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Production on Mission: Impossible 6 Delayed Two Months Due to Tom Cruise’s Accident (UPDATED)

Earlier this week, Tom Cruise injured himself doing a stunt for the upcoming Mission: Impossible 6. Production will be shut down for around two months as a result. Variety first broke the news of the delay, which was then confirmed by the other Hollywood trades. Cruise was reportedly performing a stunt for the Christopher McQuarrie…

io9 Germain Lussier

St. Vincent Will Direct a Female-Focused Adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, about a man who stays young thanks to a magical portrait that does the aging for him, has been adapted countless times since it was first published in 1890. There’s yet another version in the works, and though its gender-swapping twist isn’t a first, it still sounds mighty…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Ancient Carnivorous Dread-Possum Is Upending the History of Mammals

During the 65 million years following the extinction of the dinosaurs, the success story of the mammals has been more than a little imbalanced. Eutherians (placental mammals like dogs, horses, you and I) had an evolutionary rager, exploding in diversity and filling vacant ecological roles across the Northern Hemisphere. Metatherians (including marsupials like kangaroos and…

Biology Jake Buehler

Can Trauma Experienced by Your Great-Great-Grandparents Be Passed on to You?

Our families pass on pieces of themselves to us in more than one way. Your eye color may be thanks to genetic inheritance, but not everything we inherit is encoded in the letters of our DNA. An affinity for Russian literature might be something your parents passed on via social influence, reading it to you…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Winning: Trump Dissolves Two Advisory Councils After Advisors Flee in Protest [Updated]

Donald Trump, a self-declared businessman, negotiated himself out of even more of his presidential responsibility this afternoon: Following a slew of defections this week, he announced plans (via Twitter, of course) to disband two White House advisory councils composed of top American business leaders. Truly, the loyalty of remaining CEOs like Michael Dell, Jamie Dimon…

Tech News Avery Ellis

The Insanely Influential Star Wars Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game Are Coming Back

If you were a kid in the late 1980s or early 1990s, Star Wars was almost totally gone from the pop culture landscape. However, one place it not only lived, but thrived, was on the page, thanks in large part to two Star Wars volumes: The Roleplaying Game and Sourcebook. First published in 1987 by…

io9 Germain Lussier

Giant Tortoise Apprehended 140 Meters From Zoo Two Weeks After Daring Escape

A female Aldabra giant tortoise named Abuh who had escaped from a Japanese zoo earlier this month has been found just a few steps away from the facility. Which got us wondering: Just how far could a 121 pound tortoise travel in 16 days? As reported in ChannelNewsAsia, Abuh made her daring escape on August…

Biology George Dvorsky

Why NASA Is Launching Massive Balloons of Bacteria During the Eclipse

Monday’s total solar eclipse will provide some much-needed wholesome enjoyment for all of us here in the United States. To make things even sweeter, NASA—in collaboration with researchers at Montana State University—will be seizing the opportunity to launch some giant balloons during the event. Scientists aren’t sending up balloons because they’re super stoked about the…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Dark Nights: Metal Is DC at Its Craziest, and That’s Why We Like It

Earlier this week, DC Comics revealed a major, incredibly unexpected return of a character that many fans thought they’d never see again, thanks to the final page of Dark Nights: Metal #1. It was definitely a shocking moment in a comics event that’s been promising to be a bonkers exploration of the DC mythos for…

io9 James Whitbrook

Borrowing a Clever Trick From Birds, This Smart Glider Could One Day Fly Forever Without a Motor

While scouring large swaths of land for prey, predators like hawks and eagles will often take advantage of rising thermals to stay airborne and glide for extended periods with minimal effort. Humans have copied this approach which allows sailplanes to fly without a motor, but Microsoft is now teaching an AI how to pilot an…

Artificial Intelligence Andrew Liszewski

Watch Five Noomi Rapaces Fight Together in This Clip From What Happened to Monday

What Happened to Monday, which drops on Netflix Friday, is a dystopian scifi film where families are only allowed one child to curb the world’s exploding population. However, one father decides his identical septuplets all deserve to live. So he hides them, raises them, and names each of them after a day of the week.…

io9 Germain Lussier

AMC Theaters Is Not Happy About the New Super Cheap MoviePass Service

You probably saw this coming. The long embattled theatrical movie subscription service MoviePass blew everyone’s minds on Tuesday with an unbelievably cheap service that would seem to undermine the economics of moviegoing, and now, the largest movie theater chain in America is threatening legal action. AMC Theaters wants to block MoviePass subscribers from using the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

