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A galaxy tears the spiral arms off its neighbor

Sometimes galaxies don’t just smash into each other — sometimes they just tear each other apart with their gravitational forces. Check out this new Hubble image of NGC 1911 in the Coma Cluster, being torn asunder by neighboring galaxies. https://gizmodo.com/one-galaxy-smashes-into-four-others-at-2-million-miles-5314431 Here’s what the Hubble Space Telescope’s site says about this breathtaking image: NGC 4911 and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 11

Avengers has a start date, John Carter might go 3-D, and Eureka and Warehouse 13 get awesome holiday guest stars!

The Avengers will assemble soon. Disney considers converting John Carter of Mars to 3-D, while the ruling King of 3-D, James Cameron, continues to mull the Avatar sequels. Awesome comic actors are headed to Syfy’s biggest shows. To the spoilers! The Avengers: Joss Whedon and company will reportedly start shooting in February. [Superhero Hype] Avatar…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Aug 11

Max Headroom predicted my job, 20 years before it existed

The entire 80s cyberpunk Max Headroom TV series is available today on DVD, and one of the pleasures of rewatching the series is discovering how many things it got right about the future. The premise For those who don’t know the premise of the 1987-88 series, where every episode begins with the tagline “twenty minutes…

Television Annalee Newitz Aug 10

And now, proof that the FDA of 1932 was asleep at the wheel

It may seem obvious now that your Excedrin isn’t loaded with heroin, but consumers of the 1930s couldn’t be too careful. This pearl of wisdom comes to you from a June 1932 issue of Modern Mechanics. [Modern Mechanix]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 10

First teaser for “Skyline” shows off scary human-vacuuming spaceships

This the first teaser trailer for indie flick Skyline, which is about how alien abduction looks when done on a massive scale. Those images of millions of people being sucked into the clouds are pretty haunting.

Trailers Annalee Newitz Aug 10

True Blood needs to take Vampires Suck in a dark alley and teach it a lesson

Look we’re all for good vamp parodies. But watching these clips from groanworthy spoof Vampires Suck (AKA Yet Another Scary Movie Again) we can confidently say that this film is where humor goes to get staked. After watching these clips I want Eric Northman to bend Vampire Sucks over and give it the old double…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 10

This weird old X-Men computer game allowed you to kill Gambit 100 times

In 1997, X-Men: The Ravages Of Apocalypse hit stores. The game was a Marvel-sanctioned total conversion of the bloody first-person shooter Quake. You played as a cyborg Magneto built to kill Apocalypse’s army of X-Men clones. Eat rocket launcher, bub! The conversion was made by Zero Gravity Entertainment and published by WizardWorks Software. It had…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 10

A massive, “unprecedented escape” of genetically-modified crops into the wild

Genetically-modified canola has been breeding undetected in the American wilds for at least “several generations,” say scientists. The escaped GM canola has already mutated into a never-before-seen strain, and now it may be modifying other plants too. Canola is a yellow flowering plant that is used to make oil. Researchers working in North Dakota, found…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 10

The best of last night’s Avengers Commentary Twack

It’s hard to believe that a movie with Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, and Ralph Fiennes could be this bad — but 1998’s The Avengers crushed hopes at every turn. If you missed our tweetathon, here are the highlights. @io9commentary okay, you beautiful sonsabitches, we ready to dig into the Uma-Ralph-Sean version of Avengers? Let’s go.…

io9 Marc Bernardin Aug 10

Inspiration is not an orderly thing

Where does creativity come from? Mary Shelley supplies one possible answer. Quote from Mary Shelley’s introduction to Frankenstein. Image taken by Ben Mills, of a laboratory experiment demonstrating what happens when you attempt to douse an oil fire with water.

