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Weirdo Google Street View scenes invade the realm of high art

The roving cameras of Google Street View has archived all manner of accidental weirdness. Artist Jon Rafman has assiduously documented the strangest sights Google’s cameras have captured in the company’s quest to provide a navigable facsimile of reality. Indeed, tucked between the boring shots of roads and homes are gangs of Mexican werewolves and sleepy…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How wasps helped give us wine

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a pretty awesome yeast. It’s one of the first that humans discovered, and is still used today in the creation of beer, wine, and bread. So, in other words, it’s the foundation of human society. So, what role did wasps have in bringing us this delightful stuff? Photo by Alex Wild. What’s…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Stem cell finding will lead to a “paradigm shift” in cancer treatments

There’s been a heated controversy in cancer research over the past several years about the alleged presence of cancer stem cells that fuel tumour growth. But now, new research conducted by three independent teams has confirmed the existence of these “master builder” cells — a discovery that will likely lead to completely new forms of…

io9 George Dvorsky

See self-assembling microstructures in action

We’ve heard a lot about self-assembling structures, but we rarely get to see a cool visual demonstration. This video shows several shapes and even complex, interlocking structures being assembled through “microfluidic channels.” As an accompaniment to a paper published in Nature, a video was made of a group of microstructures self-assembling through fluid movement and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Jessica Biel reveals huge hints about The Wolverine. And what’s ahead for Fringe‘s finale?

Watch Bryan Cranston get villainous in a brand new Total Recall clip. Rene Russo hopes to return as Queen Frigga in Thor: The Dark World. American Horror Story gets a new subtitle, but what will the third Hobbit movie be called? Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Doctor Who. The Wolverine While Jessica…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Massive dead humpback whale washes up in seaside swimming pool

If you thought over 100 frenzied sharks eating a dead whale was a tremendously unpleasant reason to go in the water, here’s a swim hazard that’s depressingly weirder. A 38-foot-long dead humpback — that Australian cetacean rescue experts speculate was hit by a ship while migrating — washed up in an ocean bath abutting Sydney’s…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The title of the X-Men: First Class sequel is a huge, thrilling spoiler

Spoiler alert: The sequel to X-Men First Class will be called X-Men: Days of Future Past. Fans of Chris Claremont’s X-Men will already know that this means we’ll be visiting a horrendous dystopian future, where mutants are basically stuck in interment camps and a mutant-hating regime rules the world. This is the result of an…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Doctor Who trailer will stop both your hearts with awesomeness

If you weren’t already on the edge of your seat for the return of Doctor Who, then this 90-second trailer ought to do the trick. Among other things, it features some of the coolest-looking Dalek scenes in years. Our first official glimpse of dinosaurs on a spaceship. More of that cyborg gunfight from “A Town…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

Watch a South American “superbird” diving 150 feet underwater

For years, it was assumed that imperial cormorants — large seabirds typically found along the southern coasts of South America — fed on fish just below the surface of the ocean. But when scientists in Argentina outfitted one with a tiny camera, they discovered that the birds are, in fact, remarkably accomplished predatory divers. “This…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Why Remakes Are One of Our Greatest Achievements as a Civilization

Whenever a reboot or remake of a movie comes out, people complain that it’s “not original.” When creators turn a book or comic into a TV show, critics sneer at Hollywood for having “no new ideas.” But they’re wrong. What remake-mania demonstrates is that pop culture behaves the way folklore has for thousands of years.…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Archeologists Uncover Maya Temple of the Blood Drinking Sun God

National Geographic is reporting on the remarkable discovery and analysis of a 1,600 year old ancient Maya temple in Guatemala. Called the Temple of the Night Sun, it features a series of striking stone monuments, including various depictions of the Maya sun god as a shark, jaguar, and blood drinker. Archaeologists are hoping that the…

io9 George Dvorsky

New Iron Sky clip shows what happens when you crash land on a Nazi moon base

What if the Nazis had a secret Moon base hiding from the rest of the planet since 1945? And quietly the space Nazi hold outs had been waiting until 2018 to strike the unsuspecting planet. This is the insane plot line for the ridiculous comedy Iron Sky. Get a sneak peek at a Nazi moon…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Rush Limbaugh’s newsletter rips off the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual

