Welcome to the Spoiler Room, a safe place for spoiler addicts to come on a weekly basis to learn whats coming next on their favorite shows and, hopefully, get a few of their own questions answered. If you want scoop on a specific show, send your questions to spoilerroom@ew.com.

Hi, whats next for Mon-El and Kara from Supergirl? Maria Well, Kara and Mon-El may have reconciled, but there are certainly challenges moving forward considering the Daxamites are slated to become the new big bads. Isnt that how things work that just when you get things settled, some wrench has to fall into the gears? Melissa Benoist says. The Daxamites pose some problems. Rhea is not necessarily a sweet prospect for a mother-in-law, but its really fun to see the way these characters interact.

Whats next for Meredith and Riggs on Greys Anatomy? Sarah Yes, Meredith has agreed to a date with Riggs, but is she actually ready to move on after Derek? Whether youre ready or not, you have to make the leap; I dont know if shes ready, Ellen Pompeo admits, cautioning that Meredith faces a big choice when it comes to her potential romance with Riggs in the upcoming episode she directed. Dont get too excited, she says of the Mer-Riggs romance. Ruh-roh! For her part, Kelly McCreary thinks Maggie will eventually handle the truth about her sister and Riggs in an unexpected way. Maggie maybe has to learn that people dont always tell you the truth, she says. Lots of people keep secrets, and thats just how it goes, and then shell suffer a lot less in life.

I always need Blindspot scoop! Jessica A familiar face will be back in the April 5 episode but its not a welcome return. Devilishly charming Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Weitz, played by Blindspot favorite Aaron Abrams, returns on a mission to bring down the team, EP Martin Gero tells me. Heres an exclusive first look at his return:

I need some Arrow finale scoop! Drew Ask and you shall receive: As the season heads toward the ultimate showdown between Oliver and Chase, were going to be seeing a very different season finale this year. Were not going to destroy the city, EP Marc Guggenheim teases. Were not even going to threaten the city. In fact, I can also tell you the finale doesnt even take place in the city. Finally, the citizens of Star City can breathe easily in May. Wherever the finale takes place, Guggenheim adds, You can expect a good number of returning characters, characters you havent seen in a while, back in the episode.

Is there any hope for reconciliation between Marcel and the Mikaelsons on The Originals? Mark We all know Klaus Mikaelson isnt prone to forgiveness, but considering Marcel is someone he once considered a son, its not off the table. But lets not forget that Marcel is still strong enough to kill an Original, a threat that wont sit well with anyone. Over the course of the season, the Mikaelsons are going to have to deal with the fact that theres this person its not a White Oak stake that can be burnt up or buried or thrown in the ocean its a person who they cannot defeat, but who can absolutely defeat them, and thats not going to be something that theyre going to be happy about, EP Michael Narducci says. Its going to make any kind of reconciliation all the more difficult. But Marcel, for his part, is always interested in doing the smart thing. Hes not motivated by revenge, hes not motivated by petty desire to take back something that he lost. When he sees the Mikaelsons again, hes going to make a very smart decision about how best to deal with them and thats one of the things I love about that character is watching the way his mind has evolved to transcend his upbringing.

Can you tease anything about the Bones finale? Mary I know theres a question of who survived that big explosion so the following teases could have many meanings, okay? First, Booth will take Brennan on an emotional walk down memory lane. Also, we finally find out the significance of 4:47. And finally, Cam hasnt been exactly honest with her coworkers about her time off from the Jeffersonian.

Any scoop on Riverdale? Taylor Even though Polly has taken refuge now living with Hermione and Veronica, that doesnt mean the Blossom parents have given up coming after her. Theyre like the child snatchers from Mary Poppins, EP Roberto Aquirre-Sacasa says. They want that baby more than anything.

Any chance of some Grimm scoop before it ends? Kelsey We are coming to the end here, so it shouldnt be surprising to hear that the death toll will be quite high as Nick finds himself fighting an unexpected person in the series finale. Hell also, of course, take on the Zerstrer, but hell have some equally unexpected help in that regard.

Im both terrified and beyond excited for Doomsworld on Legends of Tomorrow. What can you tease? Chris Well, the future beyond Doomsworld does not look promising heading into the finale. Were going to do the one thing on the show we said we would never do, EP Marc Guggenheim says of the season ender. Without spoiling too much, clearly theyre going to have to do something very significant and break a major rule in order to fix things.

