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Paraplegic Man Walks Using Own Legs With Brain Signals Re-Routed to Knees

A team of scientists has successfully re-routed the signals from a paraplegic man’s brain to his knees, allowing him to walk using his own legs for the first time in five years. The Guardian reports that researchers from the University of California at Irvine have developed a system that captures brain waves using an electroencephalogram…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 24 '15

Compared To the Rest of the World, US 4G (Unsurprisingly) Sucks

We’re always being told the U.S. is now lagging behind other, more industrious nations in science and technology and basically anything that isn’t spending on the military. How much are we lagging? Here is a depressing graph to help quantify that. According to a new report from Open Signal, the U.S. is now in 58th…

Tech News Chris Mills Sep 24 '15

Why One Random Web Address Can Crash Chrome

As it turns out, one sixteen-character garbage URL is enough to bring Google’s mighty browser crashing to its knees. Here’s the computer science behind the bug. As Tom Scott explains in the surprisingly understandable video above, it’s all to do with how computers parse binary files. The %30%30 at the end of the URL gets…

Tech News Chris Mills Sep 23 '15

Docking the Apollo Spacecraft was Surprisingly Complicated

How did that tiny, complicated spiky tip on the Apollo modules transform into a usable tunnel for astronauts after they docked? Through a bit of engineering ingenuity still in use today. When we posted a photo from Apollo 17’s moon landing, Jeyl was understandably confused by the mechanics of how the command and service module…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Sep 23 '15

An Amazing Deal: 11 of the All-Time Greatest Science Fiction Books For $15!

Humble Bundle-style collections of books or comics come along pretty regularly these days… but the latest Story Bundle offering is pretty amazing. There are 11 books that either won the Philip K. Dick Award or were finalists, and you can get them all for just $15. This is one of those name-your-own-price sort of deals,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 23 '15

With This Self-Healing Rubber, Your Flat Tire Can Fix Itself

Researchers in Germany recently discovered a way to manufacture rubber that can “heal” after being cut or pierced. In this incredible video, you can see the rubber growing back together. The implications are far-ranging, and not just for flat tires. This material could mean that rubberized seals on industrial machines would heal, too, potentially creating…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Sep 23 '15

The Walking Dead Could Be Adding TWO Major Comics Characters in Season Six

Where is The Walking Dead going? Even if you read the comics, it’s hard to be sure, since the show has often charted its own course. But two new pieces of casting news seem to indicate that the comics are going to be having a huge influence on the show soon. Warning: Some spoilers ahead……

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 23 '15

We’ve Discovered a Lost World of Snow Dinosaurs

The image of a dinosaur tramping around in the snow feels totally wrong — these behemoths ruled a tropical world. But one duck billed dinosaur, at least, managed to endure long, dark winters far north of the Arctic Circle some 69 million years ago. Meet Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, the northernmost dinosaur known to science, whose skeletal…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 23 '15

These Great Sweaters Help You Get Personal With Your Favorite Horror Icons

Admit it. You’ve always wanted to own A Nightmare on Elm Street sweater. It’s the perfect, subtle wink and nod to something dark and scary. Well, now you can not only own one of those, but sweaters featuring two other famous boogeymen. Mondo has gone back to its apparel roots, to release three officially licensed…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 23 '15

AP: Don’t Call Them “Climate Change Deniers” Anymore Because of the Holocaust

On the last day of the hottest summer in recorded history, the Associated Press made a rather timely announcement: We are no longer supposed to use the terms “climate change skeptics” or “climate change deniers” to label people who disagree the Earth is warming due to human activity. Instead, the AP Stylebook will now recommend…

Climate Change Alissa Walker Sep 23 '15

Rare Spectacled Bear Takes An Interest in the Camera Trap That’s Filming It, With Adorable Results

The spectacled bear is the real-life inspiration for Paddington Bear, but as we see here, the spectacled bear is capable of making a great live-action movie of its own. Enjoy a fun few seconds of a bear checking out the camera that’s been sent to unobtrusively spy on it. Placing camera traps in the Sira…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 23 '15

Why do action scenes in movies suck?

