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What Is Howard Stark Hiding in Agent Carter?

Art from Avengers: Age of Ultron indicates a showdown between two of the new characters. Weta confirms that Batman v. Superman will have a huge standalone scene that they’re working on. Plus a look ahead to the rest of The Walking Dead season five. Spoilers now! Top image: Agents of SHIELD Batman v. Superman It’s…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Nice Solar System, Would Travel Around Its Star Again

The main sequence star Sol sits at the center of a pretty nice system on the outer edge of a spiral galaxy. I did a full revolution on its third planet, and the view was great. Definitely up for another one. This lovely image of Sol’s corona comes to you from NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Change That Could Have Saved Spider-Man 3

After reading Sam Raimi’s explanation of just went wrong with Spider-Man 3, a lot of the blame for the comparatively lackluster movie fell on the shoulders of one character: Peter Parker’s symbiotic frenemy, Venom. But could one change have saved the movie? https://gizmodo.com/sam-raimi-the-problems-with-spider-man-3-were-my-mist-1676733026 The problem wasn’t necessarily the introduction of Venom’s character, argued some commenters.…

io9 Ria Misra

If Only The Hobbit Was As Fast As This Music Remix

Here is a very dancey mix made entirely out of dialogue and sound effects from The Hobbit. The best part is when Gandalf shows up around 1:12 — and then things really start getting weird. If only the actual movies moved this fast. Dragon! Youtube tribute created by Glover.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Physicists Tackle Our Favorite Science Fictional Debate

This debate comes up every time I watch a time travel movie: Is the timeline fixed, or is it constantly changing depending on what we do? Turns out that this is also an argument among physicists, some of whom believe the passage of time is illusion — while others view it as very real, and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

These Maps Reveal How Cities Will Erode Over Time

A digital artist known as Chaotic Atmospheres has run city maps through World Terrain, a software system that simulates real-world geological events like erosion. The results are these evocative “erosion flow maps” that imagine what might happen to cities if they flowed into the environments around them. Tokyo, Japan Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Paris, France…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Monarch Butterflies May Soon Be an Endangered Species

A sharp decline in North America’s monarch butterfly population (90 percent in the last 20 years!) means the species may soon be headed for protected status. On December 29, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced it’s “launching a scientific review to determine whether the monarch butterfly should be protected by law under the Endangered…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

The Best Science Books of 2014

There’s no better way to learn about science than by reading a book that makes it relevant to your everyday life. That’s why 2014’s best science books show us how science and culture are interconnected, two threads in the same story, braided together in ways that can be funny, engrossing, and often deeply moving. Here…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

What Is Your Prediction For 2015?

We’re nearing our final hours of 2014 and the not-so-distant future of 2015 is looming closer than ever on our horizon. What do you predict the year ahead will bring? Maybe you have a prediction for something about your own personal year ahead. Or maybe you want to make a prediction about a new or…

io9 Ria Misra

Charlie Brooker Gives You The Year’s “Reasons To Be Fearful”

The media critic and creator of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker, does his own version of Ian Dury and the Blockheads’ “Reasons to be Cheerful” called “Reasons to be Fearful” — it’s a pretty good rundown of why everything sucked in 2014. Plus a few reasons to hope for 2015. via Observation Deck

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Japan’s New Attack On Titan Theme Park Exhibit Looks Completely Insane

Are you 1) heading to Japan in the next few months, 2) an Attack on Titan fan and 3) not utterly freaked out by the above picture? If you said yes to all three questions, then you might consider stopping by Universal Studios Japan for an Attack on Titan-themed attraction that will blow your tiny,…

io9 Rob Bricken

My God, It’s Full Of Cats! The Very Best Artwork Of Cats In Space

Space is the greatest mystery, and our ultimate challenge as a species. Cats, meanwhile, are our close allies and companions, who nevertheless remain a great cosmic mystery. Mash the two up, and you have endless fascination. Here’s our favorite artwork showing cats… in space! Top image from Simplicity, TV spot created by Framestore Space Cat…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Only Movie You Need To Watch Tonight

So you spent all of Christmas in a slasher-movie frenzy. Why not continue the streak with 1980’s deliciously trashy, punk-inflected Golan-Globus production New Year’s Evil? “I’m going to commit murder at mid-e-night!” “CALL ME EEEEVIL!”

Movies Cheryl Eddy

We’re Getting A Mysterious Game Of Thrones Special In February

Can’t wait until April to get your Game of Thrones fix with the season 5 premiere? Well, can you hold out until February? Because that’s when HBO will be airing some kind of 30-minute GoT special, titled “A Day in the Life.” It airs on Sunday, February 8th, at 7:30 p.m. ET, and according to…

io9 Rob Bricken

A Weird Phenomenon That Might Change How We See Neutrinos

Neutrinos are the ninjas of the universe. They don’t interact with other particles very often, but when they do, they obliterate them. Until now. Scientists have observed a new way that neutrinos interact with the world. Neutrinos in the Universe Neutrinos have, roughly, the size of an electron, but without the electric charge of an…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Watch As The Space Station Passes Across The Face Of The Moon

As the third brightest object in our sky, spotting the ISS as it flies above our heads is a goal that can be firmly within our grasp. But what does it look like when the ISS, on a very rare occasion, crosses paths with our own Moon? Astronomical photographer Gadi Eidelheit grabbed this incredibly brief…

io9 Ria Misra

10 Futurama Jokes That Will Make You Smarter

When your TV show’s writing staff includes folks with PhDs in maths and sciences, you’re bound to end up with some spectacularly nerdy jokes. And if you dig a little deeper into some of the jokes in Futurama, you won’t just laugh — you may actually learn something. The Futurama writers had a rule that…

Television Lauren Davis

How Long Can A Superhero Live For?

Comic Books are home to immortal titans and vulnerable people alike (and, being comic books, they pop their clogs all the time anyway) – but while their fictional stories will last forever, how long would their actual lifespan be? This handy infographic covers how long a few of our favourite heroes would live for. Heroes…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Gaze In Awe At These Stunning Photographs Of World Libraries

Here’s one for the book lovers (i.e., probably everyone reading this). Photographer Franck Bohbot’s stunning architecture photos have captured grand movie theaters and glowing city signs, among other subjects. His latest work in progress is “House of Books,” a lush tribute to the libraries of the world. The artist, whose shot of the Bibliothèque Nationale…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

These Are The Best Title Sequences Of The Year

Home to all gorgeous movie, video game and television titles sequences, Art of the Title has just revealed their top 10 titles of the year. And we have to agree, this is a quality list. Also on the list: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (screen shot above thank to Art of the Title) and a…

Movies Meredith Woerner

What Is Howard Stark Hiding in Agent Carter?

Nice Solar System, Would Travel Around Its Star Again

The Change That Could Have Saved Spider-Man 3

If Only The Hobbit Was As Fast As This Music Remix

Physicists Tackle Our Favorite Science Fictional Debate

These Maps Reveal How Cities Will Erode Over Time