Owen has revealed that his 13-year-old son, James, was diagnosed with Stargardt disease several years ago, which means his retina will slowly degenerate, causing a loss of vision.

PETE JENSON: A neutral evaluation of Jose Mourinho's career would probably conclude that his finest hour came in 2010 when he guided Inter Milan to their first European Cup in 45 years.

Almost two months ago, he took to Instagram pleading for help as his daughter was stuck in a remote part of the world while everything was shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The presenter, 49, moaned she was struggling to applaud for the acts after putting on a flirty display earlier in the show with the singing duo Soldiers Who Swing.

Cheyenne Tozzi has shared a sweet tribute to her daughter Dahlia De La Lune, one,  as she celebrates Mother's Day as a single parent. 

Jurgen Klopp sat in the dugout at several big showdowns between Borussia Dortmund and Schalke. He will be a lot farther away for Saturday's fixture but his interest will be keener than ever.

The ground realities of the nation's much neglected government-managed school system are beginning to impact the national consciousness, reports Summiya Yasmeen.

There exists no evidence to support the popular view that pirates wore a black patch over one eye.

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"It really challenges your intellect as a football player."

Barca return to training as La Liga eyes restart

After increasing the value added tax (VAT) on petrol in April, the state government on Saturday hiked VAT on diesel to 22%, pushing the fuel’s price up by Rs 2.05 per litre.

Lockdown effect: Retailers eye renegotiating contracts at malls

He said, more than 3.5 million cases of Covid-19 and almost 250,000 deaths have now been reported to WHO.

Services are crawling back to normal at eye hospitals across the city that had been forced to suspend emergency surgeries and outpatient (OPD) services since the lockdown started. While some have resumed elective surgeries in a restricted way following screening of patients, others are on the way to reviving OPD services even as they continue telephone consultations and online advice.

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is a major partner in the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, which is a group of four telescopes on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory that photograph the sun in 10 different wavelength bands, or colors, once every 10 seconds.

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Giant squid eye, 2008 Giant squid have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom—at up to 10 inches in diameter, they are the size of […]

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Astronomers have discovered a new comet that they expect will be visible to the naked eye in early 2013.A preliminary orbit computed by the Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., shows that the comet will come within about 30 million miles of the sun in early 2013, about the same distance as Mercury. The comet will pose no danger to Earth.

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Have you ever had a pet that seemed just a little bit crazy or odd? Can you be sure that it was in control of […]

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Tiny and transparent the marine crustacean Paraphronima gracilis sees the world through two large eyes that envelope its head like a high-tech space helmet. Now, […]

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The specification of organs, tissues and cell types results from cell fate restrictions enacted by nuclear transcription factors under the control of conserved signaling pathways. The progenitor epithelium of the Drosophila compound eye, the eye imaginal disc, is a premier model for the study of such processes. Early in development, apposing cells of the eye disc are established as either retinal progenitors or support cells of the peripodial epithelium (PE), in a process whose genetic and mechanistic determinants are poorly understood. We have identified Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A), and specifically a STRIPAK-PP2A complex that includes the scaffolding and substrate-specificity components Cka, Strip and SLMAP, as a critical player in the retina-PE fate choice. We show that these factors suppress ectopic retina formation in the presumptive PE and do so via the Hippo signaling axis. STRIPAK-PP2A negatively regulates Hpo kinase, and consequently its substrate Wts, to release the transcriptional co-activator Yki into the nucleus. Thus, a modular higher-order PP2A complex refines the activity of this general phosphatase to act in a precise specification of cell fate.

Linn Meyers (American, b. Washington, D.C., 1968; lives and works in Washington, D.C.) created her largest work, “Our View From Here,” at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn […]

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Several research teams that include Smithsonian scientists in Panama, have discovered that Heliconius butterflies mimic each other's red wing patterns through changes in the same gene.

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A new report from the National Research Council recommends best practices that law enforcement agencies and courts should follow to improve the likelihood that eyewitness identifications used in criminal cases will be accurate.

Five years after a landmark National Academies report on eyewitness identification, a lead author reflects on its impact.

Circus of Books storefront.; Credit: Netflix/Circus Of Books (2020)

Rachel Mason had, to a certain extent, the normal upbringing you’d imagine a family of five with small business owner parents would have. But in her documentary, ‘Circus of Books’, she pulls the curtain on the double-life her parents led as modest business owners and pillars of the LGBTQ community.

Karen and Barry Mason established West Hollywood’s Circus of Books on Santa Monica Boulevard in the 1980s. What seemed like an unassuming bookstore was actually a gay porn shop that became an institution in the LGBTQ community during a time when homosexuality was still largely unaccepted. The store was far from being a “bookstore with a circus theme”. The Los Angeles-based shop was the central hub for gay pornography around the country, once one of the main distributors for adult films. 

While the store was becoming a home for gay culture and pride, the Masons largely kept their business a secret from colleagues, friends, family, even their own children. It’s a central conflict that Rachel Mason explores throughout the film as the daughter of two shop owners caught between the pressures of maintaining a traditional family image and making a living as gay pornography distributors.

Today on FilmWeek, we’re joined by ‘Circus of Books’ director Rachel Mason for a conversation on her documentary and the experience of creating a film with her parents and their secret as the subject.

‘Circus Of Books’ is currently streaming on Netflix. For more on the film from LAist’s Mike Roe, click here.

Guest:

Rachel Mason, director of the Netflix documentary ‘Circus of Books’ and daughter of Circus of Books owners Karen and Barry Mason; she tweets @RachelMasonArt

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Density in the urban environment can encompass a multitude of factors such as population or dwelling density or the density of green areas. A new study surveyed professionals regarding how decisions on urban density are made, and has revealed that many feel that developers make most of these decisions, but that local authority planners should have more influence.

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Reforms to reduce discards of over-quota fish catches are generally predicted to have positive effects on marine ecosystems and biodiversity. Although concerns have been raised over the impacts of the changes on scavenging seabirds who feed upon discarded fish, new research on gannets indicates that, while they often forage near fishing vessels, more than half their time is spent foraging 'naturally' in the open sea.

When it comes to the subject of iconic Russian empress Catherine the Great – her alter ego in the upcoming TV series, The Great - Elle Fanning isn’t so different from the rest of us.

Some shale producers said all they need is $30 oil to consider bringing back curtailed crude output.

Burger King released an eye-opening anti-bullying ad by seeing how their own customers responded to bullied kids vs. a bullied burger.

Trying to get rid of those dark circles and bags under your eyes? Look in your kitchen for easy remedies

A new photo from New Horizons shows Pluto's towering ice mountains cast and frozen nitrogen glaciers.

A new NASA video uses photos from New Horizons to give you a sense of what it would be like to soar over Pluto.

New York City unveils a disaster housing plan centered around retrofitted shipping containers that boast interiors that are like 'CB2 meets Motel 6' and that ar

Researchers have unearthed fossils of an extinct spider family that contain reflective material in the eyes that gave them superior night vision.

Several German cities are planning to fight air pollution by eliminating fares on public transport.

Journalist Kate Sheppard covers the world of climate change, politics and energy for Mother Jones magazine.

Scientists propose dropping poison to kill mice on the Farallon Islands, but there's concern that wildlife and water quality will suffer.

With huge eyes in tiny bodies, baby jumping spiders have high-quality vision.

The red brittle star appears to use its color-changing powers for vision.

From your heart to your head, here's why you should lace up your sneakers and walk.

They help you see the world, but how much do you really know about the windows to your soul? Test your knowledge.