Birth

n a vibrant display of cosmic artistry, the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a captivating image of the star-forming region IRAS 16562-3959 within the Milky Way Galaxy. Situated approximately 5,900 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation, this celestial panorama reveals a dynamic tapestry of colours and activities.Hubble's Precision PaletteThe mesmerising snapshot, composed by Hubble Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, unveils the intricacies of IRAS 16562-3959 through the lens of four specialised filters.…

Public domain/CC BY-SA 2.0 Deed/Public domain/Public domain/Image by Author/Public domainThe life and times of Abraham De Moivre, his famous theorem, and how it set the stage for the discovery of the Central Limit TheoremIt was around 1689 that one of biggest discoveries in probability unfolded in the Swiss Confederation. The protagonist was Jacob Bernoulli and the discovery was the Weak Law of Large Numbers. Bernoulli showed that the mean of a randomly selected sample converges in probability to the mean of the…

A study from the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine reveals new insights into the role of DNA methylation in orofacial development in mice, offering hope for strategies to reduce cleft lip and palate defects in humans. Credit: SciTechDaily.comRecent research identifies DNA methylation’s critical role in craniofacial development, providing a pathway toward preventing cleft lip and palate by understanding environmental impacts on genetic expression.Cleft lip and palate are the most common craniofacial…

Famous American singer and songwriter Lionel Richie, father of three, is about to welcome his grandchild between May and June. He is excited about this new baby, but ahead of his birth, he showed his red signal to one name. Lionel Richie’s daughter Sofia and her husband Elliot Grainge will welcome their first child soon. Lionel Richie made it clear that he didn’t want to dominate or intervene in between parents’ choices of baby’s name, but he strictly said no to one name. He said, “You can’t call her…

W ho better to play a New York high society socialite than Chloë Sevigny, the former club kid turned fashionista who was profiled by Jay McInerney for The New Yorker at 19? In 1995, one year after that infamous piece hit newsstands, Sevigny would star as a Manhattan teen who discovers she’s HIV positive in Kids, written by her pal Harmony Korine. The film was almost immediately cemented as a cult classic, sending her down an arthouse-cinema path that’s included Gummo, Boys Don’t Cry (earning her an Oscar…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The residency period for physicians typically lines up with their optimal childbearing years. "It can be easy to think, 'Oh, you're just focusing on your career.' But people don't realize how often women are having children during residency," said Lilly Springer, a doctoral student in the Department of Economics at the University of Kansas. …

Featured in this image from the James Webb Space Telescope is Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211), a bipolar jet travelling through interstellar space at supersonic speeds. At roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Perseus, the object is one of the youngest and nearest protostellar outflows, making it an ideal target for JWST. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, T. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)JWST’s detailed infrared image of HH 211 uncovers the dynamics of a young protostar’s outflows, offering new…

Near the end of 2023, singer and actress Halle Bailey made headlines when it was reported that she was expecting her first child with boyfriend DDG. The star herself didn’t respond to the chatter, though the rumor mill continued to chun. It wasn’t until earlier in January that Bailey finally confirmed that she’d given birth to a baby boy named Halo. Since the announcement was made, many have offered their congratulations to her and her partner. It would seem that at least one person takes issue with how everything has…

A modern folk horror tale that draws upon Australia’s troubled history to enhance its monstrous elements, The Moogai also includes an exploration of postpartum depression. Unfortunately, its one-dimensional plot ultimately detracts from the elements that make it an otherwise unique story.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie It’s rare to see a horror film that centers contemporary Aboriginal characters. The Moogai, which writer-director Jon Bell expanded from his award-winning short, follows Sarah (Shari…

Nikon has taken its imaging and AI prowess in a unexpected direction with a new system that can warn farmers when a cow is about to give birth, Kyodo News has reported. It's designed to reduce the need to constantly check large numbers of pregnant cows during busy birthing seasons, helping farmers improve efficiency.The system, which costs 900,000 yen per year ($6,200) for a farm with around 100 cows, consists of a security-style camera married to an AI system. It uses a dedicated smartphone application that sounds an…