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Giant 800-Year-Old Pyramid Discovered Under Mexico City

Fragments of an enormous pyramid built by ancient Aztecs have been uncovered right in the heart of Mexico City. The finding suggest Aztecs moved into the area nearly a thousand years ago, and makes Mexico City into one seriously ancient urban development. The pyramid is about 35 feet high, and its ruins include a statue…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Searches for “End of the World” Are Skyrocketing on the Internets

Smartypants futurist Jamais Cascio has noticed something especially eschatological in the search logs for his blog, Open the Future. A few months ago, “end of the world” suddnely become the most popular search term leading people to his writing. Just to illustrate the weirdness, he’s created a graph showing how the phrase stacked up against…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Lightshow Worth Freezing Your Ass Off Over

The super bright Comet McNaught loses its tail among the Southern Lights during a geomagnetic storm over New Zealand, in this photo from Minoru Yoneto. Comet-hunting requires a good telescope, a “Dobsonian reflector,” and the willingness to freeze your ass off for hours. But then occasionally you get amazing photos like this one. There are…

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New Pics From Hulk, Possession, X-Files and More

Want to see what Edward Norton will look like as Bruce Banner in Incredible Hulk? Or how intensely Jason Statham will stare at the windshield of his makeshift jalopy in Death Race? The studios have released a ton of new promo pics. Click through for pics from Possession with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Terminator: The Sarah…

Television Charliejane

Get a Customized View of io9 with RSS Feeds

There are a lot of ways to consume io9 RSS feeds. First, there’s the regular RSS feed that will give you every piece of crunchy goodness we post every day. For that, subscribe to our full feed (with ads) or a partial feed (without ads). But there’s more! But you can also get more creative.…

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Japanese Masturbation Bot Takes Top Prize

A Japanese robot arm that can pick up 120 items per minute off of a moving conveyor belt took top prize at Japan’s Robot of the Year awards yesterday, swishing its arm back and forth in a gesture we think we may have seen before. The robo-arm analyzes items before snatching them up and depositing…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Question of the Day: HDTV or SDTV?

Although we write about HDTV and HD content all day like all of us have it (because most of us editors do), some of our readers actually don’t. We want to find out how exactly how many of you make up this group of resolution-deprived bastards. Vote, and then tell us exactly what type of…

Television Jason Chen

Swiss Death Star Is Answer To Global Warming

This starship-shaped building is designed to rescue the Swiss Alps from the effects of climate change. The region hopes this silver luxury resort, with its one Cylon-esque red eye, will help it attract visitors after there’s no more snow to ski on. The Intercontinental Resort in Davos opens in 2010, but here’s a mock-up from…

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US Stem Cell Policy Inspired by Anti-Authoritarian Scifi

You may have been wondering why President Bush vetoed bills that would have authorized government funding for stem cell research that could lead to cures for everything from Alzheimers to paralysis. Apparently it’s partly due to reading parts of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a classic 1930s scifi dystopia about a world where the government…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Comet Vs. Comet Around A Dead Star

A planetary system seems to have survived the death of its star, judging photos released last August from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The Helix Nebula, 700 light years from Earth, is the unraveling remains of a star not unlike our sun. It’s also one of the few nebulae to show any evidence of bodies that…

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Spielberg Gets Locked Into Underground Vault

Two films that Steven Spielberg had a hand in, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Back to the Future, were both selected alongside 23 other films to be shelved forever in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. They’ll get locked up inside a hermetically sealed vault, and preserved in mason jars with really…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Wacky Robots Conquer All

Disney/Pixar’s cute robot epic Wall-E will be hitting in summer, and they’ve just released a new image of the sad-looking little title character that’ll tug at your heartstrings. At a time when cinematic robots have become super-cars, or terrifying red-eyed machines with complete disregard for human life, Wall-E reminds us that there’s a robot counterculture…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Meet The Terminator In L.A.

You can hang out with Summer Glau, who plays the friendly Terminator in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. Glau, who’s a big part of why Connor may actually be worth watching, will be at the L.A. Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention Jan. 13, with co-star Thomas Dekker. [Buddy TV]

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Lost In 8 Minutes, 15 Seconds

Lost finally returns to television on January 31st, and if you haven’t seen the show or are in need of a refresher course in the form of a slap in the face, then check out the above video where you’ll be treated to a recap of the entire show so far in 8 minutes and…

Television Kevin Kelly

Ernie Hudson Wants ‘Ghostbusters 3’ To Call

Ernie Hudson hopes the new Ghostbusters video game coming out next year means Ghostbusters 3 will be haunting theaters. The game features Hudson’s voice, along with the voices of Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd, who wrote the game. The fact that Aykroyd was able to assemble all the original talent for this game…

io9 Kevin Kelly

10 Worst Futures Of 2007

Which visions of the future made us crave Lasik surgery the most in 2007? Hint: they involved wimpy cyborgs, blah parasites, boring plagues and “time-famine.” Click through to read our picks for the most underwhelming futures of the past year, in both scifi and futurist predictions. (Note: We’re not judging these things on their own…

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Hear Stross’ Drunken Sex Robot Odyssey

“I want you to know, darling, that I’m leaving you for another sex robot, and she’s twice the man you’ll ever be.” That’s the first line of Charles Stross’ novella “Trunk and Disorderly,” which just went online as an audio book at Subterranean Press. Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, it’s a silly P.G. Wodehouse-esque…

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Eliza Dushku Will Channel Summer Glau For Joss

Eliza Dushku may spend a lot of time channeling Summer Glau in Joss Whedon’s new show, Dollhouse. Joss tells SFX magazine that Eliza will be “playing a whole host of different personalities, including a total, childlike naif.” In other words, expect to see her doing an impression of River from Firefly. Joss corrected your Dollhouse…

Television Charliejane

Digital Movies Are More Expensive to Store Than Film

Hollywood may seem like the largest benefactor of digital technologies of anyone. While their classic movies were fading away on celluloid, computers came around and offered a means to import the images, make them beautiful again and save them for years to come. Along the same lines, digital cameras allow for instant editing of acquired…

Movies Mark Wilson

When Video Games Become Abstract Modernist Art

At some point, it was bound to happen: yesterday’s cutting-edge video games like Space Invaders and Donkey Kong have become abstract still-life paintings, thanks in part to software that quickly converts pixels into lines, turning rough edges into smooth vectors. Philipp Lenssen used a vectorizing app to turn screen shots of pixelly Space Invaders into…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Giant 800-Year-Old Pyramid Discovered Under Mexico City

Searches for “End of the World” Are Skyrocketing on the Internets

A Lightshow Worth Freezing Your Ass Off Over

New Pics From Hulk, Possession, X-Files and More

Get a Customized View of io9 with RSS Feeds

Japanese Masturbation Bot Takes Top Prize

Question of the Day: HDTV or SDTV?

Swiss Death Star Is Answer To Global Warming

US Stem Cell Policy Inspired by Anti-Authoritarian Scifi

Comet Vs. Comet Around A Dead Star

Spielberg Gets Locked Into Underground Vault

Wacky Robots Conquer All

Meet The Terminator In L.A.

Lost In 8 Minutes, 15 Seconds

Ernie Hudson Wants ‘Ghostbusters 3’ To Call

10 Worst Futures Of 2007

Hear Stross’ Drunken Sex Robot Odyssey

Eliza Dushku Will Channel Summer Glau For Joss

Digital Movies Are More Expensive to Store Than Film

When Video Games Become Abstract Modernist Art

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