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Once among the biggest names in Hollywood, John Travolta is now more punchline than powerhouse, with recent flops and career missteps overshadowing a legacy that once included Oscar nods and million-dollar paydays. Despite iconic turns in Grease, Saturday Night Fever and a major comeback with Pulp Fiction, the 70-year-old actor’s more recent efforts have failed to land. His latest films, High Rollers and Mob Land, barely registered with audiences — the latter pulling just £138 ($A287) at the UK box office, News.com.au reported.

A mysterious creature found in Brazil has scientists questioning everything they know about wild canids. With a strange mix of dog and fox traits, this rare hybrid is raising serious concerns. Dogxim' Was Discovered After A Car Accident In 2021. Credit: Instagram/forrest.galante | The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel ================================================================ A strange discovery in southern Brazil has left the scientific community stunned. In 2021, a female canid was found near Vacaria, a city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, after being struck by a car. What seemed like an ordinary accident quickly turned into an extraordinary puzzle. Veterinarians...

A female spotty/paketi (an endemic species of wrasse) in the Gemmell Lab at the University of Otago. Credit: Gemmell Lab ======================================================= When the top spotty fish in a tank disappears, the runner-up turns aggressive within minutes, rushing and nipping rivals while its body quietly begins a weeks-long switch from female to male. Otago scientists linked this lightning-fast coup to a dominance hierarchy based on size and to a neural decision-making network that fires up the moment power shifts. The findings reveal just how quickly behavior and brain chemistry can adapt, offering fresh clues about social flexibility across species—and practical insights...

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This is Not The Bee, not to be confused with The Babylon Bee. Not a joke. A real thing. From Mattel: Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) announced today that Barbie® is debuting the first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes (T1D). This addition to the line enables more children to see themselves reflected in Barbie and encourages doll play that extends beyond a child's own lived experience, thereby fostering a greater sense of inclusion and empathy - all pillars of the Barbie brand's mission. And Diabetes Barbie comes with all the goods she needs: An absolute parody and I cannot believe...

Fisherman holding a pair of sea cucumbers. (Photo by The Pirates on Shutterstock) Scientists Discover Sea Cucumbers Contain Powerful Compound That Fights Aggressive Tumors In a nutshell * Scientists found that a compound from sea cucumbers can block Sulf-2, an enzyme that helps cancer cells spread throughout the body * Smaller fragments of the sea cucumber extract work just as well as the full compound but cause fewer side effects * The compound targets cancer cells specifically without broadly attacking healthy cells like traditional chemotherapy ========================================================================== UNIVERSITY, Miss. — Scientists at the University of Mississippi have discovered that a slimy...

Built by 30-year-old Italian mechanic Andrea Marazzi, the insane vehicle was put together using parts from an original 1993 Fiat Panda and was recently demonstrated at the 45th anniversary of the Panda in Pandino - a small town in Italy to the southeast of Milan. The car is so thin that it's impossible to even fit inside unless you happen to be relatively slim. While certainly helpful for fitting into tiny gaps, the car is a little on the unstable side, though it does at least take a bit more than just a stiff breeze to cause it to topple...

Case Western Reserve University chemist Divita Mathur was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant for her research in synthetic DNA nanoparticles, which have potential applications in gene therapy. Divita Mathur ================================================================== The grant will support Mathur’s work in synthesizing nanoparticles and studying how they behave inside cells in a laboratory. She will use single-cell injections and a microscope to track the nanoparticles and watch what happens to them over time inside individual cells. The CAREER award is considered the agency’s most prestigious grant to junior faculty members “who have the potential to serve...

A mysterious object spotted on the South Pacific seafloor has been identified as the bow of a torpedoed World War II ship that famously sailed thousands of miles backwards to avoid sinking, historians say. The nearly 100-foot long section of the USS New Orleans was found Sunday, July 6, by the Ocean Exploration Trust as it searched the seafloor near Guadalcanal with a remotely operated vehicle. A positive identification was made with the help of paint fragments still clinging to the hull, along with an engraved anchor, the trust reported. The bow, which fell to a depth of 2,214 feet,...

Killer whales have been repeatedly seen offering food to humans in the wild, a behavior that’s baffling researchers. The whales often lingered or made second attempts, raising questions about their intent—and their capacity for cross-species connection.. Shutterstock Across oceans and decades, killer whales have been caught doing something no one expected—offering food to humans. From California to New Zealand, 34 documented incidents reveal orcas bringing fish, rays, and squid to people in the water, on boats, and even onshore. Scientists say this behavior, usually seen between whales as a bonding act, may show a surprising willingness to connect with humans....

