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Our immune system is talented at telling the difference between the chemistry of our own body and that of an invading pathogen. When it malfunctions, our body can become host to an intense civil war. Scientists are keen to understand this in more detail, and a newly identified 'switch' that deactivates a sensor of foreign DNA may provide important insight. A key part of this discovery, made by a team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, is an enzyme called cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS). This protein…

Taylor Swift’s father is being accused of attacking a paparazzo on Tuesday morning in Sydney after exiting a boat with the pop superstar just hours after her final performance of her Eras Tour in the capital.  Scott Swift has been a fixture as his daughter’s sold-out shows have moved from city to city. On Tuesday, the 71-year-old dubbed Papa Swift by fans allegedly charged at a photographer after he and his daughter disembarked a boat around 2:30 a.m. in Sydney. Authorities in New South Wales confirmed…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSydney Sweeney was left terrified after revealing she was bitten by a spider on the set of her new Australia-set film.The 26-year-old actor appeared on US chat show The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon where she revealed her screams for a scene in the romantic comedy Anything But You were real due to the arachnid attack.Sweeney told Fallon, 49, that for the comedic scene she had to…

Social media video of a black bear being pestered by people while feasting on fish on the shores of the Campbell River has sparked outrage online and among locals.The video was posted seven weeks ago but has now caught the attention of residents in the Vancouver Island city of the same name, located about 225 kilometres north of Victoria.The video, taken and posted online by Blake Pedersson, shows a group of people with fishing gear fixated on a black bear eating at the river's edge. Members of the group get within inches…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Music Celebrity 'The song is about protecting your loved ones in your neighbourhood,' rock legend says Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jul 24, 2023  •  Last updated 36 minutes ago  •  4 minute read Rock legend Ted Nugent rehearses his performance during a sound check at the DTE Energy Music Theater on July 4, 2008 in Clarkston, Michigan. Photo by Bill Pugliano /Getty Images Article content Detroit’s Motor…

Fossil showing the entangled skeletons of Psittacosaurus (dinosaur) and Repenomamus (mammal) and their interaction just before death. NOTE: The scale bar equals 10 cm. Credit: Gang HanA 125-million-year-old fossil, showing a carnivorous mammal attacking a dinosaur, challenges the long-standing belief that <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Cretaceous</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>The Cretaceous is a geological…

A new wave of cyber attacks against the Indian Army and the education sector organised by a Pakistan-based group has come to light. According to a report by…

Vanderpump Rules Reunion: Lala Kent Regrets Lashing Out At Raquel Leviss (Picture Credit: Instagram) Lala Kent regrets attacking Raquel Leviss at the ‘Vanderpump Rules’ reunion. The 32-year-old star has revealed that she regrets how she approached her co-star during the reunion, after it was revealed that Raquel had a months-long affair with Tom Sandoval. Speaking to TMZ, Lala explained: “In the moment during the reunion, after I left, I felt dirty. “After watching last night when she had finally had the breakdown –…

A trio of orcas attacked a boat in the Strait of Gibraltar earlier this month, damaging it so badly that it sank soon afterward. The May 4 incident was the third time killer whales (Orcinus orca) have sunk a vessel off the coasts of Portugal and Spain in the past three years. The subpopulation of orcas in this region began harassing boats, most often by biting at their rudder, in 2020. Almost 20 percent of these attacks caused enough damage to disable the vessels, says Alfredo López, an orca researcher at the Atlantic…

Image via Sony The Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to be increasingly leaning on the concept of variants as the Multiverse Saga progresses, but it looks as though one might have escaped from its own timeline and made its way into ours after a man in a Spider-Man mask was arrested for climbing scaffolding and attacking a statue with a hammer. It wasn’t just a random and unprovoked attack, to be fair; the statue outside of BBC headquarters at Broadcasting House was sculpted by Eric Gill, who was found to have…