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Colliding galaxies cause incredibly bright starbust inside cloak of dust

Two distant spiral galaxies are merging together, and behind a shroud of dust is a frenzy of star formation. This single region emits more infrared light than an entire galaxy, and is ten times brighter than anything else like it. Although galaxy collisions are dramatic events on a large scale, individual stars aren’t usually affected.…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

See the flowering of the phallus indusiatus

One click and you’ll have no trouble understanding the name. This beautiful time-lapse video is part of a series from ScienceNet called “Action Plant,” meant to shake up people’s view of plants as static and passive. Check out the Wild Plants of Japan here at Pink Tentacle.

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Synthetic Biology of the Future: How bacteria could transform your life

Are you ready for the synthetic biology future? A recent synthetic biology conference described bacteria that could live on Mars, feel empathy, eliminate malaria from mosquitos and cure cancer. Oscillator’s Christina Agapakis explains. It’s been a few weeks since the iGEM jamboree, a whirlwind, completely exhausting weekend of student synthetic biology projects. This tweet from…

io9 Christina Agapakis

London gets its own version of SDCC, courtesy of Mark Millar

It looks like the British are sick of invading. A new San Diego-scale comic convention has been announced, and it will be taking place in London. Mark Millar, of Wanted and Kick Ass fame, has organized a comic con in London. Kapow is slated for April and meant to be the UK’s answer to the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Spider-Man Broadway musical is like eating a candy-coated black widow

The $65-million Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is not unlike eating a caramel-covered, poisonous arachnid. It’s a deranged spectacle that’s sweet going down. NOTE: This article contains a bunch of plot revelations. Spider-Man, turn on the spoilers! Last night, the first preview for the much ballyhooed, seven-years-in-the-making Spider-Man musical debuted. The play, which is helmed…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Awesome fan videos “Tronitize” Aliens and The Big Lebowski

Check out this rapidly growing collection of classic films converted to look like the shiny cyber world of Tron — such as Hard Target and “Tron” Vs. the Volcano. You’ll never look at xenomorphs the same. AICN has been holding a contest for fans to create Tron-like versions of their favorite movie scenes. The best…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Celestial filaments link together galaxy clusters into cosmic web

Large groups of galaxies come together to form clusters, and those clusters are linked together by vast streams of hot gas known as filaments. These intergalactic links reach temperatures well over a million degrees and are almost completely invisible…until now. Filaments represent the universe at its most unimaginably vast and cosmic scale. Filaments link together…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

I’ll Take My Aliens In Tron-O-Vision

That scene in Aliens where Ripley takes on the big baddie with a power loader? You can’t beat it! Unless, of course, you put it in the world of Tron. That’s when you start reexamining everything you knew about awesome. At just under a minute, this Tronification is entirely too short for my taste. I’d…

Movies Brian Barrett

The cast of Twin Peaks reunites for Psych’s tribute episode!

In this week’s television, Fringe hits a turning point, SGU reaches a climax and The Walking Dead’s season ends. But the most exciting thing might be Psych’s Twin Peaks tribute, featuring original castmembers. Also, Kevin Sorbo learns a terrible lesson. Today: There’s a new Johnny Test at 7:30 PM on the Cartoon Network, “Good Old…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Reminder: io9’s Environmental Writing Contest

A reminder: The deadline for io9’s Environmental Writing Contest is less than two weeks away! io9 is going to pay $2000 each to two people who write the best science fiction and nonfiction stories about environmental disaster. Details below. io9 is looking for stories that deal with environmental disaster, whether caused by random asteroid impacts…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Buckyballs and acid make the first 3D self-assembling nanostructure

The key to nanotechnology may not be making tiny structures out of individual molecules. It may be forcing those structures to build themselves. And scientists appear to have found a way to make that happen. When different substances come into contact with each other, they have widely differing reactions. Some steam and fizz, some cool,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Michael Bay denies reports that his “aggressive” style messed up Transformers 3’s 3-D filming

Will Transformers 3’s 3-D footage be as beautiful as Avatar’s, or as ugly as Last Airbender’s? Even though Michael Bay shot the film in 3-D, some sources claim the result wasn’t usable, forcing him to use the dreaded 3-D-post-conversion process. Unnamed sources told IESB that filming in 3-D, using state of the art cameras, didn’t…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Thanksgiving Leftovers: Utah group creates pie-dropping turkey quadricopter

