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Cryptozoologicon Could Revolutionize the Field of Monster Studies

What happens when a well-respected paleontologist and two science artists create a book about monsters? You get Cryptozoologicon, a brilliant, funny book that conjures up the magic of your favorite cryptids, from chupacabra to the yeti, while also subjecting them to scientific scrutiny. This is perhaps the greatest, and most beautifully illustrated, work of speculative…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

It’s official: They’re making a Preacher TV show

The wondrously grim and epically bloody comic book series Preacher, is filming a pilot for AMC. Hell yes. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (who worked on This is the End together) and Breaking Bad’s Sam Catlin will all work together to adapt Vertigo’s acclaimed series. Created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the book follows…

Television Meredith Woerner

This cyborg mystery novel is what Intelligence could have been

One of the reasons Intelligence has fizzled is that it took a solid premise—a government agent with a chip in brain—and failed to do anything interesting with it. K.B. Spangler’s novel Digital Divide, on the other hand, takes the idea of cyborg agents and runs with it in a tale of murder and anti-cyborg prejudice.…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Real Life Logan’s Run happening in San Francisco this weekend!

OK, this is pretty cool. There’s going to be an organized Logan’s Run chase this weekend in the streets of San Francisco. Some folks will be designated Runners, while others will be designated Sandmen, hunting them down. Gabe Smedresman and Catherine Herdlick of The Multiverse Council have concocted a huge public event, based on both…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Brain Scans Reveal When Your Decisions Are Getting Risky

For the first time, scientists have shown that they can predict when people will make risky decisions based on brain activity patterns. Could this lead to a world where we consult brain scans to predict whether we’re making a risky choice or not? Our lives revolve around choices, where we must sometimes choose between a…

io9 Joseph Bennington-Castro

A mind-blowing gallery of the best science visualizations from 2013

The winners of the 2013 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge have been announced, and as always, they’re simply amazing. The contest, which is now in its 11th year, is sponsored jointly by the journal Science and the U.S. National Science Foundation (check out last year’s winners here). It honors scientists and artists who create…

io9 George Dvorsky

Here’s a chicken wearing a prosthetic tail to walk like a dinosaur

You already know about the evolutionary areas of overlap between dinosaurs and modern-day birds. Now one group of researchers is using those similarities for science, by attaching a prosthetic tail to a chicken to study how dinosaurs might have walked. Top Image: A chicken wearing a prosthetic dinosaur tail / via video at PLOS ONE…

io9 Ria Misra

Unusual Brown Dwarf Star Has Red Skies

Brown dwarfs are not quite stars and not quite planets. They are much larger than gas giant planets but fall just short of being large enough to trigger hydrogen fusion. Thus the name “brown dwarf,” because they are dark bodies, not generating enough energy to glow like a star. One brown dwarf with the catchy…

io9 Ron Miller

Bo and Tamsin are dark avengers on Lost Girl

This is the Lost Girl episode I’ve been waiting for all season. Tamsin returns, Bo is a hot badass, there’s a mystery to solve, we get a sex scene in a boxing ring, and a Spice Girls song. Wait, what? Before we dive into the episode, I want to mention the interesting discussion in the…

Television Ed Grabianowski

Watch the student films scifi directors made before they were famous

Everyone has to start somewhere, and for many directors, that start was in short student films. Let’s dive way back into the catalogue of science fiction, fantasy, and horror directors and see the films that they made when they first sat in the director’s chair. Student films often contain seeds of directors’ future careers. Michael…

Movies Lauren Davis

Frozen’s “Let It Go” as sung by the cast of Star Trek is a delight

We already lovedthe original version of Frozen’s “Let it Go”. So how to improve on it?Well, adding Captain Jean Luc Picard, the Borg Queen, and a couple exploding spaceships is a pretty great start. The song and video are the work of Debs & Errol, who reworked the lyrics to play on Picard’s most famous…

io9 Ria Misra

Watch how Ty Burrell transformed Mr. Peabody from Dog Genius to Dog Dad

When we first heard about the Mr. Peabody & Sherman movie reboot we weren’t that thrilled. But then we witnessed Modern Family dad Ty Burrell transform into the white dog of our youth. And it works. Watch. These three Peabody & Sherman clips show off a bit of the new movie’s humor, but if anything…

Movies Meredith Woerner

12 Signs That Jor-El Was More of a Dick Than Superman

People talk all the time about how much of dick Superman is — but he’s nothing compared to his father. Jor-El sent people to the Phantom Zone, invented terrible weapons, seduced the wives of random humans, and generally caused more harm than good. Here are 12 reasons why Jor-El was a worse dick than his…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Jason Krell

Ice-T records D&D audiobook: “This s%!t is impossible to read.”

