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Water ice clouds have been detected on Jupiter

Researchers using ground-based telescopes have detected the chemical signatures of water deep beneath the surface of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Jupiter is a gas giant that contains more than twice the mass of all of our other planets combined. And though 99% of Jupiter’s atmosphere is composed of hydrogen and helium, even small fractions of percent of the atmosphere having water would add up to a lot of water. They detected water ice cloud at seven bar. Seven times the pressure on earth atmosphere at sea level. The team focused its sights on the Great Red Spot, a hurricane-like storm

CRISPR gene editing successfully stopped Duchenne muscular dystrophy in dogs and human trials are next

CRISPR gene editing has stopped the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in dogs, according to a study by UT Southwestern that provides a strong indication that a lifesaving treatment may be in the pipeline. unprecedented improvement in the muscle fibers of dogs with DMD – the most common fatal genetic disease in children, caused by a mutation that inhibits the production of dystrophin, a protein critical for muscle function. Researchers used a single-cut gene-editing technique to restore dystrophin in muscle and heart tissue by up to 92 percent of normal levels. Scientists have estimated a 15 percent threshold is

Anti-establishment politics trend theory ignores the muslim aspect

Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasian Group presents his theory that there has been a global backlash against the establishment, immigration and globalization as a global trend. He also indicates four drivers of the movement. Bremmer does not mention the muslim aspect and does not compare each of the drivers to historical levels and does not look at the statistical amounts of each driver by country. Examples of the global trend against the establishment * The Brexit referendum was before the U.S. presidential election. * Germany has the rise of the Alternatives for Deutschland, an actively Euro-skeptic party for the

Watch Batman: The Animated Series' Opening Titles, Remastered in Glorious High-Definition

After years of waiting, soon we will finally get to experience one of the greatest interpretations of the Dark Knight in full 1080p HD. But while we wait for Batman: The Animated Series to hit Blu-ray in a couple of months , Warner Bros. has offered a little tease of just how good it will look. Read more...

This Is Our Best Look Yet at Saturn’s Aurora

Sometimes, things line up just perfectly. For example, back in 2017, the Hubble Space Telescope got a full view of Saturn’s northern aurora. The newly-released image above isn’t exactly what Hubble saw—but it’s still exciting, I promise. Read more...

The Short That Inspired Kin Is a Complicated Exploration of Being Black and the Symbolic Power of Guns

Bag Man is the 2014 short film co-written and directed by brothers Jonathan and Josh Baker that’s the basis for their new feature film Kin . It stuck with me far longer than I thought, especially given its compact 15-minute runtime. Its dialogue is sparse, its visuals are familiar, and the larger story it hints at is… Read more...

An Amazing Japanese Take on C-3PO, and More of the Loveliest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of all things merch. This week, Tamashii Nation’s “movie realization” range takes on Threepoio, an incredibly detailed Keanu Reeves emerges from the Continental, and Doctor Who ’s Bill Potts finally gets her own action figure. Check it out! Read more...

Jacksonville Shooting Victim Sues EA And Venue

Jacob Mitich, a survivor of the deadly shooting at a Madden tournament last weekend that took two lives, is suing both the venue and Madden publisher Electronic Arts for negligence, according to a complaint filed last night. Read more...

Basically Every Digital Marvel Comic Is 50% Off For Labor Day

Amazon’s running a Marvel digital comic sale that’s bigger than any Avengers movie today, with literally thousands of titles marked down by 50% . If Marvel published it, and it came out before this week, it should be included in the sale. You’ll find everything from the Guardians of the Galaxy to Darth Vader to Deadpool … Read more...

Dreamy Dads and Conspiracy Theorists Are What Make This Week's Best New Comics So Good

As relaxing as turning the pages of a comic book can be, it’s increasingly common for people to do the vast majority of their reading on the glowing electronic screens we carry with us at all times. And if they’re already online, a person might soon find themselves drawn elsewhere—deeper into the digital rabbit hole… Read more...

