Four exoplanets have been discovered around star TOI-1233 by two high schoolers, making them among the youngest people to have ever discovered a celestial body. Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright were participating in the Student Research Mentoring Program (SRMP) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. said Monday it will send four space tourists to orbit later this year on a mission to raise awareness for a children’s hospital. SpaceX said the launch will take place “no earlier than the fourth quarter.” Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive of Shift4 Payments Inc....
Shock rocker Marilyn Manson was dropped by his record label on Monday after actress and Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood claimed her ex-fiance "horrifically abused me for years." "He started grooming me when I was a teenager," she added on Monday in an Instagram post. "I was brainwashed and manipulated...
Hal Holbrook, whose portrayal of Mark Twain in a touring one-man show won him a Tony and worldwide acclaim, died Jan. 23 at his home in Beverley Hills, his personal assistant told The New York Times on Monday night. He was 95. Over his long career, Hobrook won five...
Gone girl. Ana de Armas deleted her Twitter after Ben Affleck’s breakup. News broke in January 2021 that de Armas and Affleck had split after almost one year of dating. The couple, who met on the set of the upcoming film Deep Water in late 2019, broke up due to...
Armie Hammer's ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers has released her first detailed public statement amid the scandal surrounding her estranged husband in recent weeks. In a post to her Instagram account, Chambers said she was "shocked, heartbroken, and devastated" by the multiple allegations against her former husband of 10 years. Multiple women have...
New, more contagious coronavirus variants from Britain, South Africa, and Brazil are raising alarms. Academic experts share why better masking and faster vaccination offer the best chance to avoid another deadly surge. All viruses mutate. SARS-CoV-2, the virus at the root of the COVID-19 pandemic, has mutated in a variety...
The Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond has died aged 44, three weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. Diamond was best known for playing the nerdy sidekick Samuel ‘Screech’ Powers on the popular ‘90s comedy show between 1989 and 1993. His representative Roger Paul said on Monday the star...
Dustin Diamond, the actor who portrayed lovable nerd Samuel “Screech” Powers across four incarnations of Saved by the Bell, from 1988 to 2000, died Monday after a three-week battle with carcinoma. He was 44. Diamond’s agent, Roger Paul, confirmed the actor’s death to Rolling Stone. “He was diagnosed with this...
The made-in-Saskatchewan COVID-19 vaccine has entered clinical trials. Dr. Volker Gerdts, the CEO of Saskatoon’s VIDO-InterVac, told the Brent Loucks Show on Monday the first phase of the trial has begun with volunteers receiving their final checks before receiving their shots. “Each of them has to have an interview, a visit,...