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Bird-Related Accident Suggests the Large Hadron Collider Really Is Doomed

The LHC has been so plagued by problems and shutdowns that some physicists have wondered if it’s being sabotaged by its own future. And the LHC has fallen victim to another bizarre shutdown involving a bird and a baguette. https://gizmodo.com/is-the-large-hadron-collider-being-sabotaged-from-the-f-5380647 CERN is reporting that the Large Hadron Collider has been shutdown yet again after a…

io9 Lauren Davis

Roland Emmerich On 2012 Sequel: It’s Lost Meets District 9

Just seconds after telling us that he makes disaster movies because he hates sequels, director Roland Emmerich spilled all about his new ABC TV series 2013, that picks up after the waves part. It sounds epic. Spoiler warning. At the end of 2012 the cast members who have survived the massive floods and volcanic destruction…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Greatest Velvet Paintings Of Science-Fiction Icons!

Our love for science fiction is so vivid and soars so far into space, regular art just won’t convey it. To display our favorite science-fiction characters and creatures properly, you need something special. You need… the black velvet painting. Behold! Captain Kirk velvet painting from The Velvet Store Admiral Ackbar velvet painting from eBay auction.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Lloyd Dobler Gets a Job

You can put a guy in a trench coat. You can hand him a boombox blasting Peter Gabriel. You can make even break his heart. But you cannot make him Lloyd Dobler, aka the body overtaken by symbiont John Cusack. I should celebrate this image, an army of Lloyd Doblers assembling in the name of…

Movies Mark Wilson

YA Authors Explain Everything — Even Twilight — In New York Tonight

Confused about why young-adult science fiction and fantasy are growing so much faster than their adult counterparts? YA authors will answer your questions in New York this evening. They’re even prepared to discuss the popularity of Twilight. Robin Wasserman, author of the terrific robot-body novel Skinned (which has a similar storyline to Caprica) will join…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Keep from Getting Lost with Wired’s Map of the Future

The future could be a confusing place, filled with virtual worlds, global infrastructure, new economic systems, and interspecies communication. Fortunately, Wired Italia’s latest infographic maps out one possible vision of the future, so you won’t get lost amidst the changes. Density Design created this infographic for the new issue of Wired Italia based on predictions…

io9 Lauren Davis

Warren Ellis Weirded Out By Helen Mirren’s “Red” Casting, Plus John C. Reilly and Mary Louise Parker Join the Cast

Helen Mirren joins up with Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis to bring to life the super-espionage graphic novel Red. And nobody could be more startled than creator Warren Ellis. Variety announced that Helen Mirren has joined the cast of the live adaptation movie of the comic Red. The Time Traveler’s Wife director Robert Schwentke is…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Iron Man’s Arch Enemy The Mandarin, Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before

If the Iron Man movies are leading up to featuring the Mandarin as the ultimate big bad, it could be a bit of a letdown, based on the comics. But concept art for a new animated series gives us hope. Marvel released a few pieces of concept art of the Mandarin from the animated series…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Real Psychic Soldier Behind The Men Who Stare at Goats

When Jim Channon authored the First Earth Battalion manual, he was hoping to bring warfare into a more humane, modern age. In a new series of columns, he talks about the film and why harnessing the paranormal is so important. Jon Ronson, who wrote the book The Men Who Stare at Goats, has taken over…

Movies Lauren Davis

Pirate Agricultures of the California Coast

When every crop has to be licensed from patent owners like Monsanto, only those practiced in the art of pirate agriculture will have reasonably-priced food. This gorgeous series of photographs from Mendocino’s pot harvest might be a glimpse of that future. Photographer Mathieu Young took these intimate pictures of a small pot farm at harvest…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Orphan-Friendly Villains Fight To The Death, In New Despicable Me Trailer

We’re still not sure how to feel about 3-D supervillain showdown Despicable Me, especially since one of the aforementioned villains becomes an impromptu foster parent to three orphan girls. Watch the trailer and judge for yourself. While the theme is certainly catchy, and the voice cast is impressive what’s with the orphans? Read the official…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Together At Last! Dinocroc Vs. Supergator!

