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First Breathtaking Look At MTV’s New Shannara Chronicles TV Show

Can MTV really pull off the insane challenge of adapting Terry Brooks’ Shannara books for television? Check out the first teaser trailer, and hear about the panel we just watched at San Diego Comic Con— and decide for yourself! Here’s the trailer we just watched at SDCC, which certainly teases a lot of beautiful imagery,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Walking Dead Season 6 Will Start with the Most Zombies Ever

When the sixth season of The Walking Dead begins on October 11, it’s starting off big. How big? Well, the premiere episode will include 654 zombies on-screen—the most ever used on the show—and that’s just one of the upcoming surprises the hit show’s cast and crew revealedtoday at Comic-Con. The panel began with the cast…

io9 Germain Lussier

Rare Shot of Venus Crossing the Sun May Help Us Find Alien Life

The image you’re looking at is a rare and beautiful event. Every 115 years, Venus crosses our Sun in Earth’s line of sight—twice. And when the most recent crossing took place, scientists used the event to take a peek at Venus’s atmosphere, refining tools that’ll one day help astronomers search distant worlds for signs of…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

The Story of Korra and Asami Will Continue in the Legend of Korra Comic

Excellent news, Avatar fans! If you’re still sad at the ending of Legend of Korra, prepare for good news‚Korra’s adventures will continue in a brand new comic from Dark Horse. The new ongoing series will be penned by Avatar and Korra co-creator (and writer of several Avatar comics for Dark Horse) Michael Dante DiMartino, adding…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Your Own Body Smuggles In This Radioactive Particle

Strontium-90 is not good news. It emits ionizing radiation, which means you want to keep it out of our body. Unfortunately, your body has other ideas. The body’s own mechanisms welcome this isotope in, and store it away. Strontium-90was one of the many isotopes the world got acquainted with after the invention of the atomic…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

OPM Director Steps Down After Admitting 22 Million Hacked on Her Watch

After confirming that over 22 million people had their personal information stolen in the largest government digital data breach, Office of Personnel Management director Katherine Archuleta has resigned. As late as last night, Archuleta had insisted she wouldn’t step down from office, despite calls from Congress. Beth Cobert, deputy director of management at the Office…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

These Sensational Space Images Are Among The Year’s Best

The Royal Observatory Greenwich, in conjunction with BBC Sky at Night Magazine, has announced its shortlist for the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. You can check them out right here in all their cosmic glory. All images and captions: Royal Museums Greenwich. They are republished here with permission. Photographer credits are included with…

io9 George Dvorsky

Someone at Pixar Built the Most Adorable Peek-a-Boo Playing Robot

Apparently if you work at Pixar, everything you make has to be adorable. So Alonso Martinez, a technical director at the company, designed and built a simple robot called Mira that’s just about the cutest thing you’ve ever seen when it’s playing peek-a-boo. Watching Mira get sad and change colors when Alonso hides his face…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The most insane airplane low pass yet

If you were standing up straight, your head would be clipped off from this low pass from a fighter jet. That’s how close this Libyan MiG-23 is flying to the ground. The flyby is terrifyingly low and ridiculously fast and it is completely wild, especially considering how Libya only has a smattering of these jets…

Sploid Casey Chan

Who Ya Gonna Call? Them. Definitely Them.

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io9 Rob Bricken

NASA Has One-Upped Google Earth for Mars

You’ve been able to explore interesting corners of Marsfor years using Google Earth. However, NASA just one-upped the search giant with a data-rich interactive map that lets you peek into every nook and cranny, from the miles-high volcanoes to the sperm-shaped valleys. You can even reproduce them with a 3D printer! The new Mars Trek…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Rick Grimes Is Scarier Than Any Zombie in the New Walking Dead Trailer

It’s a lesson many people (and zombies) have learned the hard way—do not mess with Rick Grimes. But if you thought Rick taking charge of the Alexandria Safe Zone was somehow going to put an end to the group’s troubles, this lengthy, brutal Comic-Con trailer for season 6 will make you think again. Contact the…

