After COVID appeared, a huge number of virologists, biochemists, cell biologists and immunologists shifted their work to the coronavirus, and because of that, the world got what it was desperately hoping for: a vaccine, in record time. Everything worked out better than we could have dreamed—several parallel vaccines, all with high efficacy. We are seeing antiviral treatments roll out, too. Scientists can leverage all this effort to better understand other viruses and diseases. Never before have we been able to simultaneously test multiple vaccine platforms, head-to-head, in massive global clinical trials. Usually you are lucky if you get one vaccine…
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Book Riot’s April 2022 Horoscopes and Book Recommendations! April showers bring May flowers, but they also bring a slew of wonderful new books to bookstores near you. How to know which new release is your perfect fit? Why, look to the stars, of course! Check out your horoscope below for a peek at the month ahead, along with a book recommendation perfect for your sign. But first, let’s talk about my favorite thing: the moon! April starts and ends with a…
There’s been a void on Chicago Fire ever since Jesse Spencer exited after 10 seasons as Matt Casey. We have some good news, Chicago Fire fans. Jesse Spencer is in talks to return for the final episode of Chicago Fire Season 10. “That would be amazing. That would be a coup for our show if we could talk Jesse into coming back,” showrunner Derek Haas revealed to TV Line during a press day for the beloved series. “So status on that is all systems looking good. And yes, I talked to him last week so I’m very hopeful that that’s…
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, an information war is raging alongside the physical fighting. Russia’s recent attempts to spread disinformation have not yet found great success in the West. Within the country, however, President Vladimir Putin’s regime is controlling the narrative through censorship, state control of media and other forms of digital repression. This term refers to a variety of practices that use digital tools to stamp out dissent through a combination of actions, both online and offline. Such practices are not limited to authoritarian governments. A new review of 192 studies of digital repression, published last week…
I am so excited about 2022’s spring and summer trends. The overarching mood was one of real optimism, but where the previous season perhaps went into overdrive with the desire (desperation?) to get dressed up for even the most low-key of weekly grocery shops, the outlook for spring and summer is that there is a time and place to be extra fabulous but still a strong demand and a necessity for easy, simple, luxurious, gorgeous clothes and outfits you can fling on in a hurry. There are places to go, people to see and the many ensembles to suit. So while on the one…
Cats are beautiful, interesting, weird creatures. If you’re lucky enough to be loved by one, it’s your God-given responsibility to give them a comfortable and fun home. We wrote about the supplies you should get if you recently adopted a pet, but once you have that pet situated at home, you’ll want to create a healthy, welcoming space for them. Cats require a specific type of environment to play, scratch, and relax.Here are our favorite products based on months of testing with our own cats. Even if our pets rejected a particular product, we still examined overall construction, design, and…
When he was younger, Latin Grammy Award nominee KURT used to sing Sting’s songs at bars where he’d perform in his native Mexico. Now, he’s singing one of them with Sting. The two have joined forces for “Por Su Amor,” a new Spanish version of “For Her Love” from Sting’s 2021 studio album, The Bridge. The recording will be released this Friday, April 8th, via all streaming services, along with a video (premiering exclusively below) that was filmed in early March in Los Angeles. It follows Sting’s solo version of the Spanish language track, released back in February. The Spanish…
A Night of Knowing Nothing review – Oneiric tapestry of introspection 3 && args[2] === 2 && typeof args[3] === ‘boolean’ ) { gdprApplies = args[3]; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](‘set’, true); } } } else if (args[0] === ‘ping’) { var retr = { gdprApplies: gdprApplies, cmpLoaded: false, cmpStatus: ‘stub’ }; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](retr); } } else { queue.push(args); } } function postMessageEventHandler(event) { var msgIsString = typeof event.data === ‘string’; var json = {}; try { if (msgIsString) { json = JSON.parse(event.data); } else { json = event.data; } } catch (ignore)…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Red Witch: Book 2 – League of the Moon Series? When I wrote my first book, In Your Dreams, I didn’t plan on writing a sequel. My sister’s boyfriend was the one that brought it up. He admitted to me he wasn’t much of a reader, and that he hadn’t actually sat down to read a book for more years than he cared to admit. And he was skeptical that my first book would hold his attention, but he would bring it with him when he and my…
The trippy second season of The Flight Attendant takes off Thursday, April 21, and it’s sure to be another turbulent ride. HBO Max on Monday unveiled the full-length trailer The Flight Attendant Season 2, and it finds Cassie playing a game of make-believe. Our heroine has turned her life around and is making positive changes for the first time in a long time. Her friends are shocked that everything is all fine and dandy… until it isn’t. Cassie can feel something changing and believes someone is framing her for something. The trailer zeroes in on Cassie’s psyche as she tries…
