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This Week’s TV: What Happens When a Shark Bites a UFO?

A full week of new Steven Universe, TWO monster shark movies, and the season premiere of Gravity Falls, all on this week’s TV! Tonight: Steven Universe (6PM, CARTOON) Brand-new episodes—every weekday at six! Gravity Falls (8:30PM, DISNEY XD) The origin of Stan and his mysterious brother is finally revealed! Tonight’s episode is thirty uninterrupted minutes,…

Television Gordon Jackson

The Jetpack Makes Its Debut in China

Professional daredevil Nick Macomber made history over the weekend, conducting the first successful jetpack flight ever in China. But don’t get your hopes up about taking one of these things to work anytime soon. According to China Daily, over 1,000 people watched in Beijing as Macomber blasted off to a height of about 10 stories,…

Tech News Matt Novak

Mexico’s Most Famous Drug Lord Escaped Prison Through a Crazy Tunnel

Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman escaped from his high-security cell over the weekend via a mile-long tunnel that took some masterful engineering chops. Calling the escape route “a minor engineering masterpiece,” the Los Angeles Times provides details on the tunnel, which was “equipped with ventilation, lighting, oxygen tanks, scaffolding and a motorcycle…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

The Strain Is Fascinating, But for All the Wrong Reasons

Although the first season of The Strain was profoundly flawed, I found myself weirdly looking forward to its return. After watching the second season premiere, I think I’ve figured out why—there’s something genuinely fascinating about a show that can make a tentacle-vampire apocalypse so dull. I know that sounds like I’m being sarcastic, but I’m…

Television Rob Bricken

An Ancient Volcano Cluster Has Been Found off the Coast of Australia

The 50-million-year-old volcano cluster was found by accident about 155 miles (250 km) east of Sydney, but there’s no risk of an eruption. As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, the volcanoes were discovered by the CSIRO’s new research vessel, Investigator. Sonar images revealed a cluster of ancient in-line volcanoes that clearly erupted at some…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Most Terrifying Zombie Experiences We Saw At Comic-Con

Zombie lovers were welcomed with open arms (covered with open, rotting sores) at Comic-Con, where TV’s undeadliest shows pulled out all the stops for their fans with elaborate, interactive, in-your-face experiences. Here are the coolest zombie installations we sat at Comic-Con. The Walking Dead’s set-up featured a short, yet full terrifying stroll through a garage…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

A Look Back At McDonald’s Best Happy Meal Toys Ever: Changeables

The Happy Meal, and its included toy, is one of the more brilliant marketing schemes of the past 30+ years. It ensured that every child in the country was begging their parents to take them to McDonald’s, especially when in 1987 the chain introduced Changeables: its own line of transforming toys based on the restaurant’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Company Wants To Test Plastic Roads That Can Be Made In a Factory

Some scientists believe we’re living in a new epoch of history, the Anthropocene, defined by how drastically humans have altered the Earth with mining, roadways, and other earthworks. Now, engineers are testing plastic roads that can be installed and removed incredibly quickly. One recent entrant into this new business is the Dutch construction company, VolkerWessels,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Joss Whedon Tells io9 Why He’ll Never Be Finished With Superheroes

We spoke to Joss Whedon just before the Comic-Con panel where he announced his “Victorian female Batman” comic, Twist. He told us more about on what’s in store for that project… and we picked his brain on superheroes, storytelling, and what he really thought of the Black Widow controversy. io9: Our first question was going…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Some Slimy Clickbait Dickhead Stole My Identity to Blog for Elite Daily

My online reputation has the digital equivalent of an STI. A few weeks ago, I found out I was getting impersonated on the internet. My mysterious usurper did his homework, bogarting my photos and biographical details to publish blogs under my byline at Elite Daily. I found out I was being impersonated at a party.…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

What Extraordinarily Weird Things Are Locked Up in Your Junk DNA?

