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Researchers have developed a method to measure gravity at a microscopic level, marking a significant advancement in understanding quantum gravity. Credit: SciTechDaily.comPhysicists successfully measure gravity in the quantum world, detecting weak gravitational pull on a tiny particle with a new technique that uses levitating magnets, putting scientists closer to solving mysteries of the universe.Scientists are a step closer to unraveling the mysterious forces of the universe after working out how to measure gravity on a…

In June 2023, a group of naturalists noticed an odd detail in one of the frogs they found during their trip to observe amphibians and reptiles at a roadside pond in Karnataka, southern India.Perched on a twig, a live golden-backed frog presented researchers with an unexpected sight: a tiny mushroom sprouting out of its side.“When I first observed the frog with the mushroom, I was amazed and intrigued by the sight,” Lohit Y T, a rivers and wetlands specialist with World Wildlife Fund-India in Bengaluru, told CNN. Lohit…

In the 90-odd years since it was discovered, we've never found anything like an ancient, early Permian fossil discovered in the Italian Alps.It's called Tridentinosaurus antiquus, excavated in 1931, and considered a truly remarkable find. Dating to 280 million years ago, before the dinosaurs, it was thought to represent one of the oldest lizard fossils ever found.Even more excitingly, its preservation was exceptional: an imprint of the animal's body outlined in preserved soft tissue.Well, now we know why we've never…

It’s been over half a year since Barbie opened in theaters, and there’s still a lot of talk surrounding what CinemaBlend ranked as one of the best movies of 2023. Among the many things this movie has going for it is its all-star cast, which included looping in Michael Cera as Allan, although his manager nearly cost him the role. But ahead of the public finding out how Barbie will do among the other 96th Academy Award nominees, Cera has revealed that Ben Affleck was supposed to cameo in the movie, and I’m genuinely…

Normally sequels come out come out just a few years after their predecessors, but every now and then a follow-up to a major movie will arrive decades later. Examples from recent years include Blade Runner 2049 being released 35 years after Blade Runner, and next year’s Beetlejuice 2 arriving 38 years after Beetlejuice. Well, evidently we can now count The Polar Express 2 in this group, as it’s currently being “worked out,” and I’m truly baffled by this news.Based on the same-named book by Chris Van Allsburg published in…

I really hadn’t heard of El Viento before Retro-Bit announced their re-issue of it. It’s really hard to know what to make of it. It seems displaced from time, occupying an era that doesn’t exist. That may be a weird way to describe it, but I think what I’m trying to say is that it looks reminiscent of Valis. It’s a sort of grainy-looking side-scroller that feels like it was developed for an early Japanese home computer before being ported to the PC-Engine and finally landing on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. A drifting…

There was a time when the universe was dark, before any stars had formed within it. Up until now, we haven’t discovered any evidence of galaxies like that. However, an accidental imaging of one section of the sky allowed scientists to spot a primordial galaxy with a bunch of gas and no stars.One of the reasons that we haven’t discovered any of these dark, primordial galaxies is because none of our current technology is capable of reaching that far back into time. While it can see deep into the universe, James…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCarey Mulligan’s response to a recent interview question linked to Taylor Swift is going viral on Twitter/X.During The Hollywood Reporter’s latest actress roundtable, alongside fellow actors Margot Robbie, Lily Gladstone, Emma Stone, Greta Lee and Annette Bening, the Maestro star, 38, was asked: “If you were a Taylor Swift era, which era would you be?”“What does that mean?” Mulligan…

Robert Pattinson is one eccentric dude. In addition to movie roles that have ranged from Tenet to The Batman to The Boy and the Heron over the last few years alone, he moonlights as a musician, took up jiu-jitsu to play the Dark Knight, and designs sofas in his spare time. Yes, seriously. The actor shared as much in a recent conversation with Architectural Digest, in which he described his couch-based collaboration with designer Nicole Gordon, who personally decorated two of the star's homes (though it's unclrear whether…

Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object from Earth, is sending back a repetitive jumble of 1s and 0s that don't make any sense.Scientists at NASA are desperately trying to fix the glitch from 24 billion kilometers (15 billion miles) away .The probe can still receive commands from Earth but messages to interstellar space require approximately 22.5 hours of travel.That means it will take days before experts know if their attempts to restore the probe's nearly 50-year-old computers have worked or not.This isn't the…