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These Alternate Designs For Marvel's Ant-Man Costume Are Super Cool 

I think most people were happy with the look of Ant-Man in this year’s film. But of course, that wasn’t the initial look. Just as he did with the Wasp, concept artist and Marvel Studios designer Andy...

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That Time a Mechanical Mosquito Hovered Far Above the Earth 

What happens when you pair a space station with a space shuttle and tuck them in orbit far above our planet? This oddly insectoid monster machine.On May 24, 2011, the Endeavour space shuttle docked...

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Reminder: "Natural" Food Means Literally Nothing

A box of powder-cheesed macaroni? Natural! A candy bar? Sure, why not: natural! A can of 7-Up? All natural! A bag of fruit snacks? Just chock full of natural flavor, friend.The presence of the word...

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A Vast River Network Once Crisscrossed the Sahara

The Sahara is about the worst place on Earth to find water today, but that wasn’t always the case. Thousands of years ago, its sandy dune fields were lush and verdant. A new scientific paper helps...

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Brand New Terminator Concept Art Shows How Skynet Will Destroy Your City

It’s long been a recognized fact of existence that the best Terminator concept art is the Judgment Day concept art, or else art showing the war against Skynet in the future. So these brand new art...

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We Can Do It!

Tis’ the season for Fallout, and Baty Alquawen knows how to do it right with this killer Vault dweller/Wendy the Welder cosplay.Photos by Lifestalking.

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Deadspin Steph Curry Hit Two Ridiculous Three-Pointers, Even For Him |...

Deadspin Steph Curry Hit Two Ridiculous Three-Pointers, Even For Him | Jalopnik This 360 Cockpit Video Of The Blue Angels Is Absolutely Exhilarating | Gizmodo Tell Us Your Nightmare Stories of How You...

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Tons More Star Wars Details, Plus Two New Game of Thrones Characters!

Harrison Ford wants to return to Indiana Jones. Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi tease the Doctor Who season finale. Aliens: Paradise Lost will explore the origins of the Aliens. Plus, oodles of new The...

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Behold The Awesome Origins Of Spider-Gwen's New Female Captain America

Last month, Spider-Gwen’s return to the “All-New, All-Different” Marvel Universe gave us a brand new iteration of Captain America. But the second issue of the series has lifted the lid on this new Cap...

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Russian TV "Accidentally" Leaks Footage of Classified Nuclear Torpedo Design

During a meeting of military officials in Sochi, Russian TV crews captured footage of a document not intended for public consumption. The supposedly “secret data,” which was subsequently shown on...

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Seahorse Mating is a Risky Gender-Bending Water Ballet

Seahorses are famous for flipping the usual reproductive pattern on its head–a seahorse female impregnates the male by laying eggs in his pouch, and the male cares for the developing babies through an...

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Two Major RPG Books Came Out This Month, and They're Both Surprisingly Crappy

Two major RPG sourcebooks, Wizards of the Coast’s D&D Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide and Paizo’s Inner Sea Races for Pathfinder, both came out in the last few weeks! Here’s why you should skip them...

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Author Matthew De Abaitua Is Here to Answer Questions About If Then

This month, io9 read If Then by Matthew De Abaitua. Today, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern time), he’ll be joining us to answer questions about near future science fiction, writing about war, repeating...

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In the Future, Robots Kidnap the President to Win the War

In a future where humans battle robots, an elite military team has to save the President. And retrieving him from the middle of robot-territory is as easy as it sounds.Directed by Samuel Jorgensen,...

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The Hunger Games Director Explains Why Mockingjay Absolutely Needed To Be Two...

There are at least $2 billion reasons why the decision was made to split the third The Hunger Games book, Mockingjay, into two movies. Money aside, though, the decision gave the filmmakers a ton of...

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Cool Visualization Lets You See Philae Bounce and Tumble as It Lands on a Comet

It was one year ago today that the Philae Lander bounced, spun, and tumbled across the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. To commemorate the historic event, the European Space Agency has...

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Your Colon May Be Home to an Entirely New Form of Life

A new genetic analysis of human gut bacteria is turning up some really weird critters—so weird, in fact, that some biologists are speculating we’ve found an entirely new domain of life. We should take...

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Prepare To Have Your Mind Blown By Some Absolutely Incredible Mecha Concept Art!

There have been a LOT of collections of robot, mech and cyborg concept art lately—but the Nuthin’ But Mech blog, and the books it’s spawned, are some of the best. The third Nuthin’ But Mech book is...

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Watch Astronaut Kjell Lindgren Play "Amazing Grace" in Space—With Bagpipes! 

Bagpipes. IN SPACE. And the touching reason why they’re being played. NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren is a flight engineer and mission specialist with Expedition 45 and has been on board the...

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Predator 2 Is the Most Enjoyable Predator Movie, Period

Predator 2, which takes place in the urban jungle of Los Angeles, is loud, sweaty, and exuberantly violent—and all of its main characters are macho blowhards. It does not have Schwarzenegger, but it...

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