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Deep Earth Is Teeming with Mysterious Life

It may seem fantastical, but there is a living world deep, deep beneath our feet. Go below the soil, beyond the bedrock, and you’ll find a hot, sweaty underworld teeming with life that puts the surface biosphere to shame. Just how much life is down there has been an open question that the 1,200 scientists…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Dec 12

If You Believe, They Put a Moore on the Moon, Alan Moore on the Moon

After spending years criticizing how Hollywood has adapted his iconic graphic novels, Alan Moore is finally taking matters into his own hands. Protagonist Pictures has unveiled the first look at Moore’s upcoming fantasy film, The Show. And yes, you can insert your The Tonight Show joke here. Production is currently underway on The Show, an…

Movies Beth Elderkin Dec 12

What Even Is Cash Anymore?

Laundry days are the worst. Not because I hate doing laundry—I love warm, fluffy, clean clothes—but because I need cold hard cash to use the machines at my local 24-hour laundromat. Legitimately, I’ve sat here for 20 minutes trying to think of anything besides laundry that I regularly use greenbacks for. I got nada. Apple…

Tech News Victoria Song Dec 12

The New Trailer for the Alien Occupation Thriller Captive State Just Might Blow You Away

We hate to be presumptuous, but this new trailer blew us away, so there’s a chance it might do the same for you. So far, trailers for Captive State have been good. No better, no worse, just good. The framing of the film, set in a world years after aliens have invaded and won, is…

Trailers Germain Lussier Dec 12

Top Michigan Health Official on Trial for Flint Water Crisis Upgraded to Fancy New Job

The case of water contamination in Flint, Michigan, is a textbook example of government failure. So much so that the state’s attorney general office launched a criminal investigation against 15 state and local officials in 2016. The trials began this summer, but the charges—including involuntary manslaughter—apparently aren’t enough for the Michigan Department of Health and…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Dec 12

The Mandalorian Cast Has Officially Been Announced

It’s true. All of it. Basically every crazy casting rumor you heard about the first live-action Star Wars show, The Mandalorian, was just made official by Lucasfilm—and we just learned so much more. Yes, Pedro Pascal is the lead in the show and yes he’ll be joined by Gina Carano, Carl Weathers, and Nick Nolte.…

io9 Germain Lussier Dec 12

6 Actors Who Were Double-Duty Genre Superstars in 2018

It’s not unusual for popular actors to be cast in multiple movies and TV shows in a relatively short time period—but 2018 had an unusual number of performers doing double duty in notable genre projects. Here are six of our favorite ubiquitous faces this year. 1) Ann Dowd, Hereditary and The Handmaid’s Tale A well-known…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Dec 12

These Are the States With the Fastest and Slowest Internet

A report on internet speeds across the country released on Wednesday shows which cities and states have the slowest and fastest broadband—and which providers are the fastest. Internet testing company Ookla says it measured internet speeds from more than 24 million unique users while making the report of fixed broadband speeds for the second and…

Tech News Jennings Brown Dec 12

Stranger Things and Arrival Producers Are Working on a Netflix Show About a Teenager With Superpowers

Think Family Circus meets American Horror Story: Coven. Netflix has ordered eight episodes of a new series based on Charles Forsman’s self-published graphic novel, I Am Not Okay With This, about a teenage girl who struggles to balance life, relationships, and her deadly telekinesis. In a press release, Netflix announced that playwright Christy Hall and…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin Dec 12

Antarctic Scientists Are About to Drill Into One of the Most Isolated Lakes on Earth

Buried beneath 4,000 feet of Antarctic ice lies Lake Mercer, a subglacial body of water that formed thousands of years ago and has been long separated from the rest of the world. A project to explore this lake—and its mysterious contents—is finally set to begin later this month. Called Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access, or…

Earth Science George Dvorsky Dec 12

The Biggest and Most Important Comic Book Crossover Is Coming to TV Next Year

The Arrowverse’s big three-part crossover ended last night and it was a lot of fun, but the last minute of the crossover was truly unprecedented. It contained the announcement of a sequel to the crossover in 2019, and its title: Crisis on Infinite Earths. If you missed our previous coverage of the crossover and you’ve…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz Dec 12

Pixar’s Mysterious ‘Suburban Fantasy Adventure’ Now Has a Title and Superhero Cast

