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The CG-animated sequel to Starship Troopers is the closest to Heinlein’s vision yet

At last, 15 years later, there’s a true sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s cult classic Starship Troopers. We saw the whole film at San Diego Comic Con, and we’re happy to report that not only is it a close follow-up to the original film — it also uses CG animation to create something very close to…

io9 Keith Veronese

600-year-old bra and underwear discovered in an Austrian castle

Contemporary bras are more comfortable, modified versions of corsets — or so it was believed, until a 2007 discovery changed the way we see women’s underwear. Working with a team of her colleagues, archaeologist Beatrix Nutz recently publicized her discovery of several linen bras and some underwear in a medieval castle. Nutz has presented academic…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Comic Con Wrap-Up: The Shiniest Things We Saw in San Diego!

Going to San Diego Comic Con is a lot like visiting the future — you spend a lot of time obsessing over TV shows and movies that won’t arrive for months, or even a year or two. We just spent five days in San Diego, discovering all of tomorrow’s entertainment obsessions, and now we’re back…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Meet “The Dork,” the most fearsome beast in comic book history

Think you’re familiar with all the fearsome fauna on the comic page? Well, chances are you’ve never encountered The Dork, a marine reptile who graced the pages of Planet Comics in 1957. In this sequence, seafaring hero Reef Ryan is in the clutches of the villainous Zurko The Fierce, who sics the deadly Dork on…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Paranorman feature shows the scarier side to stop-motion zombies

In this fascinating featurette for the supernatural flick Paranorman, the animators bring the stop-motion zombies alive frame-by-frame. Plus, check out a whole heap of new footage. Paranorman will hit theaters on August 17, 2012.

Movies Meredith Woerner

Infants can distinguish speech from nonsense as early as 9 months

Babies may not be able to clean or feed themselves, but they’re pretty damn remarkable at a number of other things (things besides being pudgy and adorable). For instance, psychologists at NYU recently demonstrated that children as young as nine months old are also capable of differentiating between speech and non-speech sounds, even when the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A Sing-Along With the Cast of Being Human — Plus Season 3 Hints!

Still stunned from the April season finale of Being Human? Rest easy — Being Human will be back this January with 13 new episodes. At San Diego Comic Con, we sat down with Sam Witwer (who plays the vampire Aidan Waite), Meaghan Rath (Sally Malik, the quasi-homeless ghost), and Sam Huntington (everyone’s favorite werewolf, Josh…

io9 Keith Veronese

Planetscape Paintings from an Interstellar Journey

Today the art department at image and VFX design studio Framestore has shared with us some of their original illustrations of a mission into interstellar space. Here you can see what future explorers might see as they encounter a new planetary system, and survey the planets and moons there. There are some bizarre anomalies, and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Teen Titans Go! could be the silliest DC animated show yet

Did you enjoy the funny New Teen Titans shorts spread throughout the past few months of DC Nation on Saturday mornings? Then there’s good news — they’re getting their own full fledged series this fall. During San Diego Comic-Con, we sat down with Aaron Horvath (Animator on the criminally underrated Mad series) and Michael Jelenic…

io9 Keith Veronese

The Sci Fi Channel just got a brand new name and identity… in Australia

Just like the U.S. Sci Fi Channel before it, Australia’s Sci Fi Channel has decided it’s time for a new name and a slightly different image. But when Australia’s Sci Fi decided to rebrand itself, they settled on the name… SF. (In other words, another previously established abbreviation for “science fiction.”) And their new tagline?…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Grant Morrison reveals all about Dinosaurs vs. Aliens. Plus tons of Catching Fire casting updates!

Marvel Studios might actually make an Ant-Man movie in 2014. Tom Hardy reveals just where Bane’s distinctive voice comes from. Neil Blomkamp talks Elysium and a District 9 sequel. Plus Doctor Who Fringe, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, and more! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Oz the Great…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Picture of the Day: July 17, 2012

BURNINATING THE COUNTRYSIDE | Amazing concept art for Bungie, by Jaime Jones, via Concept Ships. Tons more at both links. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view. Or visit Observation Deck, our general discussion forum.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Batman villain Bane is a conspiracy against Mitt Romney, hypothesizes Rush Limbaugh

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney co-founded his investment group Bain Capital in 1984. In 1993, the super-strong Batman villain Bane made his debut in DC Comics. https://gizmodo.com/why-is-this-wrestler-guy-youve-never-heard-of-the-new-b-5738053 And on Friday, a time bomb of a smear campaign will explode after 20 odd years, costing Romney the White House. It will be a crime so deliciously…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What’s on the menu for Mars-bound astronauts?

