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Vast, mysterious structure discovered at the heart of our galaxy

Two enormous, gamma-ray-emitting structures are bubbling out of the center of our galaxy. And astronomers have no idea what caused them. These bubbles, which stretch an astonishing 25,000 light years above and below the galactic plane, are invisible to the naked eye. But astronomers working with data from the Fermi space telescope, which detects gamma…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa on Blu-Ray is like watching it for the first time

In many ways, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind marks the birth of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli. And now that it’s out on Blu-Ray, it looks like a whole new movie. Twitch’s Ard Vijn reviews the Blu-Ray release. Seeing an old classic like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in high definition, via…

Movies Ard Vijn -- Twitch Film

Baby black holes could be the source of ultra-powerful gamma-ray bursts

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful (and mysterious) explosions in the universe, shooting massive concentrated jets of hot plasma that are way too powerful to come from an ordinary supernova. And they might be the birth pangs of black holes. Astronomers have observed gamma-ray bursts for nearly fifty years. We still don’t know much about…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Felix Gilman’s Wild West is the cure for your genre blahs

Sick of predictable books that fill your subgenre bingo card with the same subgenre elements over and over? With The Half-Made World, Felix Gilman has blended elements from alternate history, Steampunk, Westerns, and epic fantasy to create something truly original. Spoilers ahead… The jacket description of The Half-Made World is cryptic, to say the least.…

Books & Comics Kelly Faircloth

“The Event” redeems itself with freaky conspiracies and romantic spies

One of the weird things that I’ve realized about The Event is that this series really shines when it comes to doomed romance stories. Last night’s episode delivered emo love with a startling Sterling backstory. Plus batshit insane conspiracies. Spoilers! The other thing that The Event does well is that it captures the explosive insanity…

Television Annalee Newitz

Proof that God really does play billiards with the universe

British scientists discovered a binary star system where it looks like the white dwarf star acted as a “cue ball,” acting on the red dwarf and the two colored planets, like a game of Snooker. Scientists originally thought the system NN Serpentis was just the two stars, the white dwarf and the red dwarf. But…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Fan-Made Ender’s Game trailer shows what could be

Steven Davis mashed together clips from some of our favorite science fiction films to build one hell of an intriguing fan-made trailer for Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. A film we’re betting will never exit development purgatory. https://gizmodo.com/the-director-of-wolverine-may-also-direct-enders-game-5644475 [via topless robot]

Movies Meredith Woerner

The inside story of how ILM changed movies

Many of your favorite movie scenes feature the technical brilliance of Industrial Light & Magic. So we’re dying to see the new documentary about ILM’s history, airing Friday on Encore. Glimpse the behind-the-scenes wonder in a new trailer. According to the press release: “Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible” is directed by Academy Award®…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

The sight of meat lowers human aggression

From an evolutionary standpoint, humans should become more aggressive when they see meat. But research indicates the exact opposite is true. In theory, humans can have innate predispositions to certain stimuli. These reactions would be vestiges of natural selection, in that early humans who had the most successful gut reaction would gain an evolutionary advantage.…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

DARPA developing a robotic pilot for their flying car

Today the US Department of Defense announced that they would be collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University to develop an autonomous copilot for DARPA’s upcoming “helicopter jeep” project. Yes, the military is developing a helicopter jeep. Here’s the scoop on DARPA’s flying car from CMU: https://gizmodo.com/darpa-takes-a-crack-at-the-flying-car-5519819 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

New Tron Legacy trailer shows off Jeff Bridges’ CG evil twin

As much as we tease other movies for plunging into the uncanny valley, we’re pretty impressed with Tron’s CG Jeff Bridges (who rules Tron City with a digital fist). Watch man fight twin/program in the new Tron Legacy trailer.

