Star Trek loves itself a cave episode. You can do a bunch of different stories in similar looking sets, you can restrict which members of the cast are the focus, you can thrust unlikely pairings together and force them to bounce off each other. Caves are good! Lower Decks not only agrees with this, but uses what is…
Source: io9 – Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Ode to Caves Is Bigger Than Just One Set
New research appears to provide a long-sought answer about the mysterious cicadas that emerge after years in the ground: do they eat during the brief time they spend as adults before dying? The study found evidence of plant DNA in the guts of some adult cicadas, but not in the guts of those that freshly reached the…
Source: io9 – Mystery Solved: Adult Cicadas Do Eat During Their Brief Time Above Ground
Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune ends with an intense showdown between Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha, two sides of an epic war that’ll decide the fate of a trade, a planet, and a galaxy. In the film adaptation, Dune: Part Two, Atreides is once again played by Timothée Chalamet, and Feyd-Rautha, the heir-apparent to…
Source: io9 – Austin Butler Forced Timothée Chalamet to Raise the Bar in Dune: Part Two
A unit of VFX artists at Walt Disney Pictures has successfully voted to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, marking another step forward in the swath of labor movements sweeping Hollywood this year—and another vital step in the nascent unionization push in the VFX industry.
Source: io9 – Disney VFX Artists Unanimously Vote to Unionize