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This Is What Our Sun Will Look Like 8 Billion Years From Now

Behold Jupiter’s Ghost — a spectacular remnant of a star that was once quite similar to our own. Located 3,000 light-years away, it’s a sneak preview of what our solar system could look like once our Sun enters into its death throes. Our Sun is not big enough to go supernova. Stars with masses from…

io9 George Dvorsky

Dissecting The Secrets Inside The New Game Of Thrones Season 5 Trailer

Having taken the weekend to sift through the mysteries and the glories of the newest trailer for Game of Thrones’ fifth season, we feel ready to finally get into the details of what awaits us when the show returns on April 12th. So watch the trailer one more time, and then join us for the…

io9 Rob Bricken

Sony’s Already Making A Film of the Not-Yet-Released Comic Descender

We keep on hearing of film studios planning movies for unreleased movies, and now the trend’s extending to the deserving world of comics. Sony came out on top of a bidding war for the rights to Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s Descender. Both Lemire (writer) and Nguyen (artist) will be on hand to produce the…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

What’s Unique About Where You Live?

A lot of things about the places we live are becoming more and more the same the world over. And yet there are still some things that are unique to the area you find them in. Today, we want to know what makes where you live distinct. Maybe it’s something about the geography of the…

io9 Ria Misra

Researchers Discover The Only Known Michelangelo Bronzes In Existence

Researchers at Cambridge University say these two stunning statues are the early works of Michelangelo, making them the only surviving bronzes crafted by the famed Italian artist. The two statues, titled “Nude Bacchants Riding Panthers,” have spent over a century in relative obscurity, but a team of international experts led by the University of Cambridge…

io9 George Dvorsky

An X-Men: First Class Character Returns For Apocalypse

Does another Lego set reveal Ant-Man’s true villain? An Orphan Black star might be headed to a galaxy far, far away. Plus, a secret from Malcolm Merlyn’s past will be revealed on Arrow, and yet another alum from the original Flash TV show is making their way to the new CW series. Spoilers Get! Top…

Television James Whitbrook

The Things Adaptations of King Arthur Should Be Including

King Arthur, Excalibur, Merlin, Lancelot, and Guinevere are stamped hard into the popular consciousness. As touchstones, they don’t need a lot of explaining when writer’s choose to dump them into whatever story they want to tell. And yet, there’s a lot of things we haven’t seen nearly enough of when that happens. There are so…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

See The True Strength and Power of Undersea Currents In This Video

“Ocean Gravity” is a project by director and underwater cameraman Julie Gautier and shows diver Guillaume Néry being propelled through the Tiputa pass, north of Tahiti. If you thought that life moved slower under the waves, here’s proof that it doesn’t. Ontheir website, Néry says about this film: my diving has always propelled my imagination…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

The Heroes Reborn Teaser: Zachary Levi and Jack Coleman See Magic Aurora

We’ve got a brief new teaser from Heroes Reborin showing our old friend Horned-Rimmed Glasses observing someone with some new powers far up north. If he’s up to anything like he was back when Heroes the original flavor started, that’s not good news. Joining the returning Jack Coleman is recently announced new castmember Zachary Levi.…

Trailers Katharine Trendacosta

Does Anyone Have Any Idea What Is Happening In The Tomorrowland Trailer?

Another short look at Brad Bird’s mysterious Tomorrowland was released today, and unlike the trailer, we got a much better look at the land that George Clooney keeps talking about. I still say that, when she sees it from the field, there’s a very Wizard of Oz-like tone to this. Even though this is shorter…

Trailers Katharine Trendacosta

Texas Boy Suspended For ‘Threatening’ Classmate With The One Ring

A fourth grader named Aiden Steward was suspended Friday, after school officials determined he had threatened to use his magic ring to make another boy disappear. Here are the particulars, from The Odessa American: His father, Jason Steward, said the family had been to see “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” last weekend.…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

Jurassic World Trailer Shows Off Chris Pratt’s Raptor Wrangling Skills

Oh dear sweet jesus the new Jurassic World trailer just revealed a whole lot of ridiculous plot. Remember that super smart new genetically enhanced dinosaur well, “it’s killing for sport.” Plus more footage Chris Pratt and his raptor bike gang. Look, if you had any doubt where this Jurassic movie would stand in dinosaur franchise,…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

You’ll Have To Think Like A Pirate To Solve This Week’s Puzzle

Pirates, of course, are notoriously greedy – but they’re also incredibly shrewd. And don’t forget, they’ll kill you, if given the chance. Sunday Puzzle #18: A Puzzle For Pirates This week’s puzzle was proposed by reader William Murray. It’s a classic puzzle, and comes in a variety of forms, but the version I’ve included here…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Is There Another Version Of You, Out There In A Parallel Universe?