China number two in military spending in 2006 and India will be number three in 2019

China became number two in military spending in 2006 and India will become the number three military spender in 2019. In total from 2006 to 2018, China has spend about three times as much as Russia and the UK but it has taken 13 years for China to modernize and have competitive or superior systems to Russia and the UK. China might not be a clear and definitive number two military technology and capability until 2025. China will not try to compete with Russia and the USA in terms of a matching nuclear capability. There is an overall level of

India will be number three in world military spending

The US defence budget is about three times as large as China’s. China’s military spending was three times more than India in 2017. China percentage of GDP spent on defence was less than India’s. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) database, estimated that China’s military expenditure was USD 228 billion in 2017 while India spent 64 billion. In 2017, India has spent 2.5% of its GDP in military, while China has spent 1.9% of the GDP in military. The government’s spending on military in India was 9.1% in 2017, China’s spending was 6.1%. India has been close to or

Pottery Barn Is Going to Bankrupt Harry Potter Fans Wanting to Redecorate Like Hogwarts

Almost a year after Pottery Barn revealed a massive collection of Harry Potter -themed paraphernalia , the decor-focused chain is back with new additions to the collection that will have lustful muggles wanting to redecorate all over again. But this isn’t Ikea, and even just a handful of these lavish items is enough to… Read more...

This Autonomous Drone Is Ready to Defend the Great Barrier Reef From Predators

REEF RESCUER. The Great Barrier Reef has no shortage of enemies — global warming, ocean acidification, invasive predators. Now, it also has an ally in its corner: an autonomous underwater drone named RangerBot. The reef-defending bot is the work of researchers from Queensland University of Technology, and after two years of development, it officially launched at the Reef HQ Aquarium in Townsville, Australia, on Friday. A MULTIPURPOSE MACHINE. There’s a reason RangerBot has  been compared to a Swiss army knife  — it protects the reef in ways large and small. It can test the surrounding water quality, look for signs of coral bleaching, and detect pollution. It can also map the area around the reef faster than ever before, which could help with future research. RangerBot can even intervene when a predator threatens the reef. Using its computer vision system, the bot can identify crown-of-thorns starfish, which prey upon coral. Once detected, the bot can then inject the starfish wi

How to Dress For the End of the World 

The shearling jacket is the iconic fashion staple of the apocalypse. It’s protected Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead , Regan Abbott in A Quiet Place , and even Ryan Gosling’s Agent K in Blade Runner 2049 . Read more...

Russia stopping Proton M rocket project as it cannot compete against SpaceX and China

Russia has stopped development of the Proton M rocket. Russia had indicated a month ago that they were giving up on commercial space launch. Russia cannot compete with SpaceX or China in launch costs. Angara rocket still going forward Above is a picture of the Russian Angara rocket The Russian Angara rocket will be able to replace Protons no earlier than 2024. Angara is a family of Russia-designed space rockets of different classes, from light to heavy, created as a substitute for the Proton-M and the Rokot vehicles. The new generation rocket uses environmentally clean propellant components. Angara has only

Lockheed proposes F-22 hybrid upgrade using mostly proven technology

The F-22 is considered the best fighter in the world. It was cancelled after about 200 were built because of the cost to build them. However, the F-35 has turned out to be even more expensive for the first few hundred planes and the F-35 still has almost 1,000 major and serious flaws. There have been some advancements with improved engine technology since the F-35 was designed. However, there does not seem to be enough technological advancement for a breakthrough sixth Lockheed is again proposing to start with the best parts of the F-22 and then use upgraded parts and

This Experimental Bionic Eye Could Help The Blind See

BIONICS FOR BLINDNESS. Think exceptional sight would be a cool superpower? You’re in luck: Researchers from the University of Minnesota have built a bionic eye prototype that could restore sight to the blind and  give superhuman vision to those who can already see. They published their research on Tuesday in the journal Advanced Materials . LIGHT CONVERSION. The researchers used a custom-built 3D printer to construct their bionic eye prototype. First, they printed a base of silver particles on the inside of a hemispherical glass dome. Next, they used semiconducting polymer materials to print photodiodes, devices that convert light into electric signals, on top of the silver base. The entire process took about an hour, after which the team had a bionic eye that could convert light into electricity with 25 percent efficiency (safe to say that’s less than our natural eyes can do, since they can detect a single photon ). A FIRST STEP. We won’t be able to transplant this eye into a

