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The 12 Weirdest Reasons For Banning Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

It’s Banned Books Week! But people are trying to keep great books out of libraries and schools every hour of every day, year round. And often, people’s reasons for challenging these titles are really, really… outlandish. Here are 12 SF and fantasy books that people have given incomprehensible reasons for banning. Top image: Neverwhere, art…

io9 Diana Biller and Charlie Jane Anders Sep 25

Doctors Implanted a 3D-Printed Vertebra for the First Time

Doctors in Beijing successfully replaced a 12-year-old boy’s damaged second vertebra with a 3D-printed custom implant made from titanium powder. The boy, who had bone cancer, is now in recovery. This isn’t the first surgery swapping busted bones for 3D-printed replacements, but it’s the first time doctors managed to fix a spine using a 3D-printed…

Health Kate Knibbs Aug 28

This New Gel Could Let Doctors Grow Bone Exactly Where They Need It

The body is expert at re-growing bone, but it doesn’t always manage to get the right shape. Now, a team from Rice University has developed a hydrogel that could let clinicians grow bone right where they need to. The researchers have created a hydrogel that’s liquid at room temperature but stiffens to a semi-solid at…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 12

And Now, A Giraffe Eating An Impala Skull

This impressive photo shows a curious behavior sometimes seen in wild giraffes called osteophagia. It literally means “bone eating.” Giraffes don’t consume the entire bone. Instead they just gnaw on it a bit, wearing it down, before moving on to a new section of bone. It is thought that the bones provide an additional source…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Apr 12

Tomorrow’s Spacecraft Could Be Made of the Same Bone You Are

Human bones are amazing—seriously, they’re incredibly cool—but up until recently, it’s been hard to engineer a synthetic material that replicates the super-strong structure of the real thing. Now, scientists in Germany are using a 3D printer to do just that—and it could mean a breakthrough for how we build everything from architecture to spacecraft. A…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Feb 12

Dentists May Start Covering Teeth in Growth-Stimulating Diamond Dust

Looks like there’s a new candidate for most awesome supermaterial in town. Dentists may soon start fighting bone loss by covering our teeth in itty bitty nanodiamonds, making repairing teeth quicker, cheaper, and much less painful. https://gizmodo.com/9-incredible-uses-for-graphene-5988977 During jaw and tooth repair operations, doctors are normally forced to use invasive surgery to stick a sponge…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 23

Here’s a 120,000 Year Old Tumor Found Inside a Neanderthal

Neanderthals weren’t smoking cigarettes. They weren’t breathing in pollution. They weren’t eating processed foods. They weren’t dealing with pesticides. Nope. But apparently, Neanderthals still got cancer. This 120,000-year-old bone fragment reveals a cancerous tumor. Neanderthals, they’re just like us. The case of fibrous dysplasia in this Neanderthal bone is believed to be the oldest tumor…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 6

Dude Has 75 Percent of His Skull Replaced By 3D-Printed Replica

A man has had the first ever 3D-printed skull-replacement fitted, swapping out a whole 75 per cent of the bone in his head for a man-made replacement. The unnamed man, from the US, first had his skull scanned to create a digital replica, before the large replacement plate was printed out. It has specially designed…

Health Sam Gibbs - Gizmodo UK Mar 8

Hustle in Style With Dice Carved From Buffalo Bone

While there’s no way these would fly by Vegas standards, this set of antique, buffalo bone dice would be an incredibly cool—if not mildly creepy—way to add some character to any newfound gambling connoisseur’s bag of tricks. According to the seller’s eBay page, these dice were discovered in an old barn in Montana and would…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Mar 4

AfterShokz Sportz M2 Review: Decent Sounding Headphones, No Ears Required

The idea of AfterShokz headphones seemed sweet—the bone conduction sports headphones could pump music through your cheekbones instead of your ears. But the original headphones sounded pretty weak, and they came in fourth place in our Best Running Headphones Battlemodo. Now the second generation is here, with a claimed “21 total improvements” over the original.…

Reviews Brent Rose Jan 2

Archaeology exposes the forbidden eating habits of a bunch of 6th century monks

Archaeological analysis of human remains can illuminate incredible truths about our ancient ancestors, revealing hidden truths about their daily lives that we wouldn’t necessarily be able to find in written records. Other times, it can just be a damn tattletale. In the 500s, Byzantine monasteries were found throughout the deserts of Africa and the Near…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 23

Macabre Ship Models Made From Human Bones by POWs

Left alone for years at the beginning of the 19th Century, French soldiers taken captive during the Napoleonic Wars found an unusually hobby — fashioning ornate replicas of British ships, out of beef and human bone. The soldiers made use of any bone they came across, to create these fascinating models. These rare “bone ship”…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 5

How NASA Uses Astronaut Pee to Hunt Osteoporosis

When astronauts venture into space, their bones degrade because of the microgravity conditions they encounter. Currently, such bone wastage is usually diagnosed by scans—so NASA developed a new test which analyzes urine to spot bone loss in its early stages. The new technique, developed by scientists at Arizona State University in conjunction with NASA, looks…

Health Jamie Condliffe May 29

Andy Serkis reveals what’s ahead for Caesar in the Rise of the Planet of the Apes sequel!

