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Your Fave Autobots Look Different in Transformers One
Transformers is known for being “more than meets the eye.” But when it comes to the characters from Transformers One, it’s more than meets the eyes, nose, and mouth. The first trailer for the upcoming animated origin story landed this week and it revealed new looks for the iconic characters, as well as a decidedly…
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Europe’s Bumblebees Are in Big Trouble
The bumblebee’s days in Europe might be numbered. In new research out this week, scientists predict that as many as three-quarters of bumblebee species in the region will experience substantial population decline and territory loss over the next several decades due to manmade problems like climate change. While there is hope that these vital pollinators…
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How the New Transformers Reinvented Optimus Prime While Navigating a Complex Franchise
For a child of the 1980s, it doesn’t get much better than getting to direct a Rocky movie followed by a Transformers movie. But for Steven Caple Jr., that’s exactly what happened. The filmmaker went from Creed II, which reunited two epic 1980s rivals in Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago, to Transformers: Rise of the…
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Bumblebees Are Working Even Harder Than We Thought
Bumblebees are fuzzy, rotund, and indisputably adorable. They’re also secretly swole. The insects can cart around loads up to 80% of their body weight during foraging flights, and new research demonstrates that doing so probably isn’t easy.