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Jennifer Connelly. Pic/AFPActor Jennifer Connelly says she had nostalgic memories of watching Tom Cruise in the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun, but she never thought she would be invited to be a part of the iconic film’s sequel.Top Gun: Maverick brings back Cruise as the US aviator Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and also features Connelly among the new set of characters. Recalling her memories of watching the original film, Connelly said what stayed with her were the scenes of F-14 fighter jets flying in the desert and Cruise in his…

NEW DELHI: Adults in countries such as China, India, Peru, Saudi Arabia, and Colombia, are excited about the prospect of the metaverse with more than two-thirds saying they have positive feelings about the possibility of engaging with it, according to findings of a new global survey conducted by Ipsos for the World Economic Forum. The survey conducted across 29 countries revealed that half the adults surveyed are familiar with the metaverse (52%) and have positive feelings about…

Today brought the good news that the second trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder is set to debut this coming Monday, and Marvel fans are feeling the hype. The teaser that dropped in April managed to squeeze in clips of Chris Hemsworth’s Asgardian hero, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Natalie Portman as the Mighty Thor herself, but it stopped short of offering us a peek at Christian Bale as Thor’s latest — and deadliest — nemesis, Gorr the God Butcher. But, with a new trailer just a couple of days away, fans are…

Scream fans are reacting to the news that Hayden Panettiere will return to the horror franchise.Panettiere, who was one of the leading stars in 2011’s fourth instalment, has closed a deal to reprise her character in the newest addition to the film series.While fans are celebrating the return of Panettiere’s character Kirby Reed, many are worried theScream franchise is bringing her back to kill her off once and for all.“My god I’m so worried they’re gonna kill her,” wrote one person. “As long as Kirby isn’t brought back…

All four science instruments on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have achieved "perfect alignment" in advance of the telescope's official debut this summer, project officials said in a news teleconference on Monday (May 9).  "I'm delighted to report that the telescope alignment has been completed with performance even better than we had anticipated," Michael McElwain, James Webb Space Telescope project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland said, according to CBS News."We basically reached a perfect…

The human brain is said to be the most complex biological structure ever to have existed. And while science doesn't fully understand the brain yet, researchers in the expanding field of neuroscience have been making progress.  Neuroscientists have made substantial inroads towards mapping the complex functions of the brain's 85 billion or so neurons and the 100 trillion connections between them. (To put this astronomical number into perspective, there are upwards of 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.)Enter…