Drawing of a scientist working with human skeletal remains and ancient DNA. Credit: Marija Stojkovic A combined study of genetics and skeletal remains show that the switch from primarily hunting, gathering and foraging to farming about 12,000 years ago in Europe may have had negative health effects as indicated by shorter than expected heights in the earliest farmers, according to an international team of researchers. “Recent studies tried to characterize the contribution of DNA to height,” said Stephanie Marciniak, assistant research professor, Penn State. “We started thinking about the longstanding questions around the shift from hunting, gathering and foraging to…
Whether she’s rocking Christopher John Rogers palazzo pants in a photoshoot or a crystal-studded GOAT leotard on the mat, Simone Biles’s style is unmatched. And during a birthday trip to Turks and Caicos with her fiancé, Jonathan Owens, the athlete unpacked a collection of gold-medal-worthy swimsuits and beachwear. Biles wore a range of bold bikinis on the getaway. Our favorites so far include a candy-striped halter dress, a teeny-tiny spaghetti-strap bikini layered under a button-up, and most recently, a high-slit neon bikini complete with a matching ’90s bucket hat. Beyond the bikinis, her one-piece swimwear, including her Burberry swimsuit, was…
As Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian cities, another battle took place online and over the airwaves.Moscow ramped up efforts to control the narrative playing out in news media and on tech platforms, while big tech companies Facebook-owner Meta and Alphabet’s Google put restrictions on Russia’s state-controlled media outlets in Ukraine and around the world.On Friday, Russia said it would partially restrict Facebook, a move Meta said came after it refused a government request to stop the independent fact-checking of several Russian state media outlets. By Saturday, Twitter also said its service was being restricted for some Russian users.Images and…
The winner of the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance has gone to Dream Theater for their song, “The Alien.”Deftones, Dream Theater, Gojira, Mastodon and Rob Zombie were all nominated for tracks on new albums that were released last year and, again, it was a case of the Grammy committee delving into the heart of heavy metal, rather than nominating some live version of a song that was written 40 years ago or a cover track, as had been all too typical in decades past.Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci accepted the award.”Wow, this is absolutely insane,” Petrucci said while accepting…
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood review – A moving family portrait 3 && args[2] === 2 && typeof args[3] === ‘boolean’ ) { gdprApplies = args[3]; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](‘set’, true); } } } else if (args[0] === ‘ping’) { var retr = { gdprApplies: gdprApplies, cmpLoaded: false, cmpStatus: ‘stub’ }; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](retr); } } else { queue.push(args); } } function postMessageEventHandler(event) { var msgIsString = typeof event.data === ‘string’; var json = {}; try { if (msgIsString) { json = JSON.parse(event.data); } else { json = event.data; } } catch…
Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific American’s 60 Second Science. I’m Sarah Vitak. Early last year a TikTok of Tom Cruise doing a magic trick went viral. [CLIP: Deepfake of Tom Cruise says, “I’m going to show you some magic. It’s the real thing. I mean, it’s all the real thing.”] Vitak: Only, it wasn’t the real thing. It wasn’t really Tom Cruise at all. It was a deepfake. Matt Groh: A deepfake is a video where an individual’s face has been altered by a neural network to make an individual do or say something that the individual has not done or…
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Are you ready for the season that will change everything? FX on Monday dropped the official trailer for Mayans M.C. Season 4, and damn, it is poised to be one of the most shocking seasons of TV in recent memory. If you watch Mayans M.C. online, you know we left many of the characters in precarious positions, thanks to the Mayans going against one another. On Mayans M.C. Season 4, we should expect an all-out war, and the trailer confirms Samcro will be a part of said war. We hear a meeting between Samcro in which members concede they should…
Surface illustrations of the enzyme Mmp10, showing (top) the protein with the complete set of co-factors required for the enzymatic reaction to occur (namely: the SF4 cluster, the SAM and the cobalamin COB), and (bottom) the enzyme in action while accommodating the peptide for Methyl transfer. The research team has elucidated the crystallographic details of the reaction and proposed a mechanism by which the protein activates a partner protein that stands as a major contributor of naturally occurring methane production in archaea, which accounts for about two-thirds of global methane production. Credit: Leo Chavas While methane accounts for about 16%…
Resuming its original programming, the 2022 Met Gala will return on the first Monday in May at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The highly anticipated event, which supports the Costume Institute and celebrates its current exhibition, titled “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” will welcome Regina King, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and Lin-Manuel Miranda as its official cochairs. Fashion designer Tom Ford, Instagram’s Adam Mosseri, and Anna Wintour will continue on as honorary chairs. The New York Times’s chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, released the news in a tweet this morning. “Scoop: and the next Met Gala…
