- Balanophora genomes display massively convergent evolution with other extreme holoparasites and provide novel insights into parasite–host interactions Nature.com
- Parasitic plant convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh—it’s also an extreme example of genome shrinkage Phys.org
- These parasitic plants force their victims to make them dinner Popular Science
- Extreme parasitism: Balanophora convinces a host to grow into its tissue Earth.com
- Strikingly convergent genome alterations in two independently evolved holoparasites Nature.com
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Celtics lose to Cavaliers in OT after Grant Williams’ pre-FT chirping massively backfires – Yahoo Sports
- Celtics lose to Cavaliers in OT after Grant Williams’ pre-FT chirping massively backfires Yahoo Sports
- Celtics’ Grant Williams Utterly Fails To Back Up Trash Talk To Donovan Mitchell NESN
- Grant Williams Missed Two Free Throws To Beat The Cavs After Telling Donovan Mitchell He’d ‘Make Em Both’ UPROXX
- Watch: Grant Williams’s ill-advised trash talk backfires in Celtics’ OT loss to Cavaliers The Boston Globe
- Twitter roasts Grant Williams after he misses potential game-winning free throws for Celtics Hardwood Houdini
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This 49ers rival is poised to regress massively in 2023 – Niner Noise
- This 49ers rival is poised to regress massively in 2023 Niner Noise
- Golden Nuggets: Buckle up. It’s gonna be a looong offseason Niners Nation
- 49ers Mailbag: Will the 49ers go after big free-agents? Is the offensive line or defensive line a bigger priority? What happens at right tackle? Will Trey Lance be traded? Biggest draft need? 49ers Webzone
- Difficult decisions 49ers must make due to salary cap issues Niner Noise
- 49ers Free agent wish list: DT David Onyemata would be the perfect addition to reinforce the 49ers defensive … Niners Nation
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Destiny 2’s Witch Queen Solstice Event Got Massively Overhauled
Destiny 2’s summer “Solstice” seasonal event is right around the corner, and ahead of this year’s loot celebration Bungie has outlined some big changes. A few of them I love. Others not so much. The proof will be in how the event’s overall grind is balanced, but for now I’m intrigued in a way I haven’t been in years.
In times past, the Destiny 2 Solstice was just an overly familiar grindfest plagued by annoying wrinkles. Bungie is trying to shake things up this time around, and here’s how. As previously teased, the Solstice festivities will now be organized around a single Event Card to make everything easier to track. Like the current weekly challenges tab, it will help you stay on top of all your long-term objectives. It’s also being monetized.
Throughout the Solstice event you’ll earn tickets, and if you pay $10 to unlock the premium tier of the Event Card, you can start trading those tickets in for exclusive new rewards. Some Solstice cosmetics will also be sold through the regular Eververse microtransaction shop, but others will be locked behind the Event Card. This is supposed to save players money, with the total earnable rewards exceeding $30 in value if they were sold in the shop. It’s effectively a new mini season pass.
But the real meat of Solstice is armor, and the changes there are a lot more intriguing. There is an elaborate new currency economy and it’s all geared around upgrading gear so you can re-roll it for higher custom stats. It’s extremely confusing and also incredibly on brand for Destiny 2. Here’s how Bungie breaks it down:
- Earn Kindling by completing Solstice Event Challenges
- Spend Kindling to upgrade your armor stat roll potential
- Earn Silver Leaves by completing activities throughout the game
- Transform Silver Leaves into Silver Ash by completing the new activity: Bonfire Bash
- Spend Silver Ash to reroll armor stats from the armor mod screen
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There are three upgrade tiers for armor. Every time a new tier is unlocked, it applies to every piece of that armor. Once you unlock all tiers, you can start choosing which stats to maximize when re-rolling (the armor will also start to glow, though the best glows will still be locked behind a microtransaction). The idea is to let you chase armor with a certain build in mind, whether for Trials, Grandmaster Nightfalls, or any other end-game activity. It sounds great, in theory at least.