Way back at last year’s D23 Expo, Pixar announced that its next film after Toy Story 4 would be “suburban fantasy adventure” with a personal touch. Well, now that movie has a title. It’s called Onward, and the voice cast is nothing short of heroic. Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, and Octavia Spencer are…

io9 Germain Lussier Dec 12

Mary Poppins Returns Is Magical But It’s Missing Something

You’d be hard pressed to go into Mary Poppins Returns wanting to love it and not walk out that way. Director Rob Marshall, along with his stellar cast and crew, have beautifully rekindled the spirit of the original 1964 Disney film and infused it with new life, music, and technology. It’s a film brimming with…

Movies Germain Lussier Dec 12

Google Finally Gives Up the Duck

Solidifying its powerful monopoly on duck-related online content, the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is now the proud owner of duck.com. The development comes after Google finally relented in an age-old dispute. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that draws on search results from hundreds of sources and doesn’t create profiles for user data and shows everyone…

Tech News Rhett Jones Dec 12

Watch BBC’s Gorgeous Music Video for Doctor Who’s Thirteenth Doctor Theme

2018 was a year of change for Doctor Who. Not only did we get a showrunner shift and a brand-new Doctor, now played by Jodie Whittaker, but we also got the first new Doctor Who composer in over a decade. And now, not only is the music of Segun Akinola is getting an album release,…

io9 Beth Elderkin Dec 12

Russian State TV Shows Off ‘Robot’ That’s Actually a Man in a Robot Suit

Russian state TV apparently became confused yesterday while airing footage of a technology forum aimed at kids. A TV reporter proclaimed that Boris the robot, seen above, “has already learned to dance and he’s not that bad.” The only problem? Boris isn’t a real robot. It’s just a man in a suit. This “robot” actually…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 12

Eye Worms, Octopuses on MDMA, and More: The Strangest Science Stories of 2018

Truly, 2018 has been a year filled with news that made us look blankly ahead and utter ‘wat’ into the void, frozen in confusion, every day. But there were a few stories that were cream of the crop when it came to their sheer weirdness. And that’s especially true within the world of science and…

Reviews Ed Cara Dec 12

Here’s Your First Tiny Little Tease for The Punisher Season 2

Defenders may be falling all around him, but Frank Castle’s still standing—for now, at least. And we’ve got a little taste of him getting ready for action. Netflix has revealed the first minuscule glimpse at The Punisher season 2 as part of its batch of teasers for upcoming shows heading to the streaming service in…

Trailers James Whitbrook Dec 12

Amazon’s DVR for Over-the-Air TV Is Surprisingly Great

The Amazon Fire TV Recast is a wacky gadget. It’s not wacky in that it looks weird. (It’s just a simple black box.) It’s also not wacky because it does wacky stuff. (It’s a DVR for over-the-air TV.) The Recast is wacky because it does this one hyper-specific thing really well. I’m not sure why…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Adam Clark Estes Dec 12

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The Fossils of the 21st Century

In 100 million years, human civilization will have bit the dust. Perhaps a nuclear war scorched the planet, or a last-ditch bid to solve climate change backfired horribly. Or, more optimistically, we overcame the myriad challenges of the 21st century, took to the stars and evolved into new species on alien worlds. Either way, what…

Earth Science Maddie Stone Dec 12

Deep Earth Is Teeming with Mysterious Life

If You Believe, They Put a Moore on the Moon, Alan Moore on the Moon

What Even Is Cash Anymore?

The New Trailer for the Alien Occupation Thriller Captive State Just Might Blow You Away

Top Michigan Health Official on Trial for Flint Water Crisis Upgraded to Fancy New Job

The Mandalorian Cast Has Officially Been Announced

6 Actors Who Were Double-Duty Genre Superstars in 2018

These Are the States With the Fastest and Slowest Internet

Stranger Things and Arrival Producers Are Working on a Netflix Show About a Teenager With Superpowers

Antarctic Scientists Are About to Drill Into One of the Most Isolated Lakes on Earth

The Biggest and Most Important Comic Book Crossover Is Coming to TV Next Year

Pixar’s Mysterious ‘Suburban Fantasy Adventure’ Now Has a Title and Superhero Cast

Mary Poppins Returns Is Magical But It’s Missing Something

Google Finally Gives Up the Duck

Watch BBC’s Gorgeous Music Video for Doctor Who’s Thirteenth Doctor Theme

Russian State TV Shows Off ‘Robot’ That’s Actually a Man in a Robot Suit

Eye Worms, Octopuses on MDMA, and More: The Strangest Science Stories of 2018

Here’s Your First Tiny Little Tease for The Punisher Season 2

Amazon’s DVR for Over-the-Air TV Is Surprisingly Great

The Fossils of the 21st Century

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