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Mother Nature may be beautiful, powerful, and mystifying, but it’s Father Time who eventually catches up with all of us. We start out young and eager on our cute little red tricycles, our parents giving us an early push. We grow into kids on our first real bike, then progress towards power as we mount our first motorcycle. The years pass as we hop from bike to bike, invariably chasing just a bit more power or speed. The horsepower grows. The torque climbs higher. The sun ages our leather riding gloves until the…

Kevin Spacey had a “weird and unusual” acting process on the set of American Beauty, his co-star Mena Suvari has claimed.Suvari appeared in the 1999 film as the best friend of Spacey’s teenage daughter, who Spacey’s character begins having elaborate fantasies about.The actor has now said that she “trusted” Spacey throughout filming, but remembered one “unusual” moment in which the pair prepared for an intimate scene on camera.In a side room on the set, the pair “lay on the bed very close to one another”, Suvari told…

“Weird Al” Yankovic is one of the most beloved entertainers of the past forty years, with multiple Grammy Awards to his name and a vast library of well-known parody and original songs. Now, as Al returns to touring with The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour, the musician is also embarking into a new frontier: comics. Z2 Comics has announced The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic, a new graphic novel adapting some of Yankovic’s most iconic songs. Here’s how Z2…

Image via Warner Bros. An explosive new Batman theory on the Fan Theories subreddit speculates on the source of Catwoman’s powers in the 1992 Tim Burton disappointment Batman Returns, and the most shocking thing about it is that someone is still thinking about Batman Returns 30 years after it was released. In the film, Michelle Pfeiffer played Selina Kyle, whose transformation into the original Crazy Cat Lady was triggered by some TLC from alley cats after Christopher Walken’s Max Schrek pushed her out of a…

Johnny Depp broke into laughter and so did his attorney when psychiatrist Dr David gave an innocent reply while giving his testimony on Amber Heard’s behalf.  Psychiatrist Dr David Spiegel testified in the court on Amber Heard's behalf on Monday and left Johhny Depp and others in splits with one of his replies. Johnny broke into a laughter and hid his face with his palm when Dr David gave a funny reply to his lawyer's question about Marlon Brando. The psychiatrist indicated that Johnny lost work due to his memory…

Scientists have observed an unusual quantum state of matter for the first time.Physicist Andrea Bianchi has observed the “quantum spin liquid” state in a magnetic material created in his lab.It’s not every day that someone discovered a new state of matter in quantum physics, the scientific field devoted to describing the behavior of atomic and subatomic particles in order to understand their properties.Yet this is exactly what an international team of researchers has done. The team includes Andrea Bianchi, University of…

Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures On almost every level, you wouldn’t think long-tenured A-list superstar Tom Cruise and iconic comic book character Batman have a great deal in common, especially when the former has never shown any interest at all in becoming part of the superhero genre, despite what those wide-ranging Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness rumors would try and have us believe. And yet, a single tweet comparing the two makes a whole lot more sense than it has…

A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a period of “inflation” produced a burst of exponential growth in the universe. (Size is depicted by the vertical extent of the grid in this graphic.) For the next several billion years, the expansion of the universe gradually slowed down as the matter in the universe pulled on itself via gravity. More recently, the expansion has begun to speed up again as the repulsive effects of…

I’ll admit it – things have gotten pretty weird and wild in this column in the past. But while vehicles like electric submarines, backyard trains, and party buses shaped like tigers all have a certain indescribable charm to them, this week’s electric vehicle stretches the limits of what you could reasonably call “a vehicle.” But then again, that’s what we’re here for. It just wouldn’t be the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week if it wasn’t both awesome and weird. And while I know I may never get a…

The nearly 30-year-old Hubble Space telescope continues to deliver outstanding data to astronomers. Now, NASA says that data Hubble has been gathering over the years could challenge what we thought we knew about our universe’s expansion rate. Hubble keeps throwing wrenches in what we know about the universe’s expansion rate Image source: NASA Since its launch in 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been making history. Named after Edwin P. Hubble, NASA’s iconic spacecraft was designed to explore the…