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Enter our contest to get a free copy of Mockingjay and an iPod!

This morning, the final book in the Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay, hits stores. And you could get a copy absolutely free – plus an iPod – if you enter our contest. Details below. Contest rules In comments below, tell us why you love the Hunger Games series. You may write no more than four sentences!…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Aug 24

Piranha 3D’s $10 million opening weekend spawns a sequel?

Piranha 3D has only been in theaters for one weekend, but that’s not stopping the studio from delivering even more bloody bikini-clad fish carnage. Piranha 3D – The Sequel is already being planned by Dimension Films. But where? While we’re sure it’s way too early to jump the gun on where Piranha 3D- The Sequel…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 24

Captain America set pics, Torchwood hints, Super 8 creature secrets, and Olivia’s ultimate discovery on Fringe!

Spoiler bonanza! Captain America set photos reveal a key turning point. Super 8’s mystery creature is…Elvis? RTD talks Torchwood. Cameron says Avatar 2’s no Matrix Reloaded. Smallville’s Supergirl suits up! Plus Fringe, Transformers, Supernatural and All You Need Is Kill. Captain America: The First Avenger: More set photos for the latest Marvel superhero film —…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Aug 24

Captain America set photos

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io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 24

True Blood: where wages are paid in dirty vampire basement sex

Everyone is talking about last night’s big reveal. So what happened? Well the supernatural fairy was let out of the werekitty bag. We now all know what Sookie is (besides awful). Let’s be honest. Nothing was going to top last week’s conclusion. Nothing. But this week tried with werekitties, V-trips, and lots of good Pam…

Television Meredith Woerner Aug 23

Worst rip-off of E.T.’s flying bicycle scene in movie history

If you’re making a movie about kids meeting an alien, it’s probably semi-compulsory to include a flying-bicycle scene, as an E.T. shout-out. But nowadays, you can make the effects look way cooler. Right? Right Or… not. Witness this hideous example. This clip comes from 2005’s No Place Like Home, which features an all-star cast, including…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 23

Further proof that chronic fatigue syndrome is linked to viruses

Last year a scientific controversy was unleashed when a group of researchers reported that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome had traces of retrovirus in their bodies. Several follow-up studies found no such correlation between chronic fatigue and retroviruses, which are the same kind of viruses as HIV. https://gizmodo.com/is-chronic-fatigue-a-communicable-disease-5377444 But today the original study received some…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 23

30+ comics that we’re craving this fall

Summer’s almost over, but we couldn’t resist showcasing Jaime Hernandez’s beach blanket bingo cover from November’s Strange Tales 2. Here are 30 or so other comics, miniseries, and story arcs that will bring the heat as the temperature dips. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 36 (Dark Horse): September 1 It’s the final arc of Season 8,…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Aug 23

Trailer for “Age of the Dragons” delivers medieval monster kickassery

If you’re a normal person, when you read Moby Dick you thought, “Wouldn’t it be cooler if this book was set in the middle ages, and had dragons instead of whales?” Now a movie goes where Herman Melville never dared! Seriously, we were excited about this flick back when it was called Dragon Fire and…

Trailers Annalee Newitz Aug 23

Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?

The cities of the future will be huge and super-dense — but will they also be alive? Could the increasingly complex systems needed to manage the next generation of megacities become our first true artificial intelligence? People have speculated before about the idea that the Internet might become self-aware and turn into the first “real”…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 23

The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay, and breaking the rules of chemistry

The Sun is changing the supposedly constant rates of decay of radioactive elements, and we have absolutely no idea why. But an entirely unknown particle could be behind it. Plus, this discovery could help us predict deadly solar flares. It’s one of the most basic concepts in all of chemistry: Radioactive elements decay at a…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 23

All the books you’ll be lusting for this fall season

Fall is a big season for the books, and the next few months will be bringing you literary treats you only dreamed of. There’s new work from William Gibson, Connie Willis, Iain M. Banks, Cherie Priest, and more! August Aug. 17 John Birmingham, After America (Del Rey) Australian author Birmingham gives us the second action-packed…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Aug 23

