At sunrise on a summer day in Australia, about an hour’s drive from Sydney, we clambered northward along the base of a cliff on a mission. We were searching for rocks that we hoped would contain clues to the darkest chapter in our planet’s history. Life on Earth has experienced some terrifyingly close calls in the past four billion years—cataclysmic events in which the species driven to extinction outnumbered the survivors. The worst crisis occurred 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period. Conditions back then were the bleakest that animals ever faced. Wildfires and drought scoured…
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22 Jul 2022 Books To Read If You Like Agatha Christie Agatha Christie is known to be one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Her timeless stories have inspired and captivated readers and authors alike. Whether you like cozy mysteries, detective novels, or thrillers, we’ve got you covered! Don’t miss out on this week’s mystery and thriller book recommendations. Too Mulch to Handle (English Cottage Garden Mysteries Book 6) by H.Y. Hanna Release Date: June 25, 2022 A new release in the English Cottage Garden Mysteries! Summer has arrived, with fragrant roses and the garden in full bloom.…
With Starfleet, sometimes you have to get your hands — and face, if you’re Ensign Brad Boimler (voiced by Jack Quaid) — dirty. As part of the Star Trek Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Star Trek: Lower Decks released the official trailer and new character portraits for Season 3 (premiering August 25 on Paramount+). The animated series will challenge the U.S.S. Cerritos ensigns in (hilarious) ways they could never imagine, starting with a shocking resolution for Season 2’s epic cliffhanger finale. As you’ll recall, the season ended with Captain Carol Freeman’s (voiced by Dawnn Lewis) arrest. Now, she’ll be…
We already knew that bottlenose dolphins recognise each other through their signature whistles, but now it seems the taste of their urine also plays a role Life 20 May 2022 By Alice Klein A pair of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) in the Pacific OceanAndrey Nekrasov/Alamy Bottlenose dolphins can recognise familiar individuals just by tasting their urine, similar to how the smell of a friend’s perfume can be part of our mental representation of them. Jason Bruck at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas and his colleagues found that bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) spent about three times longer sampling water…
Photography courtesy of Getty Images It’s a success story for odd fashion everywhere. By Natalie Michie Date June 23, 2022 A decade ago, most of us probably wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair of Crocs. Because the foam clogs have an unconventional design that some might call “ugly,” the shunned shoes were a walking joke for years. But after collaborating with designers like Balenciaga and celebrities like Justin Bieber, it would seem that Crocs is having the final laugh. In the age of dopamine dressing, our appetite for maximalist, weird fashion has never been stronger. Crocs, with their strange,…
“Part of that is looking for genetic traits that may have been advantageous for past humans during earlier epidemics,” he says. “There is no doubt we can learn something from this in our understanding of how we manage contemporary disease and other outbreaks.”Skoglund’s team sources their samples from archaeological digs around the country or from museums with existing collections. His favorite bones to sequence are the ones found in our inner ear: “These are particularly good at preserving DNA, since they are the least susceptible to microbial invasion and other factors that could cause DNA to deteriorate,” he explains.The bones…
After less than four weeks in theaters, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis has grossed more than $106 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to boxofficemojo.com. The film, starring Austin Butler as the King, Elvis Presley, is already the fourth-highest-grossing music biopic since the mid-1970s. How high will it climb on the list of top-grossing music biopics? It’s off to a fast start, but it’s not even halfway to matching the “domestic” (meaning U.S. and Canada) grosses of the leader. (Can you guess what that is? All will be revealed.) The 25 biopics of musicians on this list cover a wide range…
The 2018 Tomb Raider film was meant to act as a reintroduction to the hit video game series for the film world. However, according to actress Alicia Vikander, a sequel to the film is still left in unknown territory.MORE: Look Both Ways Starring Lili Reinhart Gets Trailer, Release DateFollowing the merger that saw Amazon acquire MGM, Vikander — who starred as Lara Croft in the film — didn’t seem too optimistic when it comes to a new film, saying that the possibility of a sequel was left up to the behind-the-scenes politics of things.“With the MGM and Amazon buyout, I have no…
The Japanese city of Kyoto is famous for its cherry blossoms, which traditionally mark the start of spring, but climate change and urbanisation are seeing them bloom early Environment 20 May 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu Cherry blossoms by a river in Kyoto, JapanSILENCE Photo/Getty Images Cherry blossoms in Kyoto, Japan, are reaching full bloom 11 days earlier than they would if there was no warming effect from the urban environment and climate change. Last year, Kyoto’s cherry blossoms bloomed by 26 March, the earliest seen in more than 1000 years of recorded history. This year the trees reached full…
