Miracle

The crowd had been revived. The energy had been restored. The building shook. The Dallas Mavericks were shaken.“Let’s Go Lakers!”... “Let’s Go Lakers.”With one minute left in a roaring comeback for the ages Wednesday night, the Lakers were on the verge of overcoming a 20-point fourth quarter deficit for their finest moment of the young season.They grabbed a two-point lead. They grabbed the ball. They had stolen a victory.And everything went dumb.LeBron James, amazing again with 16 points in the final dozen minutes,…

Remember what happened the last time Blumhouse and David Gordon Green decided to spearhead a brand-new trilogy of films for a horror franchise kicked off by one of the genre’s greatest-ever films before descending quite rapidly into near-unwatchable mediocrity? We got the 2018 Halloween movie, and it was pretty darn good. Fast forward to this past weekend, where Oppenheimer moviegoers were treated to a first look at The Exorcist: Believer, sending longtime fans of the decades-long franchise into a ghostly tizzy. Whether…

Supermassive black holes are incredibly powerful objects in space that even have the power to hold galaxies together with their strong gravity. They have the ability to destroy anything that comes too close to them. And luckily enough, the James Webb Telescope has discovered the farthest supermassive black hole known so far.The distances in space are unbelievably huge. According to the University of Texas at Austin, the new supermassive black hole is located at the center of a galaxy called CEERS 1019. Amazingly, this…

While asteroids pass by Earth virtually every day and some small ones crash into it, Comets are a rarity and when they come calling, it is exciting time not just for the astronomers, but also for the lay public. And that time is here as Comet C/2023 A3, which is also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, is all set to pass by Earth in 2024. Astronomers believe that this comet can be 100 times brighter than the comet ZTF, reports Business Insider. This comet could be the most spectacular sight of the year. However, the comet is…

The crypto-verse is often compared to a high-speed race where countless tokens jostle for the pole position. In this competition, it’s not just about speed, but also the utility and potential of a project. In today’s crypto race, we’re looking at two contenders: the video gaming classic Alex the Kidd and the innovative crypto token Alex The Doge (ALEX). How do they compare, and does Alex The Doge (ALEX) have what it takes to give Dogecoin a run for its money and compete against Shiba Inu (SHIB)? Alex the Kidd The…

A study by the Universities of Bonn and Michigan reveals that the ability of certain plants to survive prolonged drought and revive after rain is due to an extensive network of genes, not a single “miracle gene”.Scientists from the Universities of Bonn and Michigan conducted a comprehensive analysis of the genome of a drought-tolerant plant.Certain plant <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>species</div><div…

For almost 20 years, film-makers had struggled to make a heartwarming film about four riotous working-class Irish women, but they just could not make it happen – despite having a star in Dame Maggie Smith, whose awards include Oscars, Emmys and Baftas.The screenplay was not quite right and funds could not be raised, but Smith never lost faith in the project.Now a leading British producer, Chris Curling, has finally got it off the ground.His cast is headed by three of the industry’s foremost actors, including Smith, whose…

Apple is a sector definer. While the company rarely creates entirely new products, its hardware ends up being the baseline other devices are measured by. You only need to look at how the iPod, iPhone, and iPad defined what people expect from MP3 players, phones, and tablets. Now, Apple is hoping it can repeat this trick with an entirely new product: its rumoured VR/AR headset, expected to be announced on June 5th. This is a huge moment for not only the company, but the European extended…

Apple is rumored to introduce its long-awaited mixed reality headset during the WWDC 2023 keynote on June 5. While reports suggest that the so-called Reality Pro headset unveiling is a sure thing, a story by The Information (via 9to5Mac) shows how challenging it has been to produce this device. According to the publication, the mixed-reality headset has an “unconventional curved design, thinness, and ultralight weight,” which explains why it is expected to cost around $3,000. The curved glass with edges…

Underneath a temple in the ancient ruined city of Taposiris Magna on the Egyptian coast, archaeologists discovered a vast, spectacular tunnel in 2022, a tunnel that experts called a "geometric miracle".During ongoing excavations and exploration of the temple, Kathleen Martinez of the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and colleagues uncovered the structure 13 meters (43 feet) below the ground. The 2-meter tall tunnel had been hewn through an incredible 1,305 meters (4,281 feet) of sandstone.Its design,…