Here's a collection of stories pertaining to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami as well as articles about plate tectonics. Photo: Sendai Airport (Reuters/Kyodo)

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Rediscover your capacity for amazement with the day's greatest stories...

We've been running the io9 Book Club for over a year now, and it's been pretty awesome. Each month the io9 Book Club meets in the comments on the book club post, discusses the book for a couple of days, and then has a chance to chat with the author too. This week we'll be meeting on Thursday, Feb. 24, to discuss…

The weekend is almost here! Here are some amazing videos to help make the last few hours go by.

Miss out on some thrilling scientific discoveries and bizarre theories? We're on the case. Here's the best of io9's science coverage from the past few days.

Let's have one last fling before Valentine's Day is over.

Today we got our first glimpse of the X-Men: First Class trailer, an elegant, retro-thriller about the origins of the mutant superhero team. And we can't stop thinking about it.

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