You can never be too safe. One crime scene investigator can’t erase some of the horror she’s experienced on her job — so much so that she’s taken extra security precautions at her home to protect herself. Amy Santoro is a real-life Olivia Benson — as she’s been working in forensics and on crime scenes … Read more
Pick up a book titled “The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire — Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction” (St. Martin’s Press), and it’s safe to assume its pages won’t be full of sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. But while the author, British paleontologist Henry Gee, delivers an occasionally apocalyptic vision of … Read more
Over the past decade, David Letterman — who walked away from “Late Night” in 2015 — has had time to reflect on the ups and downs of his career. In a recent interview, the 77-year-old former late-night television host opened up about the challenges he faced while in show business and explained why he thinks the pressures of Hollywood … Read more
Fans at Yankee Stadium appear unable to stop behaving badly — forcing a well-known actor to leave Game 5 early. Wendell Pierce, who has appeared in “The Wire” and “Jack Ryan” took to X to say he left the Yankees-Dodgers World Series game in The Bronx because he was talking to a Dodgers fan and … Read more
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has issued a new warning about the likelihood of Disease X breaking out, telling global world leaders it is “a matter of when, not if” a new pathogen and pandemic will strike. Tedros, who goes by his first name, told attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier his … Read more
Is humanity doomed? The annual update of the Doomsday Clock was announced at 10 a.m. this morning in Washington, DC. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the Doomsday Clock this year was set to 90 seconds to midnight — for the second year in a row, “reflecting the continued state of unprecedented danger … Read more
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids — or maybe it is. That’s the question Dutch entrepreneur Dr. Egbert Edelbroek hopes to answer by experimenting with human reproduction in outer space next November. “Humanity needs a backup plan,” the biotech boss of SpaceBorn United told the MIT Review. “If you want to … Read more
Is Doomsday almost here? The time on the symbolic Doomsday Clock — designed by scientists to measure how close the world is to an apocalypse — will be recalculated next week. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will host a live virtual news conference at 10 am EST on Tuesday, January 24, to announce whether the time on the iconic … Read more
Excrement could be the key to saving humanity from extinction, according to scientists. Scientists in Switzerland are seeking poo from all over the world — waiting anxiously for stools from Puerto Rico and Ethiopia to arrive by snail mail to then be stored in a freezer at the University of Zurich. A team led by … Read more
I’m everything I am because you snubbed me! Fans cried foul last weekend when Rolling Stone left Celine Dion off the magazine’s 200 Greatest Singers of All Time list. Announcing the roster on Twitter, the publication was already on the defensive. “Before you start scrolling (and commenting), keep in mind that this is the Greatest … Read more