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March of Dimes Pulls Millions in Funding From Unsuspecting Scientists, Blames Budget Problems

One of the most famous charity organizations in the world—the March of Dimes—has suddenly become much less charitable to the scientific causes it funded. The organization has canceled research grants totaling $3 million that it had already awarded to dozens of scientists, Nature reported Friday. As per Nature: On 24 July, 37 grant recipients received…

Tech News Ed Cara Aug 3

Here’s a Crash-Course Refresher on The Venture Bros. Ahead of the Season 7 Premiere

It’s been over two years since The Venture Bros. has been on the air, but the Adult Swim cartoon (hilarious, imaginative, and packed with sci-fi schemes, supervillians, and a huge array of comic-book and pop-culture references) returns on Sunday. If you need a quick refresher, or if you don’t have time to binge a catch-up,…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Aug 3

People Are Getting Sick From an Opioid-Like ‘Dietary Supplement’: Report

People are increasingly turning to an unconventional drug to supplement their opioid addiction, suggests a new report published this week. And some are getting sick as a result. Since 2014, hundreds of people have apparently rung up their local poison control center in connection to tianeptine, an antidepressant not approved in the U.S. that’s capable…

Health Ed Cara Aug 3

The Immortal Hulk Is Weaving a Haunting Legacy for All of Marvel’s Gamma-Powered Heroes

Bruce Banner’s death at the height of Civil War II and his return for a new ongoing series has sparked a dark road for the Hulk to go down, as Bruce finds an altogether smarter and crueler Hulk sharing his body. But it’s a problem that’s starting to affect more than just Bruce. The gamma…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Aug 3

Tell Us the Apps You Hate But Just Can’t Quit

Not everything I do on my phone is Bad. I turn to Strava to motivate myself to run. With Spotify, I play music I like for a reasonable fee. And thanks to Crunchyroll, I can watch absurd anime like Toriko and lovely, meditative shows like Polar Bear Cafe wherever I want. My thumbs may ache…

Gadgets Harri Weber Aug 3

Princess Leia, Pikachu’s Butt, and More Wonderfully Weird Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly round up of the most delightful toys we’ve seen tempting our savings accounts on the internet. This week: S.H. Figurarts finally brings Princess Leia to its Star Wars line, Overwatch’s best dad gets the chibi treatment, and honest to god Pokébutts. Check it out! S.H. Figuarts Star Wars:…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Aug 3

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Jumbled Shark Evolution

More than 500 different shark species roam Earth’s oceans: from zippy little cookie-cutter sharks, to the iconic great white, to nightmarish goblin sharks, to 25-foot-long, filter-feeding basking sharks. And it seems that the current equilibrium of shark species we see today arose after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction event 66 million years ago, according to new…

Biology Jessica Boddy Aug 3

That Mourning Orca Whale Mother Should Be a Wake-Up Call

Ten dreadful days. That’s how long Tahlequah, the female orca also known as J-35, has been carrying her dead calf in mourning through the Pacific Northwest’s Salish Sea. The female baby orca lived a mere half hour after being born July 24. Its body has begun to decompose, but that hasn’t kept the mother from…

Conservation Yessenia Funes Aug 3

Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger Too) Discuss the Franchise’s Legacy in Christopher Robin

Say the words “Winnie the Pooh” and everyone thinks of the exact same image: yellow bear, red shirt, jar of honey. It’s an image that’s been engrained in culture for almost a century, one that felt like it would last forever. Well, not so fast. With Disney’s new film Christopher Robin, Pooh has been given…

Movies Germain Lussier Aug 3

The Smiley Face Emoji Is Clearly Full of Shit

Look, I’m no emoji expert, but there’s one thing I do know: The basic smiley emoji is a goddamn liar. And using it makes you a liar, too. I first noticed the fraudulence of this emoji’s yellow visage when praising a colleague for writing a good story. “Nice work!” I said. “🙂” Creeping Jesus, I thought,…

Tech News Andrew Couts Aug 3

Small Dogs Pee Higher to Lie About Their Size, New Study Concludes

You just can’t trust a little dog. We all know dogs can communicate through scent. They urinate on new areas, their own home turf, and certainly things that other dogs have peed on. We also know that some male dogs lift their legs in order to pee higher. But new research found that smaller dogs…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Aug 3

New Research Could Reveal Which Parts of Your City Swelter the Most

Anyone who’s spent time in a city in the summer knows that these bastions of blacktop get uncomfortably hot compared with the surrounding countryside. But even within a city’s bounds, some neighborhoods swelter more than others, and that can have a big effect on who’s most threatened by heatwaves. Which is why citizen scientists are…

