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Disney Disney fans tuning into Good Morning America were treated to a special surprise today as the picturesque trailer for an upcoming and all-encompassing film, Wish, was finally gifted to an excited audience. With hints of Disney classics like Frozen, Pinocchio, and even Lady and the Tramp — all movies that center around the kind of magic that makes all of our wildest dreams come true. On April 26, fans were treated to the first look at Chris Pine’s character in the upcoming film that’s set to honor the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRyan Gosling told fans how he found his “Ken-ergy” after taking on the role in Greta Gerwig’s forthcoming Barbie movie. The Hollywood actor stars as Ken in the live-action tale of arguably the world’s most iconic children’s doll, opposite Margot Robbie in the title role. Appearing in a panel discussion at the Warner Bros’ ComicCon presentation of the film on Tuesday 25 April, at…

Southeast Asia is preparing for a long war against African swine fever (ASF), a highly infectious and lethal disease that reached China in 2018 and has since spread south, threatening both domestic and wild pigs. After plans to eliminate it by euthanizing pigs on a large scale proved economically, logistically, and politically unworkable, authorities throughout the region have recognized that “we’ve got to learn to live with the virus,” says Dirk Pfeiffer, a…

The Current9:17Releasing millions of modified mosquitos to fight dengue feverRead transcribed audioIt may sound like the premise for a horror movie, or a biblical plague, but the World Mosquito Program plans to release five billion mosquitos into Brazil. And the hope is they will help save lives.The billions of bugs will be released with a bacteria called Wolbachia, all in an effort to slow the transmission of dengue fever in the country. " you see the reductions in disease transmission, it doesn't seem like a horror…

For many people, spring has brought with it the dreaded symptoms of hay fever, such as itchy eyes, sneezing, and a stuffy nose. Hay fever is common, affecting up to 42 percent of people. It occurs when the immune system overreacts to allergens including pollen.Research suggests there could be a link between hay fever and the microbiome, the collection of microorganisms that live in and on our bodies. Specifically, the composition of a person's gut and nasal microbiomes may play a role in the development of hay fever…

It’s one of film’s iconic images: a smouldering John Travolta, in a white three-piece suit, lapels licking the shoulders, raising his right arm on a glowing dancefloor.And now, the white polyester outfit from Saturday Night Fever – the 1977 chronicle of the dying days of disco – could be yours for a quarter of a million dollars.The suit, which was bought for $100 off the rack from a small menswear shop in Brooklyn, New York, is expected to sell at auction for close to $250,000.Designed by Leading Male, the jacket,…

Image via Marvel Studios With the MCU not in the brightest spot right now, the franchise is for once being overshadowed by other movie universes that are taking both the theatrical and streaming audiences by storm. For starters, the digital release of Avatar: The Way of Water is only reopening old, barely healed wounds in its war against Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, while the success of John Wick: Chapter 4 has Marvel fans convinced the Multiverse Saga could benefit from a bit of that series’ blood-pumping…

Some 500 years ago, a city-living, human-biting form of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti began to hitch rides out of West African ports during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It spread to the Americas and then to Asia, causing centuries of disease outbreaks to ripple through the colonial world. Today, its globally invasive descendants act as the main disease vector for the yellow fever, Zika, chikungunya, and dengue viruses, collectively causing hundreds of…

Chinese cybersecurity company 360 announced it will launch its own ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence (AI) app just hours after a similar announcement by Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Chinese’ Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), which in turn followed in the footsteps of Google and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). The firm, based in Beijing and popular in China for its browsers and antivirus, added to the fever for conversational AI by announcing that it intends to launch a ‘demo’ as soon as possible, something that caused its actions in the…

Philip Hensher’s latest novel, To Battersea Park, is not the first Covid novel – Ali Smith’s turbocharged Summer got there two and a half years ago. Sarah Moss’s The Fell and Sarah Hall’s Burntcoat were also propelled by the narrative potential of pandemic and lockdowns. Hensher, though, has done something rather different and more precarious: written a book that is really a collection of novellas engaging in more or less autobiographical fashion with his experience of Covid.I say precarious because the book feels as if…