In practice there are some ways it could really suck. The most obvious way is if this new system runs into bottlenecks and makes it hard to go at your own pace. There is effectively no reason to reroll armor before you’ve maxed out the upgrades, but those upgrades are predicated on completing Event Card Challenges, leading to the possibility you reach the cap on Leaves or Ash before you can do anything meaningful with them. Hopefully that doesn’t happen, and hopefully the activities are generous in awarding the new currencies.
I say hopefully because I’m actually looking forward to Solstice this year. It’s been a while since the last time I wrote about Destiny 2. Things are a bit love/hate right now, which is saying something considering Bungie’s loot shooter has been inspiring mixed emotions for almost eight years. Season of the Haunted has been a real disappointment for me so far, especially coming off the high that was The Witch Queen.
Traditionally I’ve burned out on the annual Solstice event very quickly, but after some longer breaks from the game than usual this year, I’m honestly eager to get back into it and have something to do besides another dreaded run through Nightmare Containment. The summer release calendar is barren (with a few notable exceptions) and I need something to fill the gaps. I am also in desperate need of more chill. Grinding three different currencies and another paid pass to max out rewards might not sound like that, but when Destiny gets it right, that can be pure bliss.
PSVR2’s Horizon Call of the Mountain Massively Upgraded in New Teaser
Horizon Call of the Mountain, as you may recall, was officially announced by Firesprite and Guerrilla earlier in the year. Sony showed a very short teaser trailer for the tentpole PSVR2 title, and promised more news soon. That information is scheduled to arrive during State of Play later today, as confirmed by PlayStation on social media with a short teaser clip.
That small video, as spotted by PSVR Without Parole, has seen a massive upgrade from the original trailer. While that clip was jaw-dropping – without doubt some of the best virtual reality graphics we’ve seen to date – the new one shows an enormous leap in lighting, foliage density, and overall detail.
In the video, you see a Tallneck walking overhead, and it’s important to remember just how impressive the scale of this will be in VR. Sony has a huge challenge demonstrating the experience of PSVR2 in traditional, flat-screen trailers – as PSVR owners will know, the sense of perspective is wildly different when you’re wearing the headset – but these visuals are impressive by even non-VR standards.
This is going to be an absolute show-stopper, we reckon. While there are many amazing VR games available to play, there’s been a real lack of investment in AAA content, outside of perhaps Half-Life Alyx. With the PSVR2 specifications being so far ahead of everything else on the market, and with two talented first-party teams put to task here, expect this to be a truly mind blowing title.
Supercomputer Simulations Explain Massively Powerful Black Hole Jet – Confirms Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
Further confirmation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
The galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is located 55 million light years away from Earth in the Virgo constellation. It is a giant galaxy with 12,000 globular clusters, making the
The black hole M87* attracts matter that rotates in a disc in ever smaller orbits until it is swallowed by the black hole. The jet is launched from the center of the accretion disc surrounding M87, and theoretical physicists at Goethe University, together with scientists from Europe, USA, and China, have now modeled this region in great detail.
They used highly sophisticated three-dimensional supercomputer simulations that use the staggering amount of a million CPU hours per simulation and had to simultaneously solve the equations of general relativity by Albert Einstein, the equations of electromagnetism by James Maxwell, and the equations of fluid dynamics by Leonhard Euler.
The result was a model in which the values calculated for the temperatures, the matter densities and the magnetic fields correspond remarkably well with what deduced from the astronomical observations. On this basis, scientists were able to track the complex motion of photons in the curved spacetime of the innermost region of the jet and translate this into radio images. They were then able to compare these computer-modeled images with the observations made using numerous radio telescopes and satellites over the past three decades.
Dr. Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, lead author of the study, comments: “Our theoretical model of the electromagnetic emission and of the jet morphology of M87 matches surprisingly well with the observations in the radio, optical and infrared spectra. This tells us that the supermassive black hole M87* is probably highly rotating and that the plasma is strongly magnetized in the jet, accelerating particles out to scales of thousands of light years.”
