A luminescent portrait of cell movements in a developing embryo

February 13, 2012 – Imagine if you could track the movement of every single cell in a developing embryo, tracking what each stem cell turned into. It could allow you to reverse-engineer the construction of an organism. More »

io9 Book Club Reminder: Meeting 2/21 to discuss Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus

February 9, 2012 – The io9 Book Club meets every month to discuss a book, and then the author usually joins us for a chat. In February, we're meeting on the 21st to discuss Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus. More »

This is the "stretchable gold" that will power rubber circuit boards

February 9, 2012 – We've been hearing a lot about how the future of electronics will involve stretchy circuit boards, or circuits you can glue to your skin. In this video, you can see one crucial ingredient in bendy electronics — More »

Three reasons to watch The River tonight, and one reason not to

February 7, 2012 – Produced by Steven Spielberg, and created by Paranormal Activity writer/director Oren Peli, new TV series The River boasts some pretty great credentials out of the gate. More »

This is what it looks like when cancer gets smacked down by a T cell

February 6, 2012 – This incredible video captures a showdown between cancer cells and the T cells that act as the shock troops for your immune system. That's right - you're actually watching a T cell defeat cancer. More »

The rise of the Amazons, and the fall of Dean, on Supernatural

February 4, 2012 – I like to watch teenage Amazons eat weirdly poop-looking chunks of human flesh as much as the next person, but still last night's Supernatural didn't do much for me. More »

Our favorite new hacker gives good honeypot on Person of Interest

February 3, 2012 – Last night's Person of Interest, "Root Cause," was a number-of-the-week tale of political intrigue and 1337 haX0r drama. And you know we can't resist 1337 haXORz. More »

The strange afterlife of pulp hero Franke Reade

February 3, 2012 – Portland-based Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett are a husband-and-wife team of multimedia artists who have produced a variety of work from comics (the science fiction romance Heartbreakers and the superhero Chronos, among others) to the website and book about Boilerplate, a robot. More »

In the Japanese version of Species, things get pretty NSFW

February 3, 2012 – Check out the NSFW trailer for Tokyo Species, a Japanese version of the US franchise about (let's face it) alien mating practices. If you recall, the US version features a sexy, tenticular Natasha Henstridge fucking and murdering her way through a string of men as she searches for the perfect... More »

Woman In Black gleefully embraces campy horror of a bygone age

February 3, 2012 – Everybody thinks that Woman In Black, the old-fashioned ghost story featuring Daniel Radcliffe (AKA Harry Potter), is about Edwardian England. But in fact, it's about the 1960s - at least stylistically. More »

Further evidence that Twitter will not liberate the world

February 3, 2012 – Though optimistic pundits have declared Twitter largely responsible for social uprisings like Arab Spring, the microblogging network is hardly going to usher in a more liberated future. More »

Everything you know about daisies is wrong

February 2, 2012 – When you pick a daisy, you are actually picking hundreds of flowers at the same time. That's because daisies have evolved a special trick, which is to hide a whole field of flowers in the head of what seems to be a single bloom. More »

The 10 Most Bizarre Farm Animals, and Why We Need Them

February 2, 2012 – Of course cows, pigs, and chickens belong on farms, and nobody looks askance at a farm full of llamas or buffalos. But there are some farm animals you might not expect. More »

The first scientific evidence that massage helps heal muscles after exercise

February 1, 2012 – The Wall Street Journal's Katherine Hobson has a story today about a small study that tested the common-sense idea that massage helps soothe sore muscles. More »

The Innkeepers is a movie that knows the scariest thing is a creepy sound

February 1, 2012 – Most people cover their eyes during horror movies, which is why The Innkeepers may be one of the scariest movies you've seen in a while. In this flick, the terror creeps in through sound. More »

UFO dodges police in Mexicali, hovers in the skies over Tijuana

February 1, 2012 – This video of a weirdly sparkly UFO was taken a few days ago in the skies above Tijuana, Mexico. Could it be the same UFO that taunted police by flying over an airport in Mexicali last week, leading to a high-speed chase? More »

The most absurd and embarrassing spy-fi gadgets ever, in Geisha Cop

January 31, 2012 – In this short film, known winningly as "Geisha Cop: Fearsome Geisha Corps - Go to Hell!", you'll witness the kinds of spy gadgets that James Bond only dreams of. More »

What is the best science fiction for people who serve in the military?

January 31, 2012 – There are many debates over the best and most realistic military science fiction. But those arguments are never about the best science fiction to read or watch if you're actually serving in the military We know a lot of io9 readers have been in the military, and some of you are on active duty... More »

Hubble videos reveal what it would really be like to fly into a nebula

January 31, 2012 – Most images of nebulas make them look flat, so you aren't able to appreciate the true splendor of what a nebula would really look like if you were to fly toward it through space. More »

Biochemist publishes a paper solving the mystery of life, but no one understands it

January 31, 2012 – Case Western Reserve University biochemist Erik Andrulis has just published a paper about a discovery that goes way beyond the RNA he usually researches. More »

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