Remember that Saturday Night Live bit from last year when "Steve Bannon" (someone in a Skeletor-faced Death costume) sent "President Trump" (Alec Baldwin) to a smaller kids’ desk in the Oval Office? the name may not have been on the […]
Elephants and other large animals have a lower incidence of cancer than would be expected statistically, suggesting that they have evolved ways to protect themselves against the disease. A new study reveals how elephants do it: An old gene that […]
Greetings, fans! Seeing as this will likely be the last Cantina Talk news roundup before the new year, it seems only right that we end 2018 the same way it began: Feeling sorry for the people involved with Solo: A […]
The alerts started in the early morning of Aug. 17. Gravitational waves produced by the wreck of two neutron stars—dense cores of dead stars—had washed over Earth. The thousand-plus physicists of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory rushed to decode […]
Leonard is a private investigator who's experimented with LSD and loves oysters. He lives in NoLita, a fashionable downtown Manhattan nabe, and his wife of 34 years, Susan, died of cancer three years ago. "It was one of those storybook […]
Since causing major outbreaks in Saudi Arabia in 2014 and in Korea a year later, the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome is laying low. But it hasn't disappeared: A cluster of 34 cases cropped up in July in […]
Adam Russell, an anthropologist and program manager at the Department of Defense’s mad-science division Darpa, laughs at the suggestion that he is trying to build a real, live, bullshit detector. But he doesn’t really seem to think it’s funny. The […]
Once again, the country seems divided. This time, it’s not a border wall or a health care proposal driving the animus, but an online ad for a men’s razor, because, of course. But underneath the controversy lies something much more […]
This Thanksgiving, you have a plan: You've signed up for a race. Nothing crazy, just a few miles, but what better way to offset the culinary onslaught of Turkey-day dinner than by torching a few calories first thing in the […]
So, there was no Super Bowl trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX, despite relentless anticipation and hunger for one. Yet, considering things are quiet—suspiciously, painfully quiet—in the galaxy far, far away right now, that's not terribly surprising. Seriously, what is […]