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A Bacteria That Hasn’t Had To Evolve In More Than Two Billion Years

Scientists from UCLA have discovered a deep-sea microorganism that’s the same today as it was two billion years ago. It’s an observation that actually bolsters Darwin’s theory of natural selection, while offering the most extreme example of evolution’s “null hypothesis.” Above: A 1.8 billion-year-old fossil-bearing rock. The fossils are virtually the same as fossils 500…

io9 George Dvorsky

This is why dogs have an incredible sense of smell

Dogs have an extraordinary sense of smell—a complex nasal architecture that lets them pick up scents and distinguish the chemical composition of hormones released by other animals. Alexandra Horowitz explains how this happens in an interesting TedEd lesson. Check it out: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Could The Joker Really Appear On Gotham This Season!?

Check out new Avengers: Age of Ultron pics. Another geek icon joins AKA Jessica Jones. Freddie Prinze Jr. talks about Star Wars: Rebels’ second season. Plus glimpses of Inside Out, Seventh Son, Minions and Person of Interest, and what’s next for Sleepy Hollow, Once Upon a Time and Defiance. Behold, Spoilers! Top image: Gotham. Avengers:…

Television James Whitbrook

Disney Takes Action Against A Possible Star Wars VII Leaker

There are so many things that purport to be pieces of concept art, plot details, information on the state of Luke Skywalker’s possible cold, etc. on the Internet these days, it’s actually shocking we haven’t seen Disney step in more. Could this mean that this leaked image was the real deal? As with the Avengers:…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

Seriously, Pay Attention In Your Math Classes

Or this could be you. [via Tastefully Offensive]

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

A New NASA Conspiracy: Does This Photo Show a Man Fixing the Mars Rover?

Look at the above image. Doesn’t that shadow look like a man in a spacesuit of some sort working on the Curiosity rover? Which is supposed to be on Mars, and not where humans can mess with it? The image is from 2012, and at least one person seems to think that this means that…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

These are the new 2015 Lego Technic sets

Milan Reindl and Markus Kossmann from the Lego Technic design team have put up a few videos showcasing the newest sets. These designer videos are a great way to see what’s new with Technic and help you decide which of the 2015 sets that you want to purchase before you get to the store. Cherry…

Tech News Michael Schulte

Short film: An inspiring tale about friendship and sacrifice and hope

The animation of this short film, Le Gouffre, is beautiful but the story might be even better. It tells a tale of two friends who decide to build a bridge where there is none in order to cross a wide chasm and how a village unites behind the two pals and how the two pals…

Sploid Casey Chan

Here’s What A Grid-Plan City Looks Like From Space

Here’s a stunning picture of humans stamping our footprint onto the landscape. Taken by a member of the Expedition 35 mission to the ISS in 2013, this photo of the Phoenix, Arizona area is like a fractal — the closer you look, the more squares of light you see. Image credit: NASA There’s a ton…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Seeing a GoPro video of a roller coaster might be scarier than riding it

Somehow, it’s almost scarier to watch a GoPro video of a roller coaster than to ride the roller coaster itself in real life. I don’t know why that works but it’s like you get none of the thrills and all of the fear when you see the first person point of view, it’s just terrifying…

Sploid Casey Chan

Riding a motorcycle through Southeast Asia is the most beautiful thing

I just came back from a trip around Southeast Asia and did a (very) brief moped ride around Thailand. It was one of the coolest things I’ve done and it was absolutely beautiful to cruise by and see the greenery set against the backdrop of a perfectly blue sky. But after watching this video, I…

Sploid Casey Chan

Asa Butterfield Will Star As a Martian Teen In Out of This World

Ender’s Game star Asa Butterfield will also play the lead in the intriguing film Out of This World, where he’ll play a kid who was raised in secret on Mars. Out of This World is a Relativity film based on the idea of a female astronaut discovering she is pregnant while on a mission to…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

