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Gerard Way’s New Track For Umbrella Academy Is an Absolute Banger

If I had to be reborn as any person, I’d pick Gerard Way. Great writer? Great musician (if you’re a Millennial, anyway)? Dude is unstoppable lately. And the song he put out for the newest wave of Umbrella Academy promotion just totally rules. You might have heard some of the song in the new trailer…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy Jan 26

Australia Continues to Fry Under Scorching Heat Waves

The second heat wave in two weeks in Southern Australia continued to punish the region, with temperatures in Melbourne hitting 109.4 degrees Fahrenheit (42.8C) on Friday afternoon, and the state of Tasmania struggling to deal with “30 uncontained fires,” according to the Guardian. Electrical blackouts lasting over two hours affected some 200,000 people in the…

Earth Science Tom McKay Jan 26

The Lego Movie 2 Somehow Lives Up to Its Impossible Expectations

The first Lego Movie is so good there’s a chance you don’t remember just how good it was. Not only did it tell a smart, hilarious, original story with a wildly famous IP, but it was filled with heart, eventually revealing itself to be a deeper story of a boy and his father bonding and…

Movies Germain Lussier Jan 26

CDC Warns Against Kissing, Snuggling Pet Hedgehogs Amid Salmonella Outbreak

It’s not every day that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issues an advisory about pet hedgehogs, but here we are. The CDC said Friday that it is currently investigating a Salmonella typhimurium outbreak that it believes may be tied to contact with these prickly critters, adding that you definitely shouldn’t be cuddling or smooching…

Health Catie Keck Jan 26

This Video Runs Down the Fictional History of One of Star Wars‘ Most Recognizable Blasters

Okay, the most recognizable blaster in Star Wars is probably Han’s Blaster, the Dl-44 Heavy Blaster Pistol. But this is the second. The E-11 Blaster is wielded by heroes and villains alike, the standard-issue gun of Imperial Stormtroopers, part of a lineage of fictional weapons used by the Grand Army of the Republic before it…

Movies Julie Muncy Jan 26

Report: Citizen Lab Targeted in Botched Sting After Researching Israeli Firm’s Ties to Saudi Arabia

“International undercover operatives” have been hounding members of the internet watchdog Citizen Lab, whose researchers helped reveal that an Israeli cyber-intelligence firm named NSO Group may have played a role in dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder at the hands of state-employed goons, the Associated Press reported Friday. According to the AP, at least twice…

Tech News Tom McKay Jan 26

Wake Up, Oppy! NASA Sends New Commands to Mars Opportunity Rover

NASA’s beloved Mars rover Opportunity has been silent for months after getting swept up in an enormous dust storm on the Red Planet last summer, and NASA engineers have been pinging the rover to answer to no avail. Now, NASA says it will send new commands to the resilient explorer in hopes of making contact,…

Space & Spaceflight Catie Keck Jan 26

A Sequel to Detective Pikachu Is Already in the Works

And the road to the Uncanny Valley will be marked by a procession of electrified cartoon mice. Detective Pikachu, a film about a talking Pikachu, voiced by Ryan Reynolds, teaming up with a young man played by Justice Smith on a quest to find his missing father, comes out May 10. Apparently, Legendary Entertainment feels…

Movies Julie Muncy Jan 26

Chris Pine Isn’t Sure Steve Trevor Will Be Back After Wonder Woman 1984

Chris Pine, one of the illustrious cabal of Chrises that dominates pop culture like a name-based Illuminati, isn’t entirely sure if he’s going to be doing more than just one more Wonder Woman movie. We know he’s appearing in Wonder Woman 1984, where his character Steve Trevor will be—somehow—thrust into the future to co-star, again,…

Movies Julie Muncy Jan 26

Ancient Plants Reveal Arctic Summers Haven’t Been This Hot in 115,000 Years

The latest sign of just how screwed the Arctic is: moss that hasn’t seen the light of day in at least 40,000 years is tumbling out of ice caps on Canada’s Baffin Island thanks to increasingly balmy summers. Based on that and other lines of evidence, research published in Nature Communications on Friday suggests that…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Jan 26

Maybe Don’t Charge an E-Scooter If You Plan to Do Crimes

A man was reportedly arrested this week in connection with a recent bank robbery after his credit card that was used to rent a Jump e-scooter linked him to the scene of the crime. The Austin American-Statesman reported Friday that the incident occurred in Austin on Dec. 18, when a hooded man approached a bank…

Tech News Catie Keck Jan 25

Tesla Was Fined Less Than the Cost of a Tesla

Remember Tesla’s production tent, the one it erected to help crank out Model 3s last year? Apparently, it didn’t sit well with California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, and the company now faces fines totaling nearly $30,000 over violations of labor laws. Business Insider reported Friday that Cal/OSHA inspected the assembly line known as…

