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Here’s A First Look Ahead At The Insanity In 12 Monkeys Season Two

The first season of Syfy’s 12 Monkeys just ended with a huge insane twist — and now, we have to wait until 2016 until we find out what happens next! Luckily, we’ve got an exclusive featurette that explains where the show is going in season two. Our recap of the finale will go up tomorrow…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

New Missile Study Reveals A Terrible Setback In Fight Against Graboids

If you think your government can protect you from underground monsters, you’re wrong. And we’ve got the soil analysis to prove it. A new study shows that the faster a missile goes, the less well it penetrates the ground. In other words, it looks as though the god-damn underground monsters are able to move through…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Sinister 2 Trailer Packs Double The Creepy Kids Doing Terrible Things

Sinister was one of those odd ball horror movies that was all things wonderful and slightly disappointing. It was gorgeous, very scary, but the bottom fell out in the end. But the sequel looks like more of the good stuff, creepy home videos of family’s getting murdered. Looks like all new characters and an all…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

We’re Getting More Fantastic Worlds From Ann Leckie

We’re already eagerly awaiting the third book in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary trilogy, Ancillary Mercy, due this October. But meanwhile, the award-winning space opera author is already working on her next books after that. Top image: Ancillary Mercy, via Barnes & Noble. According to a press release from Orbit Books, Leckie just sold them a new…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

These Knotted Cords Are A Sophisticated Ancient Counting Tool

This looped and knotted section of cords is not only beautiful, it’s also a 500-year old mathematical tool. “I’d love to know what the deal was with the Incan knot counting system,” commenter Sajanas1 recently wrote us. “It was probably just some complex abacus like system, but it seems pretty unique.” The knot counting system…

io9 Ria Misra

Will The Umpteeth Attempt To Film King’s Dark Tower Finally Succeed?

Hollywood has been promising-threatening to adapt Stephen King’s epic novel series The Dark Tower for years. In 2011, it was gonna happen at HBO. In 2013, it was all about Ron Howard’s version. Now comes news that a “totally reconceived” take will become a film franchise, with tie-in TV series. Lower your raised eyebrows; this…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Why the Hell Can’t I Watch Murphy Brown Online?

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer saysthat without the 1990s TV series Murphy Brown to inspire her, she wouldn’t have gotten where she is today. The show was so influential that Vice President Dan Quayle turned the main character, played by Candice Bergen, into a political meme. And yet this series isn’t available anywhere online. In her…

Television Annalee Newitz

The Most Terrifying Natural Disasters Ever Captured On Video

When the destructive forces of nature are unleashed, the results can be horrifying. The world turns violent and unstable, with huge loss of life and massive devastation. It’s rare to be able to capture these disturbing events when they occur, but some videographers have managed it. Here are some hair-raising videos of natural disasters. The…

io9 Vincze Miklós

The Predator Gets Medieval On A Group Of Knights In This Fan Film

I’ve seen trailers for hundreds of fan-made trailers during my years as a nerd journalist, but I’ll put this one for Predator: Dark Ages among the best. It’s a fun, clever idea that appears to be well-executed (no pun intended). The full film will premiere the MCM London Comic-con on May 22nd-24th next month. [Via…

io9 Rob Bricken

Why Isn’t Netflix’s New Daredevil Series Available For The Blind?

Joshua Loevy is an attorney in Kansas City, MO, who happens to be blind. For years, people have compared him to blind attorney Matt Murdock, whose alter ego is the superhero Daredevil. So Loevy was excited to check out the new Daredevil series… but he can’t. Netflix isn’t making Daredevil available in audio description, which…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Most Depressing Days In Daredevil’s Preposterously Sad History

It’s a good day for Daredevil fans, as Marvel’s anticipated series about the superhero without fear finally comes to Netflix. But what’s good for fans is likely bad for Daredevil, because his career has been one insane bummer after another. See for yourself! The Day He Got His Powers Some people in the Marvel universe…

io9 Rob Bricken

What Goes Into Turning Comic Book Art Into Comic Book Action Figures

DC’s “Designer Series” toyline has been out a while now, but it still manages to impress with how it translates the art of Greg Capullo, Jae Lee,and more into toys. DC recently posted a blog about the process behind the line, and while it doesn’t say much, it’s a nice excuse to go behind the…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Scientists Learn A Bird Uses Tools, And Promptly Decide To Screw With It

