io9 | Page 3847 of 5931 | We Come From the Future

The creator of the British Life on Mars creates a new show about the cross-universe police

This actually sounds amazingly promising — Matthew Graham, best known for creating the original British Life on Mars, has a deal with Fox to create a new show called Para Time. According to Heat Vision, the show “revolves around a group that polices parallel worlds.” So, sliders meets police procedural? We’re in. [Heat Vision]

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Who wants to live inside a rapper’s giant abandoned head?

In all my years cataloguing the gorgeous, weird, and semi-disturbing abandoned locations on planet Earth, this is probably my favorite. https://gizmodo.com/bulgarias-abandoned-socialist-monument-is-secretly-on-t-5889598 https://gizmodo.com/michigans-abandoned-dinosaur-amusement-park-is-way-cree-5525873 https://gizmodo.com/an-extremely-creepy-tour-of-an-abandoned-soviet-monumen-5899924 What is it? A derelict live-in sculpture of the head of the guy who rapped “The Humpty Dance.” You remember the lyrics: “♫ The Humpty Dance is your chance ♬ To do…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

At Last, the Explanation of That Mysterious Baby in Kim Harrison’s Pale Demon

For ages, fans of Kim Harrison’s urban fantasy have been grappling with two questions: What happened to Trent and Jenks when they went to San Francisco? And how on Earth did Trent end up with that baby that he has in her novel Pale Demon? At last, Harrison answers both questions, with a brand new…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

How Blue Lantern’s light could save the lives of real-life babies

The Lantern Corps of DC Comics saves people through shapes made from light. Each of them have powers imbued by light. But, in reality, what can light do? Funnily enough, just plain blue light can save the lives of sick and pre-term babies. Those of you who have been reading DC Comics know that Green…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Coolest Games, Cosplay and More from Gen Con 2012

Gen Con is the biggest game convention in North America, held each August in Indianapolis — this year, it set a new attendance record, with a weekend turnstile number of 134,775 and more than 41,000 attendees. Feast your eyes on our exclusive photo gallery of amazing costumes, incredible games… and crazy gamer parties. We’ll have…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

First Supercute Trailer for Seth Green’s Secret Star Wars TV Show!

We’ve been waiting forever for the first hint as to what the minds behind Robot Chicken had been cooking for their secret new Star Wars-centric Cartoon Network show. But now Seth Green and Matthew Senreich have released a trailer for the new series, officially titled Star Wars: Detours, and it’s pretty darn cute. It looks…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Concept Art from the Silver Surfer Rock Opera Movie That Never Was

The executive producer of Xanadu, Lee Kramer, had a dream. A dream for a rocking Silver Surfer movie that heralded the character’s entrance with 100 electric guitars along with a maddening chant. Alas that vision (which started back in the 1980s) never came to pass. Movies.com has a quote from Kramer, pulled from Sean Howe’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Now we know why the Japanese tsunami was so huge

Last year’s earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan left scientists baffled. They knew that the potential for large waves was very real, but the tremendous size of the Japanese tsunami went beyond their wildest expectations — with some waves reaching as high as 20 feet. But now, scientists at Cambridge University suspect they know what…

io9 George Dvorsky

This is what a red giant looks like just as it’s about to blow

If you’re ever traveling through space and you encounter a red giant star that looks like this, you might just want to turn tail and get the hell out of there. This is a video interpretation of Betelgeuse, a star that’s on the brink of going supernova. And as you can see, it’s a bubbling…

io9 George Dvorsky

What’s the coolest way Saturn’s rings could get destroyed?

Saturn’s rings might be sitting pretty right now, but eventually they’re gonna go. And we’ve narrowed it down to three spectacular possible fates, the last of which might actually be pretty cool to watch. A lot of people have been moved by the sight of Saturn’s rings. Galileo described them, when he first saw them,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

How soon can we use the oceans to quench the world’s thirst?

