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Solar Impulse Just Broke A World Record For Solar-Powered Flight

The Solar Impulse plane took off on its mission to fly around the world without using any fuel on Monday morning, and it’s already breaking records. As part of the journey from Oman to India, it flew the longest ever distance for a solar powered plane going point-to-point. The plane took off from Muscat, Oman…

People turn invisible in these awesome body paint photographs (NSFW)

Artist Natalie Fletcher masterfully blends people’s bodies into the surrounding landscapes with body paint. I love her work because she sometimes leaves the head or eyes of the model untouched which creates a jarring image of a floating body part. Every other body part is painted so well it fades into the background. Natalie Fletcher…

Watch A Drone Flight Through Cavernous Underground Tunnels

TheCrossrail project that’s digging London a new subway system is nearly finished — which means there’s a bunch of freshly-dug tunnels lying there, devoid of trains and just begging for a drone to fly through. Thankfully, the BBC was on hand with a spare quadrotor or two. Following four months of negotiation — man, those…

New Clips from iZombie Show How Hard “Full On Zombie Mode” Is

Next week we finally get to see the premiere of iZombie, the CW’s latest foray in the realm of supernatural television. With these two new clips, we’re pretty enchanted with the show’s protagonist, Liv (Rose McIver). The clip above has Liv meeting Clive Babinaux, in a way that does not seem to indicate that he’d…

Neuroscientists have implanted false memories into the brains of sleeping mice, creating artificial associative memories that persisted while the animals slept and influenced their behavior upon waking. The results, the latest to spring from this burgeoning field of neuroscience, appear this week inNature Neuroscience.

Video: The skilled beauty of making croissants

One of my favorite things I love to see get made is croissants. Mostly because of the ungodly amount of butter that gets used but also because the idea of folding something so flat into something so scrumptious is a lot fun and I love seeing the golden, flaky finished product. This video has two…

This Electric Skateboard Has Motors Inside Its Wheels

I’ve ridden more than a few electric skateboards in my time, but they all have the same problems: they all feel too electric and not enough skateboard. They’re often too thick to accommodate batteries and motors, and too heavy to push if the battery dies. Can’t we do better? Inboard Sports thinks so: it’s building…

This opera filmed inside the CERN Large Hadron Collider looks quite epic

Symmetry is a dance and opera film that was directed by Ruben van Leer and was shot inside the CERN Large Hadron Collider. It looks pretty epic and totally intriguing with some scenes feeling a little bit like Interstellar. The film will premiere on March 15 in Amsterdam. Symmetry is a dance and opera film…

Wow, People Really Suck at Drawing Apple’s Logo From Memory 

Do you know what Apple’s oh-so-ubiquitous logo looks like? Do you really? UCLA psychologists asked 85 undergrads to draw the Apple logo from memory, and only one got it right. The rest of the results are hilarious and incorrectly lopsided. Okay, so not all of us are artists. I do not have much faith in…

This Is the Rocket Booster That May Put Humans on Mars

This is the most powerful booster ever built by man, and it will be the driving force behind NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the vehicle that will one day put humans on Mars. This engineering marvel will have its first major ground test tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11am EDT. According to NASA, this test fire tomorrow…

In the Season Finale of Haphead, an Unexpected Twist

io9 is proud to be presenting the final episode of season 1 of Haphead, the series about gamers in a dystopian future Toronto. Maxine finally discovers how her father died — and it’s a very interesting twist that I didn’t see coming. Plus we get a peek into the future world of biohacking, which is…

The World’s Oldest Mummies Are Suddenly Turning Into Black Goo

Having survived 8,000 years, the Chinchorro mummies found in modern-day Chile and Peru have started decaying more quickly than ever before—in some cases even melting into gelatinous “black ooze.” Scientists at Harvard think they’ve found the reason why. The mummies, the oldest manmade ones in the world, originate with the Chinchorro people, who preserved their…

Marvel At The Variety Of Sea Ice Along The Northwest Passage

Not all ice is created equal: this view of the Amundsen Gulf has open ocean, older thick ice, young thin ice, fresh snow and even broken brash ice adrift at sea. Top image: Ice in the Amundsen Gulf on June 21, 2014. Credit: NASA This chunk of ice is along the Amundsen Gulf, the westernmost…

New Printing Tech Allows the Blind to Touch Priceless Paintings

Walking into a museum and putting your hands on a priceless painting is normally, uh, frowned upon. But in Madrid right now, an unusual exhibit is inviting visitors to touch some of the most famous paintings in the world—so that the visually impaired can experience them, too. Visitors aren’t touching the original paintings themselves, exactly.…

Syfy Confirms That Ascension Is Dead

Ascension looked like a return to Syfy’s glory days of Battlestar Galactica-style dark space opera. But thanks to some ill-conceived twists, it ended up feeling kind of pointless, instead. And now, Syfy has confirmed that Ascension will never return. Ascension ran as a three-night miniseries, with the possibility that it could launch an ongoing series…

Are You Addicted To Tabs Or Do You Love A Clean Browser Screen?

I used to assume everyone browsed Just Like Me, until a friend recoiled in horror from the sight of my stuffed browser. Apparently not everyone works or plays online with roughly 20,000 tabs open. How do you do it? While that’s a (mild) exaggeration, I just counted and I generally have between 10-20 tabs open,…

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures Continue In This Week’s Comics!

Bill and Ted make their triumphant return in a new ongoing series from Boom! Studios this week, but that’s not all that’s going on in comics. Howard The Duck’s new series begins, the original Spawn returns with a new creative team, and there are plenty of graphic novels and collections to pore over! Dark Horse…

What Could Be More Satisfying Than Using This Punching Bag Hole Punch?

If you’ve ever tried to create a set of holes through more than two pieces of paper using a hole punch, you realize how terribly designed those contraptions really are. But instead of re-engineering one from the ground up to work better, the folks at Toysmith found another way to make a hole punch more…

Where The Sky Bison Roam

Emily Tetri is one of the people who made The Legend of Korra so beautiful, painting many of the backgrounds for the show. In this piece, which she made for the upcoming Legend of Korra/Avatar: The Last Airbender gallery show, she gives us Korra and Asami riding through the desert along with a herd of…

Facebook Bans Feeling Fat

Had an extra helping at dinner? Downed a pint of ice cream for desert? Inhaled entire sticks of butter to fill the emptiness inside? You probably want a little sympathy for the fact that you now feel like shit. For the love of god, pull yourself together. Facebook doesn’t want to hear it. Facebook removed…