22 Jul 2022 Your Next Summer 2022 Book Club Reads! Looking for your next great thought-provoking read? We’ve got you covered! These books are sure to get you and your friends, family, or book club talking… Check out these must-read new literary fiction releases! Public Opinion by Nathan Pettijohn Release Date: July 19, 2022 Herb is a fixer, a social media manipulator, an anonymous barracuda in a sea of wealthy marks. Blackmail, character assassination, fraud—it’s all in a day’s work. When a quick scam introduces Herb to a cold-blooded director on a quest to film the Marquis de Sade’s Justine,…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is going boldly where it hasn’t gone before: a partly animated crossover! In its second season, Strange New Worlds will feature a crossover event with the animated comedy Star Trek: Lower Decks, Anson Mount (who plays Captain Christopher Pike), it was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con. Lower Decks stars Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid joined him during his part of the Star Trek Universe panel. The special crossover episode will feature both live-action and animation, and Ensign Beckett Mariner (voiced by Newsome) and Ensign Brad Boimler (voiced by Quaid) from Lower Decks joining the U.S.S.…
In early March 2020, just weeks before the world went into lockdown, Chanel hosted its autumn 2020 runway show. Pairs of models stormed the runway in knee-high boots, strutting in unison while dressed in shades of tweed with bows in their hair. And while Chanel runways are always much-talked-about events, this season, in particular, one accessory seemed to steal the show. The brand debuted a range of logo-embellished CC tights, which the majority of models were wearing on the day, either in a white or black colourway. And as if by some kind of fashion-editor intuition, the moment I saw them I just knew they…
Nubia Red Magic 7S and Red Magic 7S Pro gaming smartphones will be launched on July 11, and the alleged specifications of both the smartphones have been suggested by the purported listing on TENAA. Both the smartphones are suggested to come with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC paired with up to 18GB of RAM. At least one of them is indicated to pack up to 1TB of storage. Both the handsets will come equipped with a 64-megapixel main camera sensor.Nubia Red Magic 7S, Red Magic 7S Pro launch dateThe Nubia Red Magic 7S series will be launched in China…
FX has announced that the fourth and final season of Donald Glover’s Atlanta will premiere in September. The network also shared a new teaser video featuring Glover with his co-stars Brian Tyree Henry (Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles), Zazie Beetz (Vanessa “Van” Keefer), and Lakeith Stanfield (Darius). Watch below.Atlanta returned with its third season in March, four years after the conclusion of Season 2. Discussing the end of the show, Glover said earlier this year, “Death is natural. When the conditions are right for something, they happen, and when the conditions aren’t right they don’t happen. Things start to get weird……
Daniel Kaluuya is the Oscar-winning actor of such great movies for adults as Judas and the Black Messiah and Get Out. He’s one of the best young stars we’ve got. And apparently what he’s really interested in doing is making a movie based on Barney the Dinosaur.Technically, this is not news. Back in the fall of 2019, it was first reported that Kaluuya was attached to a movie that would adapt the popular children’s show of the ’90s starring the perpetually cheerful purple dinosaur. Three years later, the movie has yet to materialize — but in a new profile of Kaluuya tied to his…
David Attenborough and Hollywood talent combine in Prehistoric Planet documentary to conjure up dinosaurs as never before Comment 20 May 2022 By Gregory Wakeman A scene from Prehistoric Planet.Courtesy of Apple Prehistoric Planet Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones Apple TV+, 23 May ANY nature documentary that includes David Attenborough is bound to be elevated by his insight and the gravitas of his dulcet tones. But the look of genuine glee etched across his face in Prehistoric Planet is so palpable, you can’t help but feel that it will be a particularly astounding addition to this beloved genre. Attenborough opens each…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For those of us who grew up obsessed with books, taking trips to the library every chance we got and memorizing the check-out limit, books have always been our safe spaces. They’re where we go when we have too much to do, or we’re going through something, or just need to escape for a while. I’ve spent many an hour with my head tilted sideways, reading every title on the shelves of the library or hunched on the floor, flipping through a book…
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (HSMTMTS) returns to Disney+ on July 27, so we thought it was a good time to remind you what last went down with East High students Gina Porter (Sofia Wylie), Ricky Bowen (Joshua Bassett) and more last season. This way, we’ll all be ready to see the new drama unfold when the Wildcats go to Camp Shallow Lake in Season 3. Before we dive into the unanswered questions, we did learn some tidbits from the trailer. Gina and E.J. Caswell (Matt Cornett) are officially a couple, although that might change because Ricky seems…
The noise of motorboats over the Great Barrier Reef can stress its inhabitants, stunting the growth of young fish and leaving them less likely to live to adulthood Life 20 May 2022 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre One of the spiny chromis breeding sites on the Great Barrier ReefDr Sophie Nedelec Some young fish that live in coral reefs exposed to motorboat sounds have stunted growth and may be half as likely to survive as fish on quieter reefs, probably because the noise pollution changes the way their parents care for them. Spiny chromis (Acanthochromis polyacanthus) are fish that fan water over…
Rosdiana CiaravoloGetty Images Battling frizz can feel like a full-time job, especially when you have factors like humidity working against you. There are so many quick fixes you can take to momentarily smooth down flyaways, like hair oils or leave-in conditioners. But odds are, if you’ve been in a battle with frizz for your whole life like I have, you’ve heard a little something about keratin.Keratin treatments are an in-salon service you can get that reduces frizz and adds shine to your hair. But they can be pricey, and when done incorrectly, potentially damaging. But whether you opt for a…
