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These photographs capture the terror, joy and weirdness of the USSR’s final days

In the last days of the USSR, the nation was changing incredibly fast. People were starving, but they were also joyfully rebelling against their crumbling government. Communism was slowly eroding into nationalism. These moving photographs capture the moments heralded the end of the Soviet Union. The first McDonald’s restaurant in the Soviet Union, Pushkin Square,…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Spoiler-Free Review of Next Week’s Doctor Who Premiere!

Steven Moffat is up to his old tricks in the midseason premiere of Doctor Who, airing a week from Saturday. “The Bells of St. John” marks a return to the overt creepiness of episodes like “Blink” and “Silence in the Library,” mixed with some very Russell T. Davies-esque villainy. Here’s our spoiler-free review… And when…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Robert Redford might be joining Captain America 2 and the Marvel movie-verse

The Hollywood Reporter reports (in Hollywood, presumably) that super-acclaimed actor/director Robert Redford is in talks to join the cast of Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier. The word is that he’ll playing a S.H.I.E.L.D. officer — presumably one who hangs around with Sam Jackson’s Nick Fury — and that it could be a role that…

Movies Rob Bricken

Pacific Rim shows you what it looks like when Kaiju take a dump on your house

One of the fantastic things about Guillermo del Toro’s Robots Vs. Monsters movie is that the director deals with the bloody aftermath of a battle to the death with giant monsters. Kaiju carcasses rot where they fall, their blue blood oozes into the streets. And when Kaiju need to poop, that’s also a huge problem.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Chimps are better at teamwork than anyone realized

Chimpanzees sometimes work together to solve problems. But scientists haven’t been sure whether chimps deliberately cooperate to reach a common goal, or accidentally do it by focusing on related tasks. Now, we have evidence that they are consciously working to form teams. This sheds light on the social behavior of chimps and humans alike. Unraveling…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The high-tech way to test spiciness

As science marches on, it’s nice to know that one area it will never neglect is food. We have not just one, but two ways to test the spiciness of chili peppers. One relies on the tongue. The other is a bit more high tech. Chili peppers used to be ways for plants to keep…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Jaime Lannister gets dirty in the newest Game if Thrones season 3 trailer

Only nine days remain until the return of Game of Thrones — and to keep your mind on the Iron Throne, HBO has released yet another teaser. Except this one features Jaime Lannister in a bathtub. Besides several new scenes, this promo includes brief looks at Roose Bolton (0:09), Daario (0:24), Wendel Manderly (also 0:09),…

Television Rob Bricken

io9’s March TV Madness: Vote Now for the Final Four Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Classics!

We’ve now reached the Elite Eight in our quest to find the great sci-fi and fantasy TV shows of all time. We’ve got some fierce match-ups for you to vote on today: Star Trek vs. Fringe! The X-Files vs. Game of Thrones! Doctor Who vs. the BSG reboot! The Twilight Zone vs. Star Trek: The…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Could Kiss of the Damned save vampires from Hollywood overexposure?

Admit it, the vampire genre is broken. True Blood swapped sex and blood for vampire politics, Twilight softened our monsters into moody fathers, and the rest is just annoying vampire comedy. Seems like the only sex monsters with fangs lately are on Vampire Diaries. But perhaps Xan Cassavetes’ new vampire movie Kiss of the Damned…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The Different Girl is a classic children’s fable, on a par with The Giver

There are some books that make you want to pass out copies to strangers, just to have someone to talk to them about. More than anything, I want to get a group of book loving, curious 11-year-olds together and pass out copies of The Different Girl. Yes, Gordon Dahlquist’s middle grade novel has me willing…

Books & Comics Michael Ann Dobbs

Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles will be motion-captured

Not that we imagined there was much likelihood of Michael Bay putting people in rubber suits for his TMNT movie, Deadline reveals that the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles flick will contain motion-captured actors, much like the Na’vi in James Cameron’s Avatar. We know this because Bay has just hired Alan Ritchson, who played Aquaman…

Movies Rob Bricken

You can see more than fifty percent of the Moon. Here’s why.

