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Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will become one company called Skydance when their $111 billion deal closes October...
10/02/2026

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will become one company called Skydance when their $111 billion deal closes October 6.

Chairman and CEO David Ellison chose the name of his original film production company, Skydance Media. He says the goal was to give the combined company an identity of its own while Paramount and Warner Bros. stay in the spotlight with their own legacies.

The company brings together two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios, HBO Max, Paramount+ and TV brands like CBS, CNN, MTV and Comedy Central. Franchises include Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, the DC Universe, Yellowstone and Top Gun.

The company plans to move its stock from Nasdaq to the New York Stock Exchange on October 6 and change its ticker from PSKY to SKYD. Ynon Kreiz joins as co-CEO October 5. The deal cleared its final hurdle when a judge approved a settlement with 12 states that had sued to block it.

Jim Carrey has married his girlfriend of several years, Min Ah, in a small private ceremony in Los Angeles. His represen...
10/01/2026

Jim Carrey has married his girlfriend of several years, Min Ah, in a small private ceremony in Los Angeles. His representative confirmed the marriage and said no other details about the ceremony were shared.

It is the third marriage for the actor. He was previously married to Melissa Womer from 1987 to 1995 and Lauren Holly from 1996 to 1997. He and Womer share a daughter, Jane Erin Carrey.

The couple have kept their relationship largely private. They were apparently first spotted together in 2022 outside a benefit show headlined by Judd Apatow at the Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles. At the 51st César Awards in Paris, Carrey publicly confirmed the relationship while accepting an Honorary César. He gave his speech in French and called Min Ah his "sublime companion" and "an angel."

No one is certain whether Angola's "ghost elephants" left the region and later returned, or were always there, hiding.Th...
09/30/2026

No one is certain whether Angola's "ghost elephants" left the region and later returned, or were always there, hiding.

They live in highlands at roughly 4,000 feet, travel silently despite their size, and move mostly at night or twilight to avoid people. National Geographic Explorer Steve Boyes believes this behavior was forged by generations of violence, and he estimates around a hundred still move through the region.

After testing dung and DNA samples, ecologist Jordana Meyer said this is a savanna elephant population "we didn't even know existed that high up." Stanford conservation geneticist Katie Solari says they are most similar to elephants in Namibia, hundreds of miles south, and genetically distinct from any previously sequenced population.

Boyes believes that if left undisturbed for a few years, they could slowly get used to people again. The documentary Ghost Elephants, directed by Werner Herzog, follows his search.

📸 Credit: Ghost Elephants, National Geographic Documentary Films Abramorama

It looks like every other gentoo penguin, yet its DNA says it is a species of its own.Named Pygoscelis kerguelensis, or ...
09/30/2026

It looks like every other gentoo penguin, yet its DNA says it is a species of its own.

Named Pygoscelis kerguelensis, or the southeastern gentoo, it lives on the remote Kerguelen Islands and differs only slightly in size and vocalization. It is the first new penguin species named in more than 100 years.

A team led by Chilean and UC Berkeley biologists sequenced whole genomes from 64 penguins across 10 colonies. Their April 2026 paper in Communications Biology also elevated three former subspecies to full species, making four gentoo species.

The authors argue gentoos eat essentially anything they chase down, so they stay near their home colonies. They say isolation on remote islands, plus the Antarctic Polar Front, aided the split over the past 300,000 to 500,000 years.

Under a moderate climate scenario, the authors' models project the current islands of the three sub-Antarctic species will become uninhabitable by 2050.

📸Credit - Antoine Lamielle

More than half of US adults take supplements for their health. Yet herbal and dietary supplements are linked to 20 perce...
09/29/2026

More than half of US adults take supplements for their health. Yet herbal and dietary supplements are linked to 20 percent of drug induced liver injury in the United States, and some analyses put that figure as high as 43 percent.

Among US transplant list patients with drug induced liver failure, supplement related cases rose from 1 percent to 7 percent between 1995 and 2020.

Three factors sit behind the trend. These are especially toxic compounds, harmful drug interactions, and mega dosing, which means taking well beyond the recommended limit. The FDA also does not require supplement makers to prove products are safe or effective before sale.

Hepatologist Marwan Ghabril of Indiana University says herbal and dietary supplements can cause liver injury just like prescription drugs can. He, Harvard's JoAnn Manson and Tufts University's Dariush Mozaffarian advise talking to a doctor first and avoiding mega dosing.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office, is getting a re-release with adde...
09/28/2026

Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office, is getting a re-release with added footage. The new scenes include, but are not limited to, ones featuring Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple, with more surprises said to be in store.

Dawson has said in interviews that she shot a scene for the film that was cut. No release date has been announced. Sony has re-released Spider-Man films over Labor Day weekend before, including No Way Home in 2022.

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland, the film has grossed $950.7M in North America and $2.495B worldwide, making it the 3rd highest grossing movie ever and Sony's highest-grossing film. It trails Avengers: Endgame by $389.7M globally.

Getting 8 hours of sleep does not guarantee your body recovers overnight. Penn State researcher Orfeu Buxton says the br...
09/28/2026

Getting 8 hours of sleep does not guarantee your body recovers overnight. Penn State researcher Orfeu Buxton says the brain needs cortisol declining and the parasympathetic system activating before restoration begins. Without those signals, cortisol drops slower, heart rate variability stays suppressed, and the brain's threat-detection network stays active while you sleep.

Constant digital stimulation is a major reason. Stanford's Anna Lembke says the brain's reward system keeps craving stimulation after the screen goes dark, and Buxton calls it "human fracking," attention pulled through nonstop engagement. Artificial light adds another layer, triggering alerting circuits beyond its usual circadian effect.

Northwestern's Kristen Knutson says sleep at the wrong point in your circadian rhythm is shallower, and RAND's Wendy Troxel points to eroding day and night boundaries as why minds never fully switch off.

Up to 12% of women may have lipedema, a chronic condition causing painful disproportionate fat buildup in the legs and s...
09/27/2026

Up to 12% of women may have lipedema, a chronic condition causing painful disproportionate fat buildup in the legs and sometimes the arms. First described in the 1940s, it's still often mistaken for obesity or lymphedema, though the pattern differs, with symmetrical swelling, easy bruising, and hands and feet usually spared.

There's no blood test or scan that confirms lipedema, so doctors diagnose it through a physical exam. The exact cause isn't clear. It tends to run in families, though no single gene has been identified, and symptoms often start during puberty or menopause, pointing to a hormonal trigger. Fragile, leaky blood vessels also seem to play a role.

There's no cure yet, but compression garments, an anti-inflammatory diet, staying active, and liposuction in severe cases can help. Researchers at the University of Virginia are now developing new MRI techniques to build the first real diagnostic standards.

Long before Shakespeare or Homer, the first person to attach their name to a written work was a woman in ancient Mesopot...
09/26/2026

Long before Shakespeare or Homer, the first person to attach their name to a written work was a woman in ancient Mesopotamia. Around 2300 BC, Enheduanna became high priestess of the moon god in Ur, holding the role for decades under four kings, starting with her father, Sargon the Great, ruler of Akkad.

When a rebel leader overthrew her family's rule and drove her into exile, she fought back not with weapons but with words. She wrote sweeping hymns to Inanna, goddess of love and war, pressing a reed stylus into clay, and by her own account the goddess answered, restoring her position.

Scribes copied her hymns for roughly a thousand years after her death, and archaeologists later unearthed a carved stone disk showing her at a ritual. Scholars still debate how closely those later copies preserve her exact words, but her legacy as history's first known named author endures.

Bill Gates said something no one expected from AI's biggest cheerleader. Speaking with NBC's Meet the Press, Gates said ...
09/26/2026

Bill Gates said something no one expected from AI's biggest cheerleader. Speaking with NBC's Meet the Press, Gates said AI is powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths, calling it the most powerful weapon ever created when combined with people who mean harm.

Gates isn't calling for a shutdown or a pause. He wants mandatory government oversight, arguing that law enforcement and politicians must set binding safeguards rather than leaving AI companies to regulate themselves.

His warning coincided with several other alarms. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman called for shared safety red lines across AI labs. Vatican adviser Paolo Benanti compared AI's risks to nuclear weapons. And a federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national security risk, stemming from a collapsed 200 million dollar defense contract.

Four separate voices, one message. The world's most optimistic AI booster now says the technology can also break things at a massive scale.

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