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Multiple European space agencies recently deployed Mars rovers in Morocco for field tests conducted in a Mars-like environment. According to the European Space Agency, the tests took place on the Sahara Desert’s northe...

Bomb disposal experts won't have to put their lives at stake every time they have to disarm an explosive if they can do their job with the help of a proxy -- like a robot they can control from afar. According to the UK M...

You always hear the phrase "there's no such thing as free lunch" to the point that it has become ridiculous and almost unbearable. It doesn't make it not true, especially in this day and age where "free" is used as a mar...

Back in October, Snapchat introduced official support for cats, meaning users could apply lenses to their feline pets for stylish cat selfies. A couple months have passed and now the company is rolling out similar suppor...

Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the SEAS have created a new insect-like miniature robot designed with sticky feet to climb around surfaces. Called the Harvard Ambulatory Mi...

The eyesight of Japan's students is deteriorating and the country's government thinks smartphones are to blame. A recent survey conducted by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology found th...

Were it not for Super Smash Bros., the GameCube controller would probably be a distant memory for most people. A curiosity of the past, perhaps, given its rather unique design and button layout. A stepping stone on the p...

Scientists with Tel Aviv University have developed a new method for producing biodegradable polymers that don’t require fresh water or plants. The technology paves the way for future biodegradable, sustainable plastics...

Those of you with dark enough skies last week might have caught a glimpse of the green comet 46P/Wirtanen. It was bright enough to see with the naked eye, and occurred alongside the Geminid meteor shower.

SimCity on the Super Nintendo was groundbreaking -- it managed to combine the joy of simulated city building that Mac and Amiga gamers enjoyed into a family-friendly console title that anyone could play. But did you know...

A tsunami that slammed into the beaches of Indonesia's Sunda Strait over the weekend has reportedly resulted in the deaths of at least 429 people.

If exclusivity is your lodestar when you’re buying a supercar, then on a dollar basis the 2019 Acura NSX should probably be your first port of call. The Japanese automaker’s resurrection of the iconic sports car may ...

We all need a little bit of music in order to boost our day or perhaps even enhance our performance in terms of work or sports, and a pair of wired headphones is often the most common recourse that a listener resorts to....

2019 is the year that tech gets it together, we can feel it.

While we're still patiently waiting for Disney+ to announce that Shuri series we've been dreaming of since ol' Loki got his own standalone gig, at least we can admire this smashing new, fully posable Black Panther Shuri ...

In January of 1991, a prototype for an NES version of SimCity appeared at an electronics show. It was never seen again--and the iconic city-building game would come out solely on the Super Nintendo several months later--...

It hasn't exactly been a homerun year for Xbox One exclusives. For starters, there just weren't that many of them, and Sea of Thieves – arguably the biggest Xbox One release of the year – was fairly underwhelming at ...

You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you don't care about, and the other half are terrible. Where's the good stuff? io9 is here to help.

This year, like most years over the past decade, I’ve used one whole heck of a lot of smartphone accessories. Today we’re going to talk about a sort of case, sort of cover, sort of mix between the two. Today I’m go...

We know there's a hybrid Lamborghini Aventador successor coming sometime between 2020 and 2022. Due to deleted Instagram posts and fissures in the rumor-verse, we expect a hypercar codenamed LB48H to preview the next ele...

You have probably had your fill off Surface Go reviews that seem to split the tech world in two. You've also most likely seen the brawls between the Surface Go and the iPad Pro, especially those revolving around the rhet...

After a season full of wonderful adventures that specifically excluded villains from Doctor Who's past, the BBC is going back to familiar territory.