China sends embryo models into space to test whether human reproduction is possible beyond Earth
A necessary experiment to find out whether humanity’s dreams of galactic colonisation are truly within reach.
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China sends embryo models into space to test whether human reproduction is possible beyond Earth
A necessary experiment to find out whether humanity’s dreams of galactic colonisation are truly within reach.
Bezos said Mamdani should stop going after billionaires, and the very next day Mamdani ordered Amazon to pay nine million dollars in outstanding traffic fines
Fines issued because Amazon delivery drivers leave their vans parked in the middle of the street with the engine running, polluting the air.
The tech bros did everything they could to convince the Pope that AI is a net good, but their efforts didn’t amount to much.
Judging by the contents of Leo XIV’s first encyclical on AI, Big Tech’s diplomatic efforts, after sending its envoys to the Vatican in recent weeks, appear to have left him largely indifferent.
A study suggests civilizations don’t collapse because of catastrophes, but because they begin to consume more than they can sustain – and that may already be happening to ours
The researchers also note that the futures in which we manage to survive are not impossible, but they would require conditions that simply don’t exist on Earth today.
The FAO says the world has just six months left to avoid a global food crisis
For the agency, the decisions governments and farmers make now on fertiliser use, imports, funding, and crop selection, will be critical.
SS26, Charli XCX’s new single, is neither rock nor dance—it is fashion.
And apocalypse, too: “Yeah we’re walking on a runway that goes straight to hell,” Charli sings on the album’s second single.
A board game is about to be released in which you play an office worker trying to survive corporate life without burning out
L’anteprima mondiale della nuova stagione di Euphoria sarà al Coachella
È la prima volta che al Coachella si tiene una prima di film o di una serie tv. L'appuntamento è per l'ultima notte del festival, per una proiezione sotto le stelle.
13 Jun 2026
A study has shown that in film, a character named Chris, or even a talking animal, is more likely to be cast as the protagonist than a woman over 60
“Women make up half the population, and we age. So where are the stories about us?” said actress Emma Thompson.
A study examined the 100 highest-grossing films at the UK box office in 2023, 2024, and 2025 with a curious result: hit films were four times more likely to feature a talking animal as the lead than a woman over 60 (in absolute terms: about twenty films with talking creatures, five with women 60-plus in the lead). In between, almost as a counterpoint, six films starred an actor named Chris, with Chris Pratt accounting for half of the Chrises (and one of the six is Christian Friedel, called Chris only by his friends, co-lead of The Zone of Interest).
The five films with female leads aged 60 or older were Allelujah, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, Book Club: The Next Chapter, The Substance, and Freakier Friday. The second-highest-grossing film of 2025 in the UK, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, would have made that list if Renée Zellweger were three years older.
The study was carried out by Age Without Limits, a campaign run by the Centre for Ageing Better, which, alongside its film analysis, surveyed 4,000 people to gauge public interest in the issue. One in six said they would be more likely to go to the cinema if the film had a 60-year-old woman as the lead. Thirty-three percent believe that not enough films are made with women over 60, while 3 percent think there are too many (believe it or not).
An earlier study analyzed 1,200 speaking characters in 50 hit films between 2010 and 2022, finding that female characters over 65 appeared at one-third the rate of men the same age, and when they did appear, they spoke 14 percent less. When present, they were almost always “passive, pitiable, ridiculed for not behaving in an age-appropriate manner, and often irrelevant to the main plot.”
“Women are half the population, and we age. So where are the stories about us?” said Emma Thompson (67) in comments to the Guardian. “The older we get, the more interesting we are. Older women don’t need permission to exist on screen. We already exist in the world: the cinema just needs to keep up.” Thompson earned rave reviews for her leading role in Dead of Winter in 2025.
The sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, starring 76-year-old Meryl Streep, is currently in fourth place at the UK box office (behind Michael, Project Hail Mary, and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which stars Chris Pratt and, indeed, talking animals).
There’s an Oscars stat that brings it full circle: only seven women over 60 have won Best Actress. Only two, Jessica Tandy and Katharine Hepburn, won it after turning 70. The average age of Best Actress nominees was 33 in the 1940s. Today it is 44.
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