Last summer, six months before my mother died, I walked into her bedroom, and she greeted me with a tinny hello and a big smile. She then resumed a conversation with her mother — who had died in 1973. “Where are you?” Mom asked, as though Grandma, a onetime Fifth Avenue milliner, was on one of her many European hat-buying junkets. As I stood there dumbstruck, Mom continued chatting — in a young girl’s voice, no less — for several more minutes. Read More...
A few months back, bioengineers created the world’s tiniest rendition of the Mona Lisa using DNA origami. Now, building off of prototypes , Chinese and American scientists are using the technology to snuff-out cancer with microscopic precision. If cancer is a criminal, blood vessels are its accomplice. Not only do they feed and nurture cancer, promoting its survival, but they also help shuttle cancer cells to rest of the body, sowing the seeds of metastasis. Read More...
The latest version of Fox’s score bug may take some getting used to.
Fox became the latest network to debut a new score bug during Super Bowl 2023, and it has drawn mixed reactions as viewers weigh in with their immediate reactions.
Some fans called the new score bug too large. Compared to the previous iteration, which the network had continued using throughout the regular season and playoffs, the Super Bowl version had additional height and larger logos — though those team images were slightly covered by a bar that contained the quarter, time remaining and down-and-distance numbers. Read More...
