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The Moon’s Reflection Transforms this Awkward Spacecraft into Lovely Art

December 14, 1972: Admire a fleeting moment of scientific poetry: sunlight reflecting off a dusty ball of rock, the moonlight in turn reflecting off a fragile craft in the harshness of space. In this photograph, the Apollo 17 command and service module was preparing to mate with the landing module rising from the lunar surface.…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Sep 22 '15

Incredible close up video shows how a ballpoint pen works

At the very tip of a ballpoint pen is, you guessed it, a ball that rolls around and basically stains the paper with ink. Imagine if you dipped your body in paint and then rolled around white carpet, that’s basically how writing instruments works. Here’s an incredibly up close angle of a ballpoint pen writing…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 22 '15

What’s Your Dream Tech Set-Up?

Let’s say you suddenly come into a ton of money and can only spend it on technology. What do you buy? I’m accustomed to searching for bargains and the best deals where tech is concerned, but a girl can dream. My main crush at the moment is on Samsung’s upcoming Serif TV (no word on…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern Sep 22 '15

In This Week’s New Comics, a Village of Animals Is Gripped By the Fear of Aliens Among Them

It’s an incredibly quiet week in new comics… almost too quiet. Such a sinister environ is perfect for the release of Wild’s End: The Enemy Within, the follow-up to the fantastic tale of 1930s anthropomorphic animals holding off an alien invasion (or so they thought!). Let’s dig in and check out whats new in comics…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 22 '15

Game of Thrones Star Maisie Williams Gets Her Very Own Zombie Adventure Movie

As if losing both parents and her eyesight wasn’t enough for Arya Stark, now she’s gotta battle zombies. Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams is set to star in The Forest of Hands and Teeth, a zombie survival adventure film by writer/director Kate Maberly. Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow) will produce the film, which is…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 22 '15

We Could Have Discovered Climate Change As Early As the 1940s if We Had Just Looked

The signs of global warming are hitting us over the head today — if you’ll remember, the fire and drought-ridden summer of 2015 was the also hottest in recorded history — but how long has our planet actually been feeling the heat? In parts of the tropics, anthropogenic climate change has been tinkering with the…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Sep 22 '15

Which Old Science Fiction Trope Has Become Part of Your Everyday Life?

One of the main ways that you know we’re Living in the Future is when you see something that used to be a huge science fiction trope, but now it’s just an ordinary part of life. Like arguing with computers—back in the day, debates with machines were a funny “what if.” And now, we argue…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 22 '15

Whitey Bulger’s Girlfriend Facing New Charges Because She Ain’t No Snitch

She may have been left completely out of Black Mass, but Catherine Greig was an important part of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger’s fugitive years from 1995 to 2011. And she’s still following her longtime companion’s particular code of ethics, facing new charges for, as CNN puts it, “refusing to snitch:” In November, U.S. District Judge…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy Sep 22 '15

Here’s More Evidence That Galactic Super-Civilizations Don’t Exist

Earlier this year, a scan of 100,000 galaxies showed no signs of alien mega-civilizations, dashing the hopes of those longing for a close encounter of the extra-terrestrial kind. A follow-up analysis of the data suggests it’s even worse than we thought, concluding that advanced galaxy-spanning civilizations don’t exist in the local universe. ‘Dysonian SETI’ is…

io9 Paul Gilster—Centauri Dreams Sep 22 '15

The history of the treadmill reveals that it was basically a torture device

The treadmill is a time stopping torture machine that was made to remind us all of how we’ll never be in as good a shape as we want to be and how we’ll never be even half way good at estimating how many minutes have passed. And it’s okay because treadmills were basically made to…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 22 '15

Thanks to PETA, the Monkey Selfie Controversy Will Never End

PETA, the same organization that launched a bogus porn site and hates humans, is getting embroiled in one of the most click-baiting copyright battles of the century: The case of the monkey selfie. You know the story already. Back in 2011, British photographer and nature lover David Slater found himself in a legal battle with…

Biology Adam Clark Estes Sep 22 '15

This Music Video Made of Viral GIFs Will Make Your Mind Melt

You know that feeling when you have too many tabs and windows open and you can’t find your desktop? That’s exactly how it feels to watch “Drifted,” the new music video by The Shoes. Actually, the music video is more stressful. The “Drifted” video is basically a big collage of animated GIFs, each one dancing…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 22 '15

