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The Cloud Dragon Did Not Go Hungry That Night

As the tiny figure floated down onto Caelia’s wing, the dragon thought to herself, “Human food delivery. Now why has no one thought of that before?” Concept art by Cathrine Langwagen. “Cloud Dragon” is featured with permission and was spotted on r/ImaginaryLeviathans. The headline is shamelessly stolen from Langwagen’s own comments about the illustration.

io9 Lauren Davis

All The Neat Stuff You Can Do With A Hatchet, Safely

You know the book. A kid winds up in the forest with nothing but a small hand axe and figures out how to survive. A hatchet is one of the most versatile tools you can take with you in the outdoors, this is how you use one and how you’ll manage to keep all your…

Tech News Wes Siler

No, This Hill In Canada Isn’t Using Magnetic Force To Pull Cars Uphill

There’s a hill in New Brunswick, Canada, where something extraordinary happens. If you park your car at the foot of it, and throw it into neutral, your car seemingly starts to roll (completely unassisted!) uphill. Yes, it’s real, and, no, it’s not for the reason many people think. In a Kinja discussion, commenter SalBCrumb referenced…

io9 Ria Misra

This video is proof that Tokyo is the most unique city in the world

Japan can be both traditional and effortlessly modern, but most of all it’s unique. The chaos and quirks and creativity and energy of Tokyo all combine to create a city filled with things that exist nowhere else. Tokyo is an original and this video by Takuya Hosogane does a fantastic job capturing that. SPLOID is…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Chemical Saves You From Gas Leaks And Bad Wine

The gas that gets pumped into your house has no smell. This means the first sign you get that you’re inhaling gas is a lack of oxygen to the brain. To correct that problem, companies use a chemical characteristic of badly made wine. Natural gas can be dangerous. Good thing it smells bad, right? Wrong.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

These Microscopic Videos Show How Our Bodies Are Really Fields Of War

To the naked eye, your body may not look like the site of much action, but take a closer look and you’ll see the microscopic battles being waged every moment of every day, between our bodies’ invaders and the systems that fight back. Blood under 1000x magnification Bacteria attack while blood cells in the mouth…

io9 Vincze Miklós

What Would Happen If You Put A Mirror In A Scanner?

Let’s find out, shall we? I took this fairly large round mirror and scanned it using my Canon flatbed. The result was…let’s say, not very mirror-like at all. In fact, the glass area was almost black. So what happened? Where’s the shiny glass mirror we were hoping to see? To understand why we got the…

Tech News Archie D'Cruz - QUORA

Video: Chef makes wonderfully miniature burgers in a super tiny kitchen

You wouldn’t be wrong to think that a tiny cheeseburger is just a slider but you also wouldn’t be all the way right, either. That’s because Miniature Space stretches (compacts?) the imagination of what tiny food can be in their tiny kitchen. Here they are grillin’ up some burgers that are so tiny, they’re probably…

Sploid Casey Chan

What Happens When People First Realize That Their World Isn’t Real?

The people in the proof-of-concept short film Sundays are living in a Matrix-like reality, but this isn’t quite The Matrix. This is a story about people just beginning to realize something is awry with their reality. It’s not only that they may be living in a simulation — it’s also that the world they’re inhabiting…

io9 Lauren Davis

Iceland Has Become the Perfect Genetics Experiment

A millenium ago, a group settled in Iceland and have stayed there ever since, with few people coming and going. And so their DNA has stayed remarkably homogenous. That’s a major boon for genetics researchers, who today have released the results of sequencing the complete genomes of 2,636 Icelanders—the largest such countrywide project ever. Researchers…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Which Sequel Threw Out The Best Part Of The Previous Story’s Ending?

The most powerful ending is often the one that closes the story with a resounding bang. An ending that lets you know that things have changed. But those are also the hardest to continue, and some people don’t even try. Which sequel completely abandoned the best part of the previous installment’s ending? Please include a…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Even More Pictures Of New Avengers Figuarts Reveal Iron Man’s New Armour

Last month, we got our first, blurry look at Bandai’s new Age of Ultron figuarts — but a new magazine scan offers not just a better look at the upcoming toys, but also a great look at the new, Bleeding-Edge-inspired suit Iron Man will don in the movie. https://gizmodo.com/a-blurry-look-at-more-age-of-ultron-figuarts-reveals-an-1687424462 We’ve only briefly seen the new…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Why the Length of Saturn’s Day Is So Hard to Measure

