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Behold the Atomic Cafe: Where Mad Max Would Get Wasted

Surviving the apocalypse is thirsty work — so you’re going to need a place to get your drink on, after the collapse of civilization. Meet the Atomic Cafe, the bar where everybody knows the names of all your weapons. The Atomic Cafe was newly built for Wasteland Weekend, the annual Mad Max-themed event in the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Our Giant Guide To Fall’s Must-See Science Fiction And Fantasy TV

Zombies, bloody face monsters, aliens, and swashbuckling anti-electricity villains — this fall TV has it all. Here’s the chronological list of the genre television shows you cannot miss this fall, including trailers for the new seasons of Walking Dead and Once Upon A Time, and clips from new series like Revolution. Currently Airing Grimm The…

Television Meredith Woerner

12 Magical Items and the Real Life Gadgets that Resemble Them

We were really sad to hear that you can no longer buy magical items on eBay — these amazing toys and miraculous devices are what make us love fantasy stories. We all dream of owning Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, or Harry Dresden’s magic duster. The good news? Science is working on creating these things in…

Books & Comics Amanda Yesilbas and Charlie Jane Anders

Soon you’ll be backing up your hard drive using DNA

Think the memory card in your camera is high-capacity? It’s got nothing on DNA. With data accumulating at a faster rate now than any other point in human history, scientists and engineers are looking to genetic code as a form of next-generation digital information storage. Now, a team of Harvard and Johns Hopkins geneticists has…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

An Untold Story from Supernatural Season 7!

Are you suffering from Winchester withdrawal? We are, too. It feels like aeons since Supernatural’s been on television. To help tide you over until the fall TV season begins, here’s an exclusive excerpt from the brand new Supernatural novel, which tells about a previously untold adventure of the Winchesters during season seven. Here’s the official…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Watch the composer from Blade Runner and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos have a synthesizer freakout

The measured electronic music of Vangelis evokes C-beams glittering in the dark near Tannhäuser Gate, but the famed composer was just as enjoyable when he was improvising. Here are approximately seven minutes of the musician wigging out on Spanish television in 1982. I wish Sagan was there to wax galactic over this jam. Those of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Remember when baseball players attacked the Sphinx in 1889?

Ah, the good old days when entire baseball squads would descend upon ancient monuments and try to bean them into rubble. Such a scene unfolded in 1889, when former ballplayer Albert Spalding led the Chicago White Stockings and All-Americas exhibition team around the globe to promote the sport. And during a stop in Egypt, the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A male contraceptive pill that doesn’t use hormones

The creation of an effective and reversible male contraceptive method (that isn’t the condom) is currently a hot research topic, as various institutes attempt to come up with a way of stopping sperm without doing any permanent harm. None of these attempts has yet resulted in a male pill, but now scientists have discovered a…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Trans fats and the chemistry of evil

Trans fats are a four letter word in nutrition circles — the boogeyman that corrupts your baked goods and tasty fried foods. But what makes these nutritional fats different from all the others? And why are they the bane of medicine? Trans fats differ from other unsaturated fats from a structural perspective, but only a…

io9 Keith Veronese

The Revolutionary Technology that Turned Rebecca Romijn into X-Men‘s Mystique

The original X-Men trilogy featured a ton of special effects makeup, including special prosthetics that created the characters of Mystique, Wolverine, Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth, Toad and Nightcrawler. This weekend sees the opening of a brand new exhibition that showcases the work of Gordon Smith, who devised the prosthetics and makeup for the first two X-Men…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The best ever abandoned computer manufacturing plant turned Satanic temple

In Casa Grande, Arizona, there’s a mouldering set of futuristic domes and saucers that were once destined to be computer manufacturing plants in the 1970s. According to urban legend, they were never used. And now the Domes, as they are called, are the site of Satanic rituals. And if you look at these pictures, you…

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eBay bans the sale of all magic, including potions, hexes, and curses

Online savvy sorcerers, you’re out of luck. Online auction giant eBay has recently exiled magical wares from their site. No longer will you be able to purchase Haunted Money Spells or a curse for your incredibly loud neighbor who smokes skunk weed while jamming out to Pink at 3:38 AM. According to the official eBay’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The strictly non-medical history of laughing gas

