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At 44, the comic and actor Kumail Nanjiani is best known for playing different versions of himself. His 2017 breakthrough in the Oscar-nominated romcom The Big Sick saw him act out his early romance with his wife, Emily Gordon, as she became seriously ill, while his wry, self-effacing routines made him a recognisable name on the US standup circuit through referencing his upbringing in Pakistan and reckoning with his identity as a Muslim American. Even his debut TV role as the coder Dinesh in six seasons of the comedy…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain indigenous dogs roamed Jamestown in the early 17th century, and out of desperation during harsh winter months, some colonists ate them, researchers have proven. A team of archaeologists at the University of Iowa was able to extract DNA from remains found at Jamestown and confirm that they belonged to…

A comprehensive new study has examined the diets of the earliest dinosaurs and found that, unsurprisingly, they included carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. But what is surprising is that the ancestors of many of the most famous herbivores – like Triceratops and Brachiosaurus – originally ate meat.When you picture dinosaurs, most people think of the classic giants – the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex, the horned Triceratops, or the long-necked Brachiosaurus. But these iconic species all arose fairly late in the game,…

Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images One of the more disturbing (or entertaining, depending on your proclivities) movies to come out recently is the cannibal love story Bones & All, starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell. The movie is gory, to say the least, with explicit scenes of people eating people. So how did they do it? It apparently took a lot of practical effects to make it look like the two were munching on actual human beings. In an interview with Slash Film, Russell revealed what was…

Black holes have been seen to chow down on stars that wander too close, resulting in a bright stellar show. But now a black hole has been seen doing something nobody’s ever seen before – it “burped up” material several years after eating a star, leaving astronomers baffled.Black holes are famously ravenous objects, swallowing up everything that gets too close, including light itself. When stars are on the menu, the intense gravitational forces stretch the material out into long strands in an event known as…

A couple of months ago, we learned Jason Momoa had undergone hernia surgery just before his appearance at the 2022 Oscars. At the time, he joked he needed it because he was “getting old,” but it was hardly the best time for such a momentous surgery, as the action-oriented actor was joining the Fast X cast right around the corner. As it turns out, he started filming the tenth franchise flick in Italy before he’d even been greenlighted to start working out again. As a direct result, his “dad bod” has seemingly made a…

Detail from an illustration of Genyornis being chased from its nest by a Megalania lizard in prehistoric Australia. Credit: Illustration supplied by the artist Peter Trusler.Researchers settle fierce debate surrounding ‘Thunder bird’ species, and whether its eggs were exploited by early Australian people around 50,000 years ago.Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell discovered in the Australian sands confirm that the continent’s earliest humans consumed the eggs of a two-meter (6.5 foot) tall bird that…

In a sense, writing a book is easy. You just keep putting one interesting sentence after another, then thread them all together along a more or less fine narrative line. Only, it isn’t easy – in fact, it’s famously difficult, a daunting and arduous labour that can frequently leave you in a state of utter nervous exhaustion, reaching for the bottle or the pills. Since his creative breakthrough with The Adversary, published in 2000, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère has done something doubly amazing: he’s pioneered a…

Detail from an illustration of Genyornis being chased from its nest by a Megalania lizard in prehistoric Australia. Credit: Peter Trusler Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent's earliest humans consumed the eggs of a two-meter tall bird that disappeared into extinction over 47,000 years ago.…