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This Week’s TV: An Alabama Town Tries To Make Syfy’s Next Original Film

How will new superhero show The Flash stack up against Arrow? Plus, a new docuseries follows a small town making a zombie movie that could air on Syfy—if they finish it in time. American Horror Story: Freak Show debuts, and Supernatural, The Originals, and The Walking Dead return! Tonight Gotham (8 PM, Fox) Someone is…

This incredible, spooky Lip Art is perfect for October

The month of ghouls and creeps is upon us, and that can only mean one thing – a month of amazing Halloween inspired creativity. Kicking the scary shindig off is makeup artist Eva Senín Pernas with these wonderful Halloween scenes painted onto lips. Header Image and all other Images credited to Eva Senín Pernas Pernas’…

You Could Smuggle the World’s Smallest Game Console Anywhere

So how do you convince a bunch of hackers to buy a tiny thumbnail-sized OLED display called the TinyScreen that’s designed to interface with the TinyDuino platform? You show them how to build what has to be the world’s tiniest game console, which is small enough to smuggle or be discreetly played anywhere. The TinyScreen…

It’s Official: Twin Peaks Will Return!

Yes, it’s happening. No more vague tweets about a possible return; co-creators David Lynch and Mark Frost have come together with Showtime to announce via video that TWIN PEAKS IS BACK!!!!! [UPDATED] Here’s the tweet with the link to the YouTube video, which has the description, “A message from TWIN PEAKS creators and executive producers…

Our Planet Is Warming Faster Than We Realized

Climate scientists have come to the startling realization that — owing to inaccurate and sparse measurements prior to 2004 — we’ve been seriously underestimating the rate at which the ocean in the Southern Hemisphere is getting hotter. And as scientists like to say, ocean warming is global warming. By using satellite data and a suite…

Woman sings two notes simultaneously in amazing display of voice talent

German singer Anne-Maria Hefele has been training her voice since 2005 to become an polyphonic overtone singer. This means that she is capable of singing different scales of low notes (fundamentals) and high pitched notes (overtones) at the same time producing an otherworldly sound that gave me goosebumps. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Can You Refrain From Picturing A Pink Elephant?

Scientists seem to think that, if told to picture an elephant, you will always, on some level, obediently picture an elephant. But asking people to picture a pink elephant is a different matter… maybe. How much control you have over your own thoughts? For Want of a Nail Everyone likes to think they have an…

Earth Has Been Getting Warmer Way Faster Than We Thought

We know that the planet is getting warmer—but it turns out that it’s happening faster than we thought. Turns out scientists have been underestimating warming increases because of inaccurate temperature recordings taken in the southern oceans. New Scientist reports that a team from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has compared direct measurements from…

Future Astronauts Might Walk, Not Hop, On The Moon

Why do astronauts hop on the moon? After carefully watching hapless volunteers use a treadmill under variable gravity, researchers think it had more to do with the stiffness of spacesuits than anything else. Harrison Schmitt run-hopping on the moon during Apollo 17. Image credit: NASA The experiments took place during flights in an unusual trajectory.…

With the vanishing horizon between sea and the sky, this amazing photograph of the guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103) in the Arabian Gulf looks like a tranquil scene from a grandiose space movie. Truxtun is deployed as part of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security and strike operations in Iraq…

Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded To Discoverers Of Brain’s “Inner GPS”

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to U.S.-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser for discovering the brain’s internal positioning system. The discovery answered a question that vexed scientists and philosophers for centuries: How does the brain create a map of the space surrounding us and…

It’s io9’s Halloween Costume Show! ‘Tis The Season TO DAZZLE

Yeah, we know that Halloween isn’t until October 31st. But it’s never too early in the season to be amazed! So get ready, because io9’s annual Halloween Costume Show is baaaack. Whether you’re planning to be a startlingly-lifelike Beaker, a festively-attired Gandalf, or merely a perfectly-executed mathematical pun, we want to see the Halloween costumes…

HP Is Splitting in Two

HP has officially announced that it’s splitting itself into two companies—one producing the consumer hardware and “new computing experiences,” the other pushing out corporate technology. Following rumors yesterday, the company has announced that the new consumer wing, HP Inc., will include a new business devoted to 3D printing, as well as teams working on those…

New Better Call Saul song gives hints on Breaking Bad prequel

The people at AMC just released the official Better Call Saul song—performed by country musician Junior Brown and written by the creators of the show Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. It contains hints about the plot. Listen carefully and watch for actual clips from the new show. The video has been blocked outside the US.…

How One Fateful Explosion Gave Us The Bunsen Burner

Robert Bunsen is most famous for inventing the Bunsen burner, which he technically did not invent. What he’s not famous for is much more interesting. His most altruistic research, which has saved many lives, very nearly killed him, and led to to the research that gave us the burner. Chemists in the 19th century were…

Did Star Wars: Episode VII‘s Big Twist Just Get Revealed?

X-Men: Apocalypse will bring back the Beast/Mystique relationship. Robert Downey Jr. explains the surprising condition for him making Iron Man 4. And will Ray Palmer have any superpowers on Arrow? Plus Walking Dead, Gotham, Agents of SHIELD, Sleepy Hollow and The Originals. Spoilers now! Top image: Arrow Star Wars A passel of Star Wars rumors…

This Particle Is Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time

You might think that matter and antimatter aren’t the best of friends, cancelling each other out when they come into contact—but you’d be wrong. In fact, researchers have now discovered a particle that’s made up of both. Researchers, led by Ali Yazdani of Princeton University, have now imaged what they call a Majorana particle. They…

How the Alien Surfaces of Our Solar System Look, Side-by-Side

With Rosetta hanging out so closely with an asteroid, we’re getting better views than ever before of what the surface of an asteroid looks like. But compared to one another, how do the surfaces we’ve visited in our Solar System stack up? Fortunately, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has put together this infographic which shows the…

No, this isn’t some kind of strange pool game: it’s the International Space Station’s reflection in an antenna on the Russian Zvezda module. It was snapped by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst. [ESA]

This Guitar Blogs

What happens when you give Steve Benford, the Professor of Collaborative Computing in at the University of Nottingham, a guitar and some time? He creates an instument that blogs is what. Inspired by a banjo with a rich history, Benford decided to bring the Internet of Things to a guitar. In doing so, he created…