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Will The Hobbit Look Like a 70s Soap Opera at 48 FPS?

It seems Peter Jackson’s upcoming film, The Hobbit, is causing a stir among those CinemaCon goers who have been treated to a 10 minute preview screening of the film. And it’s not joyful stir. Viewers complained that the movie looked too real, that it had that look of low-budget television. Yikes. The reason for the…

Movies Michael Hession

I want this life-size bouncy inflatable Stonehenge

In the classic heavy metal mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, the band is bedeviled by an improperly sized recreation of Stonehenge. Such is not the case in Glasgow, where artist Jeremy Deller has not skimped on the megaliths. For the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Deller designed a full-scale inflatable version of Stonehenge that’s…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Major New Developments for Amazing Spider-Man 2, Iron Man 3 and Catching Fire!

Today we learn who Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk is really based on, Samuel L. Jackson makes us laugh and Stretch Armstrong gets gritty. Sansa Stark talks about her first day on set and Vampire Diaries new tagline raises questions. Spoilers beyond this point! Top image from The Dark Knight Rises. Avengers The Avengers’ publicity juggernaut won’t…

Television Michael Ann Dobbs

Picture of the Day: April 24, 2012

IT’S ALL WAITING FOR YOU OUT THERE | The Helix Nebula, photographed by the Spitzer Space Telescope, part of a new exhitibion of “The History of Space Photography” at the gallery at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. See more at the L.A. Times. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

N.K. Jemisin goes high fantasy, and we all win

N.K. Jemisin is playing with the gods again — and it’s just as good as the first time. Not that you would mistake her new novel, The Killing Moon, for her acclaimed Inheritance Trilogy, which started with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. The start of a new duology, The Killing Moon sees Jemisin delving deeper into…

io9 Naamen Tilahun

NASA’s Building of the Future: a Model for Tomorrow’s Moonbases

Check out this gorgeous cutting-edge building, which NASA just opened in Moffett Field, CA and won the coveted Platinum LEED certification. Ames Research Center director Pete Worden described the Sustainability Center as “the first Moon building on the planet Earth,” because of all the insane technology that’s been deployed here. A water recycling system, similar…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why does this blue stone have yellow light coming out of it?

You’d expect this cloudy blue glass to throw a blue light onto its surroundings. The light it throws, though, is clearly a bright orange-yellow. Can you guess why? Put a red vase up to a window and anything it its light will be covered in red. A blue piece of plastic should work the same.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

When scientists work with creative people, cooler stories get told

Six major British science fiction authors have released an open letter calling for greater cooperation between scientists and creative people, saying that the U.K. is falling behind the U.S. in communication between the arts and sciences. The authors, including Paul McAuley, Geoff Ryman, Ken Macleod and Justina Robson, say that balancing scientific accuracy with storytelling…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

John Cusack explains why Edgar Allan Poe created everything you love

Before there was black eyeliner-ed youths rocking out to death rock, there was Edgar Allan Poe, the Godfather of Goth. But John Cusack — who plays the thirsty scribe in his wild horror flick The Raven — wants you to know that this angry (and very broke) poet is responsible for so much more. Everyone…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The harvest mouse is nature’s most adorable acrobat

The Harvest Mouse, aka Micromys minutus, measures just two-to-three inches in length, and weighs about half as much as your typical house mouse. But M. minutus — which makes its home in wheat fields, reed beds, and other forms of tall vegetation — has a unique and enviable skill that its more domestic cousins simply…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Eureka finally does something genuinely shocking

There are many reasons to love Eureka, but massive plot twists aren’t usually among them. Well, the end of last night’s episode definitely qualified, as our heroes tried to figure out the dangerous secrets of virtual reality. Major spoilers ahead! While last week’s episode restricted itself solely to the Astraeus crew’s computer-simulated prison, “The Real…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

100 Albums Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Should Listen To: 71-100

Science fiction and fantasy have colonized every corner of pop culture — especially the world of music. From awesome movie soundtracks to science fiction-inspired rock operas, genre stories have always gone along with sonic landscapes. You can’t really know science fiction and fantasy without knowing the music these genres have inspired. So we’ve compiled the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Cyriaque Lamar

The first 4,000,000 digits of Pi, visualized in a single image

Pi is what’s known as an irrational number, which means that its decimal representation is both infinite and non-repeating. We’ve been using computers to calculate the digits of Pi for decades. In 1949, John von Neumann and his colleagues used ENIAC — the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer — to calculate Pi to the 2,037th…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A 7-year-old now has his own television show: Axe Cop is coming to TV!

