Lock your doors because Netflix’s latest serial killer is on the loose. Charlie Hunnam stars as Ed Gein, a murderer known as “The Butcher of Plainfield” and “The Plainfield Ghoul,” in the third season of Netflix’s anthology series “Monster.” The show premieres on Oct. 3. More from Variety “The Ed Gein Story” logline reads: “Serial killer. Grave robber. Psycho. In …
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PROVO — Two county health departments in Utah are reporting more human cases of West Nile virus on Wednesday, including one that led to the death of a Davis County resident. The Davis County Health Department said it has seen three reported cases of West Nile virus with two of those cases being neuroinvasive West Nile virus, a more severe …
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Local News A 70-year-old woman was the first in Massachusetts to test positive for West Nile virus this year, the Department of Public Health said Tuesday. Mosquitoes can carry West Nile virus, which spreads to humans through bites from infected mosquitoes. Rick Bowmer A 70-year-old woman became the first in Massachusetts to test positive for West Nile virus this year, …
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When you chat with ChatGPT, it often feels like you’re talking to someone polite, engaged and responsive. It nods in all the right places, mirrors your wording and seems eager to keep the exchange flowing. But is this really what human conversation sounds like? Our new study shows that while ChatGPT plausibly imitates dialogue, it does so in a way …
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Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed fresh light on one of Europe’s most important human fossils, the Petralona cranium, discovered in a cave in northern Greece more than six decades ago. Long the …
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Ancient Greek skull rewrites human evolutionary timeline | The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post/Archaeology Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam. (photo credit: C.M. Stimpson) …
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In the icy, lightless depths of the Pacific Ocean, a fish lurks that seems straight out of a science-fiction movie. The barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) is equipped with tubular green eyes encased inside a transparent, fluid-filled dome that makes up its entire head. This creature was first described in 1939, but it remained poorly understood for decades due to its …
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About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics. A trio of computer scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, Syracuse University, and China’s Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) arrived at this figure after building a machine learning classifier to help identify “questionable” journals and then conducting a …
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Researchers have discovered a strange-looking skull that does not appear to be human in nature. It’s not every day you get to find a new species, and with this discovery come many questions about our ancestry and history. The strange skull was found by scientists in the Petralona Cave in Greece and is thought to be less than 300,000 years …
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Tina Thomas’s cat ‘Jak’ – SWNS A new targeted treatment for cats with head and neck cancers may also help save human lives in the future, say scientists. The first-ever clinical trial of the therapy found that more than a third of felines who received treatment (35%) had their disease controlled with minimal side effects. And the drug will likely …
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