Is Jane going to start dating soon on Jane the Virgin? Elena Prepare yourselves, Michael fans, because the answer is yes. In fact, the next episode is all about Jane getting her groove back and realizing that she might be ready to start dating again, and you might even recognize her first date. But lets just say that shes not the only one who realizes something big about her romantic life all three Villanueva women will have much to discuss in upcoming episodes.

This week in TV: I want thisRiverdaletheory to come true. So. Bad.

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Poor Maggie Piercehas no idea what she's about to be hit with.

With Grey's Anatomy returning to Grey Sloan Memorial after last week's sojourn to Montana for a little Japril action, the focus will turn to the young cardiothoracic doc thanks to a return visit from her mom Diane (LaTanya Richardson Jackson), who's back to treat the breast cancer she's still hiding from her daughter. Oh, and there's the small matter of that growing attraction between Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and the object of Maggie's affection, Riggs (Martin Henderson), finally coming to the forefront.

E! News caught up with Kelly McCreary on the red carpet at the long-running ABC series' PaleyFest event, where she gave us some insight into how the surgeon will handle her world basically falling apart at the seams.

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"I think, first and foremost, Maggie is the brightest person she knows," McCreary told us about the urgent matter to save her mom's life. "And she's going to try to solve her problems herself. And of course, when you try to do everything yourself, you get tuckered out." We've got a feeling that Jackson (Jesse Williams), Diane's chosen doctor and the reason she came to Seattle for treatment, is going to have something to say about that.

And as for the small matter of her half-sister taking up with her crush?"It's a bad idea to keep secrets. Just don't do it," she joked. "I don't think the audience is going to get the reaction that they're expecting out of Maggie. Let's put it that way."

Elsewhere in the episode, Owen (Kevin McKidd) and Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) finally hash out their problems as they work a trauma case together, while Bailey (Chandra Wilson) tries to mend her relationship with Richard (James Pickens Jr.) after, you know, stabbing him in the back and taking the Residency program away from him. Good luck with that, Bailey!

For more from McCreary, be sure to check out the video above.

What sort of unexpected reaction do you think Maggie will have to the Mer-Riggs relationship? Share your theories in the comments below!

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A censored 16th century anatomy book may provide evidence that taboos slowed the development of knowledge of the female genitals, researchers have said.

The 1559 edition of Thomas Gemini's Compediosa Totius Anatomie Delineatio features a depiction of a semi-dissected female torso, and the book's original owner has cut away a neat triangle of paper on which the vagina would have been drawn.

It will be displayed in an exhibition at St John's College at the University of Cambridge, and curator Shelley Hughes said it may offer clues as to why knowledge of the female anatomy lagged behind that of the human body as a whole.

She said the book's original owner was disturbed by its depiction of a semi-dissected female torso.We know this because the offending part, a neat triangle of paper on which the vagina would have been drawn, has been carefully cut away.

She added: Sin and female flesh were held in close association in 16th century society with naked women often portrayed as the servants of Satan.Perhaps Christian Europe would have to overcome its shame over the female reproductive organs in order to discover more about their structure.

Before the 16th century, many European academics believed that female genital organs were simply lesser versions of male organs, turned inside out.

This dated back to classical medical authorities such as Galen in the 2nd century, who had been prohibited by law in Ancient Rome from cutting up human corpses.

The 16th century was a time of medical revolution, with pioneering researchers such as Andreas Vesalius challenging accepted views on anatomy, with evidence gathered from human dissections and direct observation experiment.

But there was still a reluctance to take on some foundational beliefs in science.

The display shows how an evidence-based knowledge of the structure of the body emerged as superstitious and religious barriers weakened.

The exhibition, to be displayed on Saturday, is called Under The Knife At St John's: A Medical History Of Disease And Dissection

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Fowlkes, 26, was suspended from her job as an anatomy and physiology teacher at Lockhart High School after turning herself in to police Monday hours after celebrating her birthday with her hubby.

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Playing Ellen Pompeo on Her Greys Anatomy Directorial Debut and Hiring a Baby Nurse: Id Be Nowhere Without Her

Ellen Pompeo is dishing on the secret to juggling motherhood with a busy career, which comes to a head with her upcoming Greys Anatomy directorial debut -- nurse Jackie!

