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It’s Rick Vs. Negan Round Two in the Latest Walking Dead Trailer

Negan better watch out, because the gang is back together. In the first half of the current season of The Walking Dead, Rick and his people were mostly separated, as they each played their own part in the big attack on Negan. In the midseason finale, almost everyone reunited after having their asses thoroughly kicked. Well,…

Trailers Germain Lussier Feb 2

Students of Color Suffer Disproportionately From Air Pollution, Study Finds

When parents send their kids to school, the last worry on their mind should be whether their children are safe. And I don’t mean from the stereotypical culprits like bullies, peer pressure, or gun violence. I’m talking about air pollution. A study published in the Environmental Research journal in December breaks down the ways Latino,…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Feb 2

Piers Morgan Can’t Stop Tweeting This Picture of Him Eating Donald Trump’s Ass

Bless Pier Morgan’s heart, but the man appears to be terribly fixated on Donald Trump’s tangerine hole. I believe we can infer this from an image Morgan has repeatedly tweeted today of Donald Trump kneeling on a chair, pants down, with Morgan leaning in, wearing Trump’s cheeks like the Drunk Elephant Babyfacial I spent $80…

Tech News Alex Cranz Feb 2

Calling All Scruffy Nerf Herders

Hey, just a heads up! The discussion thread for Chapter One of Leia, Princess of Alderaan is up on The Carbonite Freezer. Join the group and come chat!

Books & Comics Joe Tonelli Feb 2

Cape Town’s Reservoirs Are Getting Terrifyingly Low

“Day Zero” sounds like something out of a dystopian science fiction novel, but it’s a reality that Cape Town, South Africa, could face in a few short months. A historic stretch of drought years has turned the city’s reservoirs into deserts. As a result, water managers in the second largest city in South Africa predict…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Feb 2

The Flu Gets Worse

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided the latest updates on how this winter’s flu season is continuing to shape up. And much like anything else these days, it’s a pile of gloom and doom. The flu killed at least another 16 children this past week, bringing the current tally of pediatric…

Health Ed Cara Feb 2

A Very Fancy Emperor Palpatine, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly roundup of all the cool new toys that could drain our wallets in the near future. This week, Hot Toys gets imperial, the John Wesley Shipp figure of our dreams arrives, and Hasbro unleashes Carnage (and Venom). Come take a look! Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Lego Sets You…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Feb 2

Physicists Spot Evidence of ‘Odderon’ First Predicted in the 1970s

Scientists have uncovered some preliminary evidence for a nuclear physics effect first predicted back in the 1970s. The physics universe you’re about to enter into in order to understand it is especially mind-bending. Physicists at the TOTEM experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland have found evidence for a physical effect called an…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 2

Please Enjoy These Non-Groundhog Rodents

As you’ve probably heard, it’s Groundhog Day, the one day a year where it’s fine for everyone in the country to obsess over a big ol’ rodent. It’s become a running joke here at Earther that I’m a bit rodent-obsessed. In my (totally correct) opinion, there’s nothing cooler than an urban animal, which means rats…

Conservation Emily Lipstein Feb 2

That Boring FBI Surveillance Memo Doesn’t Say What House Republican Thinks It Does

Who do we call to get the last week of our lives back? Rep. Devin Nunes, the godfather of disappointment, released his memo on Friday, capping off another chapter in the life of the California congressman and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who exists solely to ingratiate himself to President Trump. The memo is…

Tech News Dell Cameron Feb 2

Open Channel: Which Fictional Character Did You First Relate to?

Fictional characters mean a lot to us—otherwise, we probably wouldn’t all be on this website right now. Personally, I’d be probably working at a cat cafe, but that’s beside the point. We grew up reading, watching, and listening to amazing pieces of media that helped shape our worldview in some way. io9 wants to know:…

io9 Jill Pantozzi Feb 2

Put Down the Cape Comics and Read These Stories About Elderly Bounty Hunters and Hungry Ghosts

It’s been yet another great week for comics about superheroes coming back from the dead and averting the apocalypse, but in the off-chance that you’ve been in a mood for some new series that are a little less “KRAK! POW!” and more “What’s really important in life?” then these are the new books you should…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 2

Scientists Shocked—Shocked!—to Learn Anti-Vaxxers Tend to Believe Other Conspiracies, Too

