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Plumes of floodwater pushed far out to sea during the 2022 floods. This image shows the Hunter River on April 11 2022. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory, CC BY-ND Over this wet summer, Melburnians and Sydneysiders have had to think twice about cooling off at their local beach. Heavy rainfall has swollen rivers and pumped pollutants, nutrients and murky fresh water far out to sea. Swimmers at Port Phillip Bay beaches are emerging…

Earlier this month, at the latest annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)—the largest organization of professional astronomers in the country—many cosmic objects got their moment to shine.In the case of brown dwarfs, though, that shine is pretty feeble.Brown dwarfs exist in a kind of netherworld category between planets and stars. They’re massive enough that the pressure in their core is sufficient to fuse deuterium—an isotope of hydrogen—but not massive enough to fuse normal hydrogen, the…

Like her onscreen co-star Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown has become quite the horror genre staple between both Yellowjackets and Scream, but will she be making a return to the latter slasher franchise? The actress portrayed Mindy Meeks-Martin in the 2022 reboot Scream and its 2023 sequel Scream VI. Yet despite the success of the new Scream movies—the most recent installment broke the franchise's domestic box office record with $103.8 million—the series has become plagued by uncertainty. The studio fired lead actress…

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This artist’s concept portrays the brown dwarf W1935, which is located 47 light-years from Earth. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found infrared emission from methane coming from W1935. This is an unexpected discovery because the brown dwarf is cold and lacks a host star; therefore, there is no obvious source of energy to heat its upper atmosphere and make the methane glow. The team speculates that the methane emission may be due to processes generating aurorae, shown here in red. Credit: NASA, ESA,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional, turns 70 years old on May 17, 2024. At the time of the 1954 ruling, 17 U.S. states had laws permitting or requiring racially segregated schools. The Brown decision declared that segregation in public…

As of now, Sterling K. Brown's affection for John Stewart is simply that. But that doesn't mean that he couldn't one day actually play the character on screen. Nathan Fillion has been cast as the DCU's first official Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, and will appear in James Gunn's "Superman: Legacy." But there's also a big-budget Green Lantern TV show in the works, and Warner Bros. has yet to announce the stars. Currently going by the title of "Lanterns," the planned series is being developed on the HBO and…

This Christmas, country star Kane Brown got the gift of prepping to become a dad for the third time. The “Thank God” singer made the announcement in a Christmas morning Instagram post that showed his wife, Katelyn Brown, and their two children sitting in front of their Christmas tree as Brown’s daughter held up an ultrasound photo of baby No. 3.“Last Christmas of 4,” the Browns captioned their family picture. “Merry Christmas everyone!!”Stars from the country music world flooded Brown’s comment section with messages of…

Paramount’s Scream franchise has been thrown into further disarray with the departure of Scream 7 director Christopher Landon.Hulu’s Hellraiser Reboot Has So-So Sights to Show YouOn Twitter, the director explained that he left the project “weeks ago,” and candidly called it “a dream job that turned into a nightmare. And my heart did break for everyone involved. Everyone. But it’s time to move on.” Landon, who previously helmed the Happy Death Day duology and Freaky, was tapped to direct back in early August, taking over…

I will be taking next week off, which means that this is the final Plugged In of the year. Thank you so much for your support throughout 2023—it’s been fun having you along for the ride. Happy holidays to all, and see you in 2024.If you were watching TV on the evening of Tuesday, December 18, 1962, you had the chance to tune into a one-hour piece of entertainment history on NBC. The show in question, Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol, featured the cantankerous, nearsighted character playing Ebenezer Scrooge. Directed by the…