Greenhouse Gases Are Bubbling Up From Arctic Lakes That Were Recently Frozen

FROM BAD TO WORSE. The bad news: Global warming is thawing Arctic permafrost. And that’s releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The really bad news: It’s happening faster than we previously thought. That’s the conclusion of a NASA-funded research project undertaken by researchers from the University of Alaska. They published their study in the journal  Nature Communications  on August 15. SLOW AND STEADY, ABRUPT AND AWFUL. In the past, when a carbon-based life form — such as an animal or plant — died in the Arctic, it froze before it had time to decompose. Now that temperatures in the region are increasing , however, microbes in the newly thawed Arctic soil are breaking down these previously frozen organic bodies. That releases carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere. Researchers already knew about this process, which they call “slow thawing,” and have been factoring it into their climate models for some time now. What they haven’t taken into consideration, th

La Boriqueña Has Raised $150,000 for Puerto Rico and She's Not About to Stop

While the U.S. government has done an absolutely paltry job of helping Puerto Rico recover from a devastating season of hurricanes that left thousands of people dead and millions without proper access to power , one comics creator is doing what he can to give back to the island. Read more...

Alan Tudyk Takes a New Villainous Turn as Doom Patrol's Mr. Nobody

DC Entertainment has been slowly bringing together its weird and wonderful leads for its DC Universe streaming show based on the Doom Patrol comics—and now they have a villain to fight, in the form of Alan Tudyk. Read more...

Waning Martian Dust Storm Could Herald the Return of NASA’s Opportunity Rover

Good news, everyone! The planet-encircling dust storm on Mars is beginning to wane, which means NASA’s solar-powered Opportunity rover, currently in hibernation mode, will soon be able to wake up—assuming the storm hasn’t irreparably damaged it. Read more...

Directors' Cuts Won't Save You

Watching a director’s cut of a film you’ve previously seen can be a fascinating experience. It can show you just how substantial an impact even the slightest bit of editing can have on a project. Read more...

How Do Hollywood Time Travel Scenarios Stand up to Science? Not Well.

Time travel is flashy in the movies, but how does it stand up to science? We debunk time travel theories in some of your favorite movies. The post How Do Hollywood Time Travel Scenarios Stand up to Science? Not Well. appeared first on Futurism .

Friday's Best Deals: Labor Day Sales, Philips Hue, Clear the Rack, and More

A ton of Philips Hue deals , a new Clear the Rack sale , and our favorite electric lighter lead off Friday’s best deals from around the web. Read more...

Eminem and Venom, Together at Last

Would you like to experience the intoxicating pain of being bonded with a psychotic alien parasite? Well, good news, Marshall Mathers himself is here to help with a truly, truly bizarre new track for Sony’s Venom movie. Read more...

How Women-Startup Founders Are Building Better Cities [Sponsored]

A paltry 17 percent of venture-funded startups are founded by women, according to Crunchbase – and that number has barely changed since 2012. With gender equality at the forefront of national conversations , companies in Silicon Valley and beyond clearly have a lot of opportunity to change those stats. URBAN-X  is one of them. The startup accelerator that focuses on solving urban tech problems has made it a mission to ensure that women’s voices are heard, and that woman-founded startups are able to find their place in the marketplace of ideas. So far, this commitment is proving fruitful: 50 percent of all URBAN-X startups have at least one woman founder. When it comes to diversity and inclusion, it’s not just a matter of doing what’s right. For URBAN-X, it’s also good business. In a crowded arena where new ideas are increasingly difficult to come by, women – who have so often been institutionally excluded from the conversation – are an untapped resource. When it comes to designin

Are Pig Organs Safe to Transplant Into Humans? Now We Have A Way To Find Out.

A POTENTIAL SOLUTION. Every day, 20 people  die in the U.S. because they didn’t receive an organ transplant in time. There simply aren’t enough viable donor organs to meet the demand. Xenotransplantation — transplanting living cells, tissues, or organs from an animal into a human — could help us meet this demand for organs, and now, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have developed a series of tests that could help ensure future xenotransplants are successful. They published their research in the journal  Xenotransplantation on August 18. TESTING. TESTING.  Thanks to gene-editing techniques like CRISPR, we’re now able to modify animals so that it’s less likely that a human recipient rejects their transplanted organs. However, rejection isn’t the only potential issue. There’s also the possibility that the donated organ will contain some sort of virus or infectious microorganism that could make recipients sick. To ensure organs from pigs don’t contain

Physicists Just Made the Most Precise Measurement Ever of Gravity's Strength

Gravity might feel strong if you drop a bowling ball on your feet, but is in fact the weakest force. Compare it to electromagnetism: the pull of all the Earth’s gravity can’t stop you from picking up a paperclip with a refrigerator magnet. That weakness makes gravity incredibly difficult to measure. Read more...

