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Ghost Monkeys Foretell Rainforest Destruction (Yes, Really)

For the first time, two albino spider monkeys have appeared in the wild. Danny Schmidt captured the first photos and videos of them; we asked him to explain why the ghost monkeys spell doom for their eco system. IndefinitelyWild: How’d you hear about the ghost monkeys? Danny Schmidt: I first heard about the albino brown…

Biology Wes Siler

A Scientific Guide To Surviving Summer

The first day of summer is fast approaching – will you be prepared for suntanning, swimming, and swarms of bugs? Here’s our handy guide to surviving the sultriest of seasons, with SCIENCE. Image by Jim Cooke, sources via Shutterstock. Why Do Mosquitos Bite Some People And Not Others? Above: Rockefeller University’s Emily Dennis offers her…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Another Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece gets the Lego treatment

Even if architects like Marcel Breuer or Walter Gropius don’t sound familiar to you, you’ve probably heard of Frank Lloyd Wright. He’s a household name when it comes to architecture, and his Wingspread house, finished in 1939, is his latest masterpiece to be converted into the ideal Lego home for your minifigs. Jameson Gagnepaln is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Space Station Now Has A Viewscreen Straight Out Of Star Trek

It may not be as grand as the one featured on the starship Enterprise, but the new 65-inch high definition viewscreen onboard the International Space Station can certainly be seen as a step in that direction. The new viewscreen, developed by Screen Innovations for NASA, was delivered aboard SpaceX on April 14th. The portable screen…

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Silicon Valley’s New Villain Is the Ari Gold of Startups

The Pied Piper gang finally has its Ari Gold, and that’s a good thing. Silicon Valley has been distinguishing itself this season by how deftly its satire straddles the line between realism and absurdism, but it’s been intermittently subdued. Russ Hanneman is an entitlement fever dream, a caricature of Justin Timberlake playing Sean Parker, and…

Television Kate Knibbs

Bold profile photo of the F-35 makes it look like a future space fighter

The F-35 Lightning II is a comically expensive fighter jet with a host of problems but one thing you can’t deny: it can sure look badass. Like badass in the being able to see a glimpse of the future today badass. Like badass as in this flying killer machine totally looks like it’s from a…

Sploid Casey Chan

Printing Out the Internet Would Take About 136 Billion Pages of Paper

Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? How much paper would it take to print the internet? A group of students at the University of Leicester recently estimated an answer to the latter question—in relationship to how many trees it would take to print it. It’s the kind of question you’d expect to…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

On Game Of Thrones, All The Oath-Breakers Debate The Meaning Of Faith

Many of our favorite Game of Thrones characters have broken sacred vows at this point. Jon Snow slept with a Wildling girl. Cersei made a mockery of her wedding vows. Roose Bolton stabbed his liege lord. But last night, we got to see them solemnly debating the meaning of religion, and what it means to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Forgotten Era: When Bed Bugs Were Tested for Combat in Vietnam

In 2004, Brooke Borel got bed bugs in New York. Then she experienced them again in 2009—twice in two different apartments. Because of those experiences, which were part of a widespread bed bug resurgence in the US, Borel, a science journalist, decided to explore why the bugs were back. This excerpt is one of many…

Books & Comics Brooke Borel

First Look At X-Men: Apocalypse‘s Nightcrawler, Who Is Adorable

Aww! It’s our first glimpse at Kodi Smit-McPhee as the blue, teleporting mutant Nightcrawler of X-Men: Apocalypse, as revealed by director Bryan Singer online. Lookit that widdle blue guy! First, here’s exactly what Singer posted. You’ll have to click through to Instagram to see it, but don’t get too excited that it’s a video: Now,…

Movies Rob Bricken

Transform Paper and Glue Into a Robot That Actually Transforms

If the thought of spending hours with a hobby knife, glue, and more patience than a saint doesn’t sound like a fun way to spend an evening, you’ll probably want to move along. Because it’s completely up to you to turn the six pages in this papercraft kit into a robot that actually transforms into…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Interesting chart shows what the tallest building built in each year was

This chart showing the height of the tallest skyscrapers built over time, made by the Economist, can get a little hectic with what seems like axises and data points that go beyond x, y and z and on to some unknown letter but it is deeply interesting. It shows what the tallest building built in…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Science Fiction Tech That Will Never, Ever Become Reality

