(A) Deletion mutations in GhCesA4, 7 and 8 gene resulted a in dramatic reduction of plant growth. (B) The fiber cell of ghcesa4, 7 and 8 mutant lines did not exhibit secondary cell wall thickening. Credit: Science China Press About 180 billion tons of celluloses are produced by the world’s vegetation annually, making this polysaccharide the most abundant biological macromolecule on earth. It is produced predominantly by vascular plants, by a large number of algae and also by some bacteria, protists and tunicates. Cellulose microfibrils used for cell wall deposition are usually synthesized at the plasma membrane by the cellulose…
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In yet another attempt at gamifying the tricky dynamics of 21st-century dating, a new matchmaking reality show—er, “social experiment”—is in pursuit of true love. This time, the participants won’t decide their would-be marital status based on emotional connection (á la Love is Blind), social-media catfishing (á la The Circle), or hometown dates (á la The Bachelor). Instead, they’ll leave it entirely up to the cosmos.Or, at least, what astrologists say about the cosmos. In the new Amazon Prime Video series Cosmic Love, four participants will gather at a retreat managed by the so-called “Astro Chamber” (voiced by Cree Summer), whose…
Showtime’s new series The Man Who Fell to Earth, created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, is a sequel to the 1976 Nicolas Roeg film of the same name, which stars David Bowie as an idealistic alien corrupted by human vices. “We were just trying to honor [The Man Who Fell to Earth author Walter] Tevis and Bowie and Nicolas Roeg and the amazing storytellers that came before us, but we also exist in a continuum of science fiction storytelling,” Kurtzman says in Episode 513 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “I want to believe that we can…
Kelly Clarkson put her own spin on a dance track, proving she really can sing any genre. For her popular “Kellyoke” segment on Tuesday (May 17), the singer performed David Guetta, Galantis and Little Mix’s 2021 collaboration, “Heartbreak Anthem,” on her eponymous talk show. “This ain’t a heartbreak anthem / I don’t care what happened / But I ain’t got no time to dwell on it,” Clarkson, dressed in a floral maxi dress complete with a smokey eye makeup look, belted in the sleek pop chorus. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news…
Brother and Sister – first-look review 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 payload = json.__tcfapiCall;…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Buried Alive/The Spirit Walker Series Book 2? What’s your biggest fear? Mine is being buried alive. The thought of waking up in a casket buried six feet under with no way to escape sends shivers down my spine. Being the lover of horror tales that I am, I happened across the story of Dr. Johann Gottfried Taberger, who in the 1800s, came up with the bell system. A bell was placed above a person’s grave, and it was secured to a rope, routed down into the casket, and tied…
Being the Sun comes with a heavy price, and Meredith Grey now realizes that. It was a momentous occasion as this landmark series celebrated 400 episodes. While Grey’s Anatomy Season 18 Episode 19 was a packed but uneventful hour, they reserved all the drama, intensity, and surprises for Grey’s Anatomy Season 18 Episode 20. The finale was incredibly bleak, but there was such a haunting quality to it where it felt as if it could’ve served as the final installment ever or that the end of an era is very much near. The double-hour finale’s nod at the big occasion…
The main difference between frogs and toads can be seen in their hind legs and skin. Both frogs and toads are amphibians that belong to the scientific order Anura within the animal kingdom. In general, toads have warty, drier skin with heavyset bodies and stumpy legs, whereas frogs have silky skin and longer legs. The “true frogs” include about 400 species that belong to the family Ranidae, whereas more than 300 species of “true toads” are members of the family Bufonidae, according to Wildlife Preservation Canada (opens in new tab). If you happen to look down while taking a stroll in the woods…
CLIMATEWIRE | A blistering heat wave in India and Pakistan last month sent temperatures soaring above 120 degrees Fahrenheit, all before the summer had even kicked off. Now scientists say climate change helped make the shocking weather possible. A new analysis finds that global warming made the heat wave at least 30 times more likely to occur. The event was about 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 F, hotter than it would have been in a world without climate change. Without the influence of global warming, “this event was highly, highly unlikely,” study co-author Arpita Mondal, a climate scientist at the…
For the try-on, I headed straight to Edinburgh’s St. James Quarter, home to one of the biggest Zara stores in the UK. The shopping centre itself has had a recent facelift—one five years in the making—and the Zara store is an entirely new entity within it. It’s beautiful. Get there early enough, and it looks more akin to a gallery space than a shop floor.I was immediately struck by the colour upon entering. So much colour! Saturated shades as far as the eye could see, an excessive amount of which were green. Great if that’s what you’re into, intimidating if it’s not.…
