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Dollhouse Script Pages, And A Major Doctor Who Revelation

Some of our craziest Transformers spoilers turned out to be 100 percent true — at least according to another set of unreliable sources. Not only that, but we read a ton of pages from the script of Dollhouse episode seven, including a weird dominatrix moment. Meanwhile, one of the stars of the Doctor Who Christmas…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Freaky 1980s Vampire Striptease Will Pop Your Vein [NSFW]

Imagine your standard 1980s sex comedy, with the dorky guys who want to get laid and the out-of-reach girls who eventually bed (some of) them. And then throw in over-the-top, awesome Grace Jones — she of the crazy androgynous pop performances and memorable Conan the Destroyer moment. Oh and then? Make her a vampire stripper…

io9 Annalee Newitz

“Beauty Machine” Makes Every Face a Pretty Face

Beauty is not the stuff of poetry anymore; it can be quantified and generated automatically via computer. At least, that’s the claim of a group of researchers in Israel who have built a new software tool that can convert any face into the face of a supermodel. Computer scientist Daniel Cohen-Or, lead researcher on the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Biogeek Novelist Explains How To Make Your Jargon Into A Beacon Of Awesomeness

Jennifer Rohn is a cell biologist at University College London, and the founder of biogeek webzine LabLit.com. She’s also the author of a new romantic science thriller, Experimental Heart. So if anybody would know how to present complex scientific topics in a comprehensible way to a lay audience, it would be she. She’s been writing…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Heroes’ Most Ridiculous Mutant Power So Far: The Deadly Splash

The first promo for NBC’s new Heroes webisodes is out and what wonders may cease we’ve got a whole new crop of ridiculous powers to challenge Postie’s magic scream. Santiago, the character who loves soccer so much he’s either playing the sport or in the uniform for the entire promo, has the ability to run…

Television Meredith Woerner

Crab Nebula’s Got A Brand New Groove

After looking at the Chandra Observatory’s latest pictures of the Crab Nebula, I’m thinking the X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula needs a cooler name. Click to viewMaybe something like PulsaX, with the capital X, or Xoop!, with the exclamation mark. You can see the nebula’s inner X-ray ring, which is a shock wave that marks the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Developed World Ain’t What It Used to Be

Remember back when you knew you were in the so-called developed world because the economy was doing better than the so-called developing world? Well times are changing. Today the International Monetary Fund announced that, for the first time since World War II, the world’s developed economies would be shrinking by 0.3 percent in 2009 and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Downey Jr. On Howard/Cheadle: “Don’t Ask Me!”

Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., has broken his silence on the increasingly public firing of Terrence Howard from Iron Man 2, and his subsequent replacement by Don Cheadle, although the blandness of his comments suggest that either he’s not been paying attention to tensions on set, or else he’s sensibly trying to save himself…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Turn Your Living Room Into The Galactica’s CIC

You may not be able to have the Cylon Six in your apartment, but at least you can own her slinky red dress. As we mentioned a while back, a ton of props from Battlestar Galactica will be auctioned off when the final episodes start airing in January. And now some more details about the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law

Two hundred years ago, all a mad scientist had to worry about were villagers with pitchforks, but these days mad scientists are being profiled as possible terrorists. This week, police arrested the host of mad scientist-themed party after mistaking the partygoers’ bright lights and chemistry sets for explosives or drug-making paraphernalia.Members of the Bearded Kitten/Sugar…

io9 Lauren Davis

Twilight Lead Can’t Be Bothered To Read Next Twilight Book

Even though all the adorable sour-pussed faces from the new vampire movie Twilight have been signed up for the sequel, New Moon, the movie’s lead, Kristen Stewart, has not read the second book of the series by Stephenie Meyer. “I couldn’t wrap my head around all four huge stories at once,” she told Sci Fi…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Finally, Chuck Gives Us A Reason To Love The Superbowl

When we found out that NBC’s spy-fi comedy Chuck was planning a special 3D episode for next year, we were excited – and now that creator Josh Schwartz is promising us at least one special 3D sight that we’ve never seen before (Hint: It includes the words “urinal cake”). We can’t wait to see what…

Television Graeme McMillan

Hear New SF From Austin Grossman, Annalee Newitz And Michelle Tea

If you’re in San Francisco this Saturday night, you should stop by Writers In Drag, a reading I’m organizing at the Make Out Room. Readings will include speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson, io9 contributor Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible), a new cyberpunk story by Michelle Tea (Valencia)… and io9 editor Annalee Newitz’s foray…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Did Angelina Jolie Kill The Wanted Sequel?

