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Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson | |
Johansson at the 39th César Awards in February 2014
Born | New York City, New York, United States |
November 22, 1984
Occupation | Actress, singer, model |
Years active | 1994–present |
Spouse(s) | Ryan Reynolds (m. 2008–11) |
Scarlett Johansson (/dʒoʊˈhænsən/ joh-HAN-sən; born November 22, 1984)[1] is an American actress, model and singer. She made her film debut in North (1994) and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Manny & Lo (1996), garnering further acclaim and prominence with roles in The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Ghost World (2001). She shifted to adult roles with her performances in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003), for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role; both films earned her Golden Globe Award nominations as well.
A role in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) earned Johansson her third Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination. Johansson garnered another Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress with her role in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005). She has played the Marvel comic book character Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff in Iron Man 2 (2010), The Avengers (2012), and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and is set to reprise the role in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).[2] The 2010 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge won Johansson the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. As a singer, Johansson has released two albums, Anywhere I Lay My Head and Break Up.
Johansson is considered one of Hollywood's modern sex symbols, and has frequently appeared in published lists of the sexiest women in the world, most notably when she was named the "Sexiest Woman Alive" by Esquire magazine in both 2006 and 2013 (the only woman to be chosen for the title twice),[3][4][5] and the "Sexiest Celebrity" by Playboy magazine in 2007.[6]
Early life
Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City on November 22, 1984.[7] Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect originally from Copenhagen,[8] and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx.[9][10][11] Sloan's ancestors emigrated to New York from Minsk, Tsarist Russia.[12] She has an older sister, Vanessa, also an actress; an older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter (who appeared with her in the film Manny & Lo);[13] and an older half-brother, Christian, from her father's first marriage.[14]
Johansson grew up in a household with "little money",[15] and with a mother who was a "film buff".[16] She and her brother, Hunter, attended P.S. 41 in the upper-middle-class Greenwich Village neighborhood, in Manhattan, for elementary school.[17] Johansson began her theatrical training by attending and graduating from Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2002.[18]
Acting career
Early roles
Johansson began acting during childhood, after her mother started taking her to auditions.[15] She made her film debut at the age of 9, as John Ritter's daughter in the 1994 fantasy comedy, North.[7] Following minor roles in the 1995 film Just Cause, as the daughter of Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw, and If Lucy Fell in 1996, she played the role of Amanda in Manny & Lo (1996). Her performance in Manny & Lo garnered a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female,[7] and positive reviews, one noting, "[the film] grows on you, largely because of the charm of ... Scarlett Johansson",[19] while San Francisco Chronicle critic Mick LaSalle commentated on her "peaceful aura", and wrote, "If she can get through puberty with that aura undisturbed, she could become an important actress."[20]
After appearing in minor roles in Fall and Home Alone 3 in 1997, Johansson garnered widely spread attention for her performance in the 1998 film The Horse Whisperer, directed by Robert Redford.[7] She received a nomination for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress for the film.[21][22] In 1999, she appeared in My Brother the Pig and in 2001 in the neo-noir Coen brothers film The Man Who Wasn't There. Also in 1999, she appeared in the music video for Mandy Moore's single, "Candy".[23] Although the film was not a box office success,[24] she received praise for her break-out role[25] in Ghost World (2001).[26][27] Credited with "sensitivity and talent [that] belie her age",[28] She won the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress.[29] In 2002, she appeared in Eight Legged Freaks.
Transition to adult roles
Johansson made the transition from teen roles to adult roles, with two roles in 2003.[30] In the Sofia Coppola film Lost in Translation, she played Charlotte, a listless and lonely young wife, opposite Bill Murray.[31][32] Roger Ebert wrote that he loved the film and described the performances of Johansson and Murray as "wonderful."[33] Entertainment Weekly wrote of Johansson's "embracing, restful serenity,"[34] and the New York Times said, "At 18, the actress gets away with playing a 25-year-old woman by using her husky voice to test the level of acidity in the air ... Ms. Johansson is not nearly as accomplished a performer as Mr. Murray, but Ms. Coppola gets around this by using Charlotte's simplicity and curiosity as keys to her character."[35] Johansson won the BAFTA Award[36] and the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress[37] and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.[38] She received nominations from a number of film critic organizations, including the Broadcast Film Critics Association,[39] and the Chicago Film Critics Association,[40]
At age 18, Johansson played Griet in Peter Webber's Girl with a Pearl Earring. While noting, "Audiences feel as if they are spying on a moment of artistic inspiration when painter Vermeer creates the title work", USA Today praised her, suggesting, "[She] is having a banner year that Oscar voters should recognize."[41] In his review for the New Yorker, Anthony Lane said, "What keeps Webber's movie alive is the tenseness of the setup ... and, above all, the presence of Johansson. She is often wordless and close to plain onscreen, but wait for the ardor with which she can summon a closeup and bloom under its gaze; this is her film, not Vermeer's, all the way."[42] Owen Gleiberman, for Entertainment Weekly, wrote of her "nearly silent performance", observing, "The interplay on her face of fear, ignorance, curiosity, and sex is intensely dramatic."[43] She was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama[38] and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[36] She was nominated by the London Film Critics' Circle,[44] the Phoenix Film Critics Society.
