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How To Get Into Star Trek If You Only Know the J.J. Abrams Movies

Star Trek has a proud and complicated history, including six TV shows and stories in every medium. But to a whole generation of people, it’s just two movies. J.J. Abrams’ film reboot reached the biggest audience Star Trek had seen since the 1990s. So if you only know these two films, how do you get…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 30 '16

Behold the Best-Designed Cat House Any Cat Will Still Completely Ignore

Every year, FixNation, a Los Angeles animal charity, holds an auction of designer cat houses to raise money. This year’s Fan Favorite is “Cat in the Fishbowl.” It’s very nice, but we’re pretty sure any cat will ignore it in favor of the box it came in. FixNation is a remarkable charity which attempts to…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 30 '16

Bradley Cooper Will Play an Astronaut Going Into the Ocean In Deeper

Last year, we wrote about a new movie called Deeper, which would follow a disgraced astronaut who decides to go to the deepest depths of the ocean. That movie is now moving forward and Bradley Cooper is attached to play the lead. Deeper is written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra) and will be directed…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 30 '16

What’s the Legend Behind the Bogey-Owl?

It creeps through the … air? Rather than under your bed? Regardless, it’s a terrifying thing to be following you around. The utter weirdness of the British Library’s public domain Flickr library strikes again. This is an image from “The Young Pretenders [A tale.] … With twelve illustrations by P. Burne-Jones,” and I’m betting it…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Mar 30 '16

First Look at Firewalk, a Supernatural Thriller From the Co-Creator of iZombie

Chris Roberson has been writing terrific alternate history books for years, in addition to his work on comics like iZombie and Superman. Now, he’s got a brand new supernatural thriller called Firewalk coming in October, and we’ve got an exclusive first look. Below, we’ve got the first excerpt from Firewalk, in which FBI investigator Izzie…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Mar 30 '16

Biologists Have Discovered Underground, Burrowing Tadpoles

Scientists have documented Indian dancing frogs for over a century. For that century, they’ve found only adult frogs. At last, a team of biologists have found the tadpoles that develop into frogs—and they’ve found them underground. Micrixalus herrei, one of a number of “dancing frogs” in India, spends its days in fast-moving streams. It gets…

Biology Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 30 '16

What’s Hidden Inside Shopping Carts to Make Them Cost $100 Each?

It’s just a pushable basket you use to store groceries and skate cart ride around the aisles with, so why do grocery carts cost $100 a cart? Science Channel details how the shopping cart is made with 75 yard of a steel cage covered in Telfon, how the bumpers can withstand 30mph crashes, how the…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 30 '16

The State Department’s Twitter Is Drunk and Tweeting Bad Spring Break Tips

Have you guys been paying attention to the State Department’s Spring Break tips? Because you really, really should be. They are just awful. The account—which, by the away, is verified—has been dispensing bizarre advice to would-be travelers since the beginning of March. The tweets feature spelling mistakes, strange tips, and vaguely offensive assumptions about other…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Mar 30 '16

The Two Words Guaranteed To Make Any Agents of SHIELD Episode a Billion Times More Awesome

“Shotgun Axe.” Spoilers ahead… In the clip above, we see Mack triumphing over a handful of xenophobic wack jobs, by creating his signature weapon out of a shotgun and a meat cleaver. The Shotgun Axe is indeed a mighty weapon from a more civilized era. In general, last night’s Agents of SHIELD was a fun…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 30 '16

A New Art Show Brings Your Favorite Movie Quotes to Life

Quotes are the currency by which we pay respect to our favorite movies. If you can spout off a one-liner from a movie, odds are it has a special place in your heart, and that belief drives an awesome looking new art show in Los Angeles this weekend. The show is called “What’s My Line?”…

io9 Germain Lussier Mar 30 '16

Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Just Reappeared and Nobody Knows What Happened to It

Earlier this week something happened to make Japan’s brand new black hole satellite suddenly, mysteriously lose all contact with Earth. Now, we have video of it spinning wildly in space—and JAXA has also received a few odd, new messages. https://gizmodo.com/no-one-knows-what-happened-to-japans-lost-273-million-1767490239 After a long, tense silence, Hitomi sent two very terse messages in response to JAXA’s…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Mar 30 '16

LA’s Creepy Murder House Is Now Up For Sale After Laying Vacant for 50 Years

The house at 2475 Glendower Place in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles has it all: four bedrooms, ample parking, and a hell of a history. In 1959, its owner killed his wife and critically injured his teenage daughter before committing suicide. The house has been unoccupied ever since—but that may soon change. The…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Mar 30 '16

Fun Drone Video Makes It Seem As If Colors Were Flying Through the Sky

It’s flying colors! Paul Trillo’s Chromaticity cleverly choreographed four drones to fly across the sky and leave smoke of color against the backdrop of the endless ocean. The effect is pretty awesome to see because the smoke grenades cover the drone and make it seem as if it’s just a team of superheroes flying together.…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 30 '16

If You’ve Never Read The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, What’s Wrong With You?

