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Share Your Unreal Astronaut Stories For Our Yuri’s Night Space Party

It’s Yuri’s Night, the anniversary of the first human spaceflight. That means it’s time for a distributed planet-wide space-party, celebrating us puny humans braving the terrifying void of space! Top image: Gagarin strapped in and ready to blast off in Vostok 1. Vostok 1 did not look so hot when it landed in 1961. On…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

I Built My First Computer In Four Hours, Watch It In Three Minutes

Last week, I helped Chris Davidson of Game Chops build a new PC. Neither of us had built a computer before, so we streamed the process on Twitch TV to elicit the collective wisdom of the internet. Because, who needs manuals? (In retrospect, instructions might have helped speed things along a bit.) But! As you…

Tech News Maddie Stone

The Hidden Biases Our Internet Memes Help Propagate

Welcome to Reading List, a weekly collection of great tech reads from around the web. This week explores the hidden biases of Internet memes, the science of artificial testicles, whether the Apple Watch’s success depends on its ability to turn us all into big jerks, and more! Enjoy. A team of researchers has conduced the…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Artist Creates Stunning Wooden Sculptures With Laser Cutting Tech

Laster cutting tools were developed for industrial manufacturing, but that didn’t deter artist Gabriel Schama from adopting the tech and giving the age-old art of woodcutting a digital upgrade. Schama says he used to work exclusively in cut paper, spending weeks and hundreds of x-acto blades carving out a single design. Shifting his process to…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Boeing’s Space Taxi Got Soaked During Splashdown Tests

The best-laid plans have astronauts returning to Earth on dry land when they hitch a ride on Boeing’s CST-100 in the future, but NASA’s emergency plans dunked the spacecraft in splashdown tests to ensure waterlogged astronauts would still find their way home. Top image: Emergency splashdown scenario testing at NASA’s Langley Reserach Center on April…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

This Space Quilt Was Used To Illustrate 19th Century Astronomy Lectures

Crafted in 1876 by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, this embroidered quilt is more than mere folk-art object or household item: it was actually used by Harding Baker as a visual aid for astronomy lectures she’d give in her community. It’s now part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. From the…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Newly Discovered Terror Bird Sheds Light On A Fearsome Clan

It may not have been the largest terror bird on the block, but still, an encounter with Llallawavis scagliai was no laughing matter. To add to the fearsome sight of its bone crushing beak, scientists now suspect this terror bird let out exceptionally low-pitched cries when it encountered prey. Terror birds—carnivorous, flightless birds which topped…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Only A Drill: The National Guard Prepares For A Dirty Bomb Attack

What looks like an outtake from a zombie movie is a shot of a “dirty bomb” training exercise held yesterday in Richmond, California. More photos of the scene below. Here’s the official caption: Soldiers and airmen belonging to the California National Guard’s 49th Military Police Brigade and Homeland Response Force joined Richmond, El Cerrito, Berkeley…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

You Can Buy an Apple Watch on eBay—But It Won’t Be Cheap

The Apple Watch may be out of stock in stores, but its eBay life is just getting started. This past Friday there were already hundreds of listings of ‘Apple Watch’ on the popular auction site, according to CNBC. You can find a lot of deals on eBay, but for early Apple Watch re-sellers, the name…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Mysterious Radio Signals Came From Microwave Oven, Not Outer Space

Sometimes, the powerful radio bursts detected by our telescopes have the look of alien beacons, or other strange astronomical phenomena. Other times, they’re caused by scientists reheating coffee. The latter happens to be the case when it comes to the origin of mysterious radio signals known as perytons. For years, astronomers at the Parkes Observatory…

Tech News Maddie Stone

A 1990s Ballad Gets A Magic Makeover As An Epic Rock Opera Set In Space

No matter how you feel about the Backstreet Boys, it’s difficult to resist this theatrical take on one of the group’s biggest hits, re-imagined as “a glamanimated space opera” by Kingship. Stephen Mertens directs the animated video, below. Guitar-shaped asteroids and high-heeled space boots ahoy! In this exploration of lonely interstellar spaces, Tristan Crusade (Chris…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

