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After having been previously teased, another Marvel Studios executive brought up their own take on a Black Superman-like character in the MCU. VP of Production & Development at Marvel Studios Nate Moore seemingly wants to bring Blue Marvel to Marvel Studios’ super-powered franchise, a character that has been brought up in the past. Back during WandaVision’s run, Teyonah Parris brought up wanting to bring the hero to the MCU as a love interest for her Monica Rambeau....

Phase Four of the MCU is just getting started as WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier air on Disney+. The massive slate announced so far is packed with a large variety of heroes and villains across films and series, some of which will be making their live-action debut in this next round of MCU projects. Little has been shown by the studio from any of their properties past the July 9 release, Black Widow....

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness broke down some major barriers within the Marvel Cinematic Universe beyond just opening the gateway to alternate realities. The story moved from focusing on the MCU’s classic Avengers team to introducing the Illuminati - a new group of powerful beings from all across the Multiverse that oversees all reality. Warning - The rest of this article contains spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness....

Five years ago, when I last interviewed architect Michael Green, he had not yet built a tall wood building. In fact, there were not many of them anywhere, but Michael had just written the book on it with the very long title: “The Case For Tall Wood Buildings: How Mass Timber Offers a Safe, Economical, and Environmentally Friendly Alternative for Tall Building Structures.” © Ema Peter via V2com What a remarkable five years it has been....

This group of blight diseases - including Diplodia, Dothistroma and brown spot - attacks conifers (mostly pines) by girdling needles and killing branch tips. These needle blights are caused by the fungus, Dothistroma pini mostly on western pines and Scirrhia acicola on longleaf and Scots pine needles. Needle damage can cause major commercial and ornamental damage to conifers in North America significantly affecting the nursery and Christmas tree industries. Infected needles often fall from the tree creating a symptomatic scorched, denuded look....

A new Loki Season 2 rumor has revealed how the resolution of the MCU Disney+ series’ Season 1 cliffhanger.Regardless of how audiences feel about Phase 4 of the MCU, no doubt one of the most important projects was Season 1 of Loki on Disney+. Starring Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson, Loki not only served as the God of Mischief’s hero origin story but introduced the concept of timelines, Variants, and the TVA....

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is here, and it has fans from across the world questioning the futures of more than a few characters in the MCU. This Multiversal epic showcases a jaunt across multiple realities, as Doctor Stephen Strange accompanies newcomer America Chavez in stopping a potential threat to all reality. The Sam Raimi-directed film has opened to mostly positive reviews and has done superbly at the box office during its opening weekend....

Only a short time remains until Warner Bros. returns to the big screen with Robert Pattinson’s The Batman, the first-ever Batman solo movie in the DC Extended Universe. Becoming the third and final member of DC’s Holy Trinity to receive a DCEU solo film after Superman and Wonder Woman, this outing will also introduce the franchise’s second of three Batmen set to play a role in the plot. The Batman will explore a new side of Bruce Wayne as he takes on his first year of crime-fighting in Gotham City, which also takes place in a universe where no version of the Justice League exists yet....

Tatiana Maslany has revealed her top five biggest secrets from She-Hulk: Attorney at Law that she had trouble keeping to herself.The half-hour satirical legal comedy was completely new territory for Marvel Studios—and because of that, it was divisive, to say the least.Many thought the season’s plot wasn’t all that great, the comedy was off, and the CGI was glaringly subpar. But, at the same time, many fans also enjoyed the unique journey Maslany and Marvel Studios took the audience on....

Spider-Man: Far From Home not only officially closed out the Infinity Saga, but it also set the stage for some of the Multiverse Saga’s biggest early movies and TV shows. Specifically, that sequel’s post-credits scene set the stage for what will now be Phase 5’s first Disney+ show in Secret Invasion, after the Skrull leader Talos revealed himself to be on Earth. Talos will now reunite with his Captain Marvel “partner,” Nick Fury, as the two learn about what the Skrulls are doing on Earth and how they’ve blended in to accomplish their undisclosed mission....

