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Nearly two decades since Paris Hilton became a household name with her reality TV show "The Simple Life," the famous hotel heiress is returning to television with a show on streaming giant Netflix. This time, however, she'll be cooking, writes Hilton on Instagram. In the post announcing her new show, Hilton is posed on the front of a cookbook in a pink evening gown and matching gloves while holding a whisk in one hand and a little white dog in the other. "That's hot. Literally," says Hilton in the teaser video. Inspired by the unforgettable YouTube video of Hilton making lasagne in early 2020,......

If you have nightmares, the experience of waking up and being too scared to go back to sleep will be all too familiar. There are ways around that though, say sleep scientists. You just need to imagine the nightmare ending in a positive way, explains German sleep researcher Michael Schredl in a recent podcast. For the most part, nightmares end when you wake up - meaning you never finish them, and they occur again in some or other form. His approach rests on revisiting the nightmare while you are awake. For example, you might dream that you are being chased by someone. In that case, you should t......

Like it or not, experts assume that for the time being, the coronavirus cannot be eradicated. But does that mean we will have to keep living under it's shadow, as we have for the last 18 months? A team of scientists recently grappled with this question in an article in the journal Nature. They start off optimistically enough, by saying that a realistic expectation is that the pandemic will be brought under control thanks to global efforts to vaccinate. However, as the team of authors point out, there will still be developments and uncertainties that are unforeseeable at the moment. Of the thre......

Your chances of going on vacation in space sometime in the near future just got a little better: Virgin Galactic has received approval from US authorities to start sending tourists into space. The approval was given after the US Federal Aviation Administration looked at data from the test flight of the VSS Unity last month. Virgin Galactic, owned by billionaire Richard Branson, is one of three companies jostling for the chance to be the first to start taking paying customers up into space. The competitors are Blue Origin, owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk's SpaceX. SpaceX, which has ......

Optimism about the extraordinary effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccines is growing and causing even the most cautious health experts to stop wearing face coverings in more settings. Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the University of California, San Francisco Department of Medicine, said he ate indoors last weekend at a restaurant with out-of-town friends. Wachter had previously been concerned about the rare chance that he would encounter an unvaccinated infected person who could transmit the virus to him, and then the virus "breaking through" his vaccine-induced immunity. While he was confident th......

Just days after Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey caused a big stir with their mental health docu-series for Apple TV+, the two are now following up their streaming debut with a town-hall-styled sequel set to arrive on Friday. In "The Me You Can't See: A Path Forward", the 36-year-old royal and 67-year-old US talk show legend are to further discuss mental health issues with various protagonists from their four-part documentary series. Harry and Oprah themselves have themselves already given deep insights into their mental wellbeing, and want to explore their personal stories in even more depth, t......