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Considering it was revealed to the world with a trailer that featured four zombie-blasting soldiers singing along to Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name”, I expected John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando to be much funnier than it is. Inspired in equal measure by the supernatural horror and buddy action movies of the 1980s, it is big and dumb and …

The 66-year-old actress shared an epic new image on her Instagram account that embodies her delightful personality. Standing in the middle of an elegantly designed pool, Tilly artfully crossed her arms over her bare breasts. The only thing she was wearing in the Aug. 18 post was a pair of quirky sunglasses, a flower in her hair, and a bold …

Protein expression and purification In Figs. 1–4 and 5d, we measured EYFP with the mutations S2insL/S65G/V68L/S72A/T203Y/H231L of avGFP, with an additional 6x His tag on the N-terminus (the full amino acid sequence is given at the end of this section). The protein was expressed using a pET vector constructed using HiFi assembly from Addgene plasmids 78466 and 29653. The resulting vector …

Serious badminton players are constantly exploring different techniques to give them an edge over opponents. One of the latest innovations is the spin serve, a devastatingly effective method in which a player adds a pre-spin just before the racket contacts the shuttlecock (aka the birdie). It’s so effective—some have called it “impossible to return“—that the Badminton World Federation (BWF) banned …

CSL to lay off up to 15% of workforce, cut R&D costs and spin out vaccine unit  Fierce Biotech CSL to Spin Off Seqirus, Cut Up to 15% of Staff in Sweeping Restructure – WSJ  The Wall Street Journal CSL Shares Slump as Disappointing Profit Eclipses Spinoff  Bloomberg.com CSL shares dive as biotech firm flags more than 3,000 job cuts — as it …

Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled to justify the administration’s lack of progress toward a Ukraine–Russia ceasefire during Donald Trump‘s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. In a round of interviews on four Sunday news programs, Rubio, who used to be strongly anti-Putin, struggled to defend the administration’s position, despite Trump’s boasting that he made “BIG PROGRESS …

The solar day we experience is exactly 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds. Small variations occur naturally, caused by shifts in wind patterns, ocean currents, and movements within Earth’s interior. Over the long term, the Moon’s tidal pull gradually slows Earth’s rotation. Source link

Hypocrite is a synonym for politician. The last few days have proved that to be painfully clear. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been getting a jolly and deserved skewering for the proposed cartographic contortions that he hopes to do to the congressional maps in his state. At the behest of President Donald Trump, Abbott is trying to ram through a …

Late last week, Donald Trump realized a dream that he’s had since he was president of the United States the first time: firing the person who informed the world that his economy isn’t as great as he wants to pretend it is. It was a move so comically autocratic that Recep Erdogan of Turkey already did it in 2022. According …

The days are getting shorter and not just because summer is waning in the Northern Hemisphere. On Tuesday, Aug. 5, Earth’s solar day will be ever so slightly shorter than usual 24 hours, according to Timeanddate.com, making it not only one of the shortest days of 2025, but also since records began. At just 1.25 milliseconds under the 86,400-second mark, …