10 Terrible Movies that Had Great Candy Tie-ins

Everybody loves candy, but candymakers still don’t mind hopping on board the marketing machine of a big summer movie. The result: promotional candy tie-ins, which are often unusual flavors, and usually limited edition. Like movies themselves, some of these are good, and some are bad. Here are 10 delicious candies and chocolate bars that happened…

BAD IDEA: Hotel from The Shining Will Build on a Pet Cemetery

The Stanley Hotel is the resort that inspired Stephen King’s horror masterpiece The Shining. And now the creepy Colorado hotel is looking to expand right over a nearby pet cemetery. MISTAKE. According to Coloradoan, the pet graves will be desecrated to make room for more office space as well as wedding event space. Perfect. Yes,…

This ingenious video converts equations and diagrams into real life

Virtually everything in the Universe is driven by math, though it’s often very difficult for us to see it. An illuminating new video by Yann Pineill and Nicholas Lefaucheux corrects this by aligning mathematical equations and complex diagrams alongside the day-to-day machinations of the world around us. The quote at the beginning of the video…

This Week’s TV: Could this be the year’s most haunting new show?

A fantastical TV show that’s gotten raves for its stunning imagery and emotionally powerful storytelling finally debuts in the United States, and it’s our must-see show of the week. Other highlights include the Black Canary, the Little Mermaid, Root and Shaw teaming up, and the return of Felicia Day to Supernatural! Scroll down to see…

Scientists Discover a Substance that Appears Cold When You Heat it Up

The hotter an object gets, the more heat it radiates. Simple, right? It’s a fundamental physical principle that makes instruments like infrared goggles possible. But now researchers at Harvard have identified a material that defies this principle by actually appearing colder as it warms up. Above: IR readings of vanadium dioxide at increasing temperatures via…

Scientists Can Now Genetically Modify Facial Features

This image is a CT scan of a mouse’s face — but not just any mouse. Scientists at Berkeley have identified thousands of small DNA regions responsible for influencing the development of facial features — and they used this insight to modify the faces of embryonic mice. The question now is, are humans next? Top…

Psychologists Propose Horrifying Solution to PTSD in Drone Operators

Drone operators often kill their targets from a continent away, but studies suggest that even thousands of miles of distance cannot mitigate war’s devastating psychological effects. But just wait until you hear how researchers propose preventing PTSD, alcohol abuse and thoughts of suicide in drone operators. Above: Flying a drone can feel like a deadly…

Marching Band morphs into a T-Rex while playing Jurassic Park

The Ohio State University Marching Band has DONE IT AGAIN! Last year they turned into a giant DeLorean; this year, they performed a medley of Hollywood blockbusters including Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, LOTR, Pirates of the Caribbean and Superman! https://gizmodo.com/marching-band-turns-into-a-giant-delorean-for-their-bac-5954115 [Via OSUBuckeyeTV]

Things get worse for the survivors, but Walking Dead just gets better

OH MY GOD THE WALKING DEAD HAS BEEN GREAT FOR THREE WHOLE EPISODES IN A ROW WHAT IS HAPPENING AND HOLY SHIT CAROL. That’s the short version of my recap of “Isolation,” the turkey of the season, by which I mean the bowling term for three strikes in a row. The longer version is as…

Gandalf the Fuchsia, Pet-o-ween and Krang, all on io9’s Costume Show

Happy Halloween week! Our annual Halloween Costume Show is back for another round, and it’s scary just how good you all look this year. Take a peek at the best of the best of what we saw last week — and then show us what you’re planning on wearing this year. https://gizmodo.com/io9s-halloween-costume-show-week-2-diy-ways-to-win-h-1447815657 Put up pictures…

Our nearest stellar neighbor like you’ve never seen it before

No, this isn’t a picture of our Sun — it’s of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. This new image from Hubble presents it in unprecedented detail. Proxima Centurai is located a mere four light-years away, but it’s not visible with the naked eye. Its average luminosity is quite low, and it’s…

Ben Affleck talks Batman, and Ryan Reynolds talks Deadpool!

The Mortal Kombat movie stalls, while Deadpool’s still trying to get off the ground. There’s a ton of Black Canary action coming up on Arrow, Rachel McAdams may star opposite Keanu Reeves in Passengers. Plus, Spoilers now! Top image: Arrow Jupiter Rising Director-siblings Andy and Lana Wachowski say that their next science fiction film is…

After months of trials, Nielsen is about to roll out its technology to include online viewing figures in its records, and it’ll lean on social networks to match viewing habits to social demographic.

The banana women plant themselves in the ground for the night

All day, the Cavendish sisters looked forward to kicking off their shoes and tucking their toes into the Earth. Amber would pour them a bedtime drink while Saffron rocked her baby to sleep. One of a number of strange, banana-headed illustrations by Lin Shih-Yung. [via Ghost in the Machine]

Photographs of gruesome injuries made out of cake and ice cream

Collage artist Ashkan Honarvar’s Faces 5 series shows faces that have been torn apart in violent ways. But instead of seeing human gore and bone, we see candy and frosting. Honarvar’s Faces project considers the psychological and physical wounds endured by soldiers. Most installments of the project utilize photographs of World War I soldiers, but…

The revolution looks to Katniss in the new Catching Fire trailer

Katniss stands at the center of the latest trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, but she’s not shooting arrows and taking names. Instead she must navigate the growing political unrest in Panem while the threats and schemes of the Capitol loom over her. [via Bleeding Cool]

Horror movies reimagined as Goosebumps book covers

What if The Shining, The Evil Dead, and Videodrome had started life as books in R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series? If It Were Stine pictures the book covers that would result, complete with the expository titles and the terrible tagline puns. Theodore Holmstead-Scott puts together these faux covers and Jude Deluca writes the titles and blurbs.…

An animator explains why she studies physics in a marvelous short

Xiangjun Shi recently graduated from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design in physics and animation. In Why Do I Study Physics? she uses one of her passions to explain the other, in a short animation that starts out simple but eventually pokes at some of the great mysteries of the universe. Why Do…

Delicate Images of Birds Painstakingly Clipped from Real Feathers

Seriously, just look at that. Imagine how many tiny, tiny cuts those birds took to make. These shadowboxes are the work of Chris Maynard, self-confessed feather-obsessed artist. The shadowboxes often depict the very species of bird the feathers originated from. Like this one: Working out of Olympia, Washington, where he raises his own Impeyan Pheasants,…

Sneaky sea lion steals fish out of fisherman’s hands

Pancho the sea lion is smart enough to know that the easiest prey isn’t always in the water. He takes advantage of an unwitting fisherman who holds his catch within the sea lion’s reach. Chef Yvan Mucharrz was filming his TV show Chef on the Water when the sea lion, whom the local fisherfolk know…