Bitcoin slumped to its lowest in a month on Thursday after Russian forces fired missiles at several cities in Ukraine and landed troops on its coast, sparking a sell-off of riskier assets.Bitcoin fell by as much as 7.9 percent to $34,324 (roughly Rs. 25.97 lakh), its lowest since January 24, and was last trading down 4.5 percent. Smaller coins that typically move in tandem with Bitcoin also fell, with ether losing as much as 10.8 percent.Russia launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine by land, air and sea, the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War Two…
Italian police say they foiled a series of cyberattacks from Russian hacker groups designed to prevent Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra from winning Eurovision 2022, Reuters reports. Eurovision took place in Turin, Italy, following the 2021 victory of “Zitti e Buoni” by Måneskin. During both the May 10th semifinal and May 14th final, the pro-Kremlin group Killnet and an associate group called Legion undertook Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. Killnet also took credit for May 11th assaults on Italy’s Senate, upper house of parliament, and the National Health Institute (ISS), which knocked some services offline for several hours. The attacks were a response to Eurovision banning…
As the biggest feuds of All Elite Wrestling are set to explode in Vegas this weekend, fans across the country can settle in at a local movie theater to take in the action. As they have with many other pay-per-view events in the past, AEW is partnering with Joe Hand Productions to bring Double or Nothing to movie theaters as a live broadcast alongside traditional PPV offerings. Starting at 7 p.m. ET this coming Sunday, May 29, fans can load in to see CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Jade Cargill, and Danhausen compete for gold and glory.RELATED: Zack Snyder Responds to The Boys…
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Did she stay or did she go? Grey’s Anatomy Season 18 Episode 19 finally lifted the lid on Meredith’s long-term plans as she came to terms with her new normal. Meanwhile, Jackson and April returned to Seattle, and left fans with some shocking news. Elsewhere, Grey Sloan battled the physician shortage, but some help from old faces helped reverse the hospital’s fortunes. What cliffhangers did the sudsy ABC drama leave fans on until the fall? Use the video above to watch Grey’s Anatomy online right here via TV Fanatic. Catch up on all your favorite shows and reviews and join…
Credit: Olin Feuerbacher / USFWS How the Devil’s Hole pupfish has survived for centuries in a spalike cistern cloistered by a barren rock mountain in Death Valley National Park remains a biological mystery. The world’s rarest, most inbred fish clings to existence in the smallest geographic range of any vertebrate: the shallow end of an oxygen-deprived pool 10 feet wide, 70 feet long and more than 500 feet deep. In early 2013, its numbers plunged to 35, and biologists feared the species long regarded as a symbol of the desert conservation movement would be gone within a year. But since…
Bri Scalesse. Photography BY FRANKLIN YEEP COURTESY OF NOMAD MANAGEMENT. Graphic by Kayleen Dicuangco “When I’m on the runway, I feel really powerful. I feel present in my body.” By Natalie Michie Date May 11, 2022 Bri Scalesse’s favourite part of modelling is the runway — the chaotic energy backstage, the palpable excitement beaming off the audience and the adrenalin that comes from using her body to make a piece of art come to life. “It’s such a shift in the way that I experience people’s eyes being on me,” she says. “As a person with a disability, I’m used…
Just as bears emerge from hibernation and birds migrate in the spring, REI introduces its big anniversary sale every year around Memorial Day. This year’s event lasts from May 20 through May 30. Many items are up to 30 percent off, but REI Co-op members save up to 20 percent off any full-price item of their choice and an extra 20 percent off on any REI Outlet item with the code ANNIV22.We’ve highlighted some of our favorite selections here. If you don’t see anything that you need, be sure to check out our summer guides to the Best Action Cameras,…
Pearl Jam observed fallen rock icons Eddie Van Halen and Taylor Hawkins at their May 9 show in Glendale, Arizona. During their set, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready paid tribute to EVH with a cover of Van Halen’s unmistakable guitar instrumental “Eruption,” as Guitar World reported.Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder introduced the salute by adding his thoughts on the impact of Hawkins, the late Foo Fighters drummer, following his death in March.See a fan-captured video of the Pearl Jam performance near the bottom of this post.”We were talking about our friend Taylor Hawkins the other night,” Vedder said ahead of McCready’s “Eruption” rendition, as…
