Latest

Here’s All the New Avengers: Endgame Toys That Tell You Absolutely Nothing About Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Endgame is on the way, and with it, more merchandise than you can shake an Infinity Gauntlet-clad finger at. But as people rush to find meaning out of them, let’s remember that in a world where even the trailers are lying to us, some shiny new toys aren’t going to reveal anything we don’t…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook Apr 1

American Gods Is Relying Too Much on Its Heady Subtext

American Gods’ anthropomorphic deities are multidimensional concepts made flesh, but they’re also flawed, emotional beings very much like the mortals whose collective beliefs willed them into existence over the millennia. Striking the right balance between the gods’ larger-than-life personae and their everyday human lives is the difficult task the show successfully set out to do…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 1

Curiosity Rover Detected Methane on Mars in 2013, a New Analysis Confirms

NASA’s Curiosity rover shook the science community six years ago when it apparently detected traces of methane—an important chemical linked to life—on Mars. Researchers failed to confirm these results in the years that followed, but that’s now changed thanks to a re-analysis of data collected from orbit. New research published today in Nature Geoscience confirms…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Apr 1

Facebook’s Misinformation Problem Is Only Getting More Complicated

In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook’s potential to be a subversive political tool has been all too clear. And several years later, the social network still struggles to deal with the very real dangers its platform creates for political systems. As the social network cracks down on its core product, new…

Social Media Melanie Ehrenkranz Apr 1

Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Plan to Restart the Keystone XL Pipeline May Be Illegal

President Donald Trump ratcheted up the drama over the Keystone XL Pipeline Friday when he issued a presidential memorandum to push the oil pipeline through despite a recent court ruling against it. And opponents plan on taking him back to court over it. After all, his action could set a new precedent for presidential power…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Apr 1

Gotham‘s True Joker Has Just Been Revealed and What the Fuck?

What. What? What. Gotham, god bless it, is barrelling its way to its final conclusion with all the grace and subtlety of a runaway train that happens to be packed with explosives and also is on fire. Last week, the show gave us our first tiny glimpse of lil’ Brucie Wayne (if not actually David…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Apr 1

Great White Sharks Appear Perfectly Healthy Despite Lead, Arsenic, and Mercury Coursing Through Their Veins

Great white sharks aren’t the unstoppable killing machines of Hollywood’s imagination, but studies have continuously shown that they’re definitely badasses of evolution. A new paper out this week adds to that resume, finding that great whites can easily withstand levels of heavy metals that would kill most other animals, all without any apparent health problems.…

Biology Ed Cara Apr 1

No Fooling: The First Episode of Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone Is Free on YouTube

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society: Dying to see how Jordan Peele’s new The Twilight Zone series holds up? The first episode is now available for free on YouTube. It might be called “The Comedian,” and it might be debuting on April Fools Day, but the actual tale is anything but funny. CBS…

io9 Beth Elderkin Apr 1

The Annoying Posts in Your Facebook News Feed Will Soon Come With an Explanation Box

One of the enduring criticisms of Facebook is that the News Feed is a black box. Starting this week, however, the box will suddenly take on a shade of dark gray. No one outside the company fully understands why they saw this post or that one. We do know that Facebook’s News Feed algorithms are…

Social Media Patrick Howell O'Neill Apr 1

New York’s Plan to Make Manhattan Drivers Pay Extra Is a Big Deal for People and the Planet

The next best thing to banning cars is crafting policies that factor in the toll they take on society. And that’s exactly what New York has now done. After toying with the idea for more than a decade, on Sunday the state legislature passed a budget that would implement congestion pricing, making New York the…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Apr 1

Image: Tsuburaya Productions and Netflix

A Brief Guide to Ultraman, Japan’s Ultimate Size-Changing Hero

Today, Netflix released the first season of its highly anticipated Ultraman anime, bringing one of Japan’s most iconic superheroes to a whole new audience. Interested in checking it out, but want to know more? We’re here to help. The Origin of the Ultra Series Before we get to Ultraman, the Ultra Series itself actually started…

io9 James Whitbrook Apr 1

Jim Jarmusch’s Star-Packed Zombie Movie The Dead Don’t Die Looks Like a Deadpan Delight

Maybe it’s wrong to get overly excited about a movie based solely on its trailer, but The Dead Don’t Die—the upcoming zombie film from indie auteur Jim Jarmusch, which stars Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Steve Buscemi, and an eclectic array of other actors—looks pretty goddamn amazing. Jarmusch has been making movies since 1980, and though…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy Apr 1

What’s the Oldest Disease?

