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When Godzilla fought the Loch Ness monster, everybody lost

Everybody remembers the abysmal 1998 American Godzilla film, but much fewer people remember the tie-in Godzilla cartoon — or that it was actually kinda good. Sure, it was goofy, and Godzilla looked like his CG movie counterpart, but at least it had monster fights. Still, even a giant monster fight couldn’t save the episode titled…

io9 Rob Bricken

Transformers: Beast Hunters Images That Belong on the Wall of Your Rec Room

Check out this utterly fantastic image of Wingspan, the Decepticon clone brother who’s going to be hunting down the Autobots on this week’s episode of Transformers: Beast Hunters. Doesn’t it look like it ought to be airbrushed onto the largest wall in your den? This is one of two exclusive images we’re sharing from this…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Could you outrun a Tyrannosaurus rex?

Just how quick was the great tyrant lizard, exactly? Experts in biomechanics think she was pretty damn quick – but still probably not as fast as you think. Researchers have been debating over the speed of dinosaurs – and T. rex, specifically – for years. Reconstructions of dinosaurs toward the end of the 19th century…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

First Look at Tilda Swinton as a Passenger on the Post-Apocalyptic Hell Train

Imagine the Earth is now an ice planet, and the only logical place for humans to live is inside a class dividing giant train that rides around looking for safety. This is the premise for Korean filmmaker Joon-ho Bong’s (The Host) new movie Snowpiercer. A new crop of promotional train passports show off the stellar…

Movies Meredith Woerner

New pictures from Elysium show the dirty underbelly of Matt Damon’s rotten future

There are still agonizingly few details about District 9 director Neil Blomkamp’s new scifi flick Elysium, but at least we’ve gotten looks at two more characters. Hopefully this will tide us over until a trailer finally comes out. We do know that the movie is set in a dystopian future where rich people live in…

Movies Rob Bricken

10 Unusual Genetic Mutations in Humans

No two people are alike, due to the subtly different ways our genomes are expressed. But sometimes these biological differences lead to genetic mutations that are extremely rare, and sometimes debilitating. Historically, many people suffering from these mutations were labeled monsters or freaks — but today, we know they are simply part of the broad…

io9 George Dvorsky

All the Best Fake Websites TV Shows Have Dreamed Up

The Internet is great and all, but the fake Internet on TV is even better. This mashup from Slacktory takes you on a whirlwind tour of all the best (read: worst) sites that (probably) don’t and shouldn’t exist. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get back to kickin’ it on WinAtBingoAndRock.com. [Slacktory]

Television Eric Limer

This New Camera Stabilizer Could Change Cinematography Forever

A new piece of filmmaking gear was just announced that could completely re-invent the complex process of camera stabilization. It’s currently being tested and endorsed by Vincent LaForet, who’s given us a little taste of what it’s capable of. The product is called MōVI, created by Freefly, longtime maker of crazy camera-drone equipment and stabilizers.…

Movies Michael Hession

Tony Stark taunts terrorists in the first Iron Man 3 clip

I’m not sure exactly what the Mandarin did to earn Tony Stark’s wrath in this first Iron Man 3 clip, but I do know this: it’s probably a seriously bad idea to give out your home address to an international terrorist. I say this mostly because every IM3 trailer has shown graphic footage of the…

Movies Rob Bricken

These portraits were drawn with mathematical equations

WolframAlpha has compiled a growing list of portraits of iconic figures drawn by parametric functions. Some of them are surprisingly good – though, as Joe Hanson points out, there’s a decent chance these functions are being churned out by a computer instead of an actual person, seeing as they are OBSCENELY complex. (Here are the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Brain Scans Can Predict What You’re Dreaming About

A recent experiment in Japan shows that some of our most private thoughts may be more accessible than previously assumed. By hooking up volunteers to brain scanners, and then correlating accounts of their dreams to visual images, researchers have developed a brain decoding technique allowing them to predict broad categories of people’s dreams with up…

io9 George Dvorsky

Exclusive clip from the second episode of Orphan Black escalates the clone count

Just how many clones are there in BBC American’s new drama Orphan Black? Well, add two more onto the pile of sexy clone bodie,s because you’re about to meet even more duplicates in this exclusive clip from the second episode. If you haven’t checked out this series yet, what’s the hold up? We love it,…

