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The Being Human season premiere digs up a new Big Bad

The Americanized Being Human is back with new bosses, baby ghosts, Amish vampires and original story lines! Will the second season hit the sudsy high-water mark this supernatural soap achieved last year? When the powers of Sam Witwer’s dimple chin, Sam Huntington’s puppy face, and Meaghan Rath’s newly found charm combine, they unleash a krakken…

io9 Meredith Woerner

What causes rogue planets to run away from their stars?

We now estimate that every star in the galaxy has at least one planet, but that is leaving aside the potentially billions more planets that were ejected from their solar system and are now hurtling through the universe all alone. We know that these rogue planets exist – indeed, they could outnumber all the other…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

All the Tech That Makes Future TVs So Gorgeous

CES was more than just a Grand Canyon filled with eye candy—the sci-fi-beautiful TVs we saw are real, and you’re gonna want them. But OLED? 8k? Crystal Display? What’s all this mean? We’ll explain the pretty new things. It’s worth keeping in mind that many of the super extreme ultra HDTVs on the horizon were…

Television Sam Biddle

Chunks of Mars have crashed down in Africa

You’re looking at a once-in-a-lifetime scientific discovery. A team of experts announced today that these fragments of space rock, discovered last month near Foumzgit, Morocco, are in fact meteorites from Mars. Martian meteorites are incredibly rare; taken together, all the Mars rocks on Earth add up to less than 240 pounds. But rarer still are…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Listen to an Auto-Tuned David Attenborough and Bill Nye croon about evolution

The latest Symphony of Science track is out, and it is a doozy. Listen to David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins and Bill Nye get their rave on for evolution. Who knew synths intermingled with amoebas on the Tree of Life? Hat tip to Krakenstein2!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What if every electron in the universe was all the same exact particle?

There’s an idea that suggests all the universe’s electrons are actually one particle forever traveling backwards and forwards in time. It’s a simple, elegant idea that solves some of physics’s biggest mysteries. There’s only one tiny problem. It’s complete nonsense. This is the story of that bizarre thought experiment and John Archibald Wheeler, the brilliant,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Spider-Man and Venom trade places with Calvin and Hobbes

Artist Timothy Lim swapped out Bill Watterson’s mischievous boy and stuffed tiger with Peter Parker and his unruly symbiote. Aww, Venom is so cute when he’s trying to munch Peter’s skull! Lim’s images are also available on t-shirts. [Via Super Punch]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: coming soon to a sky near you

The last decade of global conflict has seen the dawning of the age of the robot plane. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been around for decades, but today they’re ubiquitous war machines with unmatched endurance and lethal combat capabilities. Find out more about these increasingly high-tech pilotless aircraft. Drones were developed in the early days…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Are certain cancer treatments actually making things worse?

A study published today in the journal Cancer Cell has put forward something terrifying — that one of our current way of fighting tumors might make them more deadly. The researchers examined anti-angiogenic therapies, or those treatments which cut off blood supplies to tumors, thus making them shrink in size. The scientists analyzed ways of…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Scientists prepare to capture the first-ever picture of a black hole

Tomorrow, astronomers and physicists from around the word will convene in Tucson, Arizona to discuss the Event Horizon Telescope Project — a global network of 50 radio telescopes that together could soon enable us to photograph the black hole at the center of our galaxy. “What is great about the [black hole] in the center…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The most exciting scenes from Mexican horror stories I’ve never read

Yours truly recently discovered a treasure trove of art from 1970s Mexican horror pulps, none of which I’ve ever laid my eyes upon. Nonetheless, I shall attempt to relay these thrilling story beats using nothing but context clues. For example, that illustration above is from a story called The Time Santo Glued His Hands To…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Lord of the Rings manicure forges 10 nails to rule them all

This is by far the sexiest thing we’ve seen all day. And yes, that just so happens to be the Tengwar inscription from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. These lovely nails come to you courtesy of Billy the Brime. [Spotted on The Daily What]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Alcatraz is only really interesting when it’s about prison brutality

