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Earth, currently, is our only blueprint for planetary habitability. There may be life elsewhere out there in the big, wide galaxy, but ours is the only world on which we know, for a certainty, that it has emerged.The problem is that we've found nothing out there that's exactly like our own planet: of the same size and composition, occupying a similar spot in its planetary system, at just the right "Goldilocks" distance from its star for temperatures amenable to life as we know it.Most of the 5,300 worlds we've found to…

Apple is in a deadlock with email app BlueMail over its decision to give the app’s latest update an age restriction of 17 and older due to its ChatGPT integration. Apple is currently blocking the update because the app’s developer Blix Inc. disagrees with the company’s stance to give BlueMail an age restriction, having rejected the brand’s update application last week, according to the Wall Street Journal. 08 January 2019, Hessen, Rüsselsheim: ILLUSTRATION – The App Store (M) logo can be seen on the screen of an…

Women in the study published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine were 65 and older with early stage breast cancers that could respond to hormone therapy. The women all had surgery and hormone therapy and were divided into a group that underwent radiation and a group that went without it. Ten years after surgery, survival rates in the two groups were almost equal, suggesting more women could skip radiation without affecting their survival. The results support…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWhen she was a young girl in Gothenburg, Alicia Vikander dreamt of a life in tutus. At 15, she moved to Stockholm and attended the Royal Swedish Ballet School, where she would dance seven hours a day, six days a week. Eventually, a chronic back injury put paid to her ambitions, but not before it had equipped her for Hollywood. “I’m very good with pain,” the Oscar-winning star of The…

Photo via Warner Bros. James Gunn might find redemption at the end of his new venture yet, but the Guardians of the Galaxy director has little sympathy for the SnyderVerse and the haywire mess it made out of everything. Even now, the new DCU bosses are doing everything to mitigate the damage of the disconnected cinematic universe through the introduction of things such as the Elseworlds timeline, but that’s hardly going to stop the man from showing his displeasure at every opportune moment. Meanwhile, fans have…

The cryptocurrency market is driven by sentiment, and presently there’s no indication that the market can increase in value, so users are looking to stay safe by all means. However, a popular saying goes that the next bull run’s millionaires are determined by their decisions in the bear market. Big Eyes Coin (BIG) is a new memecoin that is still on presale, and the past few months have seen quick movement, with the cryptocurrency selling out at record speed. But in the past few weeks following the several…

Ahead of the Christmas and New Year celebrations, more than 2,200 US flights were cancelled for Friday due to heavy snow and frigid temperatures. Snow, rain, ice, wind and frigid temperatures were the primary reasons behind disrupting air travel across the United States as the country cancelled more than 2,400 flights on Thursday, CNN reported.More flights are expected to be delayed or cancelled in the coming days spoiling the Christmas festivities in the states. The report added that 125 flights, scheduled for Saturday,…

Unsurprisingly, the drama surrounding the DC universe right now is not going anywhere. Even though Henry Cavill’s nice and cozy over in the Warhammer universe, fans have still not forgiven the studio for ditching him as Superman, and it seems neither is Dwayne Johnson ready to forgive everyone who’s had a bone to pick with Black Adam. Elsewhere, The Flash movie finds a fresh way to let us all down as Man of Steel 2 details deliver yet another blow. Dwayne Johnson breaks Black Adam silence to call out the internet’s…

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)A new report from the Commonwealth Fund provides a frightening preview of what’s to come in the wake of Roe v Wade being effectively struck down. It shows that infant and maternal health care outcomes, including mortality rates, were already worse in U.S. states where abortion services were more restricted prior to 2022. Many of these states have since or are now planning to pass even more abortion restrictions and outright bans, which will likely only accelerate this divide, the report …

After fumbling Thor: Love and Thunder, Taika Waititi isn’t in the MCU community’s good graces. In fact, they would just as soon not have him back for another installment, which, in and of itself, speaks volumes about their dissatisfaction with the Phase Four line-up. Meanwhile, Emily Blunt has revealed what Tom Cruise said to her when she thought she wasn’t going to pull off the exhaustive Edge of Tomorrow shoot. In other news, James Gunn has doubled down on his commitment to the Man of Steel now that he’s overseeing the…