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Eureka’s Sheriff Carter Is Codependent Alex Keaton, Star Tells io9

Mad-science-ville show Eureka is back on Sci Fi tonight, and we had a chance to talk to star Colin Ferguson and producer Jaime Paglia the other night. Ferguson shared some insights about why straight-and-narrow sheriff Carter might have so many bohemian relatives. Click through to find out what’s going to be new and different in…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Two Men and a Dalek Mask Arrested in Weird Ex-Girlfriend Kidnapping Plot

Poor James Wakefield just wanted to reawaken his ex-girlfriend’s affections after she dumped him last December. And he figured the best way to do it would be to pay his friend James Rawson £20,000 to don a Dalek mask with voice-changer, kidnap his ex, and take her out to the woods. After the Dalek-masked Rawson…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Prosthetic Limbs that Fuse with Your Skeleton

Your next prosthetic arm will be almost as good as the one you were born with: It will fuse with your existing skeleton. Veterinarians at North Carolina State University have developed a technique for attaching prosthetic limbs directly to the underlying bone structure in the remaining limb portion. Called “osseointegrated prosthetics,” these limbs knit themselves…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Heroes Postman Delivers A Letter Of Death

“Lets Talk” was truly the worst chapter of Going Postal, the three-part Heroes web series. Posty, the mailman who hurts peoples’ brains when he screams, hears a knock at the door, and you can bet it’s more terrible actors from the Company. Click through to find out if Posty and his sexy lady friend escape…

Television Meredith Woerner

A Floating Ecopolis for the Age of Rising Seas

When climate change allows oceans to wash over the lands we once called home, you’re going to want to immigrate to one of the ecopolises that Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut created for his LILYPAD concept project. Callebaut’s cities will float on the oceans swollen by the water from melted icebergs, and produce their own foodstuffs…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Tyrese Gibson Wants To Be A Thundercat

Tyrese Gibson is jumping to don the skin tight catsuit for a Thundercats remake. In an interview for the new Death Race movie (where he plays killer convict Machine Gun Joe) we got a chance to ask Gibson if he could remake any film what would it be? In mere seconds Tyrese Gibson leaned forward…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Which BSG Character Lives, And Which Suffers A Fate Worse Than Death?

This morning’s spoiler roundup answers all your most urgent questions. What’s going on with Spock in Star Trek and Sylar in Heroes? Whom does Firefly’s Adam Baldwin kiss on Chuck? Which Marvel Comics movie won’t include superspy Nick Fury? What replaces flash-backs on Lost next year? Not to mention, what’s in store for Battlestar Galactica,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Captain Power Is A Sweeping Post-Apocalyptic Epic For Our Times

Somebody in Hollywood has their priorities seriously messed up. All weekend at Comic-Con, I was hearing about Tr2n, Terminator 4, RoboCop 4, and even a sequel to War Games. But where was the talk of a big-screen movie of Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future, that classic post-apocalyptic TV show? Where? What kind…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Beautiful Galaxy Is Shrouded In Death

Click to viewThe Pinwheel galaxy shimmers with life, but it’s surrounded by death. Those red and blue areas surrounding the galaxy are devoid of organics, otherwise known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which scientists believe are the building blocks of life, this new photo from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows. These “organics” diminish towards the outer…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Yelly Angry Chinese Mobsters Want To Kill Dakota Fanning In Push Pics

In the new scifi thriller Push, sexy teens with mind powers run through Hong Kong trying to escape equally sexy villains who scream so loud they blow up the tanks and the fish inside with their sonic vibrations (the Heroes mailman is going to be pissed that they stole his thing). The plot follows a…

io9 Meredith Woerner

BSG’s Tricia Helfer Answers Our Dorky Sex Robot Questions

We were lucky enough to talk with Tricia Helfer, who plays the gorgeous Cylon infiltrator Six on Battlestar Galactica. And we wanted to ask her a question inspired by Charles Stross’ new novel Saturn’s Children: if the Cylons succeeded in wiping out the human race, would Six feel sad that there was nobody left to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Awesome Explosions, Weird Cameos, In Wolverine Trailer

Earlier this morning, we posted the trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The trailer premiered at Comic-Con on Friday, giving fans the weekend to parse every moment of Logany goodness. After the jump, our shot-by-shot breakdown, plus fan reactions to our first glimpses of Deadpool, Gambit, and Emma Frost.The door opens on Logan and Vincent Creed,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Star Trek Aliens To Be Much Easier This Time Around

We ran into John Cho at the Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay unicorn booth at Comic-Con. After chatting about how much fun his new Harold and Kumar flick looks, we eked a few Star Trek details out of the new Hikaru Sulu. Cho confirmed that he wrote a letter to the original George…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Sarah Connor Producer Tells io9 The Terminators’ Deepest Secrets

Click to viewJosh Friedman is the creator of Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, one of last season’s most interesting scifi shows, complete with time traveling, kickass Terminator fights, and Heathers riffs. Plus, next season, the cast will be joined by Shirley “Garbage” Manson and Busy “Freaks And Geeks” Phillips. We had a chance to sit down…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Will Futurama’s Fry And Leela Finally Find Love?

