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One good reason to welcome parasitic infections

Next time you fight off an infection, you can thank your parasites. Often you get infected or cured not because of your immune system – but because of parasites who live in your body. In a paper published today in Science, we get some compelling examples of how “co-infections” work in small mammals. Essentially, one…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A tribute to a great space pornographer, who is too hot to live

Check out this startlingly beautiful image of The Unicorn’s Rose, a rosette nebula located within the Unicorn constellation. NASA’s WISE telescope, which captured this image, has sadly run out of the coolant it needs to continue making such arresting images. It’s always sad when a great artist gets too hot under the collar. NASA launched…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Terraforming Earth Pt. 4: Nowhere to go but up

Our efforts to intentionally alter our home planet have been unpredictable at best. Can we terraform other planets without making the same mistakes? Should we? Current plans to terraform another planet generally involve Mars. There are other terraforming targets in our solar system (certain Jovian moons, for instance), but Mars is more conveniently located. So…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Sony’s Internet TV Leak: We (Might) Know How Big, and How Much

Leaked information on Sony’s Google TV-enabled set have hit early, courtesy of Sony Insider. The site claims Sony’s new line will consist of 24″, 32″, 40″, and 46″ models, with the latter three costing $1299.99, $1499.99 and $1899.99. [Sony Insider]

Television Sam Biddle

Vultures are the social network users of the animal kingdom

Heavy users of Twitter or Facebook who constantly update their status have a counterpart in the animal kingdom…vultures. These birds can quickly change their skin color to let friends and enemies know how they’re doing. Lots of animals have the ability to change their skin color, thanks to special cells that quickly redistribute the pigments…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Real life unicorn caught on camera, maybe

Watch “real life” footage of an actual unicorn in the wild. Or possibly, watch footage of a clever viral-marketing ad that shoots whatever was left of our sense of wonder in the face. The footage is from the Ontario Science Centre, which claims that the picture was taken by a Canadian birdwatcher. And right there…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Moon affects rainfall here on Earth…and we have no idea why

Even the most ridiculous and obviously false bits of folklore can turn out to have a kernel of truth. It turns out the Moon really can affect how much rain the Earth gets. The reason why is still a mystery. There’s an old wives’ tale that says rain follows both the full and new Moon.…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Hammer Films moves into publishing — and Jeanette Winterson’s writing their first book

I don’t know what’s more astonishing: that Hammer Films is giving horror publishing a major jolt of life with its new deal with Arrow Books/Random House. Or that literary superstar Jeanette Winterson is writing the first title, a novella. [Guardian]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Perhaps this chart can elucidate what I’ve been trying to tell you

As you can see from the data, things are going orthogonal. See the place where X is bent sideways and growing a shaggy line graph? Well, that’s the least of your worries. We’ve got more information you need to see. These odd data visualizations were created by Chad Hagen, a graphic designer who grew up…

io9 Annalee Newitz

DreamWorks wants to make the Halo movie, but will Microsoft take the risk?

The success of the latest Halo game has sparked DreamWorks’ interest in making a Halo movie. Which on one hand, means Steven Spielberg’s potential involvement. But if the movie’s garbage, would it set back Halo’s very lucrative video-game franchise? [Vulture]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Enough rare cult movie interviews to kill your productivity for the rest of the day

A young Bruce Campbell talks about growing up with Sam Raimi, surrounded by monstrous heads. It’s just one of the many, many delights available in The Incredibly Strange Film Show, a 1988-1989 British series about “psychotronic movies” that’s on YouTube. For anybody who’s interested in weird films and horror classics, being able to watch these…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Crafty Musicians MacGyver Some Instruments Out Of a Balloon, String, And a Box

Nerds, put away your Rock Band sets! Watch as these two creative dudes show us how to make a bass guitar out of a balloon and a piece of string, while adding some percussion with an ordinary wooden box.

