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Here’s The First Crazy Trailer For Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation

Callin’ it: the official trendy word to include in your franchise entry is ROGUE. Because hot on the heels of the Rogue One announcement, we have news that the next Mission: Impossible flick is titled Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. Lots of fists/motorcycles/Pegg in the teaser trailer below. https://gizmodo.com/first-star-wars-spin-off-movie-is-titled-rogue-one-wha-1691081701 [Via Deadline]

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An Opossum May One Day Save You From a Deadly Snakebite

While many of us hold the opossum in about as much esteem as a sewer rat, turns out, we ought to be showing this particular urban trashivore a lil’ more respect. Opossums may end up saving thousands of humans from deadly snakebites each year. That’s because scientists have just managed to synthetically manufacture a possum…

Tech News Maddie Stone

After Pluto, Where Will NASA’s New Horizons Go?

Scientists are mulling over which of two icy bodies NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft should visit following its Pluto encounter this summer — provided the U.S. space agency comes up with funding for an extended mission. Image credit: NASA The New Horizons team ended up having to turn to the Hubble Space Telescope to find Kuiper…

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Your Tesla Is About to Become Autonomous

Earlier this week, we heard billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk describe his vision for the future of self-driving vehicles. Turns out, when Musk said “we’ll be there in a few years,” what he actually meant was, his company, Tesla, will be there this summer. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-describes-the-future-of-self-driving-cars-1692076449 On Thursday, Musk announced that Tesla’s Model S sedans would be…

Artificial Intelligence Maddie Stone

Long-Lost Remains Of Richard III Will Be Reinterred This Week

It’s been nearly three years since Richard III’s remains were discovered beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England … 500 years after his death in the Battle of Bosworth field. The bones were studied and their identity confirmed; now it’s time for the monarch to head to his final resting place. https://gizmodo.com/was-king-richard-iiis-long-lost-body-just-discovered-be-5942694 https://gizmodo.com/modern-forensics-reveal-gruesome-details-of-king-richar-1635759052 https://gizmodo.com/king-richard-iiis-remains-have-been-confirmed-to-99-999-1665632431 Seen…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Arctic Sea Ice Hit a Forty-Year Low This Winter

The National Snow and Ice Data Center has just released the results of its latest analysis of Arctic sea ice. Surprise—the prognosis is not good. The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice occurred early this year, and, at 5.61 million square miles, was the smallest in four decades. The map above shows the Arctic sea…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Well, That’s One Way to Prank a Person

As most of her fans know, Ellen DeGeneres has been messing (hilariously) with Today Show host Matt Lauer. Now, it’d seem, Matt’s decided to get even. After opening her car door and spilling ping pong balls all over a parking lot, DeGeneres discovers a cardboard cutout of her prankster buried inside. Sure, you could say…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Researchers Turn Packing Peanuts Into Rechargeable Batteries

Many of us have shared the guilty twinge of pouring a box of packing peanuts into a trash bag, knowing that our convenient foam waste will end up sitting in a landfill for the next few thousand years. Soon, however, we may be able to juice these little nuts for energy. That’s because chemical engineers…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Great Horned Owlet Has You In Its Sleepy Sights

A very young owlet (estimated to be around 10 to 14 days old!) hangs with its mother at Metzger Farm Open Space in Westminster, Colorado. The photographer notes: “Given the mother owl’s behavior in the previous photo, there are likely other younger owlets in the nest.” For more pictures of the owls (this is the…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Help NASA Target Dangerous Asteroids With New App

Now you too can be Bruce Willis in Armageddon (Harry Stamper…the character’s name was Harry Stamper…) without the worry of dying in space. NASA, in cooperation with Planetary Resources, has created a new app allowing the nearsighted or maybe even the asthmatic to protect the Earth from threatening asteroids. https://gizmodo.com/a-visualization-showing-where-asteroids-have-hit-the-ea-1566181287 The app, called the Asteroid…

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Delightful Comic Alien Versus Pooh Puts The “Hug” In “Facehugger”

From Giant Hamburger, creator of The Poohing (the only A.A. Milne-meets-Kubrick mash-up we will ever need), comes Alien Versus Pooh, another hand-drawn reimagining that somehow manages to make chestbursters the most adorable (yet still terrifying!) thing on this or any planet. Go here to read it! [Via Neatorama]

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Man Creates Awesome Wiping Out-In-Kitchen Selfie

We’ve all had a glorious, photo-worthy wipe out or two in our lives (or, if you’re clumsy like me, this happens on a pretty regular basis.) But few of us have succeeded in capturing the essence of such an event like photographer Derek Johnson. Full disclosure: Johnson did not actually photograph himself falling over in…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Nova in Sagittarius Is Brighter Than Ever – Catch It With The Naked Eye!

Great news about that new nova in Sagittarius. It’s still climbing in brightness and now ranks as the brightest nova seen from mid-northern latitudes in nearly two years. Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2 in the Sagittarius “Teapot”was easily visible with the naked eye at magnitude +4.4 when this photo was taken today March 21. The…

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Here’s How You Can Help Build a Quantum Computer

Quantum computers—theoretical machines which can process certain large and difficult problems exponentially faster than classical computers—have been a mainstay of science fiction for decades. But actually building one has proven incredibly challenging. A group of researchers at Aarhus University believes the secret to creating a quantum computer lies in understanding human cognition. So, they’ve built…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Photographer Captures Mesmeric Images of Parasitic Worm Sex

Since today is informally ParaSaturday (parasite-Saturday) on io9, photographer Marcus DeSieno , best known for his Victorian-style portraits of various parasite species posing like figures of the old West, was generous enough to submit to us his latest: Two Worms Having Sex. Namely, Schistosoma mansoni — blood flukes. DeSieno, whose photography has been profiled on…

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Police Dispose Of 20,000 Pounds Of Fireworks By Detonating Them All

Recently, 20,000 pounds of fireworks were seized in Glasscock County, Texas, and the local bomb squads helped the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to dispose of them. How? By exploding the whole lot of them over the course of three and a half days and creating a tower of sparkling smoke. The Midland…

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Mudskippers Create Artificial Tongues Made of Water

We all know they can crawl like a dog without scraping their knees, but researchers have now learned mudskippers are able to attack prey on land by manipulating mouthfuls of water – then sucking that water back into their mouths like a vacuum. The general idea is sort of like “hocking a loogie”– but then,…

io9 Gordon Jackson

These Colorful Liquid Droplets Chase Each Other Like Living Organisms

When water hits a glass surface, it usually just spreads itself out. But when water containing the organic molecule propylene glycol (PG) hits glass, it comes alive. In a manner of speaking. Scientists at Stanford University were at first perplexed by the strange behavior they observed when droplets of food coloring consisting of PG and…

Tech News Maddie Stone

A Millipede That Only Lives In One City

A new species of millipede known only to exist in the small city of Launceston, Tasmania has been discovered – and it’s been named after the jackal-headed Egyptian God, Anubis. The species, Tasmaniosoma Anubis is named for its branching genitalia, which resemble the snout and ears of Anubis. Though only one-centimeter long, the species was…

io9 Gordon Jackson

“Supertide” Creates Dramatic Temporary Island Off The Coast Of France

A rare “supertide” (caused by last night’s post-eclipse supermoon) briefly turned France’s Mont Saint-Michel into a completely encircled island. The historic site is located just off the coast of Normandy, and is usually linked to land via a bridge. Photo credit: AP

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Here’s The First Crazy Trailer For Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation

An Opossum May One Day Save You From a Deadly Snakebite