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NASA has solved the mystery of Saturn’s jet streams

Saturn’s atmosphere is constantly swimming with turbulent jet streams — but where do they get their energy to form in the first place? This has been one of the biggest mysteries about Saturn for decades. Now, using data acquired from the Agency’s Cassini spacecraft, NASA scientists think they have the answer: the energy for the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

There’s going to be a 10-year Firefly Reunion at this year’s Comic-Con!

Joss Whedon, Tim Minear, Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin, Sean Maher, Michael Fairman and the entire crew of the Serenity will take the stage for this year’s Comic-Con to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Firefly. The event will take place on Friday (July 13th) at 12:30 PM in Ballroom 20. Commence freaking out now.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

2012: The Year Fantasy Takes Over Comic-Con

This year, the foam sword will drop on the superheroes at Comic-Con 2012. With all the Evil Queen worship, the absence of Star Trek 2, and the undeniable dominance of fantasy television, there’s no doubt that the world of magic and dragons is poised to gobble up Comic-Con faster than a Khaleesi munching on a…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Evil Dead cartoon deserves its own theme park ride

Have you ever been on a movie-based theme park ride that basically takes you through the entire film? Now imagine if such a ride was hosed down in blood and you were being chased by an undead version of Bruce Campbell. Awesome, right? This amazing Evil Dead tribute cartoon by Daniel Kanemoto takes you through…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Mutated pests are quickly adapting to biotech crops in unpredicted and disturbing ways

Genetically modified crops are often designed to repel hungry insects. By having toxins built into the plant itself, farmers can reduce their use of environmentally unfriendly insecticide sprays. But as any first-year evolutionary biology student can tell you, insects are like the Borg in Star Trek: they quickly adapt. And this is precisely what is…

io9 George Dvorsky

Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Aren’t Remakes, Sequels or Prequels

They’re rebooting Spider-Man. They’re remaking Total Recall. Sometimes, when you’re in the middle of summer movie craziness, it can seem like every movie is based on an already-existing movie. But that’s not really true — there are actually tons of genre movies in development that are new concepts, at least as far as the movies…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Japanese researchers create an unbeatable rock-paper-scissors playing robot

If rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper, and paper beats rock, then what beats robot? NOTHING. No, really — a team of Japanese researchers has just unveiled a robot hand that cannot be beaten at rock-paper-scissors. So how does it do it? By cheating, of course. Watch it destroy all humans! It all boils down…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

“Nuclear slapshots” could propel a spacecraft to Mars in just weeks

Scientists at UAHuntsville have proposed a scheme that could see a spacecraft propelled through space by using a pulsed nuclear fusion system. To do so, a series of “nuclear slapshots” would apply magnetic pulses in order to slam nuclei into each other inside a hockey puck like structure made of a special lightweight salt. Should…

io9 George Dvorsky

NASA finds a galactic arc in deep space that has no business being there

NASA scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies about 10 billion light-years away. Given that the clusters formed over 13.7 billion years ago at a time when the Universe was very young, there shouldn’t really be anything “behind” it. But there is.…

io9 George Dvorsky

New Looper trailer explains the plot behind this bloody time travel flick

Holy hell, we’re excited for Rian Johnson’s Looper. And this latest international trailer is freaking us out, as it’s the first real time we’re seeing the plot unfold, twisted as it may be. What happens when the mob assigns an assassin to kill the future version of himself? Complete mayhem! Here’s the official rundown: In…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Glamour shots of carnival “freaks” of the 1800s were oddly touching

Throughout his career, Charles Eisenmann photographed thousands of sideshow performers seeking portraits for their résumés to send to carnival and circus publicists. These pictures oscillate between amusing (“the educated horse!”) and bittersweet (there’s something terrifically morbid about a man marketing his massively distended colon). But when you had a bad case of hypertrichosis (like Jojo…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What Finger-Counting Says About You And Your Brain

