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How Scientists Use Hidden “Camera Traps” to Get Incredible Cameos of Animals in the Wild

By now you’ve probably heard of camera traps, and if you haven’t, you’re definitely familiar with the photos they take. Camera traps are small cameras hidden inside sturdy boxes that a researcher or photographer attaches to a tree or stake or rock in order to spy on wild animals. The images are incredibly valuable for…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

9 Delicious Photos Of Produce That Will Probably Turn You Vegan

We’re about to say goodbye to everything green, sweet, and sunny. But not yet! So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you took beautiful photos of the fruits and veggies of summer. Winner: Sorrow Tomato While cutting few tomatoes for lunch I noticed how some slices were shaped like a heart. Path 5 from Max Richter…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Slow Process of Proving That You’ve Found a Mass Grave

In 2013, while digging a foundation for a library café at Durham University, workers uncovered human remains. Over the next two years, researchers began the process of proving what they suspected—that it was a mass grave dug in the aftermath of a famous battle. Knowing History The conclusion that researchers came to after years of…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Life in Space Is a Giant Science Experiment

Space isn’t a very human-friendly environment to put things mildly. That’s why, as NASA has grown fond of saying, we’re sciencin’ the shit out of our astronauts so that we can learn how to keep them alive. Yesterday marked the mid-point of astronaut Scott Kelly’s “Year in Space” mission, a one-year research program in which…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Hanging Stormtrooper Skeletons Are the Perfect Halloween Decor

Nothing ruins the Halloween holidays like the stress of trying to decide how to properly decorate your home. ThinkGeek has made it easy this year, though, with these cheap, festive, and well-timed Stormtrooper hanging skeletons. They’re just like the ones you remember your teachers hanging in grade school, with hinged limbs and a completely inaccurate…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

In The First Allegiant Teaser, Tris’ Messiah Complex Goes Up To 11

Tris Prior is a complicated person in a crazy world. And this teaser trailer for Allegiant, the third movie in the Divergent series, shows you just how nutty it gets. Actually, the first half of this teaser trailer is just a recap of the first two movies, in case you’ve forgotten all about how Tris…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

Snapchat’s New Lenses Feature Is Utterly Horrifying

In tandem with a novel way to waste money, Snapchat now offers a new way to scare the shit out of your friends. It’s called “Lenses” and I never want to use it again. Lenses is basically some facial recognition software that’s hacked to distort your expression if various, usually horrifying ways. To activate it,…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

U.S. Navy Agrees to Create Safe Havens to Protect Marine Mammals From Military Exercises

The U.S. Navy has agreed to set aside vast swaths of ocean territory off the shores of Hawaii and Southern California in an effort to protect sound-sensitive marine mammals from the effects of sonar and powerful explosives used in military exercises. For years, marine biologists have warned about the detrimental effects of high-intensity, mid-frequency sounds…

io9 George Dvorsky

Google’s OnHub Is a Mysterious and Slightly Terrible Device

The OnHub is Google’s latest weird experiment. It’s a $200 router stuffed with fourteen antennas that’s being marketed as a cure-all for people who have a zillion wireless devices with different network needs. But what does that actually mean? I tore down my OnHub with the hardware hackers at iFixit to find out. For those…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

The 10 Greatest Paranoid Survivalists Who Were Ready for Absolutely Anything

It’s survival week, so today we’re going to celebrate by looking at a group from movies and television that would look paranoid, except everyone really is out to get them. If it all goes to hell, stick close to these people. 1. Burt Gummer, Tremors We may as well start with possibly the best fictional…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

I Would Read Peanuts If Snoopy Were Actually a Transforming Robot Truck

It was one of the country’s most beloved comic strips, but did anyone ever actually find the Peanuts gang entertaining? Of course not. But if Charles Schulz had taken a page from Takara Tomy and turned Snoopy into a transforming truck, his comic would have been even more enjoyable than Calvin & Hobbes. It’s hard…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This stunning aerial view of the coast is like a moving painting

Brendan Lim’s latest, Adrift, shows a beautiful view of the cliffs and the rocks and the waves and the ocean in a perspective that combines all of those features into a moving painting of sorts. When the camera soars right on top of everything, the edge of the world has never looked better. SPLOID is…

