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Watch an Airbus A380 Abort a Landing When It’s Incredibly Close to the Ground

Here’s a British Airways Airbus A380 attempting to land at the Vancouver airport. You can see the world’s largest passenger airplane make its final approach and come so, so close to the ground—but then decide to abort and make a go-around instead. It’s crazy impressive to see such a big plane make a maneuver like…

Sploid Casey Chan

What Happens if You Swallow Your Cell Phone? Nothing Good.

Don’t you just hate it when you accidentally swallow your cell phone right when you need to make a call? Yeah, me too. That really happened to an unfortunate Irishman, according to a new report in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. And the challenges doctors faced removing the mobile device might be cause…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

See the World From a Container Ship in This Surprisingly Lovely Video

Climbing aboard a container ship isn’t exactly the most glamorous way to travel, but when the footage is condensed into a time lapse—oh my, is it stunning. It’s especially neat to see the different layers of the sky dance overhead, but the coolest part is just being around all that blue. It really makes you…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Teaser for Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Has a Very Weird Look

This October, Fox is joining the recent trend of network musicals with a new rendition of cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The first teaser trailer has just been released and it looks familiar, but there’s also something off-putting about the way it was filmed. Here’s the trailer. The cast (including Victoria Justice as…

Television Germain Lussier

El Niño Gives California Crabs

This year’s monster El Niño is truly a monster—it’s been blamed for killing coral reefs. Add another die-off to the list: Southern California beaches are blanketed in hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs. So many that it’s turning the beaches red. Pleuroncodes planipes, or tuna crabs (although they’re not true crabs, they’re actually lobsters), are…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Transformers 5 Has an Official Title, and It’s a Little Bit Confusing

Since every Transformers sequel until now has had some kind of subtitle, it was pretty obvious Transformers 5 would follow suit. Well, that title has now been revealed and it’s not just unexpected, it’s downright confusing. Paramount Pictures just announced that the full title of Transformers 5, scheduled for release June 23, 2017, is Transformers:…

Movies Germain Lussier

Trippy Short Film Uses Totally Random Objects to Make Music

I’m not exactly sure what I’m watching, but I’m into it. Musician Broke For Free created music by re-imagining sounds made by the world around us. Rocks can become a drum set; a palm tree is suddenly a synth organ. Mix in a little partying by the pool and jumping back and forth in time,…

Sploid Casey Chan

Surprise! The New Skull Island Ride’s King Kong Is a Giant Gorilla

King Kong and Skull Island are having a pretty big resurgence right now, what with both a new movie and a new ride bearing the island’s name. And now we have the very first look at the King Kong you’ll come face to face with at Universal Orlando. Spoiler alert: it’s a giant gorilla. There’s…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

These Twitter Ads Could Be Exposing You to Malware Attacks

Over the past four days, some Twitter users have been noticing something strange: a flurry of tweets that appear to depict a young person removing their underwear. They’re “promoted tweets”—essentially ads users have paid Twitter put in people’s timelines whether they’re following the advertiser or not. Brands and celebrities use them to promote themselves. But…

Tech News Avery Ellis

This Behind-the-Scenes Warcraft Video Includes Some Intriguing New Footage

Like any niche of fandom, the Warcraft faithful love studying new trailers and footage to find clues about what the upcoming movie might hold. In addition to some awesome footage of how Warcraft was made, this latest featurette has some very interesting shots for fans to puzzle over. Here’s the featurette, which is from a…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Biggest Source of Air Pollution In Your Area May Surprise You

The largest source of deadly air pollution in many parts of the world isn’t cars or power plants—it’s farms. That’s the unsettling conclusion of a study conducted by researchers at Columbia University, who found that agricultural nitrogen emissions are a major contributor to fine particulate matter, tiny particles that cause heart disease and respiratory problems.…

Health Maddie Stone

These YouTubers Are Going to Jail for Terrorizing the Public

Danh Van Le is a YouTube Star whose more recent viral exploits have made him a menace to society. On July 5, 2015, Van Le and some cohorts shot museum heist hoax videos at two separate galleries in London for his YouTube channel Trollstation. One woman reportedly fainted while onlookers ran from the scene. Today,…

Tech News Darren Orf

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is Writing a Comic About Sherlock Holmes’ Brother