Johansson was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in June 2004.[45] The same year, she had voice or onscreen roles in five films: the The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie; A Good Woman, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, which had a limited U.S. release, and was both a box office[46] and critical[47] failure, described by the New York Times as a "misbegotten Hollywood-minded screen adaptation" with "an excruciating divide between the film's British actors (led by Tom Wilkinson and Stephen Campbell Moore), who are comfortable delivering Wilde's aphorisms ... and its American marquee names, Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson, [who have] little connection to the English language as spoken in the high Wildean style";[48] the critically panned teen heist film, The Perfect Score,[49] the romantic comedy In Good Company, a critical and box office success;[50] and, finally, the dark, Southern drama, A Love Song for Bobby Long, for which she earned her a third Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination.[38]
In July 2005, Johansson starred, with Ewan McGregor, in Michael Bay's science fiction film, The Island, in dual roles as Sarah Jordan and her clone, Jordan Two Delta. The film was a commercial failure[51][52] and received mixed critical reviews.[53][54] In contrast, her role as Nola, the American actress with whom Chris (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is obsessed, in the Woody Allen-directed drama Match Point, was well received. The New York Times said, "Ms. Johansson and Mr. Rhys-Meyers manage some of the best acting seen in a Woody Allen movie in a long time, escaping the archness and emotional disconnection that his writing often imposes."[55] Mick LaSalle, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, said, "[Johansson] is a powerhouse from the word go", and, "[Her performance] borders on astonishing."[56] Johansson received her fourth Golden Globe nomination,[38] and one from the Chicago Film Critics Association, for Best Supporting Actress.[40]
In another collaboration with Allen, she was cast opposite Hugh Jackman and Allen in the 2006 film Scoop. While the film enjoyed a modest worldwide box office success,[57] it received mixed reviews by critics.[58][59] The same year, she appeared in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia, a film noir shot in Los Angeles and Bulgaria. Johansson later said she was a De Palma fan and had wanted to work with him on the film, even though she thought that she was "physically wrong" for the part.[60]
Johansson next had a supporting role in the Christopher Nolan thriller The Prestige (2006), again opposite Hugh Jackman, as well as Christian Bale. Nolan, who described Johansson as possessing an "ambiguity... a shielded quality",[61] said he was "very keen" for her to play the role.[62] Johansson said, "[she] loved working with [Nolan]", and he was "incredibly focused and driven and involved, and really involved in the performance in every aspect."[63] The film was both a critical[64] and a worldwide box office[65] success, recommended by the Los Angeles Times as "an adult, provocative piece of work."[66] Also in 2006, Johansson starred in a short film directed by Bennett Miller and set to Bob Dylan's "When the Deal Goes Down...", released to promote Dylan's album, Modern Times.[67]
Johansson starred in 2007's The Nanny Diaries, alongside Laura Linney. The film performed only marginally well at the box office,[68] and was critically panned.[69] Johansson's reviews were mixed, with Variety saying, "[She] essays an engaging heroine",[70] while The New Yorker criticized her for looking "merely confused" while "trying to give the material a plausible emotional center".[71]
In 2008, she starred in The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman and Eric Bana,[72] a film which garnered mixed reviews.[73][74] Writing for Rolling Stone, Pete Travers criticized the film for "[moving] in frustrating herks and jerks", but was more positive in his assessment of Johansson and Portman, and wrote, "What works is the combustible teaming of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, who give the Boleyn hotties a tough core of intelligence and wit, swinging the film's sixteenth-century protofeminist issues handily into this one."[75] Variety credited the cast as "almost flawless ... at the top of its game", citing "Johansson's quieter Mary ... as the pic's emotional center, her tender love story with the conflicted monarch evoking the only genuine feelings on display."[76]
She filmed her third Woody Allen film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in Spain,[77] appearing opposite Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. The film was one of Allen's most profitable[78] and appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008.
Johansson played the femme fatale Silken Floss in Frank Miller's film noir, comedy adaptation of The Spirit. The film, described as "a great-looking movie with an awkward balance of pulp noir and campy self-awareness"[79] and "style without substance, style whirling in a senseless void",[80] received mostly poor reviews.[81]
Johansson appeared in the role of Anna, a yoga instructor, in the 2009 ensemble cast of He's Just Not That into You, with Jennifer Connelly, Bradley Cooper, Drew Barrymore and Kevin Connolly. The film was a box office success[82] but only gained average critical reception.[83][84] The San Francisco Chronicle review notes, "[The film] never soars, but it never flags" yet lauds Johansson, saying, "She has become a deft comic actress."[85] The Los Angeles Times calls the film an "anti-romantic romantic comedy" and cites the scenario in which Johansson appears with Jennifer Connelly and Bradley Cooper as having "more meat than others", making it "one of the best."[86] The Baltimore Sun criticized the film, but praised Johansson for "proving she doesn't need Woody Allen to be funny."[87]
In March 2009, Johansson signed on to play Natalia Romanova/Natasha Romanoff, aka "The Black Widow" in Iron Man 2[88] after Emily Blunt turned down the role.[89] The film was released in May 2010.[90]
Appearing at San Diego Comic-Con on July 26, 2009, Johansson joked about her audition for the film, saying it consisted of "a couple of deep knee bends and lunges", but Favreau credited her with performing her own stunts: "All the fighting and wire work is her own. She worked really hard and it shows on the screen."[90] Iron Man 2 was a box office success[91] and received mostly positive reviews from critics.[92] In 2011, Johansson played the role of Kelly, a zookeeper in the family film We Bought a Zoo. The film gained mainly favorable reviews.[93] Calvin Wilson of St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that Johansson "brings to Kelly just the right blend of spunkiness and hard-won maturity."[94] Johansson reprised the role of Natasha Romanoff in The Avengers in 2012. The Avengers received positive reviews[95] and was highly successful at the box office, becoming the third highest-grossing film both in the United States and worldwide.[96]
In November 2010, she was cast in the film adaptation of Michel Faber's novel Under the Skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer,[97] appearing in a role which required full frontal nudity.[98] In November 2011, it was reported she plans to make her directional debut by adapting Truman Capote's novel, Summer Crossing whose screenplay will be written by playwright Tristine Skyler.[99][100] Production on the film is slated to begin in the first half of 2014.[101] In early March 2012, it was announced that Johansson had been cast as Janet Leigh in the Sacha Gervasi-directed film Hitchcock, a behind-the-scenes drama about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.[102][103] Released in November 2012, Hitchcock received mixed to positive reviews.[104] Roger Ebert wrote that Johansson "as Janet Leigh, doesn't look a lot like the original but projects her spunk, intelligence and sense of humor."[105]
Johansson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 2, 2012 located at 6931 Hollywood Blvd., in front of Madame Tussauds Hollywood wax museum.[106]
In 2012, Johansson was cast in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, Don Jon.[107] The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival[108] and had its wide release in September 2013. Don Jon received positive reviews.[109] Johansson's performance was praised by critics; Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that "Johansson, fearlessly tackling a role with sharp edges, is dynamite"[110] while Claudia Puig of USA Today stated that she "gives one of her best performances as the bossy, gum-chewing Jersey girl".[111] Also in 2013, Johansson voiced the character Samantha, an intelligent computer operating system, in the Spike Jonze film Her. She replaced Samantha Morton in the role.[112] The film received critical acclaim upon release[113] with Johansson's performance being well-received among critics.[114][115]
