HBO is developing a true crime drama series titled “Dorothea” based on the story of ’80s serial killer Dorothea Puente.
Geena Davis has been cast in the title role and executive produces alongside showrunner Joshua Michael Stern. Michael Rosenbaum and Jeff Frost also executive produce, with Rosenbaum having pitched the project to Frost’s Bristol Circle Entertainment, which later sold it to HBO. Rosenbaum’s writing partner Jane Whitney serves as co-executive producer.
One of the most recognizable faces in television will serve as host of the 78th Emmy Awards in September.
Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay will host the awards, which are set to air Sept. 14 on NBC. Hargitay is going into her 28th season as the star of SVU, which airs on NBC and is the longest-running primetime drama in American TV history.
I wear at least three rings every day—wedding and engagement bands, and an Oura ring as a fitness/recovery tracker. But in the summer, I often find myself taking them off before I go for a run. If I don’t, sometimes they’ll be stuck. This is a common problem, especially in hot weather. Here's what's going on, and what you can do about it.
There's been more duplication exploits in Arc Raiders at one point or another than I can shake several suspiciously identical sticks at. It's the get rich quick scheme that a lot of raiders opt in to, there's been multi-million rubber duck hauls and prisons made of just ziplines. It seems like there's no end to the creativity of a dupe exploit, but Embark has confirmed that it's been cracking down on them.
Like a shelf in an old house, the Earth collects a lot of dust from its surroundings. This "space dust" is mostly made up of micrometeorites that survive atmospheric entry and provides researchers with a cheap and easy way to obtain samples to study our cosmic neighbors. However, it can be difficult to determine which objects certain samples originated from if their parent bodies aren't already in available catalogs. A recent study, published in Science Advances, describes a new subset of space dust with such mysterious origins and how researchers are tracking down potential sources.
Technology in schools is getting closely examined—and for good reason. Parents and teachers are worried about distraction, cheating, and whether screens are helping students learn or letting them zone out.
Matt Damon has revealed how Christopher Nolan depicted The Odyssey's Cyclops without resorting to 100% CGI.
Speaking via the Good Hang podcast, Damon revealed that the crew built a real 60-foot tall puppet of the Cyclops in a cave. Unlike a normal film production which would do all of this work on a soundstage or in front of green screen with a CGI version of the Cyclops, Nolan did as much of it in-camera as possible. The team built a set inside of a real location known as Psychro Cave, which is where Zeus is believed to have been born in Greek mythology.
Expansion-induction model (based on positional information) vs. the self-organizational chemotaxis model of placode patterning in two rodent species. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2026). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2530407123
In mammals, hair follicles emerge during embryonic development, forming geometric patterns that vary from one species to another. But how is the position of each hair determined? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has shown that a simple mechanism based on the movement of cells in response to chemical signals can reproduce the formation of hair follicles in two mammalian species.
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