Dying

Image via TV Tokyo Anime fans are being called “delusional” as they seek to draw far-fetched comparisons between Boruto: Naruto Next Generations and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Many of these side-by-side images that claim Boruto supposedly influenced Across the Spider-Verse are — in a word — a ‘reach’ as the kids say. Although the rather out-the-box similarities originated on Twitter, one TikTok user felt the need to call out those in agreement. “There’s no way in hell that some of y’all think that…

EA has just revealed a lot of stats for its recent game Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, for the last month, detailing the choices players have made in the game's customization options and how they're dying the most.Thanks to the official EA Star Wars account, we know that one of the most popular things to do is unclogging Greez's toilet, because over 861,000 players have done it so far. On top of that, Rick The Door Technician somehow managed to kill 489 players.In addition to Rick killing nearly 500 players,…

Five years since the Kepler Space Telescope was retired, a team of astronomers believe they’ve found exoplanets captured by some of the veteran observatory’s last light.What Is Planet Nine and Why Can’t We Find It?Kepler launched to space in 2009 with one essential task: find new worlds. In its nearly decade-long tenure in solar orbit, Kepler found over 2,600 exoplanets, including some that lurk in the so-called “Goldilocks Zone” of habitability, suggesting that they may have conditions suitable for fostering life.Kepler…

via Paramount Whenever a long-running franchise begins to run out of gas, the obvious solution for the studio is to hit the reboot button and hope that a fresh coat of paint does the trick. That being said, what happens if you end up with two of them on your hands at the same time? In the case of Paramount, a rumor claims that Transformers and G.I. Joe could finally end up getting that crossover. Of course, Rise of the Beasts is coming to theaters in less than two weeks and has already been announced as the…

You’d think Elon Musk, the second-wealthiest person in the world, would have bigger worries than whether or not strangers on the internet find him funny.Yet despite the long list of business concerns demanding his attention — making self-driving cars, launching reusable rockets, implanting microchips in monkeys’ brains and, as of last fall, running Twitter — Musk seems desperate to add “comedian” to his portfolio.The billionaire has hosted “Saturday Night Live” and guest starred on “The Simpsons.” He once considered…

via Lionsgate Now that John Wick: Chapter 4 is finally available on digital and on-demand, action junkies the world over can revisit the latest installment in Hollywood’s latest billion-dollar franchise, just don’t be suckered in by the movie’s official twitter account and its merciless trolling. While there were a lot of people who didn’t stick around for the credits to discover there’s a stinger that may or may not be setting up what’s to come, Chapter 4‘s social media handle has gone 100 steps further by…

Giant gorgonopsian Inostrancevia with its dicynodont prey, scaring off the much smaller African species Cyonosaurus. Credit: Art by Matt CeleskeyA recent study reveals intriguing insights into the catastrophic “Great Dying” extinction event 252 million years ago, focusing on the role of a tiger-sized, saber-toothed creature called Inostrancevia.Unearthed fossils indicate that this creature migrated 7,000 miles across Pangaea, filling a gap left by extinct top predators in a far-flung ecosystem before becoming extinct…

When stars like our Sun die, they tend to go out with a whimper and not a bang – unless they happen to be part of a binary (two) star system that could give rise to a supernova explosion.Now, for the first time, astronomers have spotted the radio signature of just such an event in a galaxy more than 400 million light-years away. The finding, published today in Nature, holds tantalizing clues as to what the companion star must have been like.An explosive star deathAs stars up to eight times heavier than our Sun start to…

A lawsuit over the cover of Megadeth’s latest album, The Sick, the Dying … and the Dead! has ended in a draw. New York-based illustrator and designer Brent Elliott White in February sued the band, Universal Music Group and others alleging that he hadn’t been paid for hundreds of hours of work — and that because they’d never finalized their contract he still owned the copyright in the art. White, who said he “created artwork and characters over time for Megadeth that have become an integral part of the…

Beaches have become makeshift necropsy labs along the shores of New York and New Jersey. An alarming number of whales are washing up along the east coast of the US. And when they do, a team of researchers arrives at the scene to hunt for clues pointing to a cause of death. They start by examining the outside of the body. Are there teeth marks from an attack? Or are there telltale signs of an accident with a ship: gashes from propellers, rust that has rubbed off from the vessel, broken bones or flesh that’s been pushed in…