Johansson's next project will be reprising her role as Black Widow in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, alongside frequent co-star Chris Evans as the title character. Her involvement was confirmed in October 2012.[2]
Johansson made her first stage appearance in the Off Broadway play Sophistry.[116] In January 2010, following previews that began December 28, 2009, Johansson made her debut on Broadway, as Catherine Carbone in the drama A View from the Bridge, written by Arthur Miller and directed by Gregory Mosher. Liev Schreiber played opposite her.[117] Johansson won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her role in the play.[118] Her win received some backlash from critics and seasoned Broadway actors who felt she was undeserving of the award.[119]
Johansson starred as Maggie in a Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof beginning January 17, 2013.[120] Her performance received mixed reviews from critics.[121] Thom Geier, writing for Entertainment Weekly, wrote, "Scarlett Johansson brings a fierce fighting spirit to Maggie the Cat in director Rob Ashford's languorous revival ... Johansson shows a winning determination – to lure back her husband, to defend their share of his family's fortune, to maintain a sometimes shaky Southern accent."[122] On the other hand, reviewer Joe Dziemianowicz (The Daily News) called her performance "alarmingly one-note".[123]
Johansson has appeared in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, L'Oréal and Louis Vuitton,[124] and has been the face of Spanish brand Mango since 2009.[125] After appearing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, Johansson was announced as the face of the new Dolce & Gabbana make-up collection in early 2009.[124] She made a personal appearance at the London store, Selfridges, on July 31, 2009, to help launch and promote the line.[126] Johansson was also the first Hollywood celebrity to become an ambassador for a Champagne House, after she became the spokesperson for Moët & Chandon and appeared in various advertisements and events for the brand.[127] In January 2014, the Sodastream home-carbonation system announced Johannson as its first brand ambassador.[128]
Music career
In 2005, Johansson was considered for the role of Maria[129] in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End revival of The Sound of Music, though the role ultimately went to newcomer Connie Fisher (winner of the BBC talent show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?)[130] Released on May 8, 2006, Johansson sang the track "Summertime" for Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars, a non-profit collection of songs recorded by Hollywood actors. She performed with The Jesus and Mary Chain for a special Coachella Reunion Show in Indio, California in April 2007.[131]
In 2007, Johansson appeared as the leading lady in Justin Timberlake's music video, for "What Goes Around... Comes Around", which was nominated in August 2007 for video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards.[132] In mid-2007, she spent about a month in Maurice, Louisiana recording an album at Dockside Studio. The album, consisting of one original song and ten cover versions of Tom Waits songs,[16][133] was produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio and features David Bowie,[134] members from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs[135] and Celebration.[136][137] Released on May 20, 2008, it was entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head.[138][139] Reviews of the album were mixed, or average.[140] Spin commented, "There's nothing particularly compelling about Scarlett Johansson's singing."[141] Conversely, some critics found it to be "surprisingly alluring",[142] "a bravely eccentric selection",[134] and "a brilliant album" with "ghostly magic".[143] The album was named the "23rd best album of 2008" by NME[144] and peaked at No.1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and No. 126 on the Billboard 200 chart.[145] Of her album, Johansson said, "I had this golden opportunity to record and thought I would do maybe an album of standards, because I'm not a songwriter. I'm a vocalist."[146] Johansson said for her recording she "wanted to have space and [she] wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that."[147] Johansson said in an interview that she started listening to Tom Waits when she was 11 or 12 years old.[148] Of Tom Waits, Johansson said in an interview, "His melodies are so beautiful, his voice is so distinct and I had my own way of doing Tom Waits songs."[149] In December 2008, MTV reported Johansson planned to follow-up Anywhere I Lay My Head with an album of all original music, saying, "I don't think I'd do covers, so it'd be a project that I have to dedicate myself to. I feel like that's something for the future."[150]
In 2009, Johansson covered Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" for the soundtrack of He's Just Not That into You.[151] Released on September 8, 2009, she and singer/songwriter Pete Yorn recorded a collaborative album, Break Up, inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's duets with Brigitte Bardot.[152] In 2010, Steel Train released Terrible Thrills Vol. 1, which includes their favourite female artists singing songs from their self-titled album. Johansson is the first artist on the album, singing "Bullet".[153] In 2011, Johansson sang "One Whole Hour" for the soundtrack of the documentary film Wretches & Jabberers.[154][155] In 2012, Johansson added her voice to a J. Ralph track entitled "Before My Time" to the end credits of the climate documentary Chasing Ice. The song received a nomination from the Academy Awards in the "Best Original Song" category.[156]
Sex symbol
Johansson has frequently appeared in published lists of the sexiest women in the world. She has been described as a "peerless sex symbol" by Channel 4,[157] Johansson appeared on the cover of the March 2006 issue of Vanity Fair in the nude alongside actress Keira Knightley and fashion designer Tom Ford.[158] Maxim named Johansson No. 6 in their Hot 100 Issue in 2006,[159] No. 3 in 2007, [160] No. 2 in 2008,[161] No. 34 in 2009,[162] No. 14 in 2010,[163] No. 14 in 2011,[164] No. 17 in 2012[165] and No. 15 in 2013.[166] In November 2006, Johansson was named "Sexiest Woman Alive" by Esquire.[167] In February 2007, she was named the "Sexiest Celebrity" of the year by Playboy.[168] FHM has regularly ranked her as one of their 100 sexiest famous women since 2005.[169] During the filming of Match Point, director Woody Allen described Johansson as "sexually overwhelming", saying that he found it "very hard to be extra witty around a sexually overwhelming, beautiful young woman who is wittier than you are."[170] In 2010, GQ named Johansson its Babe of the Year.[171] In 2011, Men's Health named her one of the "100 Hottest Women of All-Time", ranking her at No. 12.[172]
Personal life
Johansson celebrates a "little of both" Christmas and Hanukkah,[173][174] and has described herself as Jewish.[8][175][176] She dislikes the "ScarJo" nickname commonly used in reference to her, calling it "awful" and "terrible".[177][178]
On September 14, 2011, the FBI announced it was investigating the alleged hacking of Johansson's cell phone and the dissemination of nude photographs of her.[179][180][181] Johansson said the photos had been sent to her then-husband, Ryan Reynolds, three years prior to the incident.[182][183] As a result of the investigation, Christopher Chaney of Jacksonville, Florida pleaded guilty to computer hacking. In addition to a prison sentence for Chaney, prosecutors are requesting that he pay Johansson about $66,000 in compensation.[184]
From 2001–02, while Johansson attended the Professional Children's School, she dated classmate Jack Antonoff, who went on to become the guitarist for the band Fun.[185] She dated her Black Dahlia co-star Josh Hartnett for about two years until the end of 2006, with Hartnett citing their busy lives as the reason for the split.[186]
Johansson began dating Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds in 2007[187] and in May 2008 it was announced that they were engaged.[188] On September 27, 2008, the couple married in a quiet ceremony near Tofino, British Columbia.[187][189] They purchased a $2.8 million home together near Los Angeles.[190] On December 14, 2010, the couple announced their separation.[191] Their divorce was finalized on July 1, 2011.[192]
