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The Complete X-Files on The X-Files

The long-awaited X-Files sequel (as yet unnamed) will be in theaters this summer, and even though it’ll have been six years since X-Files fans have seen anything new, there’s already a lot of excitement buzzing around this movie. Will they find the truth? Will they make a believer out of skeptics? Will they finally just…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Which Science Fiction Weapons Should Be Proactively Banned?

They’re arguing about this over at Wired’s Danger Room blog. Personally, I voted for Skynet, and for teleportation devices that fail to screen for insect matter. Weigh in on this crucial debate. [Danger Room]

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Greenhouse Made of Steel

Who said nature has to be pristine and untouched by technology? The Orquideorama is a giant steel-and-wood structure recently built in the middle of a more traditional botanical garden in Medellin, Colombia. It consists of a series of modular, honeycomb-like “flower-tree” structures. The hexagonal “flowers” actually serve an important function—they collect rainwater and distribute it…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Indiana Jones Will Be (Mostly) CGI-Free, Designer Tells io9

Click to viewWill Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull feature Indy ducking CGI boulders and reacting to greenscreen aliens? Not according to production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, who also worked on Superman Returns and X2: X-Men United. We just talked to Dyas, who says he built all of the movie’s sets, with…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Velocipedes the Wave of the Future, Circa 1900

The Mono-rail Track Velocipede wasn’t as flashy as a jet pack, but maybe it was more practical—as long as you had what Scientific American called in May 1900 a “single-rail railway” to use it on, of course. The lucky people of Wuppertal, Germany, have been using just such a suspension monorail since 1901. The Schwebebahn…

io9 Lynn Peril

Plot of New Neal Stephenson Novel Revealed

We’ve heard rumors about Neal “Snow Crash” Stephenson’s new novel, but nothing more concrete than that it would be called Anathem and it would be a space opera about math and aliens. That would mark a real departure for the novelist, who has dealt only with human histories and futures in his previous works like…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Justice League’s Superman Could Actually Be Super After All

You can stop hunting for Kryptonite. That rumor that Hayden “Annie” Christensen is playing Superman in the troubled new Justice League movie… is just a rumor. Christensen’s reps denied the report, which had been based on what Justice League: Mortal actor Adam Brody supposedly told a woman in a bar. The really shocking news, though,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Real-Life Casualties from “War of the Worlds”

Everyone knows about Orson Welles’ famous 1938 radio version of War Of The Worlds, which panicked the nation by (accidentally?) convincing those who tuned in late that New Jersey had been invaded by Martians. But how many of you knew that the same hoax succeeded two other times – and in one case, resulted in…

io9 Graeme McMillan

New Issue of Rudy Rucker’s FLURB Hits the Interwebs

Science fiction writer Rudy “Postsingular” Rucker has just posted issue #5 of his speculative fiction webzine FLURB, which is always full of bizarro delights. In this issue, Terry Bisson writes about a superhero called Captain Ordinary who teleports around the world via hidden portals in Starbucks outlets, triggered if you order the right kind of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What Are You Doing To Prepare For Human-Alien Sex?

The biggest challenge of the 21st century won’t be global warming, or colonizing Mars. Rather, most reputable futurists agree, it’ll be having sex with the vastly different alien species we’ll make contact with. When we finally meet extraterrestrial sentients, it will take some ingenuity to have something resembling sexual congress with them. What are you…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Jane Espenson Talks About Writing for Firefly and Battlestar — and Gives a Little Secret Cylon Backstory

Jane Espenson is the only person to have written for both Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, the two best TV space operas of the past decade. She wrote Firefly’s “Shindig” and at least three episodes so far for BSG. Back when Battlestar first launched, many people felt it was trying to copy the grittier look and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Battlestar Galactica Is Back… And We Have A Plan

