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Today's Best Media Deals: James Bond Collection, Jurassic World, and More
Want to catch up on 007’s escapades before Spectre comes to theaters next month? Amazon just dropped $30 off the price of the Ultimate James Bond Collection, which includes digital HD copies of all 23...
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The Most Disturbing Monsters From Our Favorite Horror RPGs
You can’t play an RPG without monsters, and you can’t play a horror RPG without some really, really f$%&ing scary monsters. Here are some of our favorites.Excruciator (Monsters and Other Childish...
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These Star-Crossed Stellar Lovers Are Heading for a Disaster of Cosmic...
Behold VFTS 352, the hottest and most massive “overcontact binary” star system ever discovered. The two stars, which are so close that they’re touching, feature a combined mass 57 times that of our...
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io9 Costume Show Week 3: Show Us What You've Got!
We’ve got puns, crossovers, and genderswap–all in this week’s edition of the io9 Halloween Costume Show! Come on in and add yours.We’re one week away from Halloween, so post pictures of your Halloween...
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A Rhyming Tale of Mirrors, From Greek Myth to Experiments on the Moon
Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney’s short “What Makes Up the Moon” or “Moon Mirrors” explains both the Greek myth of Narcissus and modern scientists’ experiments on the moon using mirrors.With animation...
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Did Our Hands Evolve to Throw Punches? One Biologist Thinks So
The human hand is a marvelous evolutionary invention: it can tie knots, tap out blog posts, wield tools and wire circuit boards. But how did we get these hands, with their long, dextrous fingers and...
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Write Us Some Six-Word Science Fiction Stories!
Tell me a story, io9! Something with disaffected robots, time-traveling text messages, search engines that have had enough of your questions, rainy seasons that never seem to come, or whatever else is...
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Which Movie Did You Walk Out Of?
Most of us are committed to our entertainment—when we start a thing, we see it through. Maybe you put down a book sometimes, but when you see a movie, you stick it out. Except. Some movies, you just...
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Assassin's Creed Syndicate: The Kotaku Review
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is—wait for it—an Assassin’s Creed game, with all that that implies.It’s a really good Assassin’s Creed game, mind you, my favorite since Assassin’s Creed II took us to...
View ArticleSome 150 years after his death, a man is being pardoned for helping slaves...
Some 150 years after his death, a man is being pardoned for helping slaves escape. Samuel Burris, a free black man, was tried and found guilty in 1847—but spared his sentence (being sold into seven...
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The Makers of That "Miracle" Needle-Free Blood Test Are On The Defensive
Theranos seemed to be offering a miraculous new service: a single finger pinprick could yield the results of up to 200 different blood tests. But a scathing report in the The Wall Street Journal...
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The Surprising Effect That Space Radiation Had on Mouse Brains
It’s one thing to send a rover to Mars. It’s another to send a biologically fragile human body. We don’t know much about how space will affect us–and recent findings involving mice suggest it could...
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Crocs Keep an Eye on You While They Sleep
Sleeping with only half your brain sounds like a great way to become a zombie in no time, but for certain marine mammals and birds, it’s a way of life. A new study suggests that crocodiles, too, may be...
View ArticleYou Can Hear The Most Insane Moment From Pan Right Now
Pan was kind of a letdown in general. But the Peter Pan origins movie does have one totally bonkers moment that’s worth checking out—when Hugh Jackman leads all the captive boys in a singalong of...
View ArticleFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg already got people reading Iain M.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg already got people reading Iain M. Banks’ The Player of Games for his “A Year of Books” challenge. Now he’s picked another science fiction book: The Three Body Problem...
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We Finally Know More About David S. Goyer's Superman Prequel, Krypton
Zack Snyder discusses what he wanted for Batman in Batman v Superman. Tom Holland discusses the influence of Spider-Men past on his performance in Civil War. Get a taste of Constantine’s arrival on...
View ArticleDeadspin Watch The Video For “Hello,” Adele’s First New Song In Three Years |...
Deadspin Watch The Video For “Hello,” Adele’s First New Song In Three Years | Jezebel Three Days After Cutting Planned Parenthood’s Funding, Texas Raids Clinics | Kotaku Twitch’s Uphill Battle For...
View ArticleDeadspin Watch The Video For “Hello,” Adele’s First New Song In Three Years |...
Deadspin Watch The Video For “Hello,” Adele’s First New Song In Three Years | Jezebel Three Days After Cutting Planned Parenthood’s Funding, Texas Raids Clinics | Kotaku Twitch’s Uphill Battle For...
View ArticleAll the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Footage Released So Far in One...
Some brave, enterprising nerd has taken every single frame of footage of The Force Awakens that Disney has released, and assembled it into one 3.5 minute trailer of unbelievable goodness. Here’s the...
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Will Be a Sequel About Harry and His Middle...
Along with the first official artwork, details about the plot of the forthcoming two-part Harry Potter play have been revealed. It sounds like Albus Severus has inherited a few too many things from his...
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