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A GoPro’s Oddly Soothing Fall From Orbit

Blasting out of Earth’s gravity well and into orbit seems like it’d be anything but a calming experience. The first few minutes of the descent back home, however, are downright soothing. The footage below was captured by a GoPro situated inside a fairing from one of Space X’s recent Falcon 9 rocket launches. Sure, things…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Gemini 4 Spouses Check In With The Astronauts At Mission Control, 1965

At Mission Control in Houston, Texas, Patricia McDivitt and Patricia White speak with astronauts James McDivitt and Ed White from as Gemini 4 passes over the United States. Gemini 4 was the second mission in the program, and ended on June 7th, 1965 after a five day mission. Photo credit: NASA

io9 Andrew Liptak

Matt Damon Is Hilariously Profane In The First Look At The Martian

We finally have our first official footage of Ridley Scott’s adaptation The Martian, and we get to meet the crew of Ares 3 for the first time. In it, Matt Damon’s Mark Watney is as hilariously profane as his character is in Andy Weir’s novel. This isn’t a trailer for the movie: it’s an in-universe…

io9 Andrew Liptak

An Internet Protocol From 1989 is the Quick Fix that Never Died

Welcome to Reading List, a weekly collection of great tech reads from around the web. This week explores the history of the Border Gateway Protocol, how our music recommendation algorithms are studying us, whether Seoul is becoming the new Silicon Valley, and more! Enjoy. Despite years of dire warnings about its vulnerabilities, a protocol developed…

Tech News Maddie Stone

The LHC is Back in Business. But What is it Really Going to Tell Us?

After two years of upgrades, the world’s largest particle accelerator is back in business. And it’s already bashing subatomic particles together at higher energies than ever before to probe the most fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Shortly after the discovery of the Higgs boson particle in 2012, the Large Hadron Collider—a 27…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Startup Helps Companies Trawl the Dark Web to Catch Data Leaks Sooner

Remember when Target got hacked and tons of customer credit card information was leaked two years ago? Target didn’t detect that breach until weeks later, long after sensitive data had been disseminated across the internet. The incident ended up costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars outright, not to mention the lasting damage to…

Privacy & Security Maddie Stone

Guardians Of The Galaxy Writer Nicole Perlman To Pen Wool Adaptation

The Wrap is reporting that Nicole Perlman has been hired to rewrite the script for Wool, an adaptation of Hugh Howey’s bestselling novel. Perlman is best known for her work on Guardians of the Galaxy, and is also writing the script for Captain Marvel. 20th Century Fox acquired the rights for the novel in 2012,…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Even In Cities Where It Rains America’s Water Infrastructure Is a Mess

It’s not just drought that can wreak havoc on water supply. Even cities with vast freshwater resources are facing urban water catastrophes. A massive initiative to repair the aging, mismanaged water infrastructure in the Great Lakes region is piloting six small attempts to fix a broken system. All across the Great Lakes region, natural water…

Tech News Nina Ignaczak - Issue Media Group

The Answer To This Riddle Is Not “6”

Can you determine what goes in place of the question mark? SUNDAY PUZZLE #34: Complete The Series I don’t feature visual riddles very often, but this one was too good to pass up. It was posed by somebody at my coworking space, and I found it especially clever (if a bit devious). I also appreciate…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Patient Jams Out During His Own Brain Surgery

Doctors often keep patients awake during brain surgery to monitor them for injuries in real time. Put in this situation, most of us would probably do very little of anything other than respond when spoken to and pray for a swift end to the experience. That didn’t sound like much fun to Anthony Dias. During…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Orphan Black Asks: Is It Crueler To Know You’re A Clone Or Not To Know?