Bender is a king and Leela is a centaur in the highly anticipated third Futurama DVD, Bender’s Game coming to Blu-Ray on November 4th. The Futurama Comic-Con panel assembled the voice talent from all your favorite characters, from Bender to Calculon. Click through for more details on Dr. Zoidberg’s love life, what cartoon guests will…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Venus the Meanest and a Little Menace Named Venice Visit Earth

Leave it to Bob Clampett, the man behind the surrealistic “Porky in Wackyland” (1938), to come up with a very odd little Beany and Cecil early-60s cartoon (they always creeped me out a little bit) called “Invasion of Earth by Robots.” Of course, it turns out the robots just want to have a picnic, and…

io9 Lynn Peril

The Mist’s True Horror Exists Only In Bernie Wrightson’s Mind

We weren’t thrilled by The Mist, last winter’s movie of Stephen King’s killer-drizzle story. But when we stumbled on this concept art for the film by Swamp Thing co-creator Bernie Wrightson, we started to get excited about what Frank Darabont’s Mist movie could have been if it had had a little more Guillermo Del Toro…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Comic-Con 2008 Wrapup: Get the Big Fat Summary of All the Shinest Things We Saw

Comic-Con was psychotic, exhausting and wonderful. We’re sorry if you got turned away from our packed io9 panel on “science fiction that can change your life,” but we’ve summarized it to mollify you. More importantly, we’ve broken down our coverage from Comic-Con into bite-sized, easily-navigated chunks below. Find out what we discovered about everything from…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Witness The Birth, Death Of The Autobots In New Comics

If you’ve ever wondered just how the original Transformers were created – If they’re robots, then surely someone built them, right? – then you have less than a year to wait for an answer, according to IDW’s Transformers panel at this weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con. And that’s not the only revelation you can expect about…

io9 Graeme McMillan

MPAA Creating Website to Tell You Which Service Offers Which Movie

In this brave new world of digital video on demand, there’s no single place that lets you watch every movie out there (other than, you know, BitTorrent). Instead, there’s a smattering of offerings that offer different slivers of the overall movie catalog, forcing you to switch from your Apple TV to your Vudu to your…

Movies Adam Frucci

Eureka’s Sheriff Carter Is Codependent Alex Keaton, Star Tells io9

Two Men and a Dalek Mask Arrested in Weird Ex-Girlfriend Kidnapping Plot

Prosthetic Limbs that Fuse with Your Skeleton

Heroes Postman Delivers A Letter Of Death

A Floating Ecopolis for the Age of Rising Seas

Tyrese Gibson Wants To Be A Thundercat

Which BSG Character Lives, And Which Suffers A Fate Worse Than Death?

Captain Power Is A Sweeping Post-Apocalyptic Epic For Our Times

This Beautiful Galaxy Is Shrouded In Death

Yelly Angry Chinese Mobsters Want To Kill Dakota Fanning In Push Pics

BSG’s Tricia Helfer Answers Our Dorky Sex Robot Questions

Awesome Explosions, Weird Cameos, In Wolverine Trailer

Star Trek Aliens To Be Much Easier This Time Around

Sarah Connor Producer Tells io9 The Terminators’ Deepest Secrets

Will Futurama’s Fry And Leela Finally Find Love?

Venus the Meanest and a Little Menace Named Venice Visit Earth

The Mist’s True Horror Exists Only In Bernie Wrightson’s Mind

Comic-Con 2008 Wrapup: Get the Big Fat Summary of All the Shinest Things We Saw

Witness The Birth, Death Of The Autobots In New Comics

MPAA Creating Website to Tell You Which Service Offers Which Movie

The New ‘Masters of the Universe’ Trailer Brings Eternia to Life

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

UGREEN Bluetooth Tracker 4-Pack Now Just $7 Each With iOS and Android Support, While AirTag Stays at Full Price

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

Forget Tower Desktop, GMKtec Mini PC Drops to a Record Low as Amazon Clears Out Final Spring Sale Stock

‘Fallout’ Season 2 Was a Hit Despite That Unsatisfying Release Strategy Change

JBL Authentics 500 Retro-Style Home Speaker Hits 40% Off, Now at Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Clearance Begins

ExpressVPN Spring Sale Special: Up to 73% Off + Free eSIM and Password Manager

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

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