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Watching These Sperm Cooperate is Oddly Fascinating

Get your weekend started right by watching how sperm sometimes form power-swimming blocks to get ahead. And learn why these particular sperm get together. We all heard the talk, in sex ed classes, about how each of us is a lottery winner. Out of every spermatozoon in a typical, ah, emission, we were the one…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 16

The Ice King From Adventure Time Is Getting His Own Spin-off Comic!

There have been an awful lot of Adventure Time tie-in comics… but this one is different. Boom! Studios is releasing a comic-book miniseries about the Ice King, aka Simon Petrikov, whose magical crown drove him insane. And the comic is written by Emily Partridge, who’s actually worked on Adventure Time as a storyboard revisionist artist,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 16

200 Cars Trapped in a California Mudslide Are a Preview for This Winter’s El Niño

Hundreds of cars were stranded when a mudslide swamped a Southern California freeway last night in what felt like a chilling dress rehearsal for the El Niño on the way. The mudslide is a reminder that it’s not just heavy rain we need to worry about—heavy rain falling on the state’s parched ground will bring…

Climate Change Alissa Walker Oct 16

Oh, It’s Just Firefly‘s Kaylee Dressed Up as Captain Mal

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io9 Rob Bricken Oct 16

io9 Newsstand: This Ken Liu Story Will Make You Call Your Grandmother Right Now

This week’s stories are a mixture of hope, sadness, cynicism, and cute animals. There’s a lot of heartstring-tugging. I regret none of it. Crystal by Ken Liu | Daily Science Fiction The night before my departure, I trembled in the bed that Nainai and I shared, the darkness outside the window as frightening and unknown…

io9 K. Tempest Bradford Oct 16

Neat film shows that even dystopian nightmares can have happy endings

Dystopian visions of the future always portray scenarios where humans have destroyed Earth and turned it into a desolated and almost uninhabitable place. But our planet probably doesn’t really care. It will just wait us silly humans out until we disappear and then flourish again just as beautiful and full of life as before. Sumer…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Oct 16

Three Cheers for the Chambong, the World’s Most Unnecessary Tool for Alcohol Consumption

“Did someone send you a fancy crack pipe?” It was Friday, it was not a reasonable drinking hour, and I was opening a package in the office containing an oblong object that looked like a dandy narcotic catheter. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through the long week, and it’s time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo’s…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Oct 16

Seeing this curb roller machine shape messy cement into a smooth curb is so satisfying

Ah. When life gives you a mess, just use this curb roller to smooth things out. It packs and flattens and smoothes any thing it meets. Just look at how kludges of cement transform into a perfectly shaped curb after the roller gets its roll on. It’s like the world’s strongest rolling pin but for…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 16

Jurassic World Would Have Been Amazing If Released In 1978

Everyone knew Jurassic World was going to be a hit, but no one knew just how big of a hit it was going to be. It turns out, experts simply underestimated the public’s appetite to see dinosaurs eat human beings. That idea of dinosaurs vs. humans is something that’s obviously been dramatized for decades so…

Movies Germain Lussier Oct 16

Far From Equilibrium Translates Turbulence Into Dance

Turbulent motion is a tricky concept to convey to the public without resorting to complicated mathematical equations. But what if you could take those abstract notions and turn them into a dance? Elizabeth Hicks is an astrophysicist with a PhD from the University of Chicago who founded her own nonprofit lab to explore the intersection…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette Oct 16

Bears are Not Subtle

Claw marks rip open tree bark, oozing sap like a botanical blood. Scratches like this scream a single message loud and clear: a bear was here. They aren’t subtle creatures. As part of efforts to track bears without trapping them, US Geological Survey scientists find places frequented by bears to set up non-invasive hair traps.…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Oct 16

French Court Rules That Luc Besson’s Lockout Ripped Off Escape From New York

Luc Besson’s Europacorp has to pay out €80,000 after a French court ruled that Lockout was pretty much of a copy of Escape From New York. There are a number of interesting things to note about this case. First of all, French copyright law is, in general, much more plaintiff friendly than America’s. Second, the…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Oct 16

What Wiped Out Three Quarters of Ancient Greece?

