Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Inside the mountaintop glaciers of the Pacific Northwest lives a mysterious, and often, overlooked creature. They're small, black, thread-like worms that wiggle through snow and ice. That's right, ice worms! NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce says researchers like Peter Wimberger, a biologist at the University of Puget Sound, once thought they were not even real. "He told me he, like a lot of people, used to think that ice worms were fictional, like, a joke that people might play.

Don't Stop Movin' To The S Club Beat! The ladies of S Club 7 took us back to our all-singing, all-dancing days as they reunited on the red carpet at the Brit Awards 2023 at London's O2. Rachel Stevens took literal inspiration from the red carpet as she stepped out in style in a red one-shouldered fitted red dress with an eighties-inspired poofy sleeve. She toted her belongings in a red clutch and wore a bronzed make-up look that complemented her loose, beachy waves.

Our favorites. Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone? More like Yorgos Lanthimos’s And, starring Emma Stone. The absurdist director is working on a third feature with Stone, Deadline first reported, after she starred as Abigail in The Favourite (earning an Oscar nod in the process) and as Belle Baxter in Lanthimos’s upcoming Poor Things. Plot details are under wraps — how could we parse a new Lanthimos without seeing it in all its weirdness — but Deadline reports that Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, and Margaret Qualley will be joining the film’s cast, which starts shooting in New Orleans this October.

Gridiron Football achieved two firsts in Arizona during the past weekend: first, a coaches conference and showcase only for females flag football; and second, a youth football competition for flag and 7v7 teams. Among the noteworthy figures that joined them were Trey McBride, starting tight end for the Arizona Cardinals, Lyndsey Fry, who won a… ncG1vNJzZmidkae5urnEpqaroZGhwG%2BvzqZmpJ2mnrtut8ito56xXaK8tbvRnLCcpJVirqSvyJ2cp6xdpL%2BiusaeZJyZXam%2ForPInGScp5yhtrS1zqdknKSRnrq0ecuinZ5ln5t6rrvTqKmcsZOhtrTAjKilZm1lYrOzscSwmLJn

Getty Composite Britney Spears alarmed a lot of people with her knife dance on Instagram, with many looking for answers as to what inspired the dangerous act, and some believe Shakira holds the key. As we reported, Britney shared a clip of herself Monday with the caption, "I started playing in the kitchen with knives today," dancing and clanking the knives together -- even jabbing them in the air.