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Humans Are Driving Animals To Extinction At A Shocking Rate

Fossil and genetic evidence tell us that animals have been going extinct since long before the existence of modern humans – but how might extinction rates differ if humans suddenly ceased to exist? A recently updated calculation suggests the rate of die-offs would be lower. Much, much lower. Photo Credit: NASA According to a team…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 1 '14

You Can Grab Software That Helped Pixar Make Wall-E For Free Soon

If you’re an aspiring animator, this might be the best news you’ll hear this month: Pixar is giving away—that’s right, giving away—a version of RenderMan, its in-house rendering software. Gratis. No catch. You’ll be able to download the program some time in August. Pixar has used RenderMan, which costs $500 a pop for commercial use,…

Tech News Pranav Dixit Jun 1 '14

Star Trek is ridiculous when you eliminate the camera shake

I’m glad video stabilization technology is mainstream now. It’s giving us new insight into historical events, opening new perspectives in scientific research, and then there is the endless fun factor—like seeing how ridiculous the battle scenes in Star Trek: The Next Generation are. Enjoy! The original Star Trek, as posted by reader Major-Frank: SPLOID is…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jun 1 '14

Google Wants To Bring The Best Moto X Feature to Every Android Phone

One of the best features of the Moto X—besides that perfectly-sized screen—is its always-on listening capability. Nothing beats saying “OK, Google” and watching the device wake up from sleep to do your bidding. It works like magic, and if this Android Police report is true, it’ll be coming to every Android phone before you know…

Tech News Pranav Dixit Jun 1 '14

Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?

It’s a constant tease that here on the Space subsite we have a surprisingly strong overlap with the Animals subsite. This gallery-game takes that concept to a new level, challenging you to identify photographs as animal, vegetable, or mineral. https://gizmodo.com/can-you-guess-the-subject-of-this-photograph-1584431929

Biology Mika McKinnon Jun 1 '14

How Jules Verne Helped Invent the Helicopter

Jules Verne’s novels may have done as much as anything to spur man to new heights—literally. In 1862 Verne had much to do with a new society founded in France. Its founders were an aristocrat, a sailor and a journalist-photographer. As disparate as were their backgrounds and professions, they were as one in their belief…

io9 Ron Miller Jun 1 '14

The 5 Biggest Threats To Human Existence

In the daily hubbub of current “crises” facing humanity, we forget about the many generations we hope are yet to come. Not those who will live 200 years from now, but 1,000 or 10,000 years from now. Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Energy | CC BY 2.0 I use the word “hope” because we face…

io9 Anders Sandberg – The Conversation Jun 1 '14

Report: The NSA Collects Millions of Faces From Email, Texts, and More

Not only is the NSA interested in all your email and text messages, it would love to know exactly what you look like. The New York Times reports that the agency has been using new facial recognition software to tap into millions of images in emails, texts messages, video-conferences, and even social media to build…

Tech News Pranav Dixit Jun 1 '14

The Metallic Metals Act Shows People Always Bluffed About Politics

A staple segment of partisan talk shows, or regular comedy shows, is sending a camera operator out on the street and demonstrate – via a quick survey – how little people these days know about politics. But political ignorance, covered by bluffing, is not a modern thing, as the Metallic Metals Act shows. Every election…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jun 1 '14

GeoCakes are Pretty, Delicious Geology Lessons

The Geological Society hosted a bake-off so spectacular I challenge any other discipline to compete. From rock cores to outcrops, phylogeny trees to death assemblages, and thin sections to test pits, geology and baking make a great combination. Mars cake with a marzipan rover. Image credit: unknown While the Geological Society awarded points and winners…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Jun 1 '14

Can You Guess The Subject Of This Photograph?

The folks at Nautilus have put created an eye-catching game of Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? from photographs captured at the microscopic level. For the photo above, the choices are Vegetable: Leaf Stem, Mineral: Coal fly ash or Animal: Cross section of hair. Can you guess which it is? The photo above is a cross section…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 1 '14

Do Wild Animals Get Drunk and High On Purpose?