Google Play Pass has finally debuted in India — over two years after its launch in the US. The subscription-based paid service brings access to apps and games on Android, without ads and in-app purchases. Google offers Play Pass to consumers in monthly and yearly subscription options, through which they get access to a list of apps and games. The service rivals Apple Arcade that provides a similar ad-free experience on a range of games available specifically for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Apple TV.On Monday, Google announced that Play Pass will be rolled out to Android devices…
The Deslondes have announced Ways & Means, their first new album in five years. It’s due out July 8 via New West Records. To celebrate the news, the band has shared a new song called “South Dakota Wild One.” Check it out below.Ways & Means follows the Deslondes’ 2014 self-titled album and their 2017 full-length Hurry Home. The new LP spans 14 tracks in total and includes collaborations with Margo Price, Twain, and Billy Contreras. It was co-produced by the band and Andrija Tokic.Later this summer, the Deslondes will hit the road in support of Ways & Means. The tour…
The frenetic thrills of Abel Ferrara’s abstract surveillance thriller 3 && args[2] === 2 && typeof args[3] === ‘boolean’ ) { gdprApplies = args[3]; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](‘set’, true); } } } else if (args[0] === ‘ping’) { var retr = { gdprApplies: gdprApplies, cmpLoaded: false, cmpStatus: ‘stub’ }; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](retr); } } else { queue.push(args); } } function postMessageEventHandler(event) { var msgIsString = typeof event.data === ‘string’; var json = {}; try { if (msgIsString) { json = JSON.parse(event.data); } else { json = event.data; } } catch (ignore) {} var…
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Shadowhunters was cut short in its prime. The Freeform drama was canceled after three seasons, and now, fans can look forward to two of its cast members airing their thoughts on the series. According to Entertainment Weekly, Katherine McNamara and Dominic Sherwood are reuniting to offer their unfiltered opinions on the biggest developments. Return to the Shadows is the name of the podcast. If you watch Shadowhunters online, you know that McNamara and Sherwood played the central couple Clary and Jace on the teen drama. “Creating and shooting Shadowhunters was such a special, unique, life-shaping experience that truly changed us…
Graphical abstract. Credit: Current Biology (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.03.006 An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has managed to study the flight behavior of the mysterious black swift. They found, among other things, that the black swift rises to extreme heights during a full moon, seemingly catching insects in the moonlight. And, during a lunar eclipse, the birds simultaneously lost altitude. The results are published in Current Biology. The black swift is a bird species with a bulky body and long, pointed wings. The plumage is black with some white areas on its head, and its call is…
Four seasons with four ever-changing sets of style trends can threaten to burn a hole in even the savviest shopper’s pocket. Well, fear not, because you have it on good authority (from, well, us) that this spring’s wardrobe reshuffle needn’t take more than nine carefully picked items. Yep, you can get your spring style entirely on point with items that you already have in your wardrobe. From the coat that defines the season to the trainers you’ll wear forever, these are the pieces you’ll need for your springtime capsule, and they all work beautifully together. Even better is you might own a lot of them already, so this will…
The newest law designed to rein in Big Tech aims to make all your favorite messaging apps work seamlessly together. Sounds great, right? Well, we have some bad news.Every day, billions of messages are sent using end-to-end encryption. Millions of people use iMessage, WhatsApp, and Signal to chat with friends, family, and colleagues, and those conversations are all automatically protected by strong encryption. But it’s not possible to send a message from one encrypted app to another. If you use Signal and your friends only use WhatsApp, someone has to compromise.Under the European Union’s wide-ranging Digital Markets Act (DMA), which…
Note: This article contains descriptions of violence.Nathaniel Glover, better known as Kidd Creole from Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, has been found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree by a New York Supreme Court jury. In 2017, he was arrested and indicted after stabbing a homeless man to death in New York City. The victim, 55-year-old John Jolly, was a stranger. Glover is expected to be sentenced on May 4.“Nathaniel Glover committed a shocking act of violence,” said District Attorney Bragg in a statement. “This conviction makes clear my office will hold people who commit violent crime accountable to…
Following the theatrical release of Joel Cohen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, brother and long-time collaborator Ethan Coen has now also set his sights on directing his first solo feature. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Ethan Cohen has partnered with Focus Features and Working Title for his untitled film, which is expected to start its production this summer.RELATED: Project Artemis: Chris Evans & Scarlett Johansson to Lead Apple FilmThe untitled project is being co-written by Ethan Cohen and wife Tricia Cooke, who are both executive producing. Further details about the story are still being kept under wraps, but the outlet’s sources…