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Leigh Bardugo reveals the cover to Siege & Storm, but refuses to tell us the secret to young-adult writing

Young adult novelist and official member of io9’s 2012 power list, Leigh Bardugo, has been asked “What’s the new hot YA fiction trend?” quite a bit. And her response is pretty priceless. https://gizmodo.com/the-power-list-22-people-who-supercharged-science-fict-5970551 Thanks to Bardugo, we’ve got an exclusive look at the official cover to the second book in the Grisha Trilogy, Siege &…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner Mar 1 '13

How the Sequester Will Affect Science and Technology

At midnight tonight, the federal government’s budget sequester kicks in. That means—if congressional leaders and President Obama can’t sort out their disagreements over the country’s finances—$85 billion will be cut from the 2013 budgets for government programs. Space exploration, medical research, and technology investment are just a few of the items on the block. Here…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 1 '13

One of the best places to search for alien life is the last that you’d expect

In death, it has been said, there is often life. And while it may sound counterintuitive, this old saw may hold especially true in the search for life of the extraterrestrial variety. NASA’s Kepler mission may be just years away from discovering Earth 2.0, but the first signs of life probably won’t come from planets…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 1 '13

How to Build an Ice Hotel

In the tiny arctic village of Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, dusk lasts most of the day at this time of year. Against the dramatic and ever-evolving pink and purple sky sits a structure that looks like a cross between a sleek nightclub and an igloo from outer space: Lapland’s storied IceHotel, the world’s largest and longest-running luxury…

Tech News Jessanne Collins - Mental Floss Mar 1 '13

The First Images of the Ocean Beneath Antarctica

NASA’s got all kinds of cred when it comes to space, but the very depths of our own planet’s oceans aren’t that much different. So who better to take a deep dive and drudge up the first images of the watery world beneath Antarctica’s ancient glaciers? The Micro-Submersible Lake Exploration Device is a small, tubular…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 1 '13

Here’s the first pics of Doctor Who‘s new-and-improved Ice Warriors

Every Who-ligan I know is excited about the return of those classic Doctor Who villains, the Ice Warriors, in the second half of Who’s seventh season (premiering on March 30th), so I’ll assume they’ll also be excited to see how these baddies have been updated for the 21st century. The pics are actually just part…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 1 '13

Steelcase Gesture: A Smartphone-Friendly Office Chair

Finally acknowledging that very few people actually sit in an office chair the way it was designed to be used, Steelcase has created a new chair that caters to all the wacky poses we strike when using various devices. So while the new Gesture can still be used with a traditional keyboard and monitor setup,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 1 '13

MoMA Curator on Colbert: The Future of Design Is Physics

Paola Antonelli stopped by the Colbert Report earlier this week to talk about Applied Design, an exhibition currently running at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, where she is senior curator of the Design and Architecture department. In case you missed it, she has some great insight on the future. Antonelli shows off a couple…

Tech News Leslie Horn Mar 1 '13

Facebook’s Getting a News Feed Overhaul Next Week

As though Graph Search wasn’t enough to turn your Facebook world upside down, the company’s retooling its news feed again. So what will new new new (new) Facebook have in store? We’ll find out next Friday.

Social Media Brian Barrett Mar 1 '13

Don’t Freak Out, But Mars Rover Curiosity Is Having Its First Big Problem

Considering what it’s involved, Mars Rover Curiosity’s mission has been going really well. Staggeringly well. But that couldn’t last forever. The rover has hit its first real road bump with a gnarly computer failure that’s going to delay all the science-ing for at least a week. https://gizmodo.com/why-nasas-mars-curiosity-rover-landing-will-be-seven-mi-5920588 On Wednesday of this week, one of Curiosity’s…

Space & Spaceflight Eric Limer Mar 1 '13

The “ultimate” building blocks of life have been found in interstellar space

The building blocks of life could have their beginnings in the tiny icy grains that make up the gas and dust found between the stars, and those icy grains could be the key to understanding how life can arise on planets. With help from students, researchers have discovered an important pair of prebiotic molecules in…

io9 Nancy Atkinson - Universe Today Mar 1 '13

These ominous cloud formations could be of a completely new type

What you’re seeing here is a cloud formation so rare that it defies classification. Meteorologists suspect that these are undulatus asperatus clouds — an entirely new cloud type that was proposed only three years ago by the Cloud Appreciation Society. The one featured here was photographed by Witta Priester in New Zealand. Image credit and…

io9 George Dvorsky Mar 1 '13

YouTube Puts the Final Meta Nail in the Harlem Shake’s Coffin

If you somehow haven’t had quite enough of the Harlem Shake yet, you might be inclined to surf on over to YouTube and type in “Do The Harlem Shake.” And if you were to do that, YouTube’ll interpret it as a direct order, and unleash a meta-jig of its own. Can this be the final,…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 1 '13

