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Watch a vicious barracuda eat half of these fishermen’s catch

A few days ago, these guys were fishing in Alfonse Island, in Seychelles, when a giant trevally bit the lure. As soon as they started to reel the fish in, a vicious barracuda appeared and ate half of it in just seconds, leaving the fishermen—and myself—in shock. Sharks might be the first think that comes…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Watch Your Music Create a Constantly Changing Landscape

Music visualizers are—how can I put this—quite, nineties. But this one takes an MP3 and renders it into a fly-through of a constantly changing landscape. It’s still quite nineties, but it’s also weirdly, amazingly compelling. Like some kind of flight sim that reacts to the pulse of your music, it’s incredibly easy to sit and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Amazing World Of Zoo Drills, With Humans Dressed As Escaped Animals

This is both hilarious and makes total sense. Just like everyone else, zoos have to practice for emergencies. And zoo emergencies include escaping animals. Problem: You can’t just release a real animal for a drill. Solution? Fellow employees dressed as animals. All photo credits: Getty Images/Koichi Kamoshida Here are two such drills — more can…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

How You Can Create Petite Planets In a Petri Dish

Wanna create your own beautiful, living, breathing solar system at home? It’s easy—you just need petri plates (or any kind of flat, wide and shallow containers), some fatty milk, a little dish soap, food coloring and liquid plungers and droppers. And your own imagination. The following artistic video, brought to you by Shanks FX, will…

Tech News Attila Nagy

These Are the Songs You Have Sex to, According to Spotify

Music for the bedroom is no longer a case of slipping Barry White onto your vinyl player and leaning in to your loved on. More likely, it means firing up a cloud-based playlist and routing it through your Bluetooth speaker. So, perhaps, unsurprisingly, Spotify knows exactly what you’re listening to when you do the deed.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Why Are All The Best Spies British?

Kingsman: The Secret Service comes out this week, the latest in a long line of spy fiction featuring British secret agents. And that brings to mind the question of why so many of our most famous fictional spies are British. When you’re looking at a comprehensive list of the greatest fictional spies, it becomes apparent…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Where Are the FBI’s Drone Privacy Reports?

The FBI is known to have flown unmanned aerial vehicles since at least 2005 and, like any other federal agency, it’s supposed to conduct a privacy impact assessment prior to such activity. But according to Muckrock, the Beaurau can’t track them down, and nor can the Justice Department office that’s supposed to collate them. An…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

This Is Where NASA’s Lab-With-Wings Goes For Its Health-Check

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy—or SOFIA to its friends—is actually a laboratory with wings. And right now, it’s getting its decadal inspection at the Lufthansa Technik hangar in Hamburg, Germany. SOFIA’s actually a heavily modified Boeing 747 Special Performance jetliner, that flies 39,000 to 45,000 feet in the air to record infrared spectrum that’s…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Here Are NASA’s Plans to Send a Submarine to Titan

If we’re ever going to explore the only celestial body in our solar system with surface bodies of liquid, we’re going to need a sea-worthy vehicle. Luckily, NASA is all over the niche space submarine market. Titan, a moon on Saturn, has lakes and seas of liquid methane, which NASA is thinking of exploring by…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

James Franco Will Try To Save JFK in Hulu’s 11/22/63

Time travel: it’s not just for films and TV anymore. Hulu’s adapting Stephen King’s 2011 story 11/23/63. And it’s just cast its star, who is also going to produce: James Franco. 11/23/63 will be an “event series” — which, seriously, is miniseries such a dirty word? Why have the last two years been inundated with…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

When the Robots Rise Up, First They Will Fight the Felines

In this video, a combat robot goes up against a gang of ginger kittens. I couldn’t deprive you of the opportunity to watch this, even though it was filmed 2 years ago and all the cute kittens are now hardened, robot-destroying thugs.

