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Astronauts will grow their own food (or weed?) for the first time ever

NASA is sending a really cool garden to the International Space Station on April 14, on board the SpaceX Dragon. For the first time in history, astronauts will grow their own food in space using this groovy disco box, an important step towards future long-term space travel and extraterrestrial colonies. Incidentally, this must be great…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Syfy Turns James S.A. Corey’s Expanse Into “Game Of Thrones In Space”

Yes, please. Syfy has given a direct-to-series order to The Expanse, a new show based on James S.A. Corey’s acclaimed space-opera novels, with the first season comprising 10 episodes. And they’re describing it as “Game of Thrones in space.” This is everything we’ve wanted from Syfy for years. We’ve raved about these books by Daniel…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Why Did No One Tell Us That John C. Reilly Is In Disney’s Bears?

We had no doubt that Disney’s Bears documentary would be beautiful, and it sure looks that way from these clips. But why did no one tell us that this movie stars the wonderful vocal stylings of John C. Reilly? Not only is Reilly the narrator, but he is also the voice of several bears in…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Finally, A Stadium Shaped Like A Crocodile

I’m as baffled as you are that it’s taken so long, but it seems someday we still might get the stadium we’ve all known architecture really needs: Turkey’s Burasapor soccer team, nicknamed the “Green Crocodiles,” could soon be getting an architectural masterpiece, a structure that will rival the greatest palaces of the last 200 years,…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh

Walk on a Magic Carpet of Light in this Moroccan Cathedral

Watch out, the ground will change beneath your feet at the Sacré Coeur in Casablanca. As part of the installation Magic Carpet 2014, an interactive light show swirls, swarms, and shimmers under the cathedral’s vaunted arches. It’s even more thrilling to watch the lights in action in the video below. Magic Carpet 2014 is the…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

The IT Crowd‘s Richard Ayoade Channels Gilliam’s Brazil In The Double

Richard Ayoade might be best known as Moss from The IT Crowd — but he’s also the co-creator of the sublime horror spoof Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, and director of the movie Submarine. And now he’s crafting a dark doppelganger story, The Double, based on a Dovstoevsky tale. The Double, starring Jesse Eisenberg, is out…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

Scientists Detect A Particle That Could Be A New Form Of Matter

Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider have spotted a long sought-after exotic particle that’s the strongest evidence yet for a new form of matter called a tetraquark. Here’s what the discovery could mean to astrophysics. Above: A neutron star. Credit: Casey Reed/Penn State University. You may have heard that CERN announced the discovery of…

io9 Brian Koberlein — Universe Today

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Rejoice, the weekend’s here. Whether you sprinted or hobbled across the finish line, we made it. Now let’s download some apps! Android Distiller We loved Distiller for iOS, and praise the heavens, now it’s here for Android. This handy app suggests a whiskey based on where or how you’ll be enjoying it, and helps you…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Breathtaking Illustrations Show The Splendor Of Ringed Planets

Is there any more beautiful than a ringed planet? It’s like an instant signifier of an exotic, non-Earth world. And the sight of a ring floating around an entire world is one of the most poetic and astonishing vistas the universe has to offer. And luckily, some immensely talented artists have created illustrations showing the…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Scientists Have Successfully Grown and Implanted Vaginas in Four Women

Four women born with abnormal or missing vaginas were recently implanted with lab-grown replacements created from their own cells. All four women are now sexually active and report normal vaginal function. Photo Credit: Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative MediciNE via Reuters Via U.S. News & World Report: The organs… were implanted between June 2005 and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Rug Encases Han Solo in Carbonite On Your Living Room Floor

Is your living room floor bare? Do you like optical illusions? Do you love Star Wars? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’ll definitely love this floor runner depicting Han Solo stuck in carbonate. This officially-licensed floor runner is just the right size for a hallway or a spot beneath your coffee…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Crowdfund An Anthology Of Pornographic Comics By Lady Cartoonists!

