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Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina Gets Final Season Trailer
Netflix‘s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is ending later this month after Season 4 drops December 31. This bummer news was announced over the summer, though via a new trailer we’re starting to see what the beginning of the end looks like. Check it out below.
The final season will have eight episodes, and it will be kicking up the stakes as Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) and her friends prepare to take on a new evil. In addition to Shipka (Mad Men), the show also stars Tati Gabrielle (who will also be in the upcoming Uncharted movie) and Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings). Of the show’s cancelation, showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Big Love) said: “Working on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has been an incredible honor from day one.”
We have a big comprehensive guide to everything that’s known (so far) about the Riverdale sister show’s final season–including an overview of what went down in the first three seasons. The official synopsis accompanying the new trailer teases: “Sabrina’s new normal quickly dissolves as menacing spirits set their sights on Greendale. In a battle of supernatural wits, who will be left standing?”
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How Experts Hunted Down Murder Hornets and Destroyed Their Nest
Any comic book character named after the murder hornet would have to be a villain. That’s just what it is.
At about two inches long when fully grown, the Asian giant hornets have striped bodies encased in a protective shell. Their bodies are black and orange-yellow. Their heads are dominated by large eyes and fearsome looking mandibles, which look like pliers that would hurt like heck if your finger got caught between them.
At the other end of the body is a quarter-inch stinger. It doesn’t detach, as with some bees, so the hornets can sting over and over. It’s like being, “stabbed by a red-hot needle,” Shunichi Makino, a researcher at Japan’s Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute told National Geographic.
Usually, the sting is merely painful – but it can be fatal. In Japan, an estimated 30 to 50 people die from the hornets’ stings annually, from anaphylaxis, cardiac arrest, or multiple organ failure. The hornets use their oral appendages to massacre honeybees, which are already under threat from pesticides, habitat destruction, and diseases. During the “slaughter phase,” as it’s called, murder hornets lay waste to entire beehives, decapitating the residents and harvesting the pupae for food. It’s grim, to say the least.
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Murder Hornets in North America
In Washington State, honeybees pollinate raspberries, blueberries, and other crops. That’s why experts were worried when the Asian giant hornets were spotted in the northern part of the state earlier this year. The species was first found in North America in Canada in 2019. It’s not clear how they made their way to the continent.
“It’s impossible for them to fly over from Asia,” entomologist Takatoshi Ueno, of Kyushu University, told The New York Times. One theory is that they found their way via a shipping container.
However they got here, local experts don’t want them to start multiplying. Washington entomologists went to extraordinary lengths to hunt down a hornet nest in Blaine, near the Canadian border.
Tracking and Destroying the Murder Hornets
Over the summer, entomologists lay traps to start catching the hornets. They filled plastic bottles with orange juice and other sweet-smelling liquids. A couple of the insects were found drowned. Next, the scientists put out screened traps, to catch live hornets. Washington State entomologist Chris Looney finally managed to capture a living hornet, and the team was able to glue a tracking device onto it.
In late October, Looney and his colleagues followed the tracker’s signal to the hornet nest. To ensure no insects escaped, they wrapped the entire tree in cellophane. The hornets’ long stingers meant regular beekeeping suits wouldn’t work. Instead, Looney and rest wore special foam suits. They also had goggles on.
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“I was more worried about getting permanent nerve damage in the eye from the squirted venom than being stung,” Looney told The Guardian. “They are pretty intimidating, even for an inch-and-a-half insect. They are big and loud and I know it would hurt very badly if I get stung. They give me the willies.”
This was the first removal of an Asian giant hornet nest in the U.S., but it probably won’t be the last. Scientists are modeling how the insects may spread. As large and unpleasant as the hornets are for humans, entomologists are more worried about their effect on the bees and other pollinators.
“It’s hard to say how they will behave here compared to their native range, but the fear is that there are large apiaries of bees that could be sitting ducks, while as the hornets move south to warmer weather their colonies could grow larger,” Looney said.
For more science news relating to insects, read about DNA being extracted from insects preserved in Amber and how a fossil found in Brasil uncovered the oldest meat-eating dinosaur in history.
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Cyberpunk 2077 Launch Party to be Hosted Digitally on Twitter
Twitter will host a digital launch party for Cyberpunk 2077 on December 9. This includes a Q&A with Cyberpunk 2077 developers Miles Tost and Patrick Mills ahead of the official launch. This will likely be one of the last interviews with the devs before the December 10 release date.
The celebration kicks off at 6pm EST on December 9 with a Q&A hosted by Parris. Though not a traditional launch party, the event will celebrate the long road to Cyberpunk 2077’s launch, which has been delayed multiple times due to various factors.
Twitter will roll out a custom #CyberNight hashmoji (the fun little images that appear after special hashtags) and are promising some surprise elements for fans who attend the digital event.
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Tost and Mills are CD Projekt Red’s seniors level designer and quest designer, respectively, and they have been fairly prominent on social media during the final months of Cyberpunk 2077’s development. They will hopefully be able to share some new and final information about the RPG hours before launch.
All of it will culminate in the worldwide launch of Cyberpunk 2077, where it will finally get into the hands of players who have waited months and then weeks for the RPG to be released following two, high-profile delays.
In the meantime, CD Projekt Red is urging caution as there appear to be some spoilers around the internet. The studio has said that it will shut down any streams featuring Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay before December 9. So be careful when browsing around for different Cyberpunk 2077 information.
Check out IGN’s final Cyberpunk 2077 preview for our take on nearly four hours of gameplay. And check back on December 10 when Cyberpunk 2077 is finally released.
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Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.
Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings Show Adds 20 New Cast Members
Film and TV production in New Zealand resumed several months ago, and one of the biggest shows currently shooting there is Amazon’s highly anticipated Lord of the Rings TV show. A host of new names has now been added to the cast of the series.
As reported by Variety, an additional 20 actors will appear in the series, hailing from a variety of different countries, including New Zealand, Australia, the US, Sri Lanka, and the UK. The full line-up is as follows:
- Cynthia Addai-Robinson (Arrow)
- Maxim Baldry (Last Christmas)
- Ian Blackburn (One Thousand Ropes)
- Kip Chapman (Top of the Lake)
- Anthony Crum (The Wilds)
- Maxine Cunliffe (Power Rangers Megaforce)
- Trystan Gravelle (Mr Selfridge)
- Lenny Henry (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
- Thusitha Jayasundera (Doctor Foster)
- Fabian McCallum (You, Me and the Apocalypse )
- Simon Merrells (Knightfall)
- Geoff Morrell (Deep Water)
- Peter Mullan (Ozark)
- Lloyd Owen (The Bodyguard)
- Augustus Prew (Prison Break)
- Peter Tait (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
- Alex Tarrant (Shortland Street)
- Leon Wadham (The Bad Seed)
- Benjamin Walker (Jessica Jones)
- Sara Zwangobani (Doctor Doctor)
There are no details yet about who any of the new cast members will be playing in the series. In a statement, showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay said, “The world that J.R.R. Tolkien created is epic, diverse, and filled with heart. These extraordinarily talented performers, hailing from across the globe, represent the culmination of a multi-year search to find brilliant and unique artists to bring that world to life anew. The international cast of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series is more than just an ensemble. It is a family. We are thrilled to welcome each of them to Middle-earth.”