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Toast The Defeat Of Your Enemies With Actual Klingon Bloodwine

Oh indeed — you can now actually purchase tlhIngan ‘Iw HIq, better known as Klingon Bloodwine. Given the fact that it comes from another planet and the future, it’s quite reasonably priced at $20 a bottle here. The Bloodwine is being made by same people who made that limited edition Trek wine last year, and…

io9 Rob Bricken

A New ReBoot Series May Be On Its Way, And It’s Not A Reboot

The creators of the beloved, Canadian, and CG-animated cartoon have announced that they’re finally making a new ReBoot series, and I find it quite appropriate that although details are scarce, it sounds like it’ll take place in the exact same world of the original! It’s titled ReBoot: The Guardian Code, and Rainmaker animation studio president…

Television Rob Bricken

Happy Black Hole Friday!

You probably already knew today is Black Hole Friday. To celebrate, NASA and other agencies have been posting black hole stuff. Like the above, an artist’s conception of a black hole five times the mass of the one at our galaxy’s center, in a superdense galaxy 1/500th the diameter of our own, the M60-UCD1 dwarf…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

That Time A ’70s Cult Scifi Movie Got An Oscar (For A Different Movie)

The movie Starcrash, is remembered mostly as a lesson in how not to do space opera. What most people don’t remember it as is Oscar-winning. But it was. Except, the award was given seven years after its release and was issued in the name of a different movie. How did it happen? Here’s the story.…

Movies Ria Misra

The Wonder Material Graphene Could Be Used To Make Powerful Body Armor

Engineers in the U.S. have shown that graphene — a remarkable material that’s only 10 to 100 nanometers thick — could make for excellent body armor, absorbing 10 times the amount of energy than steel before failing. Since its discovery in 2006, graphene has been hailed as the next big thing in materials technology. At…

io9 George Dvorsky

xkcd Explains Why Brain Scans Can Be Misleading

So much of neuroscience is now based entirely on fMRI studies. But as Randall Munroe’s latest webcomic points out, brain scans are not without their limitations. Indeed, as important and illuminating as fMRI studies are, they often don’t tell the whole story. More on this here, here, and here.

io9 George Dvorsky

Time Travel Short Shows How You Could End Up Fighting Yourself For Love

This charming short film from Swedish filmmakers Andreas Climent and André Hedetoft is romantic comedy with a time traveling basis. Forgoing the usual knots of paradoxes and the dangers of your own timeline, “Double Trouble” asks, “Would you let another you woo your true love?” The film was successfully financed by Kickstarter last year. Learn…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

I Refuse To Be Friends With Anybody Who Doesn’t Love This Book

It’s okay to disagree with your friends or loved ones about certain things. But still, some things are sacred. Which science fiction or fantasy book is so essential, you’d refuse to be friends with (or to date) someone who didn’t like it? Please include a book cover, book trailer, piece of fan art, or other…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Your Flying Robotic Waiter Will Be Right With You

Flying quadcopters are scheduled to start serving customers in Singapore restaurants by the end of next year. Sounds great, but do we still need to leave a tip? The robots are being deployed to help alleviate Singapore’s labor crunch and to take away mundane tasks of serving food and drinks, “allowing human waiters to focus…

io9 George Dvorsky

Why Everything You Know About Wolf Packs Is Wrong

The alpha wolf is a figure that looms large in our imagination. The notion of a supreme pack leader, who fought his way to dominance and reigns superior to the other wolves in his pack, is huge in pop culture. And this idea informs how many people understand wolf behavior. But the alpha wolf doesn’t…

io9 Lauren Davis

The New Supergirl Series Could Cross Over With Flash And Arrow

This would be a first for DC, which has four shows based on comic book characters on TV right now. Thus far, the only shows sharing a universe have been the two sharing a network. But according to Greg Berlanti, that could be about to change. In the November 5th print issue of Entertainment Weekly,…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Everything You Need To Know About NASA’s Next Deep Space Mission

NASA is dreaming big and working hard. Orion is the result, the first step in opening up deep space exploration to humans — and hopefully, bringing people to Mars. The spacecraft undergoes its first test flight next week, and here’s everything you need to know about it. https://gizmodo.com/meet-orion-nasas-new-deep-space-explorer-1663858997

