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A New Comics Anthology Spotlights High-Tech Noir, Futuristic Felines, and More Scifi Tales of San Francisco

San Francisco has long been a favorite science fiction setting onscreen—think Star Trek’s Starfleet Command, or the recent Planet of the Apes films. Now, a new comic anthology, Sci-Fi San Francisco, brings SF-set speculative fiction to the page, and we’ve got a sneak peek at one of its entries. The book is edited by former…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy Nov 8

Let’s All Calm Down and Make Sense of That Antarctic Mantle Plume

Three decades ago, scientists began to study the possibility that there was a plume of hot rock coming up from the mantle, heating parts of Western Antarctica. Back in September, researchers published results of a model showing how such a plume might affect the Antarctic ice sheet. Today, these headlines started to appear: And my…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 8

Artist Transforms Stranger Things Episodes Into Pulp Novels and Atari Games

Stranger Things is one of those shows that resonates in a very specific way for people who grew up in the 1980s. Much like NBC’s short-lived series Freaks and Geeks, Stranger Things delicately recreates the time period, going beyond nostalgia to something that feels authentic and familiar. One artist has captured that with his own…

Television Beth Elderkin Nov 8

India’s Blinding Air Pollution Is Causing Fatal Accidents

Northern India is dealing with some severe air pollution right now, and breathing the toxic air isn’t the only concern. Driving may be equally dangerous, as evidenced by a massive pileup on an expressway on Wednesday. Air in the region is so full of particulate matter that a thick fog has enveloped the northern plains,…

Earther Yessenia Funes Nov 8

Read the First Issue of Kid’s Crime Thriller 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, Here for Free

Last year, Black Mask’s 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank told an often dark, yet heartwarming tale about family… dark, because it just so happened to involve a group of kids kicking off their own bank heist. To celebrate the series’ complete collection being released today, io9 is pleased to share the first issue in…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Nov 8

SpaceX Launches Investigation After Rocket-Engine Explodes During Tests (Updated)

On Sunday, a rocket-engine exploded during ignition tests at the SpaceX facility in Texas. The incident marks a setback for the company in what has otherwise been a pretty good year. As The Washington Post reports, the explosion happened during a “qualification test” of a new Merlin engine, which SpaceX uses on its Falcon 1…

Tech News George Dvorsky Nov 8

Ridley Scott Seems to Think the Alien Franchise Doesn’t Need an Alien Anymore

Though Ridley Scott’s last two Alien movies have been incredibly divisive, they at least have had one thing in common: the alien. However, in a new interview, Scott suggests that after Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, the iconic creature may have overstayed its welcome. Speaking in a roundtable with The Hollywood Reporter, Scott seems to say…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 8

Cities Need to Look Beyond Their Borders When Fighting Climate Change

When you’re in a major city, it can be easy to forget about the outside world. But city life is not a hermetic experience—in fact, the environmental footprints of cities can stretch around the world. A new study shows that cities are overlooking a major source of emissions as they craft policies to transition toward…

Climate Change Ari Phillips Nov 8

Just How Fucked Is Snapchat?

Snap is fucked. Following an earnings call on Tuesday, a fifth of the company’s value disappeared in after-hours trading, Mark Zuckerberg is eating its lunch, Snap Spectacles are in the toilet. Yes, things are bad. But are they Vine-levels of bad? Or Twitter-bad? Trick question, Twitter’s very fucked! https://gizmodo.com/it-sounds-like-snap-spectacles-turned-into-a-massive-bo-1819769426 It’s only been eight months since…

Tech News Rhett Jones Nov 8

This Little Box Can Make Even the Junkiest Laptop a Gaming PC

You are probably surrounded by more computers than you know what to do with, whether it’s the phone in your pocket, the old clunker at home, or the sleek little ultraportable you got from work. And while they are more than enough for everyday tasks, when it comes to real graphics prowess, I’m talking about…

Gaming Sam Rutherford Nov 8

Riverdale‘s Jughead Is a Shitty Writer

Riverdale is a delightful mess of a show. Absolutely none of it should work, and yet season one was a confounding combination of high school soap opera theatrics and over-the-top drama, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. And yet, right up there with Archie’s music career, is the bewildering choice to frame the…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Nov 8

Apparently These Sheep Can Recognize Emma Watson and Barack Obama

Sheep seemed to recognize the faces of Barack Obama, Emma Watson, and even Jake Gyllenhaal in a new study. And you thought you were so special, human. Recognizing human faces is a skill you may take for granted—but you’re also a human. Can you tell fish or bird faces apart? Past research has shown that…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 8

This Week’s Squirrel Girl Comic Has One of the Cleverest Stories About Loki You’ll Ever Read

