Your Body’s Carbon Likely Took an Intergalactic Detour Before Reaching Earth

Thats four times the diameter of the Milky Way. The same carbon in our bodies most likely spent a significant amount of time outside of the galaxy! News from the future, delivered to your present. A mosaic image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star’s explosive death.© NASA/ESA The Star Set to Explode Totally Flaked. A Partial Solar Eclipse Will Create Devil Horns on Saturday....

January 10, 2025 · 1 min · 73 words · Alexis Reid

15 Things We Learned AboutWickedFrom Director Jon M. Chu’s Commentary

Heres what we learned from listening to him speak about the film all the way through. Its interesting,Wizard of Ozis such an American fairy tale. he shared, also nodding to the 1939 movie as well. © Universal Pictures It was written at the time of American transition, leaving the Depression, going into war. Its like Frankenstein waking up. And I love that its part victory as well. © Universal Pictures...

January 9, 2025 · 5 min · 1049 words · Melinda Williams

3 Things We Liked and 3 Things We Didn’t AboutCreature Commandos

Nevertheless,Creature Commandos toe-tapping musical style effectively complemented its action choreography and backstory montages. Its remaining five episodes were no different. Comedy is subjective, so viewers mileage will vary. © Max However, the show did teeter into being downright mean-spirited at moments for the sake of it. But in its finale, the show felt like it lost a bit of steam. Instead of feeling revolutionary, it felt safe. © Max All seven episodes ofCreature Commandosseason one are streaming on Max....

January 9, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · Joshua Mckee

41% of Employers Worldwide Say They’ll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI

That, of course, is small consolation to graphic designers. News from the future, delivered to your present. Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers. OpenAI’s has allowed users to create customized versions of its GPT technology that violate the company’s own policies.© Bloomberg/Getty Images Core skills in 2030 compared to 2025, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum.

January 9, 2025 · 1 min · 66 words · Jessica Hudson

A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks

Apparently not everyone is ready to live in a post-truth world. Fittingly, Facebook competitors are also seeing a spike in interest. Facebook has successfully amassed more thanthree billionmonthly active users globally and Instagram hastwo billion. © Screenshot via Google Trends Want to chat with your friends? Meta-owned WhatsApp has nearlythree billion active chattersand Messenger has more thanone billionof its own. You get your guide, we get some clicks, and everyone leaves happy....

January 9, 2025 · 1 min · 136 words · Taylor Simpson

After Long Hiatus Over Faulty Spacesuit, NASA Plans Back-to-Back ISS Spacewalks

NASA suspended spacewalks after aterrifying spacesuit leak forced the space agency to halt all extravehicular activity. Theres water everywhere, Dyson could be heard saying during the live feed from the ISS. The astronauts are scheduled toreturn back to Earth in Marchon board a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm during a spacewalk 257 miles above the Pacific Ocean.NASA NASAs spacesuits are in desperate need of an upgrade....

January 9, 2025 · 1 min · 129 words · Nathaniel Navarro

Could Marvel Be On the Hunt for a New Black Panther?

Plus, get a glimpse of todaysCreature Commandosfinale. Its so funny, with the movie industry, projects can die for various reasons. Like, Oh, this one actually happened. © Marvel Studios The movie has been in development for 10 years and now the possibility of making it opens up. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Simon Pegg Still Has Hope ForStar Trek 4 Plus, A24’sDeath Strandingmovie finds an intriguing director....

January 9, 2025 · 1 min · 74 words · Justin Bean

Deadpool & WolverineSomehow Found Itself Embroiled in the Justin Baldoni/Blake Lively Lawsuit

Theres no question it relates to Justin. Its a serious issue. In the realm of parody law, who knows where this claim in the countersuit will land. © Marvel Studios Additional reporting by James Whitbrook. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present.

January 9, 2025 · 1 min · 47 words · Trevor Mcintyre

Elon Musk Is Already Backtracking on DOGE’s $2 Trillion Budget Cut Goals

He added that eliminating $2 trillion was like, the best-case outcome. To Nowrasteh, government interference is apparently when the Social Security Administration sends you a check in the mail. Trump has also suggested cutting taxes on Social Security payments, which would hasten the programs financial doom. © Samuel Corum/Getty Images In general, Musks targets for deletion could end up being agencies that have investigated his companies. News from the future, delivered to your present....

January 9, 2025 · 1 min · 74 words · Danielle Griffith

Industrial Complex Proposal Threatens Some of the World’s Clearest Skies for Astronomy

Working together, the telescopes produce some of the sharpest views of the universe. Right next door The project, dubbed Inna, is a proposed industrial-scale green hydrogen project. Well, the environmental impacts are precisely what the European Southern Observatory officials are concerned about. The Milky Way above ESO’s Paranal Observatory.Photo: ESO/P. Horálek The Atacama Desert has some of thedarkest, clearest skiesof anywhere on Earth. In 2021, the telescopesnapped imagesof 42 of the solar systems biggest asteroids....

January 9, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Victor Mercado

Maria Bakalova’sCreature CommandosRole Let Her Play With Femininity and Villainy

DC Studios Max adult animated showCreature Commandostook fans new and old by surprise. This interview has been edited for brevity. Isaiah Colbert, io9: This isnt your first time working on a James Gunn comic book project. © Max Your first was in MarvelsGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3as the talking space dog, Cosmo. What drew you to joining another Gunn work? © Max Maria Bakalova:Its James. Im just a huge admirer of everything hes doing....

January 9, 2025 · 4 min · 662 words · Steven Graham

Meta Is Making Instagram Political Again

It looks like Instagrams New Years resolution is to be more toxic. In aposton (where else?) Oh, how a couple of years and an election changes things. And really, youve gotta marvel at the timing of the decision to flip the Discourse switch. The company spent the entire 2024 election cycle not just ignoring political content butactively squashing itin the algorithm. If nothing else, Trump has proven to be great content, and Meta needs the juice....

January 9, 2025 · 1 min · 113 words · Lorraine Fernandez

Mysterious Red-Painted Dog Penis Bone Found in Ancient Roman Shaft

Discovering bones in ancient Roman quarry shafts is not unusualfinding a hand-painted dog penis bone, however, is. Scientists found the painted bone within a first-century BCE Roman shaft in Surrey, England. Green describes the red-stained artifact in astudypublished on December 25 in theOxford Journal of Archaeology. Ellen Green© The dog penis bone painted in red. Most were without evidence of butchering, disease, or burning. Of those animals, almost 200 of them were dogsbut only one of their penises was painted....

January 9, 2025 · 1 min · 136 words · Charles Barrett