Aftersun – first-look review 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 payload = json.__tcfapiCall; if (payload)…
On the docket for the NBC franchise’s season finales: Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) makes her first visit to the new Sam Waterston–fronted Law & Order (8/7c) when NYPD detectives Bernard (Anthony Anderson) and Cosgrove (Jeffrey Donovan) seek intel about a recent domestic violence case. Back at Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (9/8c), Detective Rollins (Kelli Giddish) startles Carisi (Peter Scanavino), her prosecutor boyfriend, by reaching out to his slick predecessor Rafael Barba (Raúl Esparza) to defend someone SVU had previously helped. See Also Raúl Esparza Previews Barba’s ‘SVU’ Finale Return Barba and Benson are ‘stumbling towards reconciliation,’ he says.…
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More new human cases of monkeypox have been identified worldwide, with dozens reported in the U.K. alone. The increase comes after previous evidence had suggested there was unknown transmission of the monkeypox virus within the country’s population, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Monkeypox is thought to originate in rodents in Central and West Africa, and it has repeatedly jumped to humans. Cases outside Africa are rare and have so far been traced to infected travelers or imported animals. On May 7 reports surfaced that a person who had traveled to the U.K. from Nigeria had contracted monkeypox.…
Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most elementary principles of physics. Today, the simple laws of motion as defined by Isaac Newton, for example, are known to the most modest students, yet Galileo spent his life unravelling these mysteries.His many discoveries include the law of inertia later used by Isaac Newton as the first law of motion, the parabola as the path of a projectile, the relationships between distance and velocity and between distance…
Rihanna continues to double down on her unconventional maternity style, inspiring us at every turn. On May 8, the mom-to-be pulled off a daring and decidedly glam look to celebrate Mother’s Day with A$AP Rocky at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, CA. Rihanna strutted into the restaurant in a crystal-embellished Miu Miu halter top and a matching low-rise miniskirt from the brand’s Fall/Winter 2022 Collection. She layered the sheer set over silky lingerie in periwinkle blue and kept the skirt in place with a two-toned leather belt. The Savage X Fenty founder stuck to the sparkly theme with heeled sandals…
Singapore has raised concerns with India about its ban of popular gaming app Free Fire, owned by technology group Sea, in the first sign of diplomatic intervention after the move spooked investors, four sources told Reuters.After the ban, the market value of the New York-listed Southeast Asian firm dropped by $16 billion (roughly Rs. 1,21,210 crore) in a single day, and investors worry India could extend it to Sea’s e-commerce app, Shopee, which recently launched in the country.The sources, who include two Indian government officials, said Singapore had asked Indian authorities why the app had been targeted in a widening crackdown…
01 This World02 If You Wanna Go03 Dave’s Place04 Here for You05 That’s L.A.06 Up in Smoke07 Carry On08 A Little Tune09 America Goodbye10 Tomorrow Today11 Crazy TimesBret McKenzie:09-02 Nelson, New Zealand – Trafalgar Centre09-03 Christchurch, New Zealand – Town Hall09-04 Dunedin, New Zealand – Town Hall09-05 Invercargill, New Zealand – Civic Theatre09-08 Wellington, New Zealand – Opera House09-12 Whanganui, New Zealand – Royal Whanganui Opera House09-13 Hastings, New Zealand – Opera House09-14 Auckland, New Zealand – Town Hall09-22 Birmingham, England – Town Hall09-23 Leeds, England – O2 Academy09-26 London, England – Eventim Apollo09-29 Nottingham, England – Royal Concert Hall10-01…
The Stranger – first-look review – Little White Lies 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…
There’s a lot of discussion in our year of the Lord 2022 about what books are “appropriate” for children to read and which can be potentially damaging. I understand parents not wanting to be forced to have conversations they find difficult with their children. I also understand parents wanting their children to remain innocent of some of the horrors that adults have to deal with. I do. I get it. I understand these points of view; I just think they’re wrong. The disconnect for me comes here: preventing kids from learning about bad things doesn’t prevent them from experiencing or…
Was there a future for Bull in the world of law? On Bull Season 6 Episode 22, the TAC team went to court to finalize a negligent homicide defense that would change the nature of the company and their lives. As Bull pondered his future, his colleagues wondered what the business would look like without him. Meanwhile, an old friend returned in the nick of time. How did it all end? Use the video above to watch Bull online right here via TV Fanatic. Catch up on all your favorite shows and reviews and join in the conversations with other…