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Origins Reveals The Truth Of Nightcrawler’s Birth

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, Marvel Comics, san diego comic con, Spider-Man, X-Men | Tagged: Nightcrawler SDCC, Uncanny Spider-ManNightcrawler was a mutant, created by Dave Cockrum and Len Wein for the X-Men, with powers of extreme agility, camouflage and teleportation.Nightcrawler was a mutant, created by Dave Cockrum and Len Wein for the X-Men, with powers of extreme agility, camouflage and teleportation, wrapped up in a furry demonic look with a prehensile tail to match. Over the years his origin…

Separated At Birth: The Creator and Descender

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, Image, Movies, Swipe File | Tagged: Descender, the creatorDescender is a sci-fi comic by Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen. The Creator, is a film written & directed by Gareth Edwards. Separated at birth?Descender is a science fiction comic by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen published by Image Comics in 2015. The story follows a young android, TIM-21, trying to survive endless bounty hunters in a universe that has outlawed all robotics and artificial intelligence.. The…

Robert De Niro’s girlfriend diagnosed with Bell’s palsy after giving birth | Hollywood

Veteran Hollywood actor Robert De Niro welcomed his seventh child with girlfriend Tiffany Chen at the age of 79, earlier this year in April. Now, in her first interview since giving birth, Tiffany has opened up about the complication she faced after the delivery and her subsequent Bell's palsy. (Also read: Robert De Niro's girlfriend Tiffany Chen says she faced ‘complication’ after giving birth) Robert De Niro's girlfriend Tiffany Chen opened up about her struggles after giving birth in April. Robert De Niro…

The US Finally Approved an Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill. Here’s What to Know

Early clinical trials of norgestrel, the active ingredient in Opill, have shown that the pills can be up to 98 percent effective at preventing pregnancy, but only when the drug is taken exactly as indicated and used along with a back-up form of birth control. In real life, effectiveness is usually lower.Doctors in the US more commonly prescribe birth control pills that contain both progestin and a synthetic form of estrogen. These combination pills thicken the mucus of the cervix while also preventing the ovaries from…

Excerpt: John Romero’s autobiography Doom Guy on the birth of id Software

I know that may be hard to believe. I talk passionately about games to anyone who listens whether it is about programming techniques, upcoming games and consoles, or the latest game I am into. Softdisk even had a conversational atmosphere.Still, on September 20th, 1990, I was at a total loss for words. But my silence wasn’t the real story. The reason for my silence — that was the real story.In the space of about one second, at the age of almost 23, I had glimpsed my future, my colleagues’ future, and the future of PC…

Birth of stars captured by space telescope

The first anniversary image released Wednesday, July 12, 2023, by Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach, shows NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displaying a star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pon/The Associated Press)The James Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet: the dramatic

The US Just Approved The First Over-The-Counter Daily Birth Control Pill : ScienceAlert

On July 13, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a drugmaker's application for the first daily over-the-counter birth control pill for people seeking to prevent pregnancy.The pill, called Opill – the brand name for the tablet formulation of norgestrel – is an oral contraceptive containing only progestin hormone, which helps prevent pregnancy by thickening cervical mucus, preventing ovulation or both.Opill was initially approved by the FDA for prescription use in 1973. Its approval for nonprescription use…

Webb Space Telescope reveals moment of stellar birth, dramatic close-up of 50 baby stars

The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet: the dramatic close-up of dozens of stars at the moment of birth.NASA unveiled the latest snapshot on Wednesday, revealing 50 baby stars in a cloud complex 390 light-years away. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers). The region is relatively small and quiet yet full of illuminated gases, jets of hydrogen and even dense cocoons of dust with the delicate beginnings of even more stars. All of the young…

On its anniversary, Webb telescope shows the birth of “sun-like” star

On July 12, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released an image of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex captured by its James Webb Space Telescope to mark its first year of operation in space.Webb was launched into space in 2021 and began collecting data last year. In a press release, NASA said that the new image reveals a region about 390 light years away from the Earth, containing approximately 50 young stars, similar in size to the Sun.“Webb’s image of Rho Ophiuchi allows us to witness a very brief…