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A 5-Minute Crash-Course in Giant Monsters

Maybe you’ve been asking yourself how you can get into giant monsters, especially with Cloverfield 2 and Host 2 on the way. Or maybe you’re ashamed of the fact that you really don’t know a lot about the Godzilla pantheon. Well, I’m here to help you out. Thanks to the nice people at Slideshare, you…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Quantum Internet Could Protect Batman’s Secret Identity

With countries like China, Pakistan, and even the US spying on their citizens, it’s nice to know a remedy might be on its way in the form of the Quantum Internet. As researchers like Seth Lloyd of MIT make progress toward the goal of quantum computing, they’ve found that the same architecture used to build…

io9 Michael Reilly

Moon Party with Major Matt Mason and Buddies, 1968

Cool outer space toys, rhyming copy (“He lives on the moon, we’ll all be there soon …”), and a slightly homoerotic subtext (that Sgt. Storm in his red uniform is a charmer, I tell you)—they’re all part of this 1968 commercial for the Major Matt Mason product line. Major Matt’s got his jet pack ……

io9 Lynn Peril

Crispy Noodles Fuel Next-Gen Hydrogen Cars

Crispy noodles are the missing link between today’s carbon-emitting cars and tomorrow’s clean hydrogen cars. It turns out that the structure of crispy noodles — rigid, twisty, and porous — perfectly matches that of a new polymer developed to trap and reuse hydrogen atoms in new “green” cars. University of Manchester researcher Peter Budd helped…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Superheroes And Cyborgs Are The Height Of Fashion

Fashionistas and A-List actors showed up to celebrate superheroes and armored cyborgs at last night’s Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Met is paying tribute to superheroes and crazy outfits with its new exhibit “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.” The Costume Gala is where fashion meets, costume and…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Soviets Lost Cold War, Won Pulp Scifi Sweepstakes

In the heady days before Sputnik, the Soviet Union was bursting with enthusiasm for space travel and the conquest of big-headed aliens with tentacles coming off their faces. Dark Roasted Blend has posted a gallery of pulpy Soviet scifi art that’s full of speed lines, light rays, spaceships, giant robots and killer aliens. Click through…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Creature From The Black Lagoon Reemerges Gill By Gill

The Creature From The Black Lagoon’s fish-man is back, in a new remake of the 1954 classic. And the new version of the Creature has already been designed. Director Breck Eisner wants the new movie to be as scary as the original, but also wants you to empathize with the misunderstood and woman-craving mutant Gilly.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Earliest Days of Babylon 5 in Pictures

Here’s an amazing image from the pre-history of 1990s political space opera Babylon 5, when the set for the space station’s main corridor had first been built and the techs were testing out stage lighting in it. This just got posted by Mojo, a visual effects artist who works on Battlestar Galactica and used to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Hard Science Fiction Isn’t About Science After All

I’ve always thought the term “hard science fiction” referred to stories or novels where the science was important to the story, and which strove for absolute scientific and technical accuracy. But now it turns out I was wrong, and actually “hard SF” refers to stories about personal growth, along the lines of the Hero’s Journey.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Claymation Alien Explains The Plot Of Lost

The top secret government files of a purple alien, Prometheus, teaching the slightly slow caveman, Bob, are easily among the best science fiction comedy shorts in claymation history. According to the announcer, these tapes were recorded over 900,000 years ago by an alien using a remote controlled camera. See how Prometheus and Bob explain how…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Meet The Secret Brain Trust Behind Iron Man

If you liked the Iron Man movie and thought that some of it seemed remarkably true to the comic books, there’s a good reason for that… Marvel Comics’ writers were secretly involved with the writing of the movie and had to hold their silence until the movie’s release. Now that it’s a smash hit, beans…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Extreme Skydiver to Plummet 25 Miles to Earth

