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How The Navy SEALs Prepare For Extreme Cold Weather Survival, And How You Can Too

If you want to learn a potentially life-saving action, you need to practice it. And if you need to learn if your clothing and other gear is capable of saving your life, you need to test it. This is how the Navy SEALs do just that for cold weather emergencies. This article was originally written…

Tech News Kate Siberell Oct 20 '15

Beautiful video of blooming flowers makes them look alien

When flowers bloom—over the quick span of a time lapse, at least—they totally look like they’re living, breathing beautiful monsters. The one above looks like a peacock showing his feathers. Or that spraying dinosaur from the old Jurassic Park. Or those piranha plants in Mario. It’s an awesome, almost alien view of something beautiful. SPLOID…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 20 '15

Popcorn Time in Your Browser Is the Ultimate ‘Netflix For Pirates’ [Update: Nope, It’s Down]

Torrenting movies isn’t exactly difficult to begin with. But when you take the already-popular ‘Netflix for pirates’ app Popcorn Time, and run it inside a browser with no install required, things get real simple. Update: According to Motherboard, who reached the 15-year-old creator behind the site, says Browser Popcorn is permanently down due to legal…

Movies Chris Mills Oct 20 '15

The Greatest Responses To That Star Wars Twitter Boycott

There’s one thing on the mind of the Internet today: Star Wars. More Star Wars than you could possibly imagine. But it’s not just the new trailer that people are talking about—a particular social media tag demanding an alleged boycott of the film for its diverse cast has generated more laughs than it has any…

io9 James Whitbrook Oct 20 '15

A $20 Upgrade Lets You Create Autonomous Flight Plans For Parrot’s Bebop Drone

Hot on the heels of Tesla revealing the new autonomous driving mode for its electric cars, Parrot has just announced a $20 upgrade for its Bebop drone that lets amateur (and unskilled) pilots easily plot a course on a map that the craft will autonomously follow using GPS. At just $500 the Bebop is one…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 20 '15

Satellite Images Reveal a Massive 60 Million-Ton Avalanche in Canada

Early last week, around 45 megatons of ice and rock plunged down the southeast flank of Mount Steele in Canada’s Yukon Territory. The avalanche, which occurred in a remote and unpopulated area, was so large that it was initially detected by earthquake seismometers. The Mount Steele avalanche happened on October 12 and was detected by…

Tech News George Dvorsky Oct 20 '15

Some Women Could Have Less Reason To Dread That Annual ObGyn Exam

Ladies, you may find that your gynecologist is a bit more hands-off after you put on that little cloth johnny for your annual exam. Recent recommendations from the American Cancer Society and the American College of Physicians that challenge the status quo for breast, cervical, and pelvic exams are starting to reshape routine women’s reproductive…

Tech News Diane Kelly Oct 20 '15

Here’s a Shot-by-Shot Breakdown of All the Goodies in the Final Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

If you’re like us, you’re still recovering from the amazingness of the latest Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. It’s so incredibly filled with good stuff, we just had to go through and pick it apart frame by frame. Beware, though—we will mention some rumors, spoilers and speculation in our discussion. Here goes! Finn was…

Trailers Io9 Staff Oct 20 '15

Why I Live in Fear of Being Eaten by Hannibal Lecter

The Silence of the Lambs made Hannibal Lecter a household name. This film came out in 1991—which means I have spent nearly a quarter century occasionally wondering if a fictional character would murder me. Not if he could, but if he would. Here’s how Hannibal became a permanent part of my brain. The Lecter Standard…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 20 '15

Researchers Finally Disproved a Conspiracy Theory About This Famous Lee Harvey Oswald Photo

There’s a lot of speculation about who really killed President John F. Kennedy. Was it the Cubans? The mafia? The CIA? Or was it a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald? And if Oswald was just a patsy, as he claimed before he himself was killed, could his most famous image be a fake? Researchers…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 20 '15

The Way Electric Eels Kill is Even Cooler Than We Realized

Electric eels are among the most badass predators on planet Earth. How many other creatures can deliver a shock powerful enough to paralyze a horse? But their superpowers are even more impressive than we realized. These eels don’t just use electricity to attack, they use it to see. That’s the conclusion of a fascinating study…

Biology Maddie Stone Oct 20 '15

The Theme That Ties All of Guillermo del Toro’s Movies Together

Early in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, protagonist Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) eagerly gives a story she’s written to a publisher. But he sends her away, with the condescending instruction that ladies should really be writing romance stories, not ghost stories. She balks at the critique—not just because he’s a sexist ass, but because he’s…

Movies Tasha Robinson Oct 20 '15

This Arkham Knight Batmobile Go-Kart Is Worthy of All Your Envy

Tearing through your town in a full-size replica of the tank-like Batmobile that Batman drives in the Arkham Knight game is sure to get you pulled over in no time. But a smaller go-kart version of that same Batmobile? Your local police might just ask to take it for a spin. The owner of this…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 20 '15

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 Oct 20 '15

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 Oct 20 '15

“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 Oct 20 '15

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 Oct 20 '15

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 Oct 20 '15

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 Oct 20 '15

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 Oct 20 '15

How The Navy SEALs Prepare For Extreme Cold Weather Survival, And How You Can Too

Beautiful video of blooming flowers makes them look alien

Popcorn Time in Your Browser Is the Ultimate ‘Netflix For Pirates’ [Update: Nope, It’s Down]

The Greatest Responses To That Star Wars Twitter Boycott

A $20 Upgrade Lets You Create Autonomous Flight Plans For Parrot’s Bebop Drone

Satellite Images Reveal a Massive 60 Million-Ton Avalanche in Canada

Some Women Could Have Less Reason To Dread That Annual ObGyn Exam

Here’s a Shot-by-Shot Breakdown of All the Goodies in the Final Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

Why I Live in Fear of Being Eaten by Hannibal Lecter

Researchers Finally Disproved a Conspiracy Theory About This Famous Lee Harvey Oswald Photo

The Way Electric Eels Kill is Even Cooler Than We Realized

The Theme That Ties All of Guillermo del Toro’s Movies Together

This Arkham Knight Batmobile Go-Kart Is Worthy of All Your Envy

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

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