Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s south polar regionNASA/JPL-Caltech The liquid water ocean hidden underneath the icy crust of Enceladus has long made this moon of Saturn one of the best prospects in the hunt for extraterrestrial life – and it just got even more promising. The discovery of heat emanating from the frozen moon’s north pole hints the ocean is stable over geological timescales, giving life time to develop there. “For the first time we can say with certainty that Enceladus is in a stable state, and that has big implications for habitability,”…
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Courtesy of The CW, Paramount+, Hulu Loving television means celebrating the best it has to offer… and also calling out the series that really miss the mark. To that end: It’s time for our picks for the worst TV shows of 2025 so far! Among the latest inductees into our Hall of Shame are a celeb reality show no one asked for, a procedural that feels like a pale imitation of what came before, a prestige drama event that left a bad taste in our mouths, and a highly disappointing…
Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles, there’s a textured sensuality to the world crafted by director Dan Trachtenberg that’s undeniably appealing. The scaled, rippled skin of the Predator has a certain kind of beauty; its hollowed out face, golden eyes and expressive mandibles tap into something primal and exciting. The extraterrestrial world is rich in oozing lifeforms and even the synthetic curves of the film’s humanoid characters, androids designed to explore the inhospitable planet, feel embodied; their skin delicate, apt to rip and scar. The film opens with an exile,…
Doechii’s “Anxiety” has been nominated five times at the 2026 Grammy Awards. This slew of nominations has prompted questions from people who thought they knew when the song was released and how the awards work. We’re here to clear that up. Check out the full list of nominees here. Get Doechii Tickets Here When Did Doechii Release “Anxiety”? Doechii has been striving for stardom for years. Evidence of the Florida rapper/singer’s ambitious come-up is peppered across the internet in the form of earnest vlogs on YouTube, which is where Doechii’s original Swamp fanbase first heard the artist’s uber-popular single. Doechii…
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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View All posts by Kelly Jensen Rutherford County Library System (RCLS) in Tennessee have made several headlines during this wave of book censorship. They voted to ban all trans books for minors in the library earlier this year, and the board of the Lineburgh Public Library–one…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Animals in children’s stories are often depicted as living in neat mom, dad and children family units. Examples include Fantastic Mr. Fox, 101 Dalmatians and, more recently, Peppa Pig and Bluey. But, this might leave people feeling like outsiders if they don’t come from a traditional nuclear family set-up. In reality, there is a huge diversity in what family looks like within the animal kingdom. In biparental care, a male and female animal raise their offspring together. This type of parental behavior is predominantly seen in birds and is rare in invertebrates, fish and mammals. Mute…
ABC Still reeling from the discovery that Don has known about him for his entire life, Blue was ready to turn his back on firefighting for good in Episode 5 of “9-1-1: Nashville.” Unfortunately for Blue (and his beautiful car), fate had other plans. TVLine spoke with actor Hunter McVey about what’s still to come for Blue in Season 1, but first a quick recap: After quitting his skill test mere seconds before crossing the finish line, Blue went off the grid and was only willing to respond to Ryan.…
Melody Thomas Scott recently talked about Peter Bergman‘s casting on The Young and the Restless, revealing how she had a pivotal role to play in the actor replacing the legendary Terry Lester. Here’s what Scott shared about Bergman’s casting. Melody Thomas Scott on Peter Bergman’s performance as Jack in The Young and the Restless It’s been decades since Peter Bergman took over the role of Jack Abbott. The actor has been loved by the audiences as well since he joined the cast in 1989, but it seems Melody Thomas Scott had a big role to play in this. Scott and…
Damon Albarn has released another song from the forthcoming Gorillaz album The Mountain. The new single, “The God of Lying,” features Idles. Check it out below.Albarn wrote “The God of Lying” with Idles frontman Joe Talbot. He recorded it in London and Devon, England, and Mumbai, with bansuri player Ajay Prasanna and percussionist Viraj Acharya. In a statement, Gorillaz’s fictional frontman, 2D, said, “Can I tell you a secret? Doubt is very tiring but questioning things is really good for you.”The Mountain is out March 20. The follow-up to 2023’s Cracker Island includes recent singles “The Happy Dictator” (featuring Sparks)…
Take it from someone who wears jeans at least four times a week—even the most devoted denim lovers can fatigue on the classic bottoms now and then, especially in the fall, when they become especially easy to grab for. Whenever that happens, and I suddenly cannot fathom the thought of pulling on another pair of jeans, there’s one solution that works every time. Swap out your denim for a black miniskirt, and if you don’t want to take my word for it, take the word of Jennifer Lawrence, who just wore the chicest black miniskirt outfit in New York City.…
