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Dinosaur cosplay in the 1930s was fantastic, creepy as hell

In 1938, Birmingham, England held a 5,000-performer pageant to celebrate the centennial of the city’s designation as a municipal borough. But that milestone’s barely germane to today’s discussion. No, what is noteworthy here is that Birmingham built three terrifying dinosaur costumes out of automobiles and chased one-hundred caveman around a field, which — to be…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A Technical Manual for Scott Westerfeld and Keith Thompson’s Leviathan Series

Hot damn. Author Scott Westerfeld and illustrator Keith Thompson are releasing a guide to their Leviathan series today, and it’s chock full of concept art, technical drawings and just amazing prettiness. The ideal gift for any aspiring aviators in your life. We’ve got a sneak peek from The Manual of Aeronautics right here, including a…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

What do you think Grimm’s Purity Potion tastes like?

Oh, Grimm, what are we going to do with you? So many things we love — and so many things that make us go glassy-eyed and realize, “Oh yeah, we’re watching TV.” I do love this show. It has absolutely grown on me, I applaud the more ambitious two-part storyline — and I especially adore…

Television Meredith Woerner

Young Adult Fiction’s Hottest New Trend: Mermaids?

YA books, like everything else for teens, are subject to the whims of trends and fashion. Remember when they were all about vampires? Or all about magical boarding schools? Or magical boarding schools with vampires? Or hyper-violent anti-authoritarian post-apocalypses? Those trends are all in the past — and they’ve been replaced by some sexy amphibian…

Books & Comics Michael Ann Dobbs

Your Daily Dose of Nightmare Fuel: a Newly Discovered Type of Cave Spider. With Claws.

There are exactly four things you must know about Trogloraptor marchingtoni, the newly identified variety of cave spider pictured here. One: Trogloraptor is big. Not tarantula big, but big enough to rend from your lungs the kind of scream you don’t realize you’re capable of making until you’re caught off-guard by a creeptastic-looking spider. Based…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Many Types of Ghosts, on Alphas

There are two different types of ghost stories — ones in which ghosts are just scary apparitions that want to make you watch brain-melting videotapes or whatever. And ones in which ghosts represent loss, both from the death of loved ones and from other sources. Last night’s Alphas sort of dabbled in the “scary haunted…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

How a major ingredient in KY Jelly could help you lose weight

Methylcellulose is a pretty common additive in all sorts of food items and cosmetics. You’ve probably eaten it in the last few days in ice cream (and it’s also has some insane applications in molecular gastronomy, and is a major ingredient in KY jelly). But by tweaking it slightly, it could become the “magic bullet”…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Join us in a bold new experiment with storytelling

Starting today, we’re going to be telling a story on io9. This story will be a sweeping space epic, gorgeously illustrated with professional artwork like what you see here. And you are going to help write it. Are you up for the challenge? Our experiment is a variation on the “exquisite corpse” method of story…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The scientific quest behind a very old joke

It’s an old joke: How does the teflon stick to the pan? It turns out that the answer involves a relatively long scientific quest to find a smooth substance that can stand the test of time. When you run your fingers over nonstick pans, they have that ultra-smooth plasticky feel that lets you know why…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

We can’t stop listening to Karen O’s Frankenweenie love ballad

We’re completely obsessed with Karen O’s contribution to Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie soundtrack. It’s sweet, poppy, retains the Oooweeeeoooohs from old timey black and white horror flicks, and sounds like it was stitched together from great love songs of our past (Mickey & Sylvia’s “Love Is Strange” and maybe even a bit of Queen). Kind of…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch Curiosity wiggle its wheels!

Curiosity is set to embark on its very first test drive tomorrow, but before it does, it needs to wiggle its wheels. These images, which show the rover’s right-side wheel wiggling about, suggest Curiosity is ready to roll (or at least steer). The plan is to have the rover drive three meters forward, turn in…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996 would include Dana Scully and Zack Morris

This is bloody hilarious. Davinder Brar, Chris Bird (of the website Mighty God King), and Andrew Wheeler have taken Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s fictional superteam conceit and applied it to the 1990s. Who would be a member of the Nineties League? Chow Yun-Fat from John Woo’s Hard Boiled, the evil girl from The Craft,…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