Here’s a really good video essay from Sam and Niko about action scenes in movies. They first start by showing us what bad action scenes look like—quick cuts, implied action, reason-less fighting, etc.—and then delve into movies that do action scenes really well (involve characters we care about, actually show the action and the action…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 23 '15

The Human Friends and Enemies Of Ash Are Revealed In A New Ash vs. Evil Dead Video

When you hear Ash vs. Evil Dead, you know who the star of the show is. It’s Bruce Campbell in the role that made him a cult icon: the chainsaw-armed, wise-cracking, shotgun-toting Ash Williams. But there’s more to a TV show than just one character. In this new featurette, we meet the supporting characters of…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 23 '15

This Photo of an Airplane Flying Over the Bahamas Was Shot From the ISS

Earlier this week, NASA’s Earth Observatory shared a beautiful photo of the Bahamas. While the landscape is majestic and all, PetaPixel points out that the coolest thing about the photo wasn’t immediately evident. The Bahamas’ Great Exuma is a series of cays, and if you look closely at one of the turquoise-green channels between one…

Space & Spaceflight Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Sep 23 '15

How The Hell Did They Screw Up The Muppets So Badly?

Seriously, I’m asking, because I don’t know the answer. It’s not that the jokes aren’t funny—some of them were super funny, although last night’s series premiere was definitely hit and miss. It’s more that this whole concept is just wrong for the freaking Muppets. And then there’s Miss Piggy. Sigh. Let’s back up a bit.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 23 '15

Watch deadly animals attack in slow motion

Chomp! Snatch! Snap! Attack. Here is a wonderful collection of killer animals from BBC Earth Unplugged showing the animals’ unique attacking methods attacking in slow motion. You’ll see owls and crocs and chameleons and praying mantises and others go through their specialty in all its detail. I think the chameleon is my favorite and the…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 23 '15

This is a Supersonic Shockwave, Backlit by the Sun

Oh, wow. Aerodynamics research has never looked as pretty as it does with this new variation of an old technique for imaging supersonic shockwaves. Image of a supersonic T-38C using a new technique of background-oriented Schlieren imaging backlit by celestial objects. Image credit: NASA Supersonic shockwaves are invisible to the naked eye, but we can…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Sep 23 '15

The Red Lady of Paviland Has Been Causing Arguments for 200 Years

The Red Lady of Paviland has been the foremost trouble-causing woman of Wales, despite having been dead for thousands of years. And not being a woman. We’ve talked about William Buckland before. Equal parts scientist and crazy person, the only thing Buckland liked better than getting close up to some ancient rock was causing an…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 23 '15

Who’s the Killer on Scream Queens? We Round Up All the Top Suspects So Far

Scream Queens made its debut last night, and between all of its Heathers worship and “tee-hee, I’m edgy!” deliberately offensive jokes, it introduced a serial-killer mystery ripped straight from the glory days of slasher movies. So, who’s that knife-wielding maniac hiding inside the devil costume? Since FOX aired two episodes back-to-back, we’ve gotten to know…

Television Cheryl Eddy Sep 23 '15

The Moto 360 (2015) Review: Putting the Watch Back in Smartwatch

When smartwatches became a real thing you could buy, and not just a 80s fantasy dreamed up by Casio and Seiko, they looked unmistakably like technology on your wrist. Tech companies were mired in making a wristputer, rather than a wristputer you actually want to wear. But this year, that’s all changed. LG’s made the…

Reviews Darren Orf Sep 23 '15

Paraplegic Man Walks Using Own Legs With Brain Signals Re-Routed to Knees

Compared To the Rest of the World, US 4G (Unsurprisingly) Sucks

Why One Random Web Address Can Crash Chrome

Docking the Apollo Spacecraft was Surprisingly Complicated

An Amazing Deal: 11 of the All-Time Greatest Science Fiction Books For $15!

With This Self-Healing Rubber, Your Flat Tire Can Fix Itself

The Walking Dead Could Be Adding TWO Major Comics Characters in Season Six

We’ve Discovered a Lost World of Snow Dinosaurs

These Great Sweaters Help You Get Personal With Your Favorite Horror Icons

AP: Don’t Call Them “Climate Change Deniers” Anymore Because of the Holocaust

Rare Spectacled Bear Takes An Interest in the Camera Trap That’s Filming It, With Adorable Results

Why do action scenes in movies suck?

The Human Friends and Enemies Of Ash Are Revealed In A New Ash vs. Evil Dead Video

This Photo of an Airplane Flying Over the Bahamas Was Shot From the ISS

How The Hell Did They Screw Up The Muppets So Badly?

Watch deadly animals attack in slow motion

This is a Supersonic Shockwave, Backlit by the Sun

The Red Lady of Paviland Has Been Causing Arguments for 200 Years

Who’s the Killer on Scream Queens? We Round Up All the Top Suspects So Far

The Moto 360 (2015) Review: Putting the Watch Back in Smartwatch

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