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Say you're on Mustafar and need to swing by Endor to pick up an illicit shipment of Ewok chitterlings. Where do you go? This map from Star Wars: The Essential Atlas will show the way. [Entertainment Weekly, thanks Ryernl!]

Novel plastic could enable real-time 3D holographic projections.

The bat, which has an appearance reminiscent of the Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda, has been discovered in a remote rainforest in Papua New Guinea. The findings included two mammals, 24 species of frog, nine plants, nearly 100 new insects including damselflies, crickets and ants, and around 100 spiders.

Motorola tugged at the hearts of science-fiction fans everywhere when it announced that its first smartphone using Google’s Android software would be called Droid, the name given to the lovable robots in “Star Wars.”