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is a frequently smart and delightful comic, and this week’s issue, a zine-style anthology of stories that actually barely features Squirrel Girl herself, is no exception. But its best short story is all about Loki—and strikes at the duplicitous heart of the character in a really fun way. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Nov 8

Coral Bleaching Has Ravaged Half of Hawaii’s Reefs

Last week, scientists reported that half of Hawaii’s coral reefs suffered serious bleaching in 2014 and 2015 as part of an ongoing, three-year global bleaching event that researchers are still trying to get a handle on. Hawaii is home to some of the most spectacular reefs in the U.S., which bring in around $800 million…

Earther Brian Kahn Nov 8

Greta Van Susteren Made an App Or Something—Really We Have No Clue What She Is Talking About

Have you been wondering what Greta Van Susteren has been up to since she ended her brief stint as a MSNBC host? Well regardless, she’s been working on a nutty app that appears to be called Sorry. The anchor-turned-developer announced Sorry this morning in a long, bizarre, stream-of-consciousness Facebook post filled with random capitalizations and…

Tech News Jennings Brown Nov 8

Google Is Mapping California’s Air Pollution in Mesmerizing Detail

Residents across the country sometimes see Google Street Cars driving down their blocks. In California, these vehicles are gathering air quality data block by block, which could ultimately help shape local policy to benefit people’s health. Google released video footage Tuesday showing how the Golden State is doing when it comes to nitrogen dioxide, a…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Nov 8

American Horror Story: Cult Finally Revealed Its Villain’s Ridiculous Motivation

It’s been a trying season of American Horror Story, overloaded with smugly on-the-nose commentary about the Trump era, gratuitous re-enactments of cults throughout history, and characters you wish would just die already. Last night’s penultimate episode revealed the sketchy motivation of alt-right fuckboy Kai Anderson (Evan Peters). But at this point, why should we care?…

Television Cheryl Eddy Nov 8

The End Credit Scene of Thor: Ragnarok Could Have Been Something Very, Very Different

By now you probably know that Thor: Ragnarok has two end credit scenes. The first is the big one that ties into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. The second, which is much more appropriate to the film, is a funny little aside and director Taika Waititi revealed it was one of just many choices he…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 8

US Air Force Wants to Put Lasers on Fighter Jets By 2021

The US Air Force’s scientific research wing is giving Lockheed Martin $26.3 million “for the design, development, and production of a high power fiber laser,” which it expects to start testing on a tactical fighter jet in four years. Sounds cool and certainly futuristic, but the jury’s still out on whether these weapons have any…

Tech News George Dvorsky Nov 8

Chadwick Boseman Chose His Black Panther Accent to Make a Point About White Supremacy

The whole point of Wakanda is that it is a truly isolated nation—isolated by its people’s own choosing, turning itself into a technological utopia away from the influence of people beyond its borders. That isolation became crucial to Chadwick Boseman’s portrayal of Black Panther, because he wanted the hero to speak “without colonialism tainting it.”…

Movies James Whitbrook Nov 8

A New Comics Anthology Spotlights High-Tech Noir, Futuristic Felines, and More Scifi Tales of San Francisco

Let’s All Calm Down and Make Sense of That Antarctic Mantle Plume

Artist Transforms Stranger Things Episodes Into Pulp Novels and Atari Games

India’s Blinding Air Pollution Is Causing Fatal Accidents

Read the First Issue of Kid’s Crime Thriller 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, Here for Free

SpaceX Launches Investigation After Rocket-Engine Explodes During Tests (Updated)

Ridley Scott Seems to Think the Alien Franchise Doesn’t Need an Alien Anymore

Cities Need to Look Beyond Their Borders When Fighting Climate Change

Just How Fucked Is Snapchat?

This Little Box Can Make Even the Junkiest Laptop a Gaming PC

Riverdale‘s Jughead Is a Shitty Writer

Apparently These Sheep Can Recognize Emma Watson and Barack Obama

This Week’s Squirrel Girl Comic Has One of the Cleverest Stories About Loki You’ll Ever Read

Coral Bleaching Has Ravaged Half of Hawaii’s Reefs

Greta Van Susteren Made an App Or Something—Really We Have No Clue What She Is Talking About

Google Is Mapping California’s Air Pollution in Mesmerizing Detail

American Horror Story: Cult Finally Revealed Its Villain’s Ridiculous Motivation

The End Credit Scene of Thor: Ragnarok Could Have Been Something Very, Very Different

US Air Force Wants to Put Lasers on Fighter Jets By 2021

Chadwick Boseman Chose His Black Panther Accent to Make a Point About White Supremacy

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