io9 | Page 3813 of 5931 | We Come From the Future

Procrastinating by watching this video about procrastination is a surprisingly good use of your time

Mmm… can you smell that? That’s the smell of irony. Or maybe it’s recursiveness. Or is it the smell of being incepted? Whatever it is, this video on the science of procrastination by the folks at AsapSCIENCE actually provides some pretty handy tips for being productive right here right now, so you can avoid falling…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Jae Lee draws Ozymandias versus the Comedian, in this Before Watchmen preview

Here’s an exclusive sneak peek of Ozymandias, the latest issue in the Before Watchmen series. Here we see artist Jae Lee (Inhumans, Fantastic Four: 1234) bring his ethereal flair to some early fisticuffs between martial artist super-genius Ozymandias and the cigar-chomping Comedian. This issue hits stands next Wednesday, September 26. Here’s the synopsis: BEFORE WATCHMEN:…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Joss Whedon gives the best answer yet as to why he’s back for Avengers 2!

The return of a major Marvel villain is confirmed. Check out multiple endings to the new Hobbit trailer. James Cameron reveals a possible new direction for the Avatar films. Plus Doctor Who, Once Upon a Time, Revolution, and more! Top image from Dredd. The Avengers 2 Joss Whedon gives his most in-depth explanation yet as…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The 2012 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Grows Nigh!

Don’t know what the Ig Nobels are? Read our coverage from last year’s ceremony. If you can’t be bothered to read it, you suck. https://gizmodo.com/and-now-the-winners-of-the-2011-ig-nobel-prizes-5845543 But here’s the distilled version: Every year, the Ig Nobels recognize science that first makes you laugh and then makes you think. It is unlike any awards ceremony you have…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Beautiful xkcd comic paints a whole universe in one panel

Today’s xkcd comic is astounding. It’s one giant panel with a never ending world that you can drag through with your cursor. It must have taken months to put this together, and the result is absolutely wonderful. Go to the website immediately, and play in this beautiful black-and-white world.

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Peter Jackson wants to direct an episode of Doctor Who. Make it happen, Moffat!

DREAM TEAM! Can you imagine a New Zealand-set Doctor Who lensed by the amazing Peter Jackson? Well, you never know — it just might happen. In an interview with The Waikato Times Matt Smith said he would love to film a Doctor Who episode in New Zealand with Peter Jackson. “I think it would be…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Sarah Connor Chronicles creator’s next show is about a 15-year-old messiah born in California

Josh Friedman of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is teaming up with Big Fish writer John August to make an intriguing TV series for ABC. It’s call Chosen, and according to Deadline it’s about a teenaged messiah. Described as a unique tale of family struggle, teen romance and California evil, it explores how a family’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Only one of ABC’s new genre TV shows is truly worth your time

Next week, ABC is launching three new genre shows: 666 Park Avenue, The Neighbors, and Last Resort. All three of them feature bold premises and cool visuals — but which one of them is going to be your brand new obsession? We’ve seen all three pilots — and even though all three of them have…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Physics of Bullets: Why a Modern Gun Shoots 10 Times Farther Than its 19th Century Counterpart

Old smoothbore guns, which were loaded with bullets that looked more like balls than torpedoes, had an effective range of about sixty yards. A relatively small engineering change, which took its lead from physics, increased the range tenfold. What could make anything work that much better? Military guns in the Victorian era had long barrels,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Do women speak less when when there are more men around?

A recent study conducted at Brigham Young University and Princeton has revealed that significant gender inequality still exists for women when debating issues in mixed-gender settings. According to new research, when compared to men, women are less inclined to speak and share their opinions when they’re outnumbered. Given the importance of speech as a means…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Insane Things Joseph Gordon-Levitt Did to Become Bruce Willis in Looper

You’ve already seen how Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s face was altered to make him look more like a younger version of Bruce Willis for the time travel movie Looper. But that’s just the most visible part of the process that Gordon-Levitt went through to transform himself into Willis. When we sat down with Gordon-Levitt and writer/director Rian…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Scientist + liquid nitrogen + 1500 ping pong balls = boomhappy funtime

Come for the science, stay for the explosions. Watch Plymouth University professor Roy Lowry* demonstrate what happens when you try to contain liquid nitrogen while it’s returning to its gaseous state. (The impatient among you can skip to 3:15.) *Fun (though, given the nature of this video, perhaps not entirely surprising) fact: In 2006, Dr.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Cabin in the Woods Director Drew Goddard is live on io9, and taking your questions!

