By Alice Klein Labor leader Anthony Albanese is Australia’s new prime ministerXinhua/Shutterstock Australia’s election on 21 May has been described as a “greenslide” after voters abandoned the long-standing pro-coal Liberal-National Coalition government in droves in favour of candidates that support stronger action on climate change. The Labor party, which promised to do more to tackle climate change, has won the most seats overall, but it is unclear whether they can form a majority on their own. Their leader, Anthony Albanese, was sworn in as prime minister today. But the big surprise was the record number of seats snatched from both…
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AMC is giving viewers a new peek at the final round of Better Call Saul episodes with a fresh trailer that teases at the Saul (Bob Odenkirk) viewers knew during Breaking Bad. Set to return beginning Monday, July 11, Better Call Saul‘s sixth and final season has six more episodes to unveil before wrapping up the prequel. The new minute-long teaser set to the tune of Fred Neil’s “A Little Bit of Rain,” sets a sentimental and melancholic tone as fans prepare for the big goodbye. Concluding on Monday, August 15 with the series finale installment, Better Call Saul is…
A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has significantly improved the performance of numerical predictions for agricultural nitrous oxide emissions. The first-of-its-kind knowledge-guided machine learning model is 1,000 times faster than current systems and could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. The research was recently published in Geoscientific Model Development, a not-for-profit international scientific journal focused on numerical models of the Earth. Researchers involved were from the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Pittsburgh. Compared to greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, nitrous…
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Up Against It, a science fiction novel by environmental engineer Laura J. Mixon, explores life aboard the asteroid 25 Phocaea. The book takes a more realistic approach to space adventure, eschewing familiar tropes such as FTL drives and instantaneous communication. “When I’m reading science fiction, one of the things I can really get into is stuff that’s got a lot of scientific grounding,” Mixon says in Episode 517 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “When I write, I try to really delve into that challenge of ‘How can I make this believable but still really blow the reader’s…
Beabadoobee has released the new song “10:36.” It’s the third single from the artist’s sophomore album Beatopia, following “Talk” and “Lovesong.” Take a listen below.“‘10:36’ was written after Fake It Flowers and just before Our Extended Play, and I had envisioned it to be on that EP, but I was just sitting on that riff for ages and then I properly made a demo during lockdown,” Beabadoobee said in a press release. “It was called ‘10:36’ because that was the time I finished writing it. It’s basically about how I have this weird dependency on human contact to sleep.”Beatopia is…
“There was an idea to bring together a group of remarkable people to see if they could become something more. To see if they could work together when we needed them to. To fight the battles that we never could.”That’s Nick Fury talking about the Avengers. But he could also be talking about the movie The Avengers and the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After 14 years and dozens of movies, look at what became of this idea; bringing together all these remarkable people and seeing that, yes, they could be something more when they worked together, when their films were interwoven together…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Search Engine – Black Flag Brigade Origins? After completing the Black Flag surviving trilogy, I wanted some of the younger, minor characters from that series to break out on their own. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Search Engine – Black Flag Brigade Origins, what would they be? I’m Invincible by Sia. What’s your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write? Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is my favourite genre to read and write. What scene in…
Stars of two of the funniest shows on television face off when Celebrity Family Feud returns for a new season on Sunday, July 10 on ABC, and TV Insider has an exclusive sneak peek. In the first game it’s ABC’s Abbott Elementary — Quinta Brunson, Lisa Ann Walter, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Ms. Joyce Abbott, and Tyler James Williams, playing for DonorsChoose — versus HBO Max’s Hacks — Jean Smart, Christopher McDonald, Poppy Liu, Mark Indelicato, and Rose Abdoo, playing for Feeding America. In our clip, with two answers already on the board (perfume/skank and booze), host Steve Harvey asks Walter…
CAR-T therapy, a form of immunotherapy that revs up T-cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells, has revolutionized the treatment of blood cancers, including certain leukemias, lymphomas, and most recently, multiple myeloma. However, Black and Hispanic people were largely absent from the major clinical trials that led to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of CAR-T cell therapies. In a study published today in Blood Marrow Transplantation (BMT), investigators at the National Cancer Institute-designated Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center (MECC) report that Black and Hispanic patients had outcomes and side effects following CAR-T treatment that were comparable to their white…
