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Is Uhura ditching her short skirt in the new Star Trek movie?

Take a look at the above photos of John Cho and Zoe Saldana on the set of the new Star Trek sequel, via TrekMovie. Check out what they’re wearing under the regulation black Bad Robot parkas (which all castmembers wear on set, to cover up their costumes.) Looks as though Uhura and Sulu are wearing…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

First High-Resolution Images of the Wreck of the Titanic

Next month is the 100th anniversary of the disastrous voyage of the RMS Titanic — the unsinkable ship that wasn’t. And just in time for this momentous occasion, the April 2012 issue of National Geographic features the clearest, most high-resolution images of the Titanic at rest on the ocean floor. Compiled from thousands of high-resolution…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Hunger Games stars get their inevitable (and awesome) Simpsons makeover

Given how long it takes The Simpsons to get round to sci-fi parodies, Bart and Lisa will probably be taking part in Springfield’s version of the Hunger Games sometime around 2016. Until then, check out these cool Simpsons-y takes on The Hunger Games characters. NextMovie has created eleven posters showcasing the Hunger Games stars as…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Brand new Avengers photos include a look inside the Helicarrier

A dozen new photos from The Avengers have come out, and they show our best look yet at the interior of the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier — that fantastic flying aircraft carrier that fans have dreamed of seeing on the big screen for decades. Check out the computer room, the lab (being used by Bruce Banner), and…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Every Alien Easter Egg in the Latest Prometheus Trailers

Just how many weird alien secrets are there in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus? The longer we look at the trailers, the more we see. We’ve combined a ton of screngrabs from both the new U.S. and the UK trailers for Prometheus — and here are all the surprises we uncovered. https://gizmodo.com/suspenseful-uk-prometheus-trailer-digs-deeper-into-the-5894326 First and foremost, these trailers…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watch Kurt Vonnegut recall the bombing of Dresden in his final years

In 2005, for the sixtieth anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden, the BBC interviewed author Kurt Vonnegut about his experience as a P.O.W. and Dresden survivor. As you may know, Vonnegut would use the bombing as a setting for his 1969 unstuck-from-time classic Slaughterhouse-Five, which had a hell of a time getting off the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Why true bionic limbs are out of reach . . . for now

Researchers continue to make remarkable headway on the path to developing next-generation prosthetic limbs, but when you get right down to it, there’s still a monumental gap separating us from a truly bionic replacement for arms and legs. Such an appendage would be capable of responding to mental commands with grace and fluidity, handling objects…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The io9 Book Club Is in Session! Let’s talk about Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One

Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In February, we read Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

The best (and easiest) special effect you can do to freak out your friends

Some special effects are incredibly easy to do — with science. Find out how to pour an ’empty’ pitcher on candle flames and cause them to suddenly go out. It’s a fun and easy effect for your supernatural movie, fake seance, or just freaking out your friends. Of course there’s a reason why I put…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Your ticket to Mars will cost only half a million dollars

You could go to Mars for just half a million bucks. That, at least, is the latest big proclamation from SpaceX entrepreneur and private spaceflight pioneer Elon Musk, who says a round-trip to Mars could be within reach of the “average” person in as little as 30 to 50 years. Of course, let’s clarify a…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

How does the time machine work in Looper? Allow Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rian Johnson to explain

We’re pretty excited about Looper, which is shaping up to be the next big mind-job flick. So when we nabbed Looper director Rian Johnson and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt at WonderCon, we had to pump the duo for all the time-traveling mob murders plot info possible. Watch Rian Johnson explain his time-travel picture with wild gestures,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Here’s how to catch NASA’s rocket-powered light show tonight

NASA has scheduled an atmospheric light show for the wee hours of Wednesday morning, when the Agency intends to launch five sub-orbital rockets (complete with luminescent chemical tracers) in an experiment designed to test the flow of jet streams on the edge of space. Best of all? A good portion of the East Coast is…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What does anger look like? Creepy, ghostly stick figures

Anger carries a lot of baggage. Musical tones, color schemes, physical sensations, and words can all convey this emotion, and the pictures above are compilations of people’s feelings of rage. The far left is a strip of colors that people associated with anger, with the thickest bands representing the most popular colors and the thinnest…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Alan Dean Foster’s near-future India novel gets a movie deal… in Hong Kong