These mirrors will allow us to observe the birth of the Universe

In 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will become one of the greatest tools in humanity’s quest to understand the cosmos. Now, after eight years, the technology comprising the heart and soul of the telescope — an ultra-sophisticated beryllium mirror system — is complete. Up top, 11 of JWST’s 18 gigantic mirror segments, engineered and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Spacewalking cosmonauts heave a 20-pound metal ball into Earth orbit

Yesterday, while those of us in the U.S. were having lunch, Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko were walking in space. And they were tossing spaceballs. The pair spent nearly six hours working outside the International Space Station, moving the Strela-2 — a hand-operated, telescoping crane — from one module of the spacecraft to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Scientists want to test geohacking solution to global warming right now

This was a summer of record heatwaves and crushing drought — and experts are warning that it’s only going to get worse from here on out. So a number of scientists are calling for dramatic solutions — including “cloud brightening,” a process of blasting salt water into the sky to form massive, long-lived clouds. https://gizmodo.com/last-month-was-americas-hottest-on-record-as-in-ever-5932975…

io9 George Dvorsky

9 Wonder Woman Villains (That Explain Why Nobody Talks About Wonder Woman’s Villains)

Superheroes like Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man all have enemies that are immediately familiar to those unversed in comic book minutiae. But Wonder Woman? Sure, she has recurring antagonists like Circe, Cheetah, and Ares, but nobody on par with, say, Lex Luthor or Venom. Here are nine nemeses that would transform a Wonder Woman movie into…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Over a million acres of the United States are on fire right now

The National Interagency Fire Center is reporting that the United States has established a new record for most acreage burned by wildfires as of this date. The previous record, which was set in 2006, also occurred during a megadrought year. This news comes to us via Julia Whitty of Mother Jones, who notes that nearly…

io9 George Dvorsky

Glasses-Free 3D Movies Might Make 3D Movies Slightly Less Terrible Soon

Glasses-free 3D: eventually someone is going to get this right, and researchers in South Korea are well on their way, which means eventually we might be able to go to a 3D movie without having to wear those dorky, uncomfortable glasses. Now you wear specs in a film like say, Avatar, so that two separate…

Movies Leslie Horn

Breaking Bad Saturday morning cartoon teaches you to “Respect the Chemistry!”

Last night, The Breaking Bad Art Project opened at Gallery1988 in Los Angeles, featuring a collection of gorgeous meth-friendly art. But “Breaking Bad: The Animated Series” might just be our very favorite. Check out a collection of the beautiful artwork. “Breaking Bad: The Animated Series” by Ian Glaubinger. “Emilio’s Disposal” by Dave Perillo. “Breaking Bad”…

Television Meredith Woerner

Astronomers catch a star in the act of devouring a planet

How’s this for a depressing look into Earth’s potential future: Astronomers have witnessed the first evidence of a planet’s destruction by its aging star as it expands into a red giant. “A similar fate may await the inner planets in our solar system, when the Sun becomes a red giant and expands all the way…

io9 Nancy Atkinson - Universe Today

Dinosaur cosplay in the 1930s was fantastic, creepy as hell

A Technical Manual for Scott Westerfeld and Keith Thompson’s Leviathan Series

What do you think Grimm’s Purity Potion tastes like?

Young Adult Fiction’s Hottest New Trend: Mermaids?

Your Daily Dose of Nightmare Fuel: a Newly Discovered Type of Cave Spider. With Claws.

The Many Types of Ghosts, on Alphas

How a major ingredient in KY Jelly could help you lose weight

Join us in a bold new experiment with storytelling

The scientific quest behind a very old joke

We can’t stop listening to Karen O’s Frankenweenie love ballad

Watch Curiosity wiggle its wheels!

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996 would include Dana Scully and Zack Morris

These mirrors will allow us to observe the birth of the Universe

Spacewalking cosmonauts heave a 20-pound metal ball into Earth orbit

Scientists want to test geohacking solution to global warming right now

9 Wonder Woman Villains (That Explain Why Nobody Talks About Wonder Woman’s Villains)

Over a million acres of the United States are on fire right now

Glasses-Free 3D Movies Might Make 3D Movies Slightly Less Terrible Soon

Breaking Bad Saturday morning cartoon teaches you to “Respect the Chemistry!”

Astronomers catch a star in the act of devouring a planet

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