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Urban Gardens that Are Also Beautiful Art Projects

The cities of the future will need to incorporate greenery, and most cutting edge architecture includes a space for urban gardens and vertical farms. But the real cutting-edge designers and artists are taking it one step further — with projects that are half garden, half-sculpture. Here are some new urban green spaces that are also…

io9 Amanda Yesilbas

True Blood Ad says everything we ever could about this show with one image

This New Zealand billboard for True Blood pretty much wraps up the entire fifth season of HBO’s vampire series in one striking image. Created by DraftFCB. [via Buzzfeed]

Television Meredith Woerner

The Chemical Brothers turn Olympic cycling into Tron

For the 2012 Olympics, British electronic stalwarts The Chemical Brothers composed “Velodrome,” a theme song (unsurprisingly) for London’s sweeping Hopkins Velodrome. And between each of the velodrome’s sessions, design firm Crystal CG International has created a music video depicting a race between two Tron-like cyclists. And in earlier Olympic geekery, see Dario Argento’s Suspiria by…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Rise of “Cyber Therapy,” or How Games Became a Medical Treatment

Today many doctors today say the best high-tech treatments are ones you can download from an app store. A trend in digital bootstrapping, using simple technology to solve complicated problems, reveals that the best cure isn’t always a brand-new drug or gadget. Sometimes a simple iPad app or game can transform a troubled treatment into…

io9 George Dvorsky

See all the landing hardware that Curiosity scattered on the surface of Mars

Hey everyone, look! It’s NASA’s space litter! You’re looking at one of the latest images captured by HiRISE, the superpowered camera that photographed Curiosity from Mars orbit while it was parachuting to the surface of the planet. Now, members of the HiRISE project have tracked down all of the hardware that played a role in…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Jill Tarter, inspiration for the movie Contact, tells us about her journey to SETI

Jill Tarter is the holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI, and the inspiration for Jodi Foster’s character in the movie Contact. When we asked her what turned her towards the sciences, she gave us one of the most epic answers we’ve ever received. The SETI Institute is one of those rare institutions…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Magical Video Store Where You Could Rent Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman and Cronenberg’s Return of the Jedi

Many of us fantasize about the movies that never were — the projects that fell through or were consumed by Development Hell. Like David Cronenberg’s versions of Total Recall and Return of the Jedi. But what would you give you could watch all the movies that never existed? In Tim Pratt’s story “Impossible Dreams,” a…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Nightmare fuel: Watch a spider use a portable net to capture its prey

Most of us think of spider webs as passive hunting tools: a spider spins a web, prey is caught in the web, the spider returns to collect its spoils. But for arachnids from the family Deinopidae, webs are used in a decidedly active (and decidedly terrifying) form of predation. Commonly known as “gladiator” or “net-casting”…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Sandman Slim Excerpt, part 2

This is my Fort Knox, my office, and my panic room. I’ve laid the heaviest protective hoodoo I know around this place. Of all the hideouts I ever thought of running to when things got weird, a library was right behind a leper colony and a burning garbage truck. But here I am. I haven’t…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First 40 pages of Richard Kadrey’s new Sandman Slim novel are a Hell of a good time

The great thing about Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim novels is, there’s no foot-dragging. Each book in the series pushes the story forward — usually with a punch in the gut. Case in point: the fourth Sandman Slim Book, Devil Said Bang, starts out with Stark in a very different position than the previous novels. (If…

Books & Comics Richard Kadrey

Breakdown of Avengers title sequence reveals Nick Fury’s holster and Black Widow’s stinger

What sort of cool Marvel shout-outs are hiding inside The Avengers’ opening and closing titles? What weapons and character staples did we missed as they flashed by the big screen? An excellent recap of the entire sequence reveals a few new glances at some iconic S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent toys, plus Avengers costume close ups. Art of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Russian synchronized swimmers win Olympic gold with the theme to Suspiria

Dario Argento’s classic horror flick Suspiria — which was about supernatural evil looming over a ballet academy — featured an iconic score by Italian prog-rockers Goblin. https://gizmodo.com/100-albums-every-science-fiction-and-fantasy-fan-should-5904551 So it tickles us to no end that Russian synchronized swimming duet Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina dressed up like creepy puppets, blasted Goblin on the Olympic Aquatics…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Witness claims there were actually two UFO crashes at Roswell in 1947