First there was that Bane imbroglio, and now this — radio host Rush Limbaugh is certainly intersecting with geek touchstones in downright baffling ways. On the cover of his most recent newsletter, artist Christopher Hiers is credited with the left illustration, which — Rush’s severed head and hypno-Obama eyes notwithstanding — looks exactly like artist…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Prometheus 2 is moving forward, so cue the albino chorus line

Prometheus is moving forward! We’re not surprised, since the original made money. But holy space Jesus if the sequel is as needlessly complicated and vapid as the first, we’re going to shave Michael Fassbender, Engineer-style. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed the sequel: Fox confirms to THR that Scott and the studio actively are pushing ahead…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Everything Peter Jackson added to The Hobbit — with PROOF!

Now that it has been officially confirmed that Peter Jackson will be making a trilogy out of The Hobbit, everyone is asking one basic question. How is that possible? The Hobbit just isn’t as big as Lord of the Rings. But Jackson has sworn up and down that there’s plenty of material in the book’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This is how you build a labyrinth out of 250,000 books

We recently told you about artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, and their plan to erect a massive maze made entirely out of books for the London 2012 Festival. At the time, we wrote that “the construction of the maze and the visitors’ participation [would be] filmed for general consumption.” Well, as of yesterday the…

Books & Comics Robbie Gonzalez

Scientific journals publish 20,000 fraudulent papers every year

Writing in Nature, science journalist Colin Macilwain exposes a little-known fact about articles published in reputable scientific journals. Every year, 20,000 of them are fraudulent. Scientists fudge their work in these papers about 1% of the time, and it adds up. But now, science institutions are starting to be more skeptical about what their researchers…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Everything you need to know to catch the Curiosity rover landing

On August 5th, at 10:31 pm PDT, NASA will attempt to land Curiosity — a one-ton, six-wheel-drive, nuclear-powered super-laboratory — on the surface of Mars. It is the most scientifically advanced rover ever built. It will be the most technically impressive landing procedure ever attempted. You do not want to miss this. Remember: the landing…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Behind-the-scenes RoboCop photos show off the goofier side of dystopian Detroit

The RoboCop trilogy contained some of the most unflinchingly violent scenes ever committed to science fiction cinema, so it’s pretty hilarious to see photos of these characters hanging out as if they’re waiting for the bus. The RoboCop Archive has a wealth of photos from all three films. My favorite photographs are Emil sitting about…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Microsoft helps to sponsor the creation of a superstitious robot

Data designer Shing Tat Chung has embarked on a strange project to create a superstitious robot who makes stock market investments. Sponsored in part by Microsoft Research, as well as GDP Capital, the project is intended to reveal what patterns emerge when an entity invests based on astrological and numerological information. Click the image above…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Weirdo Google Street View scenes invade the realm of high art

How wasps helped give us wine

Stem cell finding will lead to a “paradigm shift” in cancer treatments

See self-assembling microstructures in action

Jessica Biel reveals huge hints about The Wolverine. And what’s ahead for Fringe‘s finale?

Massive dead humpback whale washes up in seaside swimming pool

The title of the X-Men: First Class sequel is a huge, thrilling spoiler

New Doctor Who trailer will stop both your hearts with awesomeness

Watch a South American “superbird” diving 150 feet underwater

Why Remakes Are One of Our Greatest Achievements as a Civilization

Archeologists Uncover Maya Temple of the Blood Drinking Sun God

New Iron Sky clip shows what happens when you crash land on a Nazi moon base

Rush Limbaugh’s newsletter rips off the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual

Prometheus 2 is moving forward, so cue the albino chorus line

Everything Peter Jackson added to The Hobbit — with PROOF!

This is how you build a labyrinth out of 250,000 books

Scientific journals publish 20,000 fraudulent papers every year

Everything you need to know to catch the Curiosity rover landing

Behind-the-scenes RoboCop photos show off the goofier side of dystopian Detroit

Microsoft helps to sponsor the creation of a superstitious robot

ASUS Eye Care Monitor Hits an All-Time Low, Only Hours Left to Grab a 27″ Screen at a 15.6″ Budget Price on Amazon

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