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First Actual Photo of a Lightning Bolt Being Directed by a Laser

We’ve known it was possible for quite some time now — but now there’s photographic proof. You can use a laser beam to aim a lightning bolt at a target, with devastating results. https://gizmodo.com/its-possible-to-steer-freakin-lightning-with-freakin-la-5892900 This photo comes via the U.S. Army, which posted it last week but it’s been popping up everywhere today. The Laser-Induced…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

All the Easter Eggs and Comics Shout-Outs to Watch for in The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man is practically a motion comic — there are so many striking hero poses and shots of Spidey posing on the sides of buildings. It’s like a great Spidey comic brought to life. But what else should we be looking out for in this superhero reboot? Director Marc Webb gives us the complete…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Easiest, Most Horrifying Way to Create Artificial Wombs

What if you could incubate human fetuses outside your own body? In, say, a nice safe machine, or a facility somewhere? We’ve wondered about this before. Artificial wombs could help us reintroduce cloned extinct species into the wild, or perhaps even help couples with fertility problems. https://gizmodo.com/where-is-my-uterine-replicator-aka-artificial-womb-385976 But what’s the best way to create an…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Ask Jo Walton anything you want about Among Others

In June, the io9 Book Club read Jo Walton’s Among Others. Now Walton is coming to answer your questions about the book today, June 29. Feel free to ask her questions about her other books, but for the most part we’ll focus on Among Others. https://gizmodo.com/the-io9-book-club-is-in-session-lets-talk-about-jo-wal-5921529 Photo by John W. MacDonald. She’ll be joining us…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

The first day’s schedule for Comic-Con 2012 is out now!

The very first schedule for San Diego Comic-Con 2012 is out showing off a packed schedule for both Preview Night and Thursday Night. The preview schedule this Wednesday includes early screening of 666 Park Avenue, Arrow, The Following, Revolution and Cult. As for the actual panel line up this Thursday, a few standouts include the…

Television Meredith Woerner

New device will let doctors perform surgery without breaking the skin

On Star Trek, surgeons can perform complicated operations without so much as cutting into the patient — and soon this could be the case in real life, as well. Researchers at Caltech have developed a new visualization technique, where highly focused light and ultrasound are applied to illuminate the body’s interior, allowing them see what’s…

io9 George Dvorsky

An intensely creepy short movie about a man playing god on a desert world

This is The Gloaming, a 11-minute film by Sabotage Studios and director collective NoBrain about a mysterious stranger on a desert planet who presides over a spherical colony of yammering, short-lived humanoids. Alternatingly sublime, grotesque, and somewhat not safe for work — there’s a smidgen of cartoon nudity toward the beginning — this satirical animation…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

NASA finds hidden ocean on Saturn’s moon Titan

Using incredibly precise measurements from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, researchers have concluded that Saturn’s biggest moon is likely hiding a global, sub-surface water ocean, 100 km beneath its surface. One of the most enigmatic bodies in our solar system just got even more intriguing. Cassini has flown by Titan more than 80 times since entering Saturn’s…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Futurama‘s latest episode is an homage to The Far Side and a joy forever

I hate political satires. I hate satires on current events. Last night’s Futurama, entitled Decision 3012, was both. And yet, it was incredibly great. It includes everything from Nixon hamming it up to a treatise on the time travel paradox in the Terminator movies — but the real reason to watch is the endless sight…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Most Americans would rather have Barack Obama in the White House during an alien invasion

American’s have finally agreed on something in politics: Obama is the guy we want to fight off alien invaders. A new poll, sponsored by the National Geographic Channel, shows that 65 percent of Americans believe that Obama would be better at fighting aliens than Mitt Romney. And since 36 percent of respondents believe in UFOs,…

io9 Michael Ann Dobbs

The anti-drinking PSAs of the vaudeville era were gorgeously morbid

What you’re seeing here are photographs from an early 1900s theatrical production about the mortal peril of tippling and consorting with card players. Look at Death in those pictures below. He loves getting hammered! Just check out his party face in the second-to-last snapshot! As the Historical Ziegfeld Group explains of these scenes: In 1906…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What are the rules of magic in Magic Mike?