How much of the moon can you see? Most people would say fifty percent, but they’d be wrong. You can’t see more than fifty percent at a time, but look upward for a year, and you can see nearly sixty percent of the moon’s surface. We’ll tell you how. Look up in the sky on…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The science of swarms will blow your mind

Here are two things you should do immediately. One: watch this. It’s a jaw-dropping video of starlings in flight that will straight up give you chills. The swirling cloud of birds is called a “murmuration,” and it’s just one example of how animals in very large groups can engage in remarkably coordinated collective behavior. Two:…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Millions of deaths indicate we’re all eating too much salt

Some worrisome stats for your morning: new research concludes that excess salt consumption has had a hand in over two million heart-related deaths worldwide in 2010, 40% of which were premature. In a study recounted at yesterday’s American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans, researchers examined 247 surveys of adults participating in the 2010 Global…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Is How You Respond to Rumors

Don’t hand your iPhone to Nokia CEO Stephen Elop. During an interview on Finnish TV show Hjalliksen kanssa, an interviewer made exactly that mistake and is short one functional iPhone for having made it because Elop threw that sucker on the floor. After pressing Elop for details on upcoming releases, pulling out his iPhone, and…

Television Eric Limer

Scientists find 8 impossibly adorable new frogs in a single forest

Naturalists working in the mountainous forests of Sri Lanka’s Peak Wilderness Sanctuary have uncovered no less than eight new species of frogs, nearly all of them critically endangered. Sri Lanka is known for its amphibian diversity — with well over 100 species documented — but to find eight new species over the course of just…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Croods is a movie that teaches your children to play in traffic

If you have too many children, and want to get rid of a few of them, then you should definitely consider taking them to see The Croods. A movie whose message is: “Run towards danger! Any danger! Preferably without looking first!” Spoilers ahead… Actually, I’m pretty sure The Croods doesn’t mean to convey that message.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Disney Princesses Springbreakers Trailer: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, B*tches!

What if Harmony Korine’s dark Springbreakers replaced its Disney show starlets with actual Disney Princesses? Just imagine the sweet ladies robbing their Evil Stepmother for Ball money, using their wands for evil, getting high and makin’ it with the genie. This College Humor trailer is pretty hilarious down to the last gag.

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Milky Seas Effect is why the ocean sometimes glows blue

The above picture shows the first photo of the famous Milky Seas Effect. It’s a luminescence that turns thousand-mile patches of ocean a glowing milky blue. Bioluminescent algae are not new to science. It’s not unusual for them to light up the ocean, especially when they’re agitated by crashing waves. Sometimes entire boats can be…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Will Old People Take Over the World?

One of the consequences of radical life extension is the potential for a gerontocracy to set in — the entrenchment of a senior elite who will hold on to their power and wealth, while dominating politics, finance, and academia. Some critics worry that society will start to stagnate as the younger generations become increasingly frustrated…

io9 George Dvorsky

These photographs capture the terror, joy and weirdness of the USSR’s final days

Spoiler-Free Review of Next Week’s Doctor Who Premiere!

Robert Redford might be joining Captain America 2 and the Marvel movie-verse

Pacific Rim shows you what it looks like when Kaiju take a dump on your house

Chimps are better at teamwork than anyone realized

The high-tech way to test spiciness

Jaime Lannister gets dirty in the newest Game if Thrones season 3 trailer

io9’s March TV Madness: Vote Now for the Final Four Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Classics!

Could Kiss of the Damned save vampires from Hollywood overexposure?

The Different Girl is a classic children’s fable, on a par with The Giver

Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles will be motion-captured

You can see more than fifty percent of the Moon. Here’s why.

The science of swarms will blow your mind

Millions of deaths indicate we’re all eating too much salt

This Is How You Respond to Rumors

Scientists find 8 impossibly adorable new frogs in a single forest

The Croods is a movie that teaches your children to play in traffic

The Disney Princesses Springbreakers Trailer: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, B*tches!

The Milky Seas Effect is why the ocean sometimes glows blue

Will Old People Take Over the World?

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

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

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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