We know that we don’t “use” a lot of the genes inside our cells, but our DNA is strung with relics. But what are those relics, and what if they come back to haunt us? Here’s what you’re carrying around, and why it’s not as irrevocably part of the past as you think it is.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A Shot-by-Shot Breakdown of the New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Video

There wasn’t a new trailer from Star Wars: The Force Awakens at Comic-Con but, in a way, they gave us something better. A three-minute, behind-the-scenes video chock full of nostaliga, intrigue and quite a few easter eggs. Did you miss any? We’ve uncovered them all. Here’s the video, which may or may not have our…

io9 Germain Lussier

This Scale Model of the Solar System Will Make You Feel So Tiny

The Solar System is huge, man. You know this already, but this interactive illustration puts that giantness into the familiar terms of pixels. Prepare to feel like a small weak human. This “tediously accurate scale model of the Solar System” by designer Josh Worth pretends the moon is the size of a pixel and extrapolates…

Space & Spaceflight Mario Aguilar

Not Scared About the Pacific Northwest’s Impending Quake? You Should Be.

The Pacific Northwest is due for a continent-rending earthquake. Experts believe the odds of a Big One happening in the next half century are about one in three, the odds of a Very Big One roughly one in ten, and that, in either case, we are disastrously unprepared. In the latest issue of The New…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Use the Ballloon Extension to Save Files Straight to the Cloud

If you’re a card carrying member of the cloud storage club then you might opt to save images, links, and other files straight to the cloud rather than your local drive. Ballloon is a simple extension for Chrome to save files directly to Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box and so on. It uses a Google+…

Gadgets David Nield

These Are the Spiky Exoskeletons of Creatures That Once Roamed the Seas

They look a little like model rockets or blown-glass Christmas ornaments, but these are the oceanic skeletons of the ancestor of a creature that you’re probably pretty familiar with. A new study in Science Advances looks at the strange fossils of a comb jelly ancestor from over 500 million years ago, and reconstructed these 3-D…

io9 Ria Misra

Why the OPM Hack Will Be a National Security Threat for Decades to Come

Over 22 million peoplehad their personal information hijacked in a cyberattack on the US Office of Personnel Management. The attack is over, but its threat will literally last lifetimes. Members of the intelligence community are stressing that the attack will continue to be a problem until each one of those people whose sensitive personal information…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Madballs Are Back and More Detailed and Disgusting Than Ever

This year’s Comic-Con featured some of the best reveals for anyone who grew up in the ‘80s. Re-releases and updated versions of everything from Thundercats to Devastator were announced, but none were as awesome as Mondo’s new line of Madballs. Designed with creepy faces inspired by mummies, skeletons, and other monsters, Madballs were really just…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

9 Different Visions Of What Families Will Look Like 50 Years From Now

Family is a moving target. Our ideas about what constitutes a “normal” family have changed a lot since the 1960s, and there’s no reason to believe they’ll stop changing. How weird could things get? Here are nine different ideas about the future of the family. No rigid definition exists for the “family,” and there’s no…

io9 George Dvorsky

Video: The beautiful craftsmanship of making a shotgun

Guns are dangerous but making a beautifully ornate gun is basically like unbelievably detailed artwork crossed with masterful machinery work. I love this video showing the steps it takes for a Holland & Holland shotgun to be made because it’s so cool to see all the different methods blend together. The metal of the barrel,…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Week’s TV: What Happens When a Shark Bites a UFO?

The Jetpack Makes Its Debut in China

Mexico’s Most Famous Drug Lord Escaped Prison Through a Crazy Tunnel

The Strain Is Fascinating, But for All the Wrong Reasons

An Ancient Volcano Cluster Has Been Found off the Coast of Australia

The Most Terrifying Zombie Experiences We Saw At Comic-Con

A Look Back At McDonald’s Best Happy Meal Toys Ever: Changeables

This Company Wants To Test Plastic Roads That Can Be Made In a Factory

Joss Whedon Tells io9 Why He’ll Never Be Finished With Superheroes

Some Slimy Clickbait Dickhead Stole My Identity to Blog for Elite Daily

What Extraordinarily Weird Things Are Locked Up in Your Junk DNA?

A Shot-by-Shot Breakdown of the New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Video

This Scale Model of the Solar System Will Make You Feel So Tiny

Not Scared About the Pacific Northwest’s Impending Quake? You Should Be.

Use the Ballloon Extension to Save Files Straight to the Cloud

These Are the Spiky Exoskeletons of Creatures That Once Roamed the Seas

Why the OPM Hack Will Be a National Security Threat for Decades to Come

Madballs Are Back and More Detailed and Disgusting Than Ever

9 Different Visions Of What Families Will Look Like 50 Years From Now

Video: The beautiful craftsmanship of making a shotgun

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