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Astronomer discovers strange new planets that don’t orbit stars

We usually think of planets as always orbiting stars, but it looks like a lot of planets are off on their own in space. Find out how they formed, why they’re isolated, and how we spotted them. The central bulge of the Milky Way was looking a little too bulky for Notre Dame astronomer David…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

New True Blood trailer shows off Vampire Bill’s new guyliner

There’s a new coven in town, and it’s causing all sorts of trouble for the vampires of Bon Temps. The latest True Blood is packed with all sorts of magical mayhem, and showcases Bill wearing some excellent Gothy make-up. June 26th marks the start date of True Blood’s fourth season. And if you thought they…

Television Meredith Woerner

Nicholas Hoult explains why this is a whole new Beast in X-Men: First Class. Plus tons of new details about Dark Shadows and Steve Carell’s apocalyptic comedy!

J.J. Abrams explains why his new mysterious-island show Alcatraz won’t be another Lost. Torchwood: Miracle Day just keeps adding awesome guest stars. Plus a cool new Super 8 poster and our first look at the third season of Warehouse 13. Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Super 8. Green Lantern Mark Strong offers…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Exoplanets Are The Future

WISH UPON AN EXOPLANET | Exoplanet art, via the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. https://gizmodo.com/uranus-sized-exoplanet-discovered-with-ingenious-method-5584146 https://gizmodo.com/there-might-be-two-billion-earth-like-planets-just-in-o-5784315 There might be two billion Earth-like planets just in our galaxy The recent exoplanet spotting by NASA’s Kepler probe revealed there might be more than a million Earth-like planets in our galaxy. Now a new estimate says…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A dark magic web series starring Supernatural’s Misha Collins

If you need more supernatural horror in your life – and who doesn’t? – you’ll want to get in on the ground floor for new web series Divine. It’s about fighting evil, and stars Supernatural’s greatest angel, Misha Collins. The series creators have filmed the first two episodes, and are raising money via Kickstarter to…

Television Annalee Newitz

Ogle 3 new clips from X-Men: First Class, Super 8 and Transformers 3

We’ve got a batch of new summer blockbuster clips revealing the secret alien tech from J.J. Abrams’ Super 8, Transformers 3’s possible villain, and young Charles Xavier acting somewhat dickish in X-Men: First Class. Watch them now! The first ever clip from Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark Of The Moon is completely devoid of the usual…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Doctors Used These Old Pop-Up Books to Learn How to Perform Surgery

It’s always amazing to look back at how terribly simple things once were. These pop-up books, for example, are intricately layered to show the various organs in a human body. Doctors would use ’em for practice surgery runs. [Laughing Squid] It’s such simple technology—if I can even call it that—that it’s incredible that people used…

Books & Comics Casey Chan

Tour the creeptacular nooks and crannies of Alcatraz

Now that J.J. Abrams’ time-traveling prisoner series Alcatraz is locked in for Fridays next fall, let’s take a look at the show’s abandoned penitentiary setting, which has since been turned into a tourist attraction after closing in 1963. In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the decidedly cryptic trailer for Fox’s Alcatraz. Hurley and Professor…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Watch Ben Linus fight precrime in the trailer for J.J. Abrams’ new CBS series, Person Of Interest

Michael Emerson is the brains. Jim Caviezel is the muscle. In Person Of Interest, they band together to stop crime before it happens. Watch the show’s first ever, completely quote-worthy trailer! Person Of Interest Oh hells yes, Ben Linus is back and delivering the goods as brainiac billionaire “Mr. Finch.” This new trailer is just…

Television Meredith Woerner

Did early humans start standing upright so they could beat each other up?

There are lots of possible explanations for why humans became bipedal, including changing ecosystems and food resources. But what if it was just so it was easier for early humans to beat the crap out of each other? That’s the theory put forward by researchers at the University of Utah, who also believe their experiments…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The Origins of Post-Apocalyptic Island America

When the continental United States becomes uninhabitable, the last survivors of America have to move to an island, in Anna North’s bleak, beautiful America Pacifica. Here’s an exclusive excerpt, in which some street performers reenact the end of our world. America Pacifica, out today, is the debut novel from Iowa Writers Workshop graduate (and Jezebel…

Books & Comics Anna North

Chart reveals what natural disaster is most likely to kill you in America

A couple of years ago, two geographers created one of the most chilling maps you’ll ever see – it shows what kinds of natural hazards are most likely to kill you in America. And which regions are the most deadly. After poring over statistics compiled between 1970 and 2004, University of South Carolina geographers Kevin…

io9 Annalee Newitz

First image from the Hunger Games movie shows us reality TV deathmatch gear of the future

Behold the first ever image of Suzanne Collins’ 16-year-old Hunger Games hero Katniss Everdeen. But can the Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) pull it off? Entertainment Weekly has the image from director Gary Ross’ live adaptation of the immensely popular dystopian series Hunger Games. Katniss is a warrior in the post apocalyptic world’s Hunger…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Fortress of Solitude diagram reveals that Superman doesn’t have a toilet

In this layout of the Fortress of Solitude from 1960’s Superman Annual #1, we learn that Superman lives like a weird hermit, amidst ghoulish mannequins of his friends and loved ones. Go eat dinner with your fake parents, Clark.