In South Africa, local legend has it that the elephants like to get drunk. They seek out the marula tree, overindulge on its sweet fruits, and enjoy the intoxicating effects of the slightly fermented juice. Tales of the tipsy pachyderms go back at least two centuries. In the 1830s, a French naturalist called Adulphe Delegorgue…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Jun 1 '14

A Motion-Stabilized Cloverfield Is Awesomely Unwatchable

I bet I can guess the first thing that comes to your mind when I say Cloverfield: “SHAKY CAAAAAM!!” It’s so excessive it can be a little bit of a problem, and some endeavoring internet hero tried to fix it. The result is a Cloverfield that’s unwatchable in a completely different way. This can’t be…

Tech News Eric Limer May 31 '14

NASA Observes A Solar Explosion In Unprecedented Detail

NASA’s sun-observing IRIS spacecraft has gotten its first close-up look at a colossal coronal mass ejection erupting from the sun, and boy howdy is it beautiful. In the video above, a tremendous sheet of solar material can be seen erupting from our parent star. Watch as it rapidly consumes a field of view five-Earths wide…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez May 31 '14

Dear and the Headlights: I Just Do

Ugh, love songs are so sappy, right? Usually! But every once in a while there’s a glorious exception. Something full-to-bursting with a vital vibrancy. Something earnest and cute without being lame. Dear and the Headlights’ “I Just Do” is one of those songs. Off the band’s fantastic 2007 debut Small Steps, Heavy Hooves, “I Just…

Tech News Eric Limer May 31 '14

This Blade Runner Art Show Will Hold You Over Until the Sequel

Not long ago we covered an Indiegogo venture that was too good an idea not to let the world know. Six months later Moments Lost: A Blade Runner Tribute has come to complete fruition and it brought some really succulent Blade Runner fanfiction along with it. https://gizmodo.com/moments-lost-a-blade-runner-tribute-thats-more-than-a-1461538176 On display starting at 7PM on May 31st…

Movies Nicholas Stango May 31 '14

What the Synapses in Your Brain Actually Look Like

Without synapses, your neurons wouldn’t be able to communicate and your brain would be little more than a ball of meat. Exactly what synapses look like has been a mystery until now, and it turns out that even though their job is simple, they’re complicated as hell. You have trillions of synapses in your brain,…

Tech News Eric Limer May 31 '14

Get Ready: Netflix To Stream Sherlock Season 3 Beginning Monday

Looks like someone’s calling in sick. Vulture has the details: On Monday, the third season of Sherlock will become available for streaming exclusively on Netflix. The service will also stream Sherlock Uncovered, a set of three half-hour making-of specials following each episode, and Unlocking Sherlock, a one-hour behind-the-scenes feature about the making of the series.…

Television Robbie Gonzalez May 31 '14

Pizza Slice Pizza Plates Are a Classier Way To Serve Pizza Pie

Paper plates might be ok in a barbecue scenario, or for serving birthday cake, but a greasy pizza will make short work of what little structural integrity they had to begin with. When a slice of pepperoni pie is on the menu, there’s no better way to serve it up than on a set of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 31 '14

Crabeater Seals Look Like They Have Buzzsaws For Teeth

Just look at them. The scientific name for the crabeater seal, Lobodon carcinophaga, translates to “lobed-tooth crab-eater,” and one look at its mouth tells you why. This thing’s so toothy its teeth have teeth: These screenshots come from an old episode of The Brain Scoop called “Little Skeletons.” In it, Chicago Field Museum Collections Manager…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez May 31 '14

Humans Are Driving Animals To Extinction At A Shocking Rate

You Can Grab Software That Helped Pixar Make Wall-E For Free Soon

Star Trek is ridiculous when you eliminate the camera shake

Google Wants To Bring The Best Moto X Feature to Every Android Phone

Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?

How Jules Verne Helped Invent the Helicopter

The 5 Biggest Threats To Human Existence

Report: The NSA Collects Millions of Faces From Email, Texts, and More

The Metallic Metals Act Shows People Always Bluffed About Politics

GeoCakes are Pretty, Delicious Geology Lessons

Can You Guess The Subject Of This Photograph?

Do Wild Animals Get Drunk and High On Purpose?

A Motion-Stabilized Cloverfield Is Awesomely Unwatchable

NASA Observes A Solar Explosion In Unprecedented Detail

Dear and the Headlights: I Just Do

This Blade Runner Art Show Will Hold You Over Until the Sequel

What the Synapses in Your Brain Actually Look Like

Get Ready: Netflix To Stream Sherlock Season 3 Beginning Monday

Pizza Slice Pizza Plates Are a Classier Way To Serve Pizza Pie

Crabeater Seals Look Like They Have Buzzsaws For Teeth

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