The Predator's Final Trailer Is Fun, Dumb, and Full of Blood

There’s a certain degree of innate silliness to the Predator franchise’s movies that you just kinda got to roll with if you actually want to enjoy them. Thankfully, The Predator ’s final trailer makes it clear that as gruesome as it’s gonna be, it hasn’t forgotten it needs to make you laugh as well. Read more...

Wild Rumors About a Diablo Show Coming to Netflix

Doctor Sleep casts another major character. Venom ’s Ruben Fleischer is still dancing around a potential Spider-Man appearance. Anthony Russo offers an update on where Avengers 4 is currently. Plus, tons of new Iron Fist pictures, another American Horror Story reunion, and Doom Patrol casting. To me, my Spoilers! Read more...

SpaceX Principle Mars Development Engineer gave some more details about Mars colonization

SpaceX plans to live out of the BFS ships initially on Mars and then build out the facilities (habitation, power systems, mining and landing pads). The SpaceX BFS (Big Falcon Spaceship) would land on Mars with 100 tons including the ship. Paul Wooster, SpaceX Principal Mars Development Engineer, presented to the Mars Society. SpaceX Mars architecture features pic.twitter.com/IHOLCbbvRS — Maxime Lenormand (@MaxLenormand) August 25, 2018 And concerning Mars, this is the plan: pic.twitter.com/9u22zFROxQ — Maxime Lenormand (@MaxLenormand) August 25, 2018 Infrastructure are going to be necessary to get started pic.twitter.com/9Izs6d6gD9 — Maxime Lenormand (@MaxLenormand) August 25, 2018

Cheap perovskite boosts commercial solar cell energy conversion by 20%

UCLA created a double layer solar cell by spraying a thin layer of perovskite onto a commercially available solar cell. The solar cell that forms the bottom layer of the device is made of a compound of copper, indium, gallium and selenide, or CIGS. The new cell converts 22.4% of the incoming energy from the sun, a record in power conversion efficiency for a perovskite–CIGS tandem solar cell. The performance was confirmed in independent tests at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The cell’s CIGS base layer, which is about 2 microns (or two-thousandths of a millimeter)

China applying naval electromagnetic catapult launch for land based missiles

China is developing the world’s first electromagnetic launched surface-to-surface rocket that offers greater fire range. Conventional rockets rely on chemical explosives or fuel but the new rockets will be launched using additional electromagnetic force, similar to the catapult launchers that China and the United States are developing for their next-generation aircraft carriers. The same technology is also used to develop rail guns. Missiles usually have a greater fire range and better manoeuvrability, rocket artilleries are cheaper and could be fired in cluster salvoes to overwhelm a target. The report suggested that the new electromagnetic rockets could be deployed in Tibet.

An Unlucky-in-Love Man Resorts to Time Travel in This Short Rom-Com, CTRL Z

James Kennedy’s CTRL Z introduces us to best friends Ed and Carrie, as well as Sarah, the object of Ed’s unrequited affections. Can his do-over device (“It’s not a time machine!”) help him win the girl of his dreams—and will Carrie ever forgive him for dragging her along on this weird-science mission? Read more...

Here's everything we know so far about Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria remake

Yeah, we know, hype can be lethal, especially when it comes to horror movies. But even though our reaction to the 2008 announcement that a sequel to Dario Argento’s Suspiria was in development was one of abject horror—or perhaps even because of that initial revulsion—we’re intrigued by what we’ve seen of the final… Read more...

Luke Cage Is Fighting an Enemy More People Need to Know About

Luke Cage’s impenetrable skin and super strength make him one of the most powerful brawlers in Marvel’s comics universe, but years of throwing himself at villains has led to a devastating problem for the hero—as well as one of his most interesting storylines yet. Read more...