All aboard the crazy train! A man in Florida was arrested on his birthday Friday after authorities caught him absconding with a trackless sightseeing train, and even picking up passengers, while high on meth. Jonathan Patrick Winslow was celebrating his 57th trip around the sun on a raucous Independence Day when he turned up at the Conch Tour Train Depot in Key West and allegedly weaseled his way into conducting one of their vehicles.

A six-year-old girl has allegedly been forced to marry a 45-year-old man in Afghanistan after she was given away for money. The haunting photo of an older man and a little girl standing together horrified even the Taliban, who intervened with the union. The youngster had allegedly been exchanged by her father for money to a man who already has two wives, it was reported by Amu.tv. The marriage was allegedly set to take place on Friday in Helmand province but the Taliban stepped in and arrested both men involved. No charges were brought against them but they have forced...

Metallica heavy metal songs genre swapped to country tunes using Ai model. Crazy how good this stuff is getting. Particularly “Sad But True” and “Nothing Else Matters.” This guy has a whole channel of stuff like this. Motown Guns ‘n’ Roses sounds solid too. One one hand, it shows a good song is a good song. On the other, the music industry is as we know it is headed to the dust bin of history.

The quintessential ice cream flavour is under threat, and many other dessert staples along with it, according to climate change researchers at the University of Costa Rica and Belgium's KU Leuven university. Increasing climate extremes are changing the habitats of wild vanilla species — primarily found in the tropical regions of Central America — and their mainly animal pollinators, the researchers say. This, in turn, is putting global production of vanilla at risk. In some regions, the plants may find more favourable conditions, but the insects that pollinate them may no longer find suitable habitats, according to the study published...

Pictures of a weepy UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves dominated the newspaper front pages and TV news after her tearful appearance at Prime Minister's Questions earlier this week. Anecdotally, it's not unusual to cry at work. Several people got in touch with the BBC to tell us about their experiences. Clara, 48, from Lancaster, said she had become emotional when she was a young graduate getting a "blasting", and years later "in frustration". "I've also cried after receiving bad news from home and left work immediately." Emma, meanwhile, felt she had to keep her emotions under wraps because she worked in...

A teacher who allegedly chugged booze and hurled curse words at students during a lesson that she interrupted to have them dance the Macarena has been fired. Alice Ashton from the UK was swigging from a water bottle full of orange liquid which smelled of alcohol and blaring music from her laptop during the health class, one of her 16-year-old students told a hearing on Tuesday, reported the Telegraph. She also called students “little s—ts” and “put her middle finger two to three inches” from another teen’s face during the “out of control” class at Ysgol Bro Caereinion school in...

Abortion is a very difficult subject yet now it is somehow "gender affirming care" I give you my opinion on why I find this very upsetting amongst other things. #transgender #abortion #genderaffirmingcare #women #men Buck Angel's mission is to spread the truth. Note: Buck Angel is a transgender person, a woman living as a man. This person is upset at how the new "trans community" is views on abortion and the words "the joys of abortion" actual quote. Buck even states they are using abortion as birth control. Buck makes fun of these people because they are disgusting.

Helen Alderman was a young girl when she learned that her great-uncle was the Florida soldier executed on July 7, 1865, with three others who had conspired to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. On a sunny afternoon 129 years after Lewis Thornton Powell’s death, Alderman, 72, and about two dozen friends, family and historians gathered Saturday under the shade of six cypress trees at a Geneva community cemetery to bury a small mahogany box and close the story of the Florida farm boy who joined John Wilkes Booth in one of the most notorious acts in American history. “Never in my...

The owner of a private crematorium in Ciudad Juárez where 383 bodies were left in piles to decompose has been arrested along with his sole employee. The attorney general of Chihuahua, César Jáuregui Moreno, announced that José Luis Arellano Cuarón, the owner of the Plenitud crematorium in the Granjas Polo Gamboa neighborhood of Ciudad Juárez, and Facundo Martínez Robledo, an employee, were detained on Sunday. A judge ruled that the two men must remain in preventive prison ahead of a court hearing on Friday. They face charges related to the improper handling of cadavers. If convicted on all counts, they...

This is nuts (and very dumb). Skip in about a third of the way if you please. [Warning: Language] VIDEO AT LINK............ That’s one way to ruin your truck pic.twitter.com/0Pubh9brtE— Washingtons ghost (@washghost1) July 1, 2025Dude just destroyed his Raptor for a tiny jump! For context, a brand-new 2025 Raptor starts at $79,000. But at least his Stanley mug is alright! Gotta leave you some comments: