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Great science art projects that can appeal to everyone

Any monkey can run an equation through a graphing calculator, call it “Icosahedron 12” and sell a “giclee image” for $300 to a gullible sophomore. But it takes actual smarts (or a serious bronze foundry) to make cool “science art.” Below are five amazing artists or groups who have produced work based on math and…

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Our minds won’t allow us to hear unexpected sounds

Our brains pay less attention to aspects of the world that appear to remain the same. We need this mental relief to experience life without being overwhelmed, but it can keep us from noticing when patterns change. The world is a very big, very complicated place, and your brain will take any chance it can…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

This week, io9 takes you into the disaster zone

With the holidays coming up, it’s the perfect time to explore the many faces of disaster. This week, io9 takes you inside the Earth’s biggest disasters, from toxic floods to Waterworld. We’ve got zombie apocalypse on TV, a cholera outbreak in the Caribbean, storm watches in the Pacific, toxic gunk flowing all over Hungary (see…

io9 Annalee Newitz

These 15 Minutes of Tron Legacy’s Behind the Scenes Make Me Want It Even More

If you can’t wait for Tron Legacy final release, here’s 15 minutes of behind-the-scenes material, from Jeff Bridges wearing a special helmet for his Clu role, to part of what seems to be a crucial dialog. Spoilers ahead: No amount of behind the scenes video can quench my thirst for the actual visual porn. [Collider]

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The crazy life and crazier death of Tycho Brahe, history’s strangest astronomer

Science has many colorful figures, but nobody quite like Tycho Brahe. Beyond his astronomy genius, he lost his nose in a math-fueled duel, possibly inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet, and maybe made his even greater successor Johannes Kepler a murderer. It’s hard to avoid getting a bit sensational when talking about Brahe. Everything about his…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

It’s really happening: Warner Brothers reboots Buffy The Vampire Slayer without Joss Whedon

The rumors of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie — without any input from Joss Whedon — are true. A press release says writer Whit Anderson has an exciting new take on the character. Be very scared. Here’s the official press release: LOS ANGELES, NOVEMBER 11, 2010 – Atlas Entertainment announced today it is rebooting…

Movies Meredith Woerner

First look at the zombie-riffic sequel to Mira Grant’s Feed

Mira Grant, the alter ego of Seanan McGuire, had a fresh take on the role of blogging and communications after the zombie apocalypse, in Feed. Now check out your first look at the cover of the second book, Deadline. Here’s the newly blurb, via the Orbit Books blog: “I guess in the end, it doesn’t…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

D.J. Caruso on Y: The Last Man — “You can’t handle Yorick’s story in one movie.”

We recently had the chance to talk with Eagle Eye director D.J. Caruso about what happened with his film adaptation of Y: The Last Man. According to Caruso, the project stalled because he saw Y as a trilogy. Nowadays we’re seeing Louis Leterrier push for a Y TV series, but readers will remember that D.J.…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Watch the world’s first dark energy detector take shape

This massive camera is about to head to Chile on a five-year mission to find evidence of dark energy. And now, through the magic of time-lapse photography, you can watch as Fermilab technicians bring the future of science to life. The camera has 74 total sensors and an overall resolution of 570 megapixels, making it…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Horror is fantasy’s older sister

Maybe Horror is Fantasy’s evil older sister…. They are definitely closely related, at least in my creative approach… Our senses tell us our world is “real”, the tangible is our proof. We believe in it more than we believe in words. So, to make the fictional world (created through words!) come alive, I take care…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Tintin meets H.P. Lovecraft in this mind-bending mash-up art

Tintin is known for visiting exotic locales, and artist Murray Groat has plopped the boy adventurer in such fantastical destinations as Innsmouth and R’lyeh. Watch Hergé’s hero run afoul of the Reanimator and Cthulhu. Seventy-seven shuffling shambling shifty-eyed shoggoths! [Murray Groat via Boing Boing]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Is this the first image of Green Lantern’s alien villain Parallax?

Take a look at the alleged space parasite and “living embodiment of fear” rumored to be Hal Jordan’s big nemesis in the first Green Lantern movie. Spoilery pictures and speculation ahead. The Daily Blam has a great image of the live-action version of the alien parasite rumored to be Hal’s big extraterrestrial problem. Here’s a…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Jason Stackhouse’s pulls on the pleather for his superhero film Griff

Jason Stackhouse is a pivotal part of the True Blood team, thanks to Ryan Kwanten’s two greatest assets: his abs and his acting. But can he pull off the role of social outcast/superhero in his latest flick Griff the Invisible? Here’s a collection of stills from Leon Ford’s Australian superhero rom-com. Griff is based off…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Jewel Staite meets an angel. Plus Colin Ferguson’s dinosaurs and Young Justice’s origin!

How can you get through television’s Thanksgiving lull? We’re here to help. There are half-kaiju, half-teenager rebels, walking dinosaur skeletons, a team of superhero sidekicks, and Jewel Staite romancing Flash Gordon. Plus Chuck, Walking Dead and Sanctuary. It’ll be okay. Note: We’ve decided to stop listing movies on TV, unless they’re appearing for the first…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Ultraman takes on a whole space fleet, with the help of some pirates

Here’s the latest trailer for the fantastic new Ultraman movie, in which he faces off against roughly a billion spaceships. The trailer features pirates (in classic 18th-century garb), laser eyes, and a robot hand that crushes an entire planet! We can’t stop re-watching this trailer over and over again — it’s for the next Ultraman…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

G.I. Joe goes manga in the “Future Noir” miniseries

On November 24, IDW is releasing G.I. Joe: Future Noir, a two-part miniseries of manga-inflected Joe tales. Here’s an exclusive preview of the Joe team involved in some dire espionage. Here’s the solicitation information: G.I. Joe: Future Noir Special #1 (of 2) Andy Schmidt (w) • Giacomo Bevilacqua (a & c) And now, for something…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The death of a meme: Donald Glover calls a truce with the new Peter Parker

We’ve followed the Donald Glover 4 Spider-Man campaign since the beginning. The new Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield, came across Glover in real life, and they had a meeting of the minds. Community actor and 30 Rock writer Donald Glover was a long time supporter of the Donald Glover 4 Spider-Man grass roots movement, which got its…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Beautiful, shocking, and awe-inspiring photographs of giant disasters

Some of the world’s most terrifying disasters are also breathtaking to behold. In this gallery are awe-inducing photographs of some of the worst disasters of the last hundred years. A smoke ring shoots out of an eruption in Italy’s Mt. Etna. AP photo of the 1906 San Francisco fire, following an earthquake. AP photo of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Syfy will burn off the last Caprica episodes in early January

Caprica launched with massive billboards, but the BSG spin-off’s saga will end with a whimper: Syfy will burn off the last five episodes on Jan. 4, from 6 to 11 PM. Or you can buy the DVDs, on Dec. 23.

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Terrifying spider not extinct in England after all

English readers will be horrified to know that the Rosser’s sac spider still lives amongst them. Thought to be extinct in England, the spider was recently spotted, alive, well, and probably plotting evil. For the most part, the extinction of species through destruction of habitat is a sad thing. Well-reasoned environmental papers, impassioned public pleas,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Great science art projects that can appeal to everyone

Our minds won’t allow us to hear unexpected sounds

This week, io9 takes you into the disaster zone

These 15 Minutes of Tron Legacy’s Behind the Scenes Make Me Want It Even More

The crazy life and crazier death of Tycho Brahe, history’s strangest astronomer

It’s really happening: Warner Brothers reboots Buffy The Vampire Slayer without Joss Whedon

First look at the zombie-riffic sequel to Mira Grant’s Feed

D.J. Caruso on Y: The Last Man — “You can’t handle Yorick’s story in one movie.”

Watch the world’s first dark energy detector take shape

Horror is fantasy’s older sister

Tintin meets H.P. Lovecraft in this mind-bending mash-up art

Is this the first image of Green Lantern’s alien villain Parallax?

Jason Stackhouse’s pulls on the pleather for his superhero film Griff

Jewel Staite meets an angel. Plus Colin Ferguson’s dinosaurs and Young Justice’s origin!

Ultraman takes on a whole space fleet, with the help of some pirates

G.I. Joe goes manga in the “Future Noir” miniseries

The death of a meme: Donald Glover calls a truce with the new Peter Parker

Beautiful, shocking, and awe-inspiring photographs of giant disasters

Syfy will burn off the last Caprica episodes in early January

Terrifying spider not extinct in England after all

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