In the game known as the streaming wars, Disney+ came out swinging, bringing with it a massive library of movies and TV shows—with new ones being added all the time. Watched everything on Netflix? Disney+ has a seemingly endless selection of Marvel movies and plenty of Star Wars and Pixar fare too. Problem is, there’s so much stuff that it’s hard to know where to begin. WIRED is here to help. Below are our picks for the best films on Disney+ right now.For more viewing ideas, try our guides to the best films on Netflix, the best films on Amazon…
My Mountains by Chris Smith It’s hard to write a book that’s both page-turning and gentle, yet Smith excels at it. My Mountains: Our Family’s Story of Adventure, Mysteries, and Tragedy opens on a blue-sky Colorado day and a text message no parent wants to receive. From that first, shattering scene, author Chris Smith carries readers into a life measured not only by summits and trail miles, but by the stamina of a family learning to love through pain. What follows is a candid, deeply humane memoir that holds sorrow and wonder in the same steady hands —…
A strange, lopsided dust cloud shrouds Earth’s moon, ever skewed toward whichever side is facing the sun. Now, a new study may finally explain how the asymmetrical cloud got its shape.Most of the moon’s surface is covered by a layer of gray dust and loose rocks. This layer, called regolith, arises because the lunar surface is constantly bombarded by micrometeoroids — tiny space rocks created by asteroid collisions and comets. Without a protective atmosphere — which, in Earth’s case, causes micrometeoroids to burn up as “shooting stars” — the moon is struck by several tons of micrometeoroids daily. These impacts,…
Paramount Network We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of the biggest bonafide television hits of the past several years is “Yellowstone,” created by John Linson and prolific screenwriter and producer Taylor Sheridan. The neo-Western centers on the saga of the Duttons, a wealthy family that runs the largest cattle ranch in Montana. This not only makes the family and their business a target for political opponents and competitors, but also raises the murderous tension between the Duttons themselves. “Yellowstone” ran for five seasons and spawned…
After a seven-year hiatus — and two films that went straight to streaming — the Predator franchise returns to theaters this week with Predator: Badlands. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, and starring Elle Fanning, the movie follows the unlikely partnership between an alien hunter (played by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) and an android (Fanning).If you see the film in theaters this weekend and want to keep the horror sci-fi action vibes going at home — or you can’t make it to the theater just yet and you want to scratch that same itch from the comfort of your couch — here are five options for further home…
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. After releasing his fifth studio album Deadbeat, Tame Impala is setting sail on a global tour. Already kicking things off in October in New York, Kevin Parker and the gang played most of their new album – and plenty of old favorites to a sold-out crowd at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. In case you missed the show, here are our favorite moments from the inaugural show as…
Kate O’Keeffe / Bloomberg: Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple’s downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement — American officials thought they’d secured a deal with TuSimple to protect autonomous-driving technology. It didn’t work. View Original Source Here
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Broken Alliance? My goal was to explore the blurring line between science fiction and science fact, a reality we see today with AI deeply integrated into every aspect of our lives—from social media to digital tools. While this reliance formed the underlying threat in Broken Alliance, the true heart of the story is human. It’s a narrative about human perseverance and, crucially, humanity’s responsibility to actively guard our future in a rapidly evolving technological world. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Broken Alliance,…
The skull now identified as Béla of MacsóBorbély Noémi/Tamás Hajdu et al. 2025 More than 700 years ago, a Hungarian duke was murdered in a brutal and very bloody head-on attack in a convent. Now, researchers studying an ancient skeleton excavated in Budapest have confirmed it belonged to the duke and revealed shocking details of his assassination. “There were so many more serious injuries than would be necessary to kill somebody,” says Martin Trautmann at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Archaeologists uncovered the man’s remains — which had been buried in dismembered pieces in the convent floor — during…
NBC Goodwin isn’t just dealing with a family emergency, she’s facing a longtime family secret. In Tuesday’s episode of “Chicago Med,” the Goodwin family comes together to rally around Bert after his medical emergency last week. But things get increasingly tense and emotional for the clan when they learn Bert has an advanced directive that forbids surgery. Goodwin’s son David wants to go against Bert’s wishes, effectively disagreeing with the rest of the family over his father’s care; he’s not ready to give up. David’s siblings resent him for not having…
