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How a Supercomputer Helps Fight Flies That Ravage Crops for 700 Million People
Ever hear of whiteflies? They’re the color of snowflakes and practically as tiny, but they’re global plant-killers. One of their favorite snacks is the cassava, a root that’s a crucial staple food for...
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Today's Best Media Deals: Coraline, The LEGO Movie, and More
Neil Gaiman’s essential Coraline is on sale today, both in book and movie form. Coraline [Kindle] ($2) | Amazonhttp://www.amazon.com/Coraline-Neil-...Coraline (2 Disc Collector’s Edition) ($7) |...
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Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak Is So Beautiful, It’ll Drive You Slightly Mad
Guillermo del Toro has an amazing gift for mixing the grotesque and the gorgeous. And his latest film Crimson Peak, out today, takes that visual panache to a brand new height. With every shot, del Toro...
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A Photo of Billy the Kid Playing Croquet That May Be Worth Millions Cost Just...
It’s like Antique Road Show’s greatest episode ever: A man who bought a lot of three photos at a California junk shop for $2 may have stumbled across what one authenticator calls “the Holy Grail of...
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Steven Universe Leaves Us Hanging In The Best—And Worst—Possible Way
Last night, Steven Universe returned for what is purportedly the final time before another hiatus for the show (no one quite seems to know, to be honest)—but no matter if Steven Universe is leaving us...
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Experts Warn UN Panel About the Dangers of Artificial Superintelligence
During a recent United Nations meeting about emerging global risks, political representatives from around the world were warned about the threats posed by artificial intelligence and other future...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
View ArticleJurassic 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...
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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...
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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...
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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 FictionThe night before my...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleWatching 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...
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Proof That Playing With Toy Model Kits Will Prove Invaluable In Later Life
The amazing author (and io9 reader!) Greg Cox faced a huge dilemma recently. And he solved it, thanks to science! No, wait. Sorry, thanks to his invaluable experience with toy model kits!Over on...
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The Vampire Diaries Is Having Grown-Up, Scary Fun Without Elena
I know some of us gave up on this show a while ago, but The Vampire Diaries is back in fighting form this season. This week’s episode is proof of that.Spoilers for The Vampire Diaries episode “Never...
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Great Scott! Check Out Some Never-Before-Seen Photos from the Official Back...
We’re only a few days away from the day Marty and Doc arrived in 2015 and things are about to get very Back to the Future. Online, in stores, basically everywhere, fans will soon be celebrating the...
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