Scientists were thrilled when they learned about the eating habits of the Egyptian vulture. Its favorite food is the egg, which it cracks open using stones. This meant one thing — it was time to mess with the bird’s head in the name of science. It’s a big deal when an animal knows how to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Warm Ocean “Blob” May Be One Cause Of North America’s Wacky Weather

For the past two years, climate scientists have tracked a large and circular patch of unusually warm water off the Northeast U.S. Pacific Coast that doesn’t seem to want to go away. Dubbed “the blob”, it has now been linked to the strange weather recently experienced across North America. And yes, the weather has been…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Photographer Who Took This Picture Barely Escaped With His Life

Pakistani nature photographer Atif Saeed managed to capture this stunning shot of a lion — just before it leapt at him. Photo: Atif Saeed Fine Art Photography — republished at io9 with permission This photograph was snapped by Atif Saeed (Facebook, Flickr) at a safari zoo park near Lahore. He got out of his jeep…

io9 George Dvorsky

Fox Rebooting Rocky Horror Into A TV Movie, Again… We Guess… Sigh

Because musical TV movie specials are so hot right now, Fox is jumping on the bandwagon. But with a non-live reboot of Rocky Horror Picture Show. This is like the 8th time someone’s tried to remake Rocky Horror — and it’s still a terrible idea. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that this two-hour TV movie will…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch Milk Literally Climb Up This Spinning Egg

We’re post-Easter, but it’s never the wrong season to watch blue-colored milk seemingly defy gravity to climb up the curve of a hard-boiled egg. This is a trick from Professor Tadd Truscott, who conceived of it while spinning billiard balls in everything from water to treacle-thick glycerin. Depending on the speed of the spin and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

io9 Book Club Reminder: Meet 4/14 To Discuss A Darker Shade Of Magic!

This month, the io9 Book Club is reading A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Scwhab. We’ll meet on Tuesday, April 14 to discuss it. Join us! What is this io9 Book Club all about? We meet once a month to discuss a book we’ve all read together, and then we have an online chat…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The “Heroic Translators” Who Reinvented Classic Science Fiction In China

When early science fiction novels were first translated into Chinese, the translators took a lot of liberties with the material, reinventing Jules Verne for Chinese readers. Author Ken Liu (The Grace of Kings) explains how this helped inspire him, in turn, to reinvent Chinese traditions for Western fantasy readers. Top image: Le Voyage dans la…

io9 Ken Liu

We Might Have Reached Peak Retro Figure Nonsense

Old school action figures are in the middle of a renaissance. You’ve got Funko’s Reaction line emulating the old style for new properties, or Jumbo-sized recreations of classic superhero figures. The next logical step? Apparently, it’s unarticulated, plus sized statues of said retro figures. Kotobukiya have long put out lovely statues of comic heroes, but…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Here’s A First Look Ahead At The Insanity In 12 Monkeys Season Two

New Missile Study Reveals A Terrible Setback In Fight Against Graboids

Sinister 2 Trailer Packs Double The Creepy Kids Doing Terrible Things

We’re Getting More Fantastic Worlds From Ann Leckie

These Knotted Cords Are A Sophisticated Ancient Counting Tool

Will The Umpteeth Attempt To Film King’s Dark Tower Finally Succeed?

Why the Hell Can’t I Watch Murphy Brown Online?

The Most Terrifying Natural Disasters Ever Captured On Video

The Predator Gets Medieval On A Group Of Knights In This Fan Film

Why Isn’t Netflix’s New Daredevil Series Available For The Blind?

The Most Depressing Days In Daredevil’s Preposterously Sad History

What Goes Into Turning Comic Book Art Into Comic Book Action Figures

Scientists Learn A Bird Uses Tools, And Promptly Decide To Screw With It

This Warm Ocean “Blob” May Be One Cause Of North America’s Wacky Weather

The Photographer Who Took This Picture Barely Escaped With His Life

Fox Rebooting Rocky Horror Into A TV Movie, Again… We Guess… Sigh

Watch Milk Literally Climb Up This Spinning Egg

io9 Book Club Reminder: Meet 4/14 To Discuss A Darker Shade Of Magic!

The “Heroic Translators” Who Reinvented Classic Science Fiction In China

We Might Have Reached Peak Retro Figure Nonsense

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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