Behold! A Scale Model Of The Large Hadron Collider In Lego!

The Large Hadron Collider is not only a particle collider of awe-inspiring power capable of revealing the atomic connections underlying our basic reality — it’s also the inspiration for this charming Lego build from a CERN scientist, which includes all four particle detectors. University of Liverpool grad student Nathan Readioff, who is currently doing research…

New Agents Of SHIELD Poster Reveals The Bad Guys Are Gonna Get FREAKY

Oh my! Agents of SHIELD finally returns next Tuesday at 9:00 pm ET, and this new promo poster from Marvel artist Gabriele Dell’Otto promises there’s one major change coming to a certain characters — and to the show. Spoiler ahead! So the mysterious Inhuman in the hoodie? That’s Raina, who has transformed in a much…

​Why Freezing to Death Makes You Want To Get Naked

Victims of exposure and hypothermia never have a good time of it, but sometimes they engage in a behavior that’s both understandable and horrifying. It’s called “terminal burrowing behavior,” and involves losing their minds, running away, and crawling into a hole to die. Patrick Dolan and the Donner Party In the winter of 1847, the…

Watch The Trailer For Raiders, “The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made”

Back in 1982, two 11-year-old kids loved Raiders of the Lost Ark so deeply that they remade the entire film, shot for shot. Twenty years later, Eli Roth got his hands on this tape and it instantly became a “must-watch” sensation. Today, the now grown kids are getting the band back together. Not only does…

This Is The First Baby Wooly Rhinoceros Ever Discovered

Siberian hunters have stumbled upon the remains of a 10,000-year-old baby wooly rhino. It’s the first discovery of its kind, and one of only several wooly rhino specimens ever found. As reported in The Siberian Times, the rhino, dubbed “Sasha,” was about 18 months old when it died. Its wool was well preserved, while an…

It’s The 1950s And All The Men Are Zombies In The Dead Scare RPG

When a Russian bio-bomb turns most of the men in America into flesh-eating zombies, women and children have to fight to survive using any available means. The Dead Scare tabletop RPG will let you explore an alternate history, subvert gender roles, and splatter zombie heads. Dead Scare‘s Kickstarter is more than half funded, with stretch…

This Awesome Makeup Artist Transforms People Into Real Life Comic Art

Why cosplay when you could look like you’ve just stepped straight from the pages of a comic book? Lianne Moseley’s wonderful makeup creations transform people into superheroes that look more at home in comic pages than they do in the flesh. Header Image Credit: Neil Zeller Photography. All images credited as such unless otherwise stated.…

Are You Ready For An X-Rated Island Of Dr. Moreau Movie? Is Anybody?

Richard Stanley, the guy who was going to direct the legendarily terrible Island of Dr. Moreau movie starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer but got fired three days in, wants to try again. He’s finished a script for another Dr. Moreau film… and this time it’s going to be X-rated. Stanley casually mentioned this in…

On Arrow, Everyone’s Best Weapon is Honesty, And It’s Fantastic

They’ve been talking about Nanda Parbat since season one, so you know an episode entitled “Nanda Parbat” is going to be either a huge let-down or one of the season’s best offerings. I thought, for a long time, it was going to be the former. I was wrong. Digg Goes to the Wall For Oliver…

What Are Your Locale’s Most Distinct Regional Expressions?

Even when two places share a language, there are always at least a few expressions that only exist within an individual region. Today we want to know about the words, phrases, and alternate meanings that are specific to where you are. Tell us in the comments where you’re located and then list a few of…

Rare Images Of A Baby Born While Still Inside The Amniotic Sac

In what the delivery doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles described as “a moment of awe,” a baby born at 26 weeks via cesarean section entered into the world while still completely wrapped in the amniotic sac. Warning: (fairly tame) medical images to follow. Immediately after the emergency c-section, the baby, Silas Philips,…

Robert Downey Jr. Teases A Big Marvel Announcement Coming Next Month

Lego Movie 2 gets a director and the Tomb Raider reboot gets a writer. There are brand new Fantastic Four pics. And X-Men: Apocalypse may be adding another star. The women behind Agent Carter discuss their hopes for Season two. Plus Melissa Benoist explains why Supergirl is “relatable.” Spoilers, Assemble! Top image: Avengers: Age of…

These Skirts Call to All Art History Lovers

These are a great bargain for any art lover: $65 for ant one of seven designs printed on skirts, available by Retrofolie. Perfectly beautiful. See more below. There are two Klimts, three Muchas, a van Gogh, a Millais, and a Boucher. I want all of them to go with my vast array of black t-shirts.

The Ethereal Beauty of Scotland’s Fingal’s Cave

Fingal’s Cave is on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Its unique beauty is the result of Paleocene lava flow, and the cave inspired, among others, Felix Mendelssohn, Jules Verne, John Keats, August Strindberg, and Pink Floyd. Image Credit: Fingal’s Cave Staffa by dun_deagh/flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 The name itself is derived from…

Over at Kotaku, check out a gallery of the work of Lianne Moseley, who makes real people into comic book characters using makeup. It’s amazing what body paint and talent can do.

This Is How You Turn San Francisco Into Gotham City

Experimenting with black and white filmmaking and time lapse, Toby Harriman figured out a way to turn San Francisco into Gotham City. It’s a perfect example of how composing shots and using music turns a very identifiable city into a whole new one. [via Vimeo Staff Picks] Contact the author at [email protected].

Neill Blomkamp Hints The New Alien Movie Will Wipe Out Alien 3

Neill Blomkamp’s Alien movie is gaining steam really quickly. The latest news comes courtesy of a Sky Movies interview with Sigourney Weaver and Blomkamp himself, where the two of them lay out where they want this film to go. In the interview below, Blomkamp insinuates that the movie could overwrite Alien 3 entirely, saying “I…

In the New Episode of Haphead, We Finally See the Gamer Underground

io9 is proud to be bringing you new episodes of indie series Haphead every week. Created by Jim Munroe, Haphead is the story of a VR gamer in a near-future dystopian Toronto. In the sixth episode, Maxine discovers where all the underground hapheads hang out — and what they do together. What I love about…

Best light show ever. Pictured above: auroras, plus a fireball from space. The mysterious streak of lights was identified by the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA as a Chinese rocket body [NORAD ID 40363]. Photo by Rocky Raybell/Flickr. Contact the author at [email protected].

What If This ’70s Era Star Trek Sequel Series Had Actually Gotten Made?

Star Trek is one of the most wildly successful TV and movie franchises, but even it had some missteps along the way. Here’s the story of the never made Star Trek sequel series that tried to get itself off the ground almost 40 years ago — and how some of its plotlines eventually did make…