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Very seldom do we come across horror franchises that in addition to being impactful successfully, help set the benchmark for future entries. While decades-old slasher masterpieces like Halloween and Scream acquired that position, contemporary titles like The Conjuring and Insidious – through their gripping plot and dedication to the genre – are deemed as the epitome of modern horror. The credit goes to none other than filmmaker James Wan, who was the driving force behind the aforementioned movies and their sequels. So,…

To something the size of a human, static electricity is, at most, a hair-raising experience. When you're a tiny nematode, electrical fields are positively uplifting. Literally.The most famous nematode of all – Caenorhabditis elegans – has been caught using electrical fields to its advantage. The tiny worm can somehow piggyback on electrical fields to jump a surprising distance, across a petri dish, for example, or onto the back of a bumblebee for a ride to a new locale.It's not entirely clear how the nematodes do this,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Academic fields valuing brilliance are less welcoming to women: Fewer women enter and more women leave these fields, partly due to prevalent gender stereotypes, shows a new analysis of 30 disciplines by an international team of researchers. "Using a massive database of academic CVs, we were able to…

Looker Studio has rolled out a major update to its system, unveiling 170 new fields for reporting. In order to access the new data, users must refresh their GA4 data sources. Why we care: You can now create more in-depth, detailed Looker Studio reports because they will have access to data that previously wasn’t available. Advertisers are particularly excited as they’ll have insights into landing page, user conversion, page location and session conversion rates by event data, which…

After a long-distance trip under the polite, if slightly repetitive instruction of your favorite GPS app, nothing is worse that being told how to navigate your own neighborhood.Migratory birds that can sense the planet's magnetic field might experience a similar irritation over being micromanaged. Researchers from the University of Western Ontario in Canada and Bowling Green State University in the US have found they can lilterally switch off their neurological navigation aid when no longer in need of it.The research…

Although the Sun fuels life on our planet, Earth’s host star is not to be messed with. The inflamed ball of hot gas can often times get violent, flinging streams of plasma in our direction in the form of solar wind. By the time this solar wind reaches us, it has already traveled 93 million miles and interacted with Earth’s own magnetic field. What scientists really needed, however, was to get a closer look at what’s drivingsolar wind from the Sun’s burning surface.What Is Carbon Capture? With Gizmodo’s Molly Taft |…

A team of astrophysicists has determined through simulations that the debris shed by dying stars may be a source of gravitational waves—those ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein over a century ago.First Full-Color Images From Webb Space TelescopeGravitational waves are predicted by the general theory of relativity; they are ripples in spacetime generated by massive accelerating objects. The waves are also produced by the interactions of such objects, like binaries of and mergers between neutron stars and black…

Player versus player combat, or PvP for short, is a major feature in Diablo 4. Of course, players can choose whether or not to participate in PvP, as it's a totally optional feature within the game. If some fans want to stick solely with the main story and PvE elements of Diablo 4, they are completely free to do so. However, those that want to venture into PvP will need to head to the Fields of Hatred in Sanctuary. This is a part of the world map in Diablo 4 and it's solely where PvP takes place. The…

Martin Amis, the British author known for novels including Money, London Fields and The Information, has died. He was 73. His wife, writer Isabel Fonseca, told The New York Times that Amis died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, following a battle with esophageal cancer. The news comes as Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, which loosely adapts Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday to enthusiastic response. Other film adaptations…

Twisted fields around a mysterious fast radio burst. An international team has made significant progress in understanding the origins of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) – some of the most intense millisecond-duration cosmic explosions in radio bands. Credit: Di LI/ScienceApe/CASScientists led by Dr. Di Li from the NAOC have discovered an extreme field reversal around Fast Radio Burst FRB 20190520B, indicating the signal may pass through a turbulent, magnetized <span class="glossaryLink"…