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Vegetables can survive in a vacuum longer than you can

Researchers found that radishes, lettuce and wheat can be exposed to vacuum conditions for half an hour with no ill effects. We salute the brave souls who sacrificed themselves for science . . . and ate space radishes. Space colonization has been a dream of humanity for many years. Despite Nasa budget cuts, a lost…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Ridley Scott’s Alien Prequel is dead, but out of its ashes rises a brand new alien

The Alien prequel is dead. But Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof are salvaging the script’s carcass by reconstructing the original premise into a new film titled Prometheus. Noomi Rapace will still star, and “strands of Alien’s DNA” will remain. [THR]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Everything Worth Knowing About Arduino

Arduino! It’s a wonderful thing, this open source hardware, and it pops up around here quite often. You can’t get much better of an arduino primer—both what it is and where it came from—than this brilliant documentary. From Rodrigo Calvo and Raúl Alaejos, Arduino: The Documentary delivers on the promise of its straightforward title. Also:…

Movies Brian Barrett

Google may soon be networking its computers using fly brains

One of hardest things about creating vast networks of devices is getting them all to communicate effectively. It turns out that fly brains may hold the solution. Fruit flies have a highly efficient nervous system. To process the data coming in from thousands of tiny sensory hairs that provide their view of the outside world,…

io9 Tim Barribeau

The aircraft of 2025 can go up to 85 percent of the speed of sound while carrying up to 100,000 pounds

Check out Boeing’s concept drawings of a super-advanced aircraft in 2025. NASA gave Boeing, plus Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, contracts to study cleaner, safer, and more fuel-efficient aircraft designs for 14 years hence, and here’s the first look. [NASA]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Rare Footage of Daft Punk’s 1980’s Helmet Found

Did I say 1980s? I meant 2011sies, sorry. I bet the sweaty Daft Punk guys are looking at DJ Kid Chameleon’s Macintosh Plus and iPad helmet in envy—especially if there’s a fan component squeezed in there. You can see him spinning tracks while wearing his iPad helmet after the 45 second mark in the video…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Why aren’t you playing Space Hulk: Death Angel right now?

It’s rare for a game to scale well enough that you can enjoy it solitaire as much as with five friends. It’s also rare when a game’s mechanics perfectly reinforce its story. Space Hulk: Death Angel does both. Image via VP Corbella. Let me just get this out of the way at the start of…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

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Movies Meredith Woerner

Best mad scientist deal of the day: 40% off ebook versions of MAKE magazine

If you like to do things like build your own guitar, send your mobile phone into space, knit armor, and stick LEDs on every possible surface, then you need MAKE magazine in your life. It’s full of cool articles and how-tos for people who want to work in a mad science lab – and the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Sad Demise of IBM’s Awesome Fold Out Keyboard

Sometimes even the most thoughtful designs and engineering feats are preordained to fail. Such is the case with IBM’s Butterfly Keyboard (aka the TrackWrite), an ingenious solution to what turned out to be a temporary problem. The year is 1995. Terms like “ultraportable” and “small footprint” are becoming a fixed part of compu-jargon, and computer…

Tech News Bryan Gardiner

The solar wind lights up the night

Check out this stunning image of an aurora as seen in Tromsø, Norway. The solar wind combines with moonlight and snow for a once-in-a-lifetime view. Even more spectacular views might arrive today, when stronger solar winds hit our magnetic field. Photo by Thilo Bubek. [Via Space Weather]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Revolution Will Be Instagrammed

Twitter officially arrived when Captain Sullenberger sent US Airways flight 1549 splashing down into the Hudson. Instagram’s moment was last week, when forty-nine states—fully ninety-eight percent of American states—were doused with snow. Instagram arrived with the sound and fury of the blizzard outside: A flurry of pictures from dozens of people depicting hundreds of scenes…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Cricket-specific plague strikes

Three days ago our hopes were raised for a coming insect-based food supply for humans. Already, those hopes have been dashed. A cricket plague has hit North America, and it threatens to shut cricket farms down. What with every animal on earth deciding too keel over and die in mass quantities, it’s hard separating out…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

ZDNet Blogger Disappears Mysteriously in Bulgaria

This isn’t good. Dancho Danchev, a ZDNet blogger specializing in malware and cybercrime, has been missing since August, thought to be somewhere in Bulgaria. ZDNet’s only lead? This cryptic message: “Dancho’s alive but he’s in a lot of trouble.” That note came from a “local source,” and all other attempts to contact Danchev have come…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Maybe We Don’t Need Pretty Touchscreens In Our Coffee Machines

I know that some people think that coffee brewing should require an engineering major, two masters in biology and agricultural sciences and a chemistry doctorate. I’m writing about this touch-screen coffee machine only to annoy him. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodos-matt-buchanan-explains-proper-cold-brewed-coff-5605811 It’s Kaffee Partner’s Ultima Duo, a coffee brewer with a 7-inch 800×480 touchscreen that allows you to choose…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

When pistachio nuts explode

Laptops and humans aren’t the only things that can spontaneously combust. Pistachios are so likely to burst into flames that there are strict shipping codes to keep them from doing so. Next time you’re slurping some pistachio ice cream (Although why would you when there are sane flavors like chocolate and pumpkin?) be aware of…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Deadpool-ized version of Green Lantern trailer is a massive upgrade

What if Ryan Reynolds had made the Deadpool movie instead of Green Lantern? It probably would have looked a little something like this. One fan improves the Green Lantern trailer by completely replacing him with the Merc with a Mouth. [via Nerd Bastards]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Introducing the Video Challenge

We couldn’t be more impressed with the way the Gizmodo community has pushed their photography skills with Shooting Challenges. So today, we’re expanding the idea with a once-a-month expansion called the Video Challenge. Our first topic: time lapse. So How Will This Work? With the existing Shooting Challenge, you get a little under a week…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Green Hornet is the rare stoner superhero movie that you can enjoy sober

Imagine if you crossed Cheech and Chong’s 1970s stoner masterpiece Up In Smoke with the gadget-enhanced asskickery of Batman Begins. Sounds like it could never work, right? But Seth Rogen’s Green Hornet proves that it does. And it’s surprisingly awesome. There has been a lot of grumbling about Green Hornet, ever since it was first…

Movies Annalee Newitz

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Vegetables can survive in a vacuum longer than you can

Ridley Scott’s Alien Prequel is dead, but out of its ashes rises a brand new alien

Everything Worth Knowing About Arduino

Google may soon be networking its computers using fly brains

The aircraft of 2025 can go up to 85 percent of the speed of sound while carrying up to 100,000 pounds

Rare Footage of Daft Punk’s 1980’s Helmet Found

Why aren’t you playing Space Hulk: Death Angel right now?

11/11/11 Concept Art

Best mad scientist deal of the day: 40% off ebook versions of MAKE magazine

The Sad Demise of IBM’s Awesome Fold Out Keyboard

The solar wind lights up the night

The Revolution Will Be Instagrammed

Cricket-specific plague strikes

ZDNet Blogger Disappears Mysteriously in Bulgaria

Maybe We Don’t Need Pretty Touchscreens In Our Coffee Machines

When pistachio nuts explode

Deadpool-ized version of Green Lantern trailer is a massive upgrade

Introducing the Video Challenge

The Green Hornet is the rare stoner superhero movie that you can enjoy sober

Deals of the Day

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