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Watch This Historic Theater Transform Into The World’s Largest IMAX

Seeing an IMAX movie is impressive, sure, but what’s even more impressive is watching an IMAX theater get built. The world’s largest no less. It’s a feat. This timelapse from imaxmovies shows the entire process of turning Hollywood’s historic TCL Chinese Theatre—home to premiers like The King of Kings and Star Wars—into the worlds largest…

Movies Eric Limer

With our tentacles we bravely fought

When the invaders breached our temples, we had to unbury the old weapon. It was our only hope. When its tentacles pierced the invading ship, everything inside would become food for its incubating young. Our final task, if we survived, would be to bury the remains before the next weapon was born. Aaron Limonick is…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This Chipotle Ad has most beautiful animation we’ve seen all year

This Chipotle commercial almost just made us cry at work. Created by the folks at MOONBOT Studios, this animated masterpiece is one part Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, another part us never eating meat again. Did you SEE the cow’s eyes as the scarecrow worker boarded up its last bit of light? Dear god,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This is a Stunning Seaside Timelapse

From astrophotographer Jack Fusco comes a breathtaking reminder to stop and savor the starscapes that soar above us every night – whether we find ourselves in rural Utah, far from city lights, or the Eastern seaboard, just a few miles removed from bright, bustling urban life. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-why-astronomers-build-telescopes-in-the-mountai-5893347 “I’ve been working on a timelapse of thenight…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Dinosaur DNA cannot be extracted from amber

Well, it looks like we may never have our own Jurassic Park. Scientists at the University of Manchester failed to pull DNA samples from insects trapped in 10,600 year-old amber, leading them to conclude that the chances of extracting intact DNA from samples millions of years older is likely impossible. For those living in a…

io9 George Dvorsky

Dogs basically don’t care if you are a robot or a human

Your dog is not going to miss you after the robot uprising. In a recent experiment with sociable robots — who are designed to emulate human social behavior — scientists found that dogs learned quickly how to interact with robots just as if they were human. The scientists designed two experiments — one with a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Good Will Batman is the Batfleck we deserve and need right now

Whenever the Batman/Superman movie comes out, I’m pretty sure the thing we’re going to be most grateful to Ben Affleck’s performance as Batman for is that it’ll have inspired this amazing movie — a stirring tale of friendship between a hero and a guy who’s smarter than his really large science cave computer. [Via Nerd…

io9 Rob Bricken

The Strangest and Most Tragic Ghost Towns from Around the World

There is nothing more haunting than a once-thriving town that has been abandoned and consumed by the elements. Here are images from some of the most incredible ghost towns in the world. Dallol, Ethiopia This place was a potash, sylvite and salt mining community, abandoned in the late 1960s. Most of the buildings were made…

io9 Vincze Miklós

The perfect t-shirts for ninjas and space travelers

It’s time for the weekend, and that means putting on your best party t-shirts to wow the world with your sophisticated tastes. And we’ve got two tees for you right here: one for you ninja bunnies and one for the tourists who are ready to visit Neptune’s moon Triton. Nobody will ever question your fashion…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What’s the most WTF movie you’ve ever seen?

One reason we love science fiction and fantasy movies is their wide-open, imaginative spirit. A science-fiction film can go to places that most people can barely dream of. And sometimes… beyond. But what’s the weirdest, most inexplicable movie you’ve ever seen? Please include a picture, poster or clip from this film. And include the title,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Does The Dog Die? A Movie website that asks the IMPORTANT questions

Does the Dog Die is a website dedicated to ranking movies based on whether or not the dog (or other animals in the movie) gets snuffed. So far there are about 649 movies rated, and many more to go. The system is simple: But be aware there are some spoilers, especially in movies like Old…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Are Janelle Monae’s science-fictional lyrics keeping her off the radio?

That’s what a new article in Radio.com claims. Monae’s first full-length album was lukewarm on radio, with the song “Tightrope” barely getting much airplay. Monae wants her new album The Electric Lady to get more radio play, but the science-fiction imagery is turning off programmers. It’s hard to believe, in the wake of tons of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

When a Friday the 13th prank goes too far . . .

