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If a major disaster hits, will people in prison be screwed?

A life-threatening disaster looms ominously over you, your friends, family, and community. As you pack up your essentials, and bug out or head into a shelter, what happens to those who are locked up in your local prisons? Most prisons roll out disaster management plans, but what happens when they fail? Let’s take at the…

io9 Keith Veronese

Spend Your Spring Break In an Erupting Man-Made Volcano

This year don’t waste your spring break lying on a sunny beach in Florida. Instead, spend your week off trapped inside a volcano-shaped hotel that could erupt in a deluge at any minute. The unique resort, known as the La Montaña Mágica Lodge, is located in the middle of a 120,000 hectare UNESCO biosphere reserve.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Set Up Your Home Theater Like a THX Master

Building a killer home theater involves more than just throwing a big wad of cash at your local electronics dealer. It requires planning, finesse, and scientific acoustic manipulation. The engineers at THX pioneered a lot of the methods and technologies used in today’s top systems. So we took a trip to their San Rafael, California,…

Television Roberto Baldwin

10 Worst Science Fiction Movie Remakes of All Time

The worst thing about the flood of godawful remakes of science fiction movie classics? After a while, you just sort of get numb. From Keanu Reeves as Klaatu to Eddie Murphy as the Nutty Professor, it’s just… why. Here are the 10 absolute worst remakes of science fiction movies. 1. Planet Of The Apes The…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Xenomorph high heels for the Alien fetishist in your life!

Nod to the classic stylings of H.R. Giger with your feet, in these slick-as-hell Alexander McQueen beauties! These were created in 2010, and it’s a shame we’re just discovering the face-hugging resemblance now. We love them so hard we want to cover them in KY Jelly and wave them in Sigourney Weaver’s face. [via Geeks…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Shooting Challenge: Rise of the Tablet Cameras

Sam Biddle declares you should never, ever take a photo with a tablet. Objection noted. But to celebrate the launch of the iPad 3—the first decent camera in an iPad—we’re going to do it anyway. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-new-ipad-camera-shots-pretty-good-but-dont-5893176 The Challenge Take a photo with a tablet. It can be an iPad (old or new) or Android machine.…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Slime Mold and Highways Take the Exact Same Paths

Slime mold is weird stuff: despite having no brain or nervous system it’s ruthlessly efficient at hunting down food. So efficient that if you lay out food for it in the pattern of major cities across the US, it grows in the exact same paths as the highways we’ve already built. Andrew Adamatzky, a researcher…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Laser Pulses Can Erase a Printed Page

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a new way to recycle printed documents by simply vaporizing the toner off the page using laser pulses. The process can erase an entire page leaving the paper ready to be printed on again. You may recall that Toshiba has been developing a similar technique using special…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Is this the alternate origin story in Zack Snyder’s Superman?

Has a single call sheet revealed some huge spoilers for Zack Snyder’s Superman movie, The Man of Steel? Check out the brand new twists the 300 director is giving Superman’s origins story. Pittsburgh Movies snatched up a Man of Steel call sheet which is littered with tons of tiny Superman scenes. Here’s a rough translation…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is history’s most startling mental disorder

In the 1870s, something very strange happened to the French-Canadians working as lumberjacks in Northern Maine. When startled, they would jump in the air, imitate those around them, and even obey random commands. This was the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine disorder. Top image: Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine may not be the weirdest…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The Full List of HTC Android Phones Getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

If you have an HTC Android phone, you’re probably wondering where your Ice Cream Sandwich is. And though Android 4.0 ICS remains an elusive treat for most Android users, it’s gotta be a little comforting to know that the update will eventually come to your phone, right? Well, if you have these HTC phones slated…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Ion Cannon Behind the Next Solar Revolution

How do you fabricate solar panels at half the cost and 1/10th the thickness of conventional panels? With a custom-built particle accelerator ten times more powerful than conventional accelerators of course. As we reported yesterday, Twin Creeks Technologies is doing some pretty wild things with solar cells. They’re only 20 microns thick and extremely flexible…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Lost Boy Uses Google Earth to Find His Way Home After 25 Years