The 47-year-old mom-of-three stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where her 5-month-old son, Eli, waited backstage.

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He is the sweetest thing ever so adorable, Pompeo gushed, before adding that the tot is now sleeping through the night. He is. I have the most fantastic baby nurse, Jackie, whos also backstage -- Hi Jackie!

She helps me and Id be nowhere without her because I work long days and I need help caring for him, she continued. Shes got my back -- and his. Its funny because everyone who meets her is like, I want Jackie! and Im like, You dont have a baby. [Theyre like], Yeah, I know but I just want Jackie!

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Long days at work are nothing new for the Greys veteran, but shes been even busier than usual on set lately, due to directing her first episode of the ABC series.

Titled Be Still, My Soul, the episode airs on March 30, and Pompeo said she had a blast behind the camera.

I definitely had an advantage being there for 13 seasons, says Pompeo, whose Ellen appearance airs on March 23. It was super fun. [Executive producer] Debbie Allen really wasnt going to take no for an answer and enough women dont get the opportunity to direct, so I thought, Who am I to get the opportunity and say no?

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If work and kids arent enough to keep her busy, Pompeo also added to the familys brood by adopting another dog recently.

[I now have] four dogs, four chickens and a fish, she shared. Oh, and a husband too.

We adopted Lily from Love Leo Rescue, she said of the new addition. I was scared for her when she first came because she was scared. Every time someone would come in the house she would run and hide under a bed. Ive worked with her a lot to get her to the place where she is comfortable and she has made the most amazing progress. Shes a completely different dog.

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We love Shonda Rhimes. As far as we're concerned, every year is a Year of Yes. But when a star of not one but two of the prolific showrunner's series decides to willingly spill some tea about Shonda, of course we're going to be all ears.

That's exactly what Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice star Kate Walsh did when she appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Wednesday night as she answered questions posed by the Shady Shonda Anaconda who slithered onto the screen.

Though Shonda is legendary for her gift giving, not every present has been a winner. "We once got, I think, just a box of potpourri," Kate said on WWHL. "We were like, 'Really? We just won every award known to man. That's cool. That's super cool.'"

Kate also revealed that she thought Grey's Anatomy jumped the shark during "the bomb episode," the Season 2 episode entitled "As We Know It." "But that's the one that made it everything, that made Grey's Anatomy," Kate explained. "I'd say she jumped that shark, but then we rode it all the way to the top."

So did Shonda ever throw any shade of her own? "Here's what I will say, we had on Private Practice, all I'll say is there was a no a-hole policy," Kate replied. "How about that?"

We guess we'll take it.

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Police in Texas said Sarah Fowlkes, a 27-year-old anatomy teacher at Lockhart High School, engaged in sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student, KXAN-TV reported.

Fowlkes turned herself in after the Lockhart Police Department issued her arrest warrant Monday, the station said. And in a move some might consider unusual, Fowlkes was smiling broadly for her mug shot.

But her attorney Jason Nassour explained why: Youve got a young lady who was arrested on the statement of a 17-year-old kid with no corroborating evidence, he told KXAS-TV. This isnt a guilty person sitting there like they just got caught. When everythings fleshed out, it wont be as it appears.

Fowlkes bonded out the same day she turned herself in, KXAN said.

Investigators were notified March 10 by a school administrator of the alleged inappropriate relationship, KXAN reported, adding that police said the male student was in contact with Fowlkes in person and throughmessages.

Fowlkes who taught anatomy and physiology and environmental systems was suspended by the Lockhart Independent School District where shes worked since 2014, KXAN said.

Seventeen years old is obviously older, but at the same time it doesnt make anything right, Detective Jesse Bell told the station. If the kid is in school, parents trust the school to take care of their kids so its definitely not right that a teacher in a position of power over a student be able to take advantage of a student.

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The standard dinosaur family tree may soon be just a relic.

After examining more than 400 anatomical traits, scientists have proposed a radical reshuffling of the major dinosaur groups. The rewrite, reported in the March 23 Nature, upsets century-old ideas about dinosaur evolution. It lends support to the accepted idea that the earliest dinosaurs were smallish, two-legged creatures. But contrary to current thinking, the new tree suggests that these early dinosaurs had grasping hands and were omnivores, snapping up meat and plant matter alike.

