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Man Blames Wife for Stashing 21 Pieces of Female Genitalia in Freezer; She...
There just isn’t anything about this story that isn’t horrible, so naturally we’re here to share it with you. A Danish man was arrested in his Bloemfontein, South Africa home after his estranged wife...
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Kim Stanley Robinson Tells Us An Alien Contact Scenario That You've Probably...
We’re excited to colonize space—but are we really prepared for what we may found out there? Author Kim Stanley Robinson talked with us about some of the things that may come up as we move out into the...
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I Watched Netflix In VR and Now Reality Seems Hollow and Pointless
“IT’S FOR GAMES” has been the oft-quoted cry of VR headset makers and gamers when talking about virtual reality, but the opportunity for movies is unquestionably huge. Today, Oculus VR released a...
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Why Do So Many Penguins Sound Just Like Donkeys? At Last We Know
African penguins have another name: “beach donkeys.” Early European explorers were said to have named them that after they followed the sound of donkey calls, only to find a coast full of birds. Now we...
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Scientists Discover Weather on Rosetta's Comet
Earth’s favorite comet is chock full of surprises. The latest? Weather, of sorts. According to research published this week in Nature, Comet 67P has a small weather system driven by an intense...
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How Did This Long-Buried Dragon Skeleton Roar Back to Life ... And What Will...
Hidden for centuries, an ancient dragon bursts forth, with only the tree roots that’ve grown around its skeleton keeping it from taking flight. What brought this mighty mythical creature back to life?...
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Admit it: You're Curious About Neil Armstrong's Moon-Undies
A tiny museum in London has been hiding a surprising artifact: a Urine Collection Bag from Apollo 11 marked with the initials “NA.” That’s right: these are the undergarments Neil Armstrong wore when he...
View ArticleOver at Science of Us, Melissa Dahl reports on an interesting new study that...
Over at Science of Us, Melissa Dahl reports on an interesting new study that suggests the distress some internet pornography users feel about their oh-so-private internet activity has far more to do...
View ArticleAngry Birds Movie Trailer Hits Way After the Fad Is Over
Angry Birds was incredibly hot, like, three years ago. T-shirts, toys and probably too many games... you couldn’t escape the upset avians of publisher Rovio’s hit series. And now that the public...
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10 Tiny Creatures You Didn't Realize Were Controlling Your World
The world’s greatest power players include some much smaller titans than you’d expect. Armies of tiny creatures labor every day to shape the world, without most of us ever noticing. Here are ten...
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Bad news.
Bad news. We previously told you that season four of Person of Interest would be coming to Netflix on Sept. 22. Now we’re hearing it’s been delayed, and there’s no firm date when the latest season will...
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Bats Eating With Nectar-Pumping Tongues Are Weirdly Cool
Most nectar-eating bats hover in front of flowers and lap like crazy to shovel high-calorie goodness down their throats. But when some species of South American leaf-nosed bats cozy up to a flower,...
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Meet the Deadly Couple Who Made Bonnie and Clyde Look Like Rebellious Teenagers
A century before Bonnie and Clyde held up banks—and half a century before the Bloody Benders took out settlers on the prairie—there was another criminal power couple targeting travelers in the south....
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Just a reminder: You can email us news and info any time at tips@io9.com, or email the site’s authors directly. You can take part in our official user forum, Observation Deck. And please don’t forget...
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New Brain-Link Tech Means We Can Now Play 20 Questions With Our Minds
We’re still a long ways off from achieving technologically-enabled telepathy, but a recent question-and-answer experiment by researchers at the University of Washington shows that progress is being...
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Philly's Preparations for Pope Francis are Like a Dry Run for the Apocalypse
This weekend, Pope Francis’s historic trip to Philadelphia is expected to draw 1.5 million visitors into the city — literally doubling our population overnight. While most Philadelphians (myself...
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The Supermoon Eclipse Is This Weekend and Here's How to Watch It
Got plans for the weekend? You do now, friend! There’s a Supermoon Eclipse on Sunday night into Monday morning—and we’re all going to watch it. Here’s how, when, and also why to catch the Supermoon...
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Here's What Happens When the Animal You're E-Tracking Gets Eaten By a Whale
European eels are critically endangered. To better understand their lives, researchers tracked them during a migration. Suddenly, three trackers returned very strange data. What, oh what, could have...
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Batman Day Has Gotten Too Commercial
As we all know, this Saturday is Batman Day, the 24 hours we as a people set aside to honor the Caped Crusader and celebrate his lengthy career fighting crime. Since its creation in the distant days of...
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That New, Official Harry Potter Play Will Come In Two Parts
Were you planning a trip to London to see that new Harry Potter play? Well, things just changed a bit. Author J.K Rowling just announced on Twitter that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be...
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