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10 Major Franchises That Have Never Been Rebooted

Most heroes get a facelift every decade or so, to keep them from showing their age. The longer an epic saga goes on, the greater the chances you’ll see everything start over from scratch. But not everybody succumbs to the Etch-a-Sketch urge. Here are 10 epic storylines that have never had a reboot. Ever. Oh,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Jason Krell

Man Photoshops Technology Into 15th Century Paintings, Hilarity Ensues

Not everyone appreciates a GIF. And not everyone appreciates an early Renaissance masterpiece. But there’s more audience overlap than you’d think. Just ask Scorpion Dagger, née James Kerr, an artist whose GIFs feature subjects from 15th century paintings creeping on Instagram and unfriending each other on Facebook. Kerr is a Montreal artist whose Tumblr, Scorpion…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The Air Force Prototype Fighter That Was Just Never Quite Good Enough

Despite the US military’s robust budget, not every design makes it onto the battlefield. In fact, only a select number of the very best designs ever actually fly. So what the hell was the USAF thinking choosing the defect-ridden F-22 Raptor over this gorgeous jet? When the Soviets rolled out their advanced Su-27 and MiG-29…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Lego Ghostbusters is now official!

Attenshun, Lego and Bill Murray fans all over the world! Start saving because the Keymaster has finally met the Gatekeeper and Gozer the Gozerian has materialized at Lego’s headquarters in Billund, Denmark: The 30th Anniversary Ghostbuster set—designed by Lego fan Brent Waller— is going to be an official Lego product. Update: I was so excited…

Movies Jesus Diaz

This is the First-Ever Weather Map of a Brown Dwarf

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has been used to create history’s first-ever map of weather on the surface of a brown dwarf. These images provide us with an unprecedented look at the atmospheric features of these poorly understood “failed stars.” Top Animation adapted from this video, via ESO/I. Crossfield. The brown dwarf in…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Tiny Copper and Carbon Nanotube Wires Increase Current Flow 100 Fold

Researchers in Japan have developed an incredibly thin wire—just half a micrometer in diameter—made from a new composite material composed of traditional copper and those new fangled carbon nanotubes. But what makes this creation particularly awesome is that the new wire allows over 100 times more current to flow than a traditional copper thread. Furthermore,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Scariest Apocalypse Yet? A World Without Cats

Depending on whether you’re a cat-lover or someone who’s terrified of toxoplasmosis, this could be the most terrifying biological disaster scenario of all time. A biology professor has written a novel called World Without Cats. No more emergency kittens! https://gizmodo.com/common-cat-parasite-could-actually-be-causing-schizophr-5883618 The self-published World Without Cats is about three scientists “who encounter a terrible feline hemorrhagic…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

I wish dogs would always move in slow motion like this corgi

Screw Google Glass. What I want is to see the world slowed down, shot at 500 frames per second and played back at 24 frames per second whenever I want. Or see time-lapses by blinking twice and accelerating time. Example: This corgi. Just imagine being able to watch anything in the real world and be…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Genius App Would Turn Your Smartphone Pics Into Prints, For Free

Where are the dozens of pictures on your smartphone or tablet going? Nowhere, probably. Printing them at home looks chintzy, and getting professional prints is expensive. Flag wants to change that, with an app that would give you high-quality prints and mail them wherever you want, all for free. Cool! The app, which is currently…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

New Cosmos trailer shows how Carl Sagan’s series got upgraded

Neil deGrasse Tyson has picked up where Carl Sagan ended, and his newly rebooted Cosmos series look pretty astounding, as you can see in this trailer with the first actual footage. We are exceptionally excited for the 13-episode series titled Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey, produced by Seth MacFarlane and Sagan’s original 1980s collaborators —…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

This mesmerizing timelapse shows an entire year’s worth of weather

Behold EUMESAT’s first annual global weather overview! Over the course of eight minutes, the narrated video reviews all the global weather 2013 had to offer, from arctic blasts to super-typhoons. The video was put together by EUMETSAT using images taken by European, Japanese, and U.S. satellites. The background was provided by NASA’s Blue Marble Project.…

io9 George Dvorsky

The new From Dusk Till Dawn TV series looks oddly light on vampires

Here’s the first trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s From Duck Till Dawn TV series, which… reimagines his 1996 movie, and I say reimagines because I don’t know how else to say “completely rewrites Quentin Tarantino’s original script and made it a dramatic story about two horrible criminals who take refuge in a vampire brothel.” I’m actually…