This is a novel proposal and a really interesting hypothesis, says Randall Irmis, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Utah and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Irmis, who was not involved with the work, says its a possibility that the new family tree reflects actual dinosaur relationships. But, he says, It goes against our ideas of the general relationships of dinosaurs. Its certainly going to generate a lot of discussion.

The accepted tree of dinosaur relationships has three dominant branches, each containing critters familiar even to the nondinosaur obsessed. One branch leads to the bird-hipped ornithischians, which include the plant-eating duckbills, stegosaurs and Triceratops and its bony-frilled kin. Another branch contains the reptile-hipped saurischians, which are further divided into two groups: the plant-eating sauropods (typically four-legged, like Brontosaurus) and the meat-eating theropods (typically two-legged, like Tyrannosaurus rex and modern birds).

Scientists have long-divided the dinosaurs into two main groups, the bird-hipped and the reptile-hipped (top). A new analysis breaks up the reptile-hipped lineage and suggests the bird-hipped group shares recent ancestors with meat-eating theropods (bottom).Scientists have been unsure where to put the confusing two-legged, meat-eating herrerasaurids (red lines, top). The new analysis suggests they are close relatives of the sauropods (bottom).

This split between the bird-hipped and reptile-hipped dinos was first proposed in 1887 by British paleontologist Harry Seeley, who had noticed the two strikingly different kinds of pelvic anatomy. That hypothesis of dinosaur relationships was formalized and strengthened in the 1980s and has been accepted since then.

The new tree yields four groups atop two main branches. The bird-hipped ornithischians, which used to live on their own lone branch, now share a main branch with the reptile-hipped theropods like T. rex. This placement suggests these once-distant cousins are actually closely related. It also underscores existing questions about the bird-hipped dinos, an oddball group with murky origins; they appear late in the dinosaur fossil record and then are everywhere. Some scientists have suggested that they evolved from an existing group of dinosaurs, perhaps similarly herbivorous sauropods. But by placing the bird-hipped dinos next to the theropods, the tree hints that the late-to-the-party vegetarian weirdos could have evolved from their now close relatives, the meat-eating theropods.

Sauropods (like Brontosaurus) are no longer next to the theropods but now reside on a branch with the meat-eating herrerasaurids. Herrerasaurids are a confusing group of creatures that some scientists think belong near the other meat eaters, the theropods, while others say the herrerasaurids are not quite dinosaurs at all.

The new hypothesis of relationships came about when researchers led by Matthew Baron, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge and Natural History Museum in London, decided to do a wholesale examination of dinosaur anatomy with fresh eyes. Using a mix of fossils, photographs and descriptions from the scientific literature, Baron and colleagues surveyed the anatomy of more than 70 different dinosaurs and non-dino close relatives, examining 457 anatomical features. The presence, absence and types of features, which include the shape of a hole on the snout, a cheekbone ridge and braincase anatomy, were fed into a computer program, generating a family tree that groups animals that share specialized features.

In this new interpretation of dinosaur anatomy and the resulting tree, many of the earliest dinosaurs have grasping hands and a mix of meat-eating and plant-eating teeth. If the earliest dinos were really omnivores, given the relationships in the new four-pronged tree, the evolution of specialized diets (vegetarians and meat eaters) each happened twice in the dinosaur lineage.

When the researchers saw the resulting tree, We were very surprised and cautious, Baron says. Its a big change that flies in the face of 130 years of thinking.

The arrangement of the new tree stuck even when the researchers fiddled around with their descriptions of various features, Baron says. The close relationship between the bird-hipped, plant-eating ornithischians and the reptile-hipped, meat-eating theropods, for example, isnt based on one or two distinctive traits but on 21 small details.

The lesson is that dinosaur groups arent characterized by radical new inventions, says paleontologist Kevin Padian of the University of California, Berkeley. The relationships are read in the minutiae, not big horns and frills. That said, Padian, whose assessment of the research also appears in Nature, isnt certain that the new tree reflects reality. Such trees are constructed based on how scientists interpret particular anatomical features, decisions that will surely be quibbled with. The devil is in the details, Padian says. These guys have done their homework and now everyones going to have to roll up their sleeves and start checking their work.

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When he was growing up, a dream of Linux pioneer Linus Torvalds was to acquire the Acorn Archimedes, a groundbreaking personal computer with the first ARM RISC chips.

