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3D printed nails let you look like Molly from Neuromancer

In William Gibson’s Neuromancer, the mercenary Molly Millions has a lot of enhancements — including retractable razor blades beneath her fingernails. These 3D printed nails from The Laser Girls are how I imagine Molly’s nails would look from the outside, when the razors are withdrawn. Now you too can look like Molly, and have fierce,…

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This “villain dresses up” song is like a crackpipe jammed in your skull

You only wish you could get dressed with one 1/100th as much frenzied panache as Dr. Terwilliger in this insane musical number from the 1953 Dr. Seuss movie The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. Seriously, just when you think it’s gone too far… it goes farther. This is the crucial “Doe-Me-Doe Duds” song in which…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Is Peter Capaldi’s new costume a callback to a classic Doctor Who?

So, we’ve finally gotten a look at the outfit Peter Capaldi will be wearing as the Doctor. And while it’s a brand new look, it’s also strangely familiar. https://gizmodo.com/peter-capaldis-brand-new-doctor-who-outfit-revealed-1509990371 After sizing up the new outfit — a minimalist ensemble of black slacks and a crisp white button-up, topped with a red-lined, dark wool coat —…

Television Ria Misra

Screencaps from Classic Movies That Make Great Desktop Wallpapers

You don’t need the green hills of Windows on your desktop, and frankly we’re sick of that one wallpaper you downloaded like three months ago. Gaze at one of these images on your desktop, and contemplate the weirdness and wonder of tomorrow. Metropolis (1927) Modern Times (1936) Things To Come (1936) War of the Worlds…

Movies Vincze Miklós

The world’s first magma-powered geothermal plant

Introducing ICCP-1, the world’s first magma-enhanced geothermal system. Located in Iceland, it’s an important proof-of-concept that could lead to a revolution in the energy efficiency of high-temperature geothermal areas across the globe. Back in 2009, as part of the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), workers at the Krafla geothermal plant in northeast Iceland unexpectedly struck…

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Early Europeans had dark skin and blue eyes

In 2012, archaeologists made an amazing find in a Spanish cave: the intact, 8,000-year-old skeleton of a man who lived in the area. Now they’ve sequenced his genome, and discovered quite a bit about life among hunter-gatherers in southern Europe. The La Braña man, as he’s called, was buried with another person, and they were…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch an actual zombie-robot skirmish from Battle of the Damned

If you only watch one movie where a robot army takes on a zombie uprising, make it Battle of the Damned, the new film starring the one and only Dolph Lundgren. We’ve already admired the insane-in-the-membrane trailer, and now here’s your first clip. Here’s the official synopsis for Damned, which comes out on DVD Feb…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Astonishing 3-D Model of the Airship from Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan

The USC School of Cinematic Arts and Intel call their 3-D flying model of the whale airship from Scott Westerfeld’s YA novel Leviathan “extreme fan-fiction.” But mostly, we call it pretty incredible. See the result for yourself. According to a post on Westerfeld’s blog: For the last couple of years, the USC School of Cinematic…

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What TV series knew how to end at exactly the right moment?

We all know there are TV shows that wear out their welcome for season after season. There are others that die much too soon. But which show exited gracefully, at exactly the right moment? Give us your pick, and illustrate your answer with a picture, video, or link. What made the show successful at making…

Television Annalee Newitz

This ancient tablet says Noah’s Ark was round

A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia is providing new details about the mythological tale of Noah and his ark, including detailed instructions on how the massive, round floating vessel was to be built. The tablet, which went on display at the British Museum on January 24, is the subject of a new…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Most Vibrant Pulp Science Fiction Art You’ll See This Week

Anton Brzezinski has made a name for himself with his homages to surrealist artists like Dali, and has styled himself “the Polish Picasso.” But he got his start painting giant reproductions of Frank R. Paul’s classic science fiction magazine covers for Forrest E. Ackerman, with colors that burst with life. According to Frank Wu’s website,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

When it comes to calculating pi, two wrongs might make a right

A great deal of time has been spent working out the facts about pi. At one point, the “facts” were wrong. And a mathematician caught the error by using something that, well, might also be wrong. Calculating the value of pi has proved a headache for many a mathematician. Today, we leave it up to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

2014 is the 30th Anniversary of David Lynch’s Dune

David Lynch’s Dune premiered thirty years ago. Sometime in 1983, I was sitting in my studio, wondering where my next cheeseburger was coming from, when I got a call from Raffaella de Laurentiis’ office. “We’re making a movie of Dune. We think your paintings of Mars in the book, The Grand Tour, look a lot…

Movies Ron Miller

Dear God, what has X-Men: Days of Future Past done to Quicksilver?

