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I Zapped My Wine With an Ultrasonic Decanter and It Tasted Pretty Good

Technology that can age wine within minutes sounds like it belongs in the same too-good-to-be-true boat as those ads for that “one food that kills belly fat.” But the inventor behind a device that claims to do just that, the Sonic Decanter, recently invited to me to test out this fantastical technology. Does it work?…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The Best View You Can Get Of Comet 67P, Without Being The Philae Lander

If you’re a robotic spacecraft that was hurled out of a larger spacecraft towards the briskly moving face of a comet, then keep on walking friend. Nothing new for you to see here. If you’re not a comet-landing space robot, though, have we got something for you. The ESA has continued its tradition of creating…

io9 Ria Misra

Watch As This Ferret Psychs Itself Up For An Impossible Jump

Spoiler alert: Our courageous little ferret doesn’t quite make it across the abyss.

io9 George Dvorsky

The Walking Dead Midseason Finale Made Daryl Cry For An Hour. AN HOUR.

Actor Norman Reedus told TV Guide that the events of The Walking Dead’s midseason finale, airing on November 30th, were so emotional that he genuinely cried for an hour before he was able to shoot the episode’s finale scenes. Huh. Why do I suspect that these weren’t tears of happiness? Oh, right, because nothing happy…

Television Rob Bricken

The Earliest Illustrations Of Literature’s Great Classic Monsters

We have our own idea of what modern English and American creatures like Dracula, Frankenstein’s Creature, and the horrors of H.P. Lovecraft look like based on countless adaptations and re-adaptations. But what did these monsters look like when they were first introduced? In some cases, the original illustration of a monster holds through the decades—for…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Gates Foundation Will Require All Its Research To Be Freely Accessible

Do you believe that scientists should make their research open, so that anyone can read and learn from it? Then this news will make your day. The Open-Access Movement just gained a very powerful ally. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation yesterday announced the details of its open access policy – and it looks impressive.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How a lock works explained in one perfect cutaway video

I’m a big fan of cutaway things, specially if they are real like this lock. It’s fascinating to see how machines and mechanisms work, with the little pins and springs moving to fit the shape of the key, leaving the barrel free to move when everything clicks. Much more satisfying than the good old 3D…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Marvel Is Bringing Howard The Duck Back! And Here’s His New Look

Howard the Duck made a huge return this summer during his amazing Guardians of the Galaxy cameo. Apparently his current success on the big screen has inspired a return to his original source material, because Marvel is giving Howard a new comic series. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Howard the Duck will return to comics…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Tell Us Your Worst Reply All Horror Story

There is no good outcome if you hit “Reply All” when you meant to reply to just one person. There are just varying degrees of humiliating consequences, from suffering the indignity of your coworkers simply thinking you suck at email all the way to getting fired for accidentally telling the entire company your boss had…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Why You Get Sick On Planes – And How To Keep It From Happening

If you’re about to fly somewhere for Thanksgiving, you’re probably dreading the possibility that you’ll catch a bug along the way, and with good reason: Many people come down with something nasty in the days following an airplane flight. Why does this happen, and how can you keep yourself from getting sick? A couple I…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Andy Serkis Says New Planet Of The Apes Movies Could Make Up To 5 Films

This is the best possibly news that we’ve heard all year. The new Planet of the Apes franchise is allegedly supposed to stop after the next untitled film directed by Matt Reeves. But main character Andy Serkis asks, what if it didn’t? In an interview with MTV, Caesar himself, Andy Serkis just threw out a…

Movies Meredith Woerner

No Time to Sew? A Clip-On Button Is the Perfect Temporary Fix

Just because your collared shirt came with a couple of spare buttons hanging off a tag doesn’t mean you always have time to sew a replacement back on when the need arises. So an emergency replacement button that temporarily clips onto your shirt like a paperclip so you can quickly do it back up needs…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

There Are Some Countries Smaller Than This Epic Millennium Falcon Toy

First revealed earlier this summer, Hasbro’s latest version of the most iconic spaceship in the Star Wars universe is finally available to add to your collection. The two-and-a-half-foot long Millennium Falcon toy (if you can even call it that at this scale) is packed with details and believe it or not is powered solely by…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How World of Warcraft has evolved from videogame to Pop Culture icon

