Latest

What Do People Most Commonly Get Wrong About Your Job?

Whether because of a prominent fictional character with a very fictional version of your career or just because of a lack of visibility, there’s a lot of things we think we know about individual jobs that are just plain wrong. Today, we get the real story. Tell us in the comments what you do and…

io9 Ria Misra

A Rare Glimpse Of Rhea’s Warped Horizon

Saturn’s icy moon Rhea, which measures a mere 949 miles (1,527 km) across, features an irregularly shaped landscape battered by craters. This new image taken by the Cassini spacecraft shows the tortured surface in glorious detail. This picture was captured by Cassini at a distance of 35,000 miles (56,000 km) on February 10, 2015. Credit:…

io9 George Dvorsky

Male Butterflies Ejaculate, Female Butterflies Digest

A mating system that puts the sexes in conflict can evolve some pretty extreme copulatory structures. Spiky penises and twisty vaginas are the tip of the iceberg. According to a study in the Journal of Experimental Biology last week, we should add protein-melting vaginal tracts to the list. Image: masaki ikada via Wikimedia| CC BY-SA…

Biology Diane Kelly

Video: How to make tasty gummy Lego bricks that you can eat

Everyone loves Lego bricks. Everyone loves gummy bears. So why not combine the two to make gummy Lego bricks that you can eat and build stuff with? Grant Thompson shows you how a few simple ingredients and a little bit of creativity can make fun gummy Lego bricks that are both better than gummy bears…

Sploid Casey Chan

Asus Zenbook UX305 Review: A Great Laptop for Just $700

The new MacBook is way too thin. The Dell XPS 13 is the Windows laptop to beat. But say you’re looking for a slightly cheaper razor-thin machine? For just $700, the new Asus UX305 is a pretty damn good deal. What Is It? A 13.3-inch MacBook Air-styled laptop running Windows 8.1 instead. Thinner and lighter…

Reviews Sean Hollister

A Synopsis Of Force Awakens Rumors Might Just Describe The Entire Movie

Dwayne Johnson teases that we might see Shazam sooner than we think. Channing Tatum reveals the Gambit movie will be an origin story. Willa Holland discusses Thea’s vigilante costume going into Arrow season 4. Plus Stephen King’s It is in trouble, and there’s a new Inside Out clip. Spoilers! Top image: Star Wars: The Force…

Television James Whitbrook

This 29-Year Old Is Shaking Up Adventure Photography

Chris Burkard is widely considered the most talented photographer working in the outdoors adventure space. He wasn’t trained as a photographer and spends much of the year living out of a car. Here’s how you can be just like him. Chris Burkard has won the Red Bull Illume photo contest, twice, has been the senior…

Tech News Corey Hass

Exoplanet Hunters Will Comb Starlight With Lasers

This picture shows the spectrum of light. You may have seen similar images in the past, but this one is something special—because it’s made of star light. In April 2015, two so-called laser frequency combs were installed at the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) planet-finding instrument of the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6-metre telescope…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

How Scientists Plan to Hack Your Nervous System

One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of medicine will be electric. By Gaia Vince. When Maria Vrind, a former gymnast from Volendam in the Netherlands, found that the only way she could put her socks on in the morning was to lie…

Tech News Gaia Vince

New Malware Tracks Subway Riders With Just Smartphone Motion Data

Even when you’re unable to maintain cellular and GPS connections underground, hackers may still be able to keep track of you. Researchers have discovered that they can trace the movements of subway rider with 92 percent accuracy, using just the motion sensing aboard smartphones. A team of researchers from Nanjing University has developed a technique…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Charter Plans to Buy Time Warner Cable for $55 Billion

Charter Communications has agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for a cool $55 billion, and while the merger won’t be as massive as the Comcast-TWC deal that was recently shot down, the further consolidation of cable giants isn’t good news for consumers. Following competition from the French telecoms firm Altice last week, Charter—currently the fourth-biggest…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Is the First Single-Molecule Diode That Could Actually Be Useful

The diode is a very simple-sounding little electronic device: it allows current to flow easily in one direction, but not the other. But while the quest to miniaturize them to the molecular scale has worked in the past, only now is it a truly practical proposition. A team from Columbia University has created a new…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

WhatsApp’s Group Chat Mute Options Are Weird

If you’ve decided to ignore a group chat on WhatsApp, you’ll know the options are a bit… strange. Seriously, who chose these three options? [Doghouse Diaries]

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Be Relieved You Can’t Buy This Iron Man Galaxy S6 Edge in the U.S.

