There was one big reasonAnakin Skywalker became Darth Vader. That quest will continue in a new book calledStar Wars: Master of Evilby Adam Christopher. Heres the full cover by artist Simon Goinard too. Darth Vader: Master of Evil is coming from author Adam Christopher.Image: Simon Goinard/Lucasfilm Vaders quest to cheat death is something that we never got to see in the movies. However, its something otherStar Warsauthors have explored across other media....

The impact killed all non-avian dinosaurs and decimated marine creaturesbut may have also boosted life in a peculiar way. In the Gulf of Mexico,hydrothermal activitytakes place when water seeps into the seafloor. The hydrothermal fluid, as its called, cools quickly in the deep, cold water. A hydrothermal vent along the Mid-At­lantic Ridge.© Marum, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The chemicals separate from the fluid and deposit along the seafloor....

One feature thats notably missing is a camera zoom capability. Google Pixel 9a With affordable phones like this, who needs flagships? The Pixel 9a is all the essentials packed into a friendlier price point. The Pixel 9a in Iris. Is it purple or blue? My eyes can’t decide.© Florence Ion / Gizmodo Google says it was modeled after naturewater, specificallybut I will go ahead and say it looks like beans....

The glasses had a microphone, camera, and speakers to gather as much information. The glasses themselves use Android XR, Googles homegrown OS for extended reality devices. Google product manager Nishtha Bhatia showed the crowd what the glasses cameras could display through the built-in camera. Google VP Shahram Izadi wearing Google’s prototype AR glasses.© Jason Redmond / TED Gemini can translate text it sees into different languages, though Izadi suggested that feature may produce mixed results....

But not everyone is on board with that assertion. The following responses may have been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. No, it has not. Romulus and Remus, seen here at one-month-old, are two of the three “dire wolf” siblings created by Colossal since last fall.© Colossal Biosciences Colossal first sequenced the genomes of two dire wolves by extracting DNA from ancient bones. Its important to have some sense for the scale of the genetic differences between the species....

The toya detector, actuallyis called MATHUSLA. MATHUSLA is a merciful and incredibly forced acronym for the MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles. The acronym is a reference to Methuselah, a biblical figure who lived nearly 1,000 years. The LHC.Photo: Ramaz Bluashvili from Pexels The box would be filled with detectors that would sniff out long-lived particles that elude the LHCs main detectors. The new detectors approximate cost, according to the report, is $44....

But the duo are set to get some moments of reprieve amid the misery. Gays have existed since the beginning of time, they were always there. I dont really see what the problem is. © HBO I dont see what were trying to say or complain about. Not only that, its just a beautiful story. Any theme can be done properly if its done by a good artist and executed with care and consideration....

Meta says that its latest AI model, Llama 4, is less politically biased than its predecessors. This is nothing new, of course. Internet platforms have long used algorithms to decide what content to surface. Meta says its latest artificial intelligence model, Llama 4, will answer more politically divisive questions and offer diverse viewpoints.Smith Collection/Gado/Getty CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been working in overdrive to curry favor in the administration in hopes of regulatory headaches....

The company teased an event later this month where it will reveal new folding smartphones. Well learn more about it when Motorola debuts the machine on April 24. Motorola teases the presence of something that will be iconic, but otherwise, thevideo teaseris pretty short. Is it three folding phones or two that it’s launching? Nobody knows.© Motorola Its about ten seconds of levitating Razr devices fanning in and out as they open and close....

A new analysis, however, adds another piece to the Denisovan puzzle. The identification provides the most compelling evidence yet that Denisovans lived across different habitats and adapted to diverse climates. Because of the jawbones degradation, the team couldnt use direct dating techniques like uranium-series or radiocarbon dating. The Denisovan jawbone.© Chun-Hsiang Chang, Jay Chang Altogether, this evidence pointed to the two possible time windows. One of the few things we know about Denisovans is that they interbred with both Neanderthals and modern humans....

The wingtip of Flight 5490 struck Flight 4522 on the runway around 12:45pm local time. Meekspostedthat seven members of Congress in total were on the flight. The administration did hire some of those people back, but seems to remain understaffed. An American Eagle regional jet takes off over the American Airlines terminal at Washington Reagan National Airport© J. David Ake/Getty Images Reuters reported that the FAA is about 3,500 air traffic controllers short of targeted staffing levels....

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we featurea story fromLightspeeds current issue. This months selection is Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? © Lightspeed (Part 2) by Sarah Langan. You canread Part 1 here. Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? The Attorney General of Virginia, which has jurisdiction, says it has no comment. Congo released a statement this afternoon:We at Congo believe in the essential value of every human being....

See no evil, hear no evil. Its only the latest messaging flub for Kennedy, however. Over 20 states have filed a lawsuit against HHS and the federal government to prevent the funding reversal. Fresh off boosting useless treatments for measles, RFK Jr. is now pleading ignorance about his agency’s plan to strip billions in funding from health departments.© Joshua Sukoff via Shutterstock Last week, a district judge agreed totemporarily blockthe funding stoppage until the court case is decided....