While we have a pretty good idea what the first humans will eat on Mars, we’re a little less certain about what their meals will look like on the way there. Alas, because there are no drive-throughs between Earth and the red planet, food scientists are having to come up with innovative, healthy, and tasty…

io9 George Dvorsky

What are the best siege tactics for taking Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle?

What if the Mouse House rises up as an evil totalitarianism government, enslaving the masses and dooming us all to a life of hand-stitching Pluto plushies? Something would have to be done. And one pack of folks has outlined the perfect plan of attack on Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle. The story originates over on Quora…

io9 Meredith Woerner

New Total Recall clip shows the robotic police force in action

Kate Beckinsale gets super snarky, leading a team of robots to destroy Colin Farrell and his possible ex-girlfriend Jessica Biel. We like the action in this latest Total Recall clip — but we also love the robots, something we thought was possibly secondary to the movie. The more we see of these shiny bots, the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Most Astounding Comic Book News of Comic-Con 2012

We previously discussed how Neil Gaiman’s Sandman reveal and Image Comics marquee slate of new creator-owned titles won big at Comic-Con 2012. Now check out the rest of the tidbits — which concern everything from rainbow-hued Clydesdales to Bishop from Aliens — that debuted last week in San Diego. https://gizmodo.com/neil-gaimans-writing-a-prequel-to-sandman-in-2013-5925770 https://gizmodo.com/the-biggest-winners-and-losers-of-comic-con-2012-5926398 And first off, here…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Ron Moore will turn Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series into a TV show!

Ronald D. Moore made an indelible mark on television with the first couple seasons of Battlestar Galactica. So we’ve been waiting eagerly to find out what his next television project would be, after the fantastic 17th Precinct never made it to our screens. And now we know: He’s shopping around a cable TV adaptation of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Orb web spiders become better fighters without their massive genitals

It appears that Varys “the Spider” from Game of Thrones may be onto something. In what appears to be a very mixed blessing, castrated male orb spiders are far more agile and energetic than their fully endowed rivals. During mating, males typically have their junk snipped off and are often killed and eaten by females.…

io9 George Dvorsky

Map Reveals That Wildfires Release As Much Energy As Nuclear Power Plants

If we’ve learned anything from the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado, it’s that major wildfires are devastatingly powerful. They’re so intense, in fact, that their energy output can actually be represented in terms of nuclear power plant output. Now, data visualization wizard John Nelson has done exactly that. Nelson — who’s made something of a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The CG-animated sequel to Starship Troopers is the closest to Heinlein’s vision yet

600-year-old bra and underwear discovered in an Austrian castle

Comic Con Wrap-Up: The Shiniest Things We Saw in San Diego!

Meet “The Dork,” the most fearsome beast in comic book history

Paranorman feature shows the scarier side to stop-motion zombies

Infants can distinguish speech from nonsense as early as 9 months

A Sing-Along With the Cast of Being Human — Plus Season 3 Hints!

Planetscape Paintings from an Interstellar Journey

Teen Titans Go! could be the silliest DC animated show yet

The Sci Fi Channel just got a brand new name and identity… in Australia

Grant Morrison reveals all about Dinosaurs vs. Aliens. Plus tons of Catching Fire casting updates!

Picture of the Day: July 17, 2012

The Batman villain Bane is a conspiracy against Mitt Romney, hypothesizes Rush Limbaugh

What’s on the menu for Mars-bound astronauts?

What are the best siege tactics for taking Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle?

New Total Recall clip shows the robotic police force in action

The Most Astounding Comic Book News of Comic-Con 2012

Ron Moore will turn Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series into a TV show!

Orb web spiders become better fighters without their massive genitals

Map Reveals That Wildfires Release As Much Energy As Nuclear Power Plants

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

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

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