Transportation Catie Keck Jan 25

The Fathers Project Imagines a Radical World Where HIV/AIDS Never Happened

While we’re now able to look back and see, statistically, how the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic devastated the North American queer community, it’s impossible to quantify the impact that lost generation of lives could have had on the world had they lived. Leo Herrera’s The Fathers Project web series imagines a world in…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jan 25

A Truly Rex-cellent Lego Movie 2 Spaceship, and More of The Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of all things good and plastic on the internet right now. This week: The Punisher gets his own Iron Man figure, Lego reveals a ludicrous new Lego Movie 2 set, and Jamie Lee Curtis gets her own incredibly kickass Halloween action figure. Check it out! The Lego…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Jan 25

Rampant Looks to Blend the Zombie and Period Epic Genres With Gory Delight

What happens when a bunch of zombies attack a medieval town full of sword-wielding warriors? You’re about to find out in Rampant. Rampant is a 2018 South Korean horror film directed by Kim Sung-hoon and produced by the studio that led the brilliant film Train to Busan. It had a small opening last year but…

Trailers Germain Lussier Jan 25

Researchers Create the Noise-Cancelling, Snore-Silencing Pillow of Your Partner’s Dreams

Noise-cancelling headphones, like Sony’s excellent WH-1000XM3, do an impressive job of silencing the world around you—assuming you’re actually able to wear them. Wearing headphones to bed to silence a snorer next to you isn’t practical or comfortable. So researchers at Northern Illinois University are integrating similar technology into a pillow that’s custom-designed to reduce the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 25

James Wan Will Only Venture Into Aquaman’s Sequel Depths if the Script Is a Pearl

By the end of the weekend, James Wan’s Aquaman will have become the most financially successful superhero movie Warner Brothers and DC have ever produced together—a title previously held by The Dark Knight. That’d be a huge accomplishment for any filmmaker, but for Wan in particular given the studio’s recent pivot to focusing on director-driven…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Jan 25

New Horizons Transmits Incredibly Clear Picture of MU69

If you’re anything like me, you were probably a little disappointed when you saw the first pictures of Kuiper belt object MU69. Sure, we could make out a snowman-like shape, but it also looked like something a shot with a smartphone from a moving car. Ok, that’s not far off, as the New Horizons spacecraft snapped…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jan 25

Opioid Expert Accuses FDA of ‘Willful Blindness’ After It Approves Powerful New Painkiller

An expert tasked with helping the Food and Drug Administration weigh potential new opioid drug approvals is openly calling out the agency for what he alleges are its continued missteps in handling the opioid crisis. In an interview with the Guardian Thursday, Raeford Brown claimed that the FDA has failed to learn from its past…

Tech News Ed Cara Jan 25

AI Finds Traces of a Lost Species in Human DNA

Buried deep within the DNA of Asian individuals is a genetic clue pointing to the existence of an unknown human ancestor. Remarkably, it wasn’t a human who reached this startling conjecture, but rather an artificially intelligent algorithm. Welcome to archaeology in the 21st century. New research published last week in Nature Communications suggests a yet-to-be…

Human History George Dvorsky Jan 25

Gerard Way’s New Track For Umbrella Academy Is an Absolute Banger

Australia Continues to Fry Under Scorching Heat Waves

The Lego Movie 2 Somehow Lives Up to Its Impossible Expectations

CDC Warns Against Kissing, Snuggling Pet Hedgehogs Amid Salmonella Outbreak

This Video Runs Down the Fictional History of One of Star Wars‘ Most Recognizable Blasters

Report: Citizen Lab Targeted in Botched Sting After Researching Israeli Firm’s Ties to Saudi Arabia

Wake Up, Oppy! NASA Sends New Commands to Mars Opportunity Rover

A Sequel to Detective Pikachu Is Already in the Works

Chris Pine Isn’t Sure Steve Trevor Will Be Back After Wonder Woman 1984

Ancient Plants Reveal Arctic Summers Haven’t Been This Hot in 115,000 Years

Maybe Don’t Charge an E-Scooter If You Plan to Do Crimes

Tesla Was Fined Less Than the Cost of a Tesla

The Fathers Project Imagines a Radical World Where HIV/AIDS Never Happened

A Truly Rex-cellent Lego Movie 2 Spaceship, and More of The Best Toys of the Week

Rampant Looks to Blend the Zombie and Period Epic Genres With Gory Delight

Researchers Create the Noise-Cancelling, Snore-Silencing Pillow of Your Partner’s Dreams

James Wan Will Only Venture Into Aquaman’s Sequel Depths if the Script Is a Pearl

New Horizons Transmits Incredibly Clear Picture of MU69

Opioid Expert Accuses FDA of ‘Willful Blindness’ After It Approves Powerful New Painkiller

AI Finds Traces of a Lost Species in Human DNA

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