The ‘Conjuring’ Prequel Has Cast Its Young Warrens (and It’s Not Who You Think)
The title alone suggests that The Conjuring: Last Rites was meant to be an end point for Ed and Lorraine…
Scientists Found Gold in the Most Ironic Place Possible
Japanese scientists discovered the undersea fields of Higashi-Aogashima Knoll Caldera’s hydrothermal vents over a decade ago, but the mineral-rich deposits…
The Ride’ Immerses You in the Monsterverse
Everything in life is made better when Godzilla is involved—and if King Kong wants to tag along, well, the more…
No-End House’ Holds Up as a Liminal-Space Nightmare
io9’s Summer of Horror is a celebration of the genre’s mid-year renaissance in all its gory glory. News, analysis, reviews,…
Humanoid Robots Just Performed Surgery Using Standard Medical Tools
It’s a fact. Specialist surgeons who tackle rare and frequently challenging operations report some of the highest burnout rates among…
The First Medical X-rays Ever Taken in Space
SpaceX’s Fram2 mission, launched in late March 2025, sent four amateur astronauts where no human had gone before. The flight…
The Best Budget Laptops Under $1,000 for Back to School
2026 is proving to be the best and, absolutely, the worst time to buy your next big back-to-school laptop. Your…
Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of Earth’s ‘Great Dying.’ It’s Bad News for Our Future
Roughly 252 million years ago, nearly all life on Earth vanished. In a blink of geologic time, the Permian-Triassic mass…
Apple’s Lawsuit Leaves OpenAI’s iPhone Rival in Limbo
Last week, Apple filed a lawsuit accusing frontier AI lab OpenAI of stealing company secrets. The legal battle may also…
DHS Cybersecurity Reportedly Has an ‘I’m Sure It’s Nothing’ Problem
Dismissed a valid alert about a cybersecurity breach once? Shame on the intruder. Dismissed a valid alert about a cybersecurity…
