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The elixir of life remains the stuff of legend, but aging the young before their time may not be as far-fetched.In a new experiment, young mice briefly experienced signs of old age when scientists infused them with the blood of older mice. A similar aging effect occurred when human cells were immersed in the plasma of older individuals.The young mice – aged three months and all male – were given a blood transfusion from an older mouse, aged 22-24 months. The younger mice were then tested for muscle strength to see…

Did Meta knowingly provide abortion information to law enforcement? Does it matter if it knew?Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP (Getty Images)A shocking case involving a stillborn fetus burned and buried in a plastic bag has put Meta in the hot seat after the Facebook parent provided law enforcement with private messages between a 17-year-old Nebraska teen and her mother. The mother was charged in July with performing an illegal abortion, the daughter with hiding a dead body. Meta, however, denies it knew about the…

Something happens to our brains when we stare at moving water: a sort of broad, effortless attentiveness. Psychologists call this state “soft fascination” and suggest that in it we might find relief from anxiety and mental fatigue, an opening up to freewheeling patterns of thought. Spend a quiet hour on a riverbank watching water slide by and you might find yourself wondering where it comes from, and where it might be going. You might even ask yourself What is a river? The answer is simultaneously simple enough that it is…

Over the past two years, my work-from-home situation morphed from temporary to permanent, and I’ve had to reconfigure my home office as a result. I purchased a standing desk, a monitor, and spent countless hours rearranging my furniture. One of my primary concerns is that I have a relatively small space, and therefore prefer things that can pull double duty. So when I decided to update my desk lamp, I knew I needed a multi-tasker that wouldn’t take up a lot of real estate. For me, the Edge Light from Lume Cube ended up…

Ellen Barkin has claimed that Johnny Depp gave her a drug before they had sex for the first time.The actor, whose credits include films Drop Dead Gorgeous and The Big Easy, testified about her former relationship with the Pirates of the Caribbean actor back in November 2019.Sections of the video deposition were shown during Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard earlier this year. Other parts, including Barkin’s claim, have come to light following the release of pretrial documents relating to the case.In the video,…

Ellen Barkin has claimed that Johnny Depp gave her a drug before they had sex for the first time.The actor, whose credits include films Drop Dead Gorgeous and The Big Easy, testified about her former relationship with the Pirates of the Caribbean actor back in November 2019.Sections of the video deposition were shown during Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard earlier this year. Other parts, including Barkin’s claim, have come to light following the release of pretrial documents relating to the case.In the video,…

Ellen Barkin, actor and ex-girlfriend of Johnny Depp, has claimed that the actor gave her a quaalude (sedative and hypnotic medication) the first time they had sex. She added he was drunk a lot of the time, was controlling and also abusive. The revelations were made by Ellen in the deposition that was released when 6,000 pages of court documents from their legal battle were unsealed. She testified as a witness in the defamation suit filed by Johnny against his ex-wife, actor Amber Heard. (Also Read | Johnny Depp's lawyer…

The 10th century golden Curmsun disc with the name of Danish King Harald “Bluetooth“ Gormsson (Curmsun in Latin) on it, coming from a tomb at the Roman Catholic church in Wiejkowo, Poland, photographed in Malmo, Sweden, in 2015. The Bluetooth wireless link technology is named after the king. More than 1,000 years after his death in what is now Poland, a Danish king whose nickname is known to the world through the Bluetooth technology is at the center…

AMD gave us another reason to choose Team Red over Nvidia’s Team Green with a powerful driver update earlier today. The Adrenaline 22.7.1 driver update gives AMD Radeon GPUs a whopping 92% performance boost, along with some quality-of-life improvements. The news was dropped without warning by AMD in a release note on their website. AMD said in its release notes the update brings increased performance in refresh rates for several GPU lines, including the 6900 series, 5700 series, and Vega series. The driver update…

There are a handful of iconic places in the world that most of us would love to visit if we had all the time and money in the world. The Louvre museum in France is certainly one of those places. Of course, when you’re a celebrity, these sorts of trips are easier to take, which explains why celebrity couples Ryan Gosling and his Ken-loving partner Eva Mendes and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez recently visited the iconic location separately with their kids, though with apparently very different results.  It sounds like the…