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The Scariest Food Items Science Has Ever Created

This week on the io9 show, we discuss the creepiest foods science has ever produced — from synthetic potato chips, to meat synthesized from human feces. Plus, we show you how to make you over own homemade Pop Rocks candy. And we find out exactly why Matt Damon is so desperate to get into the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Radically Weird Visions of the Future of New York

New York has changed a lot over the centuries — but the strangest transformations could still be in the future. At least, that’s what a group of artists and designers think, based on the results of a competition to design strange and dystopian visions of the city’s future. The finalists include visions of buildings floating…

io9 Amanda Yesilbas

Furry-like “goatman” in Utah perplexing hikers, baffling non-goatmen

Unlike Sasquatch or Ogopogo, the Goatman is a largely unheralded cryptid whose half-man, half-goat exploits are primarily confined to Maryland state borders. Fortunately for all you self-avowed Goatmaniacs out there, the Goatman has popped up recently in Weber County, Utah, where a photographer shot him clambering near a herd of his full-goat brethren on Ben…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

10 Structures That Could Help Us Build Civilizations on the Ocean

Many visions of the future involve people living in the middle of the ocean. This makes all kinds of sense, since oceans make up two-thirds of the planet’s surface. Plus you can live independently, free from corrupt governments and the like. The biggest question, though, is how can you go about doing this? And the…

io9 George Dvorsky

New images from Dredd show off Lena Headey’s villainous Ma-Ma

We’ve seen depictions of Mega-City One’ s citizens in slow motion — now check out the actual city and its most dangerous inhabitant, Ma-Ma. Dredd has just dropped a bunch of stills showing the slums of Peach Trees Tower (where much of the film takes place) and a full-face shot of Lena Headey as the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Neil deGrasse Tyson decided to become a scientist when he was “starstruck” by a planetarium show

Last night at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, I had the pleasure of chatting on stage with Neil deGrasse Tyson about what inspired him to become a scientist. He told a packed crowd about how he fell in love with the stars — in the Hayden Planetarium that he now runs.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Nolan’s Batman Trilogy: A Unique Achievement in Myth-Making

As a stand-alone movie, The Dark Knight Rises is pretty darn good — better than most summer action movies, but not as good as The Dark Knight. But as the culmination of an epic trilogy, three films that are tight enough to be a single movie, it’s incredible. Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy does something nobody’s…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Don’t worry, soda isn’t replacing milk in kids’ diets

It’s one of the great canards of fretting over the youth — they’re drinking too much soda and abandoning the homey goodness of milk. Well, it turns out that kids are drinking more sugary drinks, but it’s not linked to a decline in drinks that aren’t horrible for them. According to data analysed from surveying…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Intense magnetic fields around white dwarfs may instigate an entirely new class of molecular bonding

Scientists at the University of Oslo have discovered a completely new way for atoms to bond together — but these researchers won’t be replicating the effect in the lab any time soon. The previously unknown bonding mechanism can only happen in the vicinity of white dwarfs where their intense density and spin creates the intense…

io9 George Dvorsky

This massive Saturnian thunderbolt was so bright it was visible from space. In broad daylight.

It’s not every day you witness a thunderstorm from space, let alone one on another planet, but the thunderstorm pictured here is an even rarer sight to behold. For one thing, these images, captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, were photographed from a distance of over two million miles (space footage of lightning on Earth, by…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This inquisitive gopher hangs out under a rocket launchpad in Kazakhstan

At Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome, a news cameraman inexplicably left his camera rolling near a functional launchpad. What occurred next was equally random — a gopher popped out of the ground to investigate and/or gnaw at the still-filming camera. Those readers wary of coincidences can happily postulate that this furry specimen is a top-secret breed of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This weirdo Star Wars poster could cost you $8,000

Behold an $8,000 Star Wars poster, and a wacky one at that. This rare 1978 promotional poster for a Star Wars concert featuring R2-D2 and C-3PO rocking out is going up for auction, where the item has been priced between $5,000-$8,000. This piece of zany pop art — which was designed by the poster legend…