Graphic by Kayleen Dicuangco This Pride season, let’s put our dollars toward LGBTQIA2S+-founded and -owned beauty brands that are championing and supporting queer communities year-round. By Pascale Diverlus Date June 30, 2022 Pride month welcomes us with colourful sidewalks, the strategically planned product launch and a month’s worth of rainbow washing. Even as many beauty brands are vocal in their support of LGBTQIA2S+ people and communities, the industry has been criticized for tokenizing queer and trans people. Beauty means so much to queer and trans folks — it is affirmation, it is visibility and, often, it brings out the truest…
A nova is a galactic equivalent of a flashbang – an immensely powerful explosion of light and energy that is only visible for mere days before fading away. But a recently discovered nova has broken all previous records by fading away from view within just 24 hours. Discovered by amateur astronomer Seidji Ueda on June 21, 2021, the V1674 Herculis nova was seen on the border of the constellation Hercules the Hero that it shares with Sagitta and Aquila. “The white dwarf that exploded is massive and growing in mass toward a Supernova 1A explosion,” astronomer Sumner Starrfield of the University…
Steve Lacy scores his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 as a recording artist, as his new single “Bad Habit” opens at No. 100 on the chart dated July 16. The song, released on L-M/RCA Records, debuts with 5.3 million U.S. streams in its first full tracking week (July 1-7), according to Luminate. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Lacy has appeared on various Billboard charts over the past decade, first as a member of The Internet and then via collaborations as a solo artist alongside acts including Frank Ocean, Tyler, The…
It’s amazing what we humans today have at our disposal for entertainment — everything from prestige dramas to reality TV. While it’s hard to distinguish what counts as the “first” reality television show, the genre really took hold in the early 1990s. Since then, reality TV has become a favorite for many viewers. Mark Twain once said that truth is stranger than fiction, and reality shows seem to prove that. There have been some absolutely bizarre reality TV programs to grace our screens over the years. Let’s revisit them, shall we?Finding true love has never been easy, but plenty of…
Left image: The picture of a nano-polystyrene suspension (500 mg L−1, pH 7) (left) and the nano-polystyrene suspension after adding pectin (15 mg L−1) and Fe(III) (0.10 mM) after storage for 72 h (right). Right image: TEM image of the precipitate. Credit: Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2022.108054 Microplastics are known to collect in ecosystems and nanoplastics occur from the breaking down of microplastics. Nanoplastics are plastic particles of sizes less than 100 nm and when they are in water, they are dispersed in a colloidal form. Nanoplastics might be more prevalent than microplastics, but it is hard to analyze and study them in-depth…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Refined? When I was in my 40’s, I noticed on social media different stories about child abuse. I suppose I never thought about my past because there was no internet or social media before to compare my past to. I realized that my father had gotten away with crimes against me, so I began researching similar abuses, which led me to have a DNA test done. Once I received the results and met family members I hadn’t known existed, I discovered that these abuses had been handed down through…
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 finale “A Quality of Mercy.”] Over the 10 episodes of its first season, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds easily established itself as one of the best shows of the year. And so what better way to cap it off than with a fantastic finale that feels like a movie, features a stellar performance from Anson Mount (as two Pikes!), and a surprise appearance from a character very familiar to Trek fans? A future version of Pike visits the present-day one to show him a future…
A storm of events is pushing food prices higher, exacerbating the hunger and malnutrition already experienced by hundreds of millions of people around the world Environment 23 May 2022 By Michael Le Page A man carries grain from a World Food Programme facility in Kandahar, AfghanistanJAVED TANVEER/AFP via Getty Images Hundreds of millions of people around the world are going hungry as food prices continue to rise as a result of everything from the coronavirus pandemic to India’s extreme heatwave to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Without meaningful action to make food more affordable, we may see starvation and political…
Photography via ImaxTree.com The Canadian designers behind Dsquared2 talk growing up in Toronto, dressing LGBTQIA2S+ icons, and what Pride means to them. By David Cassels Date June 30, 2022 Fashion saved the lives of Dan and Dean Caten. Twenty years before Dsquared2 was even an idea, the identical designer twins grew up in Toronto. “Together we weathered all the storms, always finding shelter in each other,” reflects Dean. “It wasn’t until we dipped our toes into the fashion world that we really felt our purpose and accepted ourselves for who we are.” So it makes sense that since then, the…