Jack the Giant Slayer gives good vine, but not much else

I can kind of understand why X-Men director Bryan Singer wanted to tackle a grown-up reboot of Jack and the Beanstalk. There’s a lot of potential for amazing visuals with the giant vine that grows up to the sky, and indeed the vine VFX are absolutely spectacular in the film. Plus there are the giants,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 1 '13

6 Fixes That Might Make the Chromebook Pixel Worth Buying

I call them Chromebook Pixel apologists. They’re coming out of the woodwork to defend Google’s super-expensive but flawed $1,299 laptop. You’ll hear things like “It obviously isn’t for everyone” or “You either get it or you don’t.” Count me as one of the people who don’t get it. As I say in my Chromebook Pixel…

Tech News Mark Spoonauer - Laptop Mag Mar 1 '13

Perfect Pairing: Joe Wright will Direct Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Director Joe Wright brought Jane Austen and Ian McEwan to life, and also helmed the super-assassin movie Hanna. So he might be the perfect choice to adapt Neil Gaiman’s next fantasy novel, the as-yet-unpublished The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Deadline broke the news that Focus Features and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 1 '13

Drink Like a Pixie WIth This Adorable Leaf-Shaped Cup

Unless you’re completely snobbish about only consuming bottled water, this cute silicone cup—crafted in the shape of a leaf—will let you enjoy a drink without having to get your mouth anywhere near a tap, faucet, or bubbling spring. And it’s just $12 and washable, so you’ll never have to feel guilty about asking for a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 1 '13

The World’s Biggest Fiber LAN Lives at a Nuclear Weapons Research Lab

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premiere nuclear weapons research facility, and for more than 60 years, its researchers have poked and prodded the interiors of atoms to suss out their secrets—a task that has produced mountains of data that the facility’s copper network struggles to contain. But now, even the most remote building’s on…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 1 '13

See the brutal deleted scene that was way too violent for the 1986 Transformers movie

The fine folks over at the Transformers fansite The Spacebridge have managed to get their hands on a bunch of storyboards from the original 1986 Transformers: The Movie, with which they discovered that Ultra Magnus’ death at the hands of Galvatron was originally supposed to be ridiculously more violent that how it ended up on…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 1 '13

Why Is the Navy Building a Shiny Drone Base in Sunny Malibu?

Sorry, Sushi/Massage Guru at Google: you no longer have the coolest tech job in America. That honor will belong to the future staff at the planned Point Mugu UAV installation in paradisiacal California. Surfing, sunrays, and constant sensor surveillance. And it’s only the beginning. The Point Mugu base is technically just outside of Malibu—barely—but we’re…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 1 '13

Leigh Bardugo reveals the cover to Siege & Storm, but refuses to tell us the secret to young-adult writing

How the Sequester Will Affect Science and Technology

One of the best places to search for alien life is the last that you’d expect

How to Build an Ice Hotel

The First Images of the Ocean Beneath Antarctica

Here’s the first pics of Doctor Who‘s new-and-improved Ice Warriors

Steelcase Gesture: A Smartphone-Friendly Office Chair

MoMA Curator on Colbert: The Future of Design Is Physics

Facebook’s Getting a News Feed Overhaul Next Week

Don’t Freak Out, But Mars Rover Curiosity Is Having Its First Big Problem

The “ultimate” building blocks of life have been found in interstellar space

These ominous cloud formations could be of a completely new type

YouTube Puts the Final Meta Nail in the Harlem Shake’s Coffin

Jack the Giant Slayer gives good vine, but not much else

6 Fixes That Might Make the Chromebook Pixel Worth Buying

Perfect Pairing: Joe Wright will Direct Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Drink Like a Pixie WIth This Adorable Leaf-Shaped Cup

The World’s Biggest Fiber LAN Lives at a Nuclear Weapons Research Lab

See the brutal deleted scene that was way too violent for the 1986 Transformers movie

Why Is the Navy Building a Shiny Drone Base in Sunny Malibu?

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