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What Happens When You Expose a Peep to a Vacuum?

Trap a peep under a bell jar and suck out all the air with a vacuum pump. What do you think happens to the peep? (Hint: It doesn’t end well for our marshmallowy friend.) Photo Credit: Kate Ter Haar CC BY 2.0 Bad Astronomer-cum-peep-slayer Phil Plait recently had a chance to answer this question at…

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Watch the Brand New Batman Beyond Short, Featuring Kevin Conroy

We showed you the preview earlier this week, now watch the full version of Darwyn Cooke’s Batman Beyond animated short, featuring Kevin Conroy and Will Friedle. DC’s been rolling out all manner of awesome material this month in honor of Batman’s 75th anniversary. Can’t wait to see what the rest of April holds.

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Our First Look at Christina Hendricks in Ryan Gosling’s Monster Movie

Ryan Gosling’s Lost River (formerly How to Catch a Monster) is being publicized as a dark fantasy movie with some pretty big-name stars, including Christina Hendricks and Matt Smith. Here are the first two images from the film, including one of a woman (presumably Hendricks) standing before a rather ominous-looking door. The other image features……

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

Check Out The First Clip From Star Wars: Rebels!

Here it is, folks – fresh from its WonderCon debut, our very first glimpse of actual footage from Star Wars: Rebels! Executive Producer Dave Filoni and Vanessa Marshall, who voices Hera in the video above, debuted the clip earlier this afternoon: Hera, captain of the Ghost, pilots her starship during a battle with two TIE…

Television Robbie Gonzalez

Announcing the 2014 Hugo Award Nominees

The nominees for the 2014 Hugo Awards have been announced! This year’s nominating ballot saw a record-shattering 1,923 valid nominations. The winners will be announced on Sunday, August 17, during the Hugo Awards Ceremony at Loncon 3. Hit the jump for the full list! Today’s shortlist announcement was streamed live from the UK to various…

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Just How Stupid is Portland for Dumping 38-Million Gallons of Water?

A teenager peed into one of Portland, Oregon’s drinking water reservoirs – a 38-million gallon repository of good, potable H2O – and now the city intends to drain it. This is a very, very dumb idea. Above: Mt. Tabour Reservoir #1, the body of water into which the teenager peed. Photo Credit: viper007bond via DeviantART…

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This Scene From Last Night’s Continuum Actually Wrecked Our Hearts

We expect killer action and dystopian insanity from Continuum, the Canadian time-travel adventure show. But we don’t usually expect to get punched in the heart, the way we did by this scene — which also features a love triangle The CW would never dream of having. Spoilers ahead… So in last night’s Continuum (in the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Most Amazing Cosplay From WonderCon: Day One!

Every year, the WonderCon cosplayers keep astonishing us, both with their attention to detail and with their creativity. You keep thinking you’ve seen it all — and then you see what people have come up with this year, and it’s a brand new delight all over again. Here’s our favorite cosplay from WonderCon day one.…

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New TV Spot Gives Us Our Best Glimpse of Godzilla Yet

Here’s our clearest look yet at the big beastie, from the waist up. It’s a brief glimpse, but a glimpse, nonetheless. Here’s that closing shot again, this time with the exposure levels adjusted for a bit more light. Just look at the details in Godzilla’s body: Word has it we’ll see even more footage from…

Trailers Robbie Gonzalez

The Footage of SpaceX’s First Falcon 9 Reusable Flight Test is Gorgeous

You thought SpaceX’s Grasshopper was impressive? Grasshopper was just the beginning. Behold, the first flight test of the company’s Falcon 9 Reusable Launch Vehicle. SpaceX currently uses a non-reusable version of the Falcon 9 to launch its Dragon capsules into low-Earth orbit, on commercial resupply missions to the International Space Station. In fact, the company…

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Another Fireball Meteor Has Been Caught on Camera Over Russia

Late last night, a suspected meteor tore through the skies over the northern Russian city of Murmansk. Some dashcams supposedly caught the fireball on film, but we can’t help wondering if this footage is actually real. Here’s what we know: Russia Today is reporting that most observers identified the blaze of light as a meteor,…

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Our New Favorite Tumblr: Texts From TNG

Finally, a version of Texts From Last Night we can all rally behind. The whole tumblr – all 44 pages of it – is riddled with some total gems, many of which, like TFLN, are reader-submitted. Some highlights: I’ll be perfectly honest: Most of my favorites involve Data. Check out the full lineup at textsfromtng.