People have always used laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, recreationally. Whether they’re casual whippet users or have access to a steady supply of the medical-grade stuff, people have enjoyed the drug since its discovery over 200 years ago. In fact, there was a time when doctors would have been horrified at the idea of using…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The real-life My Little Ponies were creepy and magnificent beasts

Most My Little Pony dolls — save the limited edition commemorative Alien 3 models — boast lustrous, improbably long manes. And back in the late 1800s, Linus the Wonder Horse and his hirsute progeny wowed carnival-goers across America. But who was this “Samson among equines?” In 1910, the biology book Experimental Zoölogy profiled Linus —…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Why ParaNorman is Not Your Typical Tim Burton Spookfest

At first glance, ParaNorman sounds like one of Tim Burton’s gothic horror movies. It’s a stop-motion animated film about ghosts and zombies, after all. The main character is a weird little kid who’s ostracized because of his supernatural gifts. The film’s writer and co-director, Chris Butler, even worked on Burton’s Corpse Bride. But when you…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Want to prevent senility and keep your blood pressure down? Drink cocoa.

Did you know that chocolate could save your life? Two new studies are adding fuel to the claims that chocolate will make your life incredibly better. The first study looked at how flavanol-packed cocoa affected elderly patients experiencing mild cognitive impairment. Flavanol is a chemical in some chocolate that acts as an antioxidant. Subjects were…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Guardians of the Galaxy plot synopsis reveals new character details

Little is known about Marvel’s epic Guardians of the Galaxy movie, besides the fact that it’s coming out in 2014. However, a newly leaked log line reveals one new character that we’re pretty excited to see! According to The Grid this brand-new plot synopsis for Guardians of the Galaxy is straight from Marvel: “A U.S.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Today’s sexy body hack: eat walnuts to boost sperm health

Two handfuls of walnuts. That’s all it takes. Just two handfuls (around 75 grams/day), and your sperm quality will improve “in terms of concentration, vitality, movement, shape and chromosome abnormalities,” according to a study recounted in the latest issue of the journal Biology of Reproduction. Who here even knew that sperm shape was a thing?…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Spinning guinea pigs on a turntable for science!

Occasionally you hear of science experiments in which the experiment itself is much more interesting than the result. For example, there is a whole genre of experiments which involve putting animals on turntables and spinning them right round, baby, right round. And yes, it’s actually important. Have you heard that old saying that the journey…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Mad Max: Fury Road has an awesomely insane plot description and cast list!

Joseph Gordon-Levitt addresses his own possible Batman future. Delve into the history of Dredd with a new behind-the-scenes video. Director James Mangold shares teasers for The Wolverine. Captain Jack Harkness joins the new Green Arrow show. Plus lots more on Doctor Who’s upcoming season! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Dredd. Iron Man…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Behold the Atomic Cafe: Where Mad Max Would Get Wasted

Our Giant Guide To Fall’s Must-See Science Fiction And Fantasy TV

12 Magical Items and the Real Life Gadgets that Resemble Them

Soon you’ll be backing up your hard drive using DNA

An Untold Story from Supernatural Season 7!

Watch the composer from Blade Runner and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos have a synthesizer freakout

Remember when baseball players attacked the Sphinx in 1889?

A male contraceptive pill that doesn’t use hormones

Trans fats and the chemistry of evil

The Revolutionary Technology that Turned Rebecca Romijn into X-Men‘s Mystique

The best ever abandoned computer manufacturing plant turned Satanic temple

eBay bans the sale of all magic, including potions, hexes, and curses

The strictly non-medical history of laughing gas

The real-life My Little Ponies were creepy and magnificent beasts

Why ParaNorman is Not Your Typical Tim Burton Spookfest

Want to prevent senility and keep your blood pressure down? Drink cocoa.

Guardians of the Galaxy plot synopsis reveals new character details

Today’s sexy body hack: eat walnuts to boost sperm health

Spinning guinea pigs on a turntable for science!

Mad Max: Fury Road has an awesomely insane plot description and cast list!

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

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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

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