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A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just four proteins to a skin cell and waited about two weeks, some of the cells underwent an unexpected and astounding transformation: they became young again. They turned into stem cells almost identical to the kind found in a days-old embryo, just beginning life’s journey. At least in a petri dish, researchers using the procedure can take withered skin cells from a 101-year-old and rewind them so they act…

Here is a vivid, troubling documentary that reconstructs how Chinese activists hijacked the airwaves of state TV in the northeastern city of Changchun in March 2002. The group were followers of a banned spiritual practice called Falun Gong, labelled an “evil cult” by the ruling Communist party.Watching archive footage of a Falun Gong gathering, it’s hard to see what all the fuss was about: hundreds of followers in a public square silently practising sequences of gentle movements; it looks like a tai chi class. But Falun…

There’s real intimacy and emotional generosity to this psychological mystery from Joanna Hogg – a personal movie which appears to come from the same universe as her earlier Souvenir films – or one very much like it.It’s a ghost story whose purpose is something other than scaring you, a film about the enigma of your parents’ lives, their unknowable existences before you were born and indeed after you were born; that feeling that your parents are simultaneously as familiar as a pair of old slippers and yet also a…

| Get a heavy metal start to your Saturday morning with this preview of Eternal Descent #1, by Michael Moreci and Marco Lorenzana, hitting stores on September 28th and final order cutoff this Monday. Eternal Descent is the latest comic from Opus Comics and the latest iteration of the property dreamed up over a decade ago by Llexi Leon, refined now by Moreci. The comic represents Opus's first original IP. "The idea started to percolate around 2006, it went through various stages and then I connected with Jason Metcalf,…

A fresh spin on the survival adventure genre One of my favorite games of 2021, The Eternal Cylinder, was a hidden gem, and I’ve been wanting a reason to play it again (and have an excuse to bring it up here in hopes of more of you checking it out). My wish has been granted, as ACE Team is planning a Steam release, free upgrades for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and an anniversary update. You haven’t lived until you’ve curled up in a little mutant critter ball and rolled for life while an endless, seemingly unstoppable…

Image: Titan ComicsKamen Rider has existed in many forms in its long history, from TV and film to, of course, creator Shotaro Ishinomori’s own classic manga. But how do you bring a series that has such a peculiar history in the west to contemporary Western comics? As part of our ongoing look at Titan Comics’ new Kamen Rider Zero-One series this week, io9 recently spoke to writer Brandon Easton and artist Hendry Prasetya over email about their history with tokusatsu, and the particular challenges of adapting a legendary…

In Fraternity by Jon Ellis, Hugo Petrus, and Lee Loughridge, a childhood friendship is put to the test due to a shadowy college fraternity. And that’s “shadowy” in the demonic sense! The graphic novel will be published by Humanoids next Tuesday, August 9th, 2022, but you can get your first look at the book right here today at The Beat. Fraternity Here’s the description of the book from Humanoids: Wyatt’s roommate has been acting pretty strange ever since he joined that frat… This is FRATERNITY, the latest horror graphic…

Zomato Founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal has announced a new structure for the company that will see its businesses like Zomato, Blinkit and Hyperpure run by different CEOs under one umbrella organisation called 'Eternal'.In a note sent to employees on an internal communication channel, Goyal said that they are now at a stage of life where "we are maturing from running (more or less) a single business, to now running multiple large companies"."Now that the Zomato-Blinkit deal is approved, we have three companies -- Zomato,…

During the 2022 Guerrilla Collective indie game livestream, Microids unveiled Arkanoid: Eternal Battle, a modern revival of an arcade classic with a battle royale twist.This new Arkanoid includes four ways to play: a new modern take on the classic block-breaking gameplay, the original retro experiences from decades ago, four-player local split-screen gameplay, and a 25-player online battle royale mode where the last one standing wins it all. This is Microids's second reveal of a classic game…

In 2018, following a bruising divorce, the British singer Sarah Brown was “broke, financially, emotionally and spiritually – I had nothing to live for”. At her lowest ebb, she turned to a voice that had given her crucial guidance and succour when she was a child: Mahalia Jackson, the pre-eminent gospel star of the 20th century.“Pop music was banned in my home growing up,” Brown says. “But my father owned records by Jim Reeves, Aretha Franklin and Mahalia Jackson. And Mahalia’s voice opened my spirit up. I grew up in a…