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Today’s Solar Eclipse in 22 Stellar Photos

This morning, a total solar eclipse was visible from the Faroe Islands and Svalbard, Norway, and a partial solar eclipse from many parts of Europe, Northern Africa and Northern Asia. These stellar photos shows the astronomical event that darkened the skies. View of the partial solar eclipse as viewed through the viewfinder of a digital…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Mar 20 '15

Watch Out For This Text That Kills Chrome on a Mac

Do not click on the link in the next paragraph if you are using Chrome on a Mac. Or you can, but it will immediately cause the tab that the link opens in to crash. The page contains a special string of 13 characters, which make Chrome for Mac go haywire. This link actually points…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 20 '15

Life-Size Plush Versions of Yoda and Wicket Are the Perfect Sidekicks

For some reason a life-sized stuffed version of Darth Vader or Obi-Wan Kenobi just doesn’t seem as appealing as these life-sized plush versions of Yoda and Wicket the Ewok. But that’s probably because one is an adorable Muppet, and the other looks essentially like a cuddly walking teddy bear. Both will be available from Takara…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 20 '15

These 500,000-Year-Old Tools Still Contain Traces Of Animal Fat

Archaeologists working in Israel have made an extraordinary discovery — the earliest instance of Lower Paleolithic-Acheulian stone bifaces and scrapers with the residue of elephant fat still on them. It’s considered an archaeological first. Top image: The flint biface. The blue dots represent the location of the fatty residue. The tools, a flint biface hand…

io9 George Dvorsky Mar 20 '15

Instant Skyscrapers Are About to Change the Way We Live in Cities

The pop-up city is an idea that dug its way into our collective brain a century ago as the first steel buildings rose—a dream that’s as common in cartoons as it is in urban planning. And for the first time in history, it’s technically possible. In China, a company called Broad Sustainable Building Co has…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Mar 20 '15

How The US Military Tried To Root Out Psychopaths During World War II

How many potential American soldiers, going off to fight in World War II, were rejected because they were thought to be psychopaths? In some places, forty percent. Here’s what the military did about that. In the early 1940s, shipping off men to fight in a global war was not unprecedented, but it was still a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 20 '15

Our Exclusive 12 Monkeys Clip Contains A Huge Spoiler

We’ve got an exclusive clip from tonight’s episode of Syfy’s hit time-traveling drama, set in the year 2043…. and it contains a huge reveal for the future of one major character. The clip is from tonight’s episode titled “Divine Move,” which is centered around Ramse (Kirk Acevedo). And it’s the first time anyone has seen…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 20 '15

What Are These Bizarre Anti-Banking Ads Doing in New York’s Subways?

Bizarre ads for TransferWise, a P2P money-transfer system, have cropped up overnight in NYC’s subways. I had many questions: who is this guy? Why his face? What is he selling me? Turns out the more you try to learn about TransferWise, the sketchier the whole thing becomes. On the surface, TransferWise looks like any other…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern Mar 20 '15

io9 March Madness Round 2: Harry Potter Vs. Star Wars! Hobbit Vs. Alien!

It’s Movies vs. TV in this edition of io9 March Madness, and after two days of voting, we’re down to the 32 competitors. Now it’s time to get down to 16. Will the favorites continue to dominate? Top image and bracket: Jim Cooke Wednesday brought some pretty big surprises. The DC Animated Universe took out…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Mar 20 '15

How Kodak Survives Now That Film Is Dead

The decline of Kodak as a powerhouse of photography is a story oft told. But what does it actually look like in the facilities that once churned out endless rolls of film for the masses? This New York Times video shows what has become of Eastman Kodak’s business, and it might be a bit of…

Tech News Michael Hession Mar 20 '15

An Amazing View of ISS Crossing the Sun During an Eclipse

Photographer Thierry Legault shot what may be the coolest view yet of the today’s solar eclipse: the International Space Station’s weird little silhouette flying across a thin sliver of visible sun. The entire transit lasted just 0.6 seconds, so it was literally blink-and-you-would-have-missed-it. Luckily, Legault traveled to Spain, where he captured the view for posterity.…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Mar 20 '15

We Know Which Marvel Superhero Morena Baccarin Is Playing In Deadpool

Copycat isn’t one of Marvel’s more well-known heroines, but that may change when Morena Baccarin plays the mutant shapeshifter Vanessa Carlyse, starring in the upcoming Deadpool movie alongside Ryan Reynolds. Sure, she’s another beautiful, blue-skinned woman who can transform herself into different people — hardly a first for the X-Men universe — but Copycat’s shape-shifting…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 20 '15

Americans — Why Is Your Insulin So Expensive?