While you slept off your Thanksgiving dinner, the people over at Utah Aerials decided to engineer a turkey quadricopter. As an added challenge, they made it strong enough to carry and drop pies on the people below. This Thanksgiving, a group of certified lunatics decided that turkeys should no longer be flightless. They created a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Hamburg street artists transform sightseeing tower into firebreathing dragon

Here’s something for the annals of entertaining (albeit dubiously safe) street art. A group of Hamburg artists were unimpressed with a tower in the city’s Hafencity neighborhood, so they turned it into a flame-belching dragon. Don’t try this at home. Says .WAV (via The Wooster Collective): It was found in the Hafencity neighborhood, which has…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen, star of Forbidden Planet and numerous science fiction spoofs

Leslie Nielsen, who died last night, helped to pioneer the science fiction genre on screen when he starred in Forbidden Planet. And then he helped lampoon that genre in countless spoof movies, including 2001: A Space Travesty. If Nielsen had only starred in Forbidden Planet, his contribution to science fiction would still be incalculable. Here’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Tron Legacy trailer reveals more of Sam Flynn’s quest. Plus Avengers and Iron Man 3 rumors!

The writer of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot explains why this idea might not be completely terrible. Zombieland 2 is looking for a new cameo that will top Bill Murray’s. The Hobbit is going 3D. Huzzah for spoilers! Tron Legacy Here’s a new trailer, courtesy of a Nokia-sponsored viral challenge: [ComicBookMovie] While this scene…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner dies in LA at 87

Irvin Kershner, director of the best Star Wars film, has died at 87 in LA. Kershner also directed such genre hits as the Bond flick Never Say Never Again and Robocop 2, and the cult favorite TV series Seaquest DSV. [AFP. Photo via PBS. Thanks, Peter.]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Toshiba’s TVs Have Batteries for Post-Powercut Viewing

A TV with batteries? This isn’t for rolling outside for poolside viewing (though it could be, I suppose). Instead, Toshiba’s aiming it at people who suffer from numerous powercuts—a very niche market, you may agree. The Power TV series has integrated batteries for two additional hours of TV viewing, should a powercut occur. Available in…

Television Kat Hannaford

How To Survive A Mass Extinction

250 million years ago, 95% of life on Earth perished, probably from megavolcanoes. 65 million years ago, a meteor strike destroyed the dinosaurs. Now, some say another mass extinction is underway. Scientists tell you how to survive it. Underground City by Gamefan84 Most scientists agree that there are five known mass extinctions on Earth, where…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Tron’s Jeff Bridges Ponders Retirement Thanks to Facial-Mapping Technology

Technology has got Jeff Bridges thinking: why bother acting when a digital version of himself can so easily be created? Trapped by his evil creation Clu 2, today’s Bridges acts opposite a 30-years-younger version in Tron: Legacy. [Daily Mail]

Movies Kat Hannaford

Colliding galaxies cause incredibly bright starbust inside cloak of dust

See the flowering of the phallus indusiatus

Synthetic Biology of the Future: How bacteria could transform your life

London gets its own version of SDCC, courtesy of Mark Millar

The Spider-Man Broadway musical is like eating a candy-coated black widow

Awesome fan videos “Tronitize” Aliens and The Big Lebowski

Celestial filaments link together galaxy clusters into cosmic web

I’ll Take My Aliens In Tron-O-Vision

The cast of Twin Peaks reunites for Psych’s tribute episode!

Reminder: io9’s Environmental Writing Contest

Buckyballs and acid make the first 3D self-assembling nanostructure

Michael Bay denies reports that his “aggressive” style messed up Transformers 3’s 3-D filming

Thanksgiving Leftovers: Utah group creates pie-dropping turkey quadricopter

Hamburg street artists transform sightseeing tower into firebreathing dragon

R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen, star of Forbidden Planet and numerous science fiction spoofs

Tron Legacy trailer reveals more of Sam Flynn’s quest. Plus Avengers and Iron Man 3 rumors!

Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner dies in LA at 87

Toshiba’s TVs Have Batteries for Post-Powercut Viewing

How To Survive A Mass Extinction

Tron’s Jeff Bridges Ponders Retirement Thanks to Facial-Mapping Technology

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