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Lunar Dirt Will Be In Your Home, Air and Water

All of the off-world buzz these days may be around Mars and Titan, but NASA contractors are looking to send human life a little closer to home. Project Constellation, NASA’a agenda for the future of spaceflight, outlines plans for the construction of a lunar outpost starting in 2019. But with no water and no atmosphere,…

io9 Lauren Davis

UK Authorities Don’t Want Wanted

This just in: Authorities in the UK found the movie adaptation of the comic Wanted to be “condon[ing] violence by glorifying or glamorising the use of guns,” while at the same time failing to be offensive to the general public. That’s the result of an investigation into the promotional posters for the movie by the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Wind-Swept Clouds of Mars

The Phoenix Lander look a series of photographs of the polar skies this week, and researchers have turned them into a short movie that gives you a shivery sense of what it would be like to stand under Martian skies. Those are ice water clouds, swooshing overhead very much the way clouds do on Earth.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Cleavagefield Puts J.J. Abrams’ Shaky Cam To Better Use

Click to viewIf there was one thing missing from J.J. Abrams’ monster movie Cloverfield, I would have to say it was cleavage. Forget the amazing CG parasite tunnel bugs, the crumbling buildings and aerial shots of a monster destroying New York, director Jim Wynorski uses his shaky-cam to film a group of well-endowed ladies getting…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Energy Ball Turns Your Roof into a Wind Turbine Farm

When peak oil means you’re paying more to power up your computers than you are for rent, it’s time for Energy Ball. Developed recently by Swedish company Home Energy, these cool-looking devices are designed to work in low winds and make very little noise. That makes them perfect for home use, as well as in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Take Some Time-Traveling Incest On Your Next Long Plane Ride

The hot new trend in beach novels? Time travel, and ookily inappropriate relationships, according to a new article by Bloomberg News. Exhibit A is The Little Book by Selden Edwards, the story of an aging rock star who travels back in time and puts his moves on his own grandmother. One minute, Wheeler Burden is…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Ötzi The Frozen Man’s 9 To 5 Revealed

Ötzi, the frozen remains of the Neolithic man we’ve all grown to know and love, finally has a job. According to scientists, Frozen Fritz was a herder. Besides dining on unleavened bread and meat and donning the latest in 5,000-year-old moccasin wear, Ötzi spent his time herding sheep and cattle (deduced from his dress, and…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Reprints And Retcons Get Eclipsed By Mars In This Week’s Comics

It’s somewhat of a catching-your-breath week at the comic store, following on from the holiday weekend and last week’s barrage of DC books. That’s not to say that there are fewer books making their way to stores on Thursday — that holiday Monday knocking the regular release date forward a day, unless you’re Canadian, in…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Melting Dalek Costs Thousands Of Dollars

To get back to one of fandom’s favorite refrains, this is a story that will either make you upset about all of those old toys that your parents threw out when you got older… or make you wish that you were young enough to have such toys in the first place. Because this weekend, a…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Movie Version Of Blindness Wrecks A Classic Novel, Say Critics

After an onslaught of splodey summer movies, we were excited for the movie version of Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God). The adaptation Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago’s novel takes place in the near future, where cities become ravaged with a mysterious outbreak of blindness. And the government carts the “sick” off to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Heaviest, Farthest Cluster Points Toward Dark Energy

The XMM-Newton space telescope has been really into dark and heavy stuff lately. No, the x-ray observatory didn’t find its parents’ old Black Sabbath albums — it found the most massive galactic cluster on record, a conglomerate of galaxies weighing more than 1,000 times as much as the Milky Way. The cluster’s extreme distance is…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

A First Look At Dragonball’s Live-Action Lord Piccolo

For months, Dragonball fans have worried over the live-action recreation of the demon Lord Piccolo. Will he be green? Will he be all CG? Will it look like a dude in a mask? Dragonball stills have leaked, answering all of your pressing Piccolo questions. And unfortunately, I’m left a little bewildered by the whole look.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Obama Promises National Tech Officer and a Space Advisor to the President

Want to know what presidential candidate Barack Obama will do to make the U.S. a great nation for science again? Among other changes, he promises to create a position of “chief technology officer” for the country, and to recreate a space advisory council that reports directly to the president. In addition, he claims the rDNA…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Dr. Horrible Takes Over The World

With the official soundtrack album to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog released today on iTunes, you would have expected at least another day before seeing a tweet like this from the official Dr. Horrible Twitter: “HOLY CRAP. Just woke up to #2 album on iTunes US, and #1 on iTunes UK. We thank you thank you.”…

io9 Graeme McMillan

What To Expect From Highlander, Dragonball And Star Trek

To create our most concentrated dose of spoilers yet, we’ve culled through news stories and interviews about Star Trek, Highlander, Descent 2 and Dragonball. We’ve dug up revealing new images about Fringe, City Of Ember, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah Jane Adventures, Smallville and Heroes. We’ve pored over Lost set reports from Hawaii. We watched Chuck…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Wouldn’t You Like A Nice Alien Tentacle Massage?

