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Ian Youngs Culture reporter Getty Images Dwayne Johnson and Hulk Hogan squared up at Wrestlemania in 2002 Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has posted a touching tribute to his “childhood hero” Hulk Hogan, recalling meeting the late wrestling legend when he was just 12 before going on to face him in the Wrestlemania ring. Johnson revealed he caught Hogan’s “Hulkster” headband …

Want to live forever? A 90-year-old physics rock star is betting his remaining years on it.  Boing Boing Source link

A soil-dwelling microbe has shown a surprising ability to trap carbon dioxide and turn it into rock. Scientists have discovered that Bacillus megaterium, a common bacterium long known for its role in biotechnology, can convert CO₂ gas into solid calcium carbonate with an efficiency rarely seen in either nature or industry. The process, recently detailed in a study led by …

Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the 1950s and 1960s whose hits include Pretty Little Baby and Who’s Sorry Now? – the latter of which would later serve as the ironic title for her memoir of a personal life filled with heartbreak and tragedy – has died at age 87. Her death was announced on Thursday by her friend …

The largest individual Martian rock ever found on Earth has sold at a Sotheby’s auction for almost US$5.3 million, to an anonymous bidder. This massive chunk of Mars is a meteorite named NWA-16788, and at 24.67 kilograms (54.39 pounds), it towers over the previous record-holder, Taoudenni 002, a meteorite weighing 14.51 kg found in Mali back in 2021. The Sotheby’s …

A massive rock from Mars landed on Earth. It sold for a record $5.3M.  The Washington Post Largest Mars rock ever found on Earth sells for $4.3m at auction  BBC World’s biggest Mars rock sells for $5.3 million at auction  CNN Science suffers when meteorites and fossils become an asset class  Financial Times Largest piece of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3 million at …

CNN  —  A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3 million, with taxes and fees, to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby’s New York auction Wednesday. Known as NWA 16788, the meteorite weighs 54 pounds (24.5 kilograms), massive compared with most Martian meteorites, which tend to be small fragments, auction house Sotheby’s …

“American Idol” music supervisor Robin Kaye and her rock musician husband, Tom DeLuca, were returning to their $4.5-million Encino home Thursday afternoon and discovered a burglary in progress. Though the house was well fortified, police said, the suspect managed to get in through an unlocked door. He allegedly confronted the couple when they entered. It was not until Monday that …

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30 million. The 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock named NWA 16788 was discovered in the Sahara Desert in Niger by a meteorite hunter …

CNN  —  A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for a hammer price of $4.3 million to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby’s New York auction Wednesday. Known as NWA 16788, the meteorite weighs 54 pounds (24.5 kilograms), massive compared with most Martian meteorites, which tend to be small fragments, auction house Sotheby’s …