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Webb’s “Astonishing Discovery” of Huge Black Holes in Early Universe – “Thought To Be Impossible”

The transition in star formation rates and black hole growth as redshift decreases from regimes where positive feedback dominates to a later epoch when feedback is largely negative. CreditSteven Burrows, Rosemary Wyse, and Mitch BegelmanThe James Webb Space Telescope’s discovery of early galaxies with massive black holes challenges traditional galaxy formation theories, proposing a synchronous development of black holes and stars, a finding that could reshape our understanding of cosmic evolution.Astronomers have long…

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind at 20: a love story that’s impossible to forget | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The greatest screen romances are usually about failure, not happily ever afters. Love sacrificed. Love unrequited. Love forbidden by social mores or bad timing or the tectonic forces of history. Think Casablanca. Brief Encounter. In the Mood for Love. The Age of Innocence. Moonlight. Considered another way, though, they’re powerful because they end so pristinely, before the banal hassles and petty fissures of everyday life make a mess of things. Give a relationship enough time and Before Sunrise turns into Before…

Emissions impossible? How the transport sector can help make the 2050 net-zero goal a reality

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Meeting Canada's ambitious net-zero emissions target by 2050 necessitates significant technological, behavioral and systemic changes in the transportation sector, a major contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Indeed, the transportation sector alone is responsible for a quarter of all GHG emissions worldwide, with road transport accounting for about 80 percent of this figure.…

Tom Cruise uses helicopters to overcome roadworks during `Mission: Impossible 8`

Nothing can stop Hollywood royalty Tom Cruise if he has set his mind to filming some of the most nerve-racking stunts. The Hollywood star is using helicopters to ensure that the latest `Mission: Impossible` film isn`t disrupted by roadworks, reports ‘Female First UK’. Tom has found an innovative way of ensuring that the cast and crew of `Mission: Impossible 8` have been able to get to and from work, amid road works on the M25 in south-east England. The M25 road encircles most of Greater London. A source…

Impossible Monsters by Michael Taylor review – fossil feuds | History books

During the English civil war, in hiding and in boredom, the Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, set about pinning down the date of creation. A decade down the line, he publicised his research findings with breathtaking self-assurance: the world was a sprightly 6,000 years old. More specifically, God had created it on a Saturday night in October 4004BC. As it was, his hunch was a few zeros off the mark. The Earth was, in fact, formed 4.6bn years ago.Growing up in Ulster’s Bible belt, the historian Michael Taylor writes,…

Epic Mickey 3 Is “Impossible,” But Series Creator Has Some Ideas

Disney Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector has commented about the franchise's return to modern platforms, but said that a third entry is impossible. However, were that game ever to be made, he does have some ideas."I’d love to do Epic Mickey 3 but I have a day job that would make that impossible. I actually have a high-level idea for what I’d do in a tri-quel," Spector explained on LinkedIn. However, he didn't give any further details about his idea. You need a javascript…

Tom Cruise Is Teaming Up With The Revenant Director For His First Movie Post-Mission: Impossible 8

When the eighth Mission: Impossible movie hits theaters next May, it will end a five-year journey Tom Cruise alongside the cast and filmmakers of the franchise's closely-tied seventh and eighth installments continuing Ethan Hunt’s action-packed espionage journey. What’s next for Cruise after that? Reportedly, he’ll be in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next movie! Alejandro González Iñárritu is the award-winning filmmaker behind 2015’s The Revenant, which finally gave Leonardo DiCaprio his Oscar. His other English-language work…

‘Mission: Impossible’ star Indira Varma to host Podcast named `The Spy Who’

Indian-origin actress Indira Varma, who is known for ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1’, and ‘Homeland’ actor Raza Jaffrey are set to co-host a new espionage podcast for Wondery. Indira is the child of an Indian father and a Swiss mother who was of part Genoese Italian descent. Her mother was a graphic designer and her father was an illustrator. The logline of the podcast reads “Each season goes deep into the real-life story of a special agent, unearthing daring missions,…

Did Climate Change Help This Skier Achieve the Impossible?

After a big mistake on his first run, Daniel Yule assumed he was out of the men’s slalom at this season’s Alpine Ski World Cup. “I’d already packed my bags, and I was ready to go back to the hotel,” he said in a TV interview after last weekend’s event in Chamonix, France.Instead, his time was just good enough to scrape into the second round. From there, in last place, the Swiss skier went on to win the entire event. Never before in 58 years of the competition had someone risen from such a low position to claim the trophy…