The Harvest Supermoon and crows seen from a jaffna in Sri Lanka on September 29, 2023. The Harvest moon will also be a supermoon in 2024 because the moon will be full at the same time that it is at its nearest point in its orbit of Earth. Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via Getty Images Early September…
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Thalassophobia is the relatively well-known fear of deep bodies of water, but a slightly more niche water-related phobia is submechanophobia, which is a fear of submerged man-made objects. There’s something deeply unsettling about the fact that these objects—be they small statues or large buildings—are underwater where they don’t belong. Plus, over time, aquatic life takes…
Actors are among the most protected parts of film sets. Their deliveries bring the characters to life, and the resulting dynamics resonate with audiences worldwide. That appeal can carry a movie or TV series for years. The people onscreen become practically synonymous with the franchise and the joy it provides. That phenomenon makes it awkward…
On Episode 126 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Rosalba Perna about errant planets. As if election season wasn’t scary enough, now we have rogue planets to worry about! Out in the vast darkness between star systems, these worlds wander through the interstellar void, sometimes in pairs, and when…
Next month, legions of “Transformers” fans will be treated to the first-ever all CG animated feature film starring the Autobots and Decepticons in an emotional origin story three billion years in the making, and we’re sharing an electrifying new trailer and exclusive Dolby Cinema poster to herald its imminent autumnal approach. Landing on planet Earth…
A portion of an official poster for “Alien: Romulus.” (Image credit: 20th Century Studios) It’s always comforting to find a familiar face in strange and potentially hostile settings. That’s especially true if it’s a spooky abandoned Weyland-Yutani space station called the Renaissance where secret xenomorph experiments are conducted, as seen in “Alien: Romulus.” Avid fans…
A team of researchers from Finland and Norway has identified two potential antivirulence compounds for enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) infections among bacterial metabolites harvested from strains of marine actinobacteria Kocuria and Rhodococcus from the Arctic Sea. The T091-5 strain of the genus Rhodococcus. Image credit: Pylkkö et al., doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1432475. “We show how advanced screening…
Recent respiratory outbreaks have garnered substantial attention, yet most respiratory monitoring remains confined to physical signals. Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) harbors rich molecular information that could unveil diverse insights into an individual’s health. Now, Caltech’s Professor Wei Gao and colleagues have developed the EBCare, a mask-based device for real-time monitoring of EBC biomarkers. For example,…
Archaeologists have discovered an ancient submerged stone bridge in Genovesa Cave on Mallorca, the main island of the Balearic Archipelago and the sixth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. The discovery suggests that humans settled the western Mediterranean much earlier than previously believed. The 5,600-year-old submerged stone bridge in Genovesa Cave, Mallorca, Spain. Image credit: R….
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