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It might be time to update our animal-related trivia. Scientists in Malaysia say they’re the first to document a species of snake that intentionally cartwheels. The behavior appears to be an evasive maneuver used against potential predators and may be common among other, similar species.The Mississippi River is Drying Out | Extreme EarthThe acrobatic reptile in question is known as the dwarf reed snake, or Pseudorabdion longiceps. It’s a small, nonvenomous, black to reddish snake found widely through parts of Southeast…

Jonathan Majors Was Arrested On The Charges Of Allegedly Assaulting His Girlfriend(Photo Credit –Still From movie) Seems like it is MCU’s turn to face some controversies post-DCU’s time in the mud pit. The studio has been seeing one after the other rows that have been making news all across the world. Just when everyone was still busy dissecting what went wrong between Marvel and Victoria Alonso that led to their separation, Jonathan Majors, aka Kang The Conqueror, was arrested on the charges of assault. Now it seems…

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When he looks back on it now – gambling his house, battling Robert Maxwell, turning up in the Soviet Union on a wing and a prayer – Henk Rogers still insists that he never considered giving up. “People ask me how much naivety was involved?” he recalls. “I would say 20% naivety/stupidity and 80% determination.”That may be the key to success in many aspects of life. In Rogers’s case, he was a video game publisher who knew he had discovered the next big thing: Tetris, a strangely addictive puzzle in which players must…

Focus Features Wes Anderson is bringing the entirety of Hollywood to bear on the box office through his new sci-fi rom-com Asteroid City, but the inclusion of Margot Robbie might bode ill for the flick when it premieres in theaters later this year. From across the geekdom, MCU fans are mourning the loss of certain characters all over again. More specifically, a lot of them regret the fact that some iconic character duos will never happen. Check out these beats and more in today’s sci-fi roundup down below. This…

The Supreme Court of Norway ruled that the development of wind power at Fosen in Trøndelag county violated human rights and the Sámi's right to carry out their cultural livelihood. What will happen to the wind farm and the mountain area remains uncertain. Credit: NTB Wind turbines are contributing to the Southern Sámi losing grazing land for their reindeer husbandry. This livelihood is central to the identity of the Southern…

Trying to summarize Danger and Other Unknown Risks is tricky. It’s truly one of those stories that has everything: Magic, time travel, Y2k, the apocalypse, a chosen hero. But to artist Erica Henderson and writer Ryan North, who joined Polygon on a recent Zoom call in anticipation of the graphic novel’s release, the most important thing might have been the dog. “Every time we came up with a story idea, you were like And also there’s a talking dog,” Henderson told North over video chat, when I asked about how the book…

Hello, it’s Thursday, March 23, and here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:TOP STORIES California storm moves out, but flood dangers remainHeavy rain and damaging winds gradually subsided Wednesday as one of the wildest storms of the season made its exit from the Golden State, leaving at least five people dead and others critically injured as it felled trees, knocked out power and threatened additional flooding in the Central Valley.Weeks of wild weather have left few corners of California unscathed. Over the last…

Yesterday, March 20, it was reported that the Earth may suffer a glancing blow from an incoming coronal mass ejection (CME) today. While astronomers keep an eye out on its development, a far more concerning development has been spotted on the Sun. The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory has detected a large hole in the Sun's atmosphere which is spewing a stream of solar winds. This solar wind is expected to reach our planet between March 23 and 24, and can cause another powerful solar storm event. Things can worsen if there…

ChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless array of questions – from queries about the best Italian restaurant in town to explaining competing theories about the nature of evil.The technology's uncanny writing ability has surfaced some old questions – until recently relegated to the realm of science fiction – about the possibility of machines becoming conscious, self-aware, or sentient.In 2022, a Google engineer declared, after interacting with LaMDA, the company's…