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Brand new Dark Knight Rises photos show Catwoman using a dead body as a human shield

Catwoman is pulling no punches, in these brand new Dark Knight Rises images. It looks like she’s using some poor soul as an actual human shield, in the middle of a shoot-out. Plus here’s a new look at Marion Cotillard staring into the sky — but at what? Maybe she’s watching Batman descend, or maybe…

Movies Meredith Woerner

These photos from Hungary’s 2010 toxic waste flood see half a world dyed red

On October 14, 2010, a massive industrial waste spill carved a ruddy scar across the Earth’s surface, after a million cubic meters of sludge poured through Ajka, Hungary and the nearby towns of Devecser and Kolontár. https://gizmodo.com/hungarys-river-of-death-as-seen-from-space-5663280 https://gizmodo.com/hungarian-toxic-sludge-kills-4-injures-at-least-120-5656352 This toxic deluge — which was the byproduct of a bauxite processing plant and was released when…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This Week’s Cartoons: A Female Iron Man, A Haunted Convenience Store, and a Wild Spider-Ham!

This is an especially a crazy week in the world of cartoons. Pepper Potts gets her own suit of power armor on Iron Man: Armored Adventures, we see the fruits of the Skrull invasion on Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes — and we take a look at an old school Ghostbusters adventure! As always, minor spoilers…

io9 Keith Veronese

Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. short film Item 47 should be a weekly TV show

The Avengers DVD will include a brand new Marvel short film called Item 47 — and we caught the first screening tonight at Comic Con. And not only was it funny and sweet, we came away wishing these two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents could have their own TV show. Item 47 is centered around a Bonnie-and-Clyde-esque pair…

Movies Meredith Woerner

New Total Recall footage includes lots of shout-outs to the original

How much does the Total Recall remake pay homage to the original? Director Len Wiseman and several of the movie’s stars came to San Diego Comic-Con with footage from the film, showing off the moments that pay tribute to the 1990 action flick. Just don’t expect Colin Farrell to rattle off any witty (or cheesy)…

Movies Lauren Davis

Comic Con: Day Two!

Joss Whedon at the Firefly Reunion: “These are the best meat puppets I’ve ever controlled” https://gizmodo.com/joss-whedon-at-the-firefly-reunion-these-are-the-best-5925920 Firefly changed the ‘verse forever – and now, the ten-year reunion just happened at San Diego Comic Con. Joss Whedon looked at his asssembled castmembers and said, “These are the best meat puppets I’ve ever controlled.” High praise indeed.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This is Aerographite, the lightest material ever created

Last November, we told you about a metallic microlattice that was light enough to rest on the seed heads of a dandelion. At the time, it had just supplanted NASA’s aerogel as the lightest material on Earth by a mere tenth of a milligram per cubic centimeter (the former has a density of just .9…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A totally worthless map of European penis sizes

You’re looking at one of the many maps included in Bulgarian designer Yanko Tsvetkov’s ingenious Mapping Stereotypes project, a collection of national stereotype maps designed “from the point of view of regular bigots.” Like the rest of the maps in Tsvetkov’s collection, the penis plot is amusing, well-designed, and deserving of skepticism. Let’s be clear…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Watch Judge Dredd bust a Mega-City One drug den in the first Dredd clip

You’ve read our Dredd review — now see the first ever (supremely bloody) clip. And get a good glimpse of your brain on the forbidden drug Slo-Mo. It’s such a sparkly trip! https://gizmodo.com/dredd-is-a-brutal-action-flick-with-both-a-high-body-co-5925364

Movies Meredith Woerner

Resident Evil booth babes handed us a severed human foot

This year’s most gruesome marketing stunt has to be Resident Evil’s Umbrella Corp. severed limb cart, handing out feet, hands and the occasional head. They were spotted on the floor earlier today, but they also showed up at the press line for Resident Evil: Retribution, and they handed us a nice severed foot. Rumor has…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Watch how the US military fights fire with electricity and sound

Traditional fire fighting techniques have relied on dousing flames with water or chemicals. But in an effort to fight fires in combat environments, DARPA has developed a groundbreaking technique where flames can be extinguished by using electricity and sound. But while the proof of concept has been established, the real challenge will be in bringing…

io9 George Dvorsky

Gaze upon the zombie insanity of The Walking Dead Season 3 trailer

We hit their Comic-Con panel earlier today — read our full synopsis here — now check out the full-tilt undead madness in the debut third season trailer. We just got out of the roundtables with the cast, so keep your eyes peeled for such impending conversations like how Andrew Lincoln listens to Radiohead to get…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

And now, a photoshopped picture of Neil deGrasse Tyson giving someone the finger (of science)

For those wondering, it looks like this is the original. For everyone else/anyone who prefers to ignore the fact that the gesture in the photograph up top is 100% fake, and instead imagine that it was delivered with a hearty “because SCIENCE, bitches”: enjoy the badassery. [via allbrook86]

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Game of Thrones reveals new cast members for Season 3!