Good News, You'll Be Able to Get Drunk at Disney's New Star Wars Land

Star Wars is coming to Disneyland in a big way , and it’s bringing something a little stronger than milk with it. Read more...

The Small Press Expo Is Supporting Indie Creators Facing a Multimillion Dollar Defamation Lawsuit

Today the Small Press Expo (SPX), a non-profit, indie-focused convention, announced that it’s partnering with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) to help support a group of embattled comics creators facing a defamation lawsuit. Read more...

California requiring 100% clean energy by 2045 will cost about $350+ billion in energy storage

California has approved legislation requiring 100% clean energy by 2045. On Tuesday, the Assembly voted 43-32 in favor of the bill, which had been introduced by Sen. Kevin de León. Senate Bill 100 will now return to the state Senate, where it is expected to pass. The bill will require that utilities providers generate 60% of their power from renewable sources by 2030. It was already required to be 50% renewable sources by 2030. Californian’s pay an average of 15.23 cents per kilowatt of power while the U.S. average is 10.27 cents per kilowatt. Toyota and Jacobs Engineering Group are

India will become main driver of oil demand growth by 2024

India is predicted to overtake China as the biggest source of growth for oil demand by 2024, according to research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie. India’s oil demand is set to increase by 3.5 billion barrels per day from 2017 to 2035, which will account for a third of global oil demand growth. In 2017, China became the world’s biggest importer of crude oil. China is predicted to see a decline in oil demand growth from 2024 to 2035. Oil Imports by country in 2017 1. China: US$162.2 billion (18.6% of total crude oil imports) 2. United States: $139.1 billion

Small Oxygen Leak Detected on the International Space Station

A tiny pressure leak has been detected on the Russian side of the International Space Station. It sounds alarming, but flight controllers say the astronauts aren’t in any immediate danger. Read more...

The 10 Best Deals of August 30, 2018

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals , but these were our ten favorites today. Read more...

Wesley Snipes Has Been Talking About Those 'New' Blade Projects for a While Now

Have you heard the good news ? Wesley Snipes told Vice he’s worked with Marvel to set up two Blade projects! But don’t get too excited just yet, because this is actually a drum that Snipes has been beating on for a long while now. Read more...

Shark by Tara, a Masterful Scent That's Perfect for Never

Renowned French perfumer Olivier Cresp recommends having five or six different scents on hand at all times so you’ll be ready for any occasion, but I have trouble even committing to one, much less half a dozen. My last go-to, Giorgio Armani’s Acqua di Gioia, ran dry about a year ago, and I’ve been subsisting off of a… Read more...

Carnival of Space 576

1. Universe Today – This Planet is so Metal. Iron and Titanium Vapour Found in the Atmosphere of an “Ultra-Hot Jupiter” An exoplanet is hot enough to turn metal into vapor. It is known as KELT-9b, a gas giant located 650 light-years from Earth that has atmospheric temperatures so hot – over 4,000 °C (7,232 °F) – it can vaporize iron and titanium. 2. Universe Today – Cosmic Void Contains Fewer Galaxies than Expected, which, Ironically, Makes it Harder for Light to get Through 3. Universe Today – Oort Clouds Around Other Stars Should be Visible in the Cosmic Microwave

We Now Have Evidence That a Marijuana Compound Can Help People With Psychosis

MIND CONTROL.  Some people recreationally partake in cannabis to free their minds. But the plant’s non-intoxicating compound, cannabidiol (CBD), might actually be able to help others rein their minds in. According to a new study from King’s College London (KCL), just one dose of CBD can reduce abnormal brain function in people with psychosis, a condition in which a person experiences a disconnect from reality and may see, hear, or believe things that aren’t actually real. The KCL team published its  research on Thursday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry . THE FIRST STEP. In 2017, KCL published the results of a clinical trial testing the impact of CBD on patients with psychosis. They found that the drug lowered the participants’ psychotic symptoms and improved both their cognitive performance and ability to function — all without producing significant side effects. So, the KCL team had evidence that CBD could help treat psychosis. What they didn’t have, however, was an explanation

