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Hot Science: May 2010

Explore robot-human intermarriage, wormholes and more.

It's been too long, Bender. Severn years after Futurama's cancellation, the crew returns with new episodes—and more dancing—in June.Futurama, TM(C)2110 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

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Bender: Back in the Groove

Robot-human intermarriage. The Harlem Globetrotters performing mathematical wizardry. Hearing “Good news, everyone!” when bad news is on the way. It all can mean only one thing: Futurama is back.

The interstellar travels of the Planet Express crew —canceled by Fox in 2003 but kept alive by syndication, straight-to-DVD movies, and the unstoppable force of geek fandom—are returning in 26 fresh episodes, 12 of which will run in the upcoming season.

Show developer David X. Cohen says that the resurrected series starts where it left off, using the first few seconds to extricate the crew from the crisis in which they found themselves at the last movie’s conclusion.

New episodes will feature time travel into the even more distant future, 31st-century Twitter, and, admittedly, more lapses in the laws of physics. But while science-savvy fans may get more fodder for fact-checking, Cohen, who holds a master’s ...

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