This Mountain On Mars Is Leaking

As the midsummer Sun beats down on the southern mountains of Mars, bringing daytime temperatures soaring up to a balmy 25ºC (77ºF), some of their slopes become darkened with long, rusty stains that may be the result of water seeping out from just below the surface. Seasonal flows spotted by HiRISE on northwestern slopes in…

io9 Jason Major - Universe Today

LG Accidentally Reveals Its Leather Clad G4 Weeks Early

The leaks just keep rolling in! LG is unveiling its G4 smartphone on April 28th, but this weekend, prominent leaker Evan Blass discovered an unannounced progress site that revealed a lot about the looks of Android’s new flagship. One word: Leather. The G4’s back will have multiple color options, including at least six different shades…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Robotic Player Guitar Shreds On Its Own

It started nearly thirty years ago, when Ben Reardon encountered a robot playing a classical guitar at the 1988 World Expo in his hometown of Brisbane, Australia. He was only a teenager at the time, but he knew right then what he had to do. Twenty seven years later, enter Reardon’s robotic player guitar, a…

Tech News Maddie Stone

You Can Solve This Puzzle By Counting On Your Fingers

I’m on the road this week. Save for a couple of brief layovers, I’ve been doing a lot of driving. In light of this, I was inspired to feature a puzzle that could be solved without pen and paper. It was while glancing at my hands (which were, at the time, wrapped around a steering…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Phase Change Material Keeps Milk Cold When the Power Cuts Out

In rural Indian dairy villages, access to electricity is intermittent. Most people have to boil milk before they drink it, and dairy farmers face the perpetual risk of losing large batches of their product. Now Promethean Power’s new thermal battery tech offers a fascinating solution. As Doc North explains in the video, milk can be…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Baby Orangutan Munches Grass, Contemplates The Universe

Five-month-old Bornean orangutan Tuah peers out from the Great Ape Building at Utah’s Hogle Zoo at his introduction to the the public last week. The little guy is thriving under the care of his older sister, who stepped up into a parenting role after his mother died three weeks after he was born in November.…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

NASA Gears Up For Hubble’s 25th Anniversary

In anticipation of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th anniversary on April 24th, NASA is padding its Instagram all weekend with short movie clips celebrating the scope that’s brought us some of our most iconic and awe-inspiring images of the universe. This is just the latest example of a Hubblemania campaign which is now kicking into…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Science-Minded Tips To Help Your Message In A Bottle Survive At Sea

So you want to send a message in a bottle, and you’re hoping that someone, somewhere, will find your missive and still be able to read what you’ve written. There’s a strategy involved, and while some of it’s obvious (choose a dark bottle), other aspects require a little more forethought. Inspired by the recent discovery…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Just Leaked

Game of Thrones is alreadyone of the most pirated shows on TV, and now, on the very eve of season 5’s release, word is that the first four episodes have been leaked simultaneously. The copies were first spotted on the private torrent tracker IPT yesterday afternoon, but by the evening, the files had made their…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Share Your Unreal Astronaut Stories For Our Yuri’s Night Space Party

I Built My First Computer In Four Hours, Watch It In Three Minutes

The Hidden Biases Our Internet Memes Help Propagate

Artist Creates Stunning Wooden Sculptures With Laser Cutting Tech

Boeing’s Space Taxi Got Soaked During Splashdown Tests

This Space Quilt Was Used To Illustrate 19th Century Astronomy Lectures

Newly Discovered Terror Bird Sheds Light On A Fearsome Clan

Only A Drill: The National Guard Prepares For A Dirty Bomb Attack

You Can Buy an Apple Watch on eBay—But It Won’t Be Cheap

Mysterious Radio Signals Came From Microwave Oven, Not Outer Space

A 1990s Ballad Gets A Magic Makeover As An Epic Rock Opera Set In Space

This Mountain On Mars Is Leaking

LG Accidentally Reveals Its Leather Clad G4 Weeks Early

Robotic Player Guitar Shreds On Its Own

You Can Solve This Puzzle By Counting On Your Fingers

Phase Change Material Keeps Milk Cold When the Power Cuts Out

Baby Orangutan Munches Grass, Contemplates The Universe

NASA Gears Up For Hubble’s 25th Anniversary

Science-Minded Tips To Help Your Message In A Bottle Survive At Sea

Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Just Leaked

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