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Swearing May Be Your Best Option When Trying to Open That #$@&%*! Jar

Here’s a cool bodyhack to remember next time you’re embroiled in battle against a jar lid that refuses to budge: use your go-to expletive. This trick was recently uncovered by Keele University psychologists whose experiments suggest that swearing might make people stronger—at least for tasks requiring short and intense bursts of power. This mildly unsurprising…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Watching Wonder Woman Save Poor, Imperiled Steve Trevor Is So, So Satisfying

I’m all for Chris Pine cracking jokes and being rescued by a kickass Gal Gadot all the time in Wonder Woman, which basically means the movie just needs to be different versions of this new clip over and over again. The snippet aired on last night’s Jimmy Fallon, as part of an interview with Chris…

Movies James Whitbrook

North Korea Thinks the CIA Hired a Lumberjack to Assassinate Kim Jong Un With Nano Weapons?

The North Korean government is famous for coming up with some peculiar theories. But have you heard the one about how the CIA and South Korea’s intelligence agency paid a “lumberjack” $20,000 to kill Kim Jong Un and his cronies with “radioactive” and “nano poisonous” substances? It’s a doozy. The allegation surfaced on Friday in…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A Graphene Speaker With No Moving Parts Uses Heat to Produce Sound

The traditional speaker design involves the use of a vibrating membrane that pushes air to create sound waves that travel to your ears. The technology has been in use for well over a century, but scientists at the University of Exeter might have found a way to improve how speakers work—eliminating movement altogether—using the wonder…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

These Flowers Hold Clues to Spreading Life Beyond Earth

It feels like we’re constantly searching for a friend out there in the cosmos, only to be repeatedly disappointed. But what if, in our quest to discover life beyond Earth, we’ve overlooking a more important question? What if the question we should really be asking is, how do we ensure life spreads beyond Earth? Seeds…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

What Should Elon Musk Name His Tunneling Machine?

Elon Musk, best known for running Tesla and SpaceX, has recently turned his attention back to Earth. Specifically, under the earth: His Boring Company wants to build a tunnel under Los Angeles to alleviate its traffic problem. It’s a bold plan, and details are still relatively scarce. But more crucially than mundane details like “permits”…

Tech News Libby Watson

The First Inhumans Teaser Hints at the Epic War Brewing Inside the Royal Family

There are scant few plot details describing just what sort of adventure Marvel’s Inhumans will get into in their upcoming live-action series. But this first trailer for the Inhumans—voiceover only, alas—suggests that Maximus won’t be hiding his disdain for his brother and king Black Bolt’s approach to politics. That’s definitely Maximus, played by Iwan “Ramsay…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Hulu Live TV Is the Best Cordcutter Service Yet, But It Needs Some Work

Hulu’s highly-anticipated live TV service is now available in beta and from my viewing experience, it’s the strongest offering yet, thanks to its combination of live TV, Hulu originals, and an on-demand selection of thousands of movies and TV shows. It used to be that if you wanted to watch ESPN, you had to subscribe…

Reviews Christina Warren

Something Totally Crazy Could Happen to Bumblebee in Transformers: The Last Knight

The BBC is waging a new War of the Worlds. Get a bizarre look at a Guardian of the Galaxy on the set of Avengers: Infinity War. Aquaman teases some flashbacks ahead for Arthur Curry. Plus, teasing new details for the Han Solo movie, and what’s to come on Arrow, Flash, iZombie, and Supergirl. To…

Television James Whitbrook

Uber Faces Criminal Probe for ‘Greyball’ Program

Reuters is reporting tonight that Uber faces a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for using software to avoid scrutiny by government regulators. In March, the New York Times’ Mike Isaac reported the existence of the “Greyball” software, used to “identify and circumvent officials who were trying to clamp down on the ride-hailing service.”…

Tech News Libby Watson

This Warhammer 40,000 Animated Short Series Is Unbelievably Gorgeous

Not only is this fan-made short series really well edited and put together, it’s got an art style quite unlike anything you’ve seen before from the grim dark future of Warhammer 40,000’s setting. Animated by Richard Boylan, Helsreach is a multi-part adaptation of Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s 2010 novel of the same name, which follows the exploits…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Terminator 2 3D Trailer Has Something Much Cooler Going for It Than 3D

Today, a new trailer was released to promote the fact that James Cameron’s masterpiece Terminator 2: Judgment Day is getting a 3D re-release this summer. But the 3D is not the most exciting part. Look at that image above. On the left, you see a screenshot from the original 1991 trailer. On the right, the…

Movies Germain Lussier

The State Department Wants 5 Years of Social Media Handles From Refugees Before Entry

On Thursday, the Department of State issued a notice to the Federal Register, soliciting public comments on a new procedure for vetting immigrants and asylum-seekers applying for US visas. If approved, applicants will be asked for their past five years of social media handles and could be denied entry if they refuse. The new rule,…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

What the Hell Is Marvel’s Inhumans Doing About Medusa’s Wig Situation?