Some things never change. Dying terribly from bone cancer, for instance: that’s something humans have been doing from about the beginning of our time. Has it always been like this, or was there some blissful period, in our species’ salad days, in which no one perished from bone cancer? Which sickness has burdened us—or our…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz Apr 1

Man Pleads Guilty to Apple Phishing Scam Used to Hack iCloud Accounts of Rappers and Athletes

A Georgia man pleaded guilty last week to using phishing tactics to hack the Apple accounts and credit card details of a number of “high-profile” celebrities and athletes, scamming victims out of hundreds or thousands of dollars, according to the Justice Department. For roughly three years beginning in at least March 2015, Kwamaine Jerell Ford…

Tech News Catie Keck Apr 1

Rare 14th-Century Baby Bootie Uncovered in Switzerland

Archaeologists working in the Swiss town of Saint-Ursanne have discovered a remarkably well-preserved leather bootie dating back to the Middle Ages. Located in northwest Switzerland near the French border, the picturesque town of Saint-Ursanne has managed to retain its medieval character. Construction work to improve the town’s sewage system began in 2016, resulting in a…

Human History George Dvorsky Apr 1

New Alarm Clock App Is Betting You Won’t Be Able to Sleep Through the Sound of a Puking Dog

Neural adaptation is our brain’s ability to gradually ignore sounds, smells, and other stimuli we’re routinely exposed to. It’s what allows people who live in crowded urban settings to tune out all the noise at night and sleep, and then continue sleeping right through a familiar alarm clock sound in the morning. Odd Alarm is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 1

Even the Most Minimal Exercise Can Drastically Improve Your Health, Yet Another Study Finds

We know that regularly getting some exercise, no matter how little, can keep you alive longer. But new research out Monday suggests that even an hour’s worth of walking per week can help older adults with ailing knees avoid painful, isolating disabilities down the road. The researchers looked at data from an earlier project studying…

Health Ed Cara Apr 1

Gmail Finally Gets Email Scheduling Baked Right In

Google’s ubiquitous email service has now been around for 15 years, so to celebrate this milestone, Gmail is getting a couple of important new features. The first big addition to Gmail is actually something people have been asking about for years: the ability to schedule emails. Now, when you’re finished writing an email in Gmail,…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Apr 1

Legends of Tomorrow Changed Its Season 4 Villain Because They Loved Tom Wilson Too Much

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow returns (appropriately) tonight with a deeper focus on Neron, the demonic villain with a strong, personal connection to John Constantine. But it turns out, Neron wasn’t supposed to be the big bad of the season. The writers changed, well, just about everything about this latest season, for one very good reason:…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin Apr 1

Google Employees Call on Company to Kick Heritage Foundation Ghoul Off AI Ethics Board

Google announced the formation of a global council on technology ethics last week to some deserved trepidation. Sure, the company had amassed some highly qualified individuals to fill seats on this board—but Google’s track record of following its own internal ethics codes is less than spotless. What provoked the most outrage, however, was the appointment…

Tech News Avery Ellis Apr 1

Here’s All the New Avengers: Endgame Toys That Tell You Absolutely Nothing About Avengers: Endgame

American Gods Is Relying Too Much on Its Heady Subtext

Curiosity Rover Detected Methane on Mars in 2013, a New Analysis Confirms

Facebook’s Misinformation Problem Is Only Getting More Complicated

Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Plan to Restart the Keystone XL Pipeline May Be Illegal

Gotham‘s True Joker Has Just Been Revealed and What the Fuck?

Great White Sharks Appear Perfectly Healthy Despite Lead, Arsenic, and Mercury Coursing Through Their Veins

No Fooling: The First Episode of Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone Is Free on YouTube

The Annoying Posts in Your Facebook News Feed Will Soon Come With an Explanation Box

New York’s Plan to Make Manhattan Drivers Pay Extra Is a Big Deal for People and the Planet

A Brief Guide to Ultraman, Japan’s Ultimate Size-Changing Hero

Jim Jarmusch’s Star-Packed Zombie Movie The Dead Don’t Die Looks Like a Deadpan Delight

What’s the Oldest Disease?

Man Pleads Guilty to Apple Phishing Scam Used to Hack iCloud Accounts of Rappers and Athletes

Rare 14th-Century Baby Bootie Uncovered in Switzerland

New Alarm Clock App Is Betting You Won’t Be Able to Sleep Through the Sound of a Puking Dog

Even the Most Minimal Exercise Can Drastically Improve Your Health, Yet Another Study Finds

Gmail Finally Gets Email Scheduling Baked Right In

Legends of Tomorrow Changed Its Season 4 Villain Because They Loved Tom Wilson Too Much

Google Employees Call on Company to Kick Heritage Foundation Ghoul Off AI Ethics Board

Latest news

The Live-Action ‘One Piece’ Team Wants to Go the Distance

‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Will Please Gross Horror Fans

Somehow Paramount’s ‘Avatar’ Movie Has Leaked, Too

The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

OpenAI Says Elon Musk Is ‘Injecting Chaos’ with Recent Legal Maneuver

Google Displayed Polymarket Bets as News ‘In Error,’ Google Says

‘Marvel Rivals’ Wants to Start Being More Than Just a Hero Shooter

Latest Reviews

This Loud-Ass Party Speaker Almost Got Me High AF

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

Let us help find what you are looking for...