Empire Magazine is slowly revealing the cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past, by unveiling a new character-specific cover every hour. Some of the covers are great (hello, future Blink!) and some are very, very bad. Take a look. UPDATED: Now with more mutants. Each cover is being dropped on the Empire Website. And according…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Despite anti-vaxxer rhetoric, vaccination rates are higher than ever

Vaccination rates are up and have been for awhile. The public is more convinced than ever of the importance of vaccines. So, why are we hearing so much about the anti-vaccine movement? A new study delves into why — and what we can do about it. Top image: The (consistently high) vaccination rates in the…

io9 Ria Misra

What makes a movie “so bad it’s good,” instead of just bad?

Midnight movies. Guilty pleasures. Cult classics. We have lots of terms for films that are so bad, they’re good. But why do we really love terrible films, sometimes more than good movies? And why aren’t all bad movies wonderfully bad? January is the “guilty pleasure” paradise. Just in the past few weeks we’ve seen the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

This simple chemistry trick can take the bitter out of your coffee

I love this new web series, Reactions, from the American Chemical Society. In the first episode they offer several chemistry lifehacks, including one that can make bitter coffee drinkable and another to ripen bananas fast. Plus, you learn about the chemistry of everyday life. Nicely done.

io9 Annalee Newitz

Terry Gilliam resurrects colorful dystopias with Zero Theorem trailer

Did you miss the wildly colorful hell we glimpsed in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil? The first official trailer for The Zero Theorem brings classic Gilliam back, and we welcome the return of the plastic-jacketed doctors. Here’s the premise (which centers around the very bald, and very naked, Christoph Waltz): An eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Peter Capaldi’s brand-new Doctor Who outfit revealed!

The BBC just released this pic of the Twelfth Doctor in his official Doctor duds, and… huh! Stylish. A nice mix of classic and modern, well befitting a time traveler. It’s certainly no nonsense — I don’t see this incarnation of the Doctor going in for a fez, do you? Peter Capaldi clearly agrees, as…

Television Rob Bricken

The US wartime experiment that starved men almost to death

Towards the end of World War II, word got through that certain people in occupied territories were eating a near-starvation diet. American researchers wanted to study the effects of starvation, so they recruited volunteers – and starved them some more. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment pretty much lived up to its name. It was an early…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

3D printed nails let you look like Molly from Neuromancer

This “villain dresses up” song is like a crackpipe jammed in your skull

Is Peter Capaldi’s new costume a callback to a classic Doctor Who?

Screencaps from Classic Movies That Make Great Desktop Wallpapers

The world’s first magma-powered geothermal plant

Early Europeans had dark skin and blue eyes

Watch an actual zombie-robot skirmish from Battle of the Damned

Astonishing 3-D Model of the Airship from Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan

What TV series knew how to end at exactly the right moment?

This ancient tablet says Noah’s Ark was round

The Most Vibrant Pulp Science Fiction Art You’ll See This Week

When it comes to calculating pi, two wrongs might make a right

2014 is the 30th Anniversary of David Lynch’s Dune

Dear God, what has X-Men: Days of Future Past done to Quicksilver?

Despite anti-vaxxer rhetoric, vaccination rates are higher than ever

What makes a movie “so bad it’s good,” instead of just bad?

This simple chemistry trick can take the bitter out of your coffee

Terry Gilliam resurrects colorful dystopias with Zero Theorem trailer

Peter Capaldi’s brand-new Doctor Who outfit revealed!

The US wartime experiment that starved men almost to death

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

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