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Towana Looney.Photo:ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty An Alabama woman has become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant.Towana Looney, 53, passed the milestone on Saturday, Jan. 25, when she was reported to be “healthy and full of energy” 61 days after her transplant, according to theAssociated Press.“I’m superwoman,” she told the outlet. “It’s a new take on life.“Looney is the fifth patient to be given a gene-edited pig organ since 2022 — and the third to receive a kidney — perThe New York Times....

Guido Mieth/Getty Images A couple having two babies via surrogate is now facing criticism from one wife’s family due to the names they’ve chosen for their future children. In a post onReddit, an anonymous woman shares that she and her wife have been married for four years, but are unable to have kids biologically and ultimately decided on surrogacy. The only problem, she writes, is her in-laws. Her wife’s parents, she explains in the post, are “overall bad people....

Xochitl Gomez for Hot Topic.Photo:Hot Topic Hot Topic Xochitl Gomezalready has a lot to celebrate in 2024. She just wrapped up her stint on theDancing with the Stars Livetour with partnerVal Chmerkovskiy(if you missed it, the two slayed season 32 of the dancing competition show andtook home the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy). Now, she’s finding her groove in the style space with an exciting new gig — Hot Topic’s first Social Collision Chief Style Officer!...

Zooey Deschanel and Emily Deschanel and their childhood home.Photo:Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic; Zooey Deschanel/Instagram Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic; Zooey Deschanel/Instagram TheNew Girlstar, who turned 45 on Friday, Jan. 17, penned a heartfelt tribute to the “marvel” of her home, which was a 1920s Spanish revival and “one of the oldest homes in the Palisades.” The actress reflected how the “spectacularly beautiful” home was “full of too many incredible memories to count.” “The family photos that lined the hallways, the artwork, the piano I learned to play on, the wedding china, the furniture my great great grandfather built… the reminders of generations past: All have vanished into thin air,” she wrote....

Photo: Arturo Holmes/FilmMagic Zooey DeschanelandJonathan Scottare the ultimate “holiday enthusiasts.” “Jonathan and I are really looking forward to having a wonderful Christmas with [my kids] and with our families,” says Deschanel, 42, while announcing that her appMerryfieldwill now give rewards for all submitted paper receipts from any store. “We’ve just moved into a new home so we’re so excited to be able to host some of the holiday festivities here....

My lady friend is moving into my apartment in June , and among the innumerable things I ’m delirious about is the opportunity to purchase a Modern vacuum . My current roommate ’s vacuum is basically a motorized drinking straw that require 15 passes over the same piece of train before picking it up and dropping it on the level again . While we probably ca n’t afford a Dyson , I marvel at the man who just consider thing should work properly ....

Artificial intelligence seems to be eitherset to transform the worldbeyond all identification orcollapse in on itself . It ’s hard to get a clear perspective on just how useful or otherwise this rapidly amplify tech is , though it ’s fair to say that a lot of the ideasbeing float at the moment soundpretty uninspiring . Part of the issue in assessing AI is the sheer largeness of ways it ’s used ....

Kurt Vonnegut , source ofSlaughterhouse - Five , Cat ’s Cradle , andHarrison Bergeron , is a fabled figure in the literature humanity . His blend of science fiction and politics and his irreverent writing style helped him become both one of the most admired and most censored writers of all time . Now , asSmithsonianreports , a museum and depository library give to Vonnegut ’s life and bequest is reopening in his hometown ....

When you purchase through radio link on our site , we may earn an affiliate mission . Here ’s how it works . North Greenland ’s ice shelves have lost more than a third of their volume since 1978 and could crumble with " dramatic consequences , " scientists have warn . Out of the region ’s eight tremendous ice shelves , three have already experienced complete collapse , and the remaining five are in speedy hideaway , scientists announce in a Modern study , published Nov....

When you purchase through link on our site , we may realise an affiliate delegacy . Here ’s how it work . The best - dressed animals may also be the vainest — at least if their propensity for selfies is any indicant . A new telecasting shows two emperor moth penguins in Antarctica interacting with a camera leave on the methamphetamine hydrochloride , and the result is even cuter than you ’d carry ....

There ’s more rumors about whether or not Jesse Eisenberg ’s Lex Luthor is in Justice League . Marvel tv set has plan for a new female - led TV show . Could Legends of Tomorrow send Jonah hex into blank space ? Plus , new looks at the return of Outlander , pictures from Game of Thrones ’ season finale , and a new Dirk Gently trailer . Behold , Spoilers !...

Holy sess . A group of astronomers have found a black hole containing ( checks notes ) 30 billion times the mass of our Sun . That ’s more than seven thousand time the size of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way . The team used gravitational lensing to see the calamitous muddle . In this natural phenomenon , massive object ’ gravitational line of business turn photon of light magnifying and warping them — make it possible to see object that would otherwise be hidden or too weak ....

When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it work . An Israeli antiquities principal accused of forging biblical and early Judaic relics has been exonerate of the charge , a finding of fact that is unlikely to damp the disputation over whether the item , including a boxful purportedly containing the bone of Jesus ' brother , are existent ....