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The food riots have started. What do you do now?

We live with the constant threat of famine. Many parts of the world, like Ethiopia, have seen their populations starve repeatedly over the past decades. What’s the best way to deal with it? Now, you can decide. Here’s your scenario. A terrible famine has broken out in a geographical region of the world that’s bigger…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Badass Women of the Pulp Era

The pulps of the world were full of tough men. The iconic pulp characters — the Shadow, Doc Savage, Tarzan — are all men, and the common perception of the pulps is that they were written by male writers, about male characters, for male readers. However, the pulps were more progressive than mainstream fiction (and…

Books & Comics Jess Nevins

Can you guess what these terrifying 19th century inventions were used for?

Look at those two devices above. Both devices are from the late 1800s and electrified, and I wouldn’t wish either of them upon my worst enemy. Can you determine what they are? Your prize will be knowledge and horror. Okay, so the doodad on the left is an “Electrical Body-Wear” patented by John V. Long…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Why are chimps hunting red colubus monkeys to death?

Time is running out for the red colubus monkey, which lives in Uganda’s Kibale National Park. Chimpanzees appear to be huntings these poor guys to death. It’s the first time that one primate species has overhunted another, without humans being involved. According to census data collected between 1975 and 2007, the Ugandan red colubus monkey…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

How Michael Bay threw Megatron through a building

You know we’re sluts for any sort of FX miniature carnage. ILM has just released this excellent behind-the-scenes look at the FX work on Transformers. It’s packed with exploding miniatures! After watching this video we can safely say that if Michael Bay had just released the behind-the-scenes FX work on Transformers 2, we may have…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Earth’s core melts and freezes all at the same time

The inner core of our planet is roughly as big as the Moon, and we can only guess what’s going on deep inside our planet. We might now have an answer…and it’s even more volatile and weird than we thought. Here’s what we know (or at least are pretty sure we know): the inner core…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Astronomer discovers strange new planets that don’t orbit stars

New True Blood trailer shows off Vampire Bill’s new guyliner

Nicholas Hoult explains why this is a whole new Beast in X-Men: First Class. Plus tons of new details about Dark Shadows and Steve Carell’s apocalyptic comedy!

Exoplanets Are The Future

A dark magic web series starring Supernatural’s Misha Collins

Ogle 3 new clips from X-Men: First Class, Super 8 and Transformers 3

Doctors Used These Old Pop-Up Books to Learn How to Perform Surgery

Tour the creeptacular nooks and crannies of Alcatraz

Watch Ben Linus fight precrime in the trailer for J.J. Abrams’ new CBS series, Person Of Interest

Did early humans start standing upright so they could beat each other up?

The Origins of Post-Apocalyptic Island America

Chart reveals what natural disaster is most likely to kill you in America

First image from the Hunger Games movie shows us reality TV deathmatch gear of the future

Fortress of Solitude diagram reveals that Superman doesn’t have a toilet

The food riots have started. What do you do now?

Badass Women of the Pulp Era

Can you guess what these terrifying 19th century inventions were used for?

Why are chimps hunting red colubus monkeys to death?

How Michael Bay threw Megatron through a building

The Earth’s core melts and freezes all at the same time

KitchenAid 4.5-Quart Stand Mixer Is Back at Its Lowest Price, a Last-Minute Spring Sale Deal Outside Amazon Prime Day

‘Pizza Movie’ Has a Hilariously Grisly New Way to Say ‘This Is Your Brain on Drugs’ (Exclusive)

Amazon Makes a Last Push for Govee LED Strip Light at a Black Friday Low as the Spring Sale Winds Down, Works with Alexa and Google Assistant

Forget Shokz, Anker Pushes Soundcore AeroClip Open-Ear Earbuds to an All-Time Low in the Final Hours of Amazon’s Spring Sale

Google Pixel 10 Pro Gets Cleared Out at a Record Low, Now Even Cheaper Than AirPods Pro With Trade-In

Meta’s Two New Smart Glasses Are Slimmer and More Like Regular Glasses

JBL Boombox 3 Speaker at 40% Off Is Now Even Cheaper Than Renewed Units on Amazon

Elizabeth Olsen Promises She Knows Nothing About Her Marvel Future

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

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

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

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