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A gigantic bacterium found in a mangrove swamp in the Caribbean is by far the largest ever found, and now scientists think they've figured out how it grew to such an enormous size.   This species of bacteria, Thiomargarita magnifica, is 5,000 times larger than most bacteria, and 50 times larger than all other known giant bacteria. (The name Magnifica references the Latin word for 'big' and the French word 'magnifique'.)"To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human as tall as Mount Everest,"…

In a recent interview with Total Film, Neil Gaiman opened up about how long it has taken for an adaptation of "The Sandman" to actually get made. Gaiman, who is an executive producer on the new Netflix adaptation (via IMDb), told the outlet, "I didn't have faith that we'd always get here, but I had faith that the important thing was to stop bad versions being made. Once a bad version is made, you never quite come back from that." Gaiman elaborated on his latter point, revealing that there was one bad…

There have been a lot of Souls-likes released over the last several years, but few look as impressive as The Last Faith. Shown off during the Future Games Show on June 11, this gothic metroidvania isn't trying to hide Bloodborne's influence, and we're not complaining.The gameplay snippet shown off during the presentation began with the player-character putting a lightning status effect on their weapon, which any Souls fan should be familiar with doing. The combat is bloody, culminates in brutal…

Amber Heard’s role in Aquaman 2 has come under scrutiny during the ongoing multi-million dollar defamation suit brought against her by Johnny Depp. The actor, who played Princess Mera in the 2018 DC movie, is being sued by Depp for $50m (£39.7m) for implying he abused her in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed. Although she didn’t name him, he claims her allegations impacted his ability to work.Meanwhile, Heard is countersuing Depp for $100m (£79.4m) for allegedly orchestrating a “smear campaign” against her, describing his…

Amber Heard’s role in Aquaman 2 has come under scrutiny during the ongoing multi-million dollar defamation suit brought against her by Johnny Depp. The actor, who played Princess Mera in the 2018 DC movie, is being sued by Depp for $50m (£39.7m) for implying he abused her in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed. Although she didn’t name him, he claims her allegations impacted his ability to work.Meanwhile, Heard is countersuing Depp for $100m (£79.4m) for allegedly orchestrating a “smear campaign” against her, describing his…

It took being beaten up on London’s Victoria line aged 13, in front of his mum and two sisters, for Jeshi to change tack. “I was sitting on the train, eating McDonald’s; I think we were going to the cinema. I look up and there’s all these guys in front of me. By the time I’d taken my headphones out, they’d punched me.” He chose not to retaliate. “Ego says: go and do something back. But I thought: ‘Who cares? I’m here, I’m alive, there’s no problem.’ I am a rarity in that situation.”This moment, he says, was “this pivot”,…

Every Sharon Van Etten album drills deep into the grit of struggle and its pearl: resolve. Long a dissector of toxic relationships, this sixth outing finds her happily relocated from Brooklyn to LA, where Van Etten and her young family hadn’t unpacked before they had to see out a pandemic. Her usual scrying of messy innards now comes with an added dimension – that of trying to hold everything together as the world outside upended.So while 2019’s Remind Me Tomorrow pivoted around songs of plucky resilience such as Comeback…

What's in a star? Well, if you're a highly evolved specimen nearing the end of its life named HD 222925, rather a heck of a lot, actually.Scientists have conducted an analysis of this dim object, and identified 65 separate elements. That's the most elements ever found in a single object outside the Solar System, and most of them are heavy elements from the bottom of the periodic table, rarely found in stars.  Since these elements can only form in extremely energetic events such as supernovae or neutron star mergers, via…

“Apple will drop the ports altogether before even considering switching to USB-C on the iPhone lineup” — this running joke in the tech circle might end next year. The unreal is about to happen. According to the reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple might give us a USB Type-C port on the iPhone 15 in 2023. In a pair of tweets, Kuo said that his latest survey indicates that Apple will drop the Lightning port in favor of the USB-C port. As The Verge points out, the “survey” could include component manufacturers, from…