Earth Science Maddie Stone Aug 3

NASA Announces First Crew for Commercial Space Travel

NASA has announced the first astronauts who will head to the International Space Station on a commercially built spacecraft. These U.S. astronauts previously flew aboard Russian spacecraft to get to the ISS. The coming launches will be the first from American soil since the Space Shuttle’s 2011 retirement, according to a NASA news release. The…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Aug 3

Summer Camp Island Makes Me Wish I’d Gone to Sleepaway Camp

One of the less-than-enviable things about growing up in a major metropolitan area with slightly more protective than average parents is never having the chance to spend a few weeks during the summer in a magical world commonly known as sleepaway camp. This cruel reality is one of the many things that makes Cartoon Network’s…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 3

Alex Garland’s Sci-Fi Show Starring Nick Offerman and Ex Machina’s Sonoya Mizuno Is a Go

The director of Ex Machina and Annihilation has a new sci-fi project, and it’s coming to FX with a little help from his friends. Deadline reports the network just picked up an eight-episode limited series called Devs, directed by Alex Garland, about “a young computer engineer [who] investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 3

Nut Milk Recalled Because It May Contain Real Milk

Beware, lactose-intolerant Almond Breeze drinkers: There may be milk in your milk alternative. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that HP Hood is recalling many half-gallon cartons of Blue Diamond’s Vanilla Almond Breeze almond milk because the products may contain real milk. “There was a failure in the production process and some…

Health Jennings Brown Aug 3

Electric Warriors Will Look at the Unexplored Dark Ages of the Future DC Universe

When you think about the future in the DC universe, a few iconic stories and franchises will pop into your head. Kingdom Come. The Legion of Super-Heroes. DC One Million. Electric Warriors wants to do something different: show people what happens to Earth after its superheroic legacies fade away hundreds of years from now. There’s…

Books & Comics Evan Narcisse Aug 3

FCC Almost Does Something Right, and It May Give Google Fiber a Boost

There is plenty of reason to be skeptical when this FCC decides to do anything that isn’t a gift to the biggest telecoms in the nation. But on Thursday, it created new rules that could help upstarts like Google Fiber break into wireless and broadband markets. It’s a rare instance in which less regulation might…

Tech Policy Rhett Jones Aug 3

The Cost of Buying a $100 Phone

No one gets a cheap phone because they want to have a sub-par experience filled with stuttering and lagging apps. People get cheap phones because they’re cheap, and usually work just enough to justify the low price point. Take the Alcatel 1X, for example. It’s neither novel nor intriguing. It’s not trying to impress you.…

Smartphones Patrick Lucas Austin Aug 3

The Futuristic Invisible Wall That Was Supposed to Protect Entire Towns From Missiles in 1959

When you hear about the concept of missile defense in space, your first thought might be Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, more commonly called Star Wars. But ideas for an invisible missile shield in the sky are much older than the 1980s. As just one example, we have this Sunday comic strip from 1959, which…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 3

March of Dimes Pulls Millions in Funding From Unsuspecting Scientists, Blames Budget Problems

Here’s a Crash-Course Refresher on The Venture Bros. Ahead of the Season 7 Premiere

People Are Getting Sick From an Opioid-Like ‘Dietary Supplement’: Report

The Immortal Hulk Is Weaving a Haunting Legacy for All of Marvel’s Gamma-Powered Heroes

Tell Us the Apps You Hate But Just Can’t Quit

Princess Leia, Pikachu’s Butt, and More Wonderfully Weird Toys of the Week

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Jumbled Shark Evolution

That Mourning Orca Whale Mother Should Be a Wake-Up Call

Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger Too) Discuss the Franchise’s Legacy in Christopher Robin

The Smiley Face Emoji Is Clearly Full of Shit

Small Dogs Pee Higher to Lie About Their Size, New Study Concludes

New Research Could Reveal Which Parts of Your City Swelter the Most

NASA Announces First Crew for Commercial Space Travel

Summer Camp Island Makes Me Wish I’d Gone to Sleepaway Camp

Alex Garland’s Sci-Fi Show Starring Nick Offerman and Ex Machina’s Sonoya Mizuno Is a Go

Nut Milk Recalled Because It May Contain Real Milk

Electric Warriors Will Look at the Unexplored Dark Ages of the Future DC Universe

FCC Almost Does Something Right, and It May Give Google Fiber a Boost

The Cost of Buying a $100 Phone

The Futuristic Invisible Wall That Was Supposed to Protect Entire Towns From Missiles in 1959

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