Marvel Studios debuts the first clip for Thor: Love & Thunder during the MTV Movie & TV Awards, arriving just over a month before the film’s debut. With just over one month to go before its release, the first clip for Marvel’s Thor: Love & Thunder has arrived. Set to debut exclusively in movie theaters … Read more
Vision accounts for more than 80% of the information humans obtain from the outside world. The ability of the eyeballs to capture and process visual information sent forward to the brain relies primarily on the health of the retina. Three relatively common inherited retinal diseases challenge that process, though: retinitis pigmentosa (RP), choroideremia, and Stargardt … Read more
NASA’s SLS moon rocket rolls toward pad 39B early Monday. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography NASA’s first Space Launch System moon rocket rolled out to its launch pad early Monday at the Kennedy Space Center for another attempt later this month to fully load it with super-cold propellants, the culmination of … Read more
All the drama around this year’s Kentucky Derby inspired me to do some rereading of favorite fiction about horse racing. Of course I had to revisit the Black Stallion series, the first dozen or so volumes of which I read as a tween and a teen. I can’t say I outgrew them as the rest … Read more
The Broadway season that just ended, the first since the pandemic shutdown, will be remembered for many reasons — the persistence of Covid, the death of Stephen Sondheim, the dwindled tourism and the indispensable understudies. It was a season for renewed appreciation: of song and storytelling and shared experiences, of a beloved art form and … Read more
Credit: Shutterstock The second century Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician Claudius Ptolemy had a grand ambition. Hoping to make sense of the motion of stars and the paths of planets, he published a magisterial treatise on the subject, known as the Almagest. Ptolemy created a complex mathematical model of the universe that seemed to recapitulate the … Read more
For a second year in a row, Netflix is dedicating an entire week to nerdy new announcements. Geeked Week has returned for 2022, and each day has a different theme. It starts with TV shows on Monday, before moving through film, animation, Stranger Things, and gaming. Basically, there’s going to be a lot to keep … Read more
Building superior scientific tools empowers us to investigate the Universe as never before. Glittering in the sunlight as it recedes from the view of the final stage of the Ariane 5 rocket that launched it, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope heads toward its final destination with perhaps the maximum amount of fuel we could have … Read more
A visualization of a supercomputer simulation of merging black holes sending out gravitational waves. Credit: NASA/C. henz Operating observatories around the globe target sky regions characterized by low contamination from Galactic radiation, looking for the imprint of Cosmological Gravitational Waves (CGWs) produced during Inflation, the mysterious phase of quasi-exponential expansion of space in the very … Read more
Prehistoric giants used to populate the earth. These behemoths included mighty dinosaurs, airplane-size pterosaurs, massive crocodiles and snakes, and even armadillos the size of cars. But today, there are just a few big animals on our planet. What happened? Why aren’t there many giants left anymore? First of all, there’s plenty of fossil evidence that … Read more