In 1987, five year old Saroo Brierley and his brother boarded a train that was supposed to take them home after a long day of begging on the streets of India. But the boys fell asleep, the train rolled on, and hours later they were deposited clear across the country. Twenty-five years later, Brierley has…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How Einstein Proved the Size and Existence of Atoms

Did you know that Einstein was born on Pi Day? The man’s awesomeness is immeasurable. Anyway, it’s Albert’s birthday, and Minute Physics is continuing its mission to educate we the idiots of the world about what Einstein actually did. Here, he’s calculating the size of atoms just by observing water and air. [Minute Physics]

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Roller coasters are the ultimate aphrodisiac, says science

Are you looking to seduce a would-be paramour on a roller coaster, but are completely unwilling to reenact that generation-defining Mark Wahlberg-Reese Witherspoon scene from Fear? Fortunately for you, such softcore machinations may be completely unnecessary. In a 2003 study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, researchers discovered that the thrills of roller coaster…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

If You Read Pi Long Enough, You’ll Find Hamlet

It’s Pi Day! Which, okay, whatever, if you were really hardcore about celebrating you’d figure out what nanosecond corresponds to 3.14159 or whatever and pop the Moet then but you didn’t and you won’t so whatever, right? But! That doesn’t mean we can’t still have some fun with the nerdiest holiday in the land, thanks…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Science of Rail Guns

Ubiquitous in science fiction, rail guns are a hot area of military research in real life too. But will we ever really get to use them the way people in science fiction do? And could rail guns be used for a non-violent reason — inexpensively launching payload into space? Halo Reach ends with your Spartan…

io9 Keith Veronese

Acne Enhancing Pink Lighting Used To Deter Loitering Youths

According to the BBC, a handful of small towns in the UK are installing pink lighting around shops, and other areas where teens hang out and cause trouble, because it makes acne and skin blemishes more visible. Since teens are already incredibly self-conscious of the way they look, the last place they’ll want to hang…

Health Andrew Liszewski

The First New iPad Camera Shots: Pretty Good! But Don’t Use It, Ever

The iPad 2’s camera was “really terrible,” and you look like an imbecile when using it. The latter factor is still firmly in place, but at least this time around Apple’s tablet takes pretty decent photos. Still, don’t do that. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-2-review-5782982 The Vietnamese gents at Tinhte.vn, who received their new iPad early, put up a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This ghostly hill in Lithuania is covered in 100,000 crosses

Twelve kilometers north of the Lithuanian town of Siauliai sits a historical hill fort that has become buried under tens of thousands of crosses. Over the centuries, this somber hill has accrued crosses from passing pilgrims. In more recent history, the site was a symbol of resistance against Russian (and later Soviet) occupation of Lithuania.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

If a major disaster hits, will people in prison be screwed?

Spend Your Spring Break In an Erupting Man-Made Volcano

Set Up Your Home Theater Like a THX Master

10 Worst Science Fiction Movie Remakes of All Time

Xenomorph high heels for the Alien fetishist in your life!

Shooting Challenge: Rise of the Tablet Cameras

Slime Mold and Highways Take the Exact Same Paths

Laser Pulses Can Erase a Printed Page

Is this the alternate origin story in Zack Snyder’s Superman?

The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is history’s most startling mental disorder

The Full List of HTC Android Phones Getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

The Ion Cannon Behind the Next Solar Revolution

Lost Boy Uses Google Earth to Find His Way Home After 25 Years

How Einstein Proved the Size and Existence of Atoms

Roller coasters are the ultimate aphrodisiac, says science

If You Read Pi Long Enough, You’ll Find Hamlet

The Science of Rail Guns

Acne Enhancing Pink Lighting Used To Deter Loitering Youths

The First New iPad Camera Shots: Pretty Good! But Don’t Use It, Ever

This ghostly hill in Lithuania is covered in 100,000 crosses

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