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A 50-million-year-old turtle orgy. Turns out most people would like more meat in their antibiotics. Or fewer antibiotics in their meat. What was that book?

“If an intelligent life form has built a spaceship, there’s the question of ‘why not make it out of stone or coral?’” Good question. Is there an alien spaceship at the bottom of the Baltic? In scientific search for the perfect pop…

Maybe the cave painters were Neanderthals. Plants are talking about you behind your back. Great Titan’s lake! A year inside a 10 year’s old pocket. Let’s all look at Beunos Aires’ abandoned classic cars.

Here’s the thing you guys, talking robot baby. The history of maps is one of my favorite things. A man-made object is about to leave the solar system for the very first time. These book sculptures are pretty neat. Everyone…

Thinking about what existed before the big bang hurts my brain. How to kiss. Should the tides rise, San Francisco will look a lot more like I imagined it from the never ending bridge crossing on Full House. Today in…

Let the record show: a dingo did get their baby. Penguin sex totally grossed out old-timey Antarctic explorers. This is breaking all sorts of self-imposed rules here, but the world needs its Tom Hanks inspiration statue. It’s time to picture…

Wired looks at the science of Ray Bradbury. I, for one, am very concerned about cosmic climate change. 2012 is the year of slides. Monkey Orchids are a thing. The lesson here is that if you lock yourself out of…

The question on everyone’s minds: can spiders kill in space? Christopher Herwig’s photos of Soviet bus stops are my favorite things today. Not to keep posting about the Diamond Jubilee, but the York Minster lawn flooring is pretty neat. Let’s…

Yesterday’s news, today! Sci-fi writers remember Ray Bradbury. Big Picture has all the Transit of Venus pictures you could hope for. 1950s China imagines today. Science means getting to look inside a manta ray’s womb. Take that Europe! WWI satirical…

The future is nothing but white skies as far the eyes can see. Women of 1937, this is the proper way to undress in front of your husbands. Have you ever wanted to experience an illegal border crossing without actually…

IO9’s Death Week brings you the adventures of Lincoln’s corpse, and the economic perils of cryogenic freezing. Chinese people on invisible bikes. Perhaps you’d like to buy a secret Norwegian submarine base. What do foreign travel guides to the US…