#morningspoilers The villain of Thor explains why you really shouldn't see him as just a villain. Great new pictures from Red, Super, and Never Let Me Go. See the trailers for True Blood, Eureka, and Warehouse 13! Thank goodness it's spoilers! More »

#exclusive The Sucker Punch trailer heaped fantasy upon fantasy. But what does it all mean? We asked director Zack Snyder to explain his mecha attack bunny dream world to us. Plus check out these gorgeous exclusive pieces of Sucker Punch artwork. More »

#webseries The long-awaited webseries Ark, starring Renee O'Connor (Gabrielle from Xena) is finally online, and we talked to O'Connor about the secret conspiracy behind the mysterious ark in space. And O'Connor also told us about her scifi version of Moby Dick. More »

#thisisawesome Over the weekend, we had a chance to talk to writers, producers, and actors from Supernatural (yes, we met Sam and Dean), and now we know the monstery score. Season 6 will take the Winchesters on a new path. SPOILERS! More »

#futuredystopias It's 2013, and China's the only country to have survived an economic meltdown. The Chinese own Starbucks, which now serves longan dragon well lattes. So why can't anybody remember an entire month? That's the premise of a new dystopian novel. More »

#manifesto The tenets of dieselpunk culture can be understood as follows. More »

#nerdrooms Not only did Last night's Psych name-check Decepticons, Comic Con, BSG and Star Trek, but the entire episode wrapped around an alleged alien invasion. But the best part was easily this closeted nerd's secret lair. More »

#io9bookclub China Miéville, author of io9 book club selection The City & The City, is joining us here to answer your questions. He'll be here tomorrow (Friday, 7/30), from 11-12 Pacific Time. Pipe up in comments with your questions. More »

#spaceporn The very bright star at the center of this image is WR 22. It's a rare example of a super massive star blasting its atmosphere apart and speeding towards death millions of times faster than our Sun. More »

#exclusive We're ultra excited for the Warehouse 13 and Eureka cross-over episodes starring Neil Grayston and Allison Scagliotti. But you don't have to wait - watch them together now. We snagged them both on camera, spilling details about their nerdmance. More »

#exclusive We love Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell, so it drives us nuts that her on-screen son in V, Logan Huffman, is such a jerk to her. We asked him why this is, and it seems like he gets that question a lot. More »

#thisisadisaster For some reason, the Buenos Aires branch of elite ad company Young & Rubicam figured that the best way to advertise condoms . . . is with images of a burning apocalypse? We've got the full (mildly NSFW) ad below. More »

Nobody thinks a Total Recall remake is a good idea, but it's still happening. And now it's been announced that Underworld director Len Wiseman is in final talks to direct, from a script by Equilibrium/Ultraviolet director Kurt Wimmer. This will be a new "contemporized" adaptation. The press release quotes Wiseman: More »

#madengineering In desperate need of a more efficient structure for their tiny solar cells, engineers turned to the world's foremost expert on nanotechnology: Mother Nature. The corneas of flies are the perfect nanostructures for the next generation of solar cells. More »

Scientists fed female lemurs birth control pills, and discovered that it distorted their scent to the point that males were no longer interested in having sex with them. We get this little tidbit about the study, from Science News: More »

#minniedriver Minnie Driver stars in the BBC's The Deep, a five-episode miniseries about a submarine searching the depths of the Arctic Ocean for organisms that could produce biofuels, replacing our dependence on dwindling fossil fuels. But everything goes awry. More »

#madscience After five years of drilling through 1.6 miles of solid ice, scientists finally hit Greenland's bedrock last week. The buried rock holds secrets to how Earth's climate changed 100,000 years ago, and what it means for today's climate upheaval. More »

#booktrailers Prepare to be overcome with literary wackiness! Gary Shteyngart's near-future dystopian comedy novel, Super Sad True Love Story, came out the other day. Here's the celebrity-studded, tongue-in-cheek book trailer, and you can read a zany excerpt at the New Yorker. More »

#lostaliens Damon Lindelof might be penciling in a bit of Lost-like weirdness into Ridley Scott's first Alien prequel. Lindelof is rumored to be rewriting Scott's backstory-explaining outing. But what will this alien-buff add to the classic H.R. Giger imagery? [a href="http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/is-losts-damon-lindelof-boarding-alien">Deadline] More »

#medicalbreakthroughs REM sleep behavior disorder blocks the paralysis that comes with deep sleep and causes people to violently act out their dreams. As though that's not bad enough, the disorder might mean neurological diseases are in the patient's future. More »