The solar system is two million years older than we thought…and that changes everything

An ancient meteorite reveals the solar system is 4.5682 billion years old, 1.9 million years older than we thought. The difference seems insignificant, but it could mean our solar system was actually born in the blast furnace of a supernova. In order to determine the age of the solar system, scientists look for meteorites that…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 23

Watch the bloody Piranha 3D footage that was banned from TV

Piranha 3D might not have made huge waves at the box office, but maybe if the networks were bold enough to run these smutty ads, it would have done better. Check out the promo that was too hot for TV. Click to view According to Blastr, here are a few of the comments/problems that the…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 23

Watch Hayao Miyazaki’s early post-apocalyptic film “Nausicaä” online

Hayao Miyazaki created movies like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My Neighbor Totoro. Now you can see his brilliant, early film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind free online – it’s about a biotech war, millennia after an eco-catastrophe. The film is based on a long-running manga series, also created by Miyazaki, and it…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 23

Australians rounded up and put into concentration camps: the invasion begins next week

The remake of Red Dawn may or may not be coming out this fall, but Australians are already getting something better: the film adaptation of the classic invasion novel Tomorrow When The War Began. And the first review is out. As we mentioned a while back, Tomorrow is the directorial debut of Stuart Beattie, who…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Aug 23

The strange history of the Frankenstein carnival sideshows

After the 1930s Frankenstein movies took the world by storm, people began creating carnival sideshows devoted to Frankenstein freaks. Film writer Pierre Fournier takes us back to a time when carnies mixed with The Monster. Step right up! The place is somewhere in England. The time, perhaps the late Thirties or the early post-war years.…

io9 Pierre Fournier - Frankensteinia Aug 23

The art of what went wrong

Robert Overweg is an artist who captures unintended moments of artistic weirdness in videogames. In a series of images called “Glitches,” he shows us the strange beauty spawned by errors in Left 4 Dead and Half-Life. There’s something poignant about this pictures, where men embrace while floating in the air and half-rendered houses look like…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 23

Cybernetic penis allows everyone to pack a package (NSFW)

Hiromi Ozaki’s Penis Cybernetique is a prosthetic John Thomas that rises and falls with the user’s heart rate. It emulates what it’s like to sport a penis, albeit one that was rendered on an Atari 2600. NSFW for geometric nudity. Here’s how Ozaki explains her project at her site, Sputniko: The project draws inspiration from…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 23

The search is on for Earth’s missing two billion years

2.5 billion years ago, some highly-efficient bacteria began what’s known as the oxygen revolution. 600 million years ago, the first multicellular animals appeared. What happened in between? We’re really not sure – but geologists are working on it. Here’s the quick version of Earth’s 4.54 billion year history. When the Earth first formed, the atmosphere…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 23

Enter our contest to get a free copy of Mockingjay and an iPod!

Piranha 3D’s $10 million opening weekend spawns a sequel?

Captain America set pics, Torchwood hints, Super 8 creature secrets, and Olivia’s ultimate discovery on Fringe!

Captain America set photos

True Blood: where wages are paid in dirty vampire basement sex

Worst rip-off of E.T.’s flying bicycle scene in movie history

Further proof that chronic fatigue syndrome is linked to viruses

30+ comics that we’re craving this fall

Trailer for “Age of the Dragons” delivers medieval monster kickassery

Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?

The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay, and breaking the rules of chemistry

All the books you’ll be lusting for this fall season

The solar system is two million years older than we thought…and that changes everything

Watch the bloody Piranha 3D footage that was banned from TV

Watch Hayao Miyazaki’s early post-apocalyptic film “Nausicaä” online

Australians rounded up and put into concentration camps: the invasion begins next week

The strange history of the Frankenstein carnival sideshows

The art of what went wrong

Cybernetic penis allows everyone to pack a package (NSFW)

The search is on for Earth’s missing two billion years

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