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Close-Flying Satellites Set Record While Investigating Solar Storms

The quartet of spacecraft tasked with monitoring space weather are now in a tiny pyramid of satellites flying in a tighter formation than ever attempted before. The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) is a NASA project to measure magnetic reconnection, which will in turn hopefully lead to better prediction of solar storms. The satellites are in…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

15 Wonderful Photos Of Wheels

The wheel. It’s the greatest invention ever made. Especially when four of ‘em are popped on a Porsche. Here are your tributes to 360 degrees of roundness. Porsche Swoosh This photo is of a restored Porsche wheel (1970 something). This is a 4 second exposure with a handheld LED ring light to give the light…

Tech News Mark Wilson

“Haunted” By Guilt For 33 Years, Milwaukee Man Finally Confesses to Murder

Jose Ferreira was 16 when 13-year-old Carrie Ann Jopek went missing from a Milwaukee house party they both attended in 1982; her body was found 17 months later buried beneath the home’s porch. Though he was considered a suspect at the time, he denied any knowledge of her death. Until now. Incredibly, Ferreira—now 50 years…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Here’s How the Automobile (And Youth Culture) Led to Raccoons Taking Over Germany

The butterfly effect is a funny thing. You never know where one discovery will lead. Take the automobile: It changed the world, transforming cities and small towns. And it also led to raccoons leaving America—and, possibly, taking over Europe. In the 1910s and 1920s, the automobile was taking off both as a practical invention and…

Biology Esther Inglis-Arkell

The History and Future of Locks and Keys

Of all the technology you use on a daily basis, you probably pay the least attention to the mechanical miracles that keep your home or your gym bag secure. Locks and keys have been around for millennia, but they are undergoing one of their rare historic shifts—from mechanical to electronic, from isolated to interconnected. This…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

How the Nature of Sound and Noise Is Changing In the Digital Age

We conduct our daily lives against a soundtrack of incessant background noise. But the nature of that noise is changing in the digital age. And sound design — the way we engineer recorded audio — is changing with it. Geoff Martin is a “tonmeister” for Bang & Olufsen, a global designer of audio and video…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

11 Things You Probably Never Knew About the Making of Back to the Future

Tomorrow’s the day Marty McFly arrives from 1985, and we’re all gearing up to celebrate the anniversary of the best time travel movie ever made. But how much do you know about this time-travel classic? Here are 11 strange facts about the making of Back to the Future. The facts in this video previously appeared…

Movies io9 video staff

Leica’s New Mirrorless Camera Is Brilliant but Back-Breaking

You have to marvel at the way Leica dives in to things unapologetically, even when its choices seem like those of a madman. Consider the Leica SL, an entirely new full-frame mirrorless camera. Bundled with a lens it runs over $12,000 and it weighs more than some small boulders. I got to use it for…

Gadgets Michael Hession

In 1948, the First Mass Fingerprinting Operation Snagged a Horrific Child Killer

It was an unbelievably monstrous crime: a three-year-old who was in the hospital recovering from pneumonia was snatched from her bed in the middle of the night, sexually assaulted, and murdered. It appeared the girl had been held by her legs and swung skull-first into a wall until she died. Who could have done such…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Ant-Man‘s Huge Chinese Success Could Lead To More Chinese Marvel Superheroes

Ant-Man just made its theatrical debut in China this weekend—and did rather handsomely for itself with a $43.5 million opening weekend, only beaten by Age of Ultron. But the success of the film also has Marvel not just open to bringing more heroes to China, but also lead to the creation of more Chinese heroes.…

Movies James Whitbrook

Gene-Edited Dogs With Jacked-Up Muscles Are a World’s First

Researchers in China are reportedly the first to use a powerful gene editing tool to produce super-muscled dogs. The goal is to create test subjects that mimic degenerative human diseases, but the breakthrough also raises the prospect of customized pets. A cheap and powerful gene editing technique called CRISPR is taking the science world by…

Tech News George Dvorsky

This 1950s Ad Showed the Sleek Future of Shipping Automation

What do ball bearings have to do with the future? Everything, if you believe these ads from the 1950s. New Departure-brand ball bearings ran a number of print ads to position themselves in the minds of consumers as forward thinking. Like in this beautiful illustration from 1956. The Modern Mechanix blog has this ad from…

Tech News Matt Novak

This New Venture Bros. Trailer Has Monarch Sex, Nathan Fillion, Questionable Timing

