Earlier today I set you these problems from the National Puzzlers’ League, the world’s oldest association of word puzzle aficionados, active since 1883. Here they are again with answers. The puzzles are “flats”, a genre unique to the NPL, which are small pieces of light verse with some missing words. Here’s an explanation of the … Read more
Tory minister defends Sunak’s poor election results: ‘We have a positive agenda’ Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak is delivering a pre-election speech in a move to pitch to voters after this month’s local election blow. The Primer Minister will … Read more
An experimental treatment made from a plant virus is effective at protecting against a broad range of metastatic cancers in mice, shows a new study from the University of California San Diego. The treatment, composed of nanoparticles fashioned from the cowpea mosaic virus — a virus that infects black-eyed pea plants — showed remarkable success … Read more
Estimated compensation for China and India to meet 1.5°C (orange) is not only larger in absolute terms but also would require a larger share of their GDPs. Credit: Chalmers University of Technology | Lola Nacke Coal phase-out is necessary to solve climate change, but can have negative impacts on workers and local communities dependent on … Read more
Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Tyson Fury’s father John has apologised after headbutting a member of Oleksandr Usyk’s team on Monday – five days before the undisputed heavyweight title fight. … Read more
Understanding how genes are regulated at the molecular level is a central challenge in modern biology. This complex mechanism is mainly driven by the interaction between proteins called transcription factors, DNA regulatory regions, and epigenetic modifications — chemical alterations that change chromatin structure. The set of epigenetic modifications of a cell’s genome is referred to … Read more
Larva of the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii, scanning electron micrograph (size scale: 100µm). Credit: Luis Zelaya-Lainez, Vienna University of Technology A new interdisciplinary study led by molecular biologist Florian Raible from the Max Perutz Labs at the University of Vienna provides exciting insights into the bristles of the marine annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii. Specialized cells, … Read more
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 Pep Guardiola has told Manchester City there is no room for error at Tottenham as he believes their hopes of a fourth successive title will be over if they drop points. … Read more
The fluidic system can modulate fluid compositions via spatially-different reactions between fluids and channel walls, something that has not yet been realised in traditional fluidic systems. This work was conducted by the research team of Professor Anderson Ho Cheung Shum’s Microfluidics and Soft Matter Team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of … Read more
Cooks work over open fires in Kivukoni fish market in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Fifty countries are meeting in France on Tuesday to discuss the lack of access to clean cooking methods worldwide which causes millions of deaths every year and fuels global warming. Some 2.3 billion people across 128 countries breathe in harmful smoke … Read more