There are two kinds of clones in Orphan Black: Clones who are self-aware and those who are “naive.” Obviously, our Clone Club members fall into the former category, but what happens when we encounter a clone sitting at the fringes of the conspiracy? Is it better to let her know she’s not crazy? Or hope…

Television Lauren Davis

New Public Database Shows all the People Killed by the Police This Year

For every police killing that garners national attention, there are dozens that go unnoticed. And while the US government doesn’t keep an official record of police shootings, it’s becoming increasingly clear that such records are badly needed. That’s why The Guardian started keeping its own tally last week, using social media, local news reports, and…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Inflatable Greenhouse-Spa Makes Plants and Humans Happy

You know what’ll really liven up our future megacities? Little inflatable horticultural spas scattered everywhere, of course. Wait, what!? For the last few days, there’s been a very unusual bubble of a structure living by London’s River Thames. It looks a bit like a prototype for a future space habitat, but Loop.pH’s “Horticultural Spa and…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Learn About The Modern Masters of Science Fiction With This Great Series

In 2013, the University of Illinois Press launched a new series of scholarly books: The Modern Masters of Science Fiction, a series dedicated to studying the men and women who shaped modern science fiction literature. Since the launch of the series, editor Willis Regier has overseen the release of five installments, with an additional two…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Learn How To Play Quidditch The Right Way

US Quidditch is the governing body for the sport of Quidditch, and last week, they released the 9th Edition of their rules for the upcoming 2015-2016 season! Quidditch has been played as a real game since 2005, when it was first adapted for non-magical players at Middlebury College. In 2007, the first ever ‘IQA World…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Three Stars Were Exiled From their Galaxies to Explode in a Cosmic Void

It’s easy to imagine the universe as an endless sea of stars, but that’s a biased, Earthly perspective. If we could zoom very far out, we’d see bright cosmic clusters like our Milky Way, and between them, unimaginably vast stretches of empty intergalactic space. Artist’s concept of a Type Ia supernova exploding in the region…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Marvel Comics Reboot Includes Two Wolverines

Marvel Comics has been getting ready for a massive reboot of their comics universe, and in the last couple of days, they’ve released some teaser images that reveal just how different their world is going to get. Just days after our first group shot, Marvel has released a second. In the latest teaser image, we’re…

Books & Comics Andrew Liptak

The Shifting Sands Of The Sahara Are A Lesson In Dune Dynamics

The many ergs of the Sahara Desert are a beautiful lesson in the shifting history of sand in the desert, and the shapes and scales of dunes Top image: The Issaouane Erg in Algeria on January 16, 2005. Credit: NASA Most of the Sahara Desert is not sand and dunes, but other, equally harsh landscapes.…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Women Dominate The 2015 Nebula Awards

Last night in Chicago, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced the winners of the Nebula Awards. The Award is one of the major honors in the science fiction field and is voted on by members of SFWA. Here’s the winners: Best Novel Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada) The…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Make Your Own Fury Road-Style Flamethrower Ukulele

The flamethrower guitar was definitely one of the coolest bits of tech in Mad Max: Fury Road. But why should Doof Warriors on the post-apocalyptic warpath have all the fun? With an afternoon to spare and a good life insurance policy, you can be the proud owner of a fire-breathing instrument, too. Warning: The project…

Tech News Maddie Stone

A GoPro’s Oddly Soothing Fall From Orbit

Gemini 4 Spouses Check In With The Astronauts At Mission Control, 1965

Matt Damon Is Hilariously Profane In The First Look At The Martian

An Internet Protocol From 1989 is the Quick Fix that Never Died

The LHC is Back in Business. But What is it Really Going to Tell Us?

Startup Helps Companies Trawl the Dark Web to Catch Data Leaks Sooner

Guardians Of The Galaxy Writer Nicole Perlman To Pen Wool Adaptation

Even In Cities Where It Rains America’s Water Infrastructure Is a Mess

The Answer To This Riddle Is Not “6”

Patient Jams Out During His Own Brain Surgery

Orphan Black Asks: Is It Crueler To Know You’re A Clone Or Not To Know?

New Public Database Shows all the People Killed by the Police This Year

Inflatable Greenhouse-Spa Makes Plants and Humans Happy

Learn About The Modern Masters of Science Fiction With This Great Series

Learn How To Play Quidditch The Right Way

Three Stars Were Exiled From their Galaxies to Explode in a Cosmic Void

Marvel Comics Reboot Includes Two Wolverines

The Shifting Sands Of The Sahara Are A Lesson In Dune Dynamics

Women Dominate The 2015 Nebula Awards

Make Your Own Fury Road-Style Flamethrower Ukulele

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