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A drugmaker is now officially making the case for an over-the-counter birth control pill to be sold in the U.S. On Monday, the company HRA Pharma said it has submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration to approve an OTC version of its existing contraceptive product. The move comes amid an ongoing…Read more...

Engineers in China have successfully deployed an ultra-thin sail attached to a rocket part to expedite its departure from low Earth orbit and reduce the amount of space junk aimlessly floating above our planet.

Apple will likely announce a “pro” tier of the Apple Watch this fall. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who publishes the Power On newsletter, Apple is planning a high-end variant to help its wearable compete with the industry’s best fitness watches.

Thor: Love and Thunder is now in theaters and fans have been eating up the latest Thor adventure. This time, the God of Thunder (Chris Hemsworth) sets off on a quest to kill Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) with the help of the Mighty Thor (Natalie Portman), Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and Korg (director Taika…Read more...

A grove full of hundreds of mature giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park is in danger as a wildfire quickly spreads across the area.

Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco) and Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) are back in town to get the band back together for a new master plan to help turn things green in Gotham. Along with King Shark (Ron Funches), Clayface (Alan Tudyk), and Frank the Plant (JB Smoove), the power couple now face a new Joker (Alan Tudyk) obstacle in…Read more...

Although there have been six high-grossing (if not always beloved) Jurassic Park/World movies, it’s never enjoyed the robust action figure series that accompanied other major film franchises like Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s probably because the real stars of the movies are dinosaurs and not the…Read more...

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Interest in the Moon has been reignited recently, and Japan is looking to get in on the fun. Researchers and engineers from Kyoto University and the Kajima Corporation have released their joint proposal for a three-pronged approach to sustainable human life on the Moon and beyond.

The Russian government has added a new target to its geopolitical shit list: expat social media influencers.Read more...

The aliens of Hulu’s Solar Opposites—who fled to Earth after the destruction of Shlorp, their home planet—have been hanging out in the suburbs for three seasons now, and they’ve all evolved as characters. That said, the show’s ruthlessly bawdy and snarky sense of humor remains fully intact.Read more...

In an unexpected twist, President Joe Biden will reveal the first full-color image from the Webb Space Telescope at the White House today at 5 p.m. ET. The much-anticipated release of the rest of the images remains scheduled for 10:30 a.m. ET tomorrow, and a live stream of Biden’s comments later today can be found hereRead more...

One day soon, people in states that have outlawed abortion may be able to take to the sea. A California OB-GYN is currently organizing and fundraising for an offshore, floating abortion clinic in the Gulf of Mexico. The clinic boat would be strategically positioned in federal waters, to avoid the jurisdiction of state…Read more...

Urban Fantasy often veers towards the neon-blue-night filter, but in Day Shift, an upcoming action flick from Netflix and Jamie Foxx, the vampire hunters are fighting the life-leeches in the under the seventy-two and sunny Los Angeles weather. After revealing the trailer via Twitter, Netflix proudly declares the film…Read more...

Binance can’t seem to get away from this image that it’s willing to do anything and everything to maintain its top spot in the crypto exchange game, even if that means allowing trade from users in sanctioned nations.Read more...

Steven Yeun has joined Bong Joon Ho’s next project. Dan Trachtenberg talks about the moment that inspired his new Predator movie, Prey. Another familiar face is confirmed for Marvel’s Secret Invasion. Plus, Riverdale goes multiversal, and a new clip from Star Trek: Lower Decks’ return. Spoilers away!

If you missed The Bob’s Burgers Movie while it was in theaters—or if, perhaps even more likely, you’re dying to watch it over and over again while eating burgers in your own home, this is your time. The meaty murder mystery comedy arrives on digital July 12, with a Blu-ray and DVD release July 19—and io9's got an…Read more...

As a cat-mom myself, I know as much as anyone how owning these lovable little balls of fluff can, at times, feel like a full-time job: these are pooping, shedding, furniture-ruining machines that demand to be fed, walked and played with, all on their own schedule (and sometimes, that schedule is 2AM). Even if you’re…Read more...

Hours after Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed Twitter that he wanted to terminate their $44 billion acquisition deal, prompting the social media network to sue, a rumor started spreading on Twitter. It goes like this: Twitter felt so betrayed that Musk was backing out of the deal that it had suspended his account. While…Read more...

Uber spent at least half a decade breaking laws and engaging in a coordinated influence campaign to force itself into countries with tight transportation regulations, according to explosive new report by the Guardian based on tens of thousands of Uber’s internal documents that were leaked to the news outlet.

Bernard’s back, baby! After leaving him in a motel room in the season three finale, waking up from his VR trip to the Sublime, and waking up absolutely covered in dust, tonight’s episode reveals exactly what happened to everyone’s favorite Host, and it’s quite strange. Doctor Strange, one might say.Read more...

The hype for Thor: Love & Thunder has been real pretty much from the moment they announced that Natalie Portman would come back to play Jane Foster as the Mighty Thor. Even with getting delayed a couple of times, the eventual sequel to 2017's Thor: Ragnarok was going to be a hit at the box office, thanks to the MCU’s…Read more...

Since Zack Snyder got to take something of a victory lap with last year’s Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and even when it was still just something for very devoted fans to ceaselessly hope for, there’s been a question of if we’ll get more director’s and extended cuts of big budget films. Surprisingly, Marvel movies…Read more...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a prequel covering the adventures of the USS Enterprise as led by Anson Mount’s Christopher Pike, the original captain before William Shatner’s James Kirk sat in the chair in the original Star Trek series. Leading up to release, the question of if Kirk would appear was danced around,…Read more...

Another week in July, another momentous anniversary for a sci-fi IP. This weekend, the movie celebrating a big milestone is Disney’s Tron, which released on July 9 all the way back in 1982 and is now 40 years old. Let’s do some reminiscing, shall we?

