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The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Spend all week mourning Dollhouse? Don’t fret, we have the best stories of the week right here. This week, we got addicted to brain implants, spent time in Star Trek’s alien bazaar, and listed the worst disaster movie moments. 5 Comics You’re Not Reading (But Should Be) You’re not new to comics, but you’ve read…

io9 Lauren Davis

“Flight of the Conchords” Might Have Been Science Fiction

Most people first heard of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie after their robot-overlord song "The Humans Are Dead" became an internet sensation. And their HBO show "Flight of the Conchords" was almost a scifi epic – with dinosaurs and astronauts! Fresh off his hilarious role as the cheesy epic fantasy writer Ronald Chevalier in Gentlemen…

Television Annalee Newitz

A Galactic Jam Session To Celebrate 400 Years Of Stargazing

It was the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first telescopic view of the heavens the other day, and NASA unveiled this incredible panoramic view of the center of our galaxy. It’s a composite of images from all of NASA’s great observatories. The first image consists of a near-infrared view from the Hubble Space Telescope, an infrared…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

3 Ways To Meet (And Get Nasty With) Your Opposite-Sex Duplicate

The most frustrating, annoying thing about the opposite sex is that they’re not you. Why can’t you just meet your exact duplicate — except for sex? You’d be a perfect match. Luckily, science fiction suggests 3 ways it could happen. This has been the dream of science-fiction fans and science-fiction authors since the days of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Always Wear Your Tinfoil Hat Inside Massive Dynamic

Last night’s episode featured a mind-controlling teenager with a penchant for violence. But that’s not why Astrid has her tinfoil hat firmly in place. We also learned something sinister about our corporate friends at Massive Dynamic. Once again, we had an episode that looked like a mystery-of-the-week from the outset, but ended up connecting to…

Television Lauren Davis

A Frozen Reservoir of Water Found On the Moon

Remember that experiment a few weeks ago where NASA smashed a probe into the Moon to see if any water would squirt out? The research is in, and it turns out there is a lot of water on the Moon. This is huge news. Over at Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait exults: The infrared spectrometer on…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Avatar Awards: Too Soon?

Avatar is a month away from opening, but James Cameron is already winning awards for it. The Visual Effects Society has announced that he’ll get 2010’s VES Lifetime Achievement Award for the as-yet unseen movie. Hope it’s good. [Hollywood Reporter]

Movies Graeme McMillan

Turn Off Your Brain and Watch the World End in 2012

Roland Emmerich‘s 2012 is jammed with every cliche and trope ever found in a Hollywood disaster movie, while giving the Earth an over-the-top pummeling. It’s a reasonably fun flick at times, if you don’t think about it…at all. It seems that once Roland Emmerich was done assembling all the CG components for destroying the world…

io9 Lauren Davis

Which Science Fiction Show Do You Feel Guilty For Not Keeping Up With?

Do you feel like you’re failing your science-fiction heroes, by not getting around to watching their shows? Is your TiVo crammed with episodes you swear you’ll get around to… eventually? Which show do you feel you guiltiest for neglecting? Vote! This poll is simple: Which of the TV shows, listed below, do you feel guiltiest…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Large Hadron Collider Less Than Two Weeks Away From First Experiments

It’s been plagued by everything from liquid helium leaks to wayward baguettes, but the mega-physics experiment known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is finally ready to start smashing protons into each other. Particle collisions could begin in two weeks. The LHC is a 27-kilometer underground tunnel designed to accelerate atomic particles and smash them…

io9 Annalee Newitz

He-Man Kills Your Childhood In 13 Trials

Is that He-Man strangling Big Bird? Jon Vermilyea’s unofficial Masters of the Universe book He-Man And The 13 Trials of Eternia is filled with all manner of pop-culture weirdness… and our dream reboot for the character. Click through for more. Brooklyn-based illustrator Vermilyea’s extremely limited edition project (Only 21 made!) is a particularly trippy take…

Television Graeme McMillan

Oops, I Destroyed The Human Race Again!

