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The Large Hadron Collider Turns 10: Here’s What’s Next for Particle Physics

September 10 marked the 10th anniversary of when the Large Hadron Collider first powered on. Since it’s already achieved its most well-known goal—to discover the Higgs boson—you might wonder what else is happening at the famous collider. The Large Hadron Collider, located in Geneva, Switzerland, is the world’s largest scientific apparatus. It’s a pair of intersecting…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Sep 11

Old Predictions About Space Travel Can Be Super Depressing in 2018

You’re probably familiar with the old sayings, “where’s my flying car?” and “where’s my jetpack?” But the most depressing question for plenty of space nerds from the 20th century might be, “where’s my vacation on the moon?” And I just got really depressed reading a paper from 1987 about the space travel advances we were…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 11

Pandemic Infects Rome, Tales From The Loop Heads to the ’90s, and More Tabletop Gaming News

Welcome to the Gaming Shelf, io9’s roundup of tabletop gaming news, releases, updates, and interesting crowdfunding campaigns—focusing on sci-fi and fantasy games… for the most part. It’s been quite an eventful couple of weeks, as game companies get ready for the holiday season. We had so many announcements and crowdfunding campaigns, we had trouble picking…

Games Beth Elderkin Sep 11

Ancient Jar of Roman Gold Coins Discovered Under Italian Theater

Archaeologists unearthed a pot of gold coins dating back to the 5th century AD under an abandoned theater near Milan, Italy. The gold coins, about 300 of them, were found during archaeological excavations in the basement of the condemned Cressoni Theater in Como, a town located 30 miles (50 km) north of Milan. The theater, opened…

Human History George Dvorsky Sep 11

Black Panther Has Its Eyes Set on a Lot of Oscars

While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is trying to figure out how to save face after the whole “Best Popular Film” category fiasco, Marvel Studios has been preparing to submit Black Panther for more Oscars than you ever would have imagined. It’s commonly thought that the Best Popular Film category was the…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 11

Sony Continues to Drink Bose’s Milkshake

If you listen to what Sony says, you could assume that the third generation of the Sony 1000X wireless headphones is all about better noise canceling. This wouldn’t be a wrong assumption. The company managed to make its famous noise-cancelling headphones cancel even more noise. But what caught my attention is how much more comfortable…

Headphones Adam Clark Estes Sep 11

Amazon Takes Down Nine Books Self-Published on Kindle by Virulent Sexist ‘Roosh’

Amazon has taken down nine books written and self-published by Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh, the notorious reactionary misogynist, virulent homophobe, and self-described “pickup artist” behind a small web-based empire. According to HuffPost, Amazon booted nine of Valizadeh’s books from their catalog after their reporters inquired as to whether his writing violated guidelines: On Monday, Amazon took…

Tech News Tom McKay Sep 11

Updates From New Mutants, Swamp Thing, and More

Anya Taylor-Joy talks New Mutants reshoots. Writer Gary Dauberman discusses bringing a peculiar ritual to It: Chapter 2, and looks like we’re getting an R-Rated Swamp Thing. Plus, Felicity gets a truly, truly outrageous look in Arrow, and a new look at Supergirl’s space-y new costume for Kara. To me, my spoilers! Scary Stories to Tell…

Television James Whitbrook Sep 11

U.S. Officials Suspect Russian Involvement in Mystery Attacks Against American Diplomats in Cuba and China: Report

What made U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China severely sick over the past two years? We still don’t know for sure. But U.S. officials now suspect that the Russian government might have had something to do with it. At least that’s the theory being floated by anonymous sources to NBC News. The theory that Russia…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 11

SETI’s New Neural Network Detects Many More Fast Radio Bursts From a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley’s SETI Research Center Breakthrough Listen team have deployed new neural net technology to help analyze the reams of data they’ve collection—and they quickly discovered a set of mysterious, as-of-yet unexplained fast radio bursts from a distant galaxy, per TechCrunch. Fast radio bursts are fast, enormously energetic pulses originating…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay Sep 10

Donald Trump’s Administration Wants to Let Oil and Gas Companies Emit a Lot More Methane

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with an estimated pound-for-pound emissions impact 25 times greater than carbon dioxide over a century-long timescale. So it’s hardly a surprise that the climate-change-denying crew in the White House has decided we need plenty more of it in the Earth’s atmosphere. Per a Monday report in the New York…

Energy Tom McKay Sep 10

Celebrate Some Super Mario Milestones With a Slew of Trippy Artwork

Apparently 2018 is a big year for everyone’s favorite plumber, Mario. It marks the 35th anniversary of the first Mario Bros. game, the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. 3, and the 25th anniversary of everyone’s favorite, the Super Mario Bros. movie. So to celebrate, the Bottleneck Gallery in New York is going down the…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier Sep 10

