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Maybe one day I’ll be a tour guide at the Vatican,” ponders Simona Tabasco, relaying an eclectic list of interests with a megawatt smile and absolute earnestness over our Zoom call. “Or work on a farm, because I love animals. Or perhaps I might go into styling, because fashion is a big passion of mine. I’d also like to be a DJ, because I love electronic music and maybe, also, um, a rock star?” Unfortunately, the world’s smallest country and the agriculture sector will have to wait, because the Italian actor is currently…

Although wolves in Alaska will eat just about anything that moves, their typical main course consists of deer, deer, and more deer. But when wolves on one island off the state’s coast finished off nearly all the deer around them, they turned to a surprising substitution: sea otters. That’s the conclusion of a new study that records a rare instance of a wolf population persisting without large terrestrial prey such as moose or deer. It also highlights the…

While some stars reach the end of their lives with a bang, exploding in an enormous supernova, others end in a whimper, puffing up and throwing off material before shrinking and cooling to a small core. But very rarely, some stars suffer a more drastic fate as they are ripped apart and devoured by a hungry black hole.Such an event happens only a few times every 100,000 years in a galaxy with a dormant black hole at its center, but recently, one such event was caught by the Hubble Space Telescope. Researchers observed the…

Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole's gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation. Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole's gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation. Astronomers…

Credit: Shutterstock Growing numbers of Australians are reported to be struggling to put enough healthy food on the table every day as the cost of living soars. But Australia doesn't collect enough data on food insecurity. The lack of data makes it difficult for policymakers to grasp the extent of the problem, let alone take effective action to solve it. …

Farmers in Northern Ghana are among the poorest in the country. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Ghana is one of the few countries often praised for achieving impressive reductions in hunger. The 2022 Global Hunger Index report reveals Ghana's hunger score has declined by more than 50 percent since the year 2000. At the Crans Montana Forum held in November 2022, where critical issues of global food security are discussed, some of the…

We’ve had our fill of teenage vampires. We’ve had teenage werewolves, teenage witches, teenage zombies, telekinetic teenagers, countless teenage serial killers and even a possessed teenage hand. In recent years, though, we’ve been introduced to the teenage cannibal – whose arrival culminates with Bones and All, a nicely poignant film about adolescence, belonging and the compulsion to eat human flesh.The idea of fusing the coming-of-age movie with the grisly subgenre of cannibal-horror might sound outlandish on the face of…

The elaborately prepared feast at uber-exclusive restaurant Hawthorne, the setting of the new gourmand-culture thriller The Menu, is so photogenic that snapping pictures has been expressly forbidden; food in general, however, doesn’t come off looking so good.The dishes whipped up by self-serious celebrity chef Julian (Ralph Fiennes) and his militaristic fleet of obedient kitchen staff aspire to profundity rather than settling for the merely appetizing. As foodie douche Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) mansplains to his unimpressed…

Legendary director Danny Boyle has teased that there may be a third film on the way, making his 2002 zombie classic into a trilogy. Boyle directed Cillian Murphy to his breakout role with the zombie thriller 28 Days Later which was released way back in 2002. Now, to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary, Boyle has offered some hope for a third film after years of fans wondering what will happen. 28 Days Later saw Murphy’s character, Jim, wake up from a coma only to discover that England had been ravaged by a…

Photo: Damien Gula / GizmodoWith just one month in between their respective showcases, both Dr. Lisa Su of AMD and Intel’s Pat Gelsinger declared their forthcoming line of CPUs to be the best and fastest gaming CPUs on the market. These are bold claims from both manufacturers, however, AMD’s Zen 4-powered juggernaut left an impression that demands a strong answer. Now it’s time to see Intel’s response—and what a response they gave!Codenamed Raptor Lake, Intel’s 13th Generation Core processor family follows closely in the…