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The best of last night’s Matrix Reloaded Commentary Twack

Oh, we had us a fine time tweet-lambasting our way through the Wachwoskis’ hotly anticipated-thoroughly underwhelming second chapter in the Matrix trilogy. In case you missed it, here’s the cream of the crop. @io9commentary aside from Star Wars Episode 1, I can’t remember a movie more hotly anticipated — and a bigger letdown — than…

io9 Marc Bernardin Jun 29

Giant dinosaurs used the planet to warm their eggs

Dinosaurs were smarter than you might think – they used the heat from geysers and volcanoes to warm their eggs. Ed Yong explains how scientists figured out dinosaurs’ nest heating systems. At Argentina’s Sanagasta Geological Park, there is a volcanic nursery for giants. It’s a site that is strewn with the fossilised eggs of giant…

io9 Ed Yong - Discover Jun 29

Computer science breakthrough: Replicating bacterial communication

Fundamental to computer science is transmitting information using electromagnetic communication – the 0s and 1s of binary code. But nature’s tiniest lifeforms have used a very different method for eons, and figuring out how they do it could revolutionize computers. Bacteria make great use of what’s known as molecular communication, in which they transmit and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 29

Peter Bagge’s end-of-the world buddy comedy Apocalypse Nerd may air on BBC

Peter Bagge, the creator of seminal 90s satire comic Hate, may see his Dark Horse Comics miniseries Apocalypse Nerd go to the BBC. The story follows two friends who go camping one weekend and return to Armageddon. Here’s the trailer. Director/producer Tupaq Felber recently alerted us to the trailer for his adaptation of Apocalypse Nerd,…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jun 29

Next-generation pacemakers for the brain just a few years away

A great treatment for certain mental disorders is electrical stimulation of the brain. Now a new computer chip implanted directly onto the brain provides precise stimulation – and could cure depression. The device, known by the abbreviated ReNaChip, is the brainchild of a team of engineers at Israel’s Tel Aviv University. Led by Professor Matti…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 29

Artificial hearts are the most easily broken

This vase, called Ventricle, is made of blown glass and designed by Eva Milinkovic of Tsunami Glassworks. There’s something gorgeous and grotesque about its anatomical correctness. [via Hovering Cat]

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 29

Did Steven Moffat lose the script for Doctor Who’s next episode?

Okay, this is weird. Reports are circulating that Doctor Who’s showrunner, Steven Moffat, has thrown the production of the show’s Christmas special into chaos by losing the only copy of the script. Is this even possible? The reports popped up yesterday in the Daily Star, one of those British tabloids that frequently make up weird…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jun 29

Important: Street-Legal Tron Lightcycles Are Up For Auction

There’s a lot to love about Tron, but for me it all pales in comparison to the lightcycles. These ones on eBay? Not props. They’re working, street-legal models you can actually buy. But you’ll want to hurry. https://gizmodo.com/tron-legacy-bike-appears-in-meatspace-5458201 The limited edition of five lightcycles—each made to movie spec, but with actual working parts—comes from the…

Movies Brian Barrett Jun 29

Tron Legacy banners pave the way for San Diego Comic Con

It’s beginning to look a lot like Comic Con! Check out the brand new San Diego Comic Con banners, promoting Disney’s Tron Legacy with sexy dark suits and light cycles! Last year the banners leading the way to the convention center doors were all about Avatar, which ended up being one of the biggest buzzed…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 29

The Green-Tailed Hummingbird is disappearing for reasons far weirder than you thought

Over at Strange Horizons, Kyri Freeman’s short story “Out of Sombra Canyon” takes two biologists to a remote canyon, where they’re tracking the rare Green Tailed Hummingbird. What they discover is much more disturbing than an endangered species. What’s interesting about “Out of Sombra Canyon” is the way it begins as a present-day story about…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 29

Heartwarming video: robotic claw saves trapped swordfish

In this clip, a robotic submersible saves a swordfish that’s been stuck in a mechanical rig. Upon being rescued, the swordfish turns right around and jams his head back in the rig. Wotta rapscallion! UPDATE: Now with footage of whales! UPDATE 6/29/10: I just found these awesome clips of whales bumping into remote-controlled submersibles and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 29

Your next vacation will start on a plane without a pilot

The government is investigating how to make civilian airspace safe for uncrewed drones that are flown remotely. And once the technological problems are solved, it’s only a matter of time and economics until passenger airliners fly without pilots on board. These remotely piloted craft are known as uncrewed aerial vehicles, or UAVs for short. A…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 29

20 pounds of lean dinosaur leg please!

