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Inventors of the Blue LED Inside Nearly Every Device You Own Win Nobel

There’s pretty good chance you have a piece of this year’s physics Nobel prize-winning invention in your pocket. The blue light-emitting diode (LED) is found in the screens of millions of phones as well as our bright, new energy-efficient LED lightbulbs. Today, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded tothe three scientistswho made this revolutionary…

Physics & Chemistry Sarah Zhang

Hear Gillian Anderson Read From Her New Novel A Vision Of Fire!

X-Files star Gillian Anderson has co-written her first novel, A Vision of Fire, and we’ve got an exclusive taste of the audiobook, read by Anderson. Plus glimpses of some early cover concepts that were more X-Files-oriented. That’s just one of the books from Simon & Schuster’s new imprint Simon451. We talked to senior editor Sarah…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

This woman has one of the best, most badass jobs in the world

Liz Kaszynski has one of the best jobs in the world: She is one of the ten aerial photographers working at Lockheed Martin, taking pictures from the back of fighter jets and hanging from helicopter doors all over the world. Watch her talking about it here and be jealous (I am. Very.) SPLOID is a…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

From AIDS to Ebola, Why Is Global Health Security Failing?

Amid news that the number of Ebola cases had reached more than 6,000 in West Africa, public health and international security experts from around the world gathered in Washington, DC last week for a candid discussion of how the global community failed to contain the disease—and what lessons still needed to be learned. Science writer…

io9 Mark Strauss

Morgan Freeman Becomes E.T. and Other Age-Prediction Software Horrors

Yesterday, we got a look ata fun (if creepy) little bit of techthat claims to give us a peek at our grizzled, age-stricken faces in 20 years’ time. What we got wascertainly… something. So we decided to put the Future Self software to the real test, by inputting celebrities as they were 20 years ago…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Why Does Orange Juice Taste Terrible After Brushing Your Teeth?

Orange juice is many things: A fine source of Vitamin C, easy to get ahold of, and a pretty decent accompaniment to most items in the pantheon of great breakfast foods. What it is not at all, however, is a good thing to drink right after brushing your teeth. The American Chemical Society’s Reactions series…

io9 Ria Misra

Maps of City Growth Over the Past Century Are Actually Shocking

It’s one thing to know that cities are growing larger, and that over half the human population lives in a city. But when you see these maps charting the growth of megacitiessince the early 1900s … well, it’s stunning. It’s especially incredible when you realize most cities exploded in size over the past 50 years.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

I wish this cool maglev-launched spaceplane were real

By day, Mathias Verhasselt works as a senior concept designer at Blizzard. By night, he is a superhero fighting against crime and a space lover who likes to come up with cool concepts like this full scale maglev-launched spaceplane. Accelerated while magnetically levitating on a track. It’s not my idea either, it’s been proposed for…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Salyut 7: The Last and Longest-Running Soviet Space Station (Until Mir)

By the latter half of the Space Race between the United States and the USSR, focus had shifted from simply putting people into orbit to seeing how long they could stay up there. And while the U.S. won the sprint to the moon, it was actually the Russians who won the endurance test with the…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

The One Situation Where Reese Won’t Go Undercover On Person Of Interest

Now that everything’s changed for the Machine Gang on Person of Interest, they’ve had to change the way they do business. And in this exclusive clip from tonight’s episode, you can see their new headquarters. Plus find out the one cover identity that Reese refuses to take on! Person of Interest is on CBS tonight…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The #1 News Station in Memphis Accidentally Tweeted a Pornhub Link

If you’re wondering about the rain and storms in Memphis, you might have gotten a big surprise in your Twitter feed today. WREG News Channel 3 briefly directed its Twitter followers to a link that not only had zero radar information about the #memstorm—it was a PornHub user’s profile. As often happens, whoever runs WREG’s…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Are We Overthinking the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence?