Hey, remember how we told you the rather surprising news that basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had written a novel about Sherlock Holmes’ brother Mycroft? Well, now he’s writing a comic about it. Featuring the sexiest Mycroft Holmes ever. Here’s the full cover, bask in its glory: If you’re wondering if I have questions about how…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta

NASA Maps Show How Fast New Orleans Is Sinking

Using NASA airborne radar, scientists have shown the degree to which New Orleans and its surrounding areas are sinking each year. Mostly caused by groundwater extraction, it’s yet another disaster in the making. These new maps, produced by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Center for Geoinformatics at Louisiana State University, are the…

Tech News George Dvorsky

The Maniac Cop Remake Just Got a Huge Boost, But We’re Still Skeptical

The outstandingly trashy cult classic Maniac Cop—made in 1988 by legendary B-movie director William Lustig, and starring the singular Robert Z’Dar—has been threatened with getting a remake for some time, with John Hyams (The Originals, Z Nation) directing from a script by comics writer Ed Brubaker. And it just got a huge boost. Lustig and…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

The NYPD Just Had a School Shooter Drill With Terrorist Drones

Police in the US run active shooter drills all the time. But yesterday the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the New York Police made sure they’d be ready for anything—by including a fake drone attack against a high school in Brooklyn. Sunday’s drill simulated an attack by multiple active shooters (a rarity) using improvised…

Tech News Matt Novak

Divers Discover an Ancient Roman Treasure Trove Inside an Untouched Shipwreck

More than 1,600 years ago, a Roman ship full of carved statues, bronze lamps, and loads of coins was lost at sea. Just recently a group of divers stumbled upon the wreckage—and what they found is magnificent. A pair of divers on a trip in the waters of Caesarea National Park, off the Mediterranean coast…

Tech News Ria Misra

Scotland Will Soon Get the World’s Biggest Floating Offshore Windfarm

Congratulations, kilt-wearers, and descendants of William Wallace! Your country’s seas are about to become the proud guardians of the world’s largest floating wind farm. The Guardian reports that Norwegian company Statoil has been awarded a seabed lease for construction of its Hywind Scotland wind farm, which is set to go float roughly 15 miles off…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

How Extreme Is the Weather on Other Planets in the Universe?

Storms that go on for 400 years. Falling molten glass rain. Temperatures jumping from 500 degrees Celsius to 1200 degrees Celsius in just 6 hours. The weather in our universe is crazy. So the next time it’s a little muggy outside or a bit of rain has ruined your commute, remember that Earth has it…

Sploid Casey Chan

I Want to Live in This Incredibly Detailed Model of NYC

At first glance, it’s hard to discern whether these images of New York City are a super-stylized map, digital 3D-rendering, or perhaps simply a cute New Yorker illustration. In fact, they’re photographs of a 1:1200 scale model of the city housed in the Queens Museum. The photographs are part of a series named New York,…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Watch an Airbus A380 Abort a Landing When It’s Incredibly Close to the Ground

What Happens if You Swallow Your Cell Phone? Nothing Good.

See the World From a Container Ship in This Surprisingly Lovely Video

The Teaser for Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Has a Very Weird Look

El Niño Gives California Crabs

Transformers 5 Has an Official Title, and It’s a Little Bit Confusing

Trippy Short Film Uses Totally Random Objects to Make Music

Surprise! The New Skull Island Ride’s King Kong Is a Giant Gorilla

These Twitter Ads Could Be Exposing You to Malware Attacks

This Behind-the-Scenes Warcraft Video Includes Some Intriguing New Footage

The Biggest Source of Air Pollution In Your Area May Surprise You

These YouTubers Are Going to Jail for Terrorizing the Public

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is Writing a Comic About Sherlock Holmes’ Brother

NASA Maps Show How Fast New Orleans Is Sinking

The Maniac Cop Remake Just Got a Huge Boost, But We’re Still Skeptical

The NYPD Just Had a School Shooter Drill With Terrorist Drones

Divers Discover an Ancient Roman Treasure Trove Inside an Untouched Shipwreck

Scotland Will Soon Get the World’s Biggest Floating Offshore Windfarm

How Extreme Is the Weather on Other Planets in the Universe?

I Want to Live in This Incredibly Detailed Model of NYC

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