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What would the newsstands look like if The Avengers were real?

What would the glossies and gossip mags all be buzzing about if real superheroes destroyed New York City while protecting the world from CG aliens? Probably a lot like this. MediaAvengers Tumblr is building up an online gallery of fake magazine features and covers all about The Avengers. Our personal favorites are the tabloid stories,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Futurama gets its snap and its heart back

After a couple of lackluster episodes starting off its final season, Futurama hits its stride. “T: The Terrestrial” features great lines, but more importantly, great tributes to classic science fiction. Remember “The Problem with Popplers,” that classic episode in season two when the Planet Express crew accidentally eat the babies of the Omicronians? It’s fitting…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

China’s Shenzhou-10 Crew Has Returned to Earth

China successfully completed its longest human space mission as the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and its crew of two men and one woman returned safely to Earth. The return capsule landed via parachute at 8:07 am local time (0007 UTC) Wednesday, June 26th, 2013 on the grasslands of north China’s Inner Mongolia region. The 15-day “Divine Vessel”…

io9 Nancy Atkinson – Universe Today

How to move a 17-ton particle physics experiment 3,200 miles

The sign on that truck is stating the blazingly obvious as it pulls the 50-foot long Muon g-2 electromagnet along its convoluted journey from Long Island to Chicago. Once installed at Fermilab, the device will help scientists measure the internal magnetic workings of the mysterious muon particle. Muons are subatomic particles that have a ridiculously…

io9 George Dvorsky

Could Vin Diesel be starring in a Marvel movie?

The Wolverine has a new banner, Edgar Wright shoots down an Ant-Man rumor, and something is going on with Vin Diesel and Marvel. Plus find out what would happen in This Is The End 2. Is a Knight Rider film really happening? And one contender to play the Twelfth Doctor explains how he’d play the…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

How Aspect Ratios Have Changed Over Time Because of Movies

If you haven’t learned anything interesting today, watch this fascinating history lesson on how the aspect ratios we know (16:9, 4:3) became the standard of what we see. For any film geek or ratio nerd, it’s a lovely trip back into time where things can become standard by just doing it for a long time.…

Movies Casey Chan

This George R.R. Martin Book Might Restore Your Faith in Human Nature

Still depressed after the horrible events of Game of Thrones season three, or of George R.R. Martin’s original books? The misery, the misanthropy, the savage reversals of fortune? George R.R. Martin himself has the cure. His funny, strange space opera book Tuf Voyaging has recently been reissued, after a decade out of print. Minor spoilers…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Rich, educated westerners could be skewing social science studies

The vast majority of psychological studies recruit test subjects who are Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic – or “WEIRD.” Which is… well, weird, given that these people represent a very small segment of the global human population, from a cultural standpoint. You might expect culture to have very little impact on the results of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The difference between geeks and nerds, settled by a geeky infographic

Do you identify as a geek or a nerd? Unsure? Perhaps this helpful datavisualization can be of some assistance. Spurred by the age-old Geek vs. Nerd Debate, self-proclaimed music geek and science nerd Burr Settles recently turned to Twitter to see how people used the terms “geek” and “nerd” when describing themselves. Using a statistical…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Beautiful Churches That Have Been Converted into Secular Buildings

What happens to churches whose religious residents have left? Often, they become a bit more secular. Here are some of the most gorgeous and surprising architectural afterlives for these houses of worship. St. Jakobus Church, by Zecc Architects, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2007-2009 (via ZECC) A Selexyz bookstore from a 700-year-old Dominican Church, by Merkx + Girod…

io9 Vincze Miklós

A project to build a robot with the intelligence of a three year-old

Hanson Robotics has launched a new Indigogo campaign to create “the world’s smartest robot.” Named Adam Z1, the robot will eventually be able to speak, play with toys, draw pictures, and respond with emotions. And the project is no joke. Robot designer and researcher David Hanson has pooled together three other experts in this area,…

io9 George Dvorsky

How Our Visions of Virtual Reality Have Changed in the Past 40 Years

The other day, Second Life celebrated its 10-year anniversary. But long before that venerable virtual world came into existence, we were dreaming up images of virtual reality and cyberspace. Top image: Tron vs. Tron Legacy It seems like there are a few basic ways to represent “cyberspace” and virtual reality. You can have basic reality,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How to detect massive alien spaceships powered by stars