We’ve got the Director of Cabin in the Woods Drew Goddard live on this very post taking questions from all of you. Ask him absolutely anything you want about monsters, Joss Whedon (who co-wrote Cabin) writing or directing. How much human blood can a merman spew from its blow-hole? Before Cabin, Goddard spent his time…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch Transformers Prime take on The Sword in the Stone

When the Autobots and Decepticons encounter a super-powerful sword that needs to be pulled out of a stone, who’s going to claim its awesome power? Megatron? Smokescreen? Now, at last, we get to see what it would be like if the legend of King Arthur was restaged with giant transforming robots and pew-pew lasers. Thanks…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Your lab-grown penis is (almost) ready

Earlier this afternoon, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal‘s Zach Weiner floated an interesting thought: “One day,” he mused, “there will actually be a pill that grows your penis six inches.” Far-fetched? Perhaps. But here’s something penis-related that isnt: researchers are inching ever-closer to being able to grow fully functioning human genitalia in the lab — and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

10 tricks that prove Outlook.com is the email provider of the future

The all-new Outlook.com is here, and as Gizmodo has already said: It’s pretty fantastic; Microsoft basically reimagined the idea of Web-based email from the ground up. Our favorite part? They didn’t just fill it up with novel new features — they went out of their way to lay them out in plain English (no engineer-to-English…

io9 By Seth Porges

Could someone really destroy the whole Internet?

In just 40 years, our whole civilization has become dependent on the Internet, in more ways than we could count. So when you hear activist groups threatening to crash the whole thing, or doomsday preppers warning of a global Internet failure, it’s pretty scary. But could someone actually bring the entire Internet down? We asked…

io9 George Dvorsky

Space shuttle Endeavour’s journey to museum will require 400 trees to be cut down

Next month, the retired space shuttle Endeavour will be making a 12-mile journey to its final resting place at a Los Angeles museum. But to get there, local officials will have to make way for the 112-foot-long, 78-foot-wide, and 5-storey-tall behemoth. And in order to do so they’ll have to remove 400 trees, and hundreds…

io9 George Dvorsky

6 Nerdy Parties Throughout History We Would’ve Loved To Attend

Since the dawn of humanity, our species has been assiduously researching ways to party hard. And every now and then, this impulse to rage like banshees unchained intersects seamlessly with our geekier proclivities. Behold six wonderful nerd soirées that were almost stranger than fiction. 6. Wayne Manor Nightclub In the mid-1960s, this Batman-themed nightclub (above)…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Swedish doctors announce world’s first mother-to-daughter womb transplant

In a procedure that involved more than 10 surgeons, and training that lasted over several years, two Swedish women were successfully implanted with donated uteruses. But if that wasn’t an amazing accomplishment unto itself, what makes this even more incredible is that the uteruses were donated by the women’s mothers. So, assuming the procedure worked,…

io9 George Dvorsky

Procrastinating by watching this video about procrastination is a surprisingly good use of your time

Jae Lee draws Ozymandias versus the Comedian, in this Before Watchmen preview

Joss Whedon gives the best answer yet as to why he’s back for Avengers 2!

The 2012 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Grows Nigh!

Beautiful xkcd comic paints a whole universe in one panel

Peter Jackson wants to direct an episode of Doctor Who. Make it happen, Moffat!

Sarah Connor Chronicles creator’s next show is about a 15-year-old messiah born in California

Only one of ABC’s new genre TV shows is truly worth your time

The Physics of Bullets: Why a Modern Gun Shoots 10 Times Farther Than its 19th Century Counterpart

Do women speak less when when there are more men around?

The Insane Things Joseph Gordon-Levitt Did to Become Bruce Willis in Looper

Scientist + liquid nitrogen + 1500 ping pong balls = boomhappy funtime

Cabin in the Woods Director Drew Goddard is live on io9, and taking your questions!

Watch Transformers Prime take on The Sword in the Stone

Your lab-grown penis is (almost) ready

10 tricks that prove Outlook.com is the email provider of the future

Could someone really destroy the whole Internet?

Space shuttle Endeavour’s journey to museum will require 400 trees to be cut down

6 Nerdy Parties Throughout History We Would’ve Loved To Attend

Swedish doctors announce world’s first mother-to-daughter womb transplant

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

Forget Tower Desktop, GMKtec Mini PC Drops to a Record Low as Amazon Clears Out Final Spring Sale Stock

‘Fallout’ Season 2 Was a Hit Despite That Unsatisfying Release Strategy Change

JBL Authentics 500 Retro-Style Home Speaker Hits 40% Off, Now at Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Clearance Begins

ExpressVPN Spring Sale Special: Up to 73% Off + Free eSIM and Password Manager

You Too Will Learn to Fear the XenoFrog

Amazon Echo Dot Sees Its Last Price Drop in the Spring Sale, Final Hours Tick Down Ahead of an Uncertain Prime Day

Artemis 2 by the Numbers: Breaking Down NASA’s Big Return to the Moon

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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?

Let us help find what you are looking for...