Is there more than one of you out there, somewhere? In a fascinating piece over at Medium, astrophysicist Ethan Siegal waxes mathematical, cosmological, and philosophical on multiverse theory, and its implications for all the iterations of you that may or may not exist: …would it be possible that there’s a Universe out there where everything…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Luminous Fruits & Veggies, by Radu Zaciu

Photographer Radu Zaciu hollowed out ordinary fruits and vegetables and replaced their insides with light bulbs. His photo series, “The Light Inside,” captures what these everyday edibles look like with their new, luminous cores, revealing the structural subtleties in their pulp, their skin, their leaves, and their fractal florets. All images featured by kind permission…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Watch What Happens When You Stick Buckyball Magnets In A Blender

Buckyballs are the small, spherical, ridiculously fun, neodynium magnets that last year were recalled for posing “a substantial risk of injury and death to children and teenagers.” Here’s what happens when you combine a hefty lump of these high-powered magnets with a high-powered blender. [Blendtec via Laughing Squid]

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A Baleen Whale Skull Conducts Sound ‘Like An Acoustic Antenna’

Researchers used computer models and high-powered simulations to confirm that whales’ skulls have evolved to act “like an acoustic antenna,” amplifying and transmitting low-frequency sounds (hypothesized to be important in long-range communication) toward the ears. Above: Left lateral view of the skull bones in a fin whale, via Cranford and Krysl Erin Blakemore describes how…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

For Patients with Parkinson’s Disease, Expensive Placebo Works Better

In a recent study, an “expensive” salt solution was shown to to be significantly more effective at managing the symptoms of patients with Parkinson’s disease than an “inexpensive” one. The salt solutions were identical placebos. Scientific American’s Karen Hopkins summarizes the study’s design and findings: To examine whether the perceived cost could be a factor,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

David Duchovny Hopes To Return As Denise Bryson In Twin Peaks

First X-Files, now this. The new Twin Peaks is set to premiere some time in 2016, and members of the original cast are slowly signing on for the show’s return. Will David Duchovny reprise his role as DEA agent Denise Bryson? “Seems like it,” Duchovny told the L.A. Times, in response to a question tacked…

Television Robbie Gonzalez

The Tobacco Smoke Enema: A Dubious 18C Method For Reviving The Drowned

Via “A new method of relieving such persons as are thought to be suffocated, or drowned,” a hopefully titled document published in 1748 by French physician Jean-Jacques Bruhier, comes what today seems a pretty hopeless method of relieving such persons as are thought to be suffocated, or drowned, namely: the tobacco smoke enema. By kind…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Is What Our Sun Will Look Like 8 Billion Years From Now

Dissecting The Secrets Inside The New Game Of Thrones Season 5 Trailer

Sony’s Already Making A Film of the Not-Yet-Released Comic Descender

What’s Unique About Where You Live?

Researchers Discover The Only Known Michelangelo Bronzes In Existence

An X-Men: First Class Character Returns For Apocalypse

The Things Adaptations of King Arthur Should Be Including

See The True Strength and Power of Undersea Currents In This Video

The Heroes Reborn Teaser: Zachary Levi and Jack Coleman See Magic Aurora

Does Anyone Have Any Idea What Is Happening In The Tomorrowland Trailer?

Texas Boy Suspended For ‘Threatening’ Classmate With The One Ring

Jurassic World Trailer Shows Off Chris Pratt’s Raptor Wrangling Skills

You’ll Have To Think Like A Pirate To Solve This Week’s Puzzle

Is There Another Version Of You, Out There In A Parallel Universe?

Luminous Fruits & Veggies, by Radu Zaciu

Watch What Happens When You Stick Buckyball Magnets In A Blender

A Baleen Whale Skull Conducts Sound ‘Like An Acoustic Antenna’

For Patients with Parkinson’s Disease, Expensive Placebo Works Better

David Duchovny Hopes To Return As Denise Bryson In Twin Peaks

The Tobacco Smoke Enema: A Dubious 18C Method For Reviving The Drowned

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

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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