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Blue Sports Drink Dye Might Be Good For Your Spine

Turns out some mysterious chemical additives may not be all bad. The sports drink and Popsicle color additive known as “brilliant blue” might have some serious benefits for people who suffer from spinal injuries, a new study reports. In the days after a spinal cord injury, a lot is happening, and not all of it…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

After Rag-Dolls At The End Of The World, What’s Next For Shane Acker?

Shane Acker‘s post-apocalyptic rag-dolls-vs-robots epic 9 is already blowing our minds. So when we met him, we asked what’s next, and he described two possible projects: one live-action, one animated. They’re known franchises, but he wouldn’t identify them. Can you? Here’s our conversation: So what’s next after 9? Are you sticking to animation? I’m actually…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Television is Your New Best Friend

A lonely child might invent an imaginary friend, but for adults, reprieve from loneliness comes from a less creative source: television. New studies find that humans are sating their craving for friendship by forming relationships with the people on TV. In a new article from the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Jaye Derrick and Shira…

io9 Lauren Davis

Leonard Nimoy Takes You Back In Time To Visual Effects Before CG

Spock gives you the rundown on using models and moxie to create blockbuster science fiction sequences, in this 1985 video. It’s a rare look at the era between Star Wars and the rise of CG. [Props via Mary Robinette Kowal]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Meet Rover 2.0: Your First Look At The Prisoner’s New Killer Beach Ball

One of the coolest things in the original Prisoner series was Rover, the white ball that suffocated would-be escapees. And it looks like Rover’s back in the new AMC remake, judging from posters. Update: There’s a nine-minute video preview, too. It’s going to be weird seeing Rover in the middle of the desert — it…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Boobs, Balls And Batman: Comic Con Badvertising

There’s advertising — and then there’s badvertising, and we saw a lot of the latter at Comic Con. So we rounded up some of the most epic of the weekend’s advertising fails for you. I have no Earthly idea why these women were recruiting for V. I mean, it’s got aliens in it. That should…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Ghostbusters Gets A 1950s Remake

If only time travel were possible, the third Ghostbusters movie could star 1950s comedy greats like Dean Martin, Bob Hope, and Jerry Lewis. Fortunately, one fan has cooked up a trailer for the 1954 Ghostbusters movie that never was. Noting that the Ghostbusters films owe a great to old horror comedies, from Abbott and Costello…

io9 Lauren Davis

Just How Sexy Will This Corporate Zombie Book Get?

When we heard a novel about a mortician who gets sucked into a world of reviving corpses, evil corporate loyalty programs and sexy fun had gotten Rachel Caine a three-book deal with Roc, we were dying to know more. Caine’s novel Dead Sexy, about “a just-out-of-school mortician who gets introduced into the world of reviving…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

GI Joe’s “Laser Crotch” Wallpaper: How Has It Come To This?

A new set of G.I. Joe wallpapers shows the darkened rubber unitard, worn for justice. But how did our once-mighty kung-fu grippers get to this disaster? Watch the video history of our once proud Joe’s, and a new making-of featurette. It’s like watching one of those in memoriam clips from the Oscars, sigh. G.I. Joe.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Producer Tells Who – And What – Lie In Batman’s Brave And Bold Future

Fans at the Batman: The Brave And The Bold panel at San Diego weren’t just treated to a preview of the series’ musical episode; they were also given a glimpse of what’s to come on the show’s upcoming season. Introducing the panel, executive producer James Tucker told the excited crowd: You guys got what we’re…

io9 Graeme McMillan

A Future of Petticoats and Personal Airships

While steampunkers imagine that Edwardian technology could achieve improbable feats, Edwardians themselves often did the same. These turn of the century postcards depict a glorious future where phenomenal technologies are powered by electricity and steam. “In Jahre 2000,” a series of postcards curiously released by Hildebrands, a German chocolate company, around 1900, posit a wide…

io9 Lauren Davis

Battle: Los Angeles Sets Up Alien-Destroyed L.A. In Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is getting all the big movies these days, and in September Aaron Eckhart will be leading a Marine platoon to repel an alien invasion, defending Shreveport-disguised-as-Los-Angeles in the low-budget Battle: Los Angeles. The local mayor is thrilled to show off the lovely battlezone. “We look forward to the battle in our ‘LA’,” he tells…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Two Of The Year’s Best Comics Dominate This Quiet Week

It’s finally happened: San Diego Comic-Con has broken comics. How else to explain the slim pickings of this week’s shipping list? But that actually makes your life easier, because there’re two books this week that you simply can’t live without. Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against the collection of Superman & Batman Vs.…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

DC’s Bounty Hunting Bastich To Get The Avatar Treatment?