Perhaps releasing a new trailer for anything less than 24 hours after a new Star Wars preview drops is foolhardy, but The Venture Bros. are used to danger. This first look at the long, long-awaited sixth season shows the Ventures getting a bit of good news, the Monarchs having a bit of intercourse, and the…

Trailers Rob Bricken

HTC One A9 Is Like an Android-Powered iPhone, At Almost Half the Price

You’ve already heard the jokes about HTC shamelessly ripping off Apple with the design of its newest phone. The truth is, it’s even funnier to hold the new HTC One A9 in one hand and an iPhone 6 in the other. They’re hilariously similar—and that’s not a bad thing at all. There’s more to HTC’s…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Menstruation: The Aftermath of an All-Natural But Ruthless Embryo Screening

Most animals don’t menstruate. If they don’t use their uterine lining, they simply reabsorb it. Only bats, monkeys, and apes take the drastic and seemingly-wasteful step of pitching out the entire thing. And humans toss it out more often than any other animal. This Ted-Ed video outlines one hypothesis for why menstruation evolved–it’s the aftermath…

Tech News Diane Kelly

The Secret of Gotham’s New Villain Is More Absurd Than I Could Have Possibly Imagined

Look. I know the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer dropped last night, and the last thing any of us want to think about is a new episode of Gotham right now. But we finally learned the true identity of Theo Galavan, and we need to take a minute to discuss how Gotham has…

Television Rob Bricken

Tell Us Your Stories About Your Worst IT Job Ever

SunTrust Banks recently laid off 100 IT workers, yet required them to “provide help if needed” for two years as part of their severance agreement. Does this not even surprise you? Computerworld reports on SunTrust’s wacko severance deal, which saw an estimated 100 experienced IT professionals lose their jobs. On top of having to train…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

7 things you probably didn’t know about Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is an absolute classic. Hilarious and inventive and so much fun, it’s everything you want to see in a movie. But like any movie, there were a lot of moving parts involved and things could have been a lot different: like how John Candy was supposed to be in it, how Slimer was based…

Sploid Casey Chan

Benghazi Committee Leaks CIA Source Trying to Prove Clinton Emails Could’ve Led to Leaking CIA Source

When you’re trying to destroy a politician by insisting that their careless email habits endangered national security, it’s best to make sure your own email security practices are on point. House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy learned that the hard way this week. Gowdy accidentally released the name of a CIA source when he published…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Life May Have Gotten Started On Earth Almost Immediately

The ancient Earth was a pretty miserable place. But from this eruptive, radiation-blasted, asteroid-pummeled wasteland, life did arise. Now, scientists have uncovered a tantalizing clue that Earth’s first hardy colonizers appeared much earlier than we thought. A team of geochemists has uncovered a piece of what appears to be biogenic graphite — carbon produced by…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Close-Flying Satellites Set Record While Investigating Solar Storms

15 Wonderful Photos Of Wheels

“Haunted” By Guilt For 33 Years, Milwaukee Man Finally Confesses to Murder

Here’s How the Automobile (And Youth Culture) Led to Raccoons Taking Over Germany

The History and Future of Locks and Keys

How the Nature of Sound and Noise Is Changing In the Digital Age

11 Things You Probably Never Knew About the Making of Back to the Future

Leica’s New Mirrorless Camera Is Brilliant but Back-Breaking

In 1948, the First Mass Fingerprinting Operation Snagged a Horrific Child Killer

Ant-Man‘s Huge Chinese Success Could Lead To More Chinese Marvel Superheroes

Gene-Edited Dogs With Jacked-Up Muscles Are a World’s First

This 1950s Ad Showed the Sleek Future of Shipping Automation

This New Venture Bros. Trailer Has Monarch Sex, Nathan Fillion, Questionable Timing

HTC One A9 Is Like an Android-Powered iPhone, At Almost Half the Price

Menstruation: The Aftermath of an All-Natural But Ruthless Embryo Screening

The Secret of Gotham’s New Villain Is More Absurd Than I Could Have Possibly Imagined

Tell Us Your Stories About Your Worst IT Job Ever

7 things you probably didn’t know about Ghostbusters

Benghazi Committee Leaks CIA Source Trying to Prove Clinton Emails Could’ve Led to Leaking CIA Source

Life May Have Gotten Started On Earth Almost Immediately

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