Here’s a fun experiment: stop what you’re doing and use your hands to count to ten. Done? Good. Now remember how you did it, because we’re about to analyze your technique; as it turns out, how you count with your hands may say a lot more about you than you think. So, how do you…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Channing Tatum and Will Arnett to play (LEGO) Superman and Batman

Fantasy team-up of the century! The more we hear about Warner Bros’ strange LEGO movie, the more excited we get. And now that the studio is dumping a ton of their trademarked properties into the picture and casting folks like Will Arnett to voice Batman? We’re losing it. Geektyrant reports that directors Phil Lord, Chris…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The visual capture illusion makes you believe ventriloquist dummies are alive

We’re constantly being told how terrible our hearing and sense of smell are, compared to other animals. Perhaps that’s why we rely on our eyes. But there are plenty of times when our eyes deceive us, even when our other senses are telling us the truth. When you’re believing your lying eyes instead of your…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Food porn is making you fat

One of the great pleasures of the internet — and quite possibly the entire reason for Pinterest’s existence — is to look at gloriously shot pictures of decadent foodstuffs. After all, just looking won’t make you fat, right? Unfortunately, it seems as though simply by looking at those amazing food pictures, you’re setting yourself up…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Does a children’s book reveal Jim Gordon’s fate in The Dark Knight Rises?

Roberto Orci reveals whom Benedict Cumberbatch is not playing in the Star Trek sequel. Andrew Garfield charts Peter Parker’s heroic journey in The Amazing Spider-Man. Is Marvel moving ahead with its most cosmic movie yet? Plus more Catching Fire casting news! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from the Star Trek sequel. The Dark…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Meet Kinja, our new discussion system at io9

Today we bring you a new system for having discussions on io9. It’s called Kinja, and it looks a lot different from the comment system we had before. We’ve gotten rid of some features we thought were problems. And we’re trying out a new way of creating modular discussions so that you have more control…

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Jim Henson improvising on the set of The Muppet Movie was pure magic

As much as we love The Muppet Movie, some of the film’s best material didn’t even make the final cut. Behold some 1979 screen tests conducted by director Jim Frawley, which starred Kermit The Frog (Jim Henson) and Fozzie Bear (the legendary Frank Oz) waxing existential about their lives at puppets. Not only do the…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Eureka‘s awesomely incompetent spy hunt makes for a fantastic episode

In yesterday’s Eureka, our heroes discover someone in town might have been in league with Beverly Barlowe’s nefarious consortium. The hunt to unmask the mole wasn’t exactly Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy… but it was one of the season’s best episodes. Some pretty major spoilers ahead… “The Honeymooners” finds Jack and Allison finally going on their…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

NASA has solved the mystery of Saturn’s jet streams

There’s going to be a 10-year Firefly Reunion at this year’s Comic-Con!

2012: The Year Fantasy Takes Over Comic-Con

This Evil Dead cartoon deserves its own theme park ride

Mutated pests are quickly adapting to biotech crops in unpredicted and disturbing ways

Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Aren’t Remakes, Sequels or Prequels

Japanese researchers create an unbeatable rock-paper-scissors playing robot

“Nuclear slapshots” could propel a spacecraft to Mars in just weeks

NASA finds a galactic arc in deep space that has no business being there

New Looper trailer explains the plot behind this bloody time travel flick

Glamour shots of carnival “freaks” of the 1800s were oddly touching

What Finger-Counting Says About You And Your Brain

Channing Tatum and Will Arnett to play (LEGO) Superman and Batman

The visual capture illusion makes you believe ventriloquist dummies are alive

Food porn is making you fat

Does a children’s book reveal Jim Gordon’s fate in The Dark Knight Rises?

Meet Kinja, our new discussion system at io9

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Jim Henson improvising on the set of The Muppet Movie was pure magic

Eureka‘s awesomely incompetent spy hunt makes for a fantastic episode

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