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Winter is coming! Game of Thrones trailer and pics are breathtakingly gorgeous

Want to see some of the most indelible scenes from George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones brought to life? Check out a 60-second tease for the HBO series, featuring Eddard Stark’s rough justice and Tyrion’s capture. Plus high-res pics! Here’s a new trailer: And some new behind-the-scenes footage that aired during Boardwalk Empire: Click…

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Game of Thrones pics

Bran and Jon Catelyn and Tyrion Cersei Daenerys Jaime Jon and Sam Ned and Arya Ned and Pyrcelle Riders Robert Sansa Tyrion with his shield

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Joan Vinge’s The Snow Queen: The girl-power counterpart to Star Wars

Do you enjoy space opera, fantastic technologies, millennia-old mysteries, and terrifically wicked villains who want their offspring to embrace their dark side? Do you like women too? Then you’ll love 1981’s Hugo winner, The Snow Queen, by Joan D. Vinge. You know, I have been trying to write this post for about three weeks now,…

Books & Comics Josh Wimmer

Why dogs have bigger brains than cats

Being sociable has its advantages, including giving you – or at least your species – a bigger brain. Across more than 500 mammal species, animals that lived in social groups had bigger brains than those that lived by themselves. Evolutionary biologists had long assumed brain size increased in mammals in a more or less consistent…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Famous scenes from Star Wars, retooled as non-science fiction dramas

Graphic designer Matthew Ranzetta has taken famous scenes and icons from Star Wars and transformed them into posters for non-scifi films. I can’t imagine that Ranzetta’s Empire Records is a hip, free-wheeling place, though. [Matthew Ranzetta via Screenrant]

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A Bilbo-sized look at the Shire from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit

It’s not huge, but Total Film has posted a preview picture of the Shire from an upcoming issue. Is this a new set, or did they just kick the sheep out? [Via Geek Tyrant] https://gizmodo.com/sheep-take-over-the-old-lord-of-the-rings-set-5607666

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Thirty Hand-Machined RED EPIC Cameras Will Film The Hobbit in 3D

Peter Jackson, who’s made a few movies, is preparing to shoot another one called The Hobbit. That’s interesting news! What’s also interesting is how he will film it: Thirty uber-expensive RED EPIC cameras. It’s good to be the king. Or is the king James Cameron? I can’t remember which incredibly rich and successful director is…

Movies Jack Loftus

Take a behind-the-scenes look at Iron Sky, the upcoming Nazis on the moon flick

The production team behind the forthcoming Finnish-German-Australian alternate history flick Iron Sky have alerted us to a ton of new behinds-the-scenes features including a production-shot-of-the-day page, a production blog, a director’s diary, new set footage, and a sneak peek featurette. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-nazis-build-spaceships-in-new-iron-sky-teas-5538423 [Photo: Tilo Prückner as Dr. Richter by Tarja Jakunaho]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Our solar system is home to immigrant comets from alien stars

At the furthest edges of our solar system lies the vast Oort Cloud, a hypothetical giant shell full of billions of frozen comets. Formed 4.5 billion years ago, the cloud is a frozen museum of the chemistries of neighboring stars. The Oort Cloud lies some six trillion miles from the Sun. We don’t have any…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Don’t Go to War with This Aliens Replica M41A Pulse Rifle

Movie prop replicas are a luxury item for many aficionados, sure, but for $900 an Aliens replica M41A pulse rifle better have a working ammo counter, spring loaded triggers and a strap so we can recreate the fateful finale! Sadly, this one does not have any of that, although the rest of the build is…

Movies Jack Loftus

Diane Duane says all fiction—even science fiction—is a subset of fantasy

In an interview with io9, Young Wizards series author Diane Duane talks about her latest book, learning to build video games, and explains her love of science. An entire generation of speculative fiction fans know for her Young Wizards books, a long-running fantasy series firmly grounded in scientific reality. She’s also one of the more…

Books & Comics Kelly Faircloth

Struggling Google TV Devices Have Prices Slashed at Retail

It would appear as though those Google TV devices, which seemingly had such promise, have been unable to overcome poor user experience, huge honking controllers, and a network-imposed lack of content. Google TV, you see, is a flop. https://gizmodo.com/a-sneak-peek-at-sonys-google-tv-controller-5656602 The platform is barely a few weeks old, and already Best Buy and the Sony Style…