A former UFO debunker, Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French, has gone public with a story that the US government knows there are extraterrestrials and has been covering it up since the notorious Roswell crash. In fact, French claims that the Roswell incident actually involved two UFO crashes. He also explained why he spent so…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Carl Sagan’s message to future explorers of Mars will cold-cock you right in the touchy feelies

A few months before he died, Carl Sagan recorded a moving message which he dedicated to future explorers and settlers of Mars. A brief excerpt of that recording has been making the rounds on the internet since early Monday morning, in the form of the quote featured up top — but Sagan’s entire message is…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Holy heck, this skee-ball machine made entirely out of K’Nex actually works

Oh, this is frighteningly cool. Over the course of a year, Instructables user Shadowman39 built a live-size, functional skee-ball machine using oodles of the interlocking plastic construction toy K’Nex. As he explains of its specs: This machine is full-size, coin-operated (takes quarters), turns itself off automatically, and counts points using a mechanical counter. And, all…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Guillermo del Toro teases “big name” writer for his Incredible Hulk TV show

The post-Avengers Marvel project we’re perhaps most excited about — sorry, Thor 2 and Captain America 2 — is the promise of a Hulk TV series produced by Guillermo del Toro. But the Pan’s Labyrinth director is often followed with a list of forever-in-development projects, so imagine our surprise when he announced that the show…

Movies Meredith Woerner

10 Best Spy-Fi Movies of All Time

Spies are like the better dressed version of superheroes. They stop supervillains from destroying the world, and they do incredible superhuman feats, with the help of insane gadgets and vehicles. With a new Bourne movie in theaters on Friday, it’s a great time to celebrate the “spy-fi” genre, that combines spies and science fiction. Here…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Methane-exhaling microbes found in undersea volcanoes reset the limits of life

As unbelievable as it sounds, it’s thought that up to a third of all the Earth’s organisms by mass live in rocks and sediments. Suffice to say, we know excruciatingly little about the lives and ecology of these highly inaccessible creatures. But a new study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is offering an unprecedented…

io9 George Dvorsky

This is how sperm whales sleep. Yes, really.

Ever fallen asleep standing up? Then you know what it’s like to snooze like a sperm whale. This image, captured by photographer Magnus Lundgren for Wild Wonders of Europe, is actually a few years old, but it highlights an interesting bit of cetacean neuroscience that’s definitely worth sharing, and explaining in greater detail. Until just…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Remember when Superman smoked a dozen cigars at the same time?

Superman comics in the 1950s and 1960s were the apotheosis of the comic narrative, thanks to DC Comics’ willingness to throw any damn idea at the wall, no matter how stupid, offensive, or offensively stupid. https://gizmodo.com/remember-when-superman-turned-into-satan-5830713 http://io9.com/5819900/the-wrongest-scenes-from-the-time-lois-lane-got-zapped-with-a-weight+gain-ray https://gizmodo.com/the-10-most-baffling-moments-in-lois-lane-and-supermans-5897128 These comics offer the impression that the Silver Age DC Comics editorial office was an episode of…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Urban Gardens that Are Also Beautiful Art Projects

True Blood Ad says everything we ever could about this show with one image

The Chemical Brothers turn Olympic cycling into Tron

The Rise of “Cyber Therapy,” or How Games Became a Medical Treatment

See all the landing hardware that Curiosity scattered on the surface of Mars

Jill Tarter, inspiration for the movie Contact, tells us about her journey to SETI

The Magical Video Store Where You Could Rent Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman and Cronenberg’s Return of the Jedi

Nightmare fuel: Watch a spider use a portable net to capture its prey

Sandman Slim Excerpt, part 2

First 40 pages of Richard Kadrey’s new Sandman Slim novel are a Hell of a good time

Breakdown of Avengers title sequence reveals Nick Fury’s holster and Black Widow’s stinger

Russian synchronized swimmers win Olympic gold with the theme to Suspiria

Witness claims there were actually two UFO crashes at Roswell in 1947

Carl Sagan’s message to future explorers of Mars will cold-cock you right in the touchy feelies

Holy heck, this skee-ball machine made entirely out of K’Nex actually works

Guillermo del Toro teases “big name” writer for his Incredible Hulk TV show

10 Best Spy-Fi Movies of All Time

Methane-exhaling microbes found in undersea volcanoes reset the limits of life

This is how sperm whales sleep. Yes, really.

Remember when Superman smoked a dozen cigars at the same time?

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

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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