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A Movie About Science Fraud Is Killing At The Korean Box Office

A movie based on the scandal surrounding disgraced South Korean cloning expert Woo-Suk Hwang has been topping box office sales in the region since it debuted last week. Via Nature newsblog: The movie, Whistleblower, shines a sympathetic light on [Hwang], the professor who in 2004 and 2005 claimed to have created stem-cell linesfrom cloned human…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

Every Early H.R. Giger Alien Sketch Is Horrific Perfection

Imagine if Ridley Scott’s Alien had never actually gotten made, and all we had to go on to imagine the film was the concept art by H.R. Giger and others. Like Jodorowsky’s Dune. We would still know we were looking at something incredibly special, as this Giger concept art proves. Nicely printed cards of this…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Channel 4 has cancelled Utopia

Oh no. Channel 4’s dark conspiracy thriller Utopia was one of the most exciting new series coming out of the UK lately – but it won’t be coming back. The broadcaster has confirmed that the show is not being picked up for a third series. In Utopia, Dennis Kelly had crafted an intense, beautifully plotted…

Television James Whitbrook

The Incredibly Bizarre World Of Animated Soviet Propaganda Films

After the Soviet Union formed, the new country’s first animated film was a 1924 piece of propaganda films. From then until well into the 1970s, animated propaganda thrived in the USSR, offering a rare insight into the republic. Soviet Toys, 1924 Results of the Twelfth Party Congress, c. 1925 We’ll Keep Our Eyes Peeled, 1927…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Nickelodeon Expert Says the Channel Has Become “Too Diverse”

Mathew Klickstein is the author of a new history of Nickelodeon, Slimed: An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age. And he recently explained that a big reason why that “golden age” ended is because the shows became too racially diverse. Really? In an extensive interview with Pilot Viruet at Flavorpill, Klickstein explained why the 1990s…

Television Annalee Newitz

This Terrifying Photo Of Super Typhoon Vongfong Looks Fake. It’s Not.

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this incredible photograph of super typhoon Vongfang this morning, from aboard the International Space Station. “I’ve seen many from here,” Wiseman said of Vongfong, which recently became the largest, most powerful storm of 2014, “but none like this.” Awesome, in the truest sense of the word.

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Classic Doctor Who With Modern Doctor Who Music Is Strangely Perfect

Nick Acosta decided to see what would happen if he added the nu-Who’s modern score to the classic Doctor Who serials of yesteryear. The result is both strange and strangely captivating. Here’s Acosta describing the details, and why he made the vid: Watching “classic” episodes from the 60’s and 70’s makes me wish they had…

io9 Rob Bricken

Real-Life Blood Sucking Animals Are Everywhere

Whether you’re on land, at sea, or in the air, you’ll meet animals who thrive by drinking blood. Some of them even want to drink yours. Photo via MBARI

io9 Annalee Newitz

Check Out This Spectacular Hi-Res Shot Of A Boulder Resting On A Comet

This is a photograph of a giant boulder on top of another giant boulder. And by another giant boulder we mean Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image was captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera from a distance of 17.7 miles (28.5 km). Yay, finally a high-resolution image of the comet’s’ surface. The ESA’s Rosetta team have dubbed…

io9 George Dvorsky

James Earl Jones Will Voice Vader On Star Wars Rebels—And Soon

Since Star Wars Rebels is set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, it makes sense that Darth Vader could pop up from time to time. And James Earl Jones will again loan his baritone to Vader in an extended version of the pilot episode. Deadline is reporting that Star Wars Rebels: Spark…

Television Lauren Davis

Animator Drew Berry Is Here to Talk to You About Making Science Art

Drew Berry is a biomedical animator who specializes in revealing the drama behind the incredibly miniscule, yet operatic, lives of cells, molecules, and viruses. Check out a gallery of his work, and then start asking your questions about animation, microscopic drama, and anything else in the comments! Top image: DNA in the process of copying…

io9 Ria Misra

Watch How The Presence Of A Mean Adult Makes This Toddler’s Head Spin

As adults, we’ve learned to alter our behavior in the presence of angry people. But as this fascinating experiment reveals, even toddlers as young as 15 months have already figured this out. This new study from the Institute of Learning & Brain Sciences at the University of Washington reveals that children as young as 15…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Weirdest And “Sexiest” Store-Bought Halloween Costumes For 2014

