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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSylvester Stallone has revealed he has never recovered from an injury he sustained on the set of Expendables 2, leaving him with dislocated shoulders and a fractured neck. The botched stunt happened during a scene in which Stallone was tackled by co-star and WWE legend Steve Austin, and the injuries have since required seven back surgeries. The Rocky star needed a metal plate inserted…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study has exposed for the first time the vast proliferation of gambling marketing during live TV screenings and social media promotion of National Hockey League (NHL) and National Basketball Association (NBA) games in Canada. The rapid assessment, undertaken by the University of Bristol in collaboration with…

“Exploded essays”, the poet, novelist and memoirist Lavinia Greenlaw calls the 17 pieces of almost-art-critical prose in this bright, mournful book. The phrase suggests a bristling diagram or enlarged view, an annotated arc of thought or feeling. But also something violently botched or ruined – don’t all essays worth the name aspire, more or less secretly, to blowing up their own form? In revisiting a lifetime of looking – at art, landscapes, weather, heavenly bodies, human faces and sometimes nothing at all – Greenlaw…

The human body did not evolve to handle life in space, and it shows in our very blood.Since our species first started to spend extended periods of time beyond our planet, researchers have noticed a curious and consistent loss of red blood cells among astronauts.The phenomenon is called 'space anemia', and until recently, its cause was a mystery. Some experts have argued space anemia is only a short-term phenomenon – a brief compensation for the fluid changes in our bodies under microgravity.A 2022 study, however, points…

OpenAI's ChatGPT has been having some isssues for a few days. More recently, it faced a severe outage. It seems that the outage was because of a massive DDoS attack by Pro-Palestine, Russia-backed hacktivists It seems that…

When aliens or our distant progeny sift through layers of sediment 500,000 years from now to decode the Earth's past, they will find unusual evidence of the abrupt change that upended life half-a-million years earlier: chicken bones.That is the conclusion of scientists whose findings are offered as proof that rapid expansion of human appetites and activity so radically altered natural systems as to tip Earth into a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene, or the "era of humans".There will be other telltale clues in…

Image: Planet Labs PBCFollowing the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine yesterday, satellite imagery shows just how dire the situation really is.Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called the collapse “an environmental bomb of mass destruction,” CNN reports, as flowing water threatens nearby crops and villages, causing more than 1,400 people to flee their homes. Satellite imagery sent to Gizmodo from Planet Labs shows the extent of the damage as a result of the collapse. Image: Planet Labs PBCFollowing the…

Over the last forty years or so, the number of people with diabetes has jumped from around 100 million to more than 500 million, with matching rises in associated health problems like obesity and cardiovascular disease risk.It's a significant health problem that is getting worse, which is why researchers are investigating the underlying issues behind the trend.One of those issues is likely to be diet, according to a new study into type 2 diabetes – which accounts for 95 percent of overall cases.Researchers analyzed data…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A joint research team led by Prof. Xiao Cunde from Beijing Normal University, Dr. Du Zhiheng and Dr. Yang Jiao from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed how extreme cold events in southern China relate to Arctic autumn sea-ice extent. …

Global distribution of different types of river extent changes in the early 21st century: morphological dynamics (Type-M), hydrological signals (Type-H), and new reservoir-type river reaches (Type-R). Credit: Song Chunqiao Rivers are one of the most dynamic components of the water cycle on Earth's surface and play a significant role in the development of human societies, ecosystem sustainability, and regional climate. However,…