In November 2012, Johanson started dating Romain Dauriac, the owner of an independent advertising agency.[193] In September 2013, it was announced that Johansson and Dauriac were engaged.[194][195]
Charity work
In 2005, Johansson became a Global Ambassador for the aid and development agency Oxfam.[196] In March 2008, a UK-based bidder paid £20,000 on an eBay auction to benefit Oxfam, winning a hair and makeup treatment, a pair of tickets and a chauffered trip to accompany Johansson on a 20-minute date to the world premiere of He's Just Not That into You.[197]
In January 2014, Johansson resigned from her Oxfam position after facing criticism[198] for her promotion of SodaStream, whose main factory is based in Mishor Adumim, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, as Oxfam opposes all trade with Israeli settlements.[199] Johansson said she and Oxfam "have a fundamental difference of opinion in regards to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement".[200] In response to her resignation, Oxfam stated that it was "grateful for her many contributions ... [in] helping to highlight the impact of natural disasters and raise funds to save lives and fight poverty".[201][202]
Political advocacy
Johansson is registered as an independent[203] and campaigned for Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 United States presidential election.[16] About George W. Bush's 2004 reelection, she said, "[I am] disappointed. I think it was a disappointment for a large percentage of the population."[204]
Johansson also campaigned for Democratic candidate Barack Obama:[205] Her efforts included appearances in Iowa during January 2008, where her efforts were targeted at younger voters;[206] an appearance at Cornell College;[207] and a speaking engagement at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota on Super Tuesday, 2008.[208] Johansson appeared in the 2008 music video for The Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am's song, "Yes We Can", directed by Jesse Dylan, a song inspired by Obama's speech following the 2008 New Hampshire primary.[209] On February 7, 2012, Johansson and Anna Wintour hosted a fashion launch of pro-Obama clothing, bags and accessories, with proceeds going to the President's re-election campaign.[210] She addressed voters at the Democratic National Convention on September 6, 2012, calling for President Obama's reelection and for more engagement from young voters.[211]
Johansson publicly endorsed and supported Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's 2013 run for New York City Comptroller by hosting a series of fundraisers.[212]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1994 | North | Laura Nelson | |
1995 | Just Cause | Kate Armstrong | |
1996 | If Lucy Fell | Emily | |
1996 | Manny & Lo | Amanda | |
1997 | Fall | Little girl | |
1997 | Home Alone 3 | Molly Pruitt | |
1998 | Horse Whisperer, TheThe Horse Whisperer | Grace MacLean | |
1999 | My Brother the Pig | Kathy Caldwell | |
2001 | Man Who Wasn't There, TheThe Man Who Wasn't There | Rachael "Birdy" Abundas | |
2001 | Ghost World | Rebecca | |
2001 | American Rhapsody, AnAn American Rhapsody | Zsuzsi/Suzanne Sandor (at 15) | |
2002 | Eight Legged Freaks | Ashley Parker | |
2003 | Lost in Translation | Charlotte | |
2003 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Griet | |
2004 | Perfect Score, TheThe Perfect Score | Francesca Curtis | |
2004 | Love Song for Bobby Long, AA Love Song for Bobby Long | Pursy Will | |
2004 | Good Woman, AA Good Woman | Meg Windermere | |
2004 | SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, TheThe SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | Mindy (voice) | |
2004 | In Good Company | Alex Foreman | |
2005 | Match Point | Nola Rice | |
2005 | Island, TheThe Island | Jordan Two Delta/Sarah Jordan | |
2006 | Scoop | Sondra Pransky | |
2006 | Black Dahlia, TheThe Black Dahlia | Katherine "Kay" Lake | |
2006 | Prestige, TheThe Prestige | Olivia Wenscombe | |
2007 | Nanny Diaries, TheThe Nanny Diaries | Annie Braddock | |
2008 | Other Boleyn Girl, TheThe Other Boleyn Girl | Mary Boleyn | |
2008 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Cristina | |
2008 | Spirit, TheThe Spirit | Silken Floss | |
2009 | He's Just Not That into You | Anna Marks | |
2010 | Iron Man 2 | Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow | |
2011 | We Bought a Zoo | Kelly Foster | |
2012 | Avengers, TheThe Avengers | Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow | |
2012 | Hitchcock | Janet Leigh | |
2013 | Don Jon | Barbara Sugarman | |
2013 | Her | Samantha (voice) | |
2014 | Under the Skin | Laura | |
2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow | |
2014 | Chef | Molly | Post-production |
2014 | Lucy | Lucy | Post-production |
2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow | Filming |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1995 | Client, TheThe Client | Jenna Halliwell | Episode: "Pilot" |
2001 | Anatomy of a Scene | Herself | Episode: "Girl with the Pearl Earring" |
2004 | Entourage | Herself | Episode: "New York" |
2005–2008 | Robot Chicken | Various voices | 6 episodes |
2006–2010 | Saturday Night Live | Various roles | 5 episodes |
Year | Title | Role | Venue |
2010 | View from the Bridge, AA View from the Bridge | Catherine | Cort Theatre |
2012 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Margaret | Richard Rodgers Theatre |
Studio albums
Title | Album details |
Anywhere I Lay My Head |
Live Session (iTunes Exclusive) |
Break Up with Pete Yorn |
Soundtrack appearances
Year | Song | Soundtrack |
2009 | "Last Goodbye" | He's Just Not That into You: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
2011 | "One Whole Hour" | Wretches & Jabberers Soundtrack |
2012 | "Summertime" (feat. 3D) | Days of Grace (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
2012 | "Before My Time" (feat. J. Ralph & Joshua Bell) | Chasing Ice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
2014 | "The Moon Song" (feat. Joaquin Phoenix) | The Moon Song (Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture Her) |
Album appearances
Year | Song | Artist(s) | Album |
2006 | "Summertime" | Varies | Unexpected Dreams |
2010 | "Bullet" | Steel Train | Terrible Thrills Vol. 1 |
2011 | "I'll Be Home for Christmas (duet with Scarlett Johansson)" | Dean Martin | My Kind of Christimas |
2012 | "Bonnie & Clyde" | Lulu Gainsbourg | From Gainsbourg to Lulu |
2012 | "Coteau Guidry" | The Lost Bayou Ramblers | Mammoth Walt |
Awards and nominations
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09:41 AM ET 09.28 | The betting line for Texas A&M and Arkansas was non-existent for much of the week and no one could really figure out why. While gamblers sought the answer, there was one high roller who didn't care much about the line. That high roller is the pound-for-pound best boxer currently in the business. For the second week in a row Floyd Mayweather will be betting a ridiculous amount of money on Johnny Manziel and the Aggies as he confirmed Wedensday on the Howard Stern Show in New York. "I can tell you something you can bet on this Saturday," Mayweather said. "Johnny Football. He's playing the Arkansas Razorbacks." When asked how he can predict the outcome on the game while only mentioning one guy in a team sport, Mayweather began to brag on Manziel's performance against Alabama a year ago. When asked about the possiblity of an off day, Mayweather didn't balk. "Johnny Football never has an off day," he said. Mayweather went on to say he is betting $300,000 on Manziel and the Aggies this weekend.
Who cares?
Bragging about your gambling acumen = compensating for something.
Who cares?Bragging about your gambling acumen = compensating for something.
No kidding, tell us when he gives part of his winnings to charity..that'll be news.
How do u know if he doesn't give money to charity?
Who cares?Bragging about your gambling acumen = compensating for something.
Sports gambling is probably the number one reason we have professional sports today. That and insane TV deals. Obviously, it is a huge multi-billion dollar industry. It's not really bragging. People want to listen to what Howard Stern and Floyd Mayweather have to say, and Floyd Money is saying bet on Johnny Football.
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Shouldn't this post be on the gambling thread???
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just before I saw the draft of $5073,
Then double down on JM & co. Mayweather did.
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I bet he didn't bet any money when A&M played Alabama.
I bet he didn't bet any money when A&M played Alabama.
Wanna bet:)
The line I saw was aTm -14.5, and aTm won by 12.