Which each passing year, the world gets thirstier. As the human population continues to grow, and becomes more urbanized, our sources of drinkable water get pushed to their limits. The solution? Desalination — the process of removing salt from ocean water. But given the tremendous costs and energy requirements of doing so, large-scale desalination remains…

io9 George Dvorsky

A sneak preview of next week’s issue of Before Watchmen

Here’s an exclusive first look at the next issue of Before Watchmen — Before Watchmen: Minutemen, which features the handsome artwork of Darwyn Cooke. In this miniseries, Cooke (Richard Stark’s Parker, DC: The New Frontier) pens The Minutemen, the pulpy World War II superhero team who laid the groundwork for such unstable crime-stoppers as Rorschach.…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Scientists identify virus that makes snakes tie themselves into knots and starve to death

This is about as nightmarish as it must get for snakes: Scientists have finally identified an ebola-related disease that causes snakes to tie themselves into knots, stare off into space, and waste away. The condition, which was first discovered in the 1980s, is called inclusion body disease (IBD), and is known to affect pythons and…

io9 George Dvorsky

Can dinosaurs still be badass with feathers?

This week on the io9 show, we debate whether you can still be scared of dinosaurs now that we believe they were covered with proto-feathers or “dino-fuzz.” And we talk about all the other ways that science has shattered our science fiction dreams, including telling us that ray guns and blasters could never work. Plus,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

We’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but it’s still amazing how ground-breaking that show feels. Deep Space Nine didn’t just defy our expectations of what a Star Trek show could be — it also helped to transform our ideas about genre television, in general. To watch DS9 is…

Television Amanda Yesilbas and Charlie Jane Anders

How I drew Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer

There are many talented comic book illustrators out there, but very few do “sublimely gorgeous” quite like artist David Mack. Mack — who you may know from such comics as Kabuki, Daredevil, and Alias — recently gave io9 an exclusive tour of his sketchbook. He’s illustrating the covers for Dark Horse Comics’ upcoming Willow miniseries,…

Books & Comics David Mack

Learn everything you need to know about Judge Dredd’s war on drugs

What is SLO-MO? How do you use it? What does it do? And how does it mess with your head? This new featurette from Pete Travis’ 2000 AD adaptation Dredd explains everything you need to know about the hottest drug in Mega-City One. Plus, they also show how they shoot the sparkly drug scenes, which…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The First Ever Horror Movie About How Much Ghost Hunters Sucks

The Apparition, out today, is a vaguely adequate horror movie in which a young couple struggles with some paranormal-ass activity. Where this movie shines, though, is in showing how braindead the whole “paranormal expert” subgenre of television and movies is. Whenever you meet a paranormal expert in a horror movie, they’re always right about everything.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Scientists develop flameproof makeup

Exposed skin and massive blasts of heat are generally considered a bad combination — and now scientists have created a lotion that could protect soldiers and firefighters from flames. Explosives can cause damage in two ways — through either a concussive blast, or the shortly following heatwave that can hit temperatures of 1,112°F. Unsurprisingly, the…

io9 Tim Barribeau

What is the secret to a long life?

Early longevity studies led scientists to the conclusion that a creature’s lifespan was proportional to its body mass and heart rate; “the big, slow elephant outlives the quick, small mouse,” explains Fred Guterl in a recent piece for Scientific American. But small, long-lived organisms like naked mole rats (which can live up to 28 years…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The creator of the British Life on Mars creates a new show about the cross-universe police

Who wants to live inside a rapper’s giant abandoned head?

At Last, the Explanation of That Mysterious Baby in Kim Harrison’s Pale Demon

How Blue Lantern’s light could save the lives of real-life babies

The Coolest Games, Cosplay and More from Gen Con 2012

First Supercute Trailer for Seth Green’s Secret Star Wars TV Show!

Concept Art from the Silver Surfer Rock Opera Movie That Never Was

Now we know why the Japanese tsunami was so huge

This is what a red giant looks like just as it’s about to blow

What’s the coolest way Saturn’s rings could get destroyed?

How soon can we use the oceans to quench the world’s thirst?

A sneak preview of next week’s issue of Before Watchmen

Scientists identify virus that makes snakes tie themselves into knots and starve to death

Can dinosaurs still be badass with feathers?

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

How I drew Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Learn everything you need to know about Judge Dredd’s war on drugs

The First Ever Horror Movie About How Much Ghost Hunters Sucks

Scientists develop flameproof makeup

What is the secret to a long life?

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

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

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