Because I am old and hate new things, I spend a lot of time rereading well-thumbed copies of the books I first read when I was a kid. Sometimes they don’t hold up. Other times they are so great, I get angry that everyone in the world hasn’t read them yet. That’s what happened with…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta Mar 30 '16

Building Highways Through Cities Was a Huge Mistake—But We Can Fix It

The US interstate highway system was once a marvel of modern engineering, allowing the movement of goods and ideas that ushered in an era of unprecedented prosperity. But when those highways reached the cities they connected, they plowed through the lowest-income areas, physically dividing neighborhoods and financially devastating communities. A new initiative announced by US…

Tech News Alissa Walker Mar 30 '16

Black Hole Blues Gives a Ringside Seat to Discovery of Gravitational Waves

When the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves, it was the culmination of 50 long years of hard work and perseverance in the face of skepticism. In her new book, Black Hole Blues, and Other Songs from Outer Space, astrophysicist Janna Levin gives us a ringside seat…

Books & Comics Jennifer Ouellette Mar 30 '16

Ben Affleck Has Definitely Written a Script for a Solo Batman Movie

We all suspected, but the William Morris Endeavor talent agency (in a lengthy interview with The Hollywood Reporter) has confirmed: Yes, Ben Affleck, the Dark Knight of DC’s Cinematic Murderverse the live-action DC movie franchise, has written his own damn Batman movie. Before you get too excited/relieved, it’s worth pointing out that Warner Bros. isn’t…

Movies Rob Bricken Mar 30 '16

12 Ways Humanity Could Destroy The Entire Solar System

We humans are doing a bang-up job of messing up our home planet. But who’s to say we can’t go on to screw things up elsewhere? Here, not listed in any particular order, are 12 unintentional ways we could do some serious damage to our Solar System, too. Wild speculation ahead… Above: We could cause…

io9 George Dvorsky Mar 30 '16

Microsoft’s Bunk Event Just Broke My Damn Heart

Why, Microsoft? Why are you doing this to me? You just stuck a fork in my eye and a knife through my heart. Heading into today’s Microsoft Build 2016 keynote, I knew it might get boring. It was a developer conference, so it really makes no sense that I’m disappointed after seeing what Satya Nadella…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 30 '16

Steven Universe Finally Returns to TV in June

The life of a Steven Universe fan is one punctuated by moments of great fun when the show is actually on, followed by huge periods of sadness while waiting for it to return (as is the case right now, since the last episode aired in January). But now we know when Steven and the Crystal…

io9 James Whitbrook Mar 30 '16

How To Get Into Star Trek If You Only Know the J.J. Abrams Movies

Behold the Best-Designed Cat House Any Cat Will Still Completely Ignore

Bradley Cooper Will Play an Astronaut Going Into the Ocean In Deeper

What’s the Legend Behind the Bogey-Owl?

First Look at Firewalk, a Supernatural Thriller From the Co-Creator of iZombie

Biologists Have Discovered Underground, Burrowing Tadpoles

What’s Hidden Inside Shopping Carts to Make Them Cost $100 Each?

The State Department’s Twitter Is Drunk and Tweeting Bad Spring Break Tips

The Two Words Guaranteed To Make Any Agents of SHIELD Episode a Billion Times More Awesome

A New Art Show Brings Your Favorite Movie Quotes to Life

Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Just Reappeared and Nobody Knows What Happened to It

LA’s Creepy Murder House Is Now Up For Sale After Laying Vacant for 50 Years

Fun Drone Video Makes It Seem As If Colors Were Flying Through the Sky

If You’ve Never Read The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, What’s Wrong With You?

Building Highways Through Cities Was a Huge Mistake—But We Can Fix It

Black Hole Blues Gives a Ringside Seat to Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Ben Affleck Has Definitely Written a Script for a Solo Batman Movie

12 Ways Humanity Could Destroy The Entire Solar System

Microsoft’s Bunk Event Just Broke My Damn Heart

Steven Universe Finally Returns to TV in June

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