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Dec 29 2022

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Space

Science

9 stunning images from Mars missions in 2022

With eyes on the Red Planet from nearly every angle, we’re learning more about Mars than at any time in history.

Orbiters, rovers, and other spacecraft documented countless Mars oddities this year. Some were tiny and dug up from the dust, while others were miles-long geological formations observed from above.

Check out these iconic images from Mars captured in 2022.

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WHODUNIT?

Movies

Glass Onion’s biggest celebrity cameos, explained

Director Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is packed to the gills with famous faces.

Not only does Daniel Craig reprise his Knives Out role as Benoit Blanc in the film, but the actors that fill out Glass Onion’s core cast also include Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Edward Norton, Dave Bautista, Leslie Odom Jr., and Kate Hudson.

From the surprising members of Benoit Blanc’s Among Us crew to the detective’s domestic partner, Glass Onion also features more than its fair share of noteworthy celebrity cameos. With that in mind, here are all the major celebrities who briefly appear in Glass Onion, including one or two that even the most keen-eyed of viewers might have missed.

THE GUTTER

Marvel

Avengers: Kang Dynasty could be Marvel’s most unpredictable movie yet

Since his first appearance, Kang the Conqueror has consistently been one of the greatest threats the Avengers have ever faced, are facing, and will face. He is constant. And in 2023, he makes his official debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

While we got a tease of the Multiverse Saga’s big bad in Loki, with Jonathan Majors playing a Kang variant named He Who Remains, we’ll finally see the villain in his full glory in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Thanos will be a hard villain to top, but Kang will test the Avengers in new ways as he poses a threat not just to one universe, but all of them. The character’s comic book history is complicated, to put it mildly.

FROGGER

Science

These frogs can become “invisible” and scientists just figured out their secret

What if you had the power of invisibility, but it only works when you’re asleep? That might be useful for a surreptitious nap in public, but it still probably wouldn’t suit you as well as it does the Northern glass frog.

The Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni, native to humid forests throughout Central and South America, has this dubious superpower. It’s just one of more than 100 species of glass frogs that are so-called because of their translucent skin and organs.

Now, we know how they accomplish this vanishing act thanks to a paper published in the journal Science. Northern glass frogs, and likely other species of glass frogs, can achieve quasi-invisibility through a physiological act that’s even more impressive than disappearing itself.

Inverse Awards

Gaming

The 10 best indie games of 2022

Bigger isn’t always better, and 2022’s indie games prove it. While there were plenty of incredible AAA stunners this year, like Elden Ring and God of Wår Ragnarok, indies continue to deliver some of the best experiences in the medium.

From nostalgic adventures and fuzzy protagonists to philosophical narratives and games that broke the mold of interactive entertainment entirely, this year's indie releases constantly surprised and delighted.

Here are the ten best indie games of 2022.

Meanwhile...

This Dune-inspired spacecraft could finally reveal what dark matter is made of

Can ayahuasca boost brain health? The side effects may temper the benefits

2022's best video game narrative is out of this world

15 years ago, Paul Thomas Anderson made the greatest American epic of the century

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