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A Performance-Enhancing Drug for Scientists and Professors

Barry Bonds isn’t the only guy trying to better his game with drugs. If you’re trying to compete for the best grants and patents in the cut-throat science industry, you might be taking modafinil (AKA Provigil). Named “professor’s little helper” in a Nature commentary today, modafinil is a stimulant that its users compare to a…

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Yearning For Serene Flying Paddleboats

A lot of sci fi concept art has a tendency to be spiky and sharp looking, and you’ll usually see enough spires and knife-edged towers to populate an entire world with if you flip through a book of book of alien artwork. That’s why artist Ryan Church’s floating paddleboat here looks serene and peaceful. You…

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Joel Schumacher Dabbles In Vampire Nazi Experiments

The yawn-inducing still photo seen here was released yesterday as the first image from Joel Schumacher’s new film Town Creek, about a brother who seeks revenge on a family who has been hiding the result of some of the Third Reich’s experiments with the occult: a vampire. Not just any vampire, mind you, but a…

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A Bevvy of 1960s-Era Star Trek Babes

One of the best parts of Trek Classic is its propensity to dress its hot ladies in strange cloth squares, or to give them improbably huge go go boots. Sure, it was weird that female officers brought the male ones coffee on the Bridge, but hey it was the 1960s and everything was groovy. If…

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Aliens Kick Predator’s Ass and That’s Final

Welcome back to Horrorhead, a fortnightly column about all things scifi and horror. This week, a crucial topic: Aliens vs. Predators. Not the movie, the smackdown. Colin Strause, one of the two Brothers Strause who directed the upcoming Aliens vs. Predator sequel, is known across the webonets as a serious Predator fan. The brothers claim…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Mars, Up Close And Glowing

Mars came its closest to Earth in years last night. The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this image using a series of exposures over 36 hours, when Mars was just 55 million miles away. If this image gets you all fired up, you can discuss Mars with Ray Bradbury and (maybe) Arthur C. Clarke at a…

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You Can Live Without Heart Valves and Kidneys

Two new artificial organs rolled out in the past week are going to make things a hell of a lot easier for people with malfunctioning (or absent) heart valves and kidneys. The first device (pictured) is an artificial heart valve that can replace the part of your heart that pushes blood through your body. Being…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Goodbye to 4400’s Ripoff Mutants and Zany Scientology

Scott Peters, creator of the lovably bizarre mutant saga 4400, has just announced the show will be canceled after 4 seasons and a trippy cliffhanger. In this clip, you see the show at its best, making fun of its own gooftastic premise, which is that there are 4400 people in the world who time-traveled to…

Television Annalee Newitz

Korea’s Giant Monster Plots Comeback

A giant mutant could once again terrorize Korea in the Host 2, due in 2009. Korean comics superstar Kang Full is writing the script, which takes place a few years before the original film. The original Host (Gwoemul) featured “a carp crossed with a T-Rex,” according to design firm The Orphanage. Image from the Orphanage.…

Movies Charliejane

Superman Vs. Batman Rumors Just Won’t Die

We already told you about the Superman Vs. Batman in-joke movie billboard that makes an appearance in I Am Legend, and there’s a grainy shot of it above. When you watch this in a crowded theater you can hear the fangasm of recognition pass through the audience when this image slides by, and now various…

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Christina Ricci Will Work For Speed

Wake up and smell the spoilers. We’ve got forbidden knowledge about Speed Racer, Jericho, Lost and Star Trek, below the fold. Christina Ricci’s character kung-fu fights and drives fast cars just like the boys in Speed Racer, but her lipstick always matches her car’s chrome finish. [Sci Fi Wire] When rescuers show up on the…

Television Charliejane

Stan Lee Shouts ‘Excelsior!’ At io9

Stan Lee was the recipient of a much-deserved Jules Verne Lifetime Achievement Award this week, presented to him by Doug Jones (who played the Silver Surfer onscreen in the recent Fantastic Four sequel) and by Heroes creator Tim Kring and co-executive producer Jeph Loeb. It might have been a lifetime achievement award, but he certainly…

Movies Kevin Kelly

Is There Life On Saturn’s Moon?