He may have won by betting on JFF before but sooner or later Vegas always wins.
The line I saw was aTm -14.5, and aTm won by 12.He may have won by betting on JFF before but sooner or later Vegas always wins.
Those lights don't pay for themselves.
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Those lights don't pay for themselves.
And I've paid for a few.
Dang blackjack dealers
Just like how Mayweather stole that fight against Castillo, Chavez stole a fight tonight against Vera.
Maybe Floyd bet on Chavez and got some money back.
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Solar cells could become much cheaper thanks to improvements in a more than 20-year-old solar technology that captures light with dye molecules. The advance is "one of the most important breakthroughs in dye cells in the last several years," says a chemist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
In other technology news, two researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (N.J.I.T.) have devised a direct-contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system that can efficiently wring drinking water out of up to 20 percent-salt-concentrated brine.
Two scientists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have designed a metamaterial that stretches when compressed, and vice versa, under any circumstances. "What is interesting is that they study systems that are not responding to a vibration but to a steady applied force," says John Pendry of Imperial College London.
As a Houston computer scientist has developed his ideas over nearly a decade, he has found increasing acclaim for his "inexact" computer chips. At a major computing conference in Italy, Rice University's Krishna Palem unveiled his newest chips that trade a bit of accuracy for better efficiency.
When Clarence Birdseye figured out how to pack and freeze haddock, using what he called "a marvelous new process which seals in every bit of just-from-the-ocean flavor," he essentially changed the way we produce, preserve and distribute food.
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An American auction house sold a fossil of a fearsome T. rex relative for $1 million despite a court order not to. The fossil was found in Mongolia, and the sale is contingent on the outcome of a court fight with the Mongolian government over ownership.
In other news of the ancient past, scientists have for the first time confirmed pigment in two fossilized ink sacs from cuttlefish-like animals, a new study says. The ancient ink's similarity to modern squid ink suggests that this defensive weapon hasn't evolved much since the Jurassic period.
The consensus is that dogs came from wolves. Beyond that, there are varying claims. It seems dogs appeared sometime between 15,000 and 100,000 years ago, in Asia or Africa or multiple times in multiple places. In a new study, a researcher argues that the DNA of modern dogs is so mixed up that it is useless in figuring out when and where dogs originated.
A team of paleontologists has discovered the fossil remains of a new species of dining-table-size freshwater turtle that apparently lived side-by-side with the 50-foot snakes and super-size crocodiles that they had found earlier in the same Colombian coal mine.
A private cargo rocket built by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. of Hawthorne, Calif. blasted off last week, headed to the International Space Station. The rocket carried only about 1,000 pounds of cargo. The importance of the launch was more technical and symbolic.
In other space news, stargazers will have a chance on June 5 to glimpse a transit of Venus, in which the planet passes directly between Earth and the sun. Venus will take six hours to march across the star's face, appearing as an inky black dot in silhouette against the solar disk.
The moon nearly blotted out the sun last week, creating a blazing "ring of fire" eclipse visible in many parts of the world.
In 2019, a spacecraft known as Euclid will begin a mission to study dark energy. But it is being launched by the European Space Agency, not NASA, with American astronomers serving only as very junior partners.
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ACCORDING to Joseph Henrich and his colleagues at the University of British Columbia, most undergraduates are WEIRD. Those who teach them might well agree. But Dr Henrich did not intend the term as an insult when he popularised it in a paper published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 2010. Instead, he was proposing an acronym: Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic.
One reason these things matter is that undergraduates are also psychology's laboratory rats. Incentivised by rewards, in the form of money or course credits, they will do the human equivalents of running mazes and pressing the levers in Skinner boxes until the cows come home.
Which is both a blessing and a problem. It is a blessing because it provides psychologists with an endless supply of willing subjects. And it is a problem because those subjects are WEIRD, and thus not representative of humanity as a whole. Indeed, as Dr Henrich found from his analysis of leading psychology journals, a random American undergraduate is about 4,000 times more likely than an average human being to be the subject of such a study. Drawing general conclusions about the behaviour of Homo sapiens from the results of these studies is risky.
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Since launching in February 2004, Facebook has proved highly effective at creating opportunities for the average Web user to create campaigns that reach a mass audience. Most recently such opportunities have extended to organ donation, an area that could benefit from the social network's attention--controversy over its recent initial public offering aside, Facebook's membership is more than 900 million and growing.
Indeed, with demand for healthy organs for transplantation growing worldwide, Facebook has already become a popular channel for people soliciting kidneys, livers and other potentially lifesaving organs. Earlier this month the social network began offering members the ability to identify themselves as organ donors on their Facebook pages and to locate state organ-donation registries if they would like to become donors.
Last October a team of researchers at Loyola University Medical Center began tracking how Facebook was being used as a tool for connecting potential donors with those in need of an organ. The researchers focused on kidney solicitations in particular and studied 91 Facebook pages seeking kidney donations for patients ranging in age from two to 69. Of the Facebook pages studied, 12 percent reported receiving a kidney transplant and 30 percent reported that potential donors had stepped forward to be tested to determine whether they were compatible, the researchers recently reported at a meeting of the National Kidney Foundation. One page reported that more than 600 people had been tested as potential donors for a young child.
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A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists.
A group calling itself the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front has claimed responsibility for the non-fatal shooting of a nuclear-engineering executive on 7 May in Genoa, Italy. The same group sent a letter bomb to a Swiss pro-nuclear lobby group in 2011; attempted to bomb IBM's nanotechnology laboratory in Switzerland in 2010; and has ties with a group responsible for at least four bomb attacks on nanotechnology facilities in Mexico. Security authorities say that such eco-anarchist groups are forging stronger links.
On 11 May, the cell sent a four-page letter to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera claiming responsibility for the shooting of Roberto Adinolfi, the chief executive of Ansaldo Nucleare, the nuclear-engineering subsidiary of aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica. Believed by authorities to be genuine, the letter is riddled with anti-science rhetoric. The group targeted Adinolfi because he is a "sorcerer of the atom," it wrote. "Adinolfi knows well that it is only a matter of time before a European Fukushima kills on our continent. Science in centuries past promised us a golden age, but it is pushing us towards self-destruction and total slavery. With this action of ours, we return to you a tiny part of the suffering that you, man of science, are pouring into this world." The group also threatened to carry out further attacks.
A hard-fought battle against the polio virus may be approaching its endgame. Last week, health officials laid out plans to eradicate the virus from its last redoubts, but warned that the effort may founder owing to a US$1-billion funding gap.
"We are truly at a tipping point in the programme right now," says Bruce Aylward, an assistant director-general at the World Health Organization, who is leading the eradication effort. Speaking at the 65th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, he announced an Emergency Action Plan to step up vaccination efforts in the three countries that have never been able to stop the virus from spreading: Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The plan, which would boost global spending to $2.2 billion over the next two years, aims to stamp out new polio cases by the end of this year. Some experts believe it will take longer, but they agree that the push will eventually deliver victory to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a $9-billion campaign that began in 1988, a time when an estimated 350,000 people succumbed to polio each year. The initiative, based in Geneva, made rapid gains in the Americas, Europe and parts of Asia, but since 2001, incidence rates have plateaued, with 1,000-2,000 people developing poliomyelitis each year worldwide.