Meg Tilly gives her husband a nice soothing massage, so he can fall asleep and be replaced by a pod person, in Abel Ferrara’s 1993 Body Snatchers film. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter has nodded off in the bath and is slowly being podded as well. It’s a supremely creepy moment from a masterfully creepy film,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

We Need Middle-Closure!

This is so not fair. Not only did The Middleman season one end on a new high note with last night’s bizarre alternate universe story — making us feel clawing hostility at the thought that it could be the last ever episode — but it also left way, way too many loose ends laying around.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Every Great Apocalypse Mixed Together Tastes Awesome

From the moment the voice over intones, “First the world was NORMAL . . . and then the APOCALYPSE came,” you know that the web series Steel of Fire Warriors 2010 is basically going to be the most awesome thing you have ever seen. With production values that spare no expense on everything from tin…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Live Action TMNT Could Be A Shredder Origin Story

The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is taking a page from all the other popular scifi flicks of today: it’s going to be another origin story. Co-creator Kevin Eastman, told Heavy Metal that this live action TMNT movie would reveal more about where Shredder came from. Eastman also mentions bringing the original live action…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Has Brent Spiner Gone Andy Kaufman?

Look I know that Brent “Data” Spiner has always been into light jazz (his album “Ol’ Yellow Eyes Is Back” attests to that), but somehow things have gone a bit deep endy with his new album “Dreamland.” As the incomparable Ed “Bat Segundo” Champion already revealed in his amazingly demented interview with Spiner, the actor…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Lunar Dirt Will Be In Your Home, Air and Water

UK Authorities Don’t Want Wanted

The Wind-Swept Clouds of Mars

Cleavagefield Puts J.J. Abrams’ Shaky Cam To Better Use

Energy Ball Turns Your Roof into a Wind Turbine Farm

Take Some Time-Traveling Incest On Your Next Long Plane Ride

Ötzi The Frozen Man’s 9 To 5 Revealed

Reprints And Retcons Get Eclipsed By Mars In This Week’s Comics

Melting Dalek Costs Thousands Of Dollars

Movie Version Of Blindness Wrecks A Classic Novel, Say Critics

Heaviest, Farthest Cluster Points Toward Dark Energy

A First Look At Dragonball’s Live-Action Lord Piccolo

Obama Promises National Tech Officer and a Space Advisor to the President

Dr. Horrible Takes Over The World

What To Expect From Highlander, Dragonball And Star Trek

Wouldn’t You Like A Nice Alien Tentacle Massage?

We Need Middle-Closure!

Every Great Apocalypse Mixed Together Tastes Awesome

Live Action TMNT Could Be A Shredder Origin Story

Has Brent Spiner Gone Andy Kaufman?

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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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Lunar Dirt Will Be In Your Home, Air and Water

UK Authorities Don’t Want Wanted

The Wind-Swept Clouds of Mars

Cleavagefield Puts J.J. Abrams’ Shaky Cam To Better Use

Energy Ball Turns Your Roof into a Wind Turbine Farm

Take Some Time-Traveling Incest On Your Next Long Plane Ride

Ötzi The Frozen Man’s 9 To 5 Revealed

Reprints And Retcons Get Eclipsed By Mars In This Week’s Comics

Melting Dalek Costs Thousands Of Dollars

Movie Version Of Blindness Wrecks A Classic Novel, Say Critics

Heaviest, Farthest Cluster Points Toward Dark Energy

A First Look At Dragonball’s Live-Action Lord Piccolo

Obama Promises National Tech Officer and a Space Advisor to the President

Dr. Horrible Takes Over The World

What To Expect From Highlander, Dragonball And Star Trek

Wouldn’t You Like A Nice Alien Tentacle Massage?

We Need Middle-Closure!

Every Great Apocalypse Mixed Together Tastes Awesome

Live Action TMNT Could Be A Shredder Origin Story

Has Brent Spiner Gone Andy Kaufman?

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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

Let us help find what you are looking for...

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!