Television Rob Bricken

At Last, Batman Is Teaming Up With the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Wait, what? Just announced by DC at San Diego Comic-Con, the heroes in half-shells are making their way to Gotham City for a new crossover miniseries collaboration between IDW and DC. The comic will see Krang teleport the Turtles and Shredder into the alternate reality of Gotham—naturally attracting the attention of the Dark Knight. Presumably…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Here’s a 3D-Printed, Self-Driving Mini Car

I present to you the engineering equivalent of peanut butter and jelly: A self-driving vehicle that was 3D-printed. A prototype is currently being tested, and in the future, it could shuttle jet-lagged passengers across terminals or hungover college kids across the quad. Researchers at the University of Michigan announced the vehicular jackalope yesterday: SmartCarts, custom…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

This Is How Your Fruits and Vegetables Look in an MRI Machine

Hey! What are your plans for that artichoke you’ve got there? You’re going to grill it and serve it with some lemon-butter sauce? That’s cool. We’re just going to stick ours in this MRI machine here. Alexandr Khrapichev, a professor at the University of Oxford, put together this selection of what he calls “virtually-sliced” fruit…

io9 Ria Misra

Your Guide to the Must-Read Comics of the 2015 Eisner Awards

Contrary to what you might hear, Comic-Con is, actually, sometimes about comic books—and that rings especially true for the yearly Eisner Awards ceremony that takes place at the convention. Ahead of tonight’s show, here’s a few selections from the swathe of nominees that you should definitely add to your reading list. Adventures of Superman #14…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

This Is What a Dolphin’s Vagina Looks Like

A couple of months ago, I helped out in Patricia Brennan’s lab when she made casts of dolphin vaginas. You heard me correctly. Dolphin vaginas. Brennan is well-known among biologists for her work on sexual conflict in ducks, and on the internet for her high-speed videos of duck erection. I’ve known Brennan for years –…

Biology Diane Kelly

You’re Going to Want This Designer-Curated Guide for Your City

It’s hard to get good advice when you’re visiting a new city. Yelp is anarchy; books are out of date as soon as they’re published. Most travel apps are horribly designed. So these designer-made neighborhood guides are an especially welcome resource. A few weeks ago, a promising new guide to New York City was released…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Self-Balancing Zoomer Dino Gets a Jurassic World Facelift

There’s a good reason Spin Master’s Zoomer Dino took home ‘Toy of the Year’ honors for 2014. It’s not only as close as you can get to owning a life-like pet dinosaur, it’s also able to balance on two wheels like the insanely-expensive Segway. And now that Jurassic World is dominating the box office, it’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Jumping Robot Is Extremely Cute… And Very Difficult to Destroy

Robots: They shake hands with politicians, perform surgery, and review movies. They’re also getting pretty good at moving around without hurting themselves, as a new report in Sciencedemonstrates. The study, A 3D-Printed, Functionally Graded Soft Robot Powered by Combustion, which was highlighted by Harvard Gazette Magazine today, was authored by a group of microrobotics engineers…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

First Breathtaking Look At MTV’s New Shannara Chronicles TV Show

The Walking Dead Season 6 Will Start with the Most Zombies Ever

Rare Shot of Venus Crossing the Sun May Help Us Find Alien Life

The Story of Korra and Asami Will Continue in the Legend of Korra Comic

Your Own Body Smuggles In This Radioactive Particle

OPM Director Steps Down After Admitting 22 Million Hacked on Her Watch

These Sensational Space Images Are Among The Year’s Best

Someone at Pixar Built the Most Adorable Peek-a-Boo Playing Robot

The most insane airplane low pass yet

Who Ya Gonna Call? Them. Definitely Them.

NASA Has One-Upped Google Earth for Mars

Rick Grimes Is Scarier Than Any Zombie in the New Walking Dead Trailer

At Last, Batman Is Teaming Up With the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Here’s a 3D-Printed, Self-Driving Mini Car

This Is How Your Fruits and Vegetables Look in an MRI Machine

Your Guide to the Must-Read Comics of the 2015 Eisner Awards

This Is What a Dolphin’s Vagina Looks Like

You’re Going to Want This Designer-Curated Guide for Your City

The Self-Balancing Zoomer Dino Gets a Jurassic World Facelift

This Jumping Robot Is Extremely Cute… And Very Difficult to Destroy

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