Lancet opens the door to treating aging as a disease

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology has just published a four-paper Series on Ageing and endocrinology, highlighting endocrine-related diseases and comorbidities as some of the most common age-related conditions and major impediments to maintaining good health in old age. Implementation of the extension code XT9T in ICD-11 is not formal recognition of ageing as a disease. The WHO is recognizing ageing as a major disease risk factor and of the considerable public health problem posed by ageing-related diseases. Big pharma might put more money into targeting the ageing process and extending human lifespan. The Lancet papers discuss the physiological basis of

Giant 30-40 ground telescopes will begin direct imaging many more exoplanets around 2024

Giant 30 and 40 meter diameter ground telescopes will have 13 times more light collection than the best optical telescopes today and with 16 times the sharpness of hubble. This will enable a massive increase in the direct imaging of exoplanets. Extremely Large Telescope 39 meter scope first light 2024 The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is an astronomical observatory and the world’s largest optical/near-infrared extremely large telescope now under construction. Part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) agency, it is located on top of Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The design consists of a reflecting telescope

The Weird History Behind Darth Vader's Castle

The galaxy far, far away is having a castle renaissance lately. Reintroduced into the Star Wars canon by Rogue One , the sinister abode of Darth Vader has suddenly become a hot topic, be it through current and upcoming comics, or persistent rumors of its return onscreen. But Vader’s home has a much longer history… Read more...

Major F35 flaws are being hidden so they can claim development phase is done

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) obtained a document showing how F-35 officials are recategorizing—rather than fixing—major design flaws to be able to claim they have completed the program’s development phase without having to pay overruns for badly needed fixes. Major flaws include * pilots cannot confirm a weapon’s target data before firing * damage to the plane caused by the tailhook on the Air Force’s variant These have potentially serious implications for safety and combat effectiveness. Category I deficiencies “may cause death, severe injury, or severe occupational illness; may cause loss or major damage to a weapon system; critically

Google’s AI Can Help Predict Where Earthquake Aftershocks Are Most Likely

THE SECONDARY SHOCKS. The destruction that a large earthquake can cause often doesn’t end when the ground stops shaking. Many produce aftershocks, smaller tremors hours or even days later caused by the ground’s reaction to the first quake. These aftershocks can sometimes cause more damage than the primary quake. And though we can usually predict the size of an aftershock, we haven’t been so great at predicting its  location . Now, that could change. Researchers from Harvard University and Google’s AI division have created a neural network that can assess how likely it is that a particular location will experience an aftershock. The best part? It’s more accurate than the best existing model. They published their study Wednesday in the journal Nature . BARELY BETTER THAN A COIN FLIP. The best tool we have right now for predicting aftershocks is a model known as  C oul o mb failure  str ess change. Researchers can calculate the geological stress an earthquake places on surroundi

All the New and Returning Shows Coming to TV This Fall

Right, this is gonna be fun! We’re entering another season of television, and with it comes the excitement of seeing our favorite characters return, while also the strange thrill of experiencing other shows for the first time. There are a lot of shows on the horizon, so to make it easier for you, we’ve compiled all… Read more...

Most of the AV Accidents in California Are Caused By Human Drivers

PROBLEM CAUSERS. Want to ensure an autonomous vehicle (AV) doesn’t get into an accident? Get pesky humans out of the way. That’s the takeaway from a new report by Axios , anyway. After looking at all the incident reports filed with State of California Department of Motor Vehicles between 2014 and 2018, the company found that people were responsible for 81 of the 88 accidents involving AVs. BY THE NUMBERS. Axios’s report categorizes the AV accidents by driving mode (autonomous or conventional) and whether the vehicle was moving or stopped at the time of the accident. An AV was responsible for just one of the 62 accidents in which the vehicle was in autonomous mode (presumably, drivers of other cars were responsible for the remaining 61 accidents). While in conventional mode (controlled by a human driver), AVs caused 6 of 26 accidents. AVOIDING THE PROBLEM. Waymo, Uber, and Tesla might get most of the attention, but they’re far from the only companies developing AVs. In fact, 55

Why Your Brain Can't Let Go of a Grudge

We humans are masters of resentment—a characteristic that can be traced back the beginnings of recorded history. Feuds seem to be an indelible aspect of the human condition, but why should this be? We spoke to the experts to find out why we love to hold a grudge, and the importance of letting go. Read more...

