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Make Your Own Laser Microscope!

This week on the io9 show, we explore the microbiome with a homemade laser microscope in Esther Gets Experimental. Plus, scientists with the Human Microbiome Project have identified more than 5 million different microbial genes from 18 areas of the human body — what does this mean for science fiction? We also ponder the news…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Ted is basically a 106-minute Family Guy episode

Anyone who’s seen an episode of modern Family Guy — discount the halcyon seasons of 1999-2002, when nobody watched it — is immediately familiar with the cartoon’s formula. That is, nostalgia-fueled pop culture gags paired with smash cuts plus a sincere yearning for Golden Age of American animation coupled with a few caustic gags just…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Top 10 Most Traumatizing Movies About Toys

Today sees the release of Ted, the movie about a teddy bear who grows up and gets foul-mouthed along with his owner — and we’re pretty sure anyone who still loves stuffed animals will be scarred emotionally. But no matter what, Ted can’t be one of the most soul-wrenching toy movies — because so many…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell

First trailer for Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time a.k.a. Inspector Spacetime

Unable to call itself Inspector Spacetime after legal threats from NBC, this Community-inspired web series/Doctor Who spoof is now officially titled Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time. And it has a pretty cute teaser trailer. Curse those Blorgons! The six-series webisodes will hopefully premiere soon. Check their Facebook…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Damon Lindelof returns to TV to film the Rapture for HBO

Damon Lindelof is getting back to his television roots with Tom Perotta’s The Leftovers, a supremely wild novel about what happens to those left behind after the Rapture. The two are currently in talks to adapt this book for an HBO series. According to Vulture, Lindelof is hot to make The Leftovers a television series.…

Television Meredith Woerner

Researchers sequence fragments of the oldest human genome on Earth

An international team of researchers has sequenced fragments of DNA from a pair 7,000-year-old human skeletons. In an intriguing twist, the remains, while recovered from a cave in northeastern Spain, bear little genetic resemblance to people living in the region today. If the remains have been dated accurately, their genetic information predates that of the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A low-carb diet may not be the best for you after all

If you’re looking to lose weight, there are two major divided schools of thought. The first is that all calories are created equal, and as long as you use more energy than you take in, you’ll do fine. The other is that our body handles and uses calories from different food sources in very different…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Marvel’s next big movie Guardians of the Galaxy will set up for Avengers 2

Big Marvel movie news today! The next big Marvel feature after Iron Man 3, Thor 2, and Captain America 2 will be the space epic Guardians of the Galaxy. It’s a massive undertaking that may (or may not be) set in a future universe. But if you look at Marvel’s current movie roster, it fits…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Big Rip Theory says the universe could end in tears

Some say the universe will end with a new Big Bang. Others say the cosmos will eventually succumb to entropy. But what if neither of those things happens? A recent theory says the universe will just tear itself apart. The Big Rip Theory might be the scariest scenario for the end of everything we’ve come…

io9 Keith Veronese

It’s bloody explosions a-go-go in the first trailer for Wu-Tang rapper RZA’s kung fu flick

Witness the first, unapologetically over-the-top trailer for the RZA-directed, Quentin Tarantino-approved kung fu flick The Man With The Iron Fists. In the film — which hits theaters later this year — sees Lucy Liu killing feudal Chinese warriors with a fan, Russell Crowe moonlighting as a cowboy, and a character who appears to be a…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

Did our ancient ancestors really eat tree bark?

Most of us try to get more fiber in our diet — but we’ll never get as much as some of our long-ago ancestors. Australopithecus sediba lived in Africa around two million years ago, and it looks like their diet was different from any other ancient hominin’s. While most other species were happily munching on…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Benedict Cumberbatch will make Captain Kirk grow up in Star Trek 2. Plus the latest Amazing Spider-Man clips!

The new Aunt May confirms a crucial detail about Spider-Man’s latest adventure. Rumor has it Edgar Wright has already filmed Ant-Man… well, sort of. Glen Mazzara reveals whether any happy ending is possible on The Walking Dead. Plus a new Riddick photo! It’s spoilers all the way down! Top image from The Walking Dead. The…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Can Anyone Account for Alex’s Misbehaving iTunes Movie Playback?

