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The 7 Scariest Movie Scenes of All Time

What movie scene scared you the most when you first watched it? Was it something embarrassing? Or is it something you’re still scared of, and if you see anything resembling it in real life, you completely freak out? CineFix lists what it thinks are the seven scariest movie scenes in film history and analyzes the…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Supernatural TV Series May Be the Only Thing Preventing Our Nation From Tearing Itself Apart

While Republicans and Democrats see eye to eye on very little, apparently there is one thing they both can agree on: Supernatural is a damn fine TV series. A new study reveals that the absurdly long-running show is in the three most loved TV programs of both parties, which is pretty much blowing my mind.…

Television Rob Bricken

A Souped Up NES Clone Ruined My Childhood

On Christmas morning in 1989, I opened a big present, bigger than me. It was the Nintendo Entertainment System, complete with PowerPad and Zapper. Nearly three decades later, I unboxed a futuristic block of aluminum: an NES clone called the Analogue Nt. And I felt that childhood glee all over again. The Analogue console promises…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The Lego Batman Movie‘s Robin and Joker Aren’t Quite What We Were All Expecting

We’ll be seeing more from the Lego Batman Movie at Comic-Con this week, but we’ve now got our first look at characters in the film beyond Will Arnett’s goofy Dark Knight—and they’re looking a little different from their usual incarnations. USA Today has revealed some new stills and information about the movie, giving us our…

Movies James Whitbrook

Peter Parker and His Spectacular Spider-Robot Make For an Awesome Figure Set

We’re big fans of designer Ashley Wood’s alternate takes on Marvel character, and his latest creation is no exception. Why bother with Spider-Man when you could have Peter Parker and his giant robot instead? Wood’s latest figure for 3A re-imagines Peter as the teen genius he always was, just without the superpowers—so instead of swinging…

io9 James Whitbrook

Firefox Will Start Aggressively Blocking Pointless Flash

Flash is an lingering remnant of an older internet that’s basically been on life support for years now. It’s buggy, insecure, sucks the soul out of your battery, and honestly you should’ve disabled Flash by now anyway. But Firefox will soon be pulling the plug for you. In a new post detailing the future of…

Tech News Darren Orf

LEGO-Like Blocks Let Scientists Custom Build Their Own Tools

There’s a whole new way to build custom scientific instruments affordably in bioengineering: a system of 3D-printed building blocks that can link together in various combinations. The system combines design elements of both biological cells and electronic components, and it can evolve over time to adapt to the changing needs of the research community. As…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Neil Gaiman’s Interworld Potentially Rescued From Development Hell by Hamilton Producers

The producers of Broadway’s insanely successful (and oh-so-good) musical Hamilton have decided to turn a YA novel from Neil Gaiman into a TV series—a novel which was optioned by Dreamworks Animation as a movie way back in 2007, and then essentially disappeared. Seriously, io9’s first and only news article on the Interworld movie was posted…

Television Rob Bricken

Dedicated Artist Films Himself Repainting This Clock Every Minute For 12 Hours Straight

Hanging over one of the lounges at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport is an unusual clock that instead of moving hands, features the work of artist Maarten Haas. For 12 straight hours the artist filmed himself painting and repainting the clock’s hour and minute hands, in real-time, minute by minute, so that it accurately displayed the time.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Miranda Kerr and Snapchat Bro Announce Engagement Using Bitmoji

Ah, true love. So pure, so wild, so brazenly marketed! On Wednesday, supermodel Miranda Kerr announced in an Instagram post that she said “yes” to boyfriend and Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel’s proposal of marriage. And in a beautiful touch, she did it with Snapchat’s just-launched product integration: Bitmoji. Snapchat purchased Bitstrips, the company behind Bitmoji,…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

This Engraving Machine Sounds Like the Future

What could possibly be the reason for an engraving machine to make these noises? Do spacey-sounding arpeggios make it engrave better? Does it support MIDI? If you know anything about the fine art of engraving, do please enlighten us. [Digg Video]

Sploid Avery Ellis

J.J. Abrams Has an Idea for a Star Wars Spin-Off Movie About the Knights of Ren

He’s not going to tell you what the idea is, of course—he is J.J. Abrams, after all. But if there’s a person in such a position to actually get a movie made about the mysterious cronies of Kylo Ren made, it’s him. We still know practically nothing about the Knights of Ren, the strange order…