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Women who are past menopause and healthy should not take hormone replacement therapy in hopes of warding off dementia, bone fractures or heart disease, according to a new analysis by the government task force that weighs the risks and benefits of screening and other therapies aimed at preventing illness.
The recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force does not necessarily apply to women who take hormone replacement therapy to reduce menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness. The balance of harms and benefits for that use is expected to be addressed in an imminent report by the federal government's Office of Health Quality Research.
The latest recommendation, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, comes from an organization accustomed to kicking up controversy. In recent months, the task force has recommended against routine breast cancer screenings for most women younger than 50. It has also urged that the prostate-specific antigen (or PSA) test that has become a standard part of older men's yearly physicals be abandoned.
For the first time, scientists have detected radioactivity in fish that have migrated into California waters from the ocean off Japan, where radiation contaminated the sea after explosions tore through the Fukushima nuclear reactors last year.
Radioactive cesium was detected in samples of highly prized Pacific bluefin tuna, but it is well below levels considered unsafe for humans, the scientists say.
The evidence is "unequivocal" that the tuna--caught off San Diego a year ago--were contaminated with radiation from Japan's nuclear disaster, the researchers said.
Virtually all bluefin tuna on the market in the United States is either farmed or caught far from the Fukushima area, so American consumers should not be affected by radiation contamination in their fish, seafood distributors say. The migratory bluefin studied by the researchers were all caught by sport fishermen and were not headed for the market.
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The slow eastward migration of monsoons across the Asian continent initially supported the formation of the Harappan civilization in the Indus valley by allowing production of large agricultural surpluses, then decimated the civilization as water supplies for farming dried up, researchers reported Monday. The results provide the first good explanation for why the Indus valley flourished for two millennia, sprouting large cities and an empire the size of contemporary Egypt and Mesopotamia combined, then dwindled away to small villages and isolated farms.
The Harappan civilization, named after its largest city, Harappa along the upper Indus River, evolved beginning about 5,200 years ago and reached its height between 4,500 and 3,900 years ago, stretching across what is now Pakistan, northwest India and Eastern Afghanistan. An urban society with large cities, a distinctive style of writing and extensive trade that reached as far as Mesopotamia, the society accounted for about 10% of the Earth's population at its height and rivaled Egypt in its power. Unlike Egypt and Mesopotamia, however, the Harappans did not attempt to develop irrigation to support agriculture. Instead, they relied on the annual monsoons, which allowed the accumulation of large agricultural surpluses--which, in turn, allowed the creation of cities. The civilization was largely forgotten by history until the 1920s, when researchers finally began studying it in depth.
The new research was performed by a team led by geologist Liviu Giosan of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass., and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Working in Pakistan, they used photographs taken by shuttle astronauts and images from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to prepare maps of land forms in the region, then verified them on the ground using drilling, coring and manually dug trenches.
The roots of the modern family--monogamous coupling--lie somewhere in our distant evolutionary past, but scientists disagree on how it first evolved. A new study says we should thank two key players: weak males with inferior fighting chops and the females who opted to be faithful to them.
These mating strategies may "have triggered a key step in the very long process of the evolution of the family," said study author Sergey Gavrilets, a biomathematician at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. "Without it, we wouldn't have the modern family."
The mating structure of humans is strikingly different than that of sexually promiscuous chimps, in which a few alpha males dominate other males in the group and, by dint of their superior fighting prowess, freely mate with the females. Lower-status males are largely shut out from mating opportunities.
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Woody Allen once said that when you do comedy, you sit at the children's table. The same might be said of speculation in science. And yet speculation is an essential part of science. So how does it fit in? Two recent publications about the misty depths of canine and human history suggest some answers. In one, an international team of scientists concludes that we really don't know when and where dogs were domesticated. Greger Larson of the University of Durham, in England, the first of 20 authors of that report, said of dog DNA, "It's a mess."
In the other, Pat Shipman, an independent scientist and writer, suggests that dogs may have helped modern humans push the Neanderthals out of existence and might even have helped shape human evolution.
Is one right and the other wrong? Are both efforts science--one a data-heavy reality check and the other freewheeling speculation? The research reported by Dr. Larson and his colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is solid science--easily judged by peers, at any rate. The essay by Dr. Shipman is not meant to come to any conclusion but to prompt thought and more research. It, too, will be judged by other scientists, and read by many nonscientists.
Geologists have long known that Earth's core, some 1,800 miles beneath our feet, is a dense, chemically doped ball of iron roughly the size of Mars and every bit as alien. It's a place where pressures bear down with the weight of 3.5 million atmospheres, like 3.5 million skies falling at once on your head, and where temperatures reach 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit -- as hot as the surface of the Sun. It's a place where the term "ironclad agreement" has no meaning, since iron can't even agree with itself on what form to take. It's a fluid, it's a solid, it's twisting and spiraling like liquid confetti.
Researchers have also known that Earth's inner Martian makes its outer portions look and feel like home. The core's heat helps animate the giant jigsaw puzzle of tectonic plates floating far above it, to build up mountains and gouge out seabeds. At the same time, the jostling of core iron generates Earth's magnetic field, which blocks dangerous cosmic radiation, guides terrestrial wanderers and brightens northern skies with scarves of auroral lights.
Now it turns out that existing models of the core, for all their drama, may not be dramatic enough. Reporting recently in the journal Nature, Dario Alfè of University College London and his colleagues presented evidence that iron in the outer layers of the core is frittering away heat through the wasteful process called conduction at two to three times the rate of previous estimates.
An NPR story about an unusual sea creature caught on camera in the ocean off Great Britain was the most-viewed item last week by subscribers to Science in the News Daily. Other popular stories included the discovery of a mysterious sensory organ in a whale's chin and an examination by the L.A. Times on whether blazing a trail in solar energy has cost California too much. Subscribe for free daily updates.
WASHINGTON -- Shortly before Thanksgiving in 2010, the leaders of the commission President Obama had appointed to investigate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sat down in the Oval Office to brief him. After listening to their findings about the BP accident and the safety of deepwater drilling, the president abruptly changed the subject. "Where are you coming out on the offshore Arctic?" he asked.
William K. Reilly, a former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency and a commission co-chairman, was startled, as was Carol M. Browner, the president's top adviser at the time on energy and climate change.
Although a proposal by Shell to drill in the Arctic had been a source of dissension, it was not a major focus of the panel's work. "It's not deep water, right?" the president said, noting that Shell's proposal involved low-pressure wells in 150 feet of water, nothing like BP's 5,000-foot high-pressure well that blew out in the gulf.
Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation to approve a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines, handing a hard-fought victory to environmentalists and promising to change the way Angelenos do their grocery shopping.
The City Council voted 13 to 1 to phase out plastic bags over the next 16 months at an estimated 7,500 stores, meaning shoppers will need to bring reusable bags or purchase paper bags for 10 cents each.
The ban came after years of campaigning by clean-water advocates who said it would reduce the amount of trash in landfills, the region's waterways and the ocean. They estimate Californians use 12 billion plastic bags a year and that less than 5% of the state's plastic bags are recycled.
The Interior Department announced a plan on Wednesday to allow periodic increases in the flow of Colorado River water through the Grand Canyon, alleviating the environmental disruption caused by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona in the 1960s.
The secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, said the plan would allow the river's managers to release excess water--more than twice as much as average flows--through and over the hydroelectric dam at will to help propel silt and sediment downstream into the canyon. By mimicking the river's original dynamics, Interior Department officials said, the flows could help restore the backwater ecosystems in which native fish are most at home.
The goal is partly to enhance sandbars that create backwaters for an endangered fish, the humpback chub. The excess sand also nourishes beaches used by wildlife, hikers and rafters. Environmental groups like the Grand Canyon Trust strongly support the high-flow releases, which have been carried out experimentally three times before, most recently in 2008.
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If you came face to face with a great whale, you might find a few surprises in its chin: Like whiskers, if you look closely at the surface. And, hidden inside the chin, lies a mysterious sensory organ, unknown to centuries of whalers and biologists.
You just need the right tools to find it: a high-tech, oversized x-ray machine, and the right saws to slice it into thin pieces that fit in a microscope.
A group of scientists based at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, BC, have done all that looking--and they discovered an organ that serves a crucial purpose and answers a longstanding mystery. How do great whales, such as humpbacks and blues, drive their jaws so wide open and then snap them shut, while swimming at full speed?
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Care must be taken not to spread deep-sea creatures around the world during exploration of the remote ocean floor. Scientists using the famous Alvin sub say the vehicle picked up limpets from a depth of almost 3,000m and inadvertently transferred them alive to another location more than 600km away.
It is surprising because the animals had to cope with huge pressure changes as Alvin conducted its dives. The researchers report the event in the journal Conservation Biology.
Spreading organisms artificially beyond their range in this way could have damaging effects on marine ecosystems, they warn, either by introducing competitors or even disease. The team urges other deep-sea explorers to exercise extreme caution, and to assume hardy stowaways could be hanging on to their vehicles.
Stem cells have assumed near-mythical status in the popular imagination as a possible cure for every disease under the sun. But while public attention has focused on their potential in regenerative medicine, stem cells have quietly gained a foothold in drug development--a move that may hail a huge but unheralded shake-up of the biological sciences.
"I think there are tremendous parallels to the early days of recombinant DNA in this field," says James Thomson, director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, Wisconsin, and one of the founders of Cellular Dynamics International, also in Madison. "I don't think people appreciated what a broad-ranging tool recombinant DNA was in the middle '70s." At the same time, he says, they underestimated the difficulty of using it in treatments.
Now stem cells are in a similar situation, he says, and although therapeutic use is likely to come to fruition eventually, "people underappreciate how broadly enabling a research tool it is", he says.
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The price of solar cells has been gliding downward for decades. Now this trend could get a shove from an improvement to a more than 20-year-old solar technology that captures light with dye molecules, an approach that's never managed to catch on. The advance is "one of the most important breakthroughs in dye cells in the last several years," says Thomas Mallouk, a chemist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, who was not involved in the study.
Eighty percent of the market for solar cells is taken up by cells made from crystalline silicon wafers, which convert about 20% of the energy in incoming sunlight into electricity. Most of the rest of the market consists of "thin film" cells made from different semiconducting alloys that can be cheaper to produce but require toxic or rare elements.
A third class of solar cells, first developed in 1991 by researchers in Switzerland, are the cheapest to make and are more than 12% efficient. These cells, known as dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), consist of millions of tightly packed titanium dioxide nanoparticles, each coated by a single layer of dye molecules. The titanium dioxide-dye combo is then bathed in an electrically conductive liquid containing mobile ions called an electrolyte.
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Long-acting birth control devices are nearly 22 times as reliable as contraceptive pills or other short-acting approaches that need close monitoring, a new study shows. Since about half of all unplanned pregnancies are traceable to failed birth control, switching to a long-term, reversible contraceptive could prevent many accidental pregnancies, researchers say.
"As a doctor, if you had a drug for cancer or hypertension that was 20-fold better than the next drug, you would never write [a prescription] for that other drug," says study coauthor Jeffrey Peipert, a physician and epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. "We hope that clinicians will re-think what is standard practice--that a young woman comes in and gets pills or condom counseling. We have methods that are much, much better."
The findings also hint that if cost were not an issue, most women given a choice of common hormone-based contraceptives would prefer the long-acting devices. About 77 percent of the women who volunteered for the new study chose an intrauterine device (IUD) or a small implant placed under the skin while only 20 percent requested shorter-acting options such as the pill, a vaginal ring or a skin patch. Fewer still opted for hormone injections called Depo-Provera. All costs were covered by the study. The findings appear in the May 24 New England Journal of Medicine.
from the Scientist
Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) have become a popular potential therapy for numerous autoimmune and neurological disorders. But while these bone marrow-derived stem cells have been studied in great detail in the dish, scientists know little about how they modulate the immune system and promote tissue repair in living organisms.
Now, one research team has uncovered a molecular mechanism by which hMSCs promote recovery in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS).
According to research, published online Sunday (May 20) in Nature Neuroscience, a growth factor produced by hMSCs fights MS in two ways: blocking a destructive autoimmune response and repairing neuronal damage. The finding could help advance ongoing clinical trials testing hMSCs as a therapy for MS.
A butterfly species in England is expanding its range, thanks to climate change. In the current issue of Science, researchers at the University of York report that the brown argus butterfly has spread its reach in England northward by about 50 miles over 20 years as a warmer climate allow its caterpillars to feed off wild geranium plants, which are widespread in the countryside.
"There was something unusual about the degree to which it was spreading its range," said an author of the study, Jane K. Hill, a biologist at York. "It was turning up in places that were unexpected."
The challenge was figuring out whether or not the butterflies were truly responding to climate change or shifting their range for some other reason. The researchers looked at data on butterfly locations and populations gathered by thousands of volunteers over four decades.
More than a third of the world already suffers from shortages of potable water--with a rise to 50 percent expected by 2025. Desalination of seawater can help coastal communities address local shortfalls, although the process is costly, and releasing leftover brine back to the ocean has environmental implications. Now a new system promises to produce more drinkable water with less salty effluent.
Kamalesh Sirkar, a New Jersey Institute of Technology (N.J.I.T.) distinguished professor of chemical engineering, says he has devised a direct-contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system that can efficiently wring drinking water out of up to 20 percent-salt-concentrated brine. (After about 25 percent, salt precipitates out of the solution in the membrane distillation system and could damage the membranes, pumps, lines and other components, Sirkar says.)
