This has been happening for a while, and it's not at all limited to schizophrenia:

Thank you for pointing that out.

EDIT: Nevermind.

Apparently I can't read the full article . . . but based on the abstract, it seems like they're saying plants can hear (or "sense", anyway) sound . . . with no mention in the abstract that plants can generate sound to communicate with other plants.

Indeed. It becomes the 1960s Batman's utility belt of storytelling.

I always felt terrible evolving a Paras into a Parasect . . . knowing full well that the "evolution" was just the fungus killing (and then zombifying the remains of) my Paras.

Antergy?

"Healthy dollop of glaring inaccuracies" indeed. After reading this, you're absolutely right. Lungs and swim bladders are cousins, not child/parent. Thank you.

Where did you get a photo of my uncle Spud?

I think this is a great question.

When looking at any living creature, you should ask yourself one thing: Is it from Earth? If the answer to this question is yes, then you share a common ancestor with it — a very distant common ancestor, but a shared one, nonetheless.

Well . . . we probably won't . . ..

. . . depending on where you live.

Is there any specific reason that io9 doesn't already have a merchandise section? It seems like between the lot of you, you could come up with some interesting stuff . . ..

Who, as it turns out, was Ygritte's father, too.

Technically steel is iron, with a tiny bit of carbon and/or other stuff in it.

The most environmentally-friendly option is to manage to die in such a way that there's nothing left that needs dealing with.

The "unun-" names are just temporary placeholder names. They were never intended to be permanent.

Who's to say they didn't avoid two disastrous and pointless world wars in the past century? Or four, or six, or fifty?

Harappan civilization was the largest civilization of its day, both in area and numbers. They covered over a million square kilometers, into four separate modern countries. They were so early on the scene, that, before anybody else, they were just starting to invent math when they suddenly fell victim to sudden and…