Comicstaan season 3 release date is here. On Monday, Amazon Prime Video announced the third season of its comedy competition show Comicstaan is set to stream from July 15.The eight-episode comedy talent hunt show will be judged by stand-up artists Zakir Khan, Sumukhi Suresh, Neeti Palta, and Kenny Sebastian.The mentors are Rahul Subramanian, Sapan Verma, Rohan Joshi, Prashasti Singh, Kannan Gill, Aadar Malik, and Anu Menon.According to Amazon, Comicstaan returns with a “reinvigorated format”, with eight contestants being guided by seven mentors across varied genres of comedy.Aparna Purohit, Head of India Originals, Amazon Prime Video India, said Comicstaan made stand-up…
2007 EP:01 Oh God02 Bad Thing03 Nothing to See04 200705 Cartoon Clouds06 OrdinaryMiya Folick:09-15 New York, NY – Market Hotel09-27 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom09-28 San Francisco, CA – Café du Nord09-30 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge10-01 Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s10-29 Dublin, Ireland – 3Olympia Theater *11-01 Glasgow, Scotland – SWG3 Galvanizers *11-02 Manchester, England – Academy *11-03 Birmingham, England – O2 Institute *11-05 London, England – The Roundhouse *11-08 Brussels, Belgium – La Madeleine *11-09 Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall *11-10 Paris, France – Bataclan*11-12 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg – Den Atelier *11-13 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg *11-15 Berlin, Germany – Astra Kulturhaus…
If you read Marvel Comics, then you know that the multiverse storyline introduced in Loki and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness is based on the early stages of a series of comics from 2015 called Secret Wars. In it, “incursions” of many different universes are destroying the entire multiverse; through a series of events too complicated to describe, the main Marvel Universe is obliterated but a small piece of it is preserved as a place called “Battleworld,” which is ruled by a near-omnipotent Doctor Doom.So is a Secret Wars movie on the horizon as the capper to this phase of Marvel movies, the same way Avengers: Endgame wrapped up…
Shown on a large computer screen is a Raman spectrum of uranium oxide particulates formed inside the team’s benchtop reaction chamber. The uranium oxide spectrum shown is for U3O8. Credit: Julie Russell/LLNL A team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of Michigan has found that the rate of cooling in reactions dramatically affects the type of uranium molecules that form. The team’s experimental work, conducted over about a year and a half starting in October 2020, attempts to help understand what uranium compounds might form in the environment after a nuclear event. It has recently…
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Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire premieres October 2 on AMC, and the gothic drama debuted its first trailer during its San Diego Comic-Con 2022 panel on Saturday, July 23. Based on Anne Rice’s novel, the series follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson, Game of Thrones), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid, The Newsreader) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass, Avatar: The Way of Water) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian, Succession). Chafing at the limitations of life as a Black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it…
Photography courtesy of gorm Bianca Daniela Nachtman of GORM talks sustainable design, cowboy hats and Pride month. By Katrina McGaughey Date June 23, 2022 When Bianca Daniela Nachtman, the founder of the gender-fluid clothing brand GORM, needs fabric for a piece she’s working on, she doesn’t just go to her local fabric store. Instead, she spends hours, usually three or four, in thrift stores looking for any type of material she thinks she can work with. The Toronto-based designer, known for reviving vintage cowboy hats, has found fixings, buttons, zippers, fringe and other types of material that can easily be…
Spector sees this current version of the Zoe app as a giant citizen science project. Users can sign up to different studies, which involve answering questions through the app. Current studies include investigations into the gut microbiome, early signs of dementia, and the role of immune health in heart disease. Before the pandemic, recruiting hundreds of thousands of people for a study would be nearly impossible, but the Zoe app is now a huge potential resource for new research. “I’d love to see what happens when 100,000 people skip breakfast for two weeks,” says Spector.People who reported Covid symptoms aren’t…
Alemán has revealed a new US tour with tickets going up for grabs just 24 hours after the announcement. The Mexican rapper’s “TOUR USA 2022” is rapidly approaching with the 16-city run starting in September. Get tickets here, and read on for more details including on-sale dates. What Is Alemán’s Next Tour? “TOUR USA 2022” kicks off at New York’s Gramercy Theatre on September 3rd and spends the first week in Philadelphia, Charlotte, and Atlanta. Alemán then takes over Texas for four nights between Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso. He plays Los Angeles on September 15th and Anaheim…
Animated movies are usually associated with younger audiences, featuring family-friendly themes and bright, chipper characters. Almost all of Disney’s films fall into this category (save The Black Cauldron), but animation extends way beyond that. The past several decades have seen some truly experimental, bizarre, and downright weird animated films that deserve special recognition. While they might not be considered “cute” or “charming,” they broke the mold for what an animated film could be.Since we’ve already explored the worst animated movies and the scariest kids movies, it’s time to take a look at the weirdest animated movies of all time. And…