The second volume of the genre-filled, women-created pornography anthology Smut Peddler is on its way, and you can preorder your copy. You can also help fund a space telescope, an indoor greenhouse, a kit to build your own velociraptor (out of cardboard), miniature busts of HP Lovecraft and more. Top image from Smut Peddler cover…

io9 Lauren Davis

Ikea Just Bought a Wind Farm Big Enough To Power All Its U.S. Stores

It takes a lot of energy to keep the lights on as you greedily pile ¢59 kitchen dongles and weird cookies into that blue bag, which is why Ikea is making a push to offset its total energy consumption by 2020. This week, it took a big step towards doing so by buying a wind…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Insane guy rappels down a vertical rock wall to snowboard at hyperspeed

Watch snowboarder Xavier de la Rue arriving to the top of a mountain in a helicopter, then rappelling down a rocky cliff in order to be able to speed down an almost vertical virgin snow tube. It feels exhilarating to watch it—I can’t even imagine how it must feel in real life. SPLOID is a…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Worm Can Make Itself Virtually Invisible

This parasitic flatworm is very difficult to detect, owing to a unique camouflage mechanism that’s reminiscent of what the alien does to its prey in The Thing. According to a new study published by researchers at the University of Southampton, the worm camouflages itself with the undigested remains of its prey. Because its prey are…

io9 Mark Strauss

Good News! Parts Of The Giver Film Will Be In Black And White After All

Everyone relax: The Giver movie is going to be in black and white after all. Bullet dodged. Back in March everyone (justifiably) lost their damn minds about The Giver trailer lacking any sort of black and white scenes. People were so mad, they re-did the entire trailer in black and white just to rectify the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Report: Amazon Is Showing Off a 3D Smartphone That Could Hit This Year

We’ve been hearing about the rumored 3D Amazon phone forever, but it’s never shown up. According to the WSJ, however, Amazon is getting ready to launch this phone this year. The WSJ says that Amazon has been showing privately showing the phone to some people in Seattle and San Francisco. It will be announced in…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

Is There Such A Thing As A Story Without Plot Holes Or Hand-Waving?

When you’re a fan of science fiction and fantasy, you learn to turn a blind eye to certain… lapses in logic. Plot twists that make no sense, people making bizarre decisions, or a setup that falls apart. But what’s the one story that holds up, no matter how much you poke holes in it? Please…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Dragon May Have Been a Bit Unprofessional

Normally you’d expect quality service from an uplifted pyrosauropod, but sometimes they forget themselves and act like dragons again. This one in particular is known for getting a little boisterous when it comes to showing visitors the jewelry library. This is yet another lovely drawing from comic book illustrator and ninja specialist Guy Pascal Vallez,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

8 of the World’s Most Phenomenally Nerdy Beers

Beer might come with some pretty brotastic connotations, but as with everything else in life, it’s the nerds who really do it right. Because when the same passion that gave us NASA and Lord of the Rings is applied to booze, the results are phenomenal, delicious, and (most importantly) geeky as hell. These are eight…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Astronauts will grow their own food (or weed?) for the first time ever

Syfy Turns James S.A. Corey’s Expanse Into “Game Of Thrones In Space”

Why Did No One Tell Us That John C. Reilly Is In Disney’s Bears?

Finally, A Stadium Shaped Like A Crocodile

Walk on a Magic Carpet of Light in this Moroccan Cathedral

The IT Crowd‘s Richard Ayoade Channels Gilliam’s Brazil In The Double

Scientists Detect A Particle That Could Be A New Form Of Matter

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Breathtaking Illustrations Show The Splendor Of Ringed Planets

Scientists Have Successfully Grown and Implanted Vaginas in Four Women

This Rug Encases Han Solo in Carbonite On Your Living Room Floor

Crowdfund An Anthology Of Pornographic Comics By Lady Cartoonists!

Ikea Just Bought a Wind Farm Big Enough To Power All Its U.S. Stores

Insane guy rappels down a vertical rock wall to snowboard at hyperspeed

This Worm Can Make Itself Virtually Invisible

Good News! Parts Of The Giver Film Will Be In Black And White After All

Report: Amazon Is Showing Off a 3D Smartphone That Could Hit This Year

Is There Such A Thing As A Story Without Plot Holes Or Hand-Waving?

The Dragon May Have Been a Bit Unprofessional

8 of the World’s Most Phenomenally Nerdy Beers

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