Feetal’s gizz! It’s not just Anthrax’s Scott Ian who’s throwing his celebrity behind DC Comics’ spacebound biker bounty hunter, Lobo – Joel Silver is planning to make a movie about the character, and he’s teasing Avatar-esque ways of doing it. Talking during a press appearance for Orphan, Silver said that the Lobo movie is the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Pixar Artists Illustrate The Outer Limits Of Sexuality

Pixar’s artists definitely have a racy side, even if it doesn’t always come out in their G-rated fare. But with The Ancient Book of Sex and Science, the studio’s artists let loose with saucy images of science and science fiction. The Ancient Book of Sex and Science is the second book in a planned four-book…

io9 Lauren Davis

Scarlett Johansson Talks Getting Rough In The The Iron Man Catsuit

Who is this red-headed mystery woman we saw tempting Tony Stark, in the Iron Man 2 Comic Con footage? We talked about all things Black Widow with Scarlett Johansson — from squeezing into the catsuit to Avengers possibilities. Spoilers below. We got a few precious minutes with Iron Man 2’s new red-headed beauty, Scarlett Johansson,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Diamonds Are A Wound’s Best Friend

Women tend to like them, meteors tend to make them and De Beers tends to hoard them, but now diamonds turn out to have a more constructive use: making nasty wounds heal faster. https://gizmodo.com/meteors-are-forever-5319789 Northwestern University scientist Dean Ho and his team discovered that nanodiamonds are very attractive to insulin, best know for helping regulate…

io9 Megan Carpentier

Moon Bloodgood Joins ER’s Wylie In The Fight Against Spielberg’s Aliens

Moon Bloodgood teams up with Noah Wyle in TNT’s new alien-invasion series, created by Steven Spielberg. Glad to see Moon sticking it out in the genre, after Chun-Li, Journeyman and Terminator Salvation. Maybe the fourth time will be the charm. Also joining the cast are actors Jessy Schram, Seychelle Gabriel, and Maxim Knight, who will…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Apollo Visits The Dollhouse

Fans who thought that we’d lost Battlestar Galactica‘s Jamie Bamber to police procedurals after the end of the bleak space-opera series last year, rejoice; it’s been confirmed he’ll be appearing in the opening episode of Dollhouse’s second season. E! Online is reporting that Bamber will rejoin his former Colonial pilot, Tahmoh Penikett, in the first…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Which Hero’s Getting A Superpower That Crosses The Line Into Madness?

Spoilerama! Iron Man 2 trailer snaps include your first glimpse of a new hero. Plus there’s a Jonah Hex poster, and Wanted 2/Angelina Jolie details. Smallville spoilers may make you doubt your wits. Plus G.I. Joe, Heroes and Dollhouse spoilers. Iron Man 2: Reader Lant sent us a few stills from the sneak peek shown…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Blue Sports Drink Dye Might Be Good For Your Spine

After Rag-Dolls At The End Of The World, What’s Next For Shane Acker?

Television is Your New Best Friend

Leonard Nimoy Takes You Back In Time To Visual Effects Before CG

Meet Rover 2.0: Your First Look At The Prisoner’s New Killer Beach Ball

Boobs, Balls And Batman: Comic Con Badvertising

Ghostbusters Gets A 1950s Remake

Just How Sexy Will This Corporate Zombie Book Get?

GI Joe’s “Laser Crotch” Wallpaper: How Has It Come To This?

Producer Tells Who – And What – Lie In Batman’s Brave And Bold Future

A Future of Petticoats and Personal Airships

Battle: Los Angeles Sets Up Alien-Destroyed L.A. In Shreveport, Louisiana

Two Of The Year’s Best Comics Dominate This Quiet Week

DC’s Bounty Hunting Bastich To Get The Avatar Treatment?

Pixar Artists Illustrate The Outer Limits Of Sexuality

Scarlett Johansson Talks Getting Rough In The The Iron Man Catsuit

Diamonds Are A Wound’s Best Friend

Moon Bloodgood Joins ER’s Wylie In The Fight Against Spielberg’s Aliens

Apollo Visits The Dollhouse

Which Hero’s Getting A Superpower That Crosses The Line Into Madness?

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

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