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100 US Mayors Sign Pledge to Defend Net Neutrality Against Crooked ISPs

More than 100 US mayors have signed a pledge to hold internet service providers accountable for net neutrality violations, despite the FCC’s vote to repeal the regulations late last year. The pledge, initiated by Mayors Bill de Blasio of New York City, Steve Adler of Austin, and Ted Wheeler of Portland, promises that cities will…

Tech News Dell Cameron Apr 27 '18

I’m Struggling to Believe This Report of an Apple AR/VR Headset Coming in 2020

Apple has stumbled in its efforts to win the voice computing wars, and it’s pretty far behind its competitors in the virtual reality/mixed reality field. But if a new report is true, Apple is aiming to have a headset ready by 2020 that goes beyond anything we’ve ever seen. Take this all with a large…

Tech News Rhett Jones Apr 27 '18

Smack-Talking Vegetables and False Prophets Will Be the End of Everything in This Week’s Best New Comics

You know the funny thing about brussels sprouts? Most people who think they don’t like them have actually just never had them prepared the right way. Rule of thumb: Always roast them, never steam them. Because to steam a brussels sprout is to invite a world of terror and anguish into your life. This week’s…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 27 '18

This Shape-Shifting, Pin-Headed Robot Lets You Feel Virtual Objects With Your Bare Hands

Virtual reality headsets today use your eyes and ears to make simulated experiences seem more real, but what about your other senses? Researchers at Stanford University have come up with a way for your hands and fingers to feel virtual objects with a unique robot that looks like an animated version of those Pin Art…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 27 '18

Good Job Rhinos, Keep Boning

In a rare bright spot for rhino conservation, two new Javan rhino calves have been spotted in Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park. Before these babies, there were only 67 confirmed Javan rhinos left on Earth. The rarest of the five rhino species and “probably the rarest large mammal on the planet” according to the World…

Conservation Maddie Stone Apr 27 '18

The Arabian Sea’s Suffocating ‘Dead Zone’ Is Even Larger Than We Imagined

Since the early 1960s, scientists have known about the so-called “dead zone” in the Gulf of Oman, a patch of water practically devoid of all oxygen. As anyone who has ever owned an aquarium knows, even fish require oxygen, but as a surprising new survey shows, the Arabian Sea features an oxygen-starved aquarium the size…

Climate Change George Dvorsky Apr 27 '18

Oh God, Ryan Zinke

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is a man of pomp, circumstance, and the mountains. He has a big boy flag he makes staff raise when he’s in his office, rode a horse to his first day of work, and calls himself a geologist. I don’t know if you heard, but he also used to be a…

Conservation Brian Kahn Apr 27 '18

Guillermo del Toro’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Movie Is Creeping Ever-Closer to Your Nightmares

It’s been a few years since we heard anything about the planned big-screen adaptation of legendarily terrifying kid’s book series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Since then, the project’s biggest champion, Guillermo del Toro, won a couple of Oscars—which no doubt helped it get a big push forward. Before you get too excited,…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Apr 27 '18

What’s the Best Astronomical Object in Your Zodiac Sign?

It’s true that astrology is not science—there is no evidence to support that personal traits or mystical truths have anything to do with the Sun and the planets’ locations in the sky at the time you were born. But there is an intersection with astronomy, the real science behind the Sun, the stars, and what…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 27 '18

The Mighty Thor Bids a Final Farewell to the Goddess of Thunder, With a Twist

Last month, Jane Foster, Marvel’s Goddess of Thunder, finally fell in battle. This week, the Mighty Thor gets a fitting sendoff—but as is so often the case with comics, the end of one story is merely the beginning of another. And some stories of Asgard’s fiercest defender are not quite over yet. The Mighty Thor…

io9 James Whitbrook Apr 27 '18

Bask in the Glory of Light Up Abs With New Superman Lives Test Footage

The infamous story of what could’ve been with Tim Burton’s take on the Man of Steel in Superman Lives is internet legend at this point—even if it wasn’t actually going to be the final suit Nic Cage donned in the film, the sparkly take on Superman’s costume is forever a reminder of how bad things…

io9 James Whitbrook Apr 27 '18

Scientists Kept Disembodied Pig Brains ‘Alive’ for 36 Hours—and It’s Testing Our Conceptions of Death

A neuroscientist from Yale University is claiming to have developed a technique that preserves the brain tissue of pigs for an extended period following decapitation. The brains are apparently not conscious, but the new technique is raising a number of important ethical issues. As Antonio Regalado reports in MIT Technology Review, Yale neuroscientist Nenad Sestan…

