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Which film do you think made more money at the box office: Spider-Man 3 or Batman (1989)? The original Superman or Captain America: Civil War? Here is a list of every DC and Marvel comic-based film released in cinemas*, ranked by their global box office takings.

(There's also videos of either trailers or scenes from each film, in case you need to jog your memory).

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This week's inspiration comes from the rising popularity of Riverdale over on Netflix. Loosely based on the old school Archie comics, it's been given a bit a dark and murderous twist that seems to be resonating with modern audiences nicely.

Not all comic book movies are about latex clad superheroes. If you're looking for something a bit different, you might like these.

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Australian researchers from Edith Cowan University just finished a deep dive into the results of 26 separate peer-reviewed studies of the effectiveness of commercially available, computerised brain training programs.

Here's what they found.

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Last year, the pair of LIGO experiments announced a discovery a hundred years in the making: Gravitational waves, tiny ripples in space time from a pair of colliding black holes a billion light years away. You might wonder what scientists will do with two giant gravitational wave detectors now that they have fulfilled their primary goal. Well, those ripples weren't the end of the story — they were the start of a whole new saga in astronomy.

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Since Pluto was infamously demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006, some astronomers have turned their attention to finding the true Planet 9, a hypothetical, Neptune-sized world that orbits the Sun at least a few hundred times further out than Earth. While there's no shortage of ideas about what Planet 9 could look like — or what it may have experienced throughout its life — so far, no one has been able to spot this elusive world.