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What Doctor Who is telling us about the changing ways we watch TV

Earlier today, the BBC released new internal ratings figures for Doctor Who’s most recent season, and they show it’s becoming a growing trend that less and less people are watching live. But this isn’t just happening to Doctor Who, it’s happening for TV all over – especially when it comes to genre TV. To start…

Television James Whitbrook

12 Ways Airports Are Actually Getting Better

Airports are coming full circle. Back in the golden age of air travel, flying was a luxurious experience. And then, after 9/11, the industry sank to its lowest. Tightened security and the rising cost of fuel made air travel almost excruciating. But it’s getting better, especially at airports. Top image: Robert Churchill/Getty Images Although wait…

io9 Tracy Staedter - Discovery News

Bad Lip-Reading Turns Hunger Games: Catching Fire Into Musical Mayhem

There aren’t many things that would get me to stop watching the new Force Awakens trailer over and over again, but a new Bad Lip-Reading is one of them. This time they bring Katniss’ complete insanity and the cast’s penchant for breaking into song to the forefront, and it’s as hilariously ridiculous as usual. This…

io9 Rob Bricken

io9 Newsstand: Best Stories of the Week for November 24 – 29

In this week’s stories, the characters fall through space, get trapped in poems, and pilot zeppelins in six-hour shifts. If you’re still feeling sluggish from yesterday’s feasting, just relax and settle in for a read. The Black Friday sales are never that great, anyway. The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly,…

io9 K. Tempest Bradford

Two Friends Obsessed With GoldenEye Enact Their Own James Bond Mission

Two friends have spent evening after evening playing GoldenEye, but now that one of them has a job in Russia, they’re about to be separated for the first time. But first, they need to steal a package from a shipping facility, and they decide they’ll do it (sort of) like James Bond would. Matt MacDonald…

io9 Lauren Davis

A Shot-For-Shot Dissection Of All The Clues In The Star Wars Trailer

J.J. Abrams has released the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and now that we’re done screaming and crying all at once, we’re ready to break this thing down. Behold our shot-for-shot, spoiler- and speculation-filled dissection of the new Star Wars trailer. Warning: a lot of the links have unconfirmed spoilers in them. And…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Philae May Have Collided With A Crater During Its Second Touchdown

Analysis of the comet lander’s data suggests it bounced at least three times, and not twice as earlier reported. Data collected by Philae during its descent and subsequent bounces is being used by ESA team members to reconstruct the lander’s journey to its final resting place on Comet 67P. They’re analyzing perturbations of the magnetic…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Babadook Is The Best Movie You’ll Only Want To Watch Once

The Babadook is one of the best horror movies we’ve seen in years, with a clever structure and a strong focus on character. But this movie will also put you through the wringer. Emotionally, psychologically. You’ll be thinking about it for days, but you may not want to see this masterpiece twice. Very minor spoilers…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Toast The Defeat Of Your Enemies With Actual Klingon Bloodwine

A New ReBoot Series May Be On Its Way, And It’s Not A Reboot

Happy Black Hole Friday!

That Time A ’70s Cult Scifi Movie Got An Oscar (For A Different Movie)

The Wonder Material Graphene Could Be Used To Make Powerful Body Armor

xkcd Explains Why Brain Scans Can Be Misleading

Time Travel Short Shows How You Could End Up Fighting Yourself For Love

I Refuse To Be Friends With Anybody Who Doesn’t Love This Book

Your Flying Robotic Waiter Will Be Right With You

Why Everything You Know About Wolf Packs Is Wrong

The New Supergirl Series Could Cross Over With Flash And Arrow

Everything You Need To Know About NASA’s Next Deep Space Mission

What Doctor Who is telling us about the changing ways we watch TV

12 Ways Airports Are Actually Getting Better

Bad Lip-Reading Turns Hunger Games: Catching Fire Into Musical Mayhem

io9 Newsstand: Best Stories of the Week for November 24 – 29

Two Friends Obsessed With GoldenEye Enact Their Own James Bond Mission

A Shot-For-Shot Dissection Of All The Clues In The Star Wars Trailer

Philae May Have Collided With A Crater During Its Second Touchdown

The Babadook Is The Best Movie You’ll Only Want To Watch Once

‘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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