Remember a while back, when we showed you six draft posters for the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica? Syfy has chosen the final poster… and it’s very naked. Would you Adam and Eve it? Full version at the link. [Chicago Tribune] https://gizmodo.com/is-caprica-a-soap-opera-a-sexy-scifi-romp-posters-can-5370529

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Jim Caviezel: We Turned The Prisoner Into A Friendly Gitmo

We spoke with the new Number Six, and let him take us inside the Gitmo Disneyland that is AMC’s Prisoner remake. And he explains how he and Ian McKellen pretty much improved a large chunk of the remake’s script. Were you a fan of the original? Is that why you got involved with AMC’s Prisoner…

Television Meredith Woerner

It Turns Out Spider-Man is a Crook After All

Christopher Loomis, who portrays Spider-Man on Hollywood Boulevard, was arrested yesterday for slugging a tourist while in costume and held on outstanding misdemeanor warrants. Somewhere, J. Jonah Jameson is lighting a cigar and gloating. [Hero Complex]

io9 Lauren Davis

Militant Cute and Sexy Politics in Japanese Moe Comics [NSFW]

The Japanese catchphrase moe means “budding,” mostly applied to young girls. But it’s also part of Japanese political satire – in moe comics, the U.S. military and war-torn countries of Central Asia are represented as cute girls and metrosexual boys. If phatic language is language which smooths over social tasks and reassures us rather than…

Books & Comics Jason Thompson

Take Aim At The Common Enemy Of Humanity

When you’re out there fighting the Cylons, will you know where to aim to do maximum damage? Get some target practice with a real Centurion target, as seen on BSG. Here’s an exclusive first look at your new must-have poster. We’re lucky enough to feature Quantum Mechanix’s authentic replica of the Cylon targets used on…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Moorcock To Write Doctor Who

It’s the mash-up you never knew you wanted but now will be unable to wait for. Over on his website, Elric creator Michael Moorcock has announced that he’ll be writing a Doctor Who novel for release late next year. Meanwhile, Eoin Colfer told Wired he’d like to write a Doctor Who too — although whether…

Television Graeme McMillan

Two Ancient White Dwarf Stars Are Packed With Oxygen

Two newly-discovered white dwarf stars exhibit extremely odd properties, almost resembling planets. Their dense cores are exposed, shrouded in a layer of oxygen. Are these dying stars potentially habitable? Researchers at the University of Warwick and Kiel University looked over the data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and spotted the two white dwarfs…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Syfy Comedy Provokes Sci-FI Revolt

Syfy announced a new animated comedy series, Outer Space Astronauts yesterday. In response, fans at the network’s news site decided that enough was enough, and it was time for an intervention. Or, at least, lots of insults and complaints. To be fair, Outer Space Astronauts may not sound like the most exciting new show we’ve…

Television Graeme McMillan

The Splendor of Greenland’s Ice Sheet Crumbling Away

For the past several years, scientists have been tracking the transformation of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Now it’s shrinking faster than ever, and a new study proves it has lost 1500 gigatons of mass from 2000 to 2008. That is an enormous amount of mass, and has resulted in the sea level rising about .46…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

“Flight of the Conchords” Might Have Been Science Fiction

A Galactic Jam Session To Celebrate 400 Years Of Stargazing

3 Ways To Meet (And Get Nasty With) Your Opposite-Sex Duplicate

Always Wear Your Tinfoil Hat Inside Massive Dynamic

A Frozen Reservoir of Water Found On the Moon

Avatar Awards: Too Soon?

Turn Off Your Brain and Watch the World End in 2012

Which Science Fiction Show Do You Feel Guilty For Not Keeping Up With?

Large Hadron Collider Less Than Two Weeks Away From First Experiments

He-Man Kills Your Childhood In 13 Trials

Oops, I Destroyed The Human Race Again!

Jim Caviezel: We Turned The Prisoner Into A Friendly Gitmo

It Turns Out Spider-Man is a Crook After All

Militant Cute and Sexy Politics in Japanese Moe Comics [NSFW]

Take Aim At The Common Enemy Of Humanity

Moorcock To Write Doctor Who

Two Ancient White Dwarf Stars Are Packed With Oxygen

Syfy Comedy Provokes Sci-FI Revolt

The Splendor of Greenland’s Ice Sheet Crumbling Away

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

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