The somewhat unexpected success of Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes means we’ll see more of Andy Serkis’s ape revolutionary, Caesar. But will the super-intelligent chimp try to make peace with humanity, or continue his rebellion? All that plus Joshua Jackson reveals what universe-hopping adventures are ahead for Peter and company on…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 23

We talk to cartoonist Jeff Smith about the 20th anniversary of Bone

At Comic-Con, io9 had the opportunity to catch up with Jeff Smith, the creator of beloved fantasy epic Bone and the scifi noir comic RASL. Smith reflected on Bone’s auspicious beginnings and gave us updates on the pending cinematic adaptations of both comics. When you first began Bone, did you ever expect the comic to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 25

Check out the first Avengers promo poster! Plus filming updates for The Dark Knight Rises!

The Captain America writers explain why the sequel won’t abandon World War II. Bruce Campbell will be in Evil Dead 4, but what about David Tennant’s Doctor Who future? Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Captain America. The Dark Knight Rises Here are some details from a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article describing the city’s…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jul 21

The oldest art in the Americas depicts a 13,000 year old mammoth

There are European cave paintings that are 30000 years old, but the art of the ancient Americas remains a mystery. This bone fragment features an engraving of either a mammoth or a mastodon, and is at least 13000 years old. This bone was discovered in Florida by fossil hunter James Kennedy, who discovered the inscription…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 21

Is Hollywood going overboard with science fiction movies?

Hollywood has gone into a science fiction feeding frenzy in the past week, with several new scifi movies getting greenlit. The success of Battle: Los Angeles, on top of Avatar, Star Trek and others, put dollar signs in everyone’s eyes. But is Hollywood going too far? The short answer is: Possibly. Just like anything else,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 17

Things That Will Never Be: Jeff Smith’s Bone, Animated by Hand

While a feature adaptation of Jeff Smith’s wonderful, enduring graphic odyssey is in the works, it’ll be an entirely computer-generated affair — and it won’t have half the hand-hewn charm of this fan-created short. Taking the audio from TellTale’s Bone videogame, animator Andrew Kaiko created this Flash-animated short — based on Smith’s story of three…

io9 Marc Bernardin May 12

Man’s Skull Grows Back After 50 Years

Fifty years ago, Gordon Moore lost part of his skull in a car accident. This week, his doctors were surprised when they removed his metal plate to find his skull completely intact, a rare example of adult bone regeneration. [BBC]

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 7

The 12 Weirdest Reasons For Banning Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

Doctors Implanted a 3D-Printed Vertebra for the First Time

This New Gel Could Let Doctors Grow Bone Exactly Where They Need It

And Now, A Giraffe Eating An Impala Skull

Tomorrow’s Spacecraft Could Be Made of the Same Bone You Are

Dentists May Start Covering Teeth in Growth-Stimulating Diamond Dust

Here’s a 120,000 Year Old Tumor Found Inside a Neanderthal

Dude Has 75 Percent of His Skull Replaced By 3D-Printed Replica

Hustle in Style With Dice Carved From Buffalo Bone

AfterShokz Sportz M2 Review: Decent Sounding Headphones, No Ears Required

Archaeology exposes the forbidden eating habits of a bunch of 6th century monks

Macabre Ship Models Made From Human Bones by POWs

How NASA Uses Astronaut Pee to Hunt Osteoporosis

Andy Serkis reveals what’s ahead for Caesar in the Rise of the Planet of the Apes sequel!

We talk to cartoonist Jeff Smith about the 20th anniversary of Bone

Check out the first Avengers promo poster! Plus filming updates for The Dark Knight Rises!

The oldest art in the Americas depicts a 13,000 year old mammoth

Is Hollywood going overboard with science fiction movies?

Things That Will Never Be: Jeff Smith’s Bone, Animated by Hand

Man’s Skull Grows Back After 50 Years

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

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The ‘Mass Effect’ Show is Getting Rewritten to Get Greenlit

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