Insulin has saved countless lives since its discovery in 1921. But nearly a century later, there is somehow still no cheap, generic version of insulin available in the U.S—making the “wonder drug” too expensive for many patients. Why? In the New England Journal of Medicine, Jerome Greene and Kevin Riggs call it the “paradox of…

Health Sarah Zhang Mar 20 '15

New Board Game Pits Tesla Against Edison, History’s Greatest Underdog

Everybody knows that Nikola Tesla was a genius. But with all the attention being paid to Tesla here in the 21st century, many kids today must wonder what happened to his rival, Thomas Edison. Well, soon everybody will have a chance to tinker with technology history by putting their (fake) money behind inventors like Tesla…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 20 '15

The No-Stilettos Rule: My Approach As A Woman Creating Scifi Book Covers

How do you create a book cover that really sells the story to its audience? How do you package a book with a badass woman protagonist without relying on bare midriffs and spiky heels? Muddy Colors columnist Lauren Panepinto explains how she approaches cover art in her role as Orbit Books’ Creative Director. A few…

io9 Lauren Panepinto — Muddy Colors Mar 20 '15

Interstellar‘s Original Ending Actually Made Sense—And It Wasn’t Happy

The final act of Interstellar was a bit of mess, packed with feel-good mystical pseudoscience that was out of place in a sometimes glorious space opera. It turns out that ending was all director Christopher Nolan’s idea and that Jonathan Nolan’s original script called for a more straightforward—and darker—ending. https://gizmodo.com/interstellar-is-the-best-and-worst-space-opera-youll-ev-1654807305 Spoilers ahead. The Nerdist reported…

Movies Lauren Davis Mar 20 '15

Mark Millar’s Time-Traveling Bromance Comic Chrononauts Will Be A Movie

The Chrononauts comic by Mark Millar was only just released, but it’s already been fast-tracked by Universal for a feature film. So get ready for a movie about two sexy geniuses who show the world their time-traveling adventures, live on TV. Deadline is reporting that Millar and Chrononauts illustrator Sean Gordon Murphy will executive produce…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 20 '15

Why Do Some Mushrooms Glow In The Dark?

Bioluminescence is not just a weirdly beautiful quality of some mushrooms. It’s also a useful way to figure out, for instance, whether you’ve found a patch of delicious chanterelles or their look-alike Jack-o-lantern mushrooms, which are poisonous. But why does it happen? A new study published in Current Biology by researchers from Darthmouth’s Geisel School…

io9 Ria Misra Mar 20 '15

Top 10 Greatest Giant Robots Of All Time

Ah, Giant Robots. Who doesn’t love giant mechanical creations stomping around and kicking butt? Over the years there have been many badass robots and mechs that have wormed their way into our hearts, but some are just especially great. So here are our picks for the 10 greatest giant robots, ranked. A note going in:…

io9 James Whitbrook Mar 20 '15

Crowdfund Gorgeous Fantasy Comics, Geeky Book Drives And More!

Crowdfund this is back with another look at our favourite crowd-funding projects! Songgu Kwon’s hilarious fantasy webcomic and a drive to support book reading among kids may lead the charge this week, but that’s not all: there’s card games, a Firefly reunion, and Gale Anne Hurd’s next project too! Header Image Credit: Elf. Con Man…

Tech News James Whitbrook Mar 20 '15

Today’s Solar Eclipse in 22 Stellar Photos

Watch Out For This Text That Kills Chrome on a Mac

Life-Size Plush Versions of Yoda and Wicket Are the Perfect Sidekicks

These 500,000-Year-Old Tools Still Contain Traces Of Animal Fat

Instant Skyscrapers Are About to Change the Way We Live in Cities

How The US Military Tried To Root Out Psychopaths During World War II

Our Exclusive 12 Monkeys Clip Contains A Huge Spoiler

What Are These Bizarre Anti-Banking Ads Doing in New York’s Subways?

io9 March Madness Round 2: Harry Potter Vs. Star Wars! Hobbit Vs. Alien!

How Kodak Survives Now That Film Is Dead

An Amazing View of ISS Crossing the Sun During an Eclipse

We Know Which Marvel Superhero Morena Baccarin Is Playing In Deadpool

Americans — Why Is Your Insulin So Expensive?

New Board Game Pits Tesla Against Edison, History’s Greatest Underdog

The No-Stilettos Rule: My Approach As A Woman Creating Scifi Book Covers

Interstellar‘s Original Ending Actually Made Sense—And It Wasn’t Happy

Mark Millar’s Time-Traveling Bromance Comic Chrononauts Will Be A Movie

Why Do Some Mushrooms Glow In The Dark?

Top 10 Greatest Giant Robots Of All Time

Crowdfund Gorgeous Fantasy Comics, Geeky Book Drives And More!

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