This Sunday, November 23rd, is the 10th Anniversary of the release of World of Warcraft. Its impact on video games cannot be understated – but its impact on wider popular culture itself can’t be either. So how did a fledgling MMORPG from 2004 become still relevant to the pop culture world of today? It’s almost…

Tech News James Whitbrook

This Is How Hand Dryers Spread Bacteria

If you’ve ever had the sneaking suspicion that hand dryers in public bathrooms just spray bacteria into the air, then you’ll want to look at this spatterful photo. A trio of scientists set out to test exactly how hand dryers aerosolize bacteria, and the results are gross. The study from August, brought to our recent…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Spider-Man Gloves Are Real, And They ACTUALLY WORK

Researchers led by Stanford engineer Elliot Hawkes have created a pair of gecko-inspired gloves that enable users up to 200 pounds to scale smooth, vertical panes of glass. As one biomechanical engineer put it: “This is a really big deal.” Top image via Elliot Hawkes The secret to Hawkes’ team’s gloves is their efficiency. It…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Does “Positive Thinking” Really Make Our Lives Better?

You’ve heard the self-help gurus who say positive thoughts can bring us happiness, wealth, and success. But there’s another side to the story. Here’s why positive thinking often backfires — and why many of us are starting to resent it. Illustration by Jim Cooke. Positive thinking is that spin we put on life and all…

io9 George Dvorsky

Can You Hear the Difference in High Quality Music? Test Yourself

Here’s a simple test that lets you toggle between an extremely high-quality file music file and a low-quality music file. Can you tell the difference? We’ve been hearing for years that MP3 encoding ruins music with its lossy compression. But can you really tell the difference? New streaming music subscription service “Tidal” is amongst the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The First Trailer For LucasFilm’s Strange Magic Isn’t Strange Enough

We only first heard about Lucasfilm’s new CG animated movie Strange Magic when it was announced a week and a half ago as a musical semi-remake of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with pop songs. Now the first trailer is here, and unfortunately it looks like stuff we’ve seen many times before. Tiny faerie people? The…

Trailers Rob Bricken

The 19th Century Blueprint For A Massive Mind-Control Machine

James Tilly Matthews was a peace activist 200 years ago, during the Napoleonic Wars. He was confined to Bedlam asylum because he attributed the bloody conflict to a secret society using futuristic mind-control devices, which he illustrated in exquisite detail, rivaling the technical drawings of engineers. The blueprints were published in an 1810 book, Illustrations…

io9 Mark Strauss

I Zapped My Wine With an Ultrasonic Decanter and It Tasted Pretty Good

The Best View You Can Get Of Comet 67P, Without Being The Philae Lander

Watch As This Ferret Psychs Itself Up For An Impossible Jump

The Walking Dead Midseason Finale Made Daryl Cry For An Hour. AN HOUR.

The Earliest Illustrations Of Literature’s Great Classic Monsters

Gates Foundation Will Require All Its Research To Be Freely Accessible

How a lock works explained in one perfect cutaway video

Marvel Is Bringing Howard The Duck Back! And Here’s His New Look

Tell Us Your Worst Reply All Horror Story

Why You Get Sick On Planes – And How To Keep It From Happening

Andy Serkis Says New Planet Of The Apes Movies Could Make Up To 5 Films

No Time to Sew? A Clip-On Button Is the Perfect Temporary Fix

There Are Some Countries Smaller Than This Epic Millennium Falcon Toy

How World of Warcraft has evolved from videogame to Pop Culture icon

This Is How Hand Dryers Spread Bacteria

Spider-Man Gloves Are Real, And They ACTUALLY WORK

Does “Positive Thinking” Really Make Our Lives Better?

Can You Hear the Difference in High Quality Music? Test Yourself

The First Trailer For LucasFilm’s Strange Magic Isn’t Strange Enough

The 19th Century Blueprint For A Massive Mind-Control Machine

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