- io9Television ThunderCats Ho! New Anime Cartoon Network Series Planned Grab your sword of omens, we need sight beyond sight! Yes, the ThunderCats are planning a return, with the Cartoon Network commissioning an anime series from the same studio that did The Animatrix. [HollywoodReporter via SFX]
By Kat Hannaford
- io9Movies United States’ First Megaplex Closing Before End of Year In 1995, the AMC Grand opened in Dallas. It had 24 screens and it changed the movie theater industry: It was the United States’ first megaplex. Sadly, the theater will close on November 30. [Dallas News]
By Rosa Golijan
- io9 Best astronomy-related college prank ever Students at Minnesota’s Carleton College today unveiled an awesomely elaborate prank. They turned the campus astronomical observatory into a giant R2D2. Cute. [via Cheshire Cat]
By Annalee Newitz
- io9Television Zombie love triangle episode of “Universal Dead” If you weren’t already watching web series Universal Dead, this freaky new episode starring Doug Jones as a jilted mad scientist will suck you in. Zombie science soap opera WTF! [via Spatter Television]
By Annalee Newitz
- io9 BP oil plume is big enough to cover most of Scotland This map mashup allows you to position the BP oil disaster on top of any region in the world. It’s a good way to wrap your mind around how huge this thing really is. [via If It Was My Home]
By Annalee Newitz
- io9 What it looks like when a monkey controls an advanced robotic arm with his mind Watch this video and behold the future. The monkey in the far right of the frame has a brain-computer interface that allows him to control a highly-advanced robotic arm with his thoughts. Soon, humans will be doing the same. In today’s issue of IEEE Spectrum, this video illustrates an article about advances in brain-computer interfaces. … Continued
By Annalee Newitz
- io9 Utopian urban planners want your city to be like a new iPad A great essay over at Crosscut.com explains why two different schools of utopian city planning in Seattle both try to ignore the city’s present-day realities and historical features: All sides in civic debates draw on uptopianism. There is a sense that we can have it all here: prosperity, nature, industry, wealth, social justice, growth, solitude, … Continued
By Charlie Jane Anders
- io9 Watch Mal Reynolds’ ex-wife dismantle her own body, piece by piece We’ve been eagerly awaiting the Broken Bells music video starring Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks (aka Firefly’s Mrs. Reynolds!) and now it’s here. Watch the android Christina dismantle her own body aboard a spaceship bound for stardom. I think this might actually be my favorite science fiction music video of all time. [Guardian via EW and … Continued
By Charlie Jane Anders
- io9Books Paolo Bacigalupi’s “Ship Breaker” imagines the polluted future of the Gulf Coast Set in a climate-changed future, Ship Breaker is the first young adult novel from Windup Girl author Paolo Bacigalupi. It’s about a boy who scavenges abandoned tankers for cash, struggling to survive in a world of indentured servitude and bioengineering. The age of cheap energy has ended, and the consequences of that time have caught … Continued
By AndrewLiptak
- io9Movies Vincenzo Natali explains why Splice is not an anti-science film Splice, opening Friday, deals with the abuse of science and the ways in which genetic engineering could go horribly wrong. But it’s not an anti-science film, insists director Vincenzo Natali, who talked to us at Wondercon. Natali points out that he worked with scientists in the making of this film, and the more he worked … Continued
By Charlie Jane Anders
- io9 Why you should be happy Del Toro left The Hobbit Not everybody is sad that Guillermo Del Toro isn’t going to be directing The Hobbit after all. Lauren Panepinto, creative director at Orbit Books and Yen Press, explains why she had misgivings about a Pan’s Labyrinth-style Hobbit. Back when Guillermo Del Toro was announced as the director of The Hobbit, my initial response was an … Continued
Lauren Panepinto
- io9Movies This is your new Captain America Earlier this week you read what that new Captain America suit would look like, now you can see it for yourself. Here’s the authentic costume concept art for Marvel’s new Captain America movie. AICN has a collection of costume mock-ups of Captain America. Which seem to accurately portray exactly what JoBlo described earlier this week. … Continued
By Meredith Woerner
- io9 A 2-CD set of James Horner’s complete Star Trek III score? Yes please. For those of us who played the LP version of the Star Trek III: The Search For Spock soundtrack until it was just a mass of scratches, there’s a bold new hope. James Horner’s full score, never before released in its entirety, just came out on CD. (Good thing too — according to Amazon, the … Continued
By Charlie Jane Anders
- io9 Real police investigate theft of virtual furniture Users of the virtual world Habbo Hotel have engaged the Finnish police to look into 400 cases of theft, with some customers reporting up to 1000 euros worth of “furniture” stolen. According to the BBC, the targeted users fell pray to a phishing scam, where they entered passwords and names to fake websites. “Habbo as … Continued
By Marc Bernardin
- io9 New wearable tech allows your cats to tweet. Srsly.
By Annalee Newitz
- io9Books Jules Verne Book Comes With QR Codes For 21st Century Footnotes A special-edition of Jules Verne‘s Around The World In 80 Days has been published with QR codes included at various points of the book. Pointing an iPhone (loaded with Ubimark’s app), the codes take you to relevant sites for context. It’s like the 21st century version of footnotes, I guess you could say. When you … Continued
By Kat Hannaford
- io9Movies Iron Man 2 is a hit — but not as big as people had predicted Before Iron Man 2 came out, people speculated on whether it could beat The Dark Knight. But after a month, Tony Stark’s latest adventure seems like it’ll barely match Iron Man’s domestic gross. Box Office Mojo offers a few explanations.
By Charlie Jane Anders
- io9 Tech giant Cisco goes into the business of building instant cities in Korea Cisco is a Silicon Valley company that makes routers, and famously helped generate the “great firewall of China” to aid that country’s government with internet censorship. Now they’re creating an instant, high tech city in Korea, controlled entirely via internet. Searching for a new business model, Cisco has turned to high tech city-building. Their beta … Continued
By Annalee Newitz
- io9Movies Katee Sackhoff in a Fight Club Vs. Werewolves film? SOLD! A traveling underground fight club fights local werewolves. No, you’re not still drunk — this is the premise of an actual film titled, Growl. “It’s the last sound you’ll hear.” Starring Katee Sackhoff. Quick, give it all your money now. Shock Till You Drop has a collection of stills from the film Growl, by Sxv’Leithan … Continued
By Meredith Woerner
- io9Movies Best Year In Science Fiction: 1931 We’re winding up our survey of the best year in scifi with a Great Depression year that transformed the genre forever with original monster classics like Frankenstein and Dracula, plus a horror novel from Nobel laureate William Faulkner. Universal’s monster movies are now so classic that it’s hard to imagine what it would have been … Continued
By Annalee Newitz
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