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The aerospace agency is calling its new music and news outlet Third Rock Radio — a "space station" that NASA is hoping will register with tech-savvy young adults. More »
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It's safe to say that most of us have come to accept, if not embrace, the abundance of wireless technology in our everyday lives. Not so for certain Americans who believe they suffer from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, or EHS. According to the BBC, five percent of Americans think that exposure to electromagnetic fields created by Wi-Fi and mobile phones are causing them to suffer headaches, muscle spasms, burning skin and chronic pain. And some of these people are seeking refuge in the secluded mountains of Appalachia. More »
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A research group have developed an edible RFID chip. It's possible that this could lead to the perfect way to track ethically produced food or count calories, or find out what every single person in a diner is eating so you can shame them for it. More »
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Among the remarkable treasures found in Tutankhamun's tomb were two ornate trumpets, one made of silver and the other of bronze. In 1939, BBC radio broadcast the trumpets' music to 150 million people, and they're now re-releasing the original audio. More »
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Do people regularly interrupt you in conversation? Does your online chatter require too many smileys? Is your pen pal letting you down? Maybe you want to try someone off-planet. Here's how to make the attempt. More »
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The new Green Hornet movie is a goofy superhero send-up. But the franchise has a serious past. Dig into some Hornet history and learn how its heroes went from radio and comics to TV, and finally to Seth Rogen. More »
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Apparently so: as PopSci reports, "communications are vital" for vessels at sea, but deck space for "all the large antennas necessary for long-range (and often encrypted) communications" can be hard to come by. More »
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In 1971, the National Emergency Warning Center accidentally told US radio stations to suspend all broadcasts, presumably because the world was ending in a nuclear fireball. It took them 40 minutes to correct this apocalyptic gaffe. More »
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For years, we've been fans of the WNYC show Radiolab. We're not alone; five artists from around the world created these sold out limited-edition prints to raise money for the show, and a second set is to follow next year. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5433158&view=rss&microfeed=true Have a free listen to 'Stamped for Murder,' the first episode of 'The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe' from October 20th, 1950. This episode was written by science fiction master Alfred Bester, starring Sidney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe. More »
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I no longer listen to The Onion Radio News for humor, but with a tinge of hope that some day, this will all be real and mutants and humans will find peace. Just listen: More »
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Call it the Dr. Horrible follow-up you didn't see coming. Joss Whedon's next musical project has nothing to do with Dollhouse and is happening sooner than you may think. Like, next month sooner. More »
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You may have heard that Philip K. Dick's android head has gone missing and is roaming the country wreaking god knows what paranoia. Now a radio play promises to reveal the truth. More »
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For years the property of geeks and nerds, now science fiction is suffering the ultimate indignity: Becoming the next big "sexy" thing for British actors. Is this the beginning of the end for the genre? More »
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Scientists who mapped a donut-shaped region of the sky (pictured) with a balloon-borne telescope called ARCADE say they've picked up an unmistakable radio signal coming from beyond our Milky Way galaxy. Sorry, but it's probably not E.T. broadcasting. One theory is that ARCADE detected faint radiation left over from the universe's first mega-stars, which all collapsed during the first billion years of time as we know it. The energy transmitted by their long-ago supernovae might be reaching us in the form of these transmissions. Or it might be caused by ultra-massive black holes in other galaxies. Get the full story over at New Scientist. More »
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Residents of Zagreb panicked last week when they heard radio reports of UFO sighting. The station’s journalists admitted to a War of the Worlds-inspired hoax, but claim this hoax held a deeper purpose. More »
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Torchwood star John Barrowman exposed himself live on the BBC this weekend, earning all of one complaint from a concerned viewer, and sparking off Google searches all across the world from everyone who missed it live. More »
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In the mid-1920s, these women were the equivalent of today's circuit board builders. Called "coil winders," they worked winding transformer coils for radios in a Philadelphia factory. Featured on the Shorpy blog, this image gives us a glimpse of old-school tech at the moment when it was most cutting edge. More »
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BBC Radio is launching a huge science fiction "drama season" that will span three stations in the month of March: Radio 3, Radio 4, and BBC 7. Audio plays, including adaptations of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama and Iain M. Banks' State Of The Art (adapted by Paul Cornell), will air during Radio 3's Afternoon Play, Classic Serial and Women's Hour timeslots. Meanwhile, BBC 7 will launch a new 10-part audio series called Planet B. The BBC's Jeremy Howe says the initiative is all about celebrating "contemporary science fiction," not chestnuts. And he says radio is the "natural home" of writers like Clarke and William Gibson, who've created "fantastic works of the imagination." [The Stage] More »
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If the Large Hadron Collider does go wrong and suck the world into a black hole, you can blame the hapless gang at Torchwood. As we mentioned before, a special Torchwood radio episode, taking place at the LHC, will be broadcast on Sept. 10, dubbed "Big Bang Day" because it's the day that scientists will use the LHC to recreate the launch of the universe. A new plot description for the episode "Lost Souls" has gone online, and it includes a special guest star. More »
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A bunch of kaiju-loving Germans have created a strange radio play about a giant monster named Gualagon, who looks like Cthulhu having a bad eye day. While the story of Gualagon exists only in audio format right now, the group who created the "Frankensteins Schreckensgigant" (or Frankenstein's Giant Horror) had whipped up a little CGI imagery to go with their classic monster tale. More Gualagon snaps below, including ones of him eating his favorite meals: skyscrapers and power stations. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5029826&view=rss&microfeed=true If you need something to listen to during lunch, tune into this interesting edition of Wisconsin Public Radio's "To the Best of Our Knowledge," featuring writer Michael Chabon discussing his alternate history novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He also talks about how science fiction can be just as beautiful and intellectually rewarding as literature. Plus there is a lot of joking around and goofing off, which makes for an excellent bit of radio. You can listen to it online. [Genre Busters via To the Best of our Knowledge] More »
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Bridging the gap between an apparently apocalyptic end to its second season and the potentially-revamped third, sexy alien-hunter show Torchwood is making the jump to radio. A special one-off episode about the secret organization that guards a "temporal rift" in Cardiff will be transmitted on BBC Radio 4 this summer — and it happens to be oddly topical, if you're a science geek. More »
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Yeah, you read that headline right. This supermassive radio telescope, set to be completed in Chile in 2012 (you're seeing an artist's rendering), listens to frequencies between the infrared and radio spectrum. It tunes in particles that will give astronomers an unprecedented portrait of the early universe, as well as planetary and star formations in our current volume of space. It's called the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA for short). One of the best parts of the array is that it comes with giant antenna transporters that allow researchers to reconfigure it on the fly. Just last week, the transporters arrived in Chile. Want to see one? More »
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The Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico is the most sensitive and gigantic radio telescope in the world, used to do radar studies on objects in our local solar system. Despite its long history of excellent operation - it was built in the early 1960s - the National Science Foundation is threatening to cut its funding down to almost nothing by 2011. Nevertheless, the massive radio apparatus just got a fresh coat of paint, as you can see in the picture, and the Arecibo Observatory is scrambling for fresh funding sources. See the telescope in its glory days in 1962 below the fold. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=337488&view=rss&microfeed=true Everybody's buzzing about how Seth Rogen is attached to play superhero Green Hornet in the movie adaptation he's also writing. That means most people will think of the Green Hornet as a paunchy, Jewish hero if this thing actually gets made. Since most audiences today aren't familiar with The Green Hornet, we've put a shorthand guide together for your edification. More »
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