Television Robbie Gonzalez

Watch A Freaky Stop-Motion Nature Film Set On A Post-Apocalyptic World

If you want to feel transported to a truly alien world, take some time out your day to watch OMEGA. It follows the sole predator on a devastated world populated entirely by mechanical creatures. Directed by Eva Franz and Andreas Goralczyk, OMEGA uses a combination of stop-motion and CG animation to tell its story of…

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In Case You’d Forgotten How Awesome The Faculty Was…

…there are a bunch of clips on Youtube. Like this one, where the plucky high school students shoot the Principal in the head and then cause her to melt into a puddle of fizzy goop. There’s also Jon Stewart’s “eye sore,” and the head on tentacles. And more! I had to subscribe to HBO this…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Abandoned Pyramid of North Dakota

It looks like the remains of some futuristic cult. This slowly-eroding cement pyramid in Nekoma, North Dakota is all that’s left of a $6 billion nuclear launch facility created as part of the Safeguard Program. The pyramid itself was a radar system for tracking any incoming Soviet missiles that might be coming in over Canada.…

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Researchers Clone Stem Cells From Human Adults

Scientists from South Korea have devised a technique for cloning adult stem cells that doesn’t involve the destruction of human embryos. The resulting stem cells, which are highly personalized, could be used to treat illnesses such as heart disease and blindness — but the technique could also be used to clone adults. It’s a process…

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What’s Your Favorite David Attenborough Moment?

The BBC will celebrate the life and work of Sir David Attenborough all next week, with its creatively titled #AttenboroughWeek. To help kick things off, the folks at EarthUnplugged asked a bunch of YouTubers to share and discuss their favorite Attenborough moments. My personal favorite Attenborough moment? It’s a four-way tie between the entire Planet…

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San Francisco, 1906, Just Before the Water Gave Out

108 years ago today, San Francisco was a hellish mix of smoke and flame. After the famous earthquake shook the city, broken gas mains fueled a fire that set downtown ablaze. In this picture, you can see what it looked like just before the city’s water ran dry. A combination of poor planning and ill-fated…

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Lewis Carroll Hated Fame So Much, He Sometimes Regretted Writing Alice

Charles Dodgson, the author and mathematician better known as Lewis Carroll, wrote about a young girl lost in surreal dreamscapes. But Dodgson had trouble navigating treacherous landscape of his own: literary fame. The author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass wrote in 1891 letter to one Mrs. Symonds, explaining his particular discomfort…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Karen Russell’s Imaginary Nonprofit Saves The World But Costs Your Soul

There’s been a wave of fiction about an insomnia epidemic, as if some collective anxiety is bubbling up. Most recently, Kenneth Calhoun’s Black Moon freaked us out. But Karen Russell’s new novella “Sleep Donation” is still something pretty unique: a look at people in the nonprofit sector, struggling with insoluble ethics. Very minor spoilers ahead……

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What Happens When You Expose a Peep to a Vacuum?

Watch the Brand New Batman Beyond Short, Featuring Kevin Conroy

Our First Look at Christina Hendricks in Ryan Gosling’s Monster Movie

Check Out The First Clip From Star Wars: Rebels!

Announcing the 2014 Hugo Award Nominees

Just How Stupid is Portland for Dumping 38-Million Gallons of Water?

This Scene From Last Night’s Continuum Actually Wrecked Our Hearts

The Most Amazing Cosplay From WonderCon: Day One!

New TV Spot Gives Us Our Best Glimpse of Godzilla Yet

The Footage of SpaceX’s First Falcon 9 Reusable Flight Test is Gorgeous

Another Fireball Meteor Has Been Caught on Camera Over Russia

Our New Favorite Tumblr: Texts From TNG

Watch A Freaky Stop-Motion Nature Film Set On A Post-Apocalyptic World

In Case You’d Forgotten How Awesome The Faculty Was…

The Abandoned Pyramid of North Dakota

Researchers Clone Stem Cells From Human Adults

What’s Your Favorite David Attenborough Moment?

San Francisco, 1906, Just Before the Water Gave Out

Lewis Carroll Hated Fame So Much, He Sometimes Regretted Writing Alice

Karen Russell’s Imaginary Nonprofit Saves The World But Costs Your Soul

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

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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