The Book of Boba Fett is finally underway on Disney+ just as 2021 is coming to a close. The series serves as the only live-action content that Star Wars has released in the calendar year, and follows Temuera Morrison’s Boba Fett beginning his reign over the criminal underworld of Tatooine alongside Ming-Na Wen’s Fennec Shand, who was introduced in The Mandalorian​​​​. Warning - This article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett....

With all eyes currently on May’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, many may have forgotten the Multiversal blockbuster will be followed closely by Thor: Love and Thunder in July. But with only a few months to go until release, fans are beginning to wonder when the first trailer will drop to highlight the return of Chris Hemsworth’s God of Thunder and Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster. At the time of writing, the July 8 release of Love and Thunder is only 103 days away....

Disney+ offered Marvel Studios a multitude of new opportunities to expand its range of content more than ever. Beyond the grand scale episodic stories, it also allowed for the studio’s first animated venture and a series of documentary specials detailing the production of its blockbusters. Each of the hour-long Marvel Studios’ Assembled specials has highlighted the making of the latest film or series in Phase 4 of the MCU. So far, episodes have been released for WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and now Loki as the Tom Hiddleston-led series recently concluded on Disney+....

Kat Dennings confirmed that she hasn’t been called to appear in Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder — twice now. However, Darcy will still have a pivotal role in WandaVision, who is key in helping S.W.O.R.D. discover more about the Westview anomaly. Darcy first appeared in Thor as an original character, who quickly became a fan favorite alongside Tom Hiddleston’s Loki. However, neither character has ever actually interacted with one another in the MCU, but Dennings would love to see that change....

Massive “slumps” are forming like a pox across the Northern Hemisphere — deep craters that appear like gateways to the underworld — and they could represent an ominous sign of what’s to come, reports The Independent. The largest of these so-called megaslumps is Batagaika crater in Siberia. The unusual chasm appears almost as if the land is turning itself inside out. Even more frightening, it’s widening by up to 20 meters a year, slowly encroaching upon the landscape like a living thing....

Graphene might be one of the world’s most useful materials. Though it’s only one carbon atom thick, it’s many times stronger than steel, and highly flexible to boot. Ever since it was first isolated by researchers in 2004, the list of patents involving graphene has grown exponentially every year. It may not be long before this supermaterial spawns a technological revolution that could truly change the world. Here are several profound graphene inventions to look forward to in the near future....

Although Batman is all the rage at the moment for DC fans thanks to Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson, there are thoughts of what could have been with this character in the modern era. Specifically, DCEU star Ben Affleck was initially set to lead his own solo movie after his team-up efforts with other DC icons like Henry Cavill’s Superman and Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman. While teases for this universe were set up in Affleck’s other movies, the action star’s solo Batman movie that he would’ve directed and starred in wound up canceled....

Fans finally got their first look at Thor: Love and Thunder with a new trailer that teases the God of Thunder embarking on a journey of self-discovery. The teaser only lasted for about a minute and a half, and it didn’t even reveal exciting elements like Gorr the God Butcher, but the first footage fans got to see may spoil the movie’s ending. One of the trailer’s opening shots shows Thor planting Stormbreaker upright in a patch of dirt, while his voiceover claims that his hands, which were “once used for battle,” are now “humble tools for peace....

After the game-changing events of Avengers: Endgame, Marvel Studios hasn’t slowed down with the story delivered thus far in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Much of this has to do with the introduction of the Multiverse, which first came to the big screen in Spider-Man: No Way Home before expanding to new heights in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. At the center of Avengers: Endgame was Josh Brolin’s Thanos, who continues to make his presence felt through Phase 4 after his quest for the Infinity Stones made an everlasting mark on the entire MCU....

The common fig (Ficus carica) is a small tree native to southwest Asia but widely planted in North America. This edible fig is widely grown for its fruit and is commercially grown in the U.S. in California, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. The fig has been around since the dawn of civilization and was one of the first plants ever to be cultivated by humans. Fossilized figs dating to B.C. 9400-9200 were found in an early Neolithic village in the Jordan Valley....