By Nicholas BarberFeatures correspondent
Warner Bros.(Credit: Warner Bros.)The Matrix Resurrections is 'numbingly familiar', writes Nicholas Barber – lacking the visionary ambition of its predecessors, the latest in the franchise is more like 'The Matrix Reheated'.
It's been 18 years since the Matrix trilogy concluded, so why has Lana Wachowski chosen to revive the franchise now? She offers one answer early on in The Matrix Resurrections. The film starts by establishing that Neo (Keanu Reeves) is no longer the super-powered messiah who freed the human race from its robot overlords in The Matrix Revolutions. Read More...
EUGENE, Ore. — Inside a mosque in the college town of Eugene, a half-dozen men prostrated themselves on a carpet while another man led the midday prayers. Over their melodic recitation came a tapping sound as a locksmith installed higher-grade locks on the front door.
The worshippers at the Eugene Islamic Center are worried about their security. A man recently appeared outside the mosque and threatened to kill Muslims.
Barely two weeks later, an assailant stabbed two men to death and wounded a third on a commuter train in Portland, 110 miles (180 kilometers) to the north. Read More...
By Anna TurnsFeatures correspondent
Craig FritzScientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a material that can absorb forever chemicals (Credit: Craig Fritz)Nicknamed "forever chemicals", PFAS are ubiquitous. Now, scientists are looking to nature for ways to clean up the PFAS mess.
How do you solve a problem like PFAS? More than 9,000 different types of synthetic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are used to make everything from firefighting foam to the non-stick coating on cooking pans. Read More...