In a little over two weeks, skydiving specialist Michel Fournier plans to break the world record for the highest skydive ever attempted. If all goes well, he will jump from a balloon at an altitude of around 131,000 feet, or 25 miles above Saskatchewan, Canada. At around 115,000 feet his body will blow through the…

io9 Michael Reilly

Summer Movie Madness Hits This Week’s Comics

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the comics industry has gone movie mad this week, judging by the books hitting stores tomorrow. Well, more movie mad than usual, perhaps. If it’s not Marvel capitalizing on the success of Iron Man with two new Iron Man series and many other books starring the chrome crusader, it’s…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Wellness Skull Is a Sauna of Death

From the same guys that created the SlaveCity dystopia comes a cool alternative to the warmly lit, lavender-scented spa of the present—a giant skull with separate compartments for all your relaxation needs. The Wellness Skull houses a bath in its neck, a sauna in the head, and hot steam spouts at the eye sockets. There’s…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

For Those About To Grok

“I’m your superluminal lover, baby, emission beamed into the night. Check out my relativistic jet, my love’s faster than the speed of light.” Ok, so Alan Marscher, Professor of Astronomy at Boston University, isn’t exactly Bob Dylan. Or even LL Cool J. But he does write dope lyrics about astrophysics, and really, how many people…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Sci Fi Channel Buys The Next Generation, Sells Out

As if to prove the truth behind that whole “one step forward, two steps back” thing, the Sci Fi Channel announced a new deal with CBS Television that not only gives them the cable rights to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Mork and Mindy, but also Charmed and… well, The Ghost Whisperer and Friday…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Meteorite vs. Dinosaur Poop — Who Wins?

On the auction block at Bonham’s last week were two strange items: a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite from the dawn of the universe (left), and two chunks of fossilized dinosaur poop (right). Which do you think sold for the most money? Weirdly, it was the dinosaur poop, a relatively common item among fossil hounds that normally…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Doctor Who’s New Girlfriend GIves Good Phone

Here’s the moment where I decided I was actually getting to like brassy comedian Catherine Tate as the new traveling companion for Doctor Who’s quirky time-traveler. Yes, she’s not nearly as clever as Martha Jones, my number one hero, but that makes her heroics, when they happen, more exciting and suspenseful. I actually felt a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

We Ruin The Endings Of Lost, Doctor Who And Smallville

Greetings, spoiler-freaks! We’ve trawled through the Internet and found out details about Iron Man 2 and Batman 3, and we’ve found an Indiana Jones TV spot with some new footage. And there are a bunch of new details (and some rumors) about the future of British time-traveling soap-com Doctor Who. We also dredged up more…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Is It Right That the U.S. Government Spends More on the Digital TV Switch Than Literacy Education?

To be honest, I can’t say that I am surprised to hear that the government has allocated $1.5 billion to inform 17 million citizens about the digital TV transition. After all, those uninformed few would undoubtedly take up arms if they missed out on sports broadcasts and NBC’s Thursday lineup. However, I was a little…

Television Sean Fallon

A 5-Minute Crash-Course in Giant Monsters

Quantum Internet Could Protect Batman’s Secret Identity

Moon Party with Major Matt Mason and Buddies, 1968

Crispy Noodles Fuel Next-Gen Hydrogen Cars

Superheroes And Cyborgs Are The Height Of Fashion

Soviets Lost Cold War, Won Pulp Scifi Sweepstakes

The Creature From The Black Lagoon Reemerges Gill By Gill

The Earliest Days of Babylon 5 in Pictures

Hard Science Fiction Isn’t About Science After All

Claymation Alien Explains The Plot Of Lost

Meet The Secret Brain Trust Behind Iron Man

Extreme Skydiver to Plummet 25 Miles to Earth

Summer Movie Madness Hits This Week’s Comics

Wellness Skull Is a Sauna of Death

For Those About To Grok

Sci Fi Channel Buys The Next Generation, Sells Out

Meteorite vs. Dinosaur Poop — Who Wins?

Doctor Who’s New Girlfriend GIves Good Phone

We Ruin The Endings Of Lost, Doctor Who And Smallville

Is It Right That the U.S. Government Spends More on the Digital TV Switch Than Literacy Education?

A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams

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

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

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