Prolific author Alan Dean Foster has sold the movie rights to his novel Sagramanda: A Novel of Near Future India, to the Hong Kong-based Agog Film Productions. According to Filmbiz Asia, Agog plans to start production “immediately,” filming in Hong Kong and India, and the movie will be out in 2014. (So this isn’t just…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Voodoo, superhuman criminals, and Elektra with absurd firearms run this week’s comics

Welcome back to Comics We Crave, where we take a look at the various readable wares that will be hitting your spinner rack tomorrow. And as you can see above, Mark Millar is back. First Issues As part of Vertigo’s spring launch, Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child is hitting the stands. In this title — which…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Jason Statham will pay “significant amounts of money” to avoid greenscreen

There’s a must-read interview with Jason Statham in the new issue of Details, in which he explains succinctly why greenscreen effects totally suck: Fahkin’ hate green screen. Pay significant amounts of money never to do it again. You cannot fake adrenaline. Statham also explains why he doesn’t think of himself as a brand: Fahk no.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

These steampunk Portal Boots would do 19th-Century Chell proud

All the gadgetry in Portal and Portal 2 make these video games excellent subject matter for steampunk artists and illustrators, but examples of well-done steampunk portal cosplay can be hard to come by. https://gizmodo.com/windows-to-other-worlds-a-gallery-of-portals-in-scienc-5812238 Enter DeviantART user batman-and-bananas, who not only crafted a wicked steampunk version of Chell’s handheld portal device (see below), but also…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The fire at the heart of the world has given itself a body — and a voice

Welcome to my kingdom, tiny fleshbags! If you dig too deeply for your metals and fossilized dead, I will arise from the planet’s depths and burn everything you love to dust. The next worm creatures who creep across the dirt will slurp upon your liquified bodies for energy, just as you slurp upon those I…

io9 Annalee Newitz

10 Coolest Sidekicks in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Sidekicks make the freaking world go around. They come to the rescue, figure stuff out before anybody else, and provide much-needed perspective on all the random bullshit that the universe is throwing at you. Even the coolest adventurer is nothing without a sidekick or two. So here are the 10 coolest sidekicks in science fiction…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What I did during the second season of The Walking Dead, by T-Dog

On AMC’s zombie drama The Walking Dead, each of survivors fulfills a certain familiar archetype. For example, there’s Rick (the fearless leader), Dale (the meddling codger), and Glenn (the hero-in-the making). There is also Theodore “T-Dog” Douglas, a character exactly like Hurley from Lost if nobody knew who Hurley was. What makes T-Dog such an…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Is Uhura ditching her short skirt in the new Star Trek movie?

First High-Resolution Images of the Wreck of the Titanic

The Hunger Games stars get their inevitable (and awesome) Simpsons makeover

Brand new Avengers photos include a look inside the Helicarrier

Every Alien Easter Egg in the Latest Prometheus Trailers

Watch Kurt Vonnegut recall the bombing of Dresden in his final years

Why true bionic limbs are out of reach . . . for now

The io9 Book Club Is in Session! Let’s talk about Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One

The best (and easiest) special effect you can do to freak out your friends

Your ticket to Mars will cost only half a million dollars

How does the time machine work in Looper? Allow Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rian Johnson to explain

Here’s how to catch NASA’s rocket-powered light show tonight

What does anger look like? Creepy, ghostly stick figures

Alan Dean Foster’s near-future India novel gets a movie deal… in Hong Kong

Voodoo, superhuman criminals, and Elektra with absurd firearms run this week’s comics

Jason Statham will pay “significant amounts of money” to avoid greenscreen

These steampunk Portal Boots would do 19th-Century Chell proud

The fire at the heart of the world has given itself a body — and a voice

10 Coolest Sidekicks in Science Fiction and Fantasy

What I did during the second season of The Walking Dead, by T-Dog

Sun’s Latest Outburst Complicates Planned Launch of Artemis 2

Instagram Tests Letting You Lurk to Your Heart’s Content—for a Price

Popular Sweetener Found in Protein Bars Tied to Stroke, Blood Clot Risk

HBO’s Boss Has Yet to Be Approached About Partnering on ‘Doctor Who’

AI Agent Runs the ‘I’m Being Censored’ Playbook After Getting Banned from Wikipedia

‘Scream 7’ Comes Home With Deleted Scenes We Hope Will Improve the Movie

A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

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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