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How to Watch the Spectacular Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower

Stargazers love a good meteor shower, and while the Perseids or Leonids get the most attention, another exquisite one is just ramping up. The Eta Aquarid meteor shower occurs every spring between April 22nd and May 20th, and this year, it’s expected to peak around dawn on May 6th. This underrated shower gets its name…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

The Plot of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite Is More Insane Than We Ever Hoped

Marvel vs Capcom Ultimate has a brand new trailer, finally revealing the reason why Marvel’s superheroes and Capcom’s stable of video game characters will do battle once again. This time, it involves Ultron, long-time Mega Man X foe Commander Sigma, a sinister deal, Infinity Stone nonsense, and it’s all just delightfully bonkers. The trailer below…

io9 James Whitbrook

Marissa Mayer Set to Receive $186 Million for Failing Because This Is How Corporate America Works

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer continues to stack up piles of cash, despite her veritable failure to rescue the company from a pile of its own rot. After numerous setbacks, including two massive security breaches and dwindling ad revenue, Mayer is set to make about $186 million as a result of the company’s sale to Verizon,…

Tech News Michael Nunez

This Artificial Womb Could Revolutionize the Way We Treat Premature Babies

Incubators and ventilators are invaluable when treating extremely premature infants, but they’re a far cry from the cozy confines of a mother’s womb. In an effort to create an environment that more closely approximates the real thing, researchers have now developed an artificial womb that could dramatically reduce mortality and disease in preemies. The research…

Tech News George Dvorsky

You Can Soon Visit Gotham City and Metropolis, Assuming You Don’t Mind Going to Abu Dhabi First

Because beginning next year, you’ll be able to travel to the new Warner Bros. World in Abu Dhabi and visit, amongst other WB-themed locations, Metropolis and Gotham City-inspired theme parks. Becuase everybody knows how much family fun people have in Gotham City! In addition to the parts of the park that are more explicitly tied…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

NASA Is Developing 3D-Printed Chain Mail to Protect Ships and Astronauts

Chain mail was an essential tool for medieval warriors hoping to avoid a quick (or slow) death by a sword. But NASA engineers hope a similar material, with a few modern upgrades, could prove to be just as useful for spacecraft and astronauts looking to survive the rigors of outer space. The biggest improvement NASA…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liszewski

This Power Rangers Movie Concept Art Shows Creepier Ranger Suits and Much Better-Looking Zords

The costume designs and Zords we got in this year’s Power Rangers movie already looked pretty out there compared to the classic looks of the original show. But according to this movie concept art from Mauricio Ruiz, the suits and mech designs could’ve looked even more alien than what we eventually got. This makes sense…

io9 James Whitbrook

Apple Delays ‘Carpool Karaoke’ Show, Should Just Kill It Instead

Back in February, Apple excitedly told the world that its first original series, the Carpool Karaoke spin-off, would be launching in April. Now, according to Reuters, the premiere has been pushed back until “later this year.” Carpool Karaoke: The Series is one of Apple’s first big bets on content—the company is also planning the awful-looking,…

Tech News Christina Warren

Three Great Wireless Headphones That Are Better Than Beats

Wireless headphones are rapidly becoming a necessity in our dongle-tangled gadget universe, but the options are endless. We set out to find a pair of high-quality, wireless on-ear headphones for the discerning listener who wants to cruise the streets in style. On-ear headphones (the ones that sit directly, well, on your ears) are sort of…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Luke Skywalker Might Have Something Surprising in His Possession in The Last Jedi

The Rampage movie could be even more insane than we imagined. Arrow’s producers tease casualties for the season finale. An important Riverdale season 2 character has been cast—but there’s a catch. Plus, more teases for Harley Quinn’s arrival on Gotham, and new pictures from the next episode of Doctor Who. Spoilers now! Star Wars: The…

io9 James Whitbrook

Scientists Are Exploring a Strange New Way to Create an Exotic Phase of Matter

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND— Hiding in the suburbs behind trees and a meadow with furry brown donkeys is a warehouse with an elevator that only visits negative floors. Hundreds of feet down, hyper complex detectors inside an octagonal tube the color and size of a large barn whistle loudly and peer like cameras at protons, the positively…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

American Media Are Getting People at Home Ready for War With North Korea

Remember what it felt like a couple of months ago when you, as an American, didn’t give much thought to North Korea? I’d like you to try and remember that feeling over the next couple of weeks, because the US government wants that to change. The past month has shown a tremendous shift in news…