Futurists and science fiction authors often give us overly grim visions of the future, especially when it comes to the Singularity and the risks of artificial superintelligence. Scifi novelist David Brin talked to us about why these dire predictions are often simplistic and unreasonable. Illustration: Jim Cooke Our civilization faces no shortage of risks in…

io9 George Dvorsky

Lego Bumblebee better than Michael Bay’s last three movies

Ralph (Mad physicist) S. has shared yet another amazing build in his line of The Cars are the Stars. Building a working Transformer model is a pretty difficult task in itself, but normally the outcome is either a shoddy vehicle or a shoddy robot. Instead, The Mad physicist has made a wonderful example of both…

Tech News Michael Schulte

The Sailor Senshi get an armour upgrade in these amazing cosplays

The Senshi’s battlegear in Sailor Moon is hardly the most protective of uniforms, but these awesome cosplays have improved the armour on these magical warriors – making them all the more wonderful. Header Image taken by Darshelle Stevens (Warning: Some of these links may feature images that are NSFW. Workers, click with discretion!) Okay so…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Scientists Will Drill Directly Into a Fault Overdue For an Earthquake

The Alpine fault is the most dangerous fault in New Zealand—and one of the most dangerous in the world. It ruptures with an 8.0-magnitude earthquake roughly once every 300 years, and with the last one in 1717, it’s ripe for another. So what are we going to do about it? Why, drill a hole nearly…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Computer Game Myst To Become A TV Series

Myst, the computer game just about everyone in the ’90s played, is going to be a TV series, despite it being a tangled and very complicated mystery. If done well this could be really, really good. Like Lost good. If done poorly, well… Deadline just dropped the nostalgic news that Legendary TV and Cyan Worlds…

Television Meredith Woerner

Is the Domino’s Pizza Tracker Telling the Truth?

The tracker is legit—but only as legit as the people in the store let it be. The fact is, there are a lot of factors that happen in a store that the tracker can’t always account for, and so your mileage may vary with the online tracker for those reasons. The Dream As others have…

Tech News Joel Montgomery - Quora

Where To Find Beautiful Wallpapers for All Your Devices

The benefits of a good background image can’t be overstated. It can improve your mood, boost your productivity, even lend a little freshness to an aging device. If you don’t want a picture of a loved one, cherished pet or recent holiday trip as a backdrop, here are five excellent sites for picking up free,…

Gadgets David Nield

50 ThinkGeek Favorites Go 50% Off, and More Deals

Halloween is coming early this year with the Complete Collection Limited Deluxe Edition Blu-ray Set, and you save by pre-ordering. [Halloween Complete, $90] Here are some great games you probably missed at bargain basement prices. Deus Ex: Human Revolution DX ($3) | GreenMan | Use code VBHGBM-JS2VN9-0J5OFM Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon ($4) | Newegg…

io9 Shane Roberts

This Anabelle and Toy Story mashup will haunt your dreams tonight

I never thought Woody could be portrayed as a horror character until I saw this video of Toy Story mashed up with Annabelle. It’s so scary that it will haunt my dreams tonight, tomorrow, and the rest of the week. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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Inventors of the Blue LED Inside Nearly Every Device You Own Win Nobel

Hear Gillian Anderson Read From Her New Novel A Vision Of Fire!

This woman has one of the best, most badass jobs in the world

From AIDS to Ebola, Why Is Global Health Security Failing?

Morgan Freeman Becomes E.T. and Other Age-Prediction Software Horrors

Why Does Orange Juice Taste Terrible After Brushing Your Teeth?

Maps of City Growth Over the Past Century Are Actually Shocking

I wish this cool maglev-launched spaceplane were real

Salyut 7: The Last and Longest-Running Soviet Space Station (Until Mir)

The One Situation Where Reese Won’t Go Undercover On Person Of Interest

The #1 News Station in Memphis Accidentally Tweeted a Pornhub Link

Are We Overthinking the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence?

Lego Bumblebee better than Michael Bay’s last three movies

The Sailor Senshi get an armour upgrade in these amazing cosplays

Scientists Will Drill Directly Into a Fault Overdue For an Earthquake

Computer Game Myst To Become A TV Series

Is the Domino’s Pizza Tracker Telling the Truth?

Where To Find Beautiful Wallpapers for All Your Devices

50 ThinkGeek Favorites Go 50% Off, and More Deals

This Anabelle and Toy Story mashup will haunt your dreams tonight

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