Magic Mike comes out this Friday, and no doubt you’ve seen the trailers. Channing Tatum and that guy from Beastly bopping around in little teeny outfits and struggling with being objectified. But the trailers don’t answer the crucial question about this film — how exactly does magic work in the world of Magic Mike? *…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

When does a minute last 61 seconds?

On this coming Sunday June 30, intrepid horologists from around the world will daringly attempt to hold back the relentless onslaught of time. Well, to be fair it won’t actually be that difficult. July 1st is scheduled to start an entire second later than it should, a feat of temporal distortion that will be accomplished…

io9 George Dvorsky

What caused the Great Coal Crash of 300 million years ago?

Coal generates nearly half the electricity we use in the United States. We all depend on the fossilized remains of plants — but the vast majority of the coal in the ground comes from a single era, from 360 to 300 million years ago. What caused the Great Coal Crash of 300 million years ago,…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Some polite Daleks left this on somebody’s door

They may want to exterminate you, but at least Daleks are decent enough to let you know they’ve come round and missed you. Redditor narfy claims the monstrous cyborgs left this calling card on the doorknob of her friend’s house yesterday morning. Almost makes you wish some Daleks would pay you a visit, doesn’t it?…

Television Robbie Gonzalez

The 10 Best Futurama Episodes

We’re beyond lucky to have Futurama back for a miraculous seventh season, after all the cancellation scares it’s had over the years. To celebrate the show’s uncanny survival, we’ve rounded up the 10 episodes where Futurama is at its most hilarious, most cosmic, most emotional, and most brilliant. Of course, this isn’t meant to be…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Watch four clips of the magical water city from Beasts of the Southern Wild

Here’s a taste of Benh Zeitlin’s Sundance success story, Beasts of the Southern Wild. We’ve absolutely fallen in love with the water city dubbed “The Bathtub” and all of its seafood-eating citizens. Here’s the synopsis: Faced with her father’s fading health and environmental changes that release an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Boba Fett shogun armor is made for chopping your way out of the Sarlacc Pit

Costume designer Allen Amis was so inspired by Clinton Felker’s samurai Star Wars art that he gave Felker’s illustrations of Boba Fett the full cosplay treatment. Click on the above picture for further detail. For a similar throwback armor, see this medieval Batman. Hat tip to Anabel! https://gizmodo.com/samurai-star-wars-characters-out-of-a-movie-too-awesom-5883772 https://gizmodo.com/medieval-batman-armor-turns-you-into-a-dark-knight-lit-5887246 Photo credit: James J.Barnett

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Thomas Edison’s car battery is back, and it’s better than ever

In 1901, Thomas Edison developed the recharcheable nickel-iron battery, a technology he hoped to see implemented in electric cars. But a slow rate of energy output and slower charging time saw it superseded by lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries in standard and electric cars alike. Now, more than a century after it was first developed, the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How to cure a hangover — with science!

It’s Saturday night and your drunken conversation has turned to the subject of hangover cures. Unfortunately, this is also probably the time when you are least equipped to separate fact from fiction (and let’s face it, when it comes to talk of hangover prevention, the former is often in woefully short supply). Let the folks…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

First Actual Photo of a Lightning Bolt Being Directed by a Laser

All the Easter Eggs and Comics Shout-Outs to Watch for in The Amazing Spider-Man

The Easiest, Most Horrifying Way to Create Artificial Wombs

Ask Jo Walton anything you want about Among Others

The first day’s schedule for Comic-Con 2012 is out now!

New device will let doctors perform surgery without breaking the skin

An intensely creepy short movie about a man playing god on a desert world

NASA finds hidden ocean on Saturn’s moon Titan

Futurama‘s latest episode is an homage to The Far Side and a joy forever

Most Americans would rather have Barack Obama in the White House during an alien invasion

The anti-drinking PSAs of the vaudeville era were gorgeously morbid

What are the rules of magic in Magic Mike?

When does a minute last 61 seconds?

What caused the Great Coal Crash of 300 million years ago?

Some polite Daleks left this on somebody’s door

The 10 Best Futurama Episodes

Watch four clips of the magical water city from Beasts of the Southern Wild

Boba Fett shogun armor is made for chopping your way out of the Sarlacc Pit

Thomas Edison’s car battery is back, and it’s better than ever

How to cure a hangover — with science!

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