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The best science poem you’ll read this month

Poet Jessy Randall has a history of filling us with happiness by writing dreamy, occasionally silly, poems that touch on science and science fictional topics. Now she has a new book out, called Injecting Dreams Into Cows. Here’s the poem that inspired the book’s title: http://io9.com/321421/the-only-good-science-fiction-poems-ever-written-are-by-jessy-randall?tag=jessyrandall The Consultant The scientists told me they were injecting…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Why slime molds can solve mazes better than robots

Despite not having brains, slime molds are able to remember where they’ve been. They avoid oozing back over paths that didn’t lead them to food by detecting “memories” in the trails of slime they leave behind. It’s possible that these slimy recollections were what led to the evolution of more complex cognitive structures in animals.…

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10 Inventions That Changed the World in Ways We Didn’t Expect

In some ways, we’ve become a spoiled, high-tech civilization that overlooks many of its most remarkable innovations — especially those that were developed more than 30 years ago. So, to remind us just how unappreciative we really are, here are 10 powerful technologies developed last century that are still changing the world, even though we…

io9 George Dvorsky

Neil Patrick Harris teams up with Donald Glover for Adventure Time‘s next gender-swapped adventure!

If you liked the Adventure Time episode where Neil Patrick Harris played the male counterpart to Princess Bubblegum, Prince Gumball, then the sequel is going to send you over the Moon. NPH is back as Prince Gumball in the episode “Bad Little Boy” — but also, Community’s Donald Glover is playing Marshall Lee, the male…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Haunting 3-minute music video tells the panspermia story better than Prometheus did

In Prometheus, we saw a mysterious alien seeding the Earth with DNA. This act of fertilizing a planet with life from space is called panspermia. And in this music video from director Tom Walsh and the band Swimming, you can see a breathtaking short story of panspermia that feels far more satisfying than the one…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What if the Justice League defended the Ottoman Empire?

We’ve seen famous movies scenes depicted as Ottoman artwork before. And this series by Parisian artist Berk Senturk goes in a similar direction, but with mostly superheroes (and sundry other iconic science fiction and fantasy characters). Can you guess who the notables below happen to be? https://gizmodo.com/famous-science-fiction-movies-depicted-as-16th-century-5925409 You can see the full series at Behance.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Did this Nobel Prize winner help to launch cancer research, or set it back a few years?

In 1926, Johannes Fibiger received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. That much is clear. Ever since then, people have been debating whether or not he should have gotten it, with powerful arguments on both sides. We’ll take a quick look at the world’s most disputed Nobel Prize. Nobel Prizes for cancer research are…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Pediatric Psychologist Whose Job Was To Scare the Crap Out of People

Ever had a chair pulled out from under you, just as you sat down? During the 1920s, Dr. William Blatz earned a Ph.D in Psychology by conducting series of experiments to measure the physiological response to fear as he strapped subjects into chairs and then flipped them onto their backs. And what he learned was…

io9 Keith Veronese

BIll Nye is fighting to save planetary exploration. Here’s how you can help.

Drop what you’re doing and watch this. Bill Nye and the Planetary Society are fighting to ensure that America’s deep space missions stay funded — but they need our help to make it happen. Does the prospect of space exploration excite and inspire you? Do you want to see Adam Steltzner — the rockabilly rocket…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Argo is a fantastic movie about a time when we all thought science fiction could set us free

Ben Affleck’s nearly perfect new movie Argo plays with contrasts quite a lot. Again and again, the fake space opera film that the CIA is creating in Affleck’s film is juxtaposed with depressing real-life events, like the Iranian hostage crisis and America’s Carter-era malaise. Affleck takes the then-brand new myth of Star Wars and puts…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Vote now for your favorite zombified Instagram

A few weeks ago, we asked fans of The Walking Dead to don your finest zombie attire, hit the streets like a pack of flesh-hungry walkers, and then capture the gory details via Instagram. Well, your submissions are in, and you didn’t disappoint. Click through the gallery to see our favorites, and then head here…

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Guillermo del Toro tells us why Baby Godzilla will not appear in Pacific Rim

In the upcoming giant-monsters-versus-giant-robots film Pacific Rim, the audience is tossed into the slugfest years after it’s been raging. But to flesh out this grimy world where the human race fights for its own survival on the daily, the minds behind Pacific Rim are collaborating on a graphic novel prequel. And at New York Comic…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Chinese panda with special “survival training” has been released into the wild

Back in 2006, Chinese scientists released a panda named Xiang Xiang into the wild as part of their effort to increase population levels. Unfortunately, Xiang Xiang was killed a year later when he got into a fight with wild pandas. Hoping to avoid a similar setback, scientists have now released a second panda into the…

io9 George Dvorsky

Exclusive details on David Fincher’s Kickstarter campaign for his zombie movie The Goon!

