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The Jupiter-like planet Halla survived its sun Baekdu’s expansion into a red giant, a process that should have engulfed it, according to astronomers from the University of Hawaii. The surprising survival prompts theories about planetary evolution, including potential binary star origins or Halla being a newly formed “second generation” planet. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam MakarenkoAstronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy have discovered a planet that survived what should have been a…

The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy.Over the past few decades, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected and astronomers now estimate that on average there is at least one planet per star in our galaxy.Many current research efforts aim at detecting Earth-like planets suitable for life. These endeavors focus on so-called "main sequence" stars like our Sun – stars which are powered by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium in their cores, and…

Image via Square Pictures Samuel L. Jackson once again underlined his reputation for always being ahead of the Hollywood curve when he revealed he’d had concerns over the use of AI and digital likenesses dating back 20 years to his Star Wars days, with the actor ensuring that he removes anything from his contract that would allow his faced to be used for means outwith his control. There was a lot of commotion over rumors Bruce Willis had signed away the rights to his own face a while back, and with de-aging and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLook at the premise of No Hard Feelings and you would rightly expect to be scandalised. The film is a broad, affable comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence as a cash-strapped thirtysomething who is hired to “date” a 19-year-old introvert (Andrew Barth Feldman) at the behest of his wealthy helicopter parents. It’s a movie that sells itself on raunch: the button-pushing age-gap romance at its…

Credit: The Conversation Pressure on the Biden administration to provide Ukraine with cluster bombs has refocused attention on the legal and moral use of such weaponry. The U.S. has been here before. It provided Saudi Arabia with cluster munitions—which contain bomblets that can scatter across a wide area, often not exploding until…

Google I am pretty excited about the Google Pixel Fold. There’s a suitable amount of buzz inside me when I think about trying it out and when I consider how it may impact the growing folding smartphone space over the coming months. I really do think it is one of the most important smartphone releases of the year. But the more time passes, and the more that happens around the Pixel Fold, the more I think I shouldn’t be quite so excited about it. Why the Pixel Fold matters The Pixel Fold matters, and we should be…

The Tarantula Nebula is known for its beautiful colors, and we’ve seen some stunning photos of the Tarantula Nebula thanks to James Webb and other space telescopes. Now, though, using data from NASA’s SOFIA telescope, which shut down in October of 2022, scientists may have figured out the answer to one of the nebula’s biggest mysteries; how it continues to make new stars despite the fact it shouldn’t be able to. According to a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, the Tarantula Nebula continues to…

When SafeGraph got caught selling location information on Planned Parenthood visitors last year, the data broker responded to public outcry by removing its family planning center data. But CEO Auren Hoffman tried to flip the script, claiming his company’s practice of harvesting and sharing sensitive data was actually an engine for beneficial research on abortion access—brandishing science as a shield for shredding people’s privacy. SafeGraph’s move to cloak its privacy pillaging behind science comes as just one example…

You get free stuff, you get free travel, you get the nifty cool title of "brand ambassador," what's not to love about being an internet influencer? There's the consequences, for one. Not even just the warranted consequences of your actual actions, mind you, but also those arriving unbidden based on the perception of your actions by your audience — and those can be two markedly different things bearing entirely disparate social costs. In her new book, Swipe Up for More! Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers, Stephanie…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFor a while now, the Transformers franchise has been impenetrable to the point that watching it makes me temporarily question whether I understand or speak English. In the latest entry, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen), head of the Autobots, is in search of something called a “transwarp key”, a vital piece of technology which, in the wrong hands,…