Television Dan Grappone

How owls developed stealth technology

The Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Jareth the Goblin King, and Harry Potter’s messenger owls have the power of creeping up on people. So do owls in real life, due to the design of their wings and feathers. Owls are the bird of choice for the freaky supernatural beings. They look cool. They have the freaky-head-turn thing…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell

New Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II trailer explains the tragic fate of Starkiller

Poor Secret Apprentice. It doesn’t seem like the latest Star Wars video game is giving the smoldering Jedi sex bomb much of a break. Find out what’s troubling Starkiller this time around, in the new Force Unleashed II trailer. Spoilers… Click to view Starkiller, who believes he is a clone — which may explain why…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Natalie Portman won’t do Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity after all. Plus Vincenzo Natali’s finished a Neuromancer script draft.

Like Angelina Jolie before her, Natalie Portman passes on Cuaron’s astronaut epic…but another star’s in the running. Vincenzo Natali knows how he wants to depict Neuromancer’s cyberspace. Idris Elba’s taking on another Marvel role. Wallace Shawn joins Eureka. Spoilers alive! Gravity: The long search for the female lead of Alfonso Cuaron’s space epic continues, as…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Stargate Universe shows what happens when you mess with Destiny

You asked for a gritty, depressing Stargate space opera, and now Stargate Universe is delivering a gritty, depressing space opera. The death toll on SGU hasn’t let up, and this episode wasn’t afraid to kill off a few more souls. Two major things happened last night on SGU: Rush found the “real” bridge for Destiny,…

Television Meredith Woerner

What do you think Tom Cruise is saying in this Mission Impossible IV set pic?

Mission Impossible IV, directed by The Incredibles’ Brad Bird, is filming in Prague right now — and here’s your first look at Tom Cruise, hanging out in the middle of doing a dangerous stunt. What do you think he’s saying? Here are a couple more photos, if that helps you with your captioning tasks. Photos…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

No Ordinary Family might just be the one superhero drama that’s worth watching

Yesterday’s No Ordinary Family wasn’t perfect, but it was a huge improvement on the shaky pilot. It offered the same fun superhero antics along with a slightly more nuanced take on family life. Plus hints of a bigger, darker mythology. I liked “No Ordinary Marriage” a lot more than I did last week’s pilot. I…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Curl up on your own Wampa Rug for those chilly Hoth nights

The temperature’s dropping, and with the chillier weather comes the inevitable Wampa migration. Most municipalities deal with this influx of tundra-dwelling reptomammals by cowering in fear. Nonetheless, brave entrepreneurs have transformed the savage beast into a home furnishing. Thinkgeek is selling this Wampa Rug for $99.99. Lay it down, drop some Max Rebo Plays The…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Caprica shows us what religion really is

Last night’s episode in the new season of Caprica, “Unvanquished,” was quite simply amazing. It brought together disparate threads from the previous season, and showed us how business, crime, and religion are pretty much the same thing. While the first season of Caprica focused on two families, the wealthy Graystones and the immigrant mobster Adamas,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

One good reason to welcome parasitic infections

A tribute to a great space pornographer, who is too hot to live

Terraforming Earth Pt. 4: Nowhere to go but up

Sony’s Internet TV Leak: We (Might) Know How Big, and How Much

Vultures are the social network users of the animal kingdom

Real life unicorn caught on camera, maybe

The Moon affects rainfall here on Earth…and we have no idea why

Hammer Films moves into publishing — and Jeanette Winterson’s writing their first book

Perhaps this chart can elucidate what I’ve been trying to tell you

DreamWorks wants to make the Halo movie, but will Microsoft take the risk?

Enough rare cult movie interviews to kill your productivity for the rest of the day

Crafty Musicians MacGyver Some Instruments Out Of a Balloon, String, And a Box

How owls developed stealth technology

New Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II trailer explains the tragic fate of Starkiller

Natalie Portman won’t do Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity after all. Plus Vincenzo Natali’s finished a Neuromancer script draft.

Stargate Universe shows what happens when you mess with Destiny

What do you think Tom Cruise is saying in this Mission Impossible IV set pic?

No Ordinary Family might just be the one superhero drama that’s worth watching

Curl up on your own Wampa Rug for those chilly Hoth nights

Caprica shows us what religion really is

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