Tech News Matt Novak

Infinite Blooms Give Us a Disorienting Glimpse Into Nature

John Edmark, a sculptor, inventor, and Stanford professor, loves spirals. When making his mesmerizing “blooms” Edmark wants people to say “wow, how’s that possible?” In this lovely little clip, he explains how it all works. Edmark has some big, profound explanations about why he likes spirals so much—that’s just what happens when you spend all…

Sploid Rhett Jones

NFL Players Strike a Deal to Sell Their Biometric Data

Quietly flying under the radar in the fitness wearables market is Whoop, a manufacturer of high-end wrist-worn straps that measure data 100 times per second. In what could turn out to be one of the more bizarre licensing agreements ever, the startup struck a deal with the NFL Players Association today that will make it…

Tech News Rhett Jones

The First Trailer for Kingsman: The Golden Circle Is More Fun Than a Spy Should Have

Director Matthew Vaughn has made some very good movies, but none of them come close to 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service for pure fun. So it makes perfect sense that the first sequel he’s ever directed is Kingsman: The Golden Circle. The world of impeccably tailored British secret agents is so much fun, who wouldn’t…

io9 Germain Lussier

Alibaba’s Jack Ma Issues Dire Warning That AI Could Steal CEOs’ Jobs

While Elon Musk is running around cautioning the world about the real danger of Skynet-style warrior robots, Jack Ma would like you to consider another possible problem: CEOs might lose their overpaid gigs and there will be no golden parachute. Well, let’s be honest, there probably will be a golden parachute… somehow. https://deadspin.com/science-ceos-are-such-bullshit-1792484736 Ma, the…

Artificial Intelligence Rhett Jones

Family Is the Focus of the Latest Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Featurette

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 doesn’t open for a few more weeks, but today was the opening of the floodgates. Reviews, news, quotes, you name it, and today you probably read about for the upcoming Marvel movie. In all that coverage, I’d imagine one theme sort of rose to the top. The fact that…

io9 Germain Lussier

You Can Thank Spider-Man’s Tom Holland For Helping Jon Bernthal Become the Punisher

While the chances are very slim that Spider-Man and the Punisher will ever cross paths directly in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you can take comfort in the idea that actor Tom Holland played a significant role behind-the-scenes in helping Jon Bernthal get cast as Frank Castle. While filming Brendan Muldowney’s medieval epic Pilgrimage in 2015,…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

If Zoe Saldana Accidentally Revealed the Title of Avengers 4, It’s Absolutely Not a Spoiler

Kevin Feige just said that the title for the fourth Avengers movie is a spoiler, which is why it hasn’t been announced yet. He also said that Infinity War and the mystery movie are very different films. So why does it seem like Zoe Saldana has revealed the title? Logically, she can’t have. BBC News’…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

You Can Play This Bilingual Star Trek Monopoly Game in Either English or Klingon

Your friends laughed at you, your parents wondered why you weren’t getting a job, and even your fellow Trekkies raised an eyebrow. But all those nights you spent learning tlhIngan Hol, the Klingon language, will finally pay off when you sit down to play Star Trek Klingon Monopoly. There’s already a few iterations of Star…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

How to Watch the Spectacular Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower

The Plot of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite Is More Insane Than We Ever Hoped

Marissa Mayer Set to Receive $186 Million for Failing Because This Is How Corporate America Works

This Artificial Womb Could Revolutionize the Way We Treat Premature Babies

You Can Soon Visit Gotham City and Metropolis, Assuming You Don’t Mind Going to Abu Dhabi First

NASA Is Developing 3D-Printed Chain Mail to Protect Ships and Astronauts

This Power Rangers Movie Concept Art Shows Creepier Ranger Suits and Much Better-Looking Zords

Apple Delays ‘Carpool Karaoke’ Show, Should Just Kill It Instead

Three Great Wireless Headphones That Are Better Than Beats

Luke Skywalker Might Have Something Surprising in His Possession in The Last Jedi

Scientists Are Exploring a Strange New Way to Create an Exotic Phase of Matter

American Media Are Getting People at Home Ready for War With North Korea

Infinite Blooms Give Us a Disorienting Glimpse Into Nature

NFL Players Strike a Deal to Sell Their Biometric Data

The First Trailer for Kingsman: The Golden Circle Is More Fun Than a Spy Should Have

Alibaba’s Jack Ma Issues Dire Warning That AI Could Steal CEOs’ Jobs

Family Is the Focus of the Latest Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Featurette

You Can Thank Spider-Man’s Tom Holland For Helping Jon Bernthal Become the Punisher

If Zoe Saldana Accidentally Revealed the Title of Avengers 4, It’s Absolutely Not a Spoiler

You Can Play This Bilingual Star Trek Monopoly Game in Either English or Klingon

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