Biology Annalee Newitz

Hallelujah, You Can Bake Your Own Girl Scouts Cookies in This Tiny Oven

Are you tired of the high-pressure sales tactics used by the cookie-selling Girl Scouts outside the entrance of your local shopping mall? You’re not alone, and you’ll never have to be intimidated by them again because the Girl Scouts Cookie Oven from Wicked Cool Toys lets you make your own Thin Mints and Coconut Caramel…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

300 Android Devices Do A Decent Version Of Beethoven

What would you do if you had 300 Android devices (and a whole maze of microUSB cables) at your disposal? If your answer was ‘a digital beatbox rendition of Beethoven’s 9th’, chances are you work in Google Japan’s PR division. Or you just have too much spare time. The Android Chorus (ugh) uses 300 phones,…

Tech News Chris Mills

The Thrilling Tale Of The Very First Heart Surgery

In 1893, as far as the world was concerned, surgery on the heart was unheard of and a stab in the heart was nearly always fatal. Today, eighty percent of people who have been stabbed in the heart wind up surviving. Here’s the story of how one doctor started the process of changing the odds.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Good night, San Francisco

San Francisco isn’t Gotham. That’s New York (or Chicago if you want to be wrong). San Francisco is too colorful, too weird, too positive and too future friendly to be the dark and gritty Gotham City. But Toby Harriman stripped the color of SF in this time lapse and man, the city by the bay…

Sploid Casey Chan

Why Snow Isn’t Always White

Over at JSTOR Daily, Matthew Wills has an interesting read on all the different ways snow can be colors other than white. You might think that there’s only one reason for off-color snow — one that doesn’t take a lot of scientific effort to identify — but there are many biological and physical causes for…

Tech News Chris Mills

A Rare Look Inside Canada’s Notorious Maximum Security Prison, Kingston

Kingston Penitentiary closed its doors in September 2013, ending a legacy of 178 years of famously harsh treatment. “Canada’s Alcatraz” has inspired lots of stories, but there are few pictures of what life was there. Except that photographer Geoffrey James had a privileged look on the inside. James’ photos of life inside the prison are…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Crew Portrait For ISS Expedition 45 Is Star Wars Themed

The official poster for the 45th expedition to the International Space Station is Star Wars themed, and features astronauts Scott Kelly, Mikhail Korniyenko, Oleg Kononenko, Kimiya Yui, Kjell N. Lindgren, and Sergey Volcov dressed in Jedi robes and weilding lightsabers. Previous posters have been set in the style of Firefly: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A Beautiful, Tiny PC Made Out Of Wood

It’s an unfortunate fact that most high-end desktop PCs are either bland to the point of extreme sleepiness, or so gaudy and neon-lighted that you have to throw a blanket over when you sleep (or have guests over). Small, sensible-looking PCs are virtually impossible to come by, with the notable (but non-Windows) exception of the…

Tech News Chris Mills

Fascinating video shows how a live orchestra scores an entire film

This is interesting not only because you get to see the juxtaposition of the orchestra and scenes from The Great Human Odyssey or because you learn how 70 musicians score an entire film in 3 days without any preparation or how the filmmakers painstakingly do their job, but also because it’s just cool to see…

Sploid Casey Chan

Watch a vicious barracuda eat half of these fishermen’s catch

Watch Your Music Create a Constantly Changing Landscape

The Amazing World Of Zoo Drills, With Humans Dressed As Escaped Animals

How You Can Create Petite Planets In a Petri Dish

These Are the Songs You Have Sex to, According to Spotify

Why Are All The Best Spies British?

Where Are the FBI’s Drone Privacy Reports?

This Is Where NASA’s Lab-With-Wings Goes For Its Health-Check

Here Are NASA’s Plans to Send a Submarine to Titan

James Franco Will Try To Save JFK in Hulu’s 11/22/63

When the Robots Rise Up, First They Will Fight the Felines

Hallelujah, You Can Bake Your Own Girl Scouts Cookies in This Tiny Oven

300 Android Devices Do A Decent Version Of Beethoven

The Thrilling Tale Of The Very First Heart Surgery

Good night, San Francisco

Why Snow Isn’t Always White

A Rare Look Inside Canada’s Notorious Maximum Security Prison, Kingston

The Crew Portrait For ISS Expedition 45 Is Star Wars Themed

A Beautiful, Tiny PC Made Out Of Wood

Fascinating video shows how a live orchestra scores an entire film

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