Crime never sleeps, but it does jump forwards in time. At least, that’s the premise of Alcatraz, the latest J.J. Abrams head trip that debuted on Fox last night. Present-day San Francisco is in for an invasion of escaped convicts, bringing their brutal 1960s ways to our more civilized namby-pamby era. Because the Kennedy era…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The world’s greatest explanations, as chosen by Brian Eno, Richard Dawkins, and others

Every year, Edge.org poses a question to a hand-picked group of the world’s “most complex and sophisticated minds.” Then they publish the responses. This year’s question — What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? — has been answered by close to 200 contributors, ranging from evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins to musician and producer…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Hey Disney, this is the steampunk princess movie we want!

The last bit of animated steampunkery we saw from Disney was Atlantis: The Lost Empire. And sadly, most of the gadgets and steam-powered gizmos were quickly swapped for fluorescent face paint. Fortunately, we’ve spied the perfect bit of Disneyesque concept art that’s a perfect starting place for a princess with plenty of technological know-how! This…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The diamonds that are born in supernovae

Black diamonds, also known as carbonados, are dark, porous, and found only in Brazil and Central Africa. And they don’t come from volcanoes — they come from outer space. Carbonados don’t look like much when they’re first yanked out of the ground, but that doesn’t differentiate them much from other diamonds. They’re as hard as…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

10 Great Fantasy Series to Read While You’re Waiting for George R.R. Martin’s Next Book

George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons was everything we’d hoped it would be — but now we can’t wait to read the next book, The Winds of Winter. How can we keep from going mad with impatience to find out what happens to Tyrion and Daenerys? The good news is, fantasy literature offers tons…

Books & Comics MaryKate Jasper and Charlie Jane Anders

In this week’s comics, Grant Morrison writes The Avengers (the other ones)

In this week’s comics, Grant Morrison puts him imprimatur on The Avengers, but not the ones you expect. On a similar albeit unrelated note, Brian Michael Bendis is also writing Marvel’s Avengers (above), wherein Storm joins the team. Let’s see what else is on the shelves Wednesday. First Issues First off, Boom is republishing Grant…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Beautiful (but inaccurate) 18th Century French map depicts Alaska like you’ve never seen it

If you’re looking for the outline of the Alaska you know and love, you might as well give up now. This bizarre map, which appeared in the third volume of Diderot’s Encyclopédie, dates all the way back to 1772 — and it’s a total hodgepodge of misinformation. Here’s his [hi-res version. While some geographical features…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Stare into the eerie heart of the Little Ghost Nebula…if you dare!

What is this strange astronomical formation? A more fanciful interpretation is that it’s a vast cosmic eye, but then its official designation – planetary nebula – isn’t much more helpful, considering it’s neither a planet nor even really a nebula. In reality, the Little Ghost Nebula, or NGC 6369 if you want to keep things…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The Being Human season premiere digs up a new Big Bad

What causes rogue planets to run away from their stars?

All the Tech That Makes Future TVs So Gorgeous

Chunks of Mars have crashed down in Africa

Listen to an Auto-Tuned David Attenborough and Bill Nye croon about evolution

What if every electron in the universe was all the same exact particle?

Spider-Man and Venom trade places with Calvin and Hobbes

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: coming soon to a sky near you

Are certain cancer treatments actually making things worse?

Scientists prepare to capture the first-ever picture of a black hole

The most exciting scenes from Mexican horror stories I’ve never read

Lord of the Rings manicure forges 10 nails to rule them all

Alcatraz is only really interesting when it’s about prison brutality

The world’s greatest explanations, as chosen by Brian Eno, Richard Dawkins, and others

Hey Disney, this is the steampunk princess movie we want!

The diamonds that are born in supernovae

10 Great Fantasy Series to Read While You’re Waiting for George R.R. Martin’s Next Book

In this week’s comics, Grant Morrison writes The Avengers (the other ones)

Beautiful (but inaccurate) 18th Century French map depicts Alaska like you’ve never seen it

Stare into the eerie heart of the Little Ghost Nebula…if you dare!

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