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The Star Trek-X-Men crossover that no one remembers

Everybody remembers the comic book where Mr. Spock does the Vulcan nerve pinch on Wolverine, but what about the other Star Trek/X-Men crossover? https://gizmodo.com/wolverines-10-most-mortifying-moments-5496844 The impossible-to-punctuate Star Trek: The Next Generation, X-Men: Planet X, by Michael Jan Friedman, was a delicious little novel in the late nineties that stands out for its prune juice, its…

Books & Comics Esther Inglis-Arkell

Was Hans Zimmer’s Dark Knight score inspired by this musical from 1983?

Did Hans Zimmer pull inspiration for the infamous “Why So Serious” track in The Dark Knight from Francis Lai’s score from the 1983 musical Edith Et Marcel? Take a listen to both and decide for yourself! [Thanks Jerome!]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Frank Darabont’s Amazing Walking Dead Episode That You’ll Never See

Wondering how the second half of Walking Dead season two will be different without Frank Darabont at the wheel? Here’s one brilliant storyline the ex-show runner had planned, which was straight out of the Twilight Zone. And sadly, it will probably never see the light of day. Hear all about Darabont’s lost episode from the…

Television Meredith Woerner

Wirecutter-shaped spaceship discovered on Google Street View

Should you look up Foxoak St, Cradley Heath, West Midlands B64, United Kingdom on Google Street View and move the camera toward the sky, you may notice something a bit off. I don’t know what’s more disconcerting: proof of alien battle cruisers or the fact that they’ve been cribbing human designs. [Reddit via Dangerous Minds]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Marvel tells us about AVX VS, a comic solely about X-Men clobbering Avengers (and vice versa)

Who would win in a fight, Magneto or Iron Man? Namor or The Thing? Pixie or Squirrel Girl? Such is the premise of AVX VS, a new six-issue spin-off of April’s Avengers Vs. X-Men miniseries, which features the heroes at loggerheads over the Phoenix’s return to Earth. https://gizmodo.com/marvel-comics-spills-the-beans-on-their-big-2012-event-5865591 Earlier this afternoon, io9 participated in a…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Is this really concept art of The Avengers‘ Quinjet?

Longtime readers of The Avengers will be looking forward to seeing the live-action realization of the “quinjets” the superhero team is always zooming around in. We’ve been looking forward to seeing how this would look in Joss Whedon’s movie version — and now, there’s a piece of purported concept art online. This art comes via…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Behold the incredible scale of Saturn

The wide angle camera onboard NASA’s Cassini orbiter has been capturing incredible shots of Saturn and its various moons for years, and if this photo is any indication, it has no intentions of letting up. Prima facie, the image looks like little more than a beautiful, wide-angle Saturnian snapshot. But look a little closer and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Harry Potter Director Chris Columbus’ New Fantasy Book Totally Not a Potter Wannabe

It’s sort of amusing how up-front Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone director Chris Columbus is about wanting his new book series, House of Secrets, to be the new J.K. Rowling. Actually, the basic plot doesn’t sound very Potter-ish — it’s about kids living in a fantasy writer’s spooky house, trying to save their parents…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Totally Bitchin’ Game of Thrones Fan Art! [NSFW]

Winter may be coming — but April feels like a long way off. We can’t wait for the return of HBO’s Game of Thrones series, to see how all of the insanity of A Clash of Kings translates to the screen. To help us survive the long waiting, we’ve gathered some of the coolest, most…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Science does not need a universal symbol

Science and its supporters, asserts bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe, are in dire need of their own emblem — a “symbolic unifier” that could be to science what Ichthys is to Christianity. What symbol could possibly stand for all of science? Wolpe offers no suggestions, merely noting that it would have to be simple, versatile, instantly…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Devil Inside is a great exorcism movie possessed by a bad one

Found footage exorcism flick The Devil Inside, out today, is one of those cult movie paradoxes. It has a cool premise and ultra-creepy special effects, but they’re wrapped inside a shoddily-plotted mashup of The Rite and Elimidate. You’ll kind of love it, especially if you’re a sucker for supernatural horror – but this movie is…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Octopuses rewrite their RNA to function in frigid Antarctic waters

