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Vibrators Don’t Have to Look Like Giant Cocks Anymore

A vibrator’s basic job is really quite simple, so long as you’re using it as a sex toy instead of unclenching a charley horse or working out some lower back pain. Vibrators are supposed to rapidly stimulate sexually sensitive sensory neurons. That’s it. They could look like anything. But until recently, they often looked like…

Tech News Diane Kelly

This Bizarre Abandoned Church Is Shaped Like a Giant Chicken

In the woods of Indonesia’s Magelang Regency sits one of the modern world’s more unusual houses of worship: Gereja Ayam, the Chicken Church, which is shaped like a giant fowl wearing a crown. And it’s currently falling to pieces. Daniel Alamsjah was living in Jakarta in 1989 when he saw what he claims was a…

io9 Lauren Davis

Streetlights Don’t Actually Prevent Crime

It’s our most visible alteration of the planet, easily seen from space: the millions of lights added to our cities due to our fear of the dark. We need them to keep our cities safe. Or do we? A series of studies on crime have revealed that we probably don’t need as many city lights…

Tech News Alissa Walker

This Is Why Carbon Is Now Called Pollution

Carbon dioxide is a funny molecule. Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without CO2. But when we pump too much of it into the atmosphere, it destroys our environment. That’s why the Clean Power Plan, announced yesterday by the Obama administration, has finally decided to call carbon what it is: Pollution. This comes over…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Two giant cranes holding a bridge collapse into nearby homes

This is horrifying. Two cranes were trying to restore a bridge when they both collapsed into the nearby neighborhood. The cranes were holding a big chunk of the bridge when they fell, so that smashed into the ground as well. Homes and shops along the river were destroyed and 20 people were hurt. Thankfully, no…

Sploid Casey Chan

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Gets the Perfect Big Bad

Wondering who the Atom, Hawkgirl, Firestorm, White Canary and the others would battle when DC’s Legends of Tomorrow? It’s Vandal Savage, the brilliant, immortal caveman-turned warlord who spends all of human history trying to take over the world. And the show just found the perfect dude to play him. Now, Entertainment Weekly assembled the comparison…

io9 Rob Bricken

In 1957, He Was Executed for Murder—But Was He a Victim of Circumstance?

Sixty years ago, 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan vanished while walking home from school in Berkeley, Calif. Two months later, her belongings were uncovered in an Alameda basement. Suspicious, police made the 300-mile trek to the homeowner’s vacation cabin … and found Stephanie’s body stashed nearby. Burton W. Abbott was a married 27-year-old who was studying accounting…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

The new Monster Minifigs Collection Includes the First Lego Bigfoot

Giving fans a full two months to hunt down the entire collection before Halloween arrives, Lego has finally revealed that its Monster-filled Series 14 Minifig collection will officially be available starting on September 1. The new collection includes classic monsters like Frankenstein (rocking out on a guitar), a witch, a skeleton, a vampire, and a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Check Out What Happens When a Water Droplet is Pierced by a Needle

Here’s a fluid dynamics video that shows us a water droplet falling onto a hydrophobic needle. It’s pretty cool! Instead of spreading into a puddle, the drop turns into a hollow crown of moving water. Here we see a fight between a droplet of water, full of molecules that attract each other, and a hydrophobic…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

How Climate Change Could Turn NYC Into Oklahoma City in One Generation

In 2100, Earth’s climate will have changed. But what will that feel like in your everyday life? Now, a high school student working with an atmospheric scientist has extrapolated some answers from climate data, and found that New York City’s climate will be like Oklahoma City’s in less than a century. A study published today…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Watch John Oliver Explain How Three Young Women Catfished ISIS

Three ladies from Chechnya scammed ISIS fighters online and got ‘em good. Let John Oliver tell the tale: The three young women persuaded ISIS fighters to send them money, promising they’d journey to Syria for marriage—only to block the accounts once payment was received. Stone cold—and a better smackdown of ISIS’ social media recruitment than…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

NASA’s New Retro Travel Posters Make Us Want to Go Visit an Exoplanet

Have you squared away all your summer vacation plans, yet? Why not a trip to this dark, airless—yet, still a little glamorous—outer world, as per the suggestion of NASA’s Travel Bureau? NASA JPL’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau—which has never let the fact that it doesn’t actually exist stand in the way of spreading the good word…

io9 Ria Misra

Why Are URLs Full of So Many Garbage Characters?