Television Meredith Woerner

Upstream Color is the first masterpiece of the year

Shane Carruth created an uncompromising mind-bender with his first movie, Primer. But with his second film, Upstream Color, he’s done something harder and weirder. Upstream Color uses striking images and sounds to unmoor you from reality, even as it tells a powerful, emotional journey. No spoilers below… The meme you’re going to hear a lot…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Dark Knight Returns‘ Carrie Kelley may be Batman’s new Robin

It looks like Carrie Kelley, the female Robin to Grumpy Old Batman in Frank Miller’s classic The Dark Knight Returns, is joining the DC universe proper. She’s on the gatefold cover of Batman and Robin #19 (which comes out next Wednesday) in a Robin costume. Does this mean she’ll actually be the next Robin? Maaaaybe.…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Could You Actually Build BioShock Infinite’s Floating City in Real Life?

By Kyle Hill. The craziest part of BioShock Infinite isn’t the idea of combining a first-person shooter with jingoism, religious purity, and intense xenophobia. It’s the idea of floating an entire city. Within the first twenty minutes of BioShock Infinite, you are introduced to Columbia, a city above the clouds, above the “Sodom” below. It’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Neil Patrick Harris + sulfur hexafluoride = the booming voice Dr. Horrible wishes he had

Sulfur hexafluoride is a gas that’s several times heavier than air. When you inhale it, it leads to the exact opposite of helium voice: a deep, rumbling vocalization that sounds suspiciously like a record on slow speed. You can read the explanation behind sulfur hexafluoride’s effect on your voice here. But for now, here’s Neil…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The illusion that removes your ability to see numbers

Thirty seconds can wipe out completely your ability to correctly sum up a number. The numerosity adaptation effect is so strong that it overshadows your ability to eyeball numbers — and it works whether you know about it or not. Take a look at the graphic below, or check it out here. Look at the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Back to Jurassic Park: A Paleontological View

After twenty years, the original Jurassic Park is back in theaters. The movie’s dinosaurs – once state of the art, now woefully behind the science – are a reminder of our complicated relationship with our favorite prehistoric beasts. New science is bringing dinosaurs to vibrant, feathery life as never before, yet we still cling to…

Movies Brian Switek

Disney Princesses make for some pretty intimidating Sith Lords

Artist Ralph Sevelius has transformed your favorite Disney Princesses into a a couple of badass Jedi and Sith Lords. We could seriously get into a very special Disney animation where Snow White slices up the dwarves with a double-bladed lightsaber. [Ralph Sevelius via Nerd Approved]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Stock photographs of “scientists” are way more hilarious than you ever imagined

Things stock photographs of scientists get right (sometimes): glassware, lab coats. Things stock photographs of scientists get wrong: pretty much everything else. Chickens, face magnets, a complete lack of labcoats (and clothing, in general), lingerie, drinking concoctions from oversized snifters, etc. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Also hilarious. Jacks of Science has a very amusing roundup of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

When Godzilla fought the Loch Ness monster, everybody lost

Transformers: Beast Hunters Images That Belong on the Wall of Your Rec Room

Could you outrun a Tyrannosaurus rex?

First Look at Tilda Swinton as a Passenger on the Post-Apocalyptic Hell Train

New pictures from Elysium show the dirty underbelly of Matt Damon’s rotten future

10 Unusual Genetic Mutations in Humans

All the Best Fake Websites TV Shows Have Dreamed Up

This New Camera Stabilizer Could Change Cinematography Forever

Tony Stark taunts terrorists in the first Iron Man 3 clip

These portraits were drawn with mathematical equations

Brain Scans Can Predict What You’re Dreaming About

Exclusive clip from the second episode of Orphan Black escalates the clone count

Upstream Color is the first masterpiece of the year

The Dark Knight Returns‘ Carrie Kelley may be Batman’s new Robin

Could You Actually Build BioShock Infinite’s Floating City in Real Life?

Neil Patrick Harris + sulfur hexafluoride = the booming voice Dr. Horrible wishes he had

The illusion that removes your ability to see numbers

Back to Jurassic Park: A Paleontological View

Disney Princesses make for some pretty intimidating Sith Lords

Stock photographs of “scientists” are way more hilarious than you ever imagined

Sonos Roam 2 Speaker Turns the Amazon Spring Sale into a Black Friday Moment, Now at Its Lowest Price

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Sony Is Hiking PS5 Prices for the Second Time in Less Than a Year

This Amazon Smart Plug Deal in the Spring Sale Makes Alexa Smart Home Setup Almost Too Easy and Cheap

Ryan Coogler’s ‘X-Files’ Reboot Has Found Its Other Big Star

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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