Television Jack Loftus

Spanish woman claims ownership of the Sun, says she’s going to start charging for use

For 4.6 billion years, the Sun has provided free energy, light, and warmth to Earth, and no one ever realized what a huge moneymaking opportunity is going to waste. Well, at long last, the Sun is finally under new ownership. Angeles Duran, a woman from the Spanish region of Galicia, is the new proud owner…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The teeth of a 200 million years old reptile reveal how snakes got their fangs

Snakes and other creatures have been menacing the world with venomous fangs since the early days of the dinosaurs, but until now nobody quite knew how they got their most fearsome weapon. Now a paleontologist has solved this evolutionary mystery. Central to solving this mystery was the reptile Uatchitodon, a creature dating back to the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Disaster, Immortalized.

Last week Annalee told me that io9 was going to devote a week to “Disasters”, and wondered if I’d like to do something special. Disaster being my “thing,” I said yes. But I felt that you all needed something different, something special, something more than the general photoshopperie. So what better way to celebrate this…

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The strange case of the man who went blind when he had sex

Sex can cause spikes in your heart rate, blood pressure, nervous system activity…and, for one poor soul, temporary blindness. Yes, that old wives’ tale about sexual gratification making people go blind has, at long last, been proven true…sort of. The ever awesome NCBI ROFL has the scoop on this strange case history: Our patient experienced…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

io9 Film Festival: The best of Turkish rip-off scifi cinema

In honor of Turkey Day, here’s seven of the best Turkish rip-off movies presented in their entirety. Copyright and production values are nonexistent, but the thrills are (sort of) non-stop. Here’s Turkish Star Wars, Star Trek, and other trashterpieces. Turkish Star Wars Turkish Star Trek 3 Dev Adam (“Three Mighty Men”) Santo and Captain America…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Astrobiology on the cheap

The deliciously named O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses) project will use cheaper nanosatellites to study the effects of space living on organic molecules. Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams has the details. Keeping space missions separate can be a difficult challenge when so many satellites are launched on a single rocket. Take O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure…

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A giant concrete dome filled with radioactive dirt, smack dab in the Pacific Ocean

In 1958, the United States tested the 18-kiloton “Cactus” nuclear device on Runit Island in the Pacific. 20 years later, Cactus’ 350-foot-wide crater was filled with radioactive soil and covered with a 100,000-square-foot concrete dome. Worst vacation ever? The $239 million Cactus Dome, which is on Runit in the Enewetak Atoll, holds 111,000 cubic yards…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Previews for the Spider-Man musical reveal Kraven, Carnage, and a giant puppet Hammerhead

The latest TV spots for the Spider-Man musical have hit the web. Check out footage of the high-flying stunts, Carnage, Kraven, and the gangster Hammerhead, who has been transformed into a macrocephalic parade float. In other news, a piece in the New York Times recently revealed that Bono based the Green Goblin on Ted Turner:…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Winter is coming! Game of Thrones trailer and pics are breathtakingly gorgeous

Game of Thrones pics

Joan Vinge’s The Snow Queen: The girl-power counterpart to Star Wars

Why dogs have bigger brains than cats

Famous scenes from Star Wars, retooled as non-science fiction dramas

A Bilbo-sized look at the Shire from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit

Thirty Hand-Machined RED EPIC Cameras Will Film The Hobbit in 3D

Take a behind-the-scenes look at Iron Sky, the upcoming Nazis on the moon flick

Our solar system is home to immigrant comets from alien stars

Don’t Go to War with This Aliens Replica M41A Pulse Rifle

Diane Duane says all fiction—even science fiction—is a subset of fantasy

Struggling Google TV Devices Have Prices Slashed at Retail

Spanish woman claims ownership of the Sun, says she’s going to start charging for use

The teeth of a 200 million years old reptile reveal how snakes got their fangs

Disaster, Immortalized.

The strange case of the man who went blind when he had sex

io9 Film Festival: The best of Turkish rip-off scifi cinema

Astrobiology on the cheap

A giant concrete dome filled with radioactive dirt, smack dab in the Pacific Ocean

Previews for the Spider-Man musical reveal Kraven, Carnage, and a giant puppet Hammerhead

Artemis 2 by the Numbers: Breaking Down NASA’s Big Return to the Moon

Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

Up to $1,550 Off on pCloud: Pay Once, Protect Data Forever for World Backup Day

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

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