Movies James Whitbrook

Crazy Detailed Brain Map Finds Nearly a Hundred New Regions

Neuroscientists working on the Human Connectome Project have compiled the most accurate map yet of the human cerebral cortex. The researchers identified 180 distinct areas of the brain’s outer layer—effectively doubling the previous number of known regions. The new map, compiled by David Van Essen and Matthew Glasser of Washington University in St. Louis—with the…

Tech News George Dvorsky

These Nearby Earth-Sized Planets Are Looking More and More Habitable

Two months ago, researchers discovered that a nearby star system held at least three potentially habitable planets. Now, it turns out that at least two of those planets have even more potential for habitability than we initially thought. All three of the planets appeared to be good candidates when they were first discovered back in…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Mysterious Moon Scars Could Rewrite Earth’s History

Four billion years ago, an endless barrage of space rock pummeled the surface of the Earth and the Moon, in a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment. Now, astronomers have performed a detailed analysis of one of the most famous craters from that time, and what they’ve learned could rewrite the most violent chapter…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Here’s an Action-Packed Excerpt From C.A. Higgins’ New Novel Supernova

We totally enjoyed C.A. Higgins’ debut book Lightless, so we’re pleased to be able to share an excerpt from Supernova, the follow-up. Below is an exclusive excerpt from Supernova, which follows Althea as she protects her now-sentient ship the Ananke. The ship, meanwhile, is learning about humanity. Our excerpt concerns Constance, the leader of the…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta

The 50 Most Common Family Arrangements in America, Visualized

Statistician Nathan Yau of Flowing Data has compiled a beautiful and revealing infographic showing the 50 most common family structures in the United States. As this clever visualization shows, the nuclear family—though the most common—is far from the only one. To create this infographic, Yau took data from the five-year American Community Survey (2009-2014), and…

Tech News George Dvorsky

The Greatest Innovation in Travel Lets You Drag Your Suitcase With No Hands

You can never have enough free hands at the airport for juggling your boarding pass, your passport, your coffee, your snacks, and your carry-on bag. The solution to that problem came to amateur inventor Robert Lian while he was waiting for a flight one day. What about a plastic tail that let travelers tow their…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Perfectly Synced Side-by-Side Video Compares 1940s Los Angeles to Today

Keven McAlester’s short film which compares Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill in the 1940s to today using perfectly synced footage is the closest thing we can get to experiencing legitimate time travel. In 1959, shortly after the black-and-white footage on the left was filmed, Bunker Hill was the focus of an ambitious urban-renewal project, which is…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

All the Interesting Places You’ll Go (and the Aliens You’ll Blow Up) in No Man’s Sky

We’ve been excited for No Man’s Sky, the space exploration video game that’s been dazzling gaming fans ever since it was first revealed, for ages. But with the game due in just a few weeks, you can now get a closer look at all the gorgeous unknown worlds you can explore… and then blow the…

io9 James Whitbrook

The 7 Scariest Movie Scenes of All Time

The Supernatural TV Series May Be the Only Thing Preventing Our Nation From Tearing Itself Apart

A Souped Up NES Clone Ruined My Childhood

The Lego Batman Movie‘s Robin and Joker Aren’t Quite What We Were All Expecting

Peter Parker and His Spectacular Spider-Robot Make For an Awesome Figure Set

Firefox Will Start Aggressively Blocking Pointless Flash

LEGO-Like Blocks Let Scientists Custom Build Their Own Tools

Neil Gaiman’s Interworld Potentially Rescued From Development Hell by Hamilton Producers

Dedicated Artist Films Himself Repainting This Clock Every Minute For 12 Hours Straight

Miranda Kerr and Snapchat Bro Announce Engagement Using Bitmoji

This Engraving Machine Sounds Like the Future

J.J. Abrams Has an Idea for a Star Wars Spin-Off Movie About the Knights of Ren

Crazy Detailed Brain Map Finds Nearly a Hundred New Regions

These Nearby Earth-Sized Planets Are Looking More and More Habitable

Mysterious Moon Scars Could Rewrite Earth’s History

Here’s an Action-Packed Excerpt From C.A. Higgins’ New Novel Supernova

The 50 Most Common Family Arrangements in America, Visualized

The Greatest Innovation in Travel Lets You Drag Your Suitcase With No Hands

Perfectly Synced Side-by-Side Video Compares 1940s Los Angeles to Today

All the Interesting Places You’ll Go (and the Aliens You’ll Blow Up) in No Man’s Sky

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