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Blue Origin’s Crew Capsule Just Crashed—And Survived

Blue Origin just launched its crew capsule into space—and then intentionally brought it in for a very soft crash. Blue Origin’s reusable rocket, which just made its fourth trip to space, hit an apogee of 331,501 feet. It then touched down easily, like we’ve seen in previous flights. But the real action on this test…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Roland Emmerich is Rebooting the Stargate Franchise From Scratch

We’ve known that Roland Emmerich has been planning on continuing his 1994 film Stargate for a while, but while chatting with the press about Independence Day: Resurgence, he and producer Dean Devlin have been dropping some more hints about what’s next for the franchise. The pair have long talked about how the first film was…

io9 Andrew Liptak

NASA’s Last Apollo Saturn V Rocket Is on Its Way to Mississippi Instead of the Moon

We’re always impressed with how rockets and other old space equipment is transported nowadays, whether it’s through busy city roads or by boat, as one of the remaining Saturn V rocket boosters was moved this week. The Saturn V was moved along a canal from its home at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans…

Tech News Carli Velocci

Watch Blue Origin Launch (and Crash) Its Crew Capsule

Blue Origin is launching its crew capsule today—and then they’re going to take out its parachute and see what happens. You can watch it happen at 10:15 am ET. As we noted on Friday, this livecast is a first for the company that has typically preferred to conduct its launches in secret. It’s also notable…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

How Syfy is Leading The Charge With Imagining Diverse Futures

Over the last couple of seasons of television, critics and audiences have begun to pay a considerable amount of attention to the role of women and racial diversity on their favorite shows. Despite being set in the future, science fiction television has often been stubbornly stuck in the past. With its latest lineup, however, the…

Television Andrew Liptak

This Artist Makes Incredible Designs With Just Snow And His Shoes

Some of our readers may be experiencing a “heat dome” this weekend, so why not take the edge off with this video of a snow artist who does more than just hike in the snow. Snow artist Simon Beck was one of four artists that was invited to Stryn in Norway, where he found inspiration…

Tech News Carli Velocci

Hackers Hacked The Pentagon And Found Quite A Few Bugs

When the Pentagon announced the “Hack the Pentagon” event back in March, many wondered what kinds of vulnerabilities hackers would find when checking government websites for bugs. Now we know. According to Defense Secretary Ash Carter, more than 250 participants out of the 1,400 submitted at least one vulnerability report, with 138 of those vulnerabilities…

Privacy & Security Carli Velocci

America’s Most Walkable Cities Are Yet to Come

Cities are constantly evolving, and as many urban areas have begun to put more money into updating infrastructure and creating more real estate after a disastrous recession, the most pedestrian places will begin to change. That’s the conclusion of a new report, Foot Traffic Ahead: Ranking Walkable Urbanism in America’s Largest Metros, advocacy group Smart…

Tech News Carli Velocci

Rare, Hellish ‘Firenado’ Spotted During Major California Brush Fire

A brush fire in Santa Barbara County in California is burning over nearly 7,000 acres as of Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Times, and amidst the destruction is some unique phenomena. A video shot of the Sherpa Fire in Santa Barbara County shows the presence of a rare “firenado”—also known as “fire whirls” or…

Tech News Carli Velocci

5 Reasons to Install Linux on Your Laptop

You can choose something other than MacOS or Windows 10 when it comes to an operating system for your computer. If you’re prepared to be a little more adventurous, Linux has plenty of great features that will save you time and make working a little less dull. The best part is that Live Installations allow…

Gadgets David Nield

io9 Book Club Special Session: Let’s Talk About Linda Nagata’s The Red!