Sploid Casey Chan

Snapchat Will Now Sell You Replays for $1

If you like spending money and looking ridiculous, you’re going to love today’s Snapchat updates. The ephemeral messaging service now offers the option of being a little less ephemeral. For a penny shy of $1 you can buy three extra replays for a message. You can also take weirder selfies. The new “Replay” feature always…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Bangkok’s Homeless Are Turning These Decommissioned Airplanes Into Makeshift Homes

Somewhere in the outskirts of the Thai capital, unused airplanes stored in a private field have become homes for three poor families. This is the darker side of the most populous city in Thailand. Over 8 million people live in Bangkok, in a city where migration, unemployment and poverty force tens of thousands to live…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Now Has a Launchpad

Space is about to get crowded with the ventures of billionaire tech entrepreneurs. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has just announced that his private space company Blue Origin will be taking over a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida that hasn’t been used in a decade. Launch Complex 36, a facility once patronized by NASA’s Atlas…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Go Back To 1985 With These Awesome Back To The Future Minimates

With the 30th Anniversary of Back To The Future next month, we’re about to get a whole lot of cool goodies to play with celebrating the adventures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown—starting off with these cool little minimate figures from the first film, revealed for the first time here on io9! The 1985 set—one…

Tech News James Whitbrook

It’s the First Trailer For Disney’s Wild(ly Unnecessary) Live-Action Jungle Book

On the plus side, Disney’s live-action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic The Jungle Book seems action packed. Certainly, watching a realistic Bagheera and Shere Khan tussle adds a certain spice to the proceedings. And seeing a super-young Mowgli toss himself of a cliff is pretty damned exciting. Plus, Idris Elba voices Shere Khan! What could…

Trailers Rob Bricken

9 Minimal Word Processor Apps for Distraction-Free Writing

Many of us have some kind of writing to do during the course of the work day, but how do you get down to some serious typing with so many distractions around?

Gadgets David Nield

Paleolithic People Were Baking Bread Inside This Cave Over 30,000 Years Ago

Deal with it, paleo dieters—this 30,000-year-old cave was once a bakery. Researchers from the University of Florence have been exploring Grotta Paglicci, an ancient cave that was once a favorite haunt of Paleolithic peoples. Among the most interesting things they’ve been looking at is this pestle. It may not look like much at first, until…

io9 Ria Misra

Feral Cats Can Destroy the Environment

Cats kill billions of small mammals, reptiles, and birds every year. In environments where cats have natural predators, like coyotes, this isn’t a problem. But left unchecked, cats can become an invasive species that damages local ecosystems. There’s no question that cats are prolific killers. A 2013 study found that between 1.4 billion and 3.7…

Biology Kiona Smith-Strickland

How Scientists Use Hidden “Camera Traps” to Get Incredible Cameos of Animals in the Wild

9 Delicious Photos Of Produce That Will Probably Turn You Vegan

The Slow Process of Proving That You’ve Found a Mass Grave

Life in Space Is a Giant Science Experiment

Hanging Stormtrooper Skeletons Are the Perfect Halloween Decor

In The First Allegiant Teaser, Tris’ Messiah Complex Goes Up To 11

Snapchat’s New Lenses Feature Is Utterly Horrifying

U.S. Navy Agrees to Create Safe Havens to Protect Marine Mammals From Military Exercises

Google’s OnHub Is a Mysterious and Slightly Terrible Device

The 10 Greatest Paranoid Survivalists Who Were Ready for Absolutely Anything

I Would Read Peanuts If Snoopy Were Actually a Transforming Robot Truck

This stunning aerial view of the coast is like a moving painting

Snapchat Will Now Sell You Replays for $1

Bangkok’s Homeless Are Turning These Decommissioned Airplanes Into Makeshift Homes

Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Now Has a Launchpad

Go Back To 1985 With These Awesome Back To The Future Minimates

It’s the First Trailer For Disney’s Wild(ly Unnecessary) Live-Action Jungle Book

9 Minimal Word Processor Apps for Distraction-Free Writing

Paleolithic People Were Baking Bread Inside This Cave Over 30,000 Years Ago

Feral Cats Can Destroy the Environment

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