Television Rob Bricken

Alien monsters or awesome spiders, I just love these little guys

I can’t stop looking at the extraordinary photos by Thomas Shahan, an Oregon-based artist and microphotographer who creates amazing portraits of arthropods, including these awesome jumping spiders. His beautiful monsters don’t make me run in fear, but make me smile (knowing they are tiny, that is.) In fact, some of their faces are hilarious. Above:…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Scarlett Johansson Chooses SodaStream Over Humanitarian Group

Scarlett Johansson’s SodaStream endorsement just came at a price; she’s been ousted as an Oxfam International ambassador, with a spokesman citing “a fundamental difference of opinion” as her reason for stepping down (read: fired) from the international humanitarian organization. Controversy started surrounding the actress’s partnership with the group as soon as she came out in…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity

Can enormous heat deep in the earth be harnessed to provide energy for us on the surface? A promising report from a geothermal borehole project that accidentally struck magma – the same fiery, molten rock that spews from volcanoes – suggests it could. Above: One of Iceland’s geothermal power plants | Photo by Gretar Ivarsson…

io9 Michael Parker – The Conversation

An Entire City Under Construction to Save Another from Climate Change

The African nation of Nigeria is experiencing many familiar problems in our age of climate change: rising sea levels, storm surges, devastating flooding. Now its coastal city Lagos is going to outrageous lengths to protect itself, both environmentally and financially, by building an entirely new city the size of Manhattan between it and the ocean.…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

There’s a Solar Eclipse Happening Now That Can Only Be Seen From Space

This is a photo of what’s happening right now above our heads. It’s a solar eclipse near the moon. You just can’t see it, because you’re not in space. In-space solar eclipses are fairly common, but they’re not always caught on camera, and they’re not readily visible to us Earthlings. Besides, there’s always room in…

Space & Spaceflight Leslie Horn

Insane Russians jumping off 1,000-foot rock walls

Here’s another heartbeat-accelerating video courtesy of your usual bunch of suicidal Russians: Ropejumping off the rock walls of North Nassrani, in Jordan. The crazy thing about ropejumping is that you really risk your physical integrity by doing it. The ropes are not elastic, like in bungee jumping. It all depends on physics: [Unlike bungee jumping]…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Lockheed takes a major step toward bringing lasers to the battlefield

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has successfully demonstrated a 30-kilowatt fiber optic laser for military applications. It’s one of the most powerful lasers ever seen — and a major step forward to getting directed-energy weapons on the battlefield. Described as a “weapons grade” laser, the 30-kilowatt beam combines many fiber lasers operating a slightly different wavelengths…

io9 George Dvorsky

Can Motorola Still Be Awesome Without Google?

You can make all kinds of guesses about why Google sold Motorola. Did it only want the patents all along? Is it making nice with Samsung? But a more pressing question has been weighing on our minds: “So uh… what about the Moto X?” In a year where more and more manufacturers surrendered to stock…

Tech News Eric Limer

10 Major Franchises That Have Never Been Rebooted

Man Photoshops Technology Into 15th Century Paintings, Hilarity Ensues

The Air Force Prototype Fighter That Was Just Never Quite Good Enough

Lego Ghostbusters is now official!

This is the First-Ever Weather Map of a Brown Dwarf

Tiny Copper and Carbon Nanotube Wires Increase Current Flow 100 Fold

Scariest Apocalypse Yet? A World Without Cats

I wish dogs would always move in slow motion like this corgi

This Genius App Would Turn Your Smartphone Pics Into Prints, For Free

New Cosmos trailer shows how Carl Sagan’s series got upgraded

This mesmerizing timelapse shows an entire year’s worth of weather

The new From Dusk Till Dawn TV series looks oddly light on vampires

Alien monsters or awesome spiders, I just love these little guys

Scarlett Johansson Chooses SodaStream Over Humanitarian Group

Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity

An Entire City Under Construction to Save Another from Climate Change

There’s a Solar Eclipse Happening Now That Can Only Be Seen From Space

Insane Russians jumping off 1,000-foot rock walls

Lockheed takes a major step toward bringing lasers to the battlefield

Can Motorola Still Be Awesome Without Google?

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