Another Marvel Movie Character Could Be Coming Back To Life

JJ Abrams discusses honoring Star Wars’ past in The Force Awakens. Clark Gregg looks to Agents of SHIELD’s future in the MCU. Plus, teases for the finales of Once Upon A Time and Arrow, and where a potential fifth season of Person of Interest could go. To me, my Spoilers! Top image: Avengers: Age of…

Novel About an Exorcism Reality Show Will Be a Movie 

We’re once again entering the world of movie studios buying rights to a book before it even comes out. In this case, it’s Focus Features getting ahold of Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts, due out June 2nd. The premise is not only interesting, but seems well-suited for adaptation to a visual medium: a…

Why do horses need hooves? Here’s a short video from the BBC which shows how hooves play into the speed and efficiency of a horse’s run.

Stick Figures Go On Amazing Adventures In a Series of Photographs

Paris-based artist Yacine Ait Kaci has an alter-ego: Elyx, a stick figure who “lives in a little notebook” but “totally shares our reality.” On Instagram, Elyx can be seen reinventing mundane parts of our world into something amazing. Yacine told theInstagram Blog: “He has the vision of a child, discovering everything as if it was…

iZombie Will Continue to Be Undead In a Second Season

The CW’s delightful iZombie has gotten a second season order! This is really great news for everyone who loves this offbeat dramedy. It’s not a huge surprise, since the show’s been doing decently well and the CW probably wants to keep Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas close. Thomas and co. have done a really great…

South Korean Seaweed Farms, From Space

Zoom in on this satellite image of South Korea’s southern coast and you’ll notice the grid-like patterns in the water are made up of hundreds of little rectangles. These are seaweed fields, held by ropes and buoys that keep them close to the surface during high tide and off the seafloor during low tide. Photo…

Station Eleven Wins This Year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award!

Emily St. John Mandel’s post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven was already a finalist for the National Book Awards, but now it’s won one of genre’s most coveted awards, the Arthur C. Clarke Award. (And we’re reading it as June’s io9 Book Clubbook!) According to the Guardian, Clarke jury chair Andrew M. Butler explained the choice: “While…

Incredibly Cool Cartoon About A Toad On Trial For The Murder Of A Frog

In the short film Dodoba, a toad is discovered over the murdered body of a frog in an Edo period Japanese village. But while the townsfolk are convinced he is guilty, the toad tells a strange story about the true culprit. Dodoba is animator Yon Hui’s graduation film from CalArts (and we’re seeing just a…

Biologist Figures Out A Sure-Fire Way To Get A Beetle Laid

Interesting where science takes us, isn’t it? One entomologist conducted an experiment on the Death-Watch beetle. That experiment led to another, and another, and suddenly he figured out a foolproof way to get the male beetle a little nookie. The Death-Watch beetle isn’t as fearsome as its name makes it sound (unless you’ve seen Practical…

The May Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Everyone Will Be Talking About

This month is full of blockbuster science fiction and fantasy novels. Including new books by Neal Stephenson, Nnedi Okorafor, Paolo Bacigalupi, Mark Z. Danielewski, Naomi Novik and Clive Barker! Plus a solo adventure for Lois Lane! Here are the books that you absolutely need to know about this month. Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction by Hannu…

Isaac Newton’s War With A 17th Century Counterfeiter Should Be A Movie

Isaac Newton assured his place in scientific history by shaping our understanding of gravity. But even geniuses have bills to pay. And for quite some time, this was how Newton paid his. In response to a question about the historical events that you long to see onscreen, commenter GregEganist suggested this lesser known, but quite…

Last Man On Earth Gets A New Showrunner For Season 2

If you’re not watching The Last Man On Earth what are you even doing with your life? The first season just ended and it was stupendous. And now the new season is getting a new showrunner. But cool your jets, the new boss is actually pretty cool, alright? Deadline just announced that Dan Sterling of…

Simulation Shows Planets Could Be Forming Within This Dusty Disc

Late last year, astronomers using the ALMA telescope captured an unprecedented image of what appears to be a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young star. Some scientists were skeptical about the claim, but a new simulation run by Canadian astrophysicists is helping bolster its case. Photo: ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); C. Brogan, B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) The reason for…

Myst To Become A Hulu Series, But Only If You Can Solve This Puzzle

Beloved computer game Myst is getting a Hulu series. We’re not sure whether or not this means we’ll be forced to solve puzzles in each episode, but we are interested. Also, puzzles are cool. TV Line is reporting that Matt Tolmach of The Amazing Spider-Man and Evan Daugherty from Divergent are co-producing along with Hulu…

Go Watch Paul Feig’s Scifi Comedy Other Space Now And Thank Me Later

When Paul Feig announced his new comedy series would premiere on Yahoo Screen, most people assumed the show — which is about a group of misfits lost in space — would just be an American copy of Red Dwarf. I certainly did. And then I watched it, and discovered it was much, much more. Seriously.…

Your Guide To The Antiheroes In DC’s Suicide Squad Movie

DC hasfinally unveiled the roster for Suicide Squad! The supervillain team has a long history in comic books — and although we’ve seen the Joker already, you might not be familiar with the cavalcade of characters introduced in the cast image above. Here’s our guide to characters of the new Task Force X. Note: This…

Global CO2 Levels Pass A Dismal Milestone

Results published this week by NOAA indicate that the monthly global average concentration of CO2 surpassed 400 parts per million in March 2015—the first time since recordkeeping began in 1959 that the monthly average has exceeded that level worldwide. Above: This graph shows the rise of monthly average carbon dioxide concentrations from 2011 to March…

Your Doctor Probably Has A DNR. Here’s Why You Should Consider One, Too.

Most patients receiving end-of-life care want to avoid aggressive attempts to prolong their life, but medical culture and practices often contradict these wishes. Part of the problem is due to confusion surrounding do-not-resuscitate orders. Here’s what patients really need to know about the “no code.” From the time they’re in medical school, doctors are taught…

Person Of Interest’s Machine Shows Its True Superpower: Evolution

This season of Person of Interest has gently pushed the theme of adaptation — the best episode of the season was the one at the Stock Exchange, where the Machine has to keep running simulations, and we’ve seen the Machine change its behavior in response to no-win situations. Last night, this theme came to a…

Sandman Tries To Kidnap A Naive Nightmare In This Creepy-Cute Webcomic

Miyuli’s webcomic Lost Nightmare has the feel of a malevolent children’s book, one where the classically wicked characters, like the Bogeyman, are less frightening than the luminous shepherd known as the Sandman. And a sweet little nightmare named Ink is about to learn the truly scary aspects of the dreamscape. Ink is still a little…