Movies Meredith Woerner

MMA Fighters Love Staph Infections

In the past two decades, mixed martial arts like UFC and Strikeforce have stolen the spotlight from boxing. And within these violent sports lies an even more dangerous threat — the unstoppable spread of skin infections, particularly Staphylococcus aureus, amongst fighters and training partners. What conditions and habits lead to the spread of these infections,…

io9 Keith Veronese

Viacom Gives All Its Channels Back to DirecTV

DirecTV and Viacom were in something of a spat, unable to reach a broadcast agreement. This resulted in channels such as MTV and Comedy Central disappearing from DirecTV’s satellite beam. However, the two companies worked things out with a long term agreement, and all is well again. http://gizmodo.com/5925379/fee-dispute-with-directv-leads-viacom-to-pull-popular-shows-off-the-web?tag=directv But here’s the weird thing: Viacom says…

Television Adrian Covert

How crazy will Superman’s powers be in Man of Steel, and which aliens will appear in Thor 2?

The Wolverine finds a new villain. Skyfall goes retro. The Amazing Spider-Man sequel might need a new director. A Terminator star joins Lost Girl. The Kick-Ass 2 villain is the craziest thing ever… except maybe the planned Jumanji reboot. It’s spoilers all the way down! Top image from, for the very last time, The Dark…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Picture of the Day: July 19, 2012

THE SKIES ALL AGLOW | Dazzling auroras hang in the Antarctic skies over Concordia Station, a European research site run by the French Polar Institute and the Italian Antarctic Program. This is a rare break in the non-stop darkness of the Antarctic winter. Via Space.com Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Star Trek TV show could be an animated series

A new Star Trek TV show is looking slightly more likely than it was a little while ago, judging from the slightly cryptic interview movie producer Roberto Orci gave TrekMovie the other day. Orci says the talks over a Trek television show aren’t real yet, but “they are almost real.” Adds Orci, “The relevant parties…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How to Explode a Watermelon Using Rubber Bands. In Super Slow Motion.

Witness the awesome power of a fully armed and operational package of rubber bands. This video shows exactly what it looks like when a watermelon detonates under the force of hundreds of rubber bands, in awesome HD, courtesy of The Slow Mo Guys. It’s 100% guaranteed to inspire envy over their ridiculously awesome Phantom Flex…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How An Outgoing Disposition Can Help You Become a Professional Scientist

Today’s What Was It comes from Laurel Fiske. She’s the person who actually does the groundwork for all those neat studies that show up in journals, and occasionally in newspapers. She’s also proof that not all science nerds are locked up in a sunless room hissing at intruders. When anyone has a problem with the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Astronomers discover nearby exoplanet covered in magma

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have announced the discovery of a nearby explanet called UCF-1.01 — a planet so blazingly hot, it’s likely covered in hot magma. And at 33 light years away, this is the closest planet we’ve discovered that is smaller than Earth. The discovery is another example of our enhanced ability…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Scariest Food Items Science Has Ever Created

Radically Weird Visions of the Future of New York

Furry-like “goatman” in Utah perplexing hikers, baffling non-goatmen

10 Structures That Could Help Us Build Civilizations on the Ocean

New images from Dredd show off Lena Headey’s villainous Ma-Ma

Neil deGrasse Tyson decided to become a scientist when he was “starstruck” by a planetarium show

Nolan’s Batman Trilogy: A Unique Achievement in Myth-Making

Don’t worry, soda isn’t replacing milk in kids’ diets

Intense magnetic fields around white dwarfs may instigate an entirely new class of molecular bonding

This massive Saturnian thunderbolt was so bright it was visible from space. In broad daylight.

This inquisitive gopher hangs out under a rocket launchpad in Kazakhstan

This weirdo Star Wars poster could cost you $8,000

MMA Fighters Love Staph Infections

Viacom Gives All Its Channels Back to DirecTV

How crazy will Superman’s powers be in Man of Steel, and which aliens will appear in Thor 2?

Picture of the Day: July 19, 2012

New Star Trek TV show could be an animated series

How to Explode a Watermelon Using Rubber Bands. In Super Slow Motion.

How An Outgoing Disposition Can Help You Become a Professional Scientist

Astronomers discover nearby exoplanet covered in magma

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‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

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Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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