Spend time talking to someone who considers themselves an anti-vaxxer—or more generously, a vaccine skeptic—and something becomes apparent pretty soon: The conspiracy well usually runs deep. There’s no shortage of anti-vaxxers who also believe in other iffy things, like “natural” cancer treatments and a government-ordered 9/11. A new study, published Thursday in Health Psychology, reaffirms…

Health Ed Cara Feb 2

Winchester Is Full of Ghosts, But It Won’t Haunt You

Many scary movies claim to be inspired by true events, and Winchester has an especially rich history. The enormous, bizarre mansion at its center has long been one of San Jose, California’s biggest tourist attractions. Unfortunately, the story the movie chooses to explore within its walls is utterly predictable. That’s not to say Winchester is…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Feb 2

A New Campaign Wants to Fight Hostile Urban Design With Instagram

If you’ve even set foot in a big city, it’s almost definitely happened to you. Your feet are aching and you want to take a seat for just five minutes—maybe check your phone or finish off your coffee. But the only thing around are window sills with huge spikes jutting out of them, or a…

Tech News Alex Cranz Feb 2

How the Teams Behind Black Panther and Infinity War Worked Together to Create a Unified Wakanda

You wouldn’t know it driving through the streets, but in the spring of 2017, two huge Marvel movies were simultaneously shooting in Atlanta. At Pinewood Studios, it was Avengers: Infinity War. Down the street at Screen Gems Studio, it was Black Panther. And the timing couldn’t have been more perfect. As audiences clearly saw in…

Movies Germain Lussier Feb 2

Tesla Is Betting You’ll Drop Thousands on Solar Panels at Home Depot

In October 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk stood on the Universal Studios set of Desperate Housewives and revealed to a crowd that the roof tiles on the “Wisteria Lane” houses were actually solar panels, showcasing a future in which Tesla installs attractive, solar tiles that power homes across the the country. But it’s taken a…

Tech News Jennings Brown Feb 2

Kentucky’s Biggest City Wants to Send Surveillance Drones Into Neighborhoods After Shootings

The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky wants to create the nation’s first fleet of aerial surveillance drones programmed to respond to gunfire. Speaking to press Wednesday, Mayor Greg Fischer said unmanned aerial vehicles could be key to curbing the city’s gun violence. “The No. 1 issue is using all means we have to increase public safety,…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Feb 2

Watching These Daredevils Leap Across Rooftops in Hong Kong Gave Me a Fear of Heights

The talented parkour collective known as Storror wants you to believe this video shows a daring escape from a security guard, and the local police, across the rooftops and streets of Hong Kong. The backstory about escaping security might be exaggerated, but the stunts are real, and terrifying enough to make me anxious about going…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Feb 2

10 of the Silliest Star Wars Names for Real-World Objects

The Star Wars galaxy is a weird and wondrous place, full of laser swords, aliens, and sentient robots. This can make trying to depict the banality of life there a bit difficult. So over years of tie-in material, writers have had to come up with oodles of new words to make the normal things people…

Movies James Whitbrook Feb 2

It’s Rick Vs. Negan Round Two in the Latest Walking Dead Trailer

Students of Color Suffer Disproportionately From Air Pollution, Study Finds

Piers Morgan Can’t Stop Tweeting This Picture of Him Eating Donald Trump’s Ass

Calling All Scruffy Nerf Herders

Cape Town’s Reservoirs Are Getting Terrifyingly Low

The Flu Gets Worse

A Very Fancy Emperor Palpatine, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Physicists Spot Evidence of ‘Odderon’ First Predicted in the 1970s

Please Enjoy These Non-Groundhog Rodents

That Boring FBI Surveillance Memo Doesn’t Say What House Republican Thinks It Does

Open Channel: Which Fictional Character Did You First Relate to?

Put Down the Cape Comics and Read These Stories About Elderly Bounty Hunters and Hungry Ghosts

Scientists Shocked—Shocked!—to Learn Anti-Vaxxers Tend to Believe Other Conspiracies, Too

Winchester Is Full of Ghosts, But It Won’t Haunt You

A New Campaign Wants to Fight Hostile Urban Design With Instagram

How the Teams Behind Black Panther and Infinity War Worked Together to Create a Unified Wakanda

Tesla Is Betting You’ll Drop Thousands on Solar Panels at Home Depot

Kentucky’s Biggest City Wants to Send Surveillance Drones Into Neighborhoods After Shootings

Watching These Daredevils Leap Across Rooftops in Hong Kong Gave Me a Fear of Heights

10 of the Silliest Star Wars Names for Real-World Objects

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