Gizmodo reader Alex W. wrote in with another bugging-out MacBook question, this time concerning iTunes and its (in)ability to play movies downloaded in HD/SD. Hive mind, can we help him? Alex writes: I was wondering if you were aware of problems with iTunes (seemingly when the new retina displays were released). In the past few…

Movies Molly Oswaks

Picture of the Day: June 28, 2012

WE’RE HERE TO SORT YOU OUT | “Invasion” concept art by Josh Kao, an artist who’s worked on X-Men: First Class and many of your favorite games. We’ve featured his art before. 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

Staggering Photos that Combine Self-Portraiture with Surrealism

These photographs by Chicago-based photographer Kyle Thompson are hands down some of the most stunning self-portraits we’ve ever seen. “I started taking self portraits a little over a year ago. I was interested in photography but am terrible at talking with people,” he writes in a recent imgur post. “So I ended up using myself…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Kim Kardashian’s Sisters Writing a Young Adult Science Fiction Novel

If I Am Number Four wasn’t enough to prove young-adult science fiction novels had jumped the proverbial shark, now there’s absolute proof positive. Kendall and Kylie Jenner, the youngest sisters of Kim Kardashian, are writing a book that’s set “200 years in the future,” featuring two sisters. They promise it won’t be full of celebrity…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

A Distant Planet Whose Atmosphere Was Blasted Away by Solar Flares

You might think our own sun is turbulent — but it turns out we’ve got it easy. Astronomers have found a gas giant, 60 light years away from Earth, that’s been hit with a violent flare from its star, blasting it with an intense wave of X-ray radiation. Because the exoplanet is so close to…

io9 George Dvorsky

Novels that Could Help You Prepare for a Future Pandemic

When you think about pants-wettingly terrifying apocalyptic scenarios, the most horrifying might well be the worldwide plague. A deadly disease could spread around the planet at alarming speed, and kill most of the population before we even knew what was going on. Luckily, some of the best novels (and graphic novels) have dealt with the…

Books & Comics Amanda Yesilbas and Charlie Jane Anders

An upside-down waterfall of baby octopuses is equal parts adorable and gross

It’s not uncommon for many species of octopus to die promptly after mating, but at least the sight of these cephalopods creating new life can be beautiful. Or squirm-inducing! It really depends on your tolerance for thousands of wriggling, miniature octopuses. https://gizmodo.com/the-growing-evidence-for-octopus-intelligence-5858783 Last year, biologist Richard Ross of the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Thousands of Massive Plasma Tornadoes Discovered in Sun’s Atmosphere

Astrophysicists at the University of Oslo have observed a series of magnetic supertornadoes, swirling around the Sun’s atmosphere. The plasma tornadoes — which number in the thousands and extend for thousands of miles across — may explain why the Sun’s atmosphere is way hotter than its surface. By using both space-based and ground telescopes, a…

io9 George Dvorsky

Make Your Own Laser Microscope!

Ted is basically a 106-minute Family Guy episode

Top 10 Most Traumatizing Movies About Toys

First trailer for Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time a.k.a. Inspector Spacetime

Damon Lindelof returns to TV to film the Rapture for HBO

Researchers sequence fragments of the oldest human genome on Earth

A low-carb diet may not be the best for you after all

Marvel’s next big movie Guardians of the Galaxy will set up for Avengers 2

The Big Rip Theory says the universe could end in tears

It’s bloody explosions a-go-go in the first trailer for Wu-Tang rapper RZA’s kung fu flick

Did our ancient ancestors really eat tree bark?

Benedict Cumberbatch will make Captain Kirk grow up in Star Trek 2. Plus the latest Amazing Spider-Man clips!

Can Anyone Account for Alex’s Misbehaving iTunes Movie Playback?

Picture of the Day: June 28, 2012

Staggering Photos that Combine Self-Portraiture with Surrealism

Kim Kardashian’s Sisters Writing a Young Adult Science Fiction Novel

A Distant Planet Whose Atmosphere Was Blasted Away by Solar Flares

Novels that Could Help You Prepare for a Future Pandemic

An upside-down waterfall of baby octopuses is equal parts adorable and gross

Thousands of Massive Plasma Tornadoes Discovered in Sun’s Atmosphere

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‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

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