Normal seawater has a salt concentration of about 3.5 percent, which means the new system can reprocess the same seawater several times. "More water can be recovered with less residue," Sirkar says.
It's no wonder that fish stocks around the world are plummeting. Up to 25% of the global catch comes from illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Now, science has stepped in to offer a new method to identify contraband fish. A €4 million pan-European project, launched in 2008 and called FishPopTrace, has devised a much-anticipated way to differentiate marine populations of the same species with up to 100% accuracy.
Regulatory agencies like those in the European Union are trying to crack down on the illegal fish trade, but the task is not easy. How does a manager tell the difference between, for example, an illegally harvested Northeast Arctic cod and a perfectly legal Eastern Baltic cod? They belong to the same species but come from very different populations.
The new approach relies on genetic variants called single-nucleotide polymorphisms. SNPs occur when tiny segments of DNA differ between populations. For example, the Northeast Arctic cod may have a C nucleotide in the middle of a gene, whereas the Eastern Baltic cod may instead have a T in the same position.
On June 5, skywatchers will have their last chance to glimpse a rare celestial spectacle, a "transit of Venus," in which the planet passes directly between Earth and the sun. Venus will take six hours to march across the star's face, appearing as an inky black dot in silhouette against the looming solar disk.
After that, the sun-shadowed Venusian outline will disappear until 2117. Because the planet's orbit is slightly off-kilter, its solar transits come in pairs spaced eight years apart, with more than 100 years between pairs.
During the most recent transit pair of 1874 and 1882, observers around the world focused on triangulating the Earth-sun distance. They tried to time precisely when Venus entered and exited the sun's disk, so they could calculate the size of the sun (a complicated endeavour, it turns out, since an optical effect that blurred the boundary between planet and sun muddied the timing measurements). The most recent transit happened in 2004--only the sixth such performance seen through telescopes--and it revealed that large portions of the Venusian atmosphere are visible to Earthly observers.
The drive along Italy's highway A24 from the central Adriatic coast towards Rome begins with a winding climb into the snow-covered Apennine Mountains, followed by a plunge into the 10-kilometre-long tunnel under Gran Sasso, the highest peak in the region. About half way through the tunnel, a detour leads off to the right. It reaches a dead end almost immediately at a heavy iron gate. But press the intercom button and utter the words 'particle physicist' into the microphone, and the gate slides open like something from a James Bond movie.
Not far beyond the gate is a car park. From there one continues on foot, and begins to get some idea of the scale of the infrastructure hidden beneath the mountain. Opening off a long corridor are three huge halls, each about 20 metres wide, 18 metres high and 100 metres long. This vast area is the home of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, part of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN).
In fact, the laboratory's 180,000 cubic metres of space is not its most valuable attribute. Lying under 1,400 metres of rock, it offers silence--not an absence of sound, but of cosmic-ray noise, the rain of particles constantly bombarding Earth's surface from space. This lack of cosmic interference has attracted a generation of physicists to these halls, where they can study some of the rarest and most elusive phenomena in the Universe.
from National Geographic News
The ink's been dry for 160 million years--but scientists have for the first time confirmed pigment in two fossilized ink sacs from cuttlefish-like animals, a new study says.
The ancient ink's similarity to modern squid ink suggests this defensive weapon hasn't evolved much since the Jurassic period (prehistoric time line). The brownish-black fossil pigment--a type of melanin called eumelanin--is widespread in the animal kingdom, for example in bird feathers, squid ink, and human hair and skin. The substance has various functions, including protection from the sun and camouflage.
Scientists have previously found hints of eumelanin in fossils, but they've done it through indirect, less reliable means--such as by analyzing images of presumed granules, which is problematic in part because melanin granules resemble bacteria, said study co-author John Simon.
from New Scientist
Imagine cushions that lift up instead of sinking when you sit on them. Impossible? Not according to a blueprint for new materials with "negative compressibility": the materials compress when they are pulled and expand when they are pushed.
Metamaterials that do this have been built before. For example, vibrating aluminium bars with tiny cavities inside them create waves that oppose the push or pull applied (Nature Materials, DOI: 10.1038/nmat1644). But the designs must be vibrated at just the right frequency to see the effect.
Zachary Nicolaou and Adilson Motter of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have now designed a metamaterial that stretches when compressed, and vice versa, under any circumstances. "What is interesting is that they study systems that are not responding to a vibration but to a steady applied force," says John Pendry of Imperial College London.
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In Afghanistan, the number of civilian casualties continues to rise. On Tuesday, at least eight people died after a bomb exploded in the southern provincial capital of Lashkar Gah amid a major US-led offensive in the area. Local authorities said all those killed in the attack were civilians. Meanwhile, Afghanistan's government has condemned a NATO air strike on a convoy on Sunday that killed twenty-seven civilians, including four women and...Feb 23, 2010 | Story
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Haitian President René Préval said Sunday that the death toll from the earthquake could reach 300,000 once all the bodies are recovered from the rubble. We speak to Peter Hallward, professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University. "Unless prevented by renewed popular mobilisation in both Haiti and beyond, the perverse international emphasis on security will continue to distort the reconstruction effort, and with it the configuration...Feb 22, 2010 | Story
As President Obama defends the success of his one-year-old $787 billion stimulus package, we speak to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who says the stimulus was both not big enough and too focused on tax cuts. Stiglitz is the author of the new book Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, which analyzes the causes of the Great Recession of 2008 and calls for overcoming what he calls an "ersatz capitalism"...Feb 18, 2010 | Story
The Vancouver-based Dr. Gabor Maté argues that too many doctors seem to have forgotten what was once a commonplace assumption — that emotions are deeply implicated in both the development of illness and in the restoration of health. Based on medical studies and his own experience with chronically ill patients at the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital, where he was the medical coordinator for seven years, Dr. Gabor Maté makes the...Feb 15, 2010 | Story
Despite fears of the euro's future amidst Greece's economic collapse, author Steven Hill of the New America Foundation argues the United States still has much to learn from Europe's social and economic policies. We speak to Hill about his new book, Europe's Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope for an Insecure Age. [includes rush transcript]Feb 12, 2010 | Story
The CIA is under fire following the news it's allowing active-duty operatives to work for private companies on the side. The previously undisclosed "moonlighting" has granted wealthy private entities such as financial firms and hedge funds access to top-level intelligence officials. It's said to be viewed internally as a means to prevent agency defections to the private sector. A CIA spokesperson said "moonlighting"...Feb 09, 2010 | Story
Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, discusses the link between healthcare and diet, the dangers of processed foods, the power of the meat industry lobby, the "nutritional-industrial complex," the impact industrial agriculture has on global warming, and his sixty-four rules for eating. "The markets are full of what I call edible food-like substances that you have to avoid," says Michael Pollan....Feb 08, 2010 | Story
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