Bananas

Sample shapes of distant galaxies identified by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin), Micaela Bagley (UT Austin), Rebecca Larson (UT Austin) Data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope suggests that many early galaxies were long and thin, not disk-like or spherical.Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and…

An illustration shows a young tyrannosaur, Gorgosaurus libratus, tearing apart and eating its prey, a bird-like dinosaur called Citipes elegans, in what's now Alberta during the Cretaceous period. (Julius Csotonyi/Royal Tyrell Museum)Scientists have made a rare and extraordinary fossil find in Alberta — a young tyrannosaur with the remains of two baby dinosaurs inside its stomach.The discovery offers new hints about how tyrannosaurs' behaviour and their role in ecosystems changed as they grew, say the Canadian researchers…

Gif: Universal Studios Products and ExperiencesUniversal Studios Resorts has unveiled its first look at its new Donkey Kong County area at the theme park in Osaka, Japan.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedInspired by Nintendo’s Donkey Kong franchise, the highlight of the new area is a coaster themed to the games complete with a mine cart ride vehicle. The area is just a warp pipe away from the Super Mario Bros. section of Super Nintendo World and transports you to the jungles where Kong is King. Take a…

One night in April, a stranger I met in a pub pulled out his phone and showed me pictures of something he was working on. We were in a town near to the Leavesden film studios, where the stranger had been constructing sets for Barbie, a film co-written and directed by the American filmmaker Greta Gerwig. “You have to see this,” the man said, before presenting images of a hot-pink, human-sized Barbieland, a place he described as an antidote to our hideously cold winter. Rain was forecast the following day, and even colder…

Margot Robbie’s new profile in Vogue is incredible. The article mainly dives into Robbie’s work on the much-anticipated Barbie, but in between some delightful behind-the-scenes anecdotes, it offers insight on how the Barbie film actually came to be.Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Behind The Scenes Clip First, did you know that Robbie herself went to Mattel to get the film rights? In 2018, she approached the toy company’s CEO and pitched her company—LuckyChap—as the production outfit that would do right by Barbie. After she got the…

It’s been more than 50 years since the lethal soil-borne Fusarium fungal species all but wiped out the dominant Gros Michele banana across the globe. Now, though, the tropical race 4 (TR4) strain of the fungus threatens to repeat history, potentially killing off the world’s most popular and widespread variety, the Cavendish, and with it a US$20 billion banana industry.However, for the past 20 years, scientists at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia have been developing a genetically modified…

Overripe bananas could soon become a mere memory — in the Philippines, at least. Tropic Biosciences, a startup in the UK, has tapped gene editing to banish the browning fruit — and mitigate the havoc that it’s wreaking. Currently, over 60% of exported bananas go to waste before reaching consumers. According to Tropic, the non-browning version could cut food waste and CO2 emissions in supply chains by over 25%.  In terms of CO2 reduction, the impact is comparable to taking 2m passenger vehicles…

Money talks, and right now in the world of crypto, it’s screaming meme coins! From adorable pups to mischievous monkeys, meme coins feature all kinds of cute and cuddly animals that will make you want to say “aww!” But don’t let their cuteness fool you – these coins mean business! You may have heard of some of the most popular ones, like Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB). But in 2023, three meme coins are making some serious waves: PepeCoin (PEPE), Tron (TRX), and Ape Brigade (APES). These coins are hot, hot, hot, and…

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content When Niall Horan offers up a free concert in Toronto, it’s bound to go in one direction: Crazy. Article content Predictably, the 29-year-old Irish superstar and former member of the boy band One Direction caused a wild scene on Wednesday as eager fans camped out for hours in the rain ahead of his freebie set. Article content His…

As It Happens6:16This fussy elephant peels her bananas, but only when they're perfectly ripePang Pha is very particular about her bananas. Like most of us, the Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo prefers her bananas to be the perfect level of bright yellow ripeness. And she also likes them peeled. In fact, she peels them herself, using her trunk."It's a rare, very specific behaviour," Lena Kaufmann, a biology PhD candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. "In the zoo in Berlin, no other…