Movies Meredith Woerner

Adele Blanc-Sec, Muhammad Ali, and Atomic Robo take over this week’s comics

This week’s comic haul has everything from French pulp heroines to Superman boxing a World Heavyweight Champion to Cadillacs and dinosaurs to sentient chickens demanding avian rights. It’s a comic book party, and everyone’s invited! There’s several noteworthy, oddball trades out Wednesday. First off, Dynamite’s releasing a collection of Grant Morrison and Mark Millar’s Vampirella…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Why is this otter playing a vuvuzela? A treasure trove of pulp science fiction covers

The Pulp Archive blog is featuring a new science fiction book or magazine cover every single day, in case your day is missing awesome images like this one, of a trumpet-playing otter leading a woman. What are they looking at? (Thanks to everyone who corrected me on my otter insanity in calling that otter a…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Uwe Boll releases his trailer for the “first fat female superhero” Blubberella

You’ve seen the poster for Uwe Boll’s fatsploitation superhero film Blubberella — now feast your eyes on its disaster of a trailer. One think you can say about Boll’s work: at least he’s consistent in lowering the bar. All we knew about this film was from the poster’s tagline: “The first female fat superhero ……

Movies Meredith Woerner

How to build an artificial reef out of 400 human bodies

We’ve written about the underwater sculptures of Jason deCaires Taylor before, but this is his most awesome project yet. In La Evolución Silenciosa (silent evolution), he created 400 lifelike human sculptures to become an artificial coral reef. The sculptures are designed using materials that will attract sea creatures and eventually become a coral reef. You…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Indian neighborhood terrorized by cat-dog-mongoose cryptid, the Bhootbilli

There’s been a rash of sightings of a creature known as the Bhootbilli, or “ghost cat” in a neighborhood near Pune, India. This large feline cryptid has consumed 45 pigeons (and one goat) belonging to one unlucky resident. The sightings of the creature have been in the Sanjay Park neighborhood ~100 miles outside of Mumbai.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Another director quits Dune, as time runs out on for the project

Pierre Morel (Taken) has reportedly quit as director of Frank Herbert’s Dune, which Peter Berg was also on board to direct at one point. And unless Paramount can get the film up and running by spring, they’ll lose the rights. According to Deadline, Paramount faces a “ticking clock situation” over Dune, which is seeking a…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Glowing bars are the sign of a dying galaxy

A recent study shows that the intense bar of light you see here, joining the arms of this spiral galaxy, may be a sign of stellar death. In a paper published yesterday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists speculated that bars may kill off disk-shaped galaxies. Galaxies are formed as gravity…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Skyline aliens haven’t revealed all their secrets. Plus the Highlander series really is immortal!

We know the Skyline invaders are out to conquer Earth, but we don’t yet know the whole story. True Blood finds one of its main witches. Tron Legacy gets an animated spin-off with an all-star cast. Spoilers for all! Skyline: Star Eric Balfour says his character Jared is an artist from New York who is…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

An important update on the secret alien war in America

If you’re wondering what the Draconian secret government is up to, and what it has to do with Obama and the warm weather we’re having in North America this winter – well, let Colleen Thomas explain it all to you. I am still saying “whoa” and it’s been at least 10 minutes since I re-watched…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Vast, mysterious structure discovered at the heart of our galaxy

Seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa on Blu-Ray is like watching it for the first time

Baby black holes could be the source of ultra-powerful gamma-ray bursts

Felix Gilman’s Wild West is the cure for your genre blahs

“The Event” redeems itself with freaky conspiracies and romantic spies

Proof that God really does play billiards with the universe

Fan-Made Ender’s Game trailer shows what could be

The inside story of how ILM changed movies

The sight of meat lowers human aggression

DARPA developing a robotic pilot for their flying car

New Tron Legacy trailer shows off Jeff Bridges’ CG evil twin

Adele Blanc-Sec, Muhammad Ali, and Atomic Robo take over this week’s comics

Why is this otter playing a vuvuzela? A treasure trove of pulp science fiction covers

Uwe Boll releases his trailer for the “first fat female superhero” Blubberella

How to build an artificial reef out of 400 human bodies

Indian neighborhood terrorized by cat-dog-mongoose cryptid, the Bhootbilli

Another director quits Dune, as time runs out on for the project

Glowing bars are the sign of a dying galaxy

The Skyline aliens haven’t revealed all their secrets. Plus the Highlander series really is immortal!

An important update on the secret alien war in America

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