Not clear to me why this approach, promising as it may be, would "wipe out flu forever". While it may be possible to target viral proteins other than HA, why wouldn't this result in selection pressure and increased mutation frequency at the site of the new target? The key advance here is the protection of RNA vaccines…

If it really is earthshaking, I really hope the first announcement doesn't go down in history as "This data is......."

Someone tell the History Channel, quick. They're airing a new episode of "Mankind: The Story of All of Us" tonight. Or maybe they get a pass, being all about history and that.

Andrea has always been Most Obnoxious (not to mention Most Stupid) Walking Dead Character - Lori was just filling in while Andrea was AWOL.

I've spent much of the last few episodes trying to figure out whether the disconnect I've been feeling with this season is the result of a intentional shift in emphasis by the writers and actors to reflect the bleakness of theis season's setting or an unintentional downward shift in their performance. Or maybe its…

I can't get that song - yes, that song - out of my head and its driving me crazy. But which flavor of crazy? So many to choose from.

Seems Neil Gaiman is about the same age as me - I felt exactly the same way about the cybermen when they first appeared, especially the moonbase story, which fuelled many a nightmare. Though I didn't love The Doctor's Wife, I'm now really looking forward to his cybermen episode.

If we assume that they spent about half an hour in the pocket universe (which sounded like a really good poker hand every time it was mentioned), they would have emerged into their familiar universe - the pants universe? - about a month later (5 days = 20 years). Its the second fairly obvious time inconsistency in the…

I just opened Safari, leapt on the io9 page and the apple disappeared. Grand Unified Theory proven.

Good luck at your new gig.

On the other hand, even if all cataclysms are sacred, I do believe there should be an exception for black holes.

Standalone epic. I like that.

How much?? No, really, how much is 3,000,100.00?

Yeah, I know. Glad someone got it though!

For a show set in Georgia, they're sure taking a long time for Herschel Walker to make his guest appearance.

In any case, surely jumping from high altitude is a much bigger deal than jumping from space - astronauts do it all the time. They just don't fall very far.

Gone Baby Gone and The Town were outstanding movies - if Argo is anything like as good as suggested here, Ben Affleck is well on his way to becoming the best director of thrillers around. Maybe he already is.

Shinya Yamanaka was born in late 1962, the same year John Gurdon showed how to transplant a somatic cell nucleus into an egg to produce a viable offspring. Coincidence? I don't think so!

If I ever wake up after a long period of suspended animation, I hope that, when I turn the power on, I'm not welcomed to the future by the sound of Nights In White Satin.

Neo's Genesis: Evangelion.