#?&%! Why do some URLs look like cuss words in comic books? We have the answer. As you probably know, URLs (uniform resource locators) are basically “addresses” for websites. Type one into your browser, and you’re instantly reading news, watching videos, scheduling sketchy tête-à-têtes, and so on. That’s why URLs were originally supposed to be…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Why Was Trainwreck So Much Better Than Spy?

I’ve seen two decent comedy films this summer. Melissa McCarthy’s Spy and Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck were both fun, but the movie about a magazine editor with a substance-abuse problem was much better than the one about the assistant spy who’s forced to go out into the field. Why is that? It’s not just that Trainwreck…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

NHL Teams Up With MLB’s Insane Media Team, Which Could Be Awesome

If you love baseball, subscribing to MLB.tv is a nobrainer. For $20 a month, you get on-demand access to any game over the internet. It’s amazing. Now the NHL is teaming upwith the super innovative media department behind the product, which could end up producing some incredible new viewing experiences for fans. MLB Advanced Media…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Video: 550 million years of evolution in 40 seconds

This is a fun watch, just to see how far we’ve come as little nuggets of nothing to the big dumb bipedal idiots we now are. There’s been a lot of funky things we lost along the way—hair and a tail, come to mind—but I guess we’re better off for it. Anyways, watch the video…

Sploid Casey Chan

Hear Dr. Dre’s New Album Debut on Apple Music Thursday at 6PM PST

We knew that something really good would eventually come from this Beats-Apple deal. Last month Dr. Dre finally put The Chronic online for streaming for the first time ever at Apple Music. Now Apple Music will be streaming the world premiere of his new album, Compton: A Soundtrack, this Thursday at 6pm PST, a day…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Earth Looks Glorious From Europe’s Newest Weather Satellite

Europe’s MSG-4 geostationary weather satellite is up and running after its launch on July 15. Earlier today, it’s Spinning Enhanced Visible Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) snapped its first image of Earth. And yes, we are impressed. Although you wouldn’t guess it from the exquisite photo, MSG-4 is still undergoing its initial commissioning and calibration phase. It…

io9 George Dvorsky

Meanwhile in the Future: The Earth Is Falling Into the Sun

The Earth, right now, is revolving around the sun at about 62,000 miles per hour. But what would happen if we slowed to a stop? At that point, the planet would have exactly 64 1/2 days before it crashed into the sun. In this week’s episode, we find out what would happen during those 64…

Physics & Chemistry Rose Eveleth

That Multitool Clip Now Hides a Bottle Opener and Nail File in Your Hair

The original Clippa replaced the Leatherman hanging off your belt with an ingenious but near-invisible multi-function hair clip. And now there’s a new version of the tool that swaps a serrated edge for a metal file, and a bottle opener for a hex wrench. At just $10 the new Clippa, designed by Monkey Business’s Yaacov…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Vibrators Don’t Have to Look Like Giant Cocks Anymore

This Bizarre Abandoned Church Is Shaped Like a Giant Chicken

Streetlights Don’t Actually Prevent Crime

This Is Why Carbon Is Now Called Pollution

Two giant cranes holding a bridge collapse into nearby homes

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Gets the Perfect Big Bad

In 1957, He Was Executed for Murder—But Was He a Victim of Circumstance?

The new Monster Minifigs Collection Includes the First Lego Bigfoot

Check Out What Happens When a Water Droplet is Pierced by a Needle

How Climate Change Could Turn NYC Into Oklahoma City in One Generation

Watch John Oliver Explain How Three Young Women Catfished ISIS

NASA’s New Retro Travel Posters Make Us Want to Go Visit an Exoplanet

Why Are URLs Full of So Many Garbage Characters?

Why Was Trainwreck So Much Better Than Spy?

NHL Teams Up With MLB’s Insane Media Team, Which Could Be Awesome

Video: 550 million years of evolution in 40 seconds

Hear Dr. Dre’s New Album Debut on Apple Music Thursday at 6PM PST

Earth Looks Glorious From Europe’s Newest Weather Satellite

Meanwhile in the Future: The Earth Is Falling Into the Sun

That Multitool Clip Now Hides a Bottle Opener and Nail File in Your Hair

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