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A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 379, Issue 6631.Download PDF Off the Canary Islands in Spain—Sometimes salvation arrives in the darkest hours. After nearly 4 days and nights of futility, the cry came from the back of the small fishing boat 3 hours after sunset. “Azul! Azul! Azul!” Rayco Garcia Habas stood at the railing near the stern, straining against the fishing rod as a massive fish—a blue (azul) shark, he was sure—tugged…

Automakers have seen the writing on the wall for the car industry, as millions of new e-bike riders opt for lighter and more efficient vehicles. Now Toyota has become the latest in a long line of automakers dipping their toes into the electric bicycle market. Like many other automakers who have rolled out e-bikes in the past few months and years, Toyota isn’t doing it alone. Instead, the Japanese automaker is partnering with an existing e-bike maker as part of a licensing agreement. The…

While there is still no word on the official release date of the second season of Loki, fans can expect it sometime later this year. Coinciding with the release, it’s no surprise that Marvel has announced a 4-issue Loki miniseries. Due out in June, the Loki limited series comes from the creative team of writer Dan Watters and artist Germán Peralta as the god of mischief unleashes “his unique brand of mayhem on the Marvel Universe again.” Rod Reis provides the teaser cover art for the series. No other members of the…

Up until Joker came along, Deadpool 2 held the distinction of being the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history, so there was understandably some concern among fans when it was first announced that Once Upon a Deadpool was on the way. Watering down Wade Wilson’s second solo outing to secure a PG-13 rating and bookending it with Fred Savage cameos to poke fun at The Princess Bride was a questionable call from the off, even if it ended up being for a good cause when Ryan Reynolds made a deal for money from every ticket…

Much like the terrifying depths of the ocean itself, top-tier horror movies set at sea are few and far between, even if there have been some hidden gems and underrated greats to have set sail over the years. 2009’s Triangle may or may not rank among the top tier of aquatic terrors, but it’s largely dependent on how you feel about the game-changing twists. On Rotten Tomatoes, Creep and Severance writer/director Christopher Smith’s third feature-length exercise in terror holds a Certified Fresh score of 80 percent, with…

Screenshot: 20th Century StudiosIt’s nearly Christmas, but there is another important holiday season upon us: Avatar: The Way of Water release season, and you bet some genius in marketing decided to smash these two things together in unholy matrimony. But in doing so, they have opened a very different kind of Pandora’s box than presumably whatever Jake put Neytiri’s gift in for Christmas.The official Avatar YouTube channel has released “12 Days of Christmas, a Pandoran Christmas Carol” to celebrate the Yuletide and the…

After a long 13-year wait, the sequel to James Cameron’s Avatar has finally premiered in theaters, and it was worth the wait. Taking place more than a decade after the original film, Jake Sully continues to battle the RDA on Pandora as a member of the alien Na’vi. He and his mate, Neytir,i have started their family — they have two sons, Neteyam and Lo’ak; a daughter, Tuk; an adoptive daughter, Kiri; and an adoptive human son, “Spider” (so yeah, they’ve been very busy parents). While the many years of waiting may have…

In a press conference this week for Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron said that after revisiting the first film, he wanted to develop a sequel that would honor Avatar while pushing the universe forward. One way he did that was by taking inspiration from stars Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington. The director and actors are all parents, and “we wanted to get into the family dynamics, and the responsibilities of having kids.”In Avatar: Way of the Water, “ wanted to explore what this family dynamic is, the natural…

Credit: Shutterstock Last week, four Indonesian fishermen were convicted for taking shark fins and poaching fish in Australian waters. The four men were spotted off remote Niiwalarra/Sir Graham Moore island in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, more than 150 nautical miles inside Australia's exclusive economic zone. But is…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeActor Stephen Lang has explained his character’s return in Avatar: The Way of Water, despite having been killed off at the end of the original.Lang played the nefarious Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron’s record-breaking 2009 blockbuster.In the film’s climax, Quaritch meets his demise at the hands of Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), after waging war on the indigenous Na’vi…