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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many of the significant health disparities and inequities Hispanic communities in the United States face are tied to a long history of health injustice in the Hispanic world. The health landscape of early modern Hispanic societies, particularly from the late 15th to 18th centuries, was a complex interplay between…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Trace metals are nutrient elements, like zinc, that animals and plants need in small amounts to function properly. Animals generally get trace metals in their diets or through environmental exposures, while plants take their trace minerals up from soil. If we get too little, we may experience a deficiency, but the opposite can also be true: Too much of a trace metal can be toxic.…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBefore she retired in 2002, the actor Bridget Fonda had perfected the art of inscrutable decision-making. She picked projects as if she were in a pinball machine: A romcom here. A psycho-thriller there. “Do you want to star in a colonic irrigation comedy with Sir Anthony Hopkins?” she was (more or less) asked in the early Nineties. She’d say yes, then find herself on the set of a…

Performances as internal and understated as that of Trace Lysette, playing Monica, a transwoman returning to spend time with her terminally ill mother, might not be as eye-catching as the big showy awards contenders. But this is remarkable, delicate work from Lysette (Transparent, Hustlers) – a performance that deserves to be part of the year’s awards conversations.Much is left unsaid in this empathic drama. Monica, it’s clear from the anguished voicemail messages she leaves for a former lover, is going through a painful…

A mysterious miracle is at the heart of this absorbing and superbly acted film from the Italian director Andrea Pallaoro, which refuses the cliched “issue movie” beats of confrontation, catharsis and resolution. Like his previous work Hannah, which starred Charlotte Rampling as the haunted, troubled woman of that name, Monica is marked by its cool compositional rigour: scenes from a life are evoked with studied, often wordless vignettes and middle-distance shots from fixed camera positions, combined occasionally with…

This photograph shows a Roman aqueduct that supplied water to Viminacium, a large Roman city. Credit: Carles Lalueza-Foz A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic change. The team has recovered…

After Elon Musk publicly reduced his earlier claim of $100 million donation to ChatGPT developer OpenAI to $50 million, another report has now revealed that only around $15 million of donations can actually be traced back to the Tesla CEO. Musk tried to take control of OpenAI in early 2018 but Sam Altman and OpenAI's other founders rejected Musk's proposal. The outgoing Twitter CEO, in turn, walked away from the company and reneged on a $1 billion planned donation, according to reports. Musk always claimed…

“I feel proud that we made a piece of art that trusts the audience,” Trace Lysette told me about her new film Monica, in which she plays the title character, a trans woman who returns home after decades of estrangement to reconcile with her dying mother. “I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen a film with a trans person as the lead. It’s not lost on me that this is special.”It’s been a long road for Lysette to her first role as a leading lady. The actor first gained attention for a role on Transparent as a…

Plant sampling locations in this study and the geological map of Angola modified after Garzanti et al. (2018) and Dinis et al. (2017) (CB: Congo Basin; KB: Cuanza Basin; BB: Benguela Basin; NB: Namibe Basin). Credit: Journal of Archaeological Science (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2023.105775 Archaeologists at UC Santa Cruz used predictive modeling to map strontium isotope ratios across all of modern-day Angola, a region in…

If you have a photo with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and have lost track of it, there is a method to retrieve it. The NaMo app now has a tracing feature called "Photo Booth," and users can also download the photo for offline viewing and tracing. It's as easy as scanning your face and clicking the search button to bring up a gallery of matches. "We are using Artificial Intelligence for this and through this technology, photos come up during the search process," an official said to ANI. …