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 10

Rodent poop offers an amazing, disgusting window into ancient climates

Preserved poop can reveal much about the ancient world. It can hold the DNA of the animal that deposited it, bits of undigested plants and pollen, and now it can even reveal the average rainfall the year of the pooping. The best place to find ancient poop is in middens, which are basically communal toilets…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 10

Kaiju and Superman enforce common courtesy in surreal Tokyo subway ads

These quirky Tokyo subway posters from 1976-1982 encourage public politeness using superheroes, monsters, aliens, and other icons. Pink Tentacle has a huge collection of these oddballs public service posters, but here are some of the best. Three annoying train monsters (October 1982) The three annoying train monsters shown in the poster are Nesshii (the sleeping…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 10

The world’s smallest mirror reflects and traps individual atoms

Mirrors are usually surfaces that reflect light, which means photons bounce off of them. But a new kind of magnetic mirror can reflect magnetized atoms – one at a time. This atom mirror was built by researchers at the UK’s University of Sheffield. They created an array of tiny nanowires that, when properly activated, becomes…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 10

A lesson in how all movies should be marketed

Forget viral videos. From now on every movie should just send their actors to a local news station to do the weather. We now give you Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman, in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Weather. Click to view [via Edgar Wright There]

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 10

P ≠ NP? It’s bad news for the power of computing

Has the biggest question in computer science been solved? On 6 August, Vinay Deolalikar, a mathematician at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, California, sent out draft copies of a paper titled simply “P ≠ NP”. This terse assertion could have profound implications for the ability of computers to solve many kinds of problem. It also…

io9 Richard Elwes - New Scientist Aug 10

A Quantum Leap movie is getting made, says Scott Bakula

Oh Boy! We did not see this coming: Scott Bakula himself released some info about a Quantum Leap movie. Which is supposedly being handled by a big time Hollywood producer — but with a new Sam Beckett. Blastr picked up on this little tidbit that was announced at the “A Leap of Faith-A Quantum Leap…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 10

Breakthrough: Scientists use electron spin to expand computer memory

We’ve long known that encoding data using electron spin could revolutionize computer performance – and now it’s been successfully demonstrated for the first time ever. Ohio State researchers built a simple device as a test case for the new field they call “spintronics.” They took a thin, organic-based magnet and layered it with iron-based magnets,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 10

Guy Gardner, Harry Potter knock-offs, and Stephen King’s son run comics this week

What’s on the stands this Wednesday? The strongarm police tactics of everyone’s favorite mushroom-coiffed space cop, urban fantasy starring a man-boy wizard, and a new installment of Joe Hill’s acclaimed supernatural thriller Locke & Key. First, let’s look at some notable issues that will soon be in the hands of your local comic purveyor… Locke…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Aug 10

Robots have needs too

Psychologist Abraham Maslow may have influenced generations of self-help gurus with his ideas about the hierarchy of human needs. But he forgot to explain robot needs. Luckily his omission has been corrected with this handy chart. Lunch Breath via Suicide Bots

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 10

Check out concept art from the Neuromancer film that never was

Last year, the internet was abuzz over the idea that famed music video director Joseph Kahn was going to direct a Neuromancer movie. That didn’t happen, but this sick concept art gives us a hint of what might have been. Tweeted: Concept art for Neuromancer film I was designing that didn’t happen. This one by…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 10

A galaxy tears the spiral arms off its neighbor

Avengers has a start date, John Carter might go 3-D, and Eureka and Warehouse 13 get awesome holiday guest stars!

Max Headroom predicted my job, 20 years before it existed

And now, proof that the FDA of 1932 was asleep at the wheel

First teaser for “Skyline” shows off scary human-vacuuming spaceships

True Blood needs to take Vampires Suck in a dark alley and teach it a lesson

This weird old X-Men computer game allowed you to kill Gambit 100 times

A massive, “unprecedented escape” of genetically-modified crops into the wild

The best of last night’s Avengers Commentary Twack

Inspiration is not an orderly thing

Rodent poop offers an amazing, disgusting window into ancient climates

Kaiju and Superman enforce common courtesy in surreal Tokyo subway ads

The world’s smallest mirror reflects and traps individual atoms

A lesson in how all movies should be marketed

P ≠ NP? It’s bad news for the power of computing

A Quantum Leap movie is getting made, says Scott Bakula

Breakthrough: Scientists use electron spin to expand computer memory

Guy Gardner, Harry Potter knock-offs, and Stephen King’s son run comics this week

Robots have needs too

Check out concept art from the Neuromancer film that never was

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Twitter Just Can’t Stop Leaking Movies

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