But in 1987, Archimedes wasn't available to Torvalds in Finland, so he settled for the Sinclair QL. In the meanwhile, the Archimedes failed and disappeared from the scene, killing any chance for ARM chips to dominate PCs.

Since then, multiple attempts to put ARM chips in PCs have failed. Outside of a few Chromebooks, most PCs have x86 chips from Intel or AMD.

The domination of x86 is a problem for Linaro, an industry organization that advocates ARM hardware and software. Many of its developers use x86 PCs to compile programs for ARM hardware. That's much like trying to write Windows programs on a Mac.

That fact doesn't sit well with George Grey, CEO of Linaro.

"Linus mentioned this a little while ago: How do we get developers to work on ARM first? Why are will still using Intel tools?" Grey asked during a speech at this month's Linaro Connect conference in Budapest.

A powerful Linux laptop or mini-desktop based on an ARM processor needs to built so developers can write and compile applications, he said.

"May be we can take a Chromebook design and put more memory, get upstream Linux support on it, and use it as a developer platform for developers to carry to conferences," Grey said then.

To further that idea, a group of ARM hardware enthusiasts gathered in a room at Linaro Connect to conceptualize a powerful ARM PC. The group settled on building a computer like the Intel NUC -- a mini-desktop with a powerful board computer in it.

The free-flowing session was entertaining, with attendees passionately sharing ideas on the chip, memory, storage, and other components in the PC.

The session, which is available on Linaro's site, also highlighted issues involved in building and supporting an ARM-based PC. There were concerns about whether ARM chips would deliver performance adequate to run powerful applications.

There were alsoconcerns about components and about providing a Linux user experience acceptable to users.

Also important was building a viable ARM PC that would attract hardware makers to participate in such an effort. One worry was the reaction of the enthusiast audience, who might sound off if an ARM desktop didn't work properly, putting hardware vendors and chipmakers at the receiving end of criticism and bad press.

"Based on a research and efforts today, building an ideal PC is going to be hard," said Yang Zhang, director of the technologies group at Linaro.

Attendees quickly agreed that the ARM PC would need an expandable x86-style board with DDR4 memory DIMM slot, and NVMe or SATA slots for plugging in SSDs or other drives. Other features would include gigabit slots and USB slots.

"Definitely, we need to be looking at something with real I/O, not some crappy mobile chipset with soldered-on 2GB of RAM," one attendee said. (Attendees aren't identified in the recording of the discussion.)

Many ARM-based computer boards like Raspberry Pi 3 and Pine64 can be used as PCs, but have limited expandability and components integrated on the board. They aren't ideal for PCs handling heavy workloads.

Also, Zhang pointed out that LPDDR4, which is used in such "mobile" chipsets, is slower than DDR4 memory, which is why the DIMM slots would be needed on the ARM PC.

Next, the discussion shifted to the system-on-chip, and suggestions were made to use CPUs from companies including Marvell and Nvidia. Chips from Qualcomm, Cavium, and HiSilicon weren't suggested because those companies were uninterested in building a PC-style computer for development with Linaro. Ironically, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 will be used in Windows 10 PCs later this year.

An interesting suggestion was Rockchip's RK3399, which is being used in Samsung's Chromebook Pro, which has PCI-Express and USB 3.0. Google and Samsung have been putting in adecent amount of work for Linux support on the chip. But it still is a mobile chip, and not designed for full-powered ARM desktop.

"I have a 24-core Opteron right. To replace that I would need a 64-core Cortex A73 or something, which doesn't exist," said the attendee who suggested the RK3399.

The discussion became a battle between server chips and mobile chips, which each had their issues. While the server chips boast good software support, they are expensive. The mobile chips are cheap but have poor Linux OS support. Software support would need to be added by independent developers, and that can be a considerable amount of work.

In 2015, 96boards -- the ARM hardware effort of Linaro --built a development board called HuskyBoard wth AMD's Opteron A1100 server chip, but that didn't go well. AMD has now abandoned ARM server chips and recently released the 32-core Naples chip based on its x86 Zen architecture.

The initial PC will perhaps have a server chip with decent Linux kernel support. Standard interfaces, sufficient memory, and decent graphics will matter more, as will ensuring that standard components like heatsinks and memory DIMMs can be bought off the shelf.

The purpose of the gathering was to get the ball rolling for the development of a real desktop based on ARM. The PC will likely be developed by 96boards, which provides specifications to build open-source development boards.

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