Its adorableness aside, the Mexican axolotl is a salamander of particular interest to scientists. On the molecular level, the animal seems to have a cheat code for life: It can regenerate its limbs and vital organs, an ability researchers are desperate to better understand for medical applications.

Another book to screen adaption is in the pipeline. This time it’s a book that’s actually worth reading—Grady Hendrick’s 2016 novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism. Breakout star Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade, Castle Rock) leads, with Cathy Ang, Rachel Ogechi, and Amiah Miller as co-stars.

I won’t lie. When I heard the Saw series was being rebooted, I wasn’t excited. From 2004-2010, these films dominated the horror genre. James Wan directed the first film and had no clue his small little film would become ionic. Unfortunately, as the movie progressed in number, the story and quality decreased. The last…

Yesterday, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passed by the asteroid Bennu for the last time, ending its two-and-a-half-year relationship with the space rock. But OSIRIS-REx is still lingering in the asteroid’s vicinity, as if hesitant to embark on its roughly 200-million-mile return to Earth. That trip will begin in early…

The CW is not playing around and is dominating the nerd news cycle this weekend. Supergirl is heading into the final stretch as the upcoming season six will be the show’s last, and actress Peta Sergeant (The Originals) is now a series regular.

Admit it. You didn’t think CW’s Suicide Squad—I’m sorry CW’s Legends of Tomorrow was going to get past the first season. It’s ok to be wrong, though. Not only is the show on its sixth season, but it’s back and better than ever!

Some 10,000 grand pianos’ worth of space dust lands on Earth each year, according to a new paper published in Earth & Planetary Science Letters.

There’s even more casting news for the CW live-action reboot Powerpuff. Two more actors will join the series, which follows Blossom (Chloe Bennett, of Agents of SHIELD fame), Bubbles (Dove Cameron), and Buttercup (Yana Perrault) as jaded millennials who are trying to regain parts of their childhood they lost due to…

An expedition working near Luxor has stumbled upon the remains of a lost ancient Egyptian city, in what is being hailed as the most significant archaeological discovery in the region since the 1920s.

Just think, when this week started we all thought Muncher would be the weirdest creature in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Now, we all have visions of gleeful yet outrageously disturbing Mini-Pufts haunting our nightmares!

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's usual round up of the latest and greatest in plastic collecting. This week: Hasbro’s all but taken over for its Fanfest of Transformers, Star Wars, and Marvel reveals—give or take a bonus Baron Zemo—but there’s also fun Avengers cards and a sneak Star Trek away mission facilitator.…

Welcome to Gamer Week, in which The Takeout will be celebrating the edible side of video games all week long.

It’s not every day your childhood arrives at your door in the form of ice cream, but it happened to me recently.

In the ‘80s, turning beloved Japanese series into Westernized juggernauts was nothing new—but Macross’ transformation into Robotech sparked a legal feud that has, for the best part of two decades, meant getting the source material in the West legally very hard. That might finally be about to change, but not…

DMX, beloved rapper, songwriter, and actor has died at the age of 50. The entertainer was admitted to the hospital on April 2, and had been in a coma on life support following a heart attack caused by a reported drug overdose. After a series of brain function tests were conducted and showed no improvement in brain…