Today, we got our first look at the royal family of Marvel’s upcoming Inhumans TV series. We saw Black Bolt grimacing without his mask, Maximus looking suspiciously like Ramsay Bolton, and of course, we saw Queen Medusa. Wearing what looks like a Party City wig. Marvel, what the fuck is going on? Like all Inhumans…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Scientists Think They Know What’s Behind Those Mysterious Gamma Rays in the Galactic Center

Count up all the stuff in a galaxy and you should have a pretty good understanding of how much light is being emitted. But that doesn’t seem to be the case for our own Milky Way. Our galaxy’s got a source of extra gamma rays, the highest-energy light, right in its center. And scientists don’t…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Ghouls Celebrate Blood Feast

At approximately 2:15pm today, 217 House Republicans voted to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act, sending their own plan to the Senate and potentially destroying healthcare for millions. Then they had a little party. Bon appétit, you fucking vampires.

Tech News Hudson Hongo

Self-Driving Cars Feel Like Death Traps–Can We Be Convinced Otherwise?

Since we’re all friends here on the internet, I’ll let you in on a little secret: I hate driving. I drive too slowly, lurch violently when I change lanes, and the thought of having to merge onto a speeding California highway makes my heart speed up a little even as I write this. I’m no…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

New Twin Peaks Teaser Gives Us Our First Real Glimpse of Footage From the Show

Before you get too excited, this new Twin Peaks teaser is 30 seconds of enigmatic footage and 30 seconds reminding you to subscribe to Showtime ahead of the show’s May 21 debut. Still, considering we’ve seen barely anything from the cult hit’s long-awaited return, it’s still HUGE. Everyone we revisit in “Some Familiar Faces 25…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Adorable New Tarsiers Look Like Stoned Yoda

Happy Star Wars Day, everyone! What better way to celebrate than by ooh-ing and aww-ing over two newly-discovered species of tarsier that look exactly like Yoda if he were extremely high? A new study published today in Primate Conservation has all the details on these little guys, which were found on Sulawesi, an island in…

Biology Rae Paoletta

HBO and George R.R. Martin Are Developing Four Game of Thrones Spinoffs

HBO is preparing for the eventual end of Game of Thrones by developing not one, not two, not three, but four spinoffs set in that world. While we’ve known for awhile that there was a possibility of a prequel series, this is a lot more of a commitment than we’d previously heard. According to IGN,…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Swearing May Be Your Best Option When Trying to Open That #$@&%*! Jar

Watching Wonder Woman Save Poor, Imperiled Steve Trevor Is So, So Satisfying

North Korea Thinks the CIA Hired a Lumberjack to Assassinate Kim Jong Un With Nano Weapons?

A Graphene Speaker With No Moving Parts Uses Heat to Produce Sound

These Flowers Hold Clues to Spreading Life Beyond Earth

What Should Elon Musk Name His Tunneling Machine?

The First Inhumans Teaser Hints at the Epic War Brewing Inside the Royal Family

Hulu Live TV Is the Best Cordcutter Service Yet, But It Needs Some Work

Something Totally Crazy Could Happen to Bumblebee in Transformers: The Last Knight

Uber Faces Criminal Probe for ‘Greyball’ Program

This Warhammer 40,000 Animated Short Series Is Unbelievably Gorgeous

The Terminator 2 3D Trailer Has Something Much Cooler Going for It Than 3D

The State Department Wants 5 Years of Social Media Handles From Refugees Before Entry

What the Hell Is Marvel’s Inhumans Doing About Medusa’s Wig Situation?

Scientists Think They Know What’s Behind Those Mysterious Gamma Rays in the Galactic Center

Ghouls Celebrate Blood Feast

Self-Driving Cars Feel Like Death Traps–Can We Be Convinced Otherwise?

New Twin Peaks Teaser Gives Us Our First Real Glimpse of Footage From the Show

Adorable New Tarsiers Look Like Stoned Yoda

HBO and George R.R. Martin Are Developing Four Game of Thrones Spinoffs

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