Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Mason Greenwood could be welcomed back to Manchester United, new co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has suggested, after the petrochemicals billionaire finally completed his purchase of a quarter of the club. Greenwood … Read more
Biomolecules such as amino acids and sugars occur in two mirror-image forms — in all living organisms, however, only one is ever found. Why this is the case is still unclear. Researchers at Empa and Forschungszentrum J lich in Germany have now found evidence that the interplay between electric and magnetic fields could be at … Read more
In response to climate change, bowhead whales are changing their migratory patterns. That could put them at higher risk of ship strikes as sea-ice extent continues to decline and shipping traffic increases, according to new research in Geophysical Research Letters. Credit: NOAA The population of bowhead whales that migrates between the Bering and Beaufort Seas … Read more
The idea that humans caused this extinction, but human ingenuity can put things right again? Reed: That is one of the big questions that we should be exploring in the documentary series. That is at the heart of whether you support what Colossal are doing, whether you want de-extinction or whether you think itâs not … Read more
(EPA) Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Liverpool host Luton Town on Wednesday night, with Jurgen Klopp’s side having seen Manchester City close to within a point of them one night previous. The Reds will remain focused … Read more
Society learned about the value of mRNA during the COVID-19 pandemic when we saw scientists and medical professionals harness its power to deliver a vaccine for the virus within a year. Now, University of Waterloo pharmacy associate professor Emmanuel Ho has developed a novel nanomedicine loaded with genetic material called small interfering RNAs (siRNA) to … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Students tend to like friendly teachers, but they like those who believe they can improve even more, new research indicates. Students in a study still responded positively to instructors described as being cold but who also had a growth mindset, meaning they felt students’ ability in a subject could improve by … Read more
Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence for abnormalities in the brain and immune systems of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). The findings, in one of the most rigorous investigations to date, begin to illuminate the biological basis for the illness that can cause disabling fatigue. The study is the … Read more
Some Neuralink rivals, such as Precision Neuroscience, are developing implants that sit on top of the brain, or in the case of Synchron, a stentlike device thatâs inserted into a blood vessel and sits against the brain. These devices aim to allow paralyzed people to communicate using digital devices by reading electrical patterns generated from … Read more
(NEXSTAR) — A massive satellite is set to reenter Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday, according to the European Space Agency. The ESA’s European Remote Sensing 2 (ERS-2) satellite launched in April 1995 and “collected a wealth of valuable data on Earth’s land surfaces, oceans, and polar caps,” the agency explains. It also helped “to monitor natural disasters … Read more