Science fiction has a pretty good track record of telling us what kinds of technologies (submarines, credit cards, cellphones) we should be expecting years, sometimes many decades, before they actually show up. But some technologies never make it out of our imaginations. Tell us in the comments about the science fiction technology that you never…

io9 Ria Misra

Easily Cut People and Objects From Photos With This Camera App

There are plenty of powerful third-party camera apps available for Android if you don’t like the one that came with your smartphone. They offer manual control over white balance, ISO and shutter speed, plus a range of advanced features—like the option to cut out moving people and objects from your photos, available in A Better…

Gadgets David Nield

An Iron Man Bluetooth Speaker Is More Useful Than Most Collectibles

Unless you’ve managed to hold on to the imagination that inspired your make-believe childhood adventures, all those comic book collectibles you’ve bought don’t do much more than decorate your den. Except for this Iron Man helmet replica that’s secretly also a wireless Bluetooth speaker. At just shy of eight-inches tall it’s a perfect 1:1 scale…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Eating The Wrong Shellfish Could Give You Temporary Amnesia

Believe it or not, there is such a thing known as “amnesic shellfish poisoning”. Eating the wrong piece of shellfish — or occasionally just the wrong anchovy — can make you lose your memory. When you’re an oyster, you can’t be picky about what you eat. So oysters and other shellfish crunch down diatoms regularly.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A Portable Washing Machine That Doesn’t Need a Drop of Electricity

If camping seems like fun but you’d prefer if roughing it wasn’t so rough, the Drumi from Yirego is a compact portable washing machine that can clean around six or seven garments without the need for a power outlet, a generator, or even a sunny day to feed a solar panel. At just 22-inches tall…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Moving a two-ton elephant looks absolutely crazy

A small group of elephants who had been displaced have been butting heads with local villagers in a village in Daloa in the Ivorty Coast. The elephants have damaged crops, ruined homes, injured people and so forth. The villagers wanted to kill the elephants. Luckily for everyone though, the International Fund for Animal Welfare figured…

Sploid Casey Chan

How Doctor Strange Could Make A Surprise Début Before His Own Movie

Oscar Isaac talks about working with the cast of the original trilogy for The Force Awakens. Learn how Agents of SHIELD will connect with Age of Ultron. Steven Moffat teases the Doctor and Missy’s relationship in the next season of Doctor Who. Plus, what’s to come on Hannibal, Gotham and The Flash. Spoilers Get! Top…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Most Adorable Hulkbuster Toy Houses An Equally Adorable Iron Man

Thanks to Age of Ultron, we’ve had plenty of wonderful Hulkbuster toys to gawk at over the last few months. But outside of the buildable Lego figure, somehow hardly any of them actually fit a full Iron Man figure inside. Step forward and be counted among the few that do, adorable little baby Hulkbuster. Dubbed…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Ghost Monkeys Foretell Rainforest Destruction (Yes, Really)

A Scientific Guide To Surviving Summer

Another Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece gets the Lego treatment

The Space Station Now Has A Viewscreen Straight Out Of Star Trek

Silicon Valley’s New Villain Is the Ari Gold of Startups

Bold profile photo of the F-35 makes it look like a future space fighter

Printing Out the Internet Would Take About 136 Billion Pages of Paper

On Game Of Thrones, All The Oath-Breakers Debate The Meaning Of Faith

The Forgotten Era: When Bed Bugs Were Tested for Combat in Vietnam

First Look At X-Men: Apocalypse‘s Nightcrawler, Who Is Adorable

Transform Paper and Glue Into a Robot That Actually Transforms

Interesting chart shows what the tallest building built in each year was

The Science Fiction Tech That Will Never, Ever Become Reality

Easily Cut People and Objects From Photos With This Camera App

An Iron Man Bluetooth Speaker Is More Useful Than Most Collectibles

Eating The Wrong Shellfish Could Give You Temporary Amnesia

A Portable Washing Machine That Doesn’t Need a Drop of Electricity

Moving a two-ton elephant looks absolutely crazy

How Doctor Strange Could Make A Surprise Début Before His Own Movie

The Most Adorable Hulkbuster Toy Houses An Equally Adorable Iron Man

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