalgic classics that families can get to know and love…
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Heaviest Black Hole Pair Ever Is 28 Billion Times Mass of the Sun
[ad_1] When John Crichton (Ben Browder) accidentally zoomed across the galaxy in Farscape (streaming now on Peacock), he found himself swept up in an interplanetary war with the fate of the universe on the line. As the galactic conflict escalated, a black hole weapon was created with the power to destroy the universe. Once initiated,…
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Original Alien Star Tom Skerritt Talks Deleted Scene, What Happened to Dallas
[ad_1] Tom Skerritt knew Alien was going to be a hit about halfway into production. He turned to co-star Yaphet Kotto (Parker) at one point and said, “We’re making a classic, you know that?” Without missing a beat, Kotto replied, “I sure as hell do.” Skerritt — who played intrepid Nostromo captain, Dallas — is…