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Watch Grapes Turn to Raisins in 30 Seconds

Filmmaker James Knott spent three full months patiently producing this thirty second time-lapse short of grapes turning into raisins. How did he do it? James used a Sony VX2100 Mini DV video camera on “interval record” mode and then set it to shoot a half second of video every 10 minutes. By the time the…

Television Richard Blakeley

Limitless clip pits Bradley Cooper’s super brain against a blind man with a gun

How will the smart drug NZT change your life? It could send a crazy blind gunman after you. Watch as the mentally enhanced Bradley Cooper gets creative with a piano, in this exclusive fight scene from Limitless. That’s one point Cooper, two points piano. We didn’t know Limitless was going to get this violent, but…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Captain Jack Sparrow becomes a lizard with an existential crisis, in Rango

You’ll see a lot of movies about heroes struggling to find their place in the world this year. But only Rango, the movie starring Johnny Depp as an existentially challenged chameleon, really delves to the bottom of the hero’s soul. Rango is a new stoner cult classic in the making. It’s expressly designed for you…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Are Tablets Ruining Watching TV Together?

TV socializing is something of an oxymoron to begin with. When we sit down to watch the tube together, we’re mostly together in the strictest technical sense—couch proximity. We might share popcorn, or laugh in unison, or murmur something about how so-and-so got fat—but it ain’t exactly a meeting of the minds. Our eyes—and brains—are…

Television Sam Biddle

10 Most Bizarre Animal Mating Behaviors

As a group, animals are disgusting. It’s really a shame we’re one of them. But while we only display mating behavior on specially requested internet videos or unused sections of libraries, they have sex in front of biologists. The biologists, of course, can’t keep their mouths shut and tattle all the animals’ dirty dealings to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Philip K. Dick for Dummies: The Adjustment Bureau

“That Philip K. Dick guy is pretty good. But what would really make his work awesome is if it was turned into a romantic dramedy.” If you’ve ever said those words, or something along those lines, then you — and only you — are the target audience for The Adjustment Bureau, the new movie opening…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Making nanomaterials just got a lot easier

Graphene is pretty cool stuff. It’s the foundation of a lot of nanomaterials, and when it’s only a single atom thick, it can stretch eternally in two dimensions. When it’s more than one atom thick it behaves very differently, becoming graphite (which you often find in pencils). We already know a pretty easy way to…

io9 Tim Barribeau

A drug that can make your old memories like new

There are drugs that help you remember what you learn, and ones that erase your memory. But until now, there have no substances with the power to enhance and strengthen old memories hovering on the brink of being forgotten. Now a group of neuroscientsts say they’ve isolated a single enzyme in the brain that can…

io9 Annalee Newitz

One of the fathers of nuclear weapons wrote science fiction about super-intelligent dolphins helping to overcome the Cold War

Leo Szilárd was one of the first scientists to come up with the idea of a nuclear chain reaction, and he wrote the 1939 letter (signed by his friend Albert Einstein) that convinced President Roosevelt to launch the Manhattan Project. After the war, though, he turned his attention to molecular biology — and to spur…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The biological reason why Henry VIII was a serial killer

Henry VIII achieved enduring fame (and portrayal by a series of skinnier and skinnier actors) by lopping off heads left, right, and center. Well, technically only left and right, since he ordered the execution of just two of his wives. Another two he disposed of legally, but less violently, through divorce and annulment. Henry’s motivation…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Robert Kirkman raises our hopes for an epic second season of The Walking Dead

Frank Darabont’s Walking Dead TV series veered away from Robert Kirkman’s comic book source material, big-time. So will the group of post-apocalyptic survivors get back on track? Kirkman let some details slip about season two that have us very excited. Spoilers ahead… When asked by Entertainment Weekly if season two would follow the source material…

Television Meredith Woerner

Awesome new look at Captain America villain the Red Skull. Plus Steven Moffat talks Doctor Who’s latest special mini-episode!