When the first Marcel the Shell short went viral, it was a bit of an accident. As cocreator Jenny Slate told Seth Meyers this week on Late Night, her then partner Dean Fleischer Camp showed the stop-motion film they made at a comedy show in 2010, then threw it up online at the request of a cast member who wanted to show his ailing mom. It became one of YouTube’s earliest sensations—”Gangnam Style” was still two years away, after all—and now, more than a decade later, its hero has his own film, one about the perils of the internet that made him…
Three Days Grace are one of the most commercially-successful rock bands of the 21st century. They’ve put out a total of seven albums so far with two different singers, but which is the best? That’s what we want to hear from you in this week’s Loudwire Nights Album of the Week poll.You’ll have until Friday at 12N ET to cast your votes. We’ll then play the three tracks from the album with the most votes during Loudwire Nights’ Album of the Week block to start the following Monday’s show!Three Days Grace formed in Ontario, Canada, in 1997 but didn’t release their self-titled debut album…
The following post contains SPOILERS for Thor: Love and Thunder. If you don’t want to know any spoilers for this movie don’t go any further. This article is basically Sorr the Spoiler Butcher. FYI.By the increasingly complex standards of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor: Love and Thunder tells a relatively straightforward story. A madman wants to murder every god in the universe, and Thor and another Thor he used to date and a couple more allies band together to stop the villain from achieving his task. There’s no time travel, there’s no alternate universes, there’s no evil versions of the heroes. Simple, right?Well, not exactly. Even…
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In one of the most surprising decisions of the 2021-22 TV season, CBS canceled Magnum P.I. after four seasons. In response, fans assembled to change the network’s mind or move the show to another network. Thankfully, fans got their wish, and it was recently announced that NBC had rescued the show for two seasons. Jay Hernandez, who plays the titular detective on the procedural drama, took to Twitter over the weekend to thank fans. “Ok, I’m sure by now you have all heard the great news,” Hernandez said in the video. “Magnum P.I. got picked up for a fifth season.…
Silver carp produce more offspring than other carp species. Credit: Photo courtesy USGS Illinois officials this month announced that Asian carp would now be called “copi” in an attempt to make the fish more desirable for eating. Joseph Parkos, the director of the Illinois Natural History Survey’s Kaskaskia, Ridge Lake and Sam Parr biological stations in Illinois, spoke with News Bureau life sciences editor Diana Yates about scientific initiatives to study and control carp/copi fish populations and the potential for rebranding to aid those efforts. What are Asian carp/copi and where in Illinois are their populations a problem? “Asian carp”…
Roy RochlinGetty Images My dad, a Syrian-Armenian, comes from a long lineage of incredible brows. My mom—who was so red-headed that her eyebrows and eyelashes were literally clear without product—not so much. They came together and created me, and by the luck of the draw, my eyebrows went the way of my mom… basically nonexistent. That is, unless I tint them. According to News York City-based brow expert Joey Healy, tinting your brows can do incredible things: change the color, make them look fuller, and really frame your face. If you’re not able to make it into the West Village…
In a perfect world, abortion access would be easy. The minute you realized you needed an abortion, you’d be able to grab some abortion pills from the drugstore, or make an appointment with your regular gynecologist for a quick and easy vacuum aspiration. But we don’t live in a perfect world. In modern-day America, abortion access can be impossible at worst and fraught at best: even in “safe” states like California and New York, abortion pills are heavily restricted and can be pretty pricey. And since few gynecologists offer abortion services out of their private practice, you need to find…
Well, that was fast — earlier today, it was revealed that Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” had garnered 17.5 million streams in the last week since the final episodes of Stranger Things aired on July 1, and now, it’s entered Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for the first time ever.Metallica are obviously a massive band and have quite a large audience, ranging from rock and metal fans to attendees of sporting events and more. They’ve had a total of 16 singles land on the Billboard Hot 100 (see their 10 highest-charting songs here), but, they’ve never had one reach the very top of the…
Netflix’s latest upgrade that they hope will keep you subscribed for years to come: Spatial audio.And what, pray tell, is spatial audio? Well, according to Netflix’s own press release, it “helps to translate the cinematic experience of immersive audio to any stereo, so the work creators do to bring you into the story happens no matter what device you use to watch Netflix.” In other words, even if you don’t have a mind-blowing sound system with speakers placed at multiple points around your living room or home theater, spatial audio is supposed to do a decent job of replicating that experience.Netflix launched their spatial…