Tech News George Dvorsky Apr 27 '18

Scott Pruitt Was Never Going to Bring Back the EPA Climate Change Website

Tomorrow, it will have been one year since the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) climate change website was taken offline. And all signs are pointing toward it never coming back under the Trump administration. On April 28, 2017, visitors who arrived at the EPA’s climate website were redirected to a page with this: Thank you for…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn Apr 27 '18

Aggretsuko Is All of Us and We Are All Aggretsuko

There comes a point in every young professional’s life when they find themselves sitting in a dreary office and wondering, “What am I doing? Who am I? Is this really all there is to life?” These thoughts are typically followed by the consumption of alcohol and, in Aggretsuko’s case, a side of death metal karaoke.…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 27 '18

Congress’s Only Physicist Explains What’s at Stake for Science This Year

In March, Congress passed a massive spending bill, averting (further) government shutdowns. Though he threw a minor tantrum about it, President Trump signed the bill into law. Among the various things that might have spawned the whining was the complete reversal of the White House budget requests when it came to science. The bill was,…

Tech News Dave Levitan Apr 27 '18

Researchers Want to Use AI to ‘Predict’ When Crimes Are Gang-Related

Researchers are using predictive artificial intelligence to help police officers classify crimes and determine whether they are gang-related. Jeffrey Brantingham, a University of California at Los Angeles anthropology professor and pioneer in the field of predictive policing, presented research earlier this year that uses a neural network to predict if crimes are gang-related. The ultimate…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Apr 27 '18

The Next-Gen Cheap iPhone Might be Ditching a Feature You Probably Never Use Anyways

In advance of the next batch of iPhones, noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has already shed some light on the three new iPhone models he expects to see this fall. But recently, new details have emerged from Kuo on Chinese website Feng about the upcoming 6.1-inch iPhone, and its apparent lack of 3D Touch. According…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Apr 27 '18

What the Golden State Killer Case Reveals About Your Genetic Privacy

The identity of the Golden State Killer, a notorious serial killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s, evaded police for decades. The case went cold. Then, recently, investigators got a major break: A match for what seemed to be a close relative of the killer, uploaded onto a genealogy website. Investigators scoured the…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Apr 27 '18

Gorgeous Photo of Martian Landscape Is Just the Beginning for ExoMars Mission

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has released the first images from its new orbit, taken on April 15 from 400 kilometers above the Martian surface. Here’s the uncropped composite image: The image reveals 40 kilometers of dust, dirt, and ice (seen in white) along the Korolev impact crater in the planet’s Northern Hemisphere, according to…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 27 '18

Venom and Eddie Brock Are Having a Baby

Congratulations are in order. Eddie Brock and Venom’s beautiful, dark, twisted nightmare family is about to get a little bigger. The most important thing to know about Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote is that the pair are currently in a long-term, committed relationship with one another that’s equal parts romantic and parasitic. Eddie and…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 27 '18

100 US Mayors Sign Pledge to Defend Net Neutrality Against Crooked ISPs

I’m Struggling to Believe This Report of an Apple AR/VR Headset Coming in 2020

Smack-Talking Vegetables and False Prophets Will Be the End of Everything in This Week’s Best New Comics

This Shape-Shifting, Pin-Headed Robot Lets You Feel Virtual Objects With Your Bare Hands

Good Job Rhinos, Keep Boning

The Arabian Sea’s Suffocating ‘Dead Zone’ Is Even Larger Than We Imagined

Oh God, Ryan Zinke

Guillermo del Toro’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Movie Is Creeping Ever-Closer to Your Nightmares

What’s the Best Astronomical Object in Your Zodiac Sign?

The Mighty Thor Bids a Final Farewell to the Goddess of Thunder, With a Twist

Bask in the Glory of Light Up Abs With New Superman Lives Test Footage

Scientists Kept Disembodied Pig Brains ‘Alive’ for 36 Hours—and It’s Testing Our Conceptions of Death

Scott Pruitt Was Never Going to Bring Back the EPA Climate Change Website

Aggretsuko Is All of Us and We Are All Aggretsuko

Congress’s Only Physicist Explains What’s at Stake for Science This Year

Researchers Want to Use AI to ‘Predict’ When Crimes Are Gang-Related

The Next-Gen Cheap iPhone Might be Ditching a Feature You Probably Never Use Anyways

What the Golden State Killer Case Reveals About Your Genetic Privacy

Gorgeous Photo of Martian Landscape Is Just the Beginning for ExoMars Mission

Venom and Eddie Brock Are Having a Baby

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