Sony Can Keep Its Plastic Dog, This Robotic Raptor Is My New Perfect Pet

With the first Jurassic Park , we were all content to just stare in awe at what appeared to be living, breathing dinosaurs onscreen. But four sequels later, we now want to do more than just look at dinosaurs , we want to play with them too. Science has yet to deliver the goods, so Mattel has stepped up to bring… Read more...

Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski Wants to Focus on Entertainment, Not Politics

At this year’s TerrifiCon in Connecticut, Marvel Comics’ recently-appointed Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski sat down with comics writers Nick Spencer and Charles Soule, and reporter John Siuntres, to talk about the publishing company’s future. Read more...

Agile Soft Robot Spiders Could Soon Aid Internal Medical Procedures

New materials from Harvard’s Wyss institute could lead us to soft robots, like this spider, which could one day be used in medical procedures. The post Agile Soft Robot Spiders Could Soon Aid Internal Medical Procedures appeared first on Futurism .

Thursday's Best Deals: Early Labor Day Sales, USB-C Chargers, Pop Chart Posters, and More

USB-C chargers , discounted Apple Watches , and a home security camera with free cloud storage lead off Thursday’s best deals. Read more...

EA Donates $1 Million To The Families Of The Jacksonville Shooting Victims

Electronic Arts, the publisher of the Madden series of football games, has established a fund for —and made a sizeable donation to—the families of those affected by the tragic shooting at a Madden tournament in Jacksonville on the weekend . Read more...

This Giant Fan-Made Tabletop Game Puts 33 Players in the Middle of Aegon's Conquest

Playing A Game of Thrones: The Board Game was one of the most intense experiences of my life—it remains the only board game I’ve ever stormed away from out of anger, sorry family. But if I thought that was an extreme Game of Thrones experience, I too know nothing, Jon Snow. Because there’s a new Song of Ice and Fire … Read more...

NASA Wants Its Deep Space Gateway Habitat To Orbit The Moon By 2024

It’s no secret that humans (well, at least presidents ) are aching to go back to the Moon. And now, we have more concrete plans on how we might do that. Earlier this week, the Human Exploration and Operations Committee for NASA’s Advisory Council presented the most detailed plan to date of how, exactly, it will go about it. NASA’s plan involves something called the Deep Space Gateway, aka the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway. First announced in March 2017, the Gateway would be a small habitat that would orbit the Moon and would act as a “spaceport for human and robotic exploration to the Moon and beyond.” In other words, it would act as a basecamp to explore the surface of the Moon, conduct experiments into the viability of prolonged space travel, and prepare for much (much) farther destinations. According to the presentation this week, NASA plans to have the completed Gateway in lunar orbit as soon as 2024 — that is, if everything goes according to plan. “Right now, our near-term f

DC Universe Launches September 15—But Titans Won't Arrive Until a Month Later

DC Entertainment’s grand plans to enter the streaming service world have looked pretty bold so far, and now it won’t be long before fans in the U.S. will get to try them out. But weirdly enough, DC Universe won’t actually launch with one of its biggest hooks so far: its new Teen Titans show. Read more...

Save 30% On All Of Pop Chart Lab’s Gloriously Nerdy Data [Exclusive]

There’s always that one person in your life that has nothing on their walls. Add some awesome to someone’s life, or upgrade your own bare walls with rad prints during this 30% off sitewide at Pop Chart Lab . Check out their newest prints, like The Spectacular Survey of Sharks  and The Essential Graphic Novels Scratch Off Read more...

Ancient ‘Monster Galaxy’ Is Forming Stars a Thousand Times Faster Than the Milky Way

Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has observed a galaxy that looks nothing like what researchers expected. It’s forming stars at an absolutely incredible rate. Read more...

Even More Star Wars: Episode IX Casting Rumors

There are more wild rumors about Elsa’s love life in Frozen 2 . Special effects legend Greg Nicotero is joining Spawn . The sequel to A Quiet Place has landed a release date. Mr. Robot is coming to an end. Plus, a new look at First Man and the return of the CW/DC superhero shows, Spoilers get! Read more...