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A Really Small Telescope Captured This Gorgeous Galaxy Image

Astronomers say this view of the Andromeda Galaxy is probably similar to what the Milky Way Galaxy would look like from outside. Like the Milky Way, Andromeda is a spiral galaxy, and it’s our nearest galactic neighbor in the cleverly-named Local Group. Of course, “near” in astronomical terms means about 2.5 million light years. But…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

Buried New Mexico Atari Games Bring In $100,000 In Auction

Remember that story of how Atari buried a bunch of their games in a landfill, and how they were rediscovered last year? Now, some of the recovered cartridges have sold for over $100,000. As the video game market crashed in the mid-1980s, Atari disposed of much of their surplus games, including their infamous adaptation of…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Oliver Sacks Showed Us the Human Side of Neurology

Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks passed away today at the age of 82. Sacks is best known for his writing, which brought neurological case studies to life for a general audience. In what he called “neurological novels,” he took readers inside the experiences of people recovering from encephalitis or living with Tourette’s, amnesia, visual agnosia…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland

It’s the Final Sunday Puzzle, People. Let’s Talk Tubers.

The Martian is a book by Andy Weir about how potatoes will become the first food crop on Mars. Alright, it’s about more than that, but anyone who has read Weir’s novel knows potatoes get plenty of mentions. Anyway, the point is: This week, in honor of Mark Watney’s space spuds, we’re featuring a puzzle…

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The NYPD Wants Disney To Do Something About Times Square Costumers

Costumers plying tourists for money isn’t anything new in Times Square: stop by and you’ll likely see a variety of characters to take a picture with, for a small fee. Now, the NYPD is asking Disney to help crack down. On August 20th, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced a task force to…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Antimatter Will Surf on Plasma Waves in the Particle Colliders of the Future

The best way to study the subatomic particles that make up the most fundamental building blocks of our universe is, of course, to smash them into each other with as much energy as possible. And now physicists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory say they’ve found a better way to do that. Researchers at SLAC’s Facility…

Physics & Chemistry Kiona Smith-Strickland

Tech Noir Is Your Fantastic ’80s Mashup Music Video Of The Day

Retro Indie band Gunship has just released a new music video for their song Tech Noir, and it’s chock full of references from all the great films of the 1980s. Cue up the nostalgia! This claymation video has references to a ton of great films from the ‘80s: RoboCop, Friday the 13th, Aliens, Hellraiser, Rocky,…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Part of A Rocket Engine Landed in This Guy’s Living Room

Part of a rocket engine crashes through the roof of a house in northeast China’s Shanxi province early Friday morning. It appears to be a nozzle from the first stage engine of a Long March 4C rocket, which China’s new Yaogan-27 satellite into space from Taiyuan Launch Base in Shanxi Province on Thursday night. According…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

Guardians of Infinity Features All Of The Galaxy’s Guardians

Marvel Comics is launching a new series featuring the members of Guardians of the Galaxy: all of them. The galactic team-up will feature characters from the original lineup last seen in Guardians 3000, all the way up to the modern makeup. Guardians of Infinity #1 is set to hit stores in December of this year,…

io9 Andrew Liptak

The Remains Of A Supernova Is Just Dust And Light

When the supernova burned itself out, all that was left was fragments of dust and light. This fantastic image comes from Don Goldman, and it’s a beautiful one. Driven by the explosion of a massive star, supernova remnant Puppis A is blasting into the surrounding interstellar medium about 7,000 light-years away. At that distance, this…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Open Channel: What’s The Best Show To Binge On?

Binging TV shows is something everyone can enjoy: currently, I’ve been working my way (again) through Futurama, and I’m contemplating tackling Stargate: SG-1 again at some point, which got me thinking: What’s the best show out there to binge on?