Some visionaries speculate that extraterrestrial civilizations may be capable of using the energy extracted from their suns to power planet-sized spaceships. A professor from the University of Edinburgh says he knows how we might be able to find such objects. Top image: Julian-Faylona. In 1948, astronomer Fred Zwicky, the esteemed co-discoverer of dark matter, speculated…

io9 Ray Villard

Honest Trailers boldly suggests Independence Day might be flawed

I’m not sure how I feel about the Honest Trailers guys’ latest offering, which seems to suggest Roland Emmerich’s stirring docudrama of the human spirit, Independence Day, might not be the undisputed cinematic masterpiece we all know it to be. I don’t even know how that’s possible, frankly. I mean, without ID4, how else would…

io9 Rob Bricken

Let’s talk about the dark side of private space programs

As government funding for space programs dwindles, our greatest hope seems to lie with space entrepreneurs like SpaceX’s Elon Musk, who wants to put a city on Mars — or Robert Bigelow, who wants to build the first space hotel. But should corporations really be controlling the future of space travel? https://gizmodo.com/spacex-founder-unveils-plan-to-send-80-000-people-to-ma-5963349 Certainly we need…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A fun 30-minute look behind the scenes of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer

Looking for about 30 minutes of unadulterated happiness? Than look no further than this video posted earlier today by stunt coordinator Jeff Pruitt, which is a magnificent collection of behind-the-scenes looks at Buffy: TVS season 2, including stunts, costumes, and a great deal of goofiness. If you’d like to see werewolf Oz off-screen and Sarah…

io9 Rob Bricken

“With six feet of sea-level rise, South Florida is toast.”

Throughout Earth’s history, the shape of the continents has changed dramatically. With the planet’s temperatures rising, we can expect to see some of these geological changes in our lifetimes — especially when it comes to low-lying areas like Florida. Here’s what might be in store for that state. Jeff Goodell has a fascinating article over…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Mind-blowing Man of Steel concept art shows Krypton’s civil war

We keep seeing more amazing concept art visions from Man of Steel, showing how the designers reconceived all of Superman’s universe from top to bottom. And this art by Christian Lorenz Scheurer showing the final battle on Krypton is probably the best yet. Including tons of images of H’Raka the War Kite, and other Kryptonian…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Solving the Mystery of Legionnaire’s Disease

In 1976, the Stratford Hotel in Pennsylvania held a convention for the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Legion. Just after the convention, 221 of the attendees got sick with a strange case of pneumonia. Seventy-two of them died. Photo via 36th Infantry Division They provided the name for a culprit that had been killing for…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Amazing Before-and-After Photos of Starfleet Shuttlecraft Restoration

The Gallileo-7 shuttlecraft was a proud vessel, that served the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise well on several episodes of Star Trek — most notably the episode that bears its name. But sadly, this amazing piece of space engineering had fallen into disrepair, until it was finally restored to spaceworthiness. According to the Houston Chronicle,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What would the newsstands look like if The Avengers were real?

Futurama gets its snap and its heart back

China’s Shenzhou-10 Crew Has Returned to Earth

How to move a 17-ton particle physics experiment 3,200 miles

Could Vin Diesel be starring in a Marvel movie?

How Aspect Ratios Have Changed Over Time Because of Movies

This George R.R. Martin Book Might Restore Your Faith in Human Nature

Rich, educated westerners could be skewing social science studies

The difference between geeks and nerds, settled by a geeky infographic

Beautiful Churches That Have Been Converted into Secular Buildings

A project to build a robot with the intelligence of a three year-old

How Our Visions of Virtual Reality Have Changed in the Past 40 Years

How to detect massive alien spaceships powered by stars

Honest Trailers boldly suggests Independence Day might be flawed

Let’s talk about the dark side of private space programs

A fun 30-minute look behind the scenes of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer

“With six feet of sea-level rise, South Florida is toast.”

Mind-blowing Man of Steel concept art shows Krypton’s civil war

Solving the Mystery of Legionnaire’s Disease

Amazing Before-and-After Photos of Starfleet Shuttlecraft Restoration

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

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