It’s that time of year again — the moment when we all realize we didn’t get a Halloween costume yet. And luckily, a whole industry exists to sell us ready-made versions of popular characters. Here are the weirdest, (allegedly) sexiest and most random new costumes for sale in 2014! Note: This year, I tried to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Poster That Made An Entire Generation Obsessed With Fly Vomit

Once upon a time, this public service poster about not letting flies land on your food was everywhere in the U.K.. It’s mostly huge blocks of text, with just a tiny black-and-white image at the bottom… and it’s completely revolting. This famous ad was created by Charles Saatchi, who went on to become one of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How to Understand What You’re Seeing in Aerial Pictures of Whales

This is a fascinating interview with marine scientist John Durban, who explains how his team is using drones to monitor the health of killer whales in the waters off the coast of California. The best part is that he shows us how to understand what we’re seeing in aerial photographs of the whales. Some of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

We Saw George Clooney Battle Robots In The First Tomorrowland Clip!

George Clooney made a surprise visit to the New York Comic Con panel for Tomorrowland just to cajole Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird to show extra footage. And what they played was really intense. The teaser trailer showed main character Casey (Britt Robertson) receiving a Tomorrowland pin that transported her briefly to another world. The…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

What are Gravitons and Why Can’t We See Them?

Gravitons are tiny particles that carry the “force” of gravity. They are what brings you back down to Earth when you jump. So why have we never seen them, and why are they so impossibly complicated we need string theory to figure them out? Find out here! Photons, Gluons, and Gravitons Light comes streaming at…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

You Wish You Were As Happy As This Otter Playing With A Feather

European otters were nearly driven to extinction in the Netherlands, due to water pollution and habitat loss. In 2002, around 30 of them were introduced into the wild, in an effort to regrow their population. If this video is any indication, they’ve definitely made progress. As the blog, The Dodo, reports: After several worrisome months…

io9 Mark Strauss

Doctored 3D Models Of The Rosetta Comet Are the Best

As the Rosetta spacecraft acquires more precise measurements of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, scientists are able to create detailed 3D models. Last week, the ESA made that data available for downloading, allowing people to make their own comet replicas—sometimes, with a few creative embellishments. To get a sense of how much more detailed the measurements have…

io9 Mark Strauss

The Manhattan Apartment Farthest From Any Subway Costs $18.9-Million

How far do New Yorkers walk to get to their nearest subway station? Ben Wellington calculated the distance from each of Manhattan’s station entrances to every one of the borough’s residential buildings, and found the Manhattan address with the longest subway-schlep of all. Wellington – a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute’s City &…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A Movie About Science Fraud Is Killing At The Korean Box Office

Every Early H.R. Giger Alien Sketch Is Horrific Perfection

Channel 4 has cancelled Utopia

The Incredibly Bizarre World Of Animated Soviet Propaganda Films

Nickelodeon Expert Says the Channel Has Become “Too Diverse”

This Terrifying Photo Of Super Typhoon Vongfong Looks Fake. It’s Not.

Classic Doctor Who With Modern Doctor Who Music Is Strangely Perfect

Real-Life Blood Sucking Animals Are Everywhere

Check Out This Spectacular Hi-Res Shot Of A Boulder Resting On A Comet

James Earl Jones Will Voice Vader On Star Wars Rebels—And Soon

Animator Drew Berry Is Here to Talk to You About Making Science Art

Watch How The Presence Of A Mean Adult Makes This Toddler’s Head Spin

The Weirdest And “Sexiest” Store-Bought Halloween Costumes For 2014

The Poster That Made An Entire Generation Obsessed With Fly Vomit

How to Understand What You’re Seeing in Aerial Pictures of Whales

We Saw George Clooney Battle Robots In The First Tomorrowland Clip!

What are Gravitons and Why Can’t We See Them?

You Wish You Were As Happy As This Otter Playing With A Feather

Doctored 3D Models Of The Rosetta Comet Are the Best

The Manhattan Apartment Farthest From Any Subway Costs $18.9-Million

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

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