That Bloody Photo of Steve Bannon Is Totally Fake

Have you seen this photo of White House advisor Steve Bannon? It’s been doing the rounds on Twitter for a few days now. But it’s totally fake. Well, it’s kind of fake. It’s mostly fake. It’s… a bit fake. Bannon is definitely in President Trump’s top-five favorite white nationalists who are currently serving in the…

Tech News Matt Novak

Riverdale‘s Creator Is Teasing Us With a Horrifying, Supernatural Monster From Reddit

By this point, you should know who killed Jason Blossom and kept all of Riverdale’s sultry, suspicious citizens in a state of low-grade terror for the better part of the show’s first season. Next season, though, it seems as if there might be an all-new, much creepier murderer with a connection to the Blossoms in…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Maybe Apple’s One Billion Dollar Original Content Push Will Actually Be Good

So far, Apple’s original video content has been the least Apple-style product that Apple has produced in modern times. The few shows that the company has produced have committed a sin that’s even worse than being bad—they’re lame. Well, the company announced today that it’s digging into its bottomless coffers and actually making a major…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Fish Are Eating Small Bits of Plastic Because It Smells Delicious

Each year, our civilization pours around eight million tons of plastic into the ocean, a portion of which ends up in the bellies of fish, and by consequence, our dinner plates. New research suggests that at least one species of fish isn’t ingesting this plastic debris by chance—they’re actually attracted to the smell. The Northern…

Biology George Dvorsky

The 9 Most Nightmarish Movies About Nuclear Attacks

Film, especially science fiction, has always loved to explore the future we are most afraid of. That’s why nukes have been lighting up the screen for decades, with recent events have made the theme more timely and scarier than ever. Here are the nine most nightmare-inducing movies about nuclear attacks. Note: Dr. Strangelove, Miracle Mile,…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

World’s Greatest Trucker Tattoo Makes This Guy Look Like a Tiny Person Driving Another Human

If you’re going to endure all the pain and discomfort of getting a tattoo, you might as well ensure you’re getting inked with a memorable design. Truck driver Kenny Ollerenshaw raised the bar with a tattoo that makes him look like a tiny pilot controlling a humanoid robot. It apparently took tattoo artist Richard Batey…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

New Tick Clip Shows What Hurts the Big Blue Superhero

In past iterations, Ben Edlund’s imposing antennaed superhero has referred to himself as nigh-invulnerable. It generally seems like not very much can hurt him. But he’s feeling the pain in this fresh teaser for the upcoming Amazon series. This clip comes via Entertainment Weekly and features the Tick facing off against Overkill, the gruff, lethally…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Hands On With the Vibrator That Wants to Be the Smartest Sex Toy in the World

Liz Klinger admits that the Lioness isn’t the world’s greatest vibrator. It won’t work perfectly for every person who uses it. “No vibrator is for everybody. You’d have to have, like, a Play-Doh thing that has a motor in it,” she told me in a crowded coffee house at lunch hour. On August 15th the…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Production on Mission: Impossible 6 Delayed Two Months Due to Tom Cruise’s Accident (UPDATED)

St. Vincent Will Direct a Female-Focused Adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Ancient Carnivorous Dread-Possum Is Upending the History of Mammals

Can Trauma Experienced by Your Great-Great-Grandparents Be Passed on to You?

Winning: Trump Dissolves Two Advisory Councils After Advisors Flee in Protest [Updated]

The Insanely Influential Star Wars Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game Are Coming Back

Giant Tortoise Apprehended 140 Meters From Zoo Two Weeks After Daring Escape

Why NASA Is Launching Massive Balloons of Bacteria During the Eclipse

Dark Nights: Metal Is DC at Its Craziest, and That’s Why We Like It

Borrowing a Clever Trick From Birds, This Smart Glider Could One Day Fly Forever Without a Motor

Watch Five Noomi Rapaces Fight Together in This Clip From What Happened to Monday

AMC Theaters Is Not Happy About the New Super Cheap MoviePass Service

That Bloody Photo of Steve Bannon Is Totally Fake

Riverdale‘s Creator Is Teasing Us With a Horrifying, Supernatural Monster From Reddit

Maybe Apple’s One Billion Dollar Original Content Push Will Actually Be Good

Fish Are Eating Small Bits of Plastic Because It Smells Delicious

The 9 Most Nightmarish Movies About Nuclear Attacks

World’s Greatest Trucker Tattoo Makes This Guy Look Like a Tiny Person Driving Another Human

New Tick Clip Shows What Hurts the Big Blue Superhero

Hands On With the Vibrator That Wants to Be the Smartest Sex Toy in the World

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