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Classic cult movie The Notebook recently celebrated 20 years since it was revealed in 2004. Cassavetes, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Tuesday, says Rowlands has had Alzheimer’s for five years. Director Nick Cassavetes says, ‘She acted it and now it's upon us’ Director and actor, Nick Cassavetes who is also the son of the 94-year-old actor revealed that …

Britney Spears almost took a detour from her music career to star in the 2004 romance “The Notebook.” The “Toxic” singer was in the running to star alongside fellow “Mickey Mouse Club” star Ryan Gosling in the Nick Cassavetes movie, according to the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail published Spears’ audition a day before the singer released her tell-all memoir, …

Published : Aug 10, 2023 11:00 IST - 5 MINS READ Researchers at the Chemical Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, working in collaboration with Altanostics Labs Pvt. Seeing the cosmos with neutrinos For the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a gigaton detector located under the Antarctic ice, has produced an image of the Milky Way …

Published : May 18, 2023 11:00 IST - 2 MINS READ At high temperatures, superconductors behave very similar to other conducting materials. Many materials become superconducting only just above absolute zero, while there are some that become so at much higher temperatures. The study, which was published recently in Physical Review Letters, suggests that replacing nickel with palladium could result …

Published : May 04, 2023 11:00 IST - 2 MINS READ As of 2020, steel manufacture is estimated to be responsible for 11 per cent of global carbon emissions and 7 to 9 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. To reduce emissions, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research at Dusseldorf in Germany investigated how pores in a …

Published : Mar 23, 2023 10:45 IST - 2 MINS READ The world’s largest trial of a four-day work week was conducted in the UK recently. The 61 organisations that took part in this pilot study cut working hours by 20 per cent for all staff, with no fall in wages, for a six-month period starting in June 2022. Many …

Published : Mar 23, 2023 10:45 IST - 2 MINS READ The sun’s atmosphere has three layers: the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona. Strong magnetic fields gather hot plasma in the chromosphere into a network of super-sized granulation cells that can stretch to over 30,000 km across, about 2.5 earth diameters, and 1,500 km deep. One way to measure …

Published : Mar 09, 2023 10:40 IST - 1 MIN READ Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center of NASA at the University of Colorado Boulder reported that Antarctic sea ice likely reached its minimum extent for 2023, at 1.79 million square kilometres on February 21. “Antarctica’s response to climate change has been different from the Arctic’s,” said …

Published : Mar 09, 2023 10:40 IST - 2 MINS READ Until recently, it was thought the earth’s structure comprised four distinct layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. This innermost inner core is a 650-kilometre thick solid “metallic ball” that sits within the centre of the inner core. The ANU’s Hrvoje Tkalcic said: “This …

Published : Mar 09, 2023 10:40 IST - 2 MINS READ ONE was always told that snakes’ response to a snake charmer was only visual and not auditory. “Because snakes don’t have external ears, people typically think they’re deaf and can only feel vibrations through the ground and into their bodies,” Zdenek said. “But our research—the first of its kind …

Published : Feb 23, 2023 10:40 IST New research led by the University of Washington shows that even in their quiet phases volcanoes release at least three times as much sulphur into the Arctic atmosphere than estimated by current climate models. “Knowing that is a first step to better understanding how humans have influenced our atmosphere.” “We were planning to …

Published : Feb 23, 2023 10:40 IST A major new study, the largest of its kind, has found that experiencing three or more concussions is linked with worsened brain function in later life. The researchers found that people who reported three or more concussions had significantly worse cognitive function; those who had four or more mild concussion episodes also showed …

Published : Feb 09, 2023 10:25 IST IF a singer hits the right pitch, they can shatter a wine glass. In a new study published in Nature, physicists at MIT reported that they had for the first time observed resonance in colliding molecules that were supercooled to temperatures just above absolute zero, the lowest energy state. “This is the very …

Published : Jan 26, 2023 10:25 IST FOR decades scientists had tried different approaches to develop an effective malaria vaccine without much success. Researchers at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health of the University of Maryland School of Medicine recently demonstrated that a three-dose regimen of a vaccine called Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite was safe and efficacious when tested …

Published : Jan 26, 2023 10:25 IST USING data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope near Pune, astronomers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and McGill University, Canada, have detected a radio signal emitted by atomic hydrogen in an extremely distant galaxy. When hot ionised gas from the interstellar medium around a galaxy falls onto the galaxy, the gas …

Published : Nov 17, 2022 10:25 IST When a tiny drop of soapy water falls on a pool of liquid, its contents spread out over the pool’s surface. The dynamics of this spreading depends on the local concentration of soap at each point across the entire pool’s surface. The work was published in a recent issue of Physical Review E. …

An unpublished collection of letters, manuscripts, and drawings by Franz Kafka are now available online via the Israel National Library, which recovered the documents after years of legal wrangling. Following Brod’s death in 1968, a multi-country legal soap opera — some might even call it “Kafkaesque” — entangled rights holders and academics for years. “We discovered unpublished drawings, neither signed …