A day long awaited by the enormous latent audience for RPG gaming/hip hop crossovers has finally arrived: Ice-T has recorded a D&D audiobook. Ice-T talks about the experience on his podcast, Final Level. Apparently it wasn’t an entire novel, just a short story 40 pages long. Good thing, as the process was taxing for the…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

An unknown species of giant jellyfish has washed ashore in Tasmania

Over the past several years, marine biologists in Tasmania have been receiving calls about strange jellyfish sightings. Now, one of these unclassified creatures has finally washed up on shore — and it’s a weird slimy beast, indeed. The 5 foot (1.5 meter) long specimen was discovered by a family collecting shells on a beach in…

io9 George Dvorsky

The biggest tear-jerker scenes from last night’s Arrow

You would think that an episode called “Heir of the Demon” would be crammed full of fight scenes — and there are some sweet ones in there. But mostly last night’s Arrow fed off its audience’s tears. Here are the absolute saddest scenes from the latest Arrow. Spoilers ahead… Nyssa Al Ghul touches down in…

Television Esther Inglis-Arkell

Legends walk among us in this Magic the Gathering: Born of the Gods art

The latest Magic: the Gathering expansion, Born of the Gods, will be released this weekend. When gods walk among mortals, it makes for some amazing art, which you can see in this Born of the Gods art gallery. Born of the Gods continues the Greek mythology themed story from the previous set, Theros. There are…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Allison Scagliotti battles a virgin-killing abstinence educator!

Having Warehouse 13 withdrawal symptoms? The new movie Chastity Bites, coming to DVD on Feb. 11, could seriously help. Allison Scagliotti, aka Claudia, stars as a girl who discovers her local abstinence educator is actually the immortal Elizabeth Bathory, who bathes in virgin blood. Check out the trailer above, in which Scagliotti issues some very…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

The Astronaut Wives Club lands its own TV series

The 1969 period drama will folllow the womenfolk who were married to the menfolk who were shot into space. And all the space drama that this situation created. Deadline is reporting that ABC has just ordered up 10-episode straight to series TV adaptation of Lily Koppel’s novel to air during the summer. The Astronaut Wives…

Television Meredith Woerner

Does it make you feel safer to know the NYPD will have Google Glass?

The NYPD is getting Google Glasses — for a test run, at least. And it could just be the first police department of many. Does this make you feel safer? VentureBeat reports that the city police department is testing out Google Glass as a field tool for patrol officers. If the tests go well, it…

io9 Ria Misra

Cryptozoologicon Could Revolutionize the Field of Monster Studies

It’s official: They’re making a Preacher TV show

This cyborg mystery novel is what Intelligence could have been

Real Life Logan’s Run happening in San Francisco this weekend!

Brain Scans Reveal When Your Decisions Are Getting Risky

A mind-blowing gallery of the best science visualizations from 2013

Here’s a chicken wearing a prosthetic tail to walk like a dinosaur

Unusual Brown Dwarf Star Has Red Skies

Bo and Tamsin are dark avengers on Lost Girl

Watch the student films scifi directors made before they were famous

Frozen’s “Let It Go” as sung by the cast of Star Trek is a delight

Watch how Ty Burrell transformed Mr. Peabody from Dog Genius to Dog Dad

12 Signs That Jor-El Was More of a Dick Than Superman

Ice-T records D&D audiobook: “This s%!t is impossible to read.”

An unknown species of giant jellyfish has washed ashore in Tasmania

The biggest tear-jerker scenes from last night’s Arrow

Legends walk among us in this Magic the Gathering: Born of the Gods art

Allison Scagliotti battles a virgin-killing abstinence educator!

The Astronaut Wives Club lands its own TV series

Does it make you feel safer to know the NYPD will have Google Glass?

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

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‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

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The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

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

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

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