Scientists Have Discovered Booze That Won’t Give You A Hangover

Booze, for all its magical wonder, still has big drawbacks: You can’t sober up quickly, and you often get a hangover. Now Korean researchers have found a way of tweaking booze to limit the fallout — without cutting its strength. Doctors Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University studied the properties of…

Mike Vogel “Very Excited” By His Captain America Test

Last week, a long list of actors testing for Marvel’s Captain America movie was leaked. Among mostly square-jawed handsome stars was Cloverfield’s Mike Vogel. We caught up with Vogel this weekend and got his take on the Cap casting. While doing roundtables for She’s Out Of My League, the shy Vogel was pretty mum about…

ER Stars Join NBC’s Citizen-Superhero Show “The Cape” And The CW’S “La Femme Nikita” Revamp

Former stars of NBC’s ER are moving over to genre shows. David Lyons will play the lead in The Cape, a cop who becomes a masked hero to clear his name. And other ER stars are joining two other shows. Meanwhile, ER’s Shane West will play the male lead in The CW’s Nikita, a revamp…

TV This Week: The Avatar Awards Edition

What’s in store this week? New episodes of Lost, Caprica, Chuck, and the 82nd Academy Awards! Will the Academy crown James Cameron the King of the Cat-Men or blow him a big blue raspberry? Watch and see! NOTE: In honor of this week’s Oscars, I’ll be inventing a number of awards to bestow upon this…

Is Superman Headed To The Courtroom?

DC Comics have fired their attorney on the ongoing Superman copyright case, replacing him with a man who defended Enron CEO Jeff Skilling. Does this mean that DC are planning to finish this once and for all? Newsarama.com’s Jeff Trexler broke the news yesterday that DC have hired “super lawyer” Daniel Petrocelli to take over…

At Last The Protons Are Getting Ready To Smash In The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest physics experiment, is finally ramping up to do some serious proton smashing. Over the weekend, scientists began cycling protons through the miles-long accelerator. Over at Symmetry Breaking, Daisy Yuhas reports: The beams had an energy of 450 billion electron volts (GeV), which is the energy at which they…

“Clueless For Vampires” Will Save Us From Twilight’s Fey Vampires

In the midst of a vampire-movie flood, there’s one film we’re very excited about: Amy Heckerling’s Vamps. Besides bringing back Heckerling’s partnership with Alicia Silverstone, it sounds pretty clever clever according to what the lead, Krysten Ritter, told us. Spoilers… We caught up with the hilarious Krysten Ritter at the roundtables for her up-and-coming film…

Army Looks For Many-Armed Medical Robots

Calling all inventors and robot creators! The US military wants the fruits of your labors, and not for the purposes of killing people. No, this time, they’re looking for something a little more helpful and healing. New Scientist reports that the military are looking for inventors to provide ideas for an autonomous robot that can…

What Will Americans Of The Future Look Like?

In 1910, the New York Tribune published this photo composite of what a “future American” might look like. Time magazine repeated the experiment in 1993 with a computer-generated blend of faces. Could either be right? SF author Nalo Hopkinson called attention to the 1910 image on twitter, asking, “Who’s missing in this pic?” In retrospect,…

Nic Cage Versus Gandalf: Who’d Win? We Asked The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

We cornered Nic Cage’s wizard in training, Jay Baruchel, to find out just how magical Jerry Bruckheimer’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice is going to be. Find out how the movie opens, and who would win a Gandalf Vs. Cage sorcery throw-down. We caught up with Baruchel, doing press for She’s Out Of My League and managed to…

In Like A Lion, Out Like A Robot Lion – The March Guide To Science Fiction!

March may be a drab month for weather, but this month has tons of shiny new scifi waiting for you. There’s the return of V, io9’s Time Bender at SXSW, Roger Corman’s Dinoshark, and cons and author appearances galore! You can download the March calender as a printable PDF by clicking here. And here are…

Tons Of Tron Details, Plus Darth Maul In Transformers 3 And Baltar In FlashForward

Who’s Bruce Boxleitner playing in Tron Legacy? Find out below. There are world-shattering Lost spoilers. Fans create fascinating Iron Man 2 theories. Ray Park may join Transformers, and James Callis joins FlashForward. Plus Avatar 2, Caprica, Doctor Who and Fringe. Tron Legacy: Director Joseph Kosinski (and original director Steve Lisberger) answered a ton of questions…

The Church of Lunology’s Moon City Conspiracy

There are people on a secret city on the moon, and they are from the future. Find out what the Church of Lunology doesn’t want you to know. Plus, the video game Dead Rising gets a live action flick. Lunopolis The little faux-documentary Lunopolis, which received great reviews from the Boston scifi festival, blows the…

Italian Philip K. Dick Book Covers Are As Mind-Bending As His Tales

Artist Antonello Silverini has posted a sprawling gallery of Phillip K. Dick book covers he designed for Italian publishing house Fanucci Editore. Silverini’s gorgeously fractured collages truly convey the reality-altering aspects and transhumanism present in Dick’s oeuvre. These covers – and many more – can be found at Silverini’s blog. [via Tor] “We Can Build…

The 75 Books You Should Own For DC Comics’ 75th Anniversary

2010 sees the 75th anniversary of DC Comics, which launched in February 1935 with the first issue of New Fun. Since then, it’s gone on to publish some of the greatest comics ever. Here’re seventy-five you really should’ve read already. The Superman Chronicles Vol. 1 What is it? The first appearances of the world’s first…

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Caprica Is Quickly Becoming The Best SF Show On Television

Friday night’s episode of Caprica, “There Is Another Sky,” moved the already-intriguing show to the status of must-watch. It was simply one of the best SF representations of futuristic videogames and internet culture that I’ve ever seen. Caprica was occasionally shaky in its first few weeks, but with this episode the series found its sea…

15-Year-Old Sven Junga Creates Starships From LEGO Bricks

Plastic block wunderkind Sven Junga has built some of our favorite interstellar dreadnoughts. Check out his renditions of the Daedalus from Stargate Atlantis, the HAVw A6 Juggernaut from Revenge of the Sith, and more. Here’s the Daedalus. [Sven Junga’s Flickr via SCI Fi Wire] The Daedalus HAVw A6 Juggernaut HAVw A6 Juggernaut (interior) The Retribution…

How Aeon Flux Killed Black Widow And Made Iron Man 2 The Movie It Is Today

Iron Man 2 may be the cinematic debut for Marvel’s femme fatale spy the Black Widow, but it’s not the first time she was headed for the big screen. X-Men screenwriter David Hayter explains how Charlize Theron ruined everything. Latino Review spills the beans, quoting from a Hayter interview in the book Tales From The…

In The Future, Your iPhone Will Be A Universal Translator

Google recently unveiled a smart-phone app that can translate German text into English just by scanning it. And even though we’re a long way from Hitchhiker-like Babelfish, the universal translator of Star Trek lore is closer than you think. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google revealed a German-to-English text translator that utilizes Google…