First there was Dinocroc, and then there was Supergator (both produced by Roger Corman, of course). Now the long-awaited smackdown stomps onto DVD next year, with some David Carradine thrown in for good measure. Check the monsters. Over at Undead Backbrain, Robert Hood and Avery Guerra have the full story. But in a nutshell, it’s…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Avatar’s Japanese Trailer Adds Even More Creatures

Japan got a shorter version of the latest Avatar trailer, but it also got some new footage we didn’t see in the English-language version. Here, we meet more of Pandora’s monsters, and witness the beginnings of the love story. Most of the footage here is the same, albeit remixed, and there are some small changes…

Movies Lauren Davis

Wil Wheaton’s Star Trek Cameo And How You Made Quinto Spock Happen

It’s pretty amazing that Zachary Quinto’s interest in playing Spock was sparked by mere message-board chatter — a newly released DVD featurette shows how it all began. Plus Wil Wheaton’s Trek movie cameo is revealed. Apparently Wheaton did a lot of voice work for the Romulan crew, and it’s all thanks to fellow voiceover-artist Greg…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Rapidly-Forming Rift in African Desert Could Become an Ocean

Four years ago, a volcano opened this massive crack between the African and Arabian tectonic plates in Ethopia. New research shows it could be the beginning of a new ocean shoreline. According to New Scientist: The magma inside the volcano did not reach the surface and erupt as a fountain of lava – instead, it…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Doctor Who And Resident Evil Both Have Scary Shower Scenes, But They’re Very Different

It’s a spoiler-crash! Ed Norton talks Avengers, Milla Jovovich reveals a Resident Evil showdown, and James Marsters shows up in a Caprica ad. Creepy new Doctor Who/Fringe clips! Plus Red Dawn, Ghost Rider, The Box, Supernatural, Smallville, FlashForward and Chuck. The Avengers: More on Edward Norton’s will-he-won’t-he dance, with regards to returning as the Hulk.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

AT&T FLO TV Service Drops to $10/month

If you want to watch “CBS Mobile, CNBC, CNN Mobile, COMEDY CENTRAL, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX Mobile, FOX News, MSNBC, MTV, NBC 2Go, Nickelodeon and the movie channel Crackle”, that’s now $10 on AT&T phones that support FLO TV. Well, not RIGHT NOW. We mean starting November 8th. For the record, the service used to…

Television Mark Wilson

Avatar in Japan

Sully wakes up in his Avatar body, and wiggles his toes for the first time in a very long time. A lemur-like creature climbs across some vines, chattering. A group of creatures resembling wild dogs attacks Sully. Sully bares his teeth as he fights off the creature. A Na’Vi dodges a falling tree. The jellyfish-like…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Michael Jackson Movie Is Kinda Good

I’m not going to admit I teared up a bit when Michael Jackson sung The Way You Make Me Feel in this movie. Let’s talk about the tech for a bit. I didn’t know this, because I live in a bubble, but Michael Jackson was only 8 days away from doing final rehearsals for a…

Movies Brian Lam

The Aztec UFO Crash That Was Bigger (and More Classified) Than Roswell

Enough with the fake documentary Fourth Kind – we’ve got some alien evidence from real documentary Lies & Deception. Apparently there was a UFO crash in the 1940s that put Roswell to shame. At last you can hear about it! Put out by Reality Films and Edge Media in the UK, this documentary has it…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Bird-Related Accident Suggests the Large Hadron Collider Really Is Doomed

Roland Emmerich On 2012 Sequel: It’s Lost Meets District 9

The Greatest Velvet Paintings Of Science-Fiction Icons!

Lloyd Dobler Gets a Job

YA Authors Explain Everything — Even Twilight — In New York Tonight

Keep from Getting Lost with Wired’s Map of the Future

Warren Ellis Weirded Out By Helen Mirren’s “Red” Casting, Plus John C. Reilly and Mary Louise Parker Join the Cast

Iron Man’s Arch Enemy The Mandarin, Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before

The Real Psychic Soldier Behind The Men Who Stare at Goats

Pirate Agricultures of the California Coast

Orphan-Friendly Villains Fight To The Death, In New Despicable Me Trailer

Together At Last! Dinocroc Vs. Supergator!

Avatar’s Japanese Trailer Adds Even More Creatures

Wil Wheaton’s Star Trek Cameo And How You Made Quinto Spock Happen

Rapidly-Forming Rift in African Desert Could Become an Ocean

Doctor Who And Resident Evil Both Have Scary Shower Scenes, But They’re Very Different

AT&T FLO TV Service Drops to $10/month

Avatar in Japan

The Michael Jackson Movie Is Kinda Good

The Aztec UFO Crash That Was Bigger (and More Classified) Than Roswell

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NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

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