You Don't Need to Buy Star Wars Tickets Tonight
Monday night, right after the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer is released during Monday Night Football, theaters everywhere are going to put tickets on sale to see the movie from December 17...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time's Version of King Arthur Is a Colossal Dick
That isn’t to say that other versions of Arthur aren’t also dicks. But this Arthur is the kind of dick that Once Upon a Time specializes in: one whose dickness is completely unrelated to the story he...
View ArticleThe First Ever Samples From the Global Seed Vault Have Been Retrieved
Deep in the arctic, inside over 400 feet of rock, a huge cache of seeds is stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in case of some global emergency. Today, the first of the seeds from that supply...
View ArticleThomas Jefferson’s Lost Chemistry Lab Found Hidden Behind Wall
Conservationists working at the University of Virginia’s Rotunda have inadvertently uncovered a chemical hearth designed by Thomas Jefferson. The discovery is offering fresh insights into how chemistry...
View ArticleGreat Scott! Here's Your First Look At The Back To The Future Porn Spoof
It’s only taken 30 years, but someone is finally making a porn spoof of the greatest time travel movie ever. And it’s called Fap to the Future. Are you ready to feel the Power of Love? Fap to the...
View Article10 mistakes in the Star Wars movies that you might have missed
I know, the only mistake of the Star Wars movies is the prequels. Ha ha. Oh and we can’t forget all the crap that George Lucas went back in to ruin in the original trilogy too. Yes. But there are...
View ArticleSecrets Are Revealed and Worlds Collide in the Final Star Wars: The Force...
The third and final trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is here. Now, before you watch, take a deep breath, make sure everything is quiet, and get ready, because it’s fantastic.We finally get to...
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View ArticleMaybe We've All Been Wrong About the Ultimate Villains of Batman v Superman
Gambit is on the hunt for a new director. Gotham teases the arrival of another character from the comics: this time, a hero. Mulder and Scully are on the case in a new X-Files clip. Plus, Alan Tudyk...
View ArticleThis is the Latest Hole Punched into Mars by a Science-Obsessed Rover
Hey, look at that! The Curiosity rover drilled a 9th hole in Mars, just 18 sols after the last hole. That’s a new record for speed-drilling on the red planet! Or, as the powdered rock dust so clearly...
View ArticleJust a reminder: You can email us news and info any time at tips@io9.com, or...
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...
View ArticleHere's a Shot-by-Shot Breakdown of All the Goodies in the Final Star Wars:...
If you’re like us, you’re still recovering from the amazingness of the latest Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. It’s so incredibly filled with good stuff, we just had to go through and pick it...
View ArticleWhat Are the Odds of an Alien Megastructure Blocking Light From a Distant Star?
A strange star located 1,500 light-years from Earth is exhibiting strange flickering behavior that’s leading some scientists to speculate that an alien megastructure is blocking the light. But what...
View ArticleToday's Best Media Deals: Peanuts Holiday Classics, Grimm, and More
Good grief, Apple’s currently offering six Peanuts holiday classics in HD for just $5 total. That should tide you over from Halloween until New Year’s. [Peanuts Holiday Classics Collection,...
View ArticleGuardians of the Galaxy Is Beginning to Maybe Consider Being a Decent TV Show
That headline might sound like it’s being awfully snarky—and it kind of is—but at the same time, this week Guardians of the Galaxy actually took the first baby steps from being a lukewarm repeat of a...
View ArticleLife May Have Gotten Started On Earth Almost Immediately
The ancient Earth was a pretty miserable place. But from this eruptive, radiation-blasted, asteroid-pummeled wasteland, life did arise. Now, scientists have uncovered a tantalizing clue that Earth’s...
View ArticleThe Messy, True Story Behind The Making Of Destiny
In the summer of 2013, months before they were supposed to ship their next video game, the game developers at Bungie went into panic mode.The storied studio, best known for creating the...
View ArticleThe Secret of Gotham’s New Villain Is More Absurd Than I Could Have Possibly...
Look. I know the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer dropped last night, and the last thing any of us want to think about is a new episode of Gotham right now. But we finally learned the true...
View ArticleBuffeting Propellers with Supersonic Winds is Better with Lasers
1985: Adding lasers makes even a supersonic wind tunnel more awesome.In the 1980s, NASA engineers at the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio (now the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field)...
View ArticleHow Han Solo, Leia, and Palpatine Will Work In Star Wars: Battlefront
Surely you didn’t think some of the most iconic Star Wars characters ever would be missing from Battlefront?While it’s not a surprise that Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Emperor Palpatine will make an...
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