Take a terrifying look at Captain America’s arch-nemesis. Doctor Who is making another special mini-episode, featuring more time-twisting shenanigans! Plus The Hobbit movies get their titles, another BSG alum joins The 17th Precinct, and Wonder Woman finds its first supervillain! Spoilers from this point forward! Top image from Captain America. Captain America Here’s an awesome…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Slapstick Aboard a Spaceship: An alien abduction in the style of Benny Hill

In El Super Policia 880, a down-on-his-luck cop meets some aliens, who turn him into a super-cop. Soon he’s stopping criminals, preventing professors from being zapped with their own super-weapons, and teaching all the other cops to dance. It all culminates in this fantastic scene, where the aliens bring the cop and his son aboard…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Could we be on the verge of inventing tractor beams?

Ferengi smugglers shake in their boots as the first step towards tractor beams is announced. In the past, lasers have been used only to impart forward momentum to their targets. They hit objects with photons, and those objects move forward with the beam of light (or burst into flame). Now scientists in Hong Kong have…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Ibuprofen can protect against Parkinson’s (and hangovers)

Want to keep your brain in tip top condition for the Singularity? New research shows those who regularly take ibuprofen might be protecting themselves from Parkinson’s disease. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health analyzed more than 125,000 patients, and found that those who used the drug two or more times a week had…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Scientists come up with completely opposite theories about why the sun is weakening

For the last few years the sun has been kicking back and relaxing. A lot. Although a huge solar flare recently made headlines, the surface of the sun has been quiet lately. Sunspots have been more scarce than they’ve been in the last 200 years. All solar activity is low. And it looks like it’s…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Learn all about how the aliens plan to mate with us, on V

So this week’s episode of V was so crazy and over-the-top that you need to contemplate it to make your afternoon complete. I’ll give you a recap but honestly all you need to focus on right now is MATING. Because that’s all V cares about too. That, and little teeny bottles of DNA that look…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Solar System’s Story Revealed in a Pea

Feast your eyes on some of the solar system’s earliest materials: the pink core comprises melilite, spinel and perovskite. The multi-colored rim contains hibonite, perovskite, spinel, melilite/sodalite, pyroxene, and olivine. This close-up reveals part of a pea-sized chunk of meteorite, a calcium-aluminum rich inclusion, formed when the planets in our solar system were still dust…

io9 Annie Minard - Universe Today

The First 3D Star Wars Release Blasts Eyeballs Next February

Following up on the unfortunate promise that he’d release all six Star Wars movies in three dimensions, George Lucas has settled on February 10th, 2012 for the premiere of a 3D Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Subsequent titles will be released once per year, in order, which means we’ve got some time before there’s anything…

Movies Brian Barrett

What can we expect from the new Blade Runner movie? We asked the producers.

Yesterday we learned that the rights Blade Runner was getting a sequel or a prequel. We spoke with the producers behind this project, and asked them your burning questions. So, will it be Blade Runner 2 or Blade Runner Origins? We spoke with the producers of the new Blade Runner film: Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watch Grapes Turn to Raisins in 30 Seconds

Limitless clip pits Bradley Cooper’s super brain against a blind man with a gun

Captain Jack Sparrow becomes a lizard with an existential crisis, in Rango

Are Tablets Ruining Watching TV Together?

10 Most Bizarre Animal Mating Behaviors

Philip K. Dick for Dummies: The Adjustment Bureau

Making nanomaterials just got a lot easier

A drug that can make your old memories like new

One of the fathers of nuclear weapons wrote science fiction about super-intelligent dolphins helping to overcome the Cold War

The biological reason why Henry VIII was a serial killer

Robert Kirkman raises our hopes for an epic second season of The Walking Dead

Awesome new look at Captain America villain the Red Skull. Plus Steven Moffat talks Doctor Who’s latest special mini-episode!

Slapstick Aboard a Spaceship: An alien abduction in the style of Benny Hill

Could we be on the verge of inventing tractor beams?

Ibuprofen can protect against Parkinson’s (and hangovers)

Scientists come up with completely opposite theories about why the sun is weakening

Learn all about how the aliens plan to mate with us, on V

Solar System’s Story Revealed in a Pea

The First 3D Star Wars Release Blasts Eyeballs Next February

What can we expect from the new Blade Runner movie? We asked the producers.

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