Do these water jets come from an underground ocean orbiting Saturn? If so, it could nurture the only extraterrestrial life-forms in our solar system. But one scientist says that water is too pure to come from a buried ocean on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. The water has none of the sodium which it would…

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Worst Doctor Who Spoof Ever

Doctor Who star David Tennant played himself (and the Doctor) in the final episode of Extras, and dredged up every painful stereotype about the show. It’s all there: the crappy costume, the technobabble, the dumb science lesson (sodium chloride=salt) and the dying alien’s mouth goo. It’s not nearly as good a Who spoof as the…

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Chicago to Become Bicycler’s Paradise by 2015

The city of Chicago has released a very detailed plan to make the city one of the most bicycle-friendly in the U.S. In their “Bike 2015 Plan,” Chicago city planners propose elevated bike lanes, special maps designed to aid bikers, and a 500-mile bikeway network throughout the city. Their goal is to make 5 percent…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Best Reason To Cancel Star Trek

This review of Star Trek V is not only one of the funniest things you’ll read today, but it also highlights why this series needed to die a long time ago. J.J. Abrams had better have a few miracles up his sleeve for his remake, or else we’ll be prepared to read another review like…

io9 Kevin Kelly

First Look At Stephen Chow’s Alien Creature

The new science fiction movie from Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung-Fu Hustle) features this insanely cute alien dog. It turns out the toy that Chow’s character finds in a dumpster for his son isn’t just alien tech, but an alien creature. It also confirms our original suspicion about Chow’s CJ7. (More cute doggy pics after…

Movies Charliejane

‘Aliens Vs. Predator 2: Requiem’ Directors Tell io9 About Extraterrestrial Urban Life

The Brothers Strause (also known as Greg and Colin), directors of the new Aliens vs. Predator flick, are living the FX geek dream. They bought off-the-shelf visual effects software in their early teens, and by 1995 they had moved to Los Angeles to work on visual effects in the X-Files movie. Eventually they formed their…

Movies Kevin Kelly

Get Your Friends Hooked On The Legion

Does the Legion of Super Heroes confuse your loved ones? This gang of super-powered teenagers in the 30th century has an admittedly complicated backstory, including a dozen home planets and a billion soap-operatic entanglements. Luckily, the perfect holiday gift is also the best Legion teaching tool. Eye For An Eye, out this week, collects the…

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Massive Detonation Leaves A Permanent Scar

The largest piece of gunpowder art in history detonated last year in Fujian province, China. Cai Guoqiang, a New York-based artist, designed the “controlled explosion” to leave burn marks in the shape of a 59-foot-by-30-foot banyan tree. Check out the results. Image by AP Photo/EyePress.

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A Performance-Enhancing Drug for Scientists and Professors

Yearning For Serene Flying Paddleboats

Joel Schumacher Dabbles In Vampire Nazi Experiments

A Bevvy of 1960s-Era Star Trek Babes

Aliens Kick Predator’s Ass and That’s Final

Mars, Up Close And Glowing

You Can Live Without Heart Valves and Kidneys

Goodbye to 4400’s Ripoff Mutants and Zany Scientology

Korea’s Giant Monster Plots Comeback

Superman Vs. Batman Rumors Just Won’t Die

Christina Ricci Will Work For Speed

Stan Lee Shouts ‘Excelsior!’ At io9

Is There Life On Saturn’s Moon?

Worst Doctor Who Spoof Ever

Chicago to Become Bicycler’s Paradise by 2015

The Best Reason To Cancel Star Trek

First Look At Stephen Chow’s Alien Creature

‘Aliens Vs. Predator 2: Requiem’ Directors Tell io9 About Extraterrestrial Urban Life

Get Your Friends Hooked On The Legion

Massive Detonation Leaves A Permanent Scar

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