By: Christopher Campbell on April 2, 2014 at 6:49PM With two new movies out this Friday, Scarlett Johansson is the actor of the week. And she's particularly special for covering very different audiences with those two releases. The big one is, of course…
Saturn's moon Enceladus is home to an ocean of melted water beneath its surface, and could be a source for alien microbes, scientists said Thursday. The first measurements of the subsurface water at the south pole of the small and icy moon were made…
Hollywood's finest finally hit the red carpet Sunday for the most fiercely contested Oscars show in decades -- after organizers scrambled to make sure the weather doesn't rain on the glamorous parade. After months of drought, a huge storm has hit just…
Alison K. Lanier Two-thousand years ago a Roman ship sank off of the coast of Sardinia. Today the ship’s load of lead ingots, or a casting mold of metal, is being used by the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy to study neutrinos, as reported…
New research from the University of Arkansas has revealed that platinum nanoparticles automatically limit their own size and organize into specific patterns when they’re bonded to freestanding graphene. When exhibiting these behaviors, the platinum…
Scientists said Wednesday they had discovered a new type of microscopic particle cluster that is found in solid materials but strangely behaves like a liquid. They called it the "dropleton". The new entity, infinitely small and with a blink-and-you-…
Subscribe to TheShowbiz411! http://bit.ly/1dXOPuV Shakira has opened a new school in Colombia funded by her Barefoot Foundation, and was joined at the ceremony by her young son Milan. "I am very happy to see your little faces, students who will be studying…
Advances in genetic sequencing are giving rise to a new era of scientific racism, despite decades of efforts to reverse attitudes used to justify the slave trade and Nazi theology, experts said on Friday. New forms of discrimination, known as neoracism…
In under two weeks, the art world has been rocked by cases of forgery in which paintings with a potential value of millions were unmasked as worthless fakes. The two episodes, entailing a bogus Marc Chagall and a Ferdinand Leger, have shed light on…
British film queen Helen Mirren on Sunday thanked her former teacher after receiving Bafta's highest accolade from Prince William at a glittering ceremony in London on Sunday. Mirren, who has played Queen Elizabeth II on stage and film, fittingly received…
"Gravity" leads the nominations for the Baftas on Sunday, but the harrowing "12 Years a Slave" is tipped to win the top honours at the last major awards ceremony before the Oscars. Hollywood stars are due to pack out the Royal Opera House in London…
Hollywood stars including Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt rubbed shoulders with British royalty on Sunday at the Bafta awards, the highlight of the British film calendar and a key indicator for the upcoming Oscars. The superstar couple made an unexpected…
