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Before Patrick Stewart was cast as Marvel Comics’ powerful telepath, “King of Pop” Michael Jackson launched into filmmakers to play Professor Charles Xavier in the 2000 film X-Men. That meeting was recounted as part of a The Hollywood Reporter’s biggest exposure about X-Men director Bryan Singer, detailing a long pattern …

A type of mushroom found at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site was sent into space in a research project that aims to keep astronauts safe from radiation on missions in deep space. “The greatest danger to humans on deep space exploration missions is radiation,” the scientists explain in a summary …

Two NASA astronauts aboard the space station are about to embark on a fiery fall through the atmosphere and into the ocean. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley became the first people to fly SpaceX’s new spacecraft, Crew Dragon, on May 30. It was the first manned launch from US soil …

The ancestors of the new coronavirus may have been circulating in undetected bats for decades. And those coronaviruses probably also had the ability to infect humans, according to a new study. To understand where the new coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, comes from, and how it spread to humans, scientists need …

The metal-organic frames are highly porous, making them ideal for absorbing gases and liquids. This graph shows the interior of a magnesium metal-based MOF (green balls), and has added molecules – tetraamines (blue and gray) – added to the pores to more efficiently absorb carbon dioxide from plant emissions of …