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This Gorgeous Darth Vader Statue Is For Gawping At, Not Posing

Earlier this year, Hot Toys unveiled their wonderful 1:6 scale Darth Vader, which you’ll be able to pose and do with as you see fit later this year. Sideshow have now unveiled their own take on the Sith Lord, and while he’s not as moveable as his Hot Toys counterpart, he’s still wonderful to gaze…

Tech News James Whitbrook

HTC Vive: Virtual Reality That’s So Damn Real I Can’t Even Handle It

I saw the future today. I mean that. I got the chance here at MWC to try the new VR headset that Valve and HTC are developing. Is it good? It’s absolutely incredible. This thing is just…my god you guys I can’t even. What this headset nails—and I mean fucking nails—is a sense of presence.…

Tech News Carlos Rebato

Can You Figure Out This Mystery Image?

This is active region 2177. Any guesses what that is? Hint: It’s on the Earth & Space subsite for a reason.

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Winter In Los Angeles Comes With A Light Dusting Of Hail

While the east coast is buried in snow, Huntington Beach, California woke up to a scene far less severe certainly dramatic for the coastal desert: a beach coated in a thin layer of hail.

Tech News Mika McKinnon

These Massive Machines Move Spacecraft Around Kennedy Space Center

These massive crawlers are still transporting spacecraft 50 years after first debuting at Kennedy Space Center.

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Light As A Wave And A Particle In One Image For The First Time

We’ve seen light as a wave, and we’ve seen light as a particle, but for the first time, we now have one image with light playing the role of both wave and particle at the same time.

Tech News Mika McKinnon

The Ebola Outbreak Has Had Devastating Consequences For Maternal Health

In Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the Ebola outbreak is having a horrifying impact on pregnant women, regardless of whether they have Ebola. Above: The Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola treatment centre in Freetown, Sierra Leon, where, in January, medical aid workers opened a clinic specializing in care for pregnant women with Ebola | Photo Credit:…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Coastal Iceland Is Even More Dramatic Under Dancing Aurora

The Reykjanes Peninsula Sea Stacks in Iceland are absolutely lovely; they grow even more lovely under green and purple aurora.

Tech News Mika McKinnon

These Are The Beautifully-Illustrated Last Moments Of Long-Dead Creatures

We can get a lot wrong when reconstructing how a creature lived in life from just its bones. Gustave Lavalette got around this problem by drawing the creatures how he found them in death.

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Spectacular new photo of a very special star

The Universe is a truly incredible place. This spectacular new photo by the Hubble space telescope—showing a young star known as V1331 Cyg, 1,800 light years away from Earth—is proof #251,603,995,874. It’s a special star. What makes V1331Cyg special is the fact that we look almost exactly at one of its poles. Usually, the view…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

An Elderly Sherlock Takes On His Final Case In Mr. Holmes

So Avengers: Age of Ultron isn’t the only movie with an action-packed trailer out today! Mr. Holmes stars Sir Ian McKellen as the legendary detective in his twilight years; the scene where McKellen leaps out of an exploding airplane onto a moving motorcyle while shooting at Moriarty looks amazing! Okay, there’s probably not a scene…

io9 Rob Bricken

What We Talk About When We Talk About LOL

Emojis may be destined to replace words as our default form of communication, but there is one universal, nuanced expression no beaming yellow ball will ever be able to replace: the lols. The has. The translation of laughter to text. When used correctly, there is nothing like the physical tap-tapping of keys to mimic real,…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

How to Sync Your Open Safari Tabs Across Mac, iPhone, and iPad

iCloud Tabs have been around for a while—they work on iOS 6 or later and OS X Mountain Lion or later—but they’re worth revisiting if you’re new to the software or you’ve been dallying with other browser apps recently. Here’s how to make sure the feature’s switched on and where you can find it. Essentially,…

Gadgets David Nield

This Ancient Fossil Just Rewrote The History of Human Evolution

This jawbone pushes back the evolutionary origins of our genus by nearly half a million years, researchers reported today. Photo: Brian A. Villmoare Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have uncovered the lower jaw and five teeth of an unknown hominid that lived 2.8-million years ago. Remarkably, the fossil exhibits a blend of primitive and modern features,…

io9 George Dvorsky

All the cars of Back to the Future in one cool poster

Our admired illustrator Scott Park is back with a really cool poster with all the vehicles in the Back to the Future trilogy. It’s titled 88MPH and you can buy it here.Take a look some of his excellent work. Scott Park is an advertising creative director in Toronto, Canada, as well as an illustrator. In…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Read A Story From This Newly Discovered Trove Of Lost Fairytales

A previously lost treasure trove of fairytales has, after 150 years, been uncovered. Here, take an exclusive first look at one of the collection’s stories, involving an enchantment, a series of clever tricks, and a crow who is not quite what he seems. In 1850, around the time when the Grimm brothers were working on…

io9 Ria Misra

This Secret Door Lights Up Like The Entrance To Moria At A Single Touch

Redditor Eclipse_007, blessed with Dwarven ingenuity, decided to install a secret doorway to a theatre room in their basement – and chose to replicate the entrance the Fellowship takes when they venture into Moria by turning the inconspicuous door into a gorgeous, light up panel that reacts to your touch. Eclipse decided to turn the…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Silly Virtual Reality Headphone-Goggles Are Almost Ready for Primetime

The Avegant Glyph is a strange headset we tried back at CES. It’s close to virtual reality, but it’s not true VR. It’s a sort of semi-immersive video experience paired with high-quality audio. We tried the newest prototype and, even better, the new Jellyfish headset based on the same Glyph tech. It was fun as…

Tech News Manuel Ángel Méndez

Would You Kiss An Electrified Woman?

In the 1700s, scientific demonstrations involving electricity were all the rage. A physics professor came up with a saucy twist called “Electrifying Venus,” where he took a young, pretty woman from the audience, electrified her, and then invited men to kiss her. As crazy as it sounds, the public was ravenous for demonstrations of the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Behold The Big Beautiful Face Of Vision In The New Avengers 2 Trailer

Marvel has released a brand new look at Avengers: The Age of Ultron, and the payoff at the end is huge. Behold the face of Vision, awakening! It looks good, really good. Avengers: Age of Ultron is hyping up to be the rock ’em, sock ’em Marvel action flick to end them all, or at…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This Gorgeous Darth Vader Statue Is For Gawping At, Not Posing

HTC Vive: Virtual Reality That’s So Damn Real I Can’t Even Handle It

Can You Figure Out This Mystery Image?

Winter In Los Angeles Comes With A Light Dusting Of Hail

These Massive Machines Move Spacecraft Around Kennedy Space Center

Light As A Wave And A Particle In One Image For The First Time

The Ebola Outbreak Has Had Devastating Consequences For Maternal Health

Coastal Iceland Is Even More Dramatic Under Dancing Aurora

These Are The Beautifully-Illustrated Last Moments Of Long-Dead Creatures

Spectacular new photo of a very special star

An Elderly Sherlock Takes On His Final Case In Mr. Holmes

What We Talk About When We Talk About LOL

How to Sync Your Open Safari Tabs Across Mac, iPhone, and iPad

This Ancient Fossil Just Rewrote The History of Human Evolution

All the cars of Back to the Future in one cool poster

Read A Story From This Newly Discovered Trove Of Lost Fairytales

This Secret Door Lights Up Like The Entrance To Moria At A Single Touch

Silly Virtual Reality Headphone-Goggles Are Almost Ready for Primetime

Would You Kiss An Electrified Woman?

Behold The Big Beautiful Face Of Vision In The New Avengers 2 Trailer

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