Wonderful news, everyone! Axe Cop is getting its own TV show! The internet sensation comic, written by a five-year-old (Malachai Nicolle) and drawn by his big brother (Ethan Nicolle), is the first show to take part in Fox’s new animated late-night Saturday programming block. Vulture is reporting that Fox has greenlit production of an animated…

Television Meredith Woerner

Macho Fantasy Novel Covers (As Reenacted By A Normal Dude In Denim Shorts)

As a thought experiment, author Jim C. Hines once attempted to pose like the ladies adorning the covers of fantasy books. The results were pretty amazing. Since then, Hines has hazarded another fashion show to test if male fantasy beefcake is subjected to similarly tortuous poses. This new series is just as delightful. Here are…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Are creative people naturally more dishonest?

Are creative people more adept at justifying immoral behavior, and thereby more likely to transgress ethical boundaries? Or does unethical behavior require people to be more inventive, causing them to be more imaginative? Whatever the relationship between creativity and immorality, a growing body of evidence suggests that the two are, in fact, linked. Over on…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

In the Return of the Jedi novel, Wicket the Ewok delivered an unusually beautiful speech

If you’ve ever seen Return of the Jedi, you probably walked away with the impression that the Ewoks are only capable of hoots, hollers, and the occasional “yub nub.” Such was not the case in the 1983 novelization of the film, wherein Wicket the Ewok convinces the Ewoks to aid the Rebels with a galvanizing…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The wealthiest university on Earth can’t afford its academic journal subscriptions

Yes, you read that right. According to a memorandum issued last week by Harvard Library’s Faculty Advisory Council, the cost of its peer-reviewed journal subscriptions has become prohibitively expensive. What does it say about the world of academic publishing, the accessibility of knowledge, and the flow of information when the richest academic institution on the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Read the first chapter of Mira Grant’s Blackout right here, right now!

At long last, it’s the third book of Mira Grant’s Newsflesh trilogy. You’ve followed the zombie apocalypse and the blogger drama in Feed and Deadline, and now it’s time to find out how it ends. We’re proud to present the first chapter of Blackout, the final chapter in the trilogy, below. Warning: There are huge…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Neil Gaiman and a dead Boba Fett make their mark on Wednesday’s comics

What’s on the stands tomorrow? Let’s start with Wednesday’s crop of first issues. Some sundry debuts on the stands this Wednesday include the superhero fisticuffs series Avengers Vs. X-Men: Versus (more on that here), Mass Effect: Homeworlds , Vampirella: Red Room, and Star Wars: Blood Ties – Boba Fett Is Dead. You can check out…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Will The Hobbit Look Like a 70s Soap Opera at 48 FPS?

I want this life-size bouncy inflatable Stonehenge

Major New Developments for Amazing Spider-Man 2, Iron Man 3 and Catching Fire!

Picture of the Day: April 24, 2012

N.K. Jemisin goes high fantasy, and we all win

NASA’s Building of the Future: a Model for Tomorrow’s Moonbases

Why does this blue stone have yellow light coming out of it?

When scientists work with creative people, cooler stories get told

John Cusack explains why Edgar Allan Poe created everything you love

The harvest mouse is nature’s most adorable acrobat

Eureka finally does something genuinely shocking

100 Albums Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Should Listen To: 71-100

The first 4,000,000 digits of Pi, visualized in a single image

A 7-year-old now has his own television show: Axe Cop is coming to TV!

Macho Fantasy Novel Covers (As Reenacted By A Normal Dude In Denim Shorts)

Are creative people naturally more dishonest?

In the Return of the Jedi novel, Wicket the Ewok delivered an unusually beautiful speech

The wealthiest university on Earth can’t afford its academic journal subscriptions

Read the first chapter of Mira Grant’s Blackout right here, right now!

Neil Gaiman and a dead Boba Fett make their mark on Wednesday’s comics

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘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

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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