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In 1991, scientists lowered 10 speakers into the water off of a remote Australian island in order to blast a monotonous 57 hertz tone from them for 10 days. Other researchers listened for the distant sound at 15 monitori...

There seems to be a trend among smaller smartphone makers these days. Launch a phone with a decent, or in Essential's case, bad, camera experience and just promise improvements to come via software updates in the near or...

When Tesla unveiled its Semi electric truck last week, everyone agreed that it looked cool, but some actual truckers weren't necessarily sold on its functionality. Most observers will be impressed with the pricing if it ...

A new simulation produced by NASA's Data Visualization Studio packs four months of swirling atmospheric activity into a two minute clip that reminds us how unrelenting this past hurricane season really was.

The Mars Curiosity rover has been a big success, but NASA's modern tech couldn't save its tires from breaking down in the harsh conditions of Mars. For future missions, the agency has gone back to the age of knights. Bas...

Sometime in recent history, Black Friday morphed from a day of markdowns that kicked off the Christmas-shopping season to a contact sport. But horror movies have long since viewed the mall as a breeding ground for terror...

Today we’re having a peek at two Star Wars helmets, both of them Stormtroopers, one from The Force Awakens, the other from The Last Jedi. The images we’re using come from the premiere prop replica makers on this plan...

Anova dominates the sales charts, but in many ways (raw heating power, looks, size, software quality), the Joule sous-vide circulator is actually the superior product, and Amazon's running an unprecedented $30 discount o...

Bitcoin, love it or hate it, is a financial reality that has moved into the mainstream. With attention — and value — higher than ever, people around the world are mining in hopes of picking up precious digital fragme...

We're in it. The time is now. The scary time. That time of year when it's just a little too cold for summer tires, but just a little too warm for winter tires. You know that one is way better than the other in the cold, ...

The horned larks of inland Southern California's Imperial Valley don't look like their forebears. The birds found in the region today have distinctly darker plumage on the tops of their heads, their backs, and the napes ...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly roundup of the coolest toys we'll inevitably be spending all our hard earned money on by next Black Friday. We've got adorable Lego Justice League members, swanky Star Wars guards,...

A study by Princeton researchers came to light earlier this month, revealing that over 400 of the world's most popular websites use the equivalent of hacking tools to spy on you without your knowledge or consent.

As exciting as it may be go on an online shopping spree for Black Friday, there is a human price to be paid: thousands of warehouse workers often have to commit many exhausting hours to making sure your orders arrive on ...

One of the biggest Nintendo Switch surprises came in the form of a game that most people will be familiar with: Skyrim. From the very start, Nintendo has been advertising Skyrim on the Switch, and for good reason, as thi...

Crazybaby is known to be a pioneering designer and developer of personal audio devices as well as software services, and today they have concentrated their efforts on the former by announcing the launch of the Air (NANO)...

Thirty-eight years after it should've first aired, Douglas Adams' last Doctor Who story, "Shada," is finally complete. Was it worth a nearly four-decade wait? It's hard to say. Because without that legacy of mystery to p...

There's a good reason it's so difficult for photographers and film crews to capture the elusive snow leopard in the wild. The animal's not only a master of stealth, it also sports a patterned fur coat that turns it nearl...

Doctor Who fans have waited nearly four decades for today. Shada -- an episode that began filming in 1979 with Tom Baker as the legendary Time Lord -- is finally finished and available to download (a DVD will be released...

Earlier this week, Uber dropped a bombshell by disclosing details of a data breach involving some 57 million user accounts--and then admitting to paying the hackers $100,000 to destroy the stolen data and keep their mout...

Sesame Street's parodies have always been delightful, but the show's riff on Stranger Things is honestly some next-level awesomeness.

Following Anheuser-Busch’s previous announcement about brewing beer on Mars comes an update that’ll actually get the project started. The company has revealed that it will send barley to the International Space Stati...