Stranded Astronauts Orbit Earth as Nuclear War Rages in This Stunning Short

With a stark black-and-white palette that resembles manga art come to life, Tomasz Popakul’s Black tells a Twilight Zone-ish tale of two astronauts who can never return home. High above the Earth’s surface on an orbiting space station, they can see the mushroom clouds that are ripping the planet apart. The psychological impact of what…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Sep 10

Researchers Show Off Method for Hacking Tesla’s Keyless Entry, So Turn on Two-Factor Authentication

Elon Musk started the day with some much-needed good news after Space X pulled off an early morning satellite launch without any troubles. The good news didn’t last long because on Monday afternoon security researchers went public with claims that Tesla’s keyless entry system is vulnerable to a spoofing hack that could give a sophisticated…

Privacy & Security Rhett Jones Sep 10

Dead Man’s Son Sues Cryonics Lab for Only Freezing Dad’s Head

A man is suing a cryonics firm for allegedly not respecting his late father’s wishes—or contract—to have his entire body cryogenically preserved. Instead, the firm severed and stored the man’s head, sending his cremated remains to his son. The firm in question is Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the first and largest business of its kind.…

Health Melanie Ehrenkranz Sep 10

5 Things We Liked (and 4 We Didn’t) About Iron Fist‘s Second Season

The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s resident chi-wielding multimillionaire with a fist of gold returned to Netflix last Friday in Iron Fist season 2, and surprisingly there was a lot about the season to get legitimately hyped about. As is true of all things, though, there were plenty of moments that kept the show from being transcendent.…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 10

Image’s New Series DIE Has the First Comic Book Trailer That’s Actually Good

In this year of our Lord 2018, trailers for comic books are a thing that publishers desperately want to become a Thing™—despite the fact that trailers aren’t how comics have traditionally been advertised, and nobody seems to really like them all that much. The biggest issue with “comic book trailers” is that, like trailers for…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 10

Appeals Court Upholds CRISPR Patent, Potentially Ending Bitter Dispute

An appeals court has upheld a 2017 decision recognizing scientists from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT as the true inventors of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system. The decision likely signifies the end of a bitter legal dispute that began four years ago. Twelve patents that relate to CRISPR—one of the most powerful gene-editing tools…

Biology George Dvorsky Sep 10

The Mayors of New York and London Just Called for Every City to Divest From Fossil Fuels

The argument for divesting from fossil fuel companies is simple. On a moral level, it is reprehensible to invest in companies that are making our planet less habitable. On a pure dollars and cents level, these companies are doomed to extinction by the laws of physics and economics. That does not make a Monday article in…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn Sep 10

Reminder: Send in Your ‘Postal Apocalypse’ Questions Now!

io9’s long-missing mail column returns this Thursday, September 13! So email me at [email protected] with your burning questions about all things nerdy, be they about the million or so major releases since the last installment—Black Panther, Justice League, Solo, Infinity War, 18 million superhero shows, to name just a few—or advice, or anything else. As…

io9 Rob Bricken Sep 10

The Large Hadron Collider Turns 10: Here’s What’s Next for Particle Physics

Old Predictions About Space Travel Can Be Super Depressing in 2018

Pandemic Infects Rome, Tales From The Loop Heads to the ’90s, and More Tabletop Gaming News

Ancient Jar of Roman Gold Coins Discovered Under Italian Theater

Black Panther Has Its Eyes Set on a Lot of Oscars

Sony Continues to Drink Bose’s Milkshake

Amazon Takes Down Nine Books Self-Published on Kindle by Virulent Sexist ‘Roosh’

Updates From New Mutants, Swamp Thing, and More

U.S. Officials Suspect Russian Involvement in Mystery Attacks Against American Diplomats in Cuba and China: Report

SETI’s New Neural Network Detects Many More Fast Radio Bursts From a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Donald Trump’s Administration Wants to Let Oil and Gas Companies Emit a Lot More Methane

Celebrate Some Super Mario Milestones With a Slew of Trippy Artwork

Stranded Astronauts Orbit Earth as Nuclear War Rages in This Stunning Short

Researchers Show Off Method for Hacking Tesla’s Keyless Entry, So Turn on Two-Factor Authentication

Dead Man’s Son Sues Cryonics Lab for Only Freezing Dad’s Head

5 Things We Liked (and 4 We Didn’t) About Iron Fist‘s Second Season

Image’s New Series DIE Has the First Comic Book Trailer That’s Actually Good

Appeals Court Upholds CRISPR Patent, Potentially Ending Bitter Dispute

The Mayors of New York and London Just Called for Every City to Divest From Fossil Fuels

Reminder: Send in Your ‘Postal Apocalypse’ Questions Now!

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