2021 and 2022 have seen the MCU bring in some new blood and highlight the oldies who didn’t entirely get enough love during the Infinity Saga. But with this weekend’s Thor: Love & Thunder, we’re going back to Chris Hemsworth’s beloved, funny thunder god as he and a returning Natalie Portman as the Mighty Thor team up…Read more...

Good hacker movies are hard to come by. Why? For one thing, it’s pretty hard to make an interesting movie about a guy sitting at a computer. For another, all of the drama of hacking and the digital world is mostly invisible to the naked eye. This presents a particular challenge for a visual storytelling medium like…Read more...

Amazon’s The Boys wrapped its third season a few days ago, and now the raunchy superhero satire is taking a break until season four hits sometime presumably next year. A lot happened throughout the eight-episode season, and the show is shaping up to have a sharply different future from the source material by Garth…Read more...

Spider-Man is, at this point, just a constant force of nature who will outlive us all and possibly the heat death of the universe. While he’s plenty popular across films, comics, and video games, it’s animation—and more specifically, TV animation—where some of his most enduring work lies. Of the many shows to bear his…Read more...

Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball franchise is insanely popular, thanks in part to Toonami and airing the anime adaptation of both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z during the 90s. Fandoms are the lifeblood of IP, and Dragon Ball’s fandom has been beating quite strongly more recently, especially with the new theatrical film, …Read more...

Stranger Things 4 has been the talk of the town throughout the spring and summer, and in particular its needle drops. The first part of the season featured Max (Sadie Sink) being saved from the thrall of big bad Vecna by listening to Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill,” a scene which helped boost Bush’s song on the…Read more...

If you’re on Twitter, you’ve had your timeline taken over by Elon Musk at some point. This past Wednesday, it was his secret twins with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis. On Thursday, it was news that his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter was in “serious jeopardy.” Finally, on Friday, Musk finally did what he had been…Read more...

NASA’s Earth Observatory has been presenting us with images of our pale, blue dot since it began in 1999, allowing us to get a birds eye view of what different parts of our planet look like. While Earth Observatory has a ton of photos accumulated by satellites orbiting the planet and astronauts aboard the…Read more...

The summer of superheroes and pop culture conventions is upon us! Fans can now glimpse the Mighty Thor from Thor: Love and Thunder at Avengers Campus, take a booze cruise on the Disney Wish with Marvel and Star Wars-themed drinks, visit the fictional Nope amusement park at Universal Studios, and preview what’s on the…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of the latest in nerdy toy news. This week, Lego’s Speed Champions line takes a dip into the licensed world, and not to be outdone, Mattel’s Mega Construx line heads to Snake Mountain for a mighty He-Man set. Plus, you’re going to need some swanky accessories to build…Read more...

As the Game of Thrones television universe expands with the upcoming prequel show House of the Dragon, George R.R. Martin, creator and author of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series, has provided a sort-of update on his long-awaited Winds of Winter.Read more...

On Friday evening, Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally made it crystal clear that he has no interest in adding “owner of Twitter” to his list of titles. The move was months in the making. Twitter is planning to sue in response.Read more...

Residents of Los Angeles and San Francisco each have awesome pop culture art shows to visit this weekend—but if you don’t live in those cities, io9 is bringing the shows to you, right here, right now.Read more...

You don’t realize how cyclical life is until you return to a gadget trend after a decade. When I shut my Verizon-provided Samsung flip-phone, I figured that was the last time I would be flirting with that form factor, as candy bar-style smartphones were now taking over the general gadget zeitgeist.

Dig way back into the recesses of your brain and you may recall something called a “Steve Bannon.” The Breitbart News guy. “Alt-right” racist extraordinaire. Former Trump Chief Strategist and advisor. Cursed countenance, with watery eyes that convey a haggard contempt.

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News coverage of wildfires tends to focus on the acute events: A blaze erupts, people are evacuated, homes burn down, sometimes lives are lost. And rightfully so—it’s important to know what’s happening as it’s happening. As a result though, there are lots of articles and images out that describe and show flames…Read more...

Marvel Studios has found the man who’ll bring Captain America back to the big screen and it’s director Julius Onah. Onah, who made The Cloverfield Paradox, has been tapped to direct the next Captain America film which will star Anthony Mackie as the hero. Malcolm Spellman, who helped Mackie’s character become Captain…Read more...

A team of researchers say they’ve found some building blocks of RNA in a molecular cloud close to the center of the Milky Way. The discovery has implications for theories about how life began on Earth—and perhaps elsewhere.

“If you were presented with a life threatening situation, would you make an effort to save yourself?” That’s a question a therapist might ask you after you disclose suicidal ideation. It also happens to be the thesis statement of Max Mayfield’s journey through grief in the fourth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things.…Read more...

Standing at 30 feet tall, with a trunk scarred by fire and a severe fungal infection, is the Chisos Mountains oak, or Quercus tardifolia, a species thought to be extinct. The tree is likely one fire or drought away from death. Researchers are now keen to protect this lonely survivor.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has the ability to control the conversation about him with a single tweet, even when the news is a sticking point about his treatment of employees. That’s why this week he’s managed to turn a story about him having children with a subordinate at one of his companies into one about his strange…Read more...

Today, the MCU re-introduces us to Jane Foster, now flying high with thunder in her veins as the one and only Mighty Thor. Jane’s tenure of the Goddess of Thunder is a highlight of Asgardian comic book action in recent years, so to celebrate, here’s a few of the moments big and small that made us fall in love with her…Read more...

Raise your hand if you had this on your 2022 bingo card: Natural gas is now climate-friendly.