Watch The Simpsons couch gag get recreated in glorious pixel animation

Here’s one way to make you nostalgically love The Simpsons even more: add more nostalgia by recreating the entire opening sequence in pixel animation. Animated by Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon, this 16-bit pixelated rendition of The Simpsons completely nails it. It should totally be an official couch gag for a future episode. SPLOID is…

Sploid Casey Chan

Report: Amazon Might Buy Up Radioshack Stores

Earlier today, RadioShack stumbled one step closer to death with the news that the NYSE is trying to delist its stock — basically, the company is fucked. And according to Bloomberg, Amazon — which is, let’s be honest, the number one RadioShack murder suspect — might buy up some of their retail stores. Bloomberg’s report…

Commerce Chris Mills

This is the car I would like to drive if I were living in the future

Come in and enjoy every single angle of the Alpine Vision, a stunning car made to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the legendary French sport roadster. I love each and every one of its three versions.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Giant Telescope Will Search The Stars For ‘Planet X’

For years, astronomers have been searching (pointlessly?) for ‘Planet X‘, a rumored Earth-size planet said to live in the outer reaches of the Solar System (and which is going to collide with Earth and kill us all, if you listen to the truthers). NPRhas taken a look at the search for ‘Planet X’, and the…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

This Socket Makes Plugging Devices In Way Easier

I am willing to bet that at some point in the last few months, you slightly struggled to plug something in. Not a particularly difficult scrap: just enough to cost you a few seconds, turn on a light, or actually put your iPad down. Well, someone is now here to solve your most first-world of…

Tech News Chris Mills

Here Is a Magnificent Feathered Dinosaur

Complain all you want about how scientifically-accurate pictures of dinosaurs with feathers aren’t as cool as the fake bald dinos in Jurassic Park. This image of a feathered tyrannosaur by Chris Masna makes the great beast of the Cretaceous look awe-inspiring. Masna is an artist in Argentina, and he’s working on an incredible-looking videogame called…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Six Busy Days (and Nights) With Some of the World’s Largest Telescopes

Night falls in the Atacama Desert, but the day is far from over. In this wonderful little timelapse, sent along to us by the photographer Enrico Sacchetti, we get a sense for the constant work being done at the European Southern Observatory. Sacchetti visited the Atacama this fall and spent six days shooting two of…

Space & Spaceflight Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

This 3D Printer Is Safer for Kids

You’d think kids would be all over 3D printers, but the filaments have to be melted at a dangerous 200+ degrees Celsius. So Japan’s Bonsai Labs hopes to finally make 3D printers kid-friendly with a new machine and filament that heat to around 80 degrees Celsius (or 176 Fahrenheit) instead. That’s still certainly hot to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Bacteria That Hasn’t Had To Evolve In More Than Two Billion Years

This is why dogs have an incredible sense of smell

Could The Joker Really Appear On Gotham This Season!?

Disney Takes Action Against A Possible Star Wars VII Leaker

Seriously, Pay Attention In Your Math Classes

A New NASA Conspiracy: Does This Photo Show a Man Fixing the Mars Rover?

These are the new 2015 Lego Technic sets

Short film: An inspiring tale about friendship and sacrifice and hope

Here’s What A Grid-Plan City Looks Like From Space

Seeing a GoPro video of a roller coaster might be scarier than riding it

Riding a motorcycle through Southeast Asia is the most beautiful thing

Asa Butterfield Will Star As a Martian Teen In Out of This World

Watch The Simpsons couch gag get recreated in glorious pixel animation

Report: Amazon Might Buy Up Radioshack Stores

This is the car I would like to drive if I were living in the future

A Giant Telescope Will Search The Stars For ‘Planet X’

This Socket Makes Plugging Devices In Way Easier

Here Is a Magnificent Feathered Dinosaur

Six Busy Days (and Nights) With Some of the World’s Largest Telescopes

This 3D Printer Is Safer for Kids

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