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Interstellar‘s Original Ending Actually Made Sense—And It Wasn’t Happy

The final act of Interstellar was a bit of mess, packed with feel-good mystical pseudoscience that was out of place in a sometimes glorious space opera. It turns out that ending was all director Christopher Nolan’s idea and that Jonathan Nolan’s original script called for a more straightforward—and darker—ending. https://gizmodo.com/interstellar-is-the-best-and-worst-space-opera-youll-ev-1654807305 Spoilers ahead. The Nerdist reported…

Mark Millar’s Time-Traveling Bromance Comic Chrononauts Will Be A Movie

The Chrononauts comic by Mark Millar was only just released, but it’s already been fast-tracked by Universal for a feature film. So get ready for a movie about two sexy geniuses who show the world their time-traveling adventures, live on TV. Deadline is reporting that Millar and Chrononauts illustrator Sean Gordon Murphy will executive produce…

Why Do Some Mushrooms Glow In The Dark?

Bioluminescence is not just a weirdly beautiful quality of some mushrooms. It’s also a useful way to figure out, for instance, whether you’ve found a patch of delicious chanterelles or their look-alike Jack-o-lantern mushrooms, which are poisonous. But why does it happen? A new study published in Current Biology by researchers from Darthmouth’s Geisel School…

Top 10 Greatest Giant Robots Of All Time

Ah, Giant Robots. Who doesn’t love giant mechanical creations stomping around and kicking butt? Over the years there have been many badass robots and mechs that have wormed their way into our hearts, but some are just especially great. So here are our picks for the 10 greatest giant robots, ranked. A note going in:…

Crowdfund Gorgeous Fantasy Comics, Geeky Book Drives And More!

Crowdfund this is back with another look at our favourite crowd-funding projects! Songgu Kwon’s hilarious fantasy webcomic and a drive to support book reading among kids may lead the charge this week, but that’s not all: there’s card games, a Firefly reunion, and Gale Anne Hurd’s next project too! Header Image Credit: Elf. Con Man…

Olympus E-M5 Mark II Review: The Original Retro Camera, Refined to a Tee

Beautiful retro design. Pro-level controls. So small. The Olympus OM-D E-M5 was the mirrorless camera for discerning photographers. Three years later, it’s finally getting a update in the form of the new E-M5 Mark II. It provides some welcome improvements in feel and operation, plus a flashy trick or two. Is that enough? Depends on…

io9 Newsstand: The Best Stories from the Week of March 15 – 21

This week’s stories are all adaptations and retellings of one kind or another. They all prove that knowing the story doesn’t mean you know the story. Andromache and the Dragon by Brittany Pladek | Ideomancer The dragon stood on the shore. “For every day, I will consume one of your desires,” she told them. “You…

Using Origami to Make a Shape with No Volume and Infinite Surface Area

It should surprise no one that MIT has an origami team whose goal is to create a third level version of a 3-D fractal known as a Menger Sponge, whose ultimate incarnation is a shape with zero volume and infinite surface area. Here’s how they do it. Working with business cards and some kids, the…

This Viral Photo Of Yesterday’s Eclipse From Space Is Fake. Duh.

Thousands of people were duped into thinking this image — supposedly taken from the International Space Station — was real.

The Crazy, Broken Food Superhighway That Supplies America’s Produce

You might know that a lot of produce moves from Mexico to the U.S. But the infrastructure and economics of that system are incredibly screwed up—like throwing tons of ripe tomatoes into a landfill screwed up. The winner of the Sundance Institute Short Film Challenge this year is a film called Man in the Maze,…

Insurgent Is Like Two Hours Of Someone Else’s Terrible Therapy Session

There was always something ugly at the heart of the wish-fulfillment in the Divergent series — everybody except me is one dimensional, because I’m special! But where the first movie managed to turn this into a weirdly sweet adventure about trying fit in, the sequel just goes full-on narcissistic. And dreary. Spoilers ahead… Divergent and…

Reminder! We’re holding our first ever Video Remix Contest! Make your own mash-up, remix, spoof or Sweded version of the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer, and post it here. We’ll post the best ones on Monday.

Preacher’s Arseface Has Been Cast

While we’re still waiting for AMC to announce who will play title character Jesse Custer for their TV adaptation of the comic Preacher (along with his vampire pal Cassidy) a very strange side character with an extremely messed-up backstory has been revealed. Behold, Arseface. AMC has announced that fresh-faced newcomer Ian Colletti will play Eugene…

Sony To Make 300-Style Romeo & Juliet Movie Because Life Is Still Pain

When you think of the greatest romance stories of all time, there are only two that are incontestably at the top: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and, of course, Frank Miller’s historical war fantasy 300. Which is no doubt why Sony plans to combine the two love epics in a single movie. Via The Hollywood…

The History of Comcast As Told By Google Autofill

The other day I googled Comcast for a story about the internet. The Google Autofill results were…intriguing. People are curious about how Comcast does many things, namely things that are evil. The searches revealed a specific and sort of sultry history of Comcast, one that highlights both its triumphant rise to telecom dominance and its…

Up reimagined as a horror movie works surprisingly well

The story of Up works well because it’s heartwarming to see an odd couple go on an adventure together in a flying house and run into squirrel addicted dogs. This alternate horror story version of Up also works because it’s easy to imagine Carl Fredericksen as an evil monster who takes Russell as his prisoner.…

Welcome To True Crime

It’s about to get a lot more hard-boiled up in here — welcome to io9’s brand new True Crime subsite! Here, you’ll find not just stories and updates on current cases making the news, but also features and interviews revolving around true crime books, films, television, and other media; the more scientific aspects of crime…

Thor Is Selling More Comics As A Woman

When Marvel announced that Mjolnir and the mantle of God of Thunder would pass to a woman last year, there were grumbles from certain idiots circles that the character was doomed. But the new Thor run isn’t just selling well: It’s actually outselling the last male Thor run. According to sales information from Comichron, the…

A New Apple TV with Siri and Apps Could Be Coming This Summer

Guys. Apple’s finally going to do it. The Cupertino company is finally making its next big push into the TV hardware business this summer. It’s not going to be TV set (obviously) according to the ever-reliable Apple beat reporter John Paczkowski. It’s going to be a new Apple TV. With apps! The new and improved…

It took $100,000 worth of Lego to recreate Jurassic Park with bricks

You have to be a monster to hate a movie like Jurassic Park, but it turns out there are fans so devoted to the film that they’ll spend weeks and weeks painstakingly creating their own stop-motion version of the blockbuster using $100,000 worth of Lego—and some digital wizardry in post-production. The father and daughter team…