Pranks can be a lot of fun, but how do you know when your prank has gone too far? Here are three Friday the 13th-themed prank videos that can help you learn the fine line between a prankster and a dangerous asshole. Example #1: A guy has his friend put on a Michael Myers mask,…

io9 Rob Bricken

45 percent of American jobs will be done by computers in 20 years

Thought your job was safe? Not so much, say researchers at University of Oxford’s James Martin school. There, a group of futurists have published a report warning that 45 percent of jobs currently done by humans will be computerized in 20 years — including engineering jobs. Image by Thomas Jackson Technology Review’s Aviva Hope Rutkin…

io9 Annalee Newitz

NSA Honcho built Enterprise bridge replica to sell Congress on spying

How did the National Security Administration sell Congress on its controversial spying program? Apparently by building a replica of the U.S.S. Enterprise bridge and letting lawmakers sit in the big chair and “play Picard.” (Update: Added a picture. Update #2: This wasn’t the NSA, but Alexander’s prior job. Sorry for the mix-up.) As Foreign Policy’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Does consciousness arise from quantum processes in the brain?

Stuart Hameroff is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology at the University of Arizona — but he’s a pariah as far as most neuroscientists are concerned. The reason? Consciousness, he dares say, is far more than just a computational process — it’s actually quantum. Along with the esteemed mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, Hameroff is the…

io9 George Dvorsky

Genre Actors Who’ve Owned More Than One Iconic Role

When an actor takes on a huge, break-out role, he or she runs a huge risk of getting typecast. This is what leads to things like Leonard Nimoy writing I Am Not Spock. But occasionally, an actor won’t just play one iconic, famous character – they’ll play two, or three. Here’s a list of the…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

A Brief and Canny Explanation for the Flood of Remakes and Sequels

Why does Hollywood keep rebooting the same movie properties over and over again? It’s not just because studios want fans of those franchises to be happy. It’s because the movie business is about supply and demand, and the demand is strongest for a few known quantities, writes Scott Feinberg. Over on his blog, the industry…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Brian Cox says time travel is easy! Well, kinda.

British physics superstar Professor Brian Cox has gone on the record to say that time travel is possible. Unfortunately, there’s a huge caveat to his claim: if you were able to achieve this feat, you’d only be able to travel into the future never to return. Why? Traveling into the past is impossible. Possibly. The…

io9 Ian O'Neill — Discovery News

When the aurora glows blood red

Most of the time we see the aurora glow green. This kind of aurora is a little more eerie. Why does the aurora sometimes turn the sky red? This picture of red light leaking up from the horizon could be a particularly gruesome sunset. Actually, it’s the aurora. When energetic particles collide with the Earth’s…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Watch This Historic Theater Transform Into The World’s Largest IMAX

With our tentacles we bravely fought

This Chipotle Ad has most beautiful animation we’ve seen all year

This is a Stunning Seaside Timelapse

Dinosaur DNA cannot be extracted from amber

Dogs basically don’t care if you are a robot or a human

Good Will Batman is the Batfleck we deserve and need right now

The Strangest and Most Tragic Ghost Towns from Around the World

The perfect t-shirts for ninjas and space travelers

What’s the most WTF movie you’ve ever seen?

Does The Dog Die? A Movie website that asks the IMPORTANT questions

Are Janelle Monae’s science-fictional lyrics keeping her off the radio?

When a Friday the 13th prank goes too far . . .

45 percent of American jobs will be done by computers in 20 years

NSA Honcho built Enterprise bridge replica to sell Congress on spying

Does consciousness arise from quantum processes in the brain?

Genre Actors Who’ve Owned More Than One Iconic Role

A Brief and Canny Explanation for the Flood of Remakes and Sequels

Brian Cox says time travel is easy! Well, kinda.

When the aurora glows blood red

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