There’s pretty much only one big science fiction show on the schedule for this week: the long-awaited return of Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi. And the other big news of the week is Spike’s huge Star Wars marathon, including the first time one of the prequels has ever been televised. But there’s some other worthwhile…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Western U.S. Cooked by Climate Change Sooner than the Rest of the World

Over the past five years, the western United States endured temperature increases that caused droughts, deadly heat waves, mass death of trees, and insect infestations. Now a new report from the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization demonstrates why: the U.S. West has experienced an average temperature increase that is 70 percent greater than the world as…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Portable, Transformable Desk for Global Office Nomads

Previously, I showed you an intensely overdone futuristic office space from Japan that made privacy almost nonexistent. Now, we have an uber-minimalist office idea from Dutch interior designer Jack Brandsma. He created SpareSpace, a portable desk that folds into a table or refolds into a bar, complete with sink. It’s perfect for rootless tech workers…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

The ’80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama “Ashes to Ashes”

Break out your legwarmers and Frankie Says t-shirts – BBC time travel drama Ashes to Ashes has been given a second season despite losing more than a fifth of its audience by the end of its first. The show, which follows policewoman Alex Drake after she finds herself stuck in 1981 after being shot in…

io9 Graeme McMillan

What Copyright Ruling Really Means For Superman

If you’re concerned that the family of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel regaining part of the copyright to Action Comics #1 means that you’re going to be deprived of new Superman comics or episodes of Smallville, then I have good news for you. That’s not going to happen anytime soon, as DC Comics still owns half…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Eighteenth Century Microscope Monsters

Europeans learned about the wonders of the microscopic world from drawings like this one, created by amateur microscope enthusiast Martin Frobenius Ledermüller in the 1760s. He put bugs, plants, and crystals under the microscope and produced fascinating, highly-symmetrical renderings of what he saw. We’ve got some etchings much weirder and more alien than this fly…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Indiana Jones Cracks Wise (As Well As Whip) In New Trailer

Shia LaBoeuf will be the dorky straight man to Harrison Ford’s wisecracking old-timer in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This new TV trailer shows a bit more of the duo’s dynamic, and there’s a lot of Shia gaping while Indy does something daring or smirkingly calls him a genius. I’m also…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Learn Who Dies In The Next Smallville!

Spoiler warning! This morning’s trove of spoilers is very picture-heavy, for some reason. New pictures show the biggest battle in Iron Man, a uniform from Star Trek, a big fight on Lost, a Decepticon from Transformers 2, and the identity of the person who dies on Smallville. We also have some new hints about Battlestar…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Mysterious New UFO Pics Probably from X-Files

A set of photographs depicting a beautiful, steampunk-looking UFO hovering over a small Northern California town are most likely from an X-Files viral marketing campaign. These images have zoomed across the web at lightspeed. Some of the first shots that made it onto the net last year showed this ship, pictured, which looks like something…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Complete X-Files on The X-Files

Which Science Fiction Weapons Should Be Proactively Banned?

A Greenhouse Made of Steel

Indiana Jones Will Be (Mostly) CGI-Free, Designer Tells io9

Velocipedes the Wave of the Future, Circa 1900

Plot of New Neal Stephenson Novel Revealed

Justice League’s Superman Could Actually Be Super After All

Real-Life Casualties from “War of the Worlds”

New Issue of Rudy Rucker’s FLURB Hits the Interwebs

What Are You Doing To Prepare For Human-Alien Sex?

Jane Espenson Talks About Writing for Firefly and Battlestar — and Gives a Little Secret Cylon Backstory

Battlestar Galactica Is Back… And We Have A Plan

Western U.S. Cooked by Climate Change Sooner than the Rest of the World

Portable, Transformable Desk for Global Office Nomads

The ’80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama “Ashes to Ashes”

What Copyright Ruling Really Means For Superman

Eighteenth Century Microscope Monsters

Indiana Jones Cracks Wise (As Well As Whip) In New Trailer

Learn Who Dies In The Next Smallville!

Mysterious New UFO Pics Probably from X-Files

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

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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