It’s been years since we’ve heard news about David Fincher’s adaptation of Eric Powell’s paranormal comic The Goon. But now the director, Powell, and the team over at Blur Studio have gone rogue in hopes of making The Goon a reality. Together they’ve started a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of making one massive story reel…

Movies Meredith Woerner

An eye the size of a softball has washed ashore in Florida

Holy heck, people. Now that is an eyeball. Beach-walker Gino Covacci encountered the monstrosity yesterday while ambling about the Florida coast, and while scientists have yet to identify the creature from whence it came, the consensus seems to be that whatever it was, it was big. According to the Sun-Sentinal, the waters of Southern Florida…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Ridley Scott drops hints for the Prometheus and Blade Runner sequels!

Check out a trio of sneak peeks for tonight’s Fringe. Guillermo del Toro releases a Pacific Rim propaganda poster. Bryan Fuller’s gritty Munsters reboot meets an ignominious fate. Plus tons of hints for what lies ahead on Revolution and Arrow! It’s spoilers all the way down! Top image from Pacific Rim. Pacific Rim Here’s an…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Brand-new panorama images reveal the full majesty of the Martian horizon for the first time

Check out this breathtaking new panoramic image that was stitched together by Stuart Atkinson from photos received by NASA just yesterday. The images were taken by the Curiosity rover which is currently romping around the Gale Crater on Mars. The misty hills in the background are unlike anything we’ve ever seen before — placing us…

io9 George Dvorsky

Putting Duct Tape Over a Person’s Mouth Does Absolutely Nothing

Here’s a video that’ll shatter many a Hollywood movies: putting duct tape over somebody’s mouth doesn’t stop them from screaming, it doesn’t make them stop talking and it definitely doesn’t keep them quiet. In fact, putting duct tape over somebody’s mouth does… absolutely nothing. Kevin Nugent on YouTube was sick of all the movies that…

Movies Casey Chan

What does George R.R. Martin think of the new Beauty and the Beast show?

Long before George R.R. Martin wrote the groundbreaking novel A Game of Thrones, he was the showrunner on the classic 1980s-1990s Beauty and the Beast TV show, with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton. And now, The CW is launching a brand new Beauty, which is ostensibly based on the version Martin helped to craft. We…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

A glass pyramid filled with nothing but books

Rotterdam has a new public library called Book Mountain, and it’s exactly what the name suggests. A pyramid-shaped glass shell several floors designed to look like a mountain made of books. This is exactly the kind of place where the angels in Wings of Desire would have hung out. According to My Modern Met: The…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The best science poem you’ll read this month

Why slime molds can solve mazes better than robots

10 Inventions That Changed the World in Ways We Didn’t Expect

Neil Patrick Harris teams up with Donald Glover for Adventure Time‘s next gender-swapped adventure!

Haunting 3-minute music video tells the panspermia story better than Prometheus did

What if the Justice League defended the Ottoman Empire?

Did this Nobel Prize winner help to launch cancer research, or set it back a few years?

The Pediatric Psychologist Whose Job Was To Scare the Crap Out of People

BIll Nye is fighting to save planetary exploration. Here’s how you can help.

Argo is a fantastic movie about a time when we all thought science fiction could set us free

Vote now for your favorite zombified Instagram

Guillermo del Toro tells us why Baby Godzilla will not appear in Pacific Rim

Chinese panda with special “survival training” has been released into the wild

Exclusive details on David Fincher’s Kickstarter campaign for his zombie movie The Goon!

An eye the size of a softball has washed ashore in Florida

Ridley Scott drops hints for the Prometheus and Blade Runner sequels!

Brand-new panorama images reveal the full majesty of the Martian horizon for the first time

Putting Duct Tape Over a Person’s Mouth Does Absolutely Nothing

What does George R.R. Martin think of the new Beauty and the Beast show?

A glass pyramid filled with nothing but books

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