Welcome to a special edition of the io9 Book Club. This month, we read The Red: First Light, by Linda Nagata. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! What is this io9 Book Club all about? We meet to discuss a book we’ve all read together, and then we have an online chat…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Astronauts Land Back On Earth After 186 Days In Space

The three astronauts who have been researching the effects space has on the human body aboard the International Space Station returned safely to earth early Saturday morning after 186 days in space. The three men, including Commander Tim Kopra of NASA, flight engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko…

Tech News Carli Velocci

Watch the History of Horror Films in This Ten Minute Supercut

Horror films occupy a long and enthralling place in cinematic history, and Diego Carrera has put together an excellent video showcasing the films that have scared us for over 120 years. A short clip of a film represents each year, beginning in 1895, starting with The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, and running all…

Movies Andrew Liptak

This Man’s Explanation of the Way We Eat Pizza Is ‘Remarkable’

If you fold a pizza in half lengthwise to eat it (the proper way to eat pizza), then you’re actually utilizing mathematician Carl Gauss’s “theorem egregium” or the “remarkable theorem.” Mathematician Clifford Stoll, over at the Numberphile YouTube channel, proves that pizza likes Gaussian curvature, while also giving viewers a mathematics lesson in the process.…

Tech News Carli Velocci

Everything is Not Awesome: The Lego Movie Sequel Has Been Moved to 2019

We’re going to have to wait a bit longer to see The Lego Movie 2. Warner Brothers has shuffled their upcoming film slate, pushing the movie back a year to 2019. The Lego Movie 2, which was originally set to arrive May 18, 2018, will now arrive in theaters on February 8th, 2019. According to…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Here Are the Finalists for the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award

Each year, the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction awards one worthy science fiction novel the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, one of the genre’s major awards for novels. The finalist list this year is particularly strong, with some truly excellent novels represented: The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit/Knopf) Europe at Midnight, Dave…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Watch a Cruise Ship Get Built

Cruise ships are basically giant floating cities. How do you build a giant floating city? Well, it’s pretty much like playing with Lego bricks. This time lapse shows the construction process of building AIDA Cruises’ new flagship in Nagasaki: the AIDAprima. The AIDAprima can hold up to 3,300 passengers with 900 crew members and is…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Massive Heat Dome Will Smash Records Across the US This Weekend

It’s not even summer yet, but it’s damn hot. A very large portion of the country is currently simmering in heat of 100 degrees or higher, and it could get even hotter. Many cities in the Southwest and Midwest are preparing to break records this weekend and through Monday, including the US’s all-time June record…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

Physicists Turn the Cheerios Effect Inside Out

We’ve all noticed how those last few Cheerios in the cereal bowl seem to cluster together in the center and along the edges. It’s called the “Cheerios effect.” Now an international team of physicists has discovered a reverse Cheerios effect. They described their results in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

A Girl Meets a Monster in the Woods in This Not-So-Typical Fairy Tale

In Il Lupo, a blind girl who has no sense of fear gets lost in a deep, dark forest—the kind of place where one might expect to encounter a monster, which she does. But then things take a turn in this short horror comic drawn by Victoria Ying, and written by her brother Jonathan Ying.…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Blue Origin’s Crew Capsule Just Crashed—And Survived

Roland Emmerich is Rebooting the Stargate Franchise From Scratch

NASA’s Last Apollo Saturn V Rocket Is on Its Way to Mississippi Instead of the Moon

Watch Blue Origin Launch (and Crash) Its Crew Capsule

How Syfy is Leading The Charge With Imagining Diverse Futures

This Artist Makes Incredible Designs With Just Snow And His Shoes

Hackers Hacked The Pentagon And Found Quite A Few Bugs

America’s Most Walkable Cities Are Yet to Come

Rare, Hellish ‘Firenado’ Spotted During Major California Brush Fire

5 Reasons to Install Linux on Your Laptop

io9 Book Club Special Session: Let’s Talk About Linda Nagata’s The Red!

Astronauts Land Back On Earth After 186 Days In Space

Watch the History of Horror Films in This Ten Minute Supercut

This Man’s Explanation of the Way We Eat Pizza Is ‘Remarkable’

Everything is Not Awesome: The Lego Movie Sequel Has Been Moved to 2019

Here Are the Finalists for the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award

Watch a Cruise Ship Get Built

A Massive Heat Dome Will Smash Records Across the US This Weekend

Physicists Turn the Cheerios Effect Inside Out

A Girl Meets a Monster in the Woods in This Not-So-Typical Fairy Tale

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