Fans have been speculating what characters from A Storm of Swords might appear in the upcoming season of Game of Thrones. At today’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, George R.R. Martin revealed new cast members for Season 3. Martin began the panel by apologizing for the absence of series creator David Benioff and D. B. Weiss,…

Television Lauren Davis

The Surprising Novel That Got Kim Stanley Robinson Interested in Science Fiction

Kim Stanley Robinson is a legend of science fiction. He’s best known as the author of the Hugo-winning Mars series (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars), the Three Californias trilogy, and alternate history novel The Years of Rice and Salt. This year he published one of his masterworks, the novel 2312, about what happens…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

We’ve seen Walking Dead‘s Michonne and the Governor in action!

The producers of The Walking Dead announced today their zombie show has a return date: on Sunday, October 14th, we’ll return to the post-apocalyptic South for another round with Rick and his fellow survivors. And this time, they’ll be joined by katana-wielding Michonne and the nefarious Governor of Woodbury. Today at the San Diego Comic-Con…

Television Lauren Davis

There’s $21 billion hiding in our junk computers and electronics

There’s gold in them thar circuits! And silver. And palladium, copper, tin, and more. In fact, according to a report from the United Nations University, there’s some $21 billion in precious metals in every year of our current e-waste, of which only 15% is being recovered. They cite current worldwide electronics manufacturing as using 320…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Biologists resurrect a 500 million-year-old gene by splicing it with bacteria

In a scenario eerily similar to Jurassic Park, scientists working at Georgia Tech have successfully revived an ancient 500 million-year-old gene by hybridizing it with modern E Coli bacteria. The new strain of bacteria, which has now survived through 1,000 generations, may help scientists better understand the evolutionary trajectories taken by primitive organisms. The experiment,…

io9 George Dvorsky

Joss Whedon at the Firefly Reunion: “These are the best meat puppets I’ve ever controlled”

Firefly changed the ‘verse forever — and now, the ten-year reunion just happened at San Diego Comic Con. Joss Whedon looked at his asssembled castmembers and said, “These are the best meat puppets I’ve ever controlled.” High praise indeed. So now that Joss Whedon has directed one of the most successful films of all time,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Help find the equation for the perfect butt!

The Holmes Equation actually sums, and multiplies, up the equation for the perfect butt. Sadly, unlike the perfect butt, it is one-sided! Can you help round out this equation set? David Holmes, who lectured in psychology at the University of Manchester in England, showed off his talent for marketing, when he announced that he had…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Brand new Dark Knight Rises photos show Catwoman using a dead body as a human shield

These photos from Hungary’s 2010 toxic waste flood see half a world dyed red

This Week’s Cartoons: A Female Iron Man, A Haunted Convenience Store, and a Wild Spider-Ham!

Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. short film Item 47 should be a weekly TV show

New Total Recall footage includes lots of shout-outs to the original

Comic Con: Day Two!

This is Aerographite, the lightest material ever created

A totally worthless map of European penis sizes

Watch Judge Dredd bust a Mega-City One drug den in the first Dredd clip

Resident Evil booth babes handed us a severed human foot

Watch how the US military fights fire with electricity and sound

Gaze upon the zombie insanity of The Walking Dead Season 3 trailer

And now, a photoshopped picture of Neil deGrasse Tyson giving someone the finger (of science)

Game of Thrones reveals new cast members for Season 3!

The Surprising Novel That Got Kim Stanley Robinson Interested in Science Fiction

We’ve seen Walking Dead‘s Michonne and the Governor in action!

There’s $21 billion hiding in our junk computers and electronics

Biologists resurrect a 500 million-year-old gene by splicing it with bacteria

Joss Whedon at the Firefly Reunion: “These are the best meat puppets I’ve ever controlled”

Help find the equation for the perfect butt!

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