Click to viewWanted screenwriter Chris Morgan is already working on the script for a sequel to the superpowered assassin movie, he tells MTV. And no, the lack of a second volume in Mark Millar’s graphic novel series that the first movie was (loosely) based on doesn’t pose any problem at all. The only real problem,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration

Now that Barack Obama has been elected president, reports are pouring in from the future to let us know what to expect from the next four to eight years. While some of these posts from the future depict Obama’s America as a big government, anti-Christian nightmare, others assure us that the new administration will usher…

io9 Lauren Davis

Brad Pitt And Battling Boy To Take On Monsters, Cinema

We’ve seen him as a Vegas hustler, a crazy time-traveler, an assassin with marital problems and even as Achilles himself. But Brad Pitt may just have bitten off more action than he can chew with new project Battling Boy. The movie – to be adapted from an as-yet unreleased graphic novel by io9 favorite Paul…

Movies Graeme McMillan

An Ultra-Fast Gravity Portal Between Earth and the Sun

Apparently, a “portal” opens every eight minutes or so between Earth and the sun, and particles streaming through it move ultra-quickly between the planet and its star. It’s called a “flux transfer event” (FTE) and apparently they are twice as common as once believed. Could this be the solution to our inability to travel at…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Kazakhstan’s Republic Square: Before and After

Click to viewYou won’t be able to distinguish between the shiny, soaring spires of Kazakhstan and those of New York City for very much longer. Soviet-style architecture is being replaced by ultra-postmodern buildings there every day. Witness this incredible before-and-after transformation, currently underway as Los Angeles architect Eric Owen Moss converts the gray, rectangular buildings…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watchmen’s Sally Jupiter Sexy At Every Age

The next Watchmen featurette from Zack Snyder’s movie adaptation of Alan Moore’s pivotal graphic novel is a shout out to all the movie’s super-ladies. While we’ve seen plenty of Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk/Silk Spectre II, walking in slo-mo in her thigh highs, this time we get a better look at her mother Sally Jupiter,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Vin Diesel Holds The Missing Pieces Of BSG’s Final Season

Remember those Battlestar Galactica webisodes we were promised before the second half of the show’s final season launches January 16? Turns out “webisodes” was sort of a misnomer. They’re actually going to air on the Sci Fi Channel during the channel’s showing of Pitch Black on January 15. (I guess they’re “webisodes” in the sense…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Dollhouse Script Pages, And A Major Doctor Who Revelation

Freaky 1980s Vampire Striptease Will Pop Your Vein [NSFW]

“Beauty Machine” Makes Every Face a Pretty Face

Biogeek Novelist Explains How To Make Your Jargon Into A Beacon Of Awesomeness

Heroes’ Most Ridiculous Mutant Power So Far: The Deadly Splash

Crab Nebula’s Got A Brand New Groove

The Developed World Ain’t What It Used to Be

Downey Jr. On Howard/Cheadle: “Don’t Ask Me!”

Turn Your Living Room Into The Galactica’s CIC

Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law

Twilight Lead Can’t Be Bothered To Read Next Twilight Book

Finally, Chuck Gives Us A Reason To Love The Superbowl

Hear New SF From Austin Grossman, Annalee Newitz And Michelle Tea

Did Angelina Jolie Kill The Wanted Sequel?

Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration

Brad Pitt And Battling Boy To Take On Monsters, Cinema

An Ultra-Fast Gravity Portal Between Earth and the Sun

Kazakhstan’s Republic Square: Before and After

Watchmen’s Sally Jupiter Sexy At Every Age

Vin Diesel Holds The Missing Pieces Of BSG’s Final Season

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Scientists Found a Weird New Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables

White House’s Mysterious ‘Covfefe Moment’ Was Stupider Than We Imagined

Gym Bros Are Pushing Mystery Muscle Drugs Doctors Barely Recognize, Study Warns

The Head of HBO Explains What it Takes to Get a ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Going

Elon Musk’s Lawyer Claims Jury’s 420 ‘Joke’ Proves He Didn’t Receive a Fair Trial

‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is a Genre Blending Delight

Leaked Anthropic Model Presents ‘Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks,’ Much to Pentagon’s Pleasure

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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