This brilliant public service announcement, promoting the fresh storage of food, teases what the future would be like if we consumed dinosaur meat, by putting giant packages of raw dino filets in the local freezer. Tonight, we dine on dino!

Television Meredith Woerner Jun 29

Wednesday’s comics = Greek god sex, a Batwoman, and a manga-style Logan’s Run

This week’s comics are a grab bag of high concept and gorgeous art. Zeus makes loves to car engines in Hybrid Bastards, DC’s Kate Kane gets an awesome hardcover treatment, and Tribes: The Dog Years is an animesque apocalypse. Let’s start with the Tribes graphic novel from IDW — in this tale, humanity has fallen…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jun 29

Scientists recommend their favorite beach reading

The Washington Post quizzes a bunch of famous and high-powered scientists about the books they read for fun, and the books that inspired them when they were younger. Their answers show how some science-fiction books have shaped their lives. Probably the most memorable responses come from Dr. Mae C. Jemison, who became the first African…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jun 29

Is there an evil, goateed version of you somewhere in the multiverse?

In this week’s “Ask a Physicist” we figure out whether there’s a universe out there with another version of you, and whether you could kill her and take her place. For this week’s “Ask a Physicist” I’ll answer a question put to me by our own Annalee Newitz who wants to know: Do we live…

io9 Dr. Dave Goldberg Jun 29

The airship emerged from jagged peaks, its body swollen with gas

Earlier this year, the Nucleus Gallery in California had a stunning exhibition called “Lift Off: The Art of Airships.” Here are some of our favorite images of zeppelins and other fantastical aircraft from the show. There are dozens more incredible images via Nucleus Gallery By Kazu Kibuishi By Jake Parker By Jason Caffoe By Myke…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 29

Hot Tub Time Machine’s deleted scene teases possible sequels

How could they make a Hot Tub Time Machine sequel? A new deleted scene offers some hints: Chevy Chase’s character lists all the other creations he invented. Fingers crossed for John Cusack’s Freaky Friday Toaster or Dead Relative Taxi Driver. [via NY Post]

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 29

Programmable sheet can fold itself into origami robot

This “smart sheet” can instantly fold into a boat or a plane without any human assistance. It’s the first step toward being able to carry any imaginable tool around with you in the form of a single paper-like sheet. Called programmable matter, the sheet is made up of interconnected triangular sections. These sections are arranged…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 29

The Secret Apprentice joins the U.S. version of Being Human

We scoffed at Syfy’s Americanized Being Human show, thinking they’d never find an American with as much sex appeal and charm as the original vampire actor, Aidan Turner. We were wrong. You may know him as Smallville’s Doomsday, The Force Unleashed’s Secret Apprentice or merely as Crashdown from Battlestar Galactic. But from now on, if…

Television Meredith Woerner Jun 29

The best of last night’s Matrix Reloaded Commentary Twack

Giant dinosaurs used the planet to warm their eggs

Computer science breakthrough: Replicating bacterial communication

Peter Bagge’s end-of-the world buddy comedy Apocalypse Nerd may air on BBC

Next-generation pacemakers for the brain just a few years away

Artificial hearts are the most easily broken

Did Steven Moffat lose the script for Doctor Who’s next episode?

Important: Street-Legal Tron Lightcycles Are Up For Auction

Tron Legacy banners pave the way for San Diego Comic Con

The Green-Tailed Hummingbird is disappearing for reasons far weirder than you thought

Heartwarming video: robotic claw saves trapped swordfish

Your next vacation will start on a plane without a pilot

20 pounds of lean dinosaur leg please!

Wednesday’s comics = Greek god sex, a Batwoman, and a manga-style Logan’s Run

Scientists recommend their favorite beach reading

Is there an evil, goateed version of you somewhere in the multiverse?

The airship emerged from jagged peaks, its body swollen with gas

Hot Tub Time Machine’s deleted scene teases possible sequels

Programmable sheet can fold itself into origami robot

The Secret Apprentice joins the U.S. version of Being Human

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