A conflicted elegy for an America poisoned by manifest destiny, Denis Johnson’s captivating 2011 novella spans most of a century, from the rapid expansion of the railways in the 1910s to the thundering highways of the 1960s. Adapting this much-lauded miniature epic might seem like a fool’s errand, but Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar, who previously collaborated on Sing Sing, capture the grandeur, tragedy and intimacy of Johnson’s work without slipping into nostalgia for an idealised kind of West inhabited by John Wayne.Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a loner labourer going wherever the work takes him as industrialisation spreads westwards, epitomises strong but silent…
In the eighth episode of Season 3 of Paranormal Prison, our guest is Santa Cruz, California hardcore punk unit Drain.The band joins Josh Bernstein (The Power Hour, Z2) and Katrina Weidman, who you may be familiar with if you’ve ever watched the paranormal investigative TV show Portals to Hell with Jack Osbourne. Together, they traverse the haunted grounds of the infamous Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, also home to the annual Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival.For the third year, some of the fest’s biggest stars explore various areas of the prison, which has a rich history of being haunted. This time, the crew has leveled…
The pendulum of fashion is finally swinging away from the aggressive hardware and exaggerated soles that have dominated fall footwear for seasons. As the mood shifts toward quiet luxury and timeless polish, a classic silhouette is coming back into the spotlight: the classic brown leather loafer.This isn’t the chunky version that has been trending lately—it’s the sleek, refined staple that acts as the anchor for a modern, grounded outfit, and no one is proving its relevance more effectively than Gigi Hadid. Recently, for a family dinner in Los Angeles, the supermodel paired her rich, dark brown leather Miu Miu loafers…
The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, and they expect that number to keep rising in 2026. The biggest spender last quarter was Microsoft, which put nearly $35 billion into data centers and other investments, equivalent to 45 percent of its revenue.Rarely, if ever, has a single technology absorbed this much money this quickly. Warnings of an AI bubble are getting louder every day, but whether or not a crash eventually happens, the frenzy is already reshaping the…
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Bit of a slow news day, so we will mix things up a little bit. We’ll do a few more links than usual, but the twist is that rather than the title of the piece, I will pick out the most interesting sentence. Let’s see how we do. “If they succeed, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, triggering enhanced damages of as much as $150,000 per work.” [Full story] “Each year, the prize celebrates the novels that have genuinely made…
Credit: Karola G from Pexels A team of sports scientists and cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna has demonstrated in a new study that solving a task together can promote spontaneous movement synchronization. Such synchronization serves as a kind of “social glue” and plays an important role in the social functioning of communities. To better understand this mechanism, the researchers examined how working on a jigsaw puzzle together influenced movement synchronization during trampoline jumping. The results showed that pairs who had worked together on a puzzle subsequently displayed greater synchronization on the trampoline than pairs who had worked on…
Netflix Xolo Maridueña, best known for his role as Miguel Diaz on “Cobra Kai,” is staying put at Netflix. The “Parenthood” alum has been cast as Portgas D. Ace in Season 3 of “One Piece,” which begins production later this year in Cape Town, South Africa. He’s the second major addition to the live-action adaptation announced this week, following word that Cole Escola (“At Home With Amy Sedaris”) has joined Season 3 as non-binary character Bon Clay, a “theatrical assassin who turns combat into art.” “One Piece: Into the Grand Line” — aka Season…
Netflix’s smash hit animated film KPop Demon Hunters officially has its eyes set on a sequel, with a new report suggesting when the KPop Demon Hunters 2 release date window might be. When and where will KPop Demon Hunters come out? According to a new report from Bloomberg on the success of KPop Demon Hunters, a potential future date for the film has been noted. Bloomberg notes that, while Netflix continues to try and capitalize on the success of the film, they recently finalized a deal for a second movie with directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, as well as…
Netflix and Sony have finalized a deal for KPop Demon Hunters 2, as first reported by Bloomberg. The sequel to the smash hit animated musical is set to arrive in 2029. Directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans are set to return. The potential four-year gap between the movies is due to animated films taking far longer to develop than their live-action counterparts. KPop Demon Hunters was developed by Sony Pictures Animation. Centering on the fictional K-pop girl group HUNTR/X, who lead a double life fighting demons that take the form of a rival boy group, Saja Boys, the film became Netflix’s most…