Chris McKay

"Renfield" is not Nicolas Cage's first blush with a vampire.

In 1988's "Vampire's Kiss," he played a New York literary agent who thought he was an immortal bloodsucker. His bug-eyed performance was essentially the birth of the over-the-top, kabuki-inflected mythology of Cage. Years later, it would launch a thousand memes, a kind of digital version of becoming undead.

A study measuring water concentration in Venus's atmosphere has concluded that life as we know it is not possible among the sulphuric acid droplets that make up the planet's famously cloudy skies.