Television Andrew Liptak

A Double Black Hole Powers a Brilliant Galactic Star Factory

Six hundred million light years away, a pair of black holes spiral furiously about one another at the brilliant core of a starburst galaxy. Black holes are usually lone wolves, devouring light and matter at centers of their galaxies. But when galaxies collide, two black holes can in theory become locked in a gravitational embrace,…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Mad Max: Fury Road, Retold Through Hieroglyphs Is Perfect

One of the really interesting things about Mad Max: Fury Road is the response from artists across the internet. It seems like you can’t go a couple of days without something new popping up. The latest, the movie retold through hieroglyphics, looks stunning. This latest piece of fan art comes from Takumi, an artist from…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Read Over The Entire History of Gaming In A Brief History Of Video Games

I’ve been fascinated by all things ‘Geek History’ in the last couple of years, and recently, I’ve been trying to read up a bit more on the history of gaming. If that’s something that you’d like to read up on a bit more, Richard Stanton’s A Brief History of Video Games: The Evolution Of A…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Dinosaur Lawn Sculptures Puts Texas Neighborhood In An Uproar

A pair of dinosaur sculptures in the lawn of a Texas home has upset their local homeowner’s association. Seriously, who has a problem with dinosaurs? According to WFAA, Nancy Hentschel and her husband discovered the sculptures while on vacation, and installed them in their front lawn. The Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptor have upset the New…

io9 Andrew Liptak

The New 1TB PS4 is Still Using Old Hardware

Sony recently revised the PS4 hardware, sneaking out a new model that was less power hungry, quieter and cooler – but it seems the new hardware hasn’t been used on PS4s that are now being sold with a 1TB hard drive. Our pals at TechRadar have issued a stark warning not to buy the 1TB…

Tech News James O'Malley - Giz UK

Trove of Architectural Photos Shows When LA’s Skyline Became Modern

At the dawn of the 1960s, Los Angeles lacked a true city skyline. A longstanding 13-story height restriction, in force since 1904 and only recently repealed in 1956, had created a downtown whose only vertical accent was the 32-story City Hall. And then a flurry of new high-rise construction in the 1960s, ‘70s, and 80s…

Tech News Nathan Masters

Raccoon Sibling Looking Out For His Brother Is Just Too Cute

It appears that some raccoons are more adventurous than others, and that even in the animal kingdom, there’s always that one sibling that’s tasked with making sure that the other stays out of trouble. At the risk of anthropomorphize these two critters too much, you just know that Willie’s the one who’s always getting into…

io9 Andrew Liptak

“Tissue Velcro” Could Patch Damaged Organs

In the not-too-distant future, patients with damaged hearts or livers might receive tissue patches grown in a lab. This week, researchers announced an important development toward that goal: A biodegradable scaffold that allows strips of beating heart tissue to snap together like Velcro. We’ve gotten pretty good at growing human cells in vitro, but scaling…

Health Maddie Stone

The Case of the MH370 Wing Segment Keeps Getting Weirder

When a wing section of a Boeing 777 washed up on the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion last month, the Malaysian government quickly ascribed the part to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. But an ongoing investigation has failed to verify this claim, and the story just keeps getting weirder. Shortly after the flaperon washed…

Tech News Maddie Stone

A Really Small Telescope Captured This Gorgeous Galaxy Image

Buried New Mexico Atari Games Bring In $100,000 In Auction

Oliver Sacks Showed Us the Human Side of Neurology

It’s the Final Sunday Puzzle, People. Let’s Talk Tubers.

The NYPD Wants Disney To Do Something About Times Square Costumers

Antimatter Will Surf on Plasma Waves in the Particle Colliders of the Future

Tech Noir Is Your Fantastic ’80s Mashup Music Video Of The Day

Part of A Rocket Engine Landed in This Guy’s Living Room

Guardians of Infinity Features All Of The Galaxy’s Guardians

The Remains Of A Supernova Is Just Dust And Light

Open Channel: What’s The Best Show To Binge On?

A Double Black Hole Powers a Brilliant Galactic Star Factory

Mad Max: Fury Road, Retold Through Hieroglyphs Is Perfect

Read Over The Entire History of Gaming In A Brief History Of Video Games

Dinosaur Lawn Sculptures Puts Texas Neighborhood In An Uproar

The New 1TB PS4 is Still Using Old Hardware

Trove of Architectural Photos Shows When LA’s Skyline Became Modern

Raccoon Sibling Looking Out For His Brother Is Just Too Cute

“Tissue Velcro” Could Patch Damaged Organs

The Case of the MH370 Wing Segment Keeps Getting Weirder

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