One of the great early civilizations collapsed in a mere fifty years, with 75% of the population disappearing a century later. What the hell happened to ancient Greece? Ancient Greece typically brings to mind robes and columns and people inventing democracy. That’s fine, but it arguably involves people who weren’t originally Greek. The classical age…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 16

Murder Victim’s Body Mistaken for a Halloween Decoration “Straight Out of a Horror Story”

Today in “is it too late to just get back in bed?” news, the body of an Ohio murder victim that was left dangling from a chain-link fence was initially ignored by passers-by, who mistook it for a ghoulish Halloween decoration. CBS News reports: Law enforcement officials in the southern Ohio town of Chillicothe said…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy Oct 16

It’s Friday! So Let’s Bust Out the GIF Party!

We made it through the whole week! So it’s time to bust out your inner Greek rollerskating muse and get your GIF Party on! For this week’s extra-special GIF Party, I made the above GIF of Xanadu, starring Olivia Newton-John, just for you. I also made the GIF below, although it didn’t turn out as…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 16

No, This Fish Didn’t Come Back to Life as a Woman Was Eating It

Did you see that video of a fish “coming back to life” as a woman was eating it? It’s half-bullshit, much like half the viral videos on the internet. Despite its clickbaity headline, The Daily Dot acknowledges that this fish isn’t actually coming back to life. In fact, they spoke with an expert who explained…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 16

A Huge Gash Just Appeared On the Sun

A rather massive coronal hole was recently spotted on the Sun by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The region—the size of 50 Earths—is spewing material into space at tremendous speeds. It may look terrifying, but astronomers say it’s nothing to worry about. The coronal hole was imaged on October 10, 2015. The image above was taken…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Oct 16

This Is How the World Is Growing More Food With Less Land

There’s something mysterious afoot on the world’s farms: For 50 years, the amount of food we’re growing has steadily risen, and with it so has the amount of farmland used—until two decades ago, when food production started rising independently of new land. But how? There are a couple different ways you can increase a farm’s…

Tech News Ria Misra Oct 16

Your Kids Will Love Goosebumps (and You’ll Be Okay With It)

R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps book series has been making children squirm since 1992, and now there’s a movie that aims to capture that same mix of creepy monsters and silliness. But the scariest thing in Goosebumps is Jack Black’s weird accent. And this film is strictly for kids. Really, that the frights in this long-awaited release…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Oct 16

We’re All in For a Crazy Winter Thanks to El Niño

Whether or not you’re directly in the path of the impending monster El Niño, if you live in the United States you’re probably going to feel its effects this winter. Yesterday, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued the US Winter Outlook, and the long and short of it is we’re all in for some serious weather…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 16

Watching These Sperm Cooperate is Oddly Fascinating

The Ice King From Adventure Time Is Getting His Own Spin-off Comic!

200 Cars Trapped in a California Mudslide Are a Preview for This Winter’s El Niño

Oh, It’s Just Firefly‘s Kaylee Dressed Up as Captain Mal

io9 Newsstand: This Ken Liu Story Will Make You Call Your Grandmother Right Now

Neat film shows that even dystopian nightmares can have happy endings

Three Cheers for the Chambong, the World’s Most Unnecessary Tool for Alcohol Consumption

Seeing this curb roller machine shape messy cement into a smooth curb is so satisfying

Jurassic World Would Have Been Amazing If Released In 1978

Far From Equilibrium Translates Turbulence Into Dance

Bears are Not Subtle

French Court Rules That Luc Besson’s Lockout Ripped Off Escape From New York

What Wiped Out Three Quarters of Ancient Greece?

Murder Victim’s Body Mistaken for a Halloween Decoration “Straight Out of a Horror Story”

It’s Friday! So Let’s Bust Out the GIF Party!

No, This Fish Didn’t Come Back to Life as a Woman Was Eating It

A Huge Gash Just Appeared On the Sun

This Is How the World Is Growing More Food With Less Land

Your Kids Will Love Goosebumps (and You’ll Be Okay With It)

We’re All in For a Crazy Winter Thanks to El Niño

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