Professor Luciano Rezzolla, Institute for Theoretical Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt, remarks: “The fact that the images we calculated are so close to the astronomical observations is another important confirmation that Einstein’s theory of general relativity is the most precise and natural explanation for the existence of supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies. While there is still room for alternative explanations, the findings of our study have made this room much smaller.”
Reference: “State-of-the-art energetic and morphological modelling of the launching site of the M87 jet” by Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, Christian M. Fromm, Yosuke Mizuno, Antonios Nathanail, Ziri Younsi, Oliver Porth, Jordy Davelaar, Heino Falcke, Michael Kramer and Luciano Rezzolla, 4 November 2021, Nature Astronomy.
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01506-w
The massively popular gaming console is now available on Amazon
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For more than four decades, Nintendo has been the name in video games. Even with the occasional misstep (the less said about the Super Mario Bros. movie, the better), Nintendo’s whimsical and innovative approach to gaming has helped the company fend off every competitor that tried to dethrone the world’s most famous mustachioed plumber.
If you’re a fan, act fast, because Amazon has the highly coveted Nintendo Switch in stock. Even better, it’s the new limited-release Mario Red & Blue Edition Bundle; that’s even rarer than the Radiant Armor in Breath of the Wild. The cult-fave console is already sold out on some sites, so grab it while you can.
The console launched alongside the release of the game Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – Nintendo Switch, which you can also get right now at Amazon, for $60.
Shop it: Nintendo Switch Mario Red & Blue Edition, $300, amazon.com
The Nintendo Switch sold remarkably well when it first launched in 2017, offering the only major console experience that could be played both on-the-go and at home. But the pandemic and the necessary lockdown measures drove even more consumers — some who hadn’t touched a video game since the glory days of Pac-Man — to pick up the popular console.
As a result, the Nintendo Switch has been largely unavailable since the early stages of quarantine, with some physical retailers going so far as to hang “No Switch Available” signs directly beneath their “Must Wear Masks” posters. Shoppers anxious to escape their homes into the magical worlds of Animal Crossing or Zelda’s Hyrule kept refreshing windows and calling stores, hoping to catch that Brigadoon-esque moment when the scarce restock finally happened. Well, if you’re one of those people, now’s the time to pounce.
Shop it: Nintendo Switch Mario Red & Blue Edition, $300, amazon.com
This bundle gives you everything you need to start playing all the most popular current Nintendo titles, from the pulse-pounding racing of Mario Kart 8 to the latest Pokemon adventures, Pokemon Sword + Pokemon Shield, and of course Game of the Year nominee Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The Nintendo Switch Console, Joy-Con controllers, and the Nintendo Switch dock all come in the distinct red, while the Joy-Con grip and Joy-Con wrist straps sport the familiar shade of blue that together evoke the colors of Nintendo’s most iconic creation, Mario.
You’ll also get a Mario-themed carrying case to protect your precious cargo. The Nintendo Switch remains the most affordable current-gen console on the market, with a catalog of titles you can’t get anywhere else — and it’ll still support the most popular online games like Fortnite and Minecraft.
Shop it: Nintendo Switch Mario Red & Blue Edition, $300, amazon.com
As you can imagine, Amazon shoppers are hooked. Says one five-star reviewer: “The Switch has made me love gaming again. Platforming, racing, horror, action, adventure, retro, etc…everything is accounted for here. You will never run out of games to play!”
Another shopper says: “The Switch is already one of my favorite consoles I’ve ever owned. As an adult, I’ve been surprised by how much I play it in handheld mode. It’s nice to be able to sneak in some gaming time here and there at work when there is downtime. And I actually find myself playing it in handheld mode pretty often at home when I’m watching football on the weekends.”
With demand still incredibly high, it won’t be long before these consoles sell out — so don’t miss the opportunity to join the global community of Switch players, old and young alike, who are finding new ways to connect in these unique times. In short: Get your hands on the console that helped the world get through quarantine.
Jump on this special edition and you’ll be shouting “Wahoo!” in no time.
Shop it: Nintendo Switch Mario Red & Blue Edition, $300, amazon.com
The reviews quoted above reflect the most recent versions at the time of publication.
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