Resplendent in red and gold, this is Samsung’s attempt to bring together its Marvel tie-ins with its latest slightly weird S6 Edge handset. The result is… probably not the phone Tony Stark would choose? The fully Iron Man-themed package includes an arc reactor-esque wireless charger, which you can see in the video below, along with…

Gadgets Jamie Condliffe

This Man Cannot Be Allowed to Decide the Fate of the Patriot Act

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear this week that, while the Senate is rapidly approaching recess, the Senate “will stay in [session] until a deal is struck to extend” the Patriot Act. McConnell has also introduced legislation for both long-term and short-term reauthorization of the Patriot Act’s expiring provisions. It seems that…

Tech News Nadia Kayyali - EFF

Jony Ive Is Now Apple’s Chief Design Officer

Jony Ive, Apple’s inspirational designer, is assuming a new position as Chief Design Officer at the company. The move will see him retain control over industrial design and user interface divisions at Apple, but with a step back from day-to-day operations. The news came to light in a profile of Ive written by Stephen Fry…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Good Wine Tastes More Like Koala Urine Than You’d Think

Have you ever described a wine you were drinking as fruity, sweet, or having a hint of coconut? Well, congratulations, because you were totally drinking a component of koala urine. In 1996 scientists were pleased to isolate a component of wine. They described it as “intense sweet and coconut-like smelling,” and called it “wine lactone.”…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Don’t Get a ‘Base Tan’

The myth of the ‘base tan’ needs to die. Like Bonnaroo and flip-flops, the concept of the base tan reappears every summer and gets enthusiastically endorsed by a subset of confused people with dubious hygiene standards. The idea that you can stave off a severe sunburn by getting a moderately less severe sunburn is immensely…

Health Kate Knibbs

11 Species of Chameleon Masqueraded as One

Biologists just discovered 11 new species of chameleon hiding in plain sight—as chameleons tend to do. Most chameleons can change color, but the range of hues is limited, depending on the species. Madagascar’s panther chameleons are unusual because their color ranges varied depending on where they lived. On some parts of the island, the panther…

Biology Kiona Smith-Strickland

Every She-Ra: Princess Of Power Figure, Ranked

When we ranked the original Masters of the Universe figures, you knew the Princess of Power figures were also coming, right? Sure, She-Ra’s toyline wasn’t quite as epic as her brother He-Man’s, but it was still awesome. It’s just that some figures were more awesome than others. 1) She-Ra The one, the only. Seeing as…

io9 Rob Bricken

What Do People Most Commonly Get Wrong About Your Job?

A Rare Glimpse Of Rhea’s Warped Horizon

Male Butterflies Ejaculate, Female Butterflies Digest

Video: How to make tasty gummy Lego bricks that you can eat

Asus Zenbook UX305 Review: A Great Laptop for Just $700

A Synopsis Of Force Awakens Rumors Might Just Describe The Entire Movie

This 29-Year Old Is Shaking Up Adventure Photography

Exoplanet Hunters Will Comb Starlight With Lasers

How Scientists Plan to Hack Your Nervous System

New Malware Tracks Subway Riders With Just Smartphone Motion Data

Charter Plans to Buy Time Warner Cable for $55 Billion

This Is the First Single-Molecule Diode That Could Actually Be Useful

WhatsApp’s Group Chat Mute Options Are Weird

Be Relieved You Can’t Buy This Iron Man Galaxy S6 Edge in the U.S.

This Man Cannot Be Allowed to Decide the Fate of the Patriot Act

Jony Ive Is Now Apple’s Chief Design Officer

Good Wine Tastes More Like Koala Urine Than You’d Think

Don’t Get a ‘Base Tan’

11 Species of Chameleon Masqueraded as One

Every She-Ra: Princess Of Power Figure, Ranked

Latest news

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

How to Watch the F1 Japanese GP 2026 on a Free Channel

Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

How to watch UFC Fight Night Adesanya vs Pyfer live this Saturday

‘Steel Ball Run’ Will Return This Year…Eventually

‘The Mummy 4’ Is Getting the Family Back Together

JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons

Latest Reviews

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Let us help find what you are looking for...