We all know octopuses are clever, but a recent study reveals that the brainy beasts are crafty even at the molecular level. In a study published in the latest issue of Science, researchers reveal that octopuses living in the hypothermic climes of Antarctica rely not on their DNA, but the revision of their RNA, to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

10 Nagging Questions Left Open By Disney Movies

Disney movies are most people’s first encounter with the fantasy film genre. While the fantasy worlds of Disney are based on old fairy tales, they often introduce lots of weird twists of their own. Including a healthy serving of WTF. Here are 10 questions that Disney movies leave us confused about. Confused Tinkerbell image via…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Weird Relationship Between a Michael Jackson Impersonator and an Enforcer Robot

It’s hard to perform a Michael Jackson routine night after night, lipsynching to the king of pop. But it gets a lot more complicated when you’re being stalked by a psychotic robot — and it can only get worse when the robot decides that it’s a Michael Jackson fan. Jessica Barber’s “MonitorBot and the King…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Kanye West is the Creative Director on the Jetsons movie?

Rapper Kanye West is allegedly the Creative Director on a live action Jetsons movie that is still stuck in development hell. Maybe. At least, that’s what we get from his tweets. A few days ago Kanye went on a Twitter tear, that seemingly exposed him as the possible new Creative Director for The Jetsons. We…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Is dark matter generating mysterious radio waves?

Although dark matter‘s exact nature is still unknown, what we do know is that the amount of gravity in the universe is greater than the amount of visible matter that it corresponds to. This anomaly could be explained by some unseen source of extra mass, which provides the additional gravity that helps hold galaxies together.…

io9 Sophie Bushwick

Star Trek IV could have included more about Spock’s baby

After Spock and Lt. Saavik got to know each other much better in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, you could have been forgiven for thinking that something would come of it later on. And indeed, Robin Curtis says in a new interview that she expected a whole “Saavik is pregnant with Spock’s baby”…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

First clip from Chronicle shows what happens when teenage boys get superpowers

Teenagers are terrible rotten things (or at least I was) and I shudder to think what I would do with telekinetic powers — which is exactly the plot of the new “found footage” film Chronicle. This surprising film’s honesty and hidden darkness may just revitalize this genre yet. Now take a look at the first…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Silkworms engineered to produce spider silk could lead to better body armor

Spider silk is one of those wonderful materials whose incredibly tensile properties are the stuff of myth. That’s why it’s been the target of years of transgenic research. As far back as 2000, researchers were genetically engineering other animals to produce it — like the infamous spider-goat. However, many of their attempts have had problems,…

io9 Tim Barribeau

An absolutely gorgeous shot of the International Space Station dancing with the Moon

On January 4, NASA shot this amazing composite image of the International Space Station crossing over the face of the Moon from Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. And even if you don’t have NASA’s gee-whiz cameras, it is possible to see the International Space Station with the naked eye in certain parts of the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Star Trek-X-Men crossover that no one remembers

Was Hans Zimmer’s Dark Knight score inspired by this musical from 1983?

Frank Darabont’s Amazing Walking Dead Episode That You’ll Never See

Wirecutter-shaped spaceship discovered on Google Street View

Marvel tells us about AVX VS, a comic solely about X-Men clobbering Avengers (and vice versa)

Is this really concept art of The Avengers‘ Quinjet?

Behold the incredible scale of Saturn

Harry Potter Director Chris Columbus’ New Fantasy Book Totally Not a Potter Wannabe

Totally Bitchin’ Game of Thrones Fan Art! [NSFW]

Science does not need a universal symbol

The Devil Inside is a great exorcism movie possessed by a bad one

Octopuses rewrite their RNA to function in frigid Antarctic waters

10 Nagging Questions Left Open By Disney Movies

The Weird Relationship Between a Michael Jackson Impersonator and an Enforcer Robot

Kanye West is the Creative Director on the Jetsons movie?

Is dark matter generating mysterious radio waves?

Star Trek IV could have included more about Spock’s baby

First clip from Chronicle shows what happens when teenage boys get superpowers

Silkworms engineered to produce spider silk could lead to better body armor

An absolutely gorgeous shot of the International Space Station dancing with the Moon

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