The length of a planet’s day seems like such a simple number, a basic piece of information that should accompany any solar system diagram. But probes flying past Saturn have turned up oddly conflicting numbers. Scientist have now calculated the most definitive length of Saturn’s day yet, which is 6 minutes shorter than previously thought.…

Space & Spaceflight Sarah Zhang

Hannibal Writer Taking On Friday The 13th

The Friday the 13th reboot is still set to film later this year, but first it’s getting an all-new draft from an exciting source. THR is reporting that Hannibal writer Nick Antosca will be writing a draft for the Jason Voorhees reboot. It will be produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller. Contact…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Unexploded 500 Pound WWII-Era Bomb Causes Evacuation In London

The Second World War just doesn’t seem to want to go away. Earlier this week, a construction crew working in London, England, accidentally stumbled upon a rather large undetonated bomb, resulting in the evacuation of some 1,200 residents. The device, a nasty left over from the German Blitz of the Second World War, was discovered…

io9 George Dvorsky

We Is Here! Relive The Last Moon Mission In Its Entirety

If you are fond of the Apollo project, then you’ll love this site Ben Feist has been building for years—which is now online in its very early alpha stage. Apollo17.org is a highly addictive, interactive, real-time exploration of the entire Apollo 17 Mission, based upon official NASA footage and the transcription of radio transmissions. In…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

X-Men: Apocalypse Has Cast Young Jubilee!

Good news, fans of fabulous X-Men characters: X-Men: Apocalypse’s mutant roster just got a little more sparkly, with the addition of Lana Condor as the young Jubilation Lee! Bryan Singer himself took to Instagram to deliver the news: ?taken-by=bryanjaysinger Jubilee originally had the power to shoot bright, multicoloured energy plasmoids from her fingertips, commonly referred…

io9 James Whitbrook

Schwarzenegger Must Protect His Zombie Daughter In First Maggie Trailer

There’s so much weirdness about Maggie. The fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger is starring in a low-budget, indie zombie drama. That the movie, which is about a father protecting his infected daughter, basically makes him the Governor from The Walking Dead. But most of all, that his performance is apparently “superb.” But watch this trailer and…

io9 Rob Bricken

A Brief History Of Daredevil, Marvel’s Latest TV Hero

In a few weeks, Marvel will branch out its Cinematic Universe to Netflix with Daredevil, a new series about the eponymous Man Without Fear. Not familiar with Matt Murdock’s past? Here’s a brief history of Hell’s Kitchen’s greatest defender to catch you up before he hits the small screen. Origins Daredevil was created in 1964…

io9 James Whitbrook

The FBI’s Drone Pilot Team Is Just Two Dudes

The Justice Department inspector general’s recent audit of the FBI’s drone program revealed something surprising: the FBI drone pilot team is literally just two people sitting in a room. Yes, the FBI’s multi-million-dollar unmanned aircraft systems program is helmed by less people than there are in the band One Direction, exactly as many people as…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

The Cloud Dragon Did Not Go Hungry That Night

All The Neat Stuff You Can Do With A Hatchet, Safely

No, This Hill In Canada Isn’t Using Magnetic Force To Pull Cars Uphill

This video is proof that Tokyo is the most unique city in the world

This Chemical Saves You From Gas Leaks And Bad Wine

These Microscopic Videos Show How Our Bodies Are Really Fields Of War

What Would Happen If You Put A Mirror In A Scanner?

Video: Chef makes wonderfully miniature burgers in a super tiny kitchen

What Happens When People First Realize That Their World Isn’t Real?

Iceland Has Become the Perfect Genetics Experiment

Which Sequel Threw Out The Best Part Of The Previous Story’s Ending?

Even More Pictures Of New Avengers Figuarts Reveal Iron Man’s New Armour

Why the Length of Saturn’s Day Is So Hard to Measure

Hannibal Writer Taking On Friday The 13th

Unexploded 500 Pound WWII-Era Bomb Causes Evacuation In London

We Is Here! Relive The Last Moon Mission In Its Entirety

X-Men: Apocalypse Has Cast Young Jubilee!

Schwarzenegger Must Protect His Zombie Daughter In First Maggie Trailer

A Brief History Of Daredevil, Marvel’s Latest TV Hero

The FBI’s Drone Pilot Team Is Just Two Dudes

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