A Hundred Years After This Man’s Death Scientists Confirmed He Was Murdered

This historical mystery is not a “whodunnit.” It’s more of an “ifdunnit.” In 1908 the emperor of China died a very suspicious death. It took until 2008 for people to know that the person who almost definitely did murder him actually did murder him. For a hundred years, people didn’t know if this man was…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 22 '15

Meanwhile in the Future: Now You Can Buy an Invisibility Cloak

Scientists now have a way to cloak something very small, making it effectively invisible. But what if scientists and engineers created a much larger version? What if we all had access to invisibility cloaks? A few days ago, a team at Berkeley published a paper called “An ultrathin invisibility skin cloak for visible light” in…

Physics & Chemistry Rose Eveleth Sep 22 '15

We’re Getting a New Black Panther Comic, and It Sounds Absolutely Incredible

We’ve known for a while that Black Panther would be getting a series as part of Marvel’s “All-New, All-Different” reboot—but now the company have finally dished out details on the title, and it turns out it’s got one hell of a creative team behind it: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze are teaming up to take…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 22 '15

The Blood-Soaked History of Slasher Movies

Ryan Murphy’s campy Scream Queens premieres tonight, and it pays heavy tribute to the legacy of slasher films. The cast even features Jamie Lee Curtis—one of the greatest slasher-film icons of all time. Join us as we explore the slasher genre’s blood-splattered past. What was the first slasher movie? Depends on who you ask, but…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Sep 22 '15

Video: The natural wonderland of the Redwoods is so soothing

Redwood National & State Parks in northern California is where some of the tallest trees in the world stand and is home to so many different species. More Than Just Parks spent several weeks inside the park capturing the forest and the beaches and the clouds and basically all the beautiful nature that exists there.…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 22 '15

I’m Totally On Board With The Peanuts Movie After Watching The New Trailer

The first trailer for The Peanuts Movie was a bit jarring. All our favorite characters were there, along with the tone that made the franchise so popular. But the CG was so different and musical interludes so cringe-worthy. Now, a new trailer finds a balance of all that and ends up looking pretty great. Okay,…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 22 '15

Huawei Watch Review: I Love This Snazzy Piece, But Not That Price

Smartwatches, wristables, wearables — we’re getting a shitload of them this fall. As far as function is concerned, many of them will be carbon copies. What sets wearable winners like the Huawei Watch apart is the luxe aesthetic of blingy jewelry. But that gold/silver-plated premium comes at a hefty price that might disillusion some would-be…

Reviews Mario Aguilar Sep 22 '15

New York Should Be Ashamed of the Heinous Chair It Built for the Pope

Pope Francis is hip to social media and cares about the environment. His new cool Popemobile is a convertible Hyundai. But the throne that the poor pope has to sit in while he’s in Manhattan is freaking design blasphemy. It’s so ugly, it’s ungodly. How in heaven’s name did we get into this mess? Pope…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 22 '15

The Moon’s Reflection Transforms this Awkward Spacecraft into Lovely Art

Incredible close up video shows how a ballpoint pen works

What’s Your Dream Tech Set-Up?

In This Week’s New Comics, a Village of Animals Is Gripped By the Fear of Aliens Among Them

Game of Thrones Star Maisie Williams Gets Her Very Own Zombie Adventure Movie

We Could Have Discovered Climate Change As Early As the 1940s if We Had Just Looked

Which Old Science Fiction Trope Has Become Part of Your Everyday Life?

Whitey Bulger’s Girlfriend Facing New Charges Because She Ain’t No Snitch

Here’s More Evidence That Galactic Super-Civilizations Don’t Exist

The history of the treadmill reveals that it was basically a torture device

Thanks to PETA, the Monkey Selfie Controversy Will Never End

This Music Video Made of Viral GIFs Will Make Your Mind Melt

A Hundred Years After This Man’s Death Scientists Confirmed He Was Murdered

Meanwhile in the Future: Now You Can Buy an Invisibility Cloak

We’re Getting a New Black Panther Comic, and It Sounds Absolutely Incredible

The Blood-Soaked History of Slasher Movies

Video: The natural wonderland of the Redwoods is so soothing

I’m Totally On Board With The Peanuts Movie After Watching The New Trailer

Huawei Watch Review: I Love This Snazzy Piece, But Not That Price

New York Should Be Ashamed of the Heinous Chair It Built for the Pope

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