Paris, June 23, 2022 (AFP) - FIFA will allow countries to select up to 26 players for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, increasing the maximum squad size by three for the November 21-December 18 tournament. "The number of players to be included on the final list has been...
FIFA increases squads to 26 players for 2022 World Cup
Paris, June 23, 2022 (AFP) – FIFA will allow countries to select up to 26 players for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, increasing the maximum squad size by three for the November 21-December 18 tournament. "The number of players to be included on the final list has been…
Mark Wright opens up about cancer scare
Mark Wright says a cancer scare has made him more careful about his health. The TV presenter had a benign 12cm lump removed from his armpit at the end of 2021 and Mark, 35, admitted it was a wake-up call. He told The Mirror: "I wouldn't say I'm a...
With a new sense of urgency, more Latinas are donating time and money to bolster abortion access
A sense of urgency has galvanized more Latinas across the country to volunteer money and time to strengthen existing networks that help people with abortion needs. After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade nearly three weeks ago, one woman became a volunteer with an abortion organization. A business owner...
Missouri swimmer dies of rare brain-eating amoeba
A Missouri resident who became infected with a rare, brain-eating amoeba possibly while swimming in an Iowa lake has died, health officials said. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported on July 7 that it had a confirmed case of Naegleria fowleri, a rare but often deadly...
Can You Be Legally Forced Into A Mental Hospital In New York State?
Mental health has become even more important than ever. If someone suspects that a person's mental health needs to be addressed professionally, can they force the person to be committed to a mental hospital in New York? I'm sure you've seen a movie or TV show where a person is involuntarily...
Scientists Find That Wolves' And Dogs' Sleep States Don't Quite Match Up
Studying the sleep patterns of wolves in comparison to dogs can give us an insight into how evolution and domestication may have affected sleep – and that's exactly the point of a new study. The study involved seven hand-raised, socialized wolves, which meant that they could be calmly...
Researchers develop the world's fastest two-qubit gate between two single atoms
A research group led by graduate student Yeelai Chew, Assistant Professor Sylvain de Léséleuc and Professor Kenji Ohmori at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, is using atoms cooled to almost absolute zero and trapped in optical tweezers separated by a micron or so (see Fig. 1)....
Western Kansas was 'hell's aquarium' 80 million years ago. Here's what it can teach us today
For generations, scientists seeking to learn about prehistoric ocean life have flocked to a place that’s about as far from the ocean you can get — dry, dusty western Kansas. What they’re finding could teach us both about life in the ancient world and about the future of life in a...
Qubits measured in a different light
It is well established that optical nonlinearities can be used to transduce light from one frequency to another. When a photonic...
Scientists create long-acting injectable drug delivery system for tuberculosis
In 2020, more than 1.5 million people around the world died of tuberculosis, marking the first time in more than a decade that annual TB deaths had increased and demonstrating the global need for better access to treatments. To address that problem, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine, the UNC...
JWST’s “Shrodinger’s Galaxy Candidate” Has Astronomers Very Puzzled
One of the chief functions of the JWST is to find the earliest galaxies, expanding our exploration of the universe in both space and time. In the few weeks since the space telescope’s first data release, astronomers have mined its output to reveal a galaxy older than any we had spotted...
A List of Best Canadian TV Shows for Students
College students love to watch the best trending shows. Their tastes might be different, but they will watch the shows as long they’re the latest. Some may love romance, crime, drama, or comedy. Canada has some of the best trending TV shows for students. They attract student audiences...
A Focus on History: August 11 through August 17
One hundred platform men employed by the privately owned United Railroads streetcar service in San Francisco abandon their streetcars which ties up many of the main lines in and out of the city center. – 1917. A group of federal prisoners classified as “most dangerous” arrives at Alcatraz...
UK Issues New 'Extreme Heat' Warning For England And Wales
Britain's weather service on Tuesday issued an amber "Extreme Heat" warning for parts of England and Wales, with no respite in sight from hot dry conditions that have sparked fires, broken temperature records and strained the nation's infrastructure. The amber warning -- the second-most severe after red -- will...
Global analysis of the energy landscapes of molecular crystal structures by applying the threshold algorithm
Polymorphism in molecular crystals has important consequences for the control of materials properties and our understanding of crystallization. Computational methods, including crystal structure prediction, have provided important insight into polymorphism, but have usually been limited to assessing the relative energies of structures. We describe the implementation of the Monte Carlo threshold...
Unexpected high carbon losses in a continental glacier foreland on the Tibetan Plateau
Closely related with microbial activities, soil developments along the glacier forelands are generally considered a carbon sink; however, those of continental glacier forelands remain unclear. Continental glaciers are characterized by dry conditions and low temperature that limit microbial growth. We investigated the carbon characteristics along a chronosequence of the Laohugou Glacier...
More human remains are found in receding reservoir near Las Vegas
Lake Mead, a federal park as well as the country's largest reservoir, has unveiled yet. as human remains were discovered at Swim Beach on Saturday, officials said. The find was reported in the late morning at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the National Park Service said in a statement. Park...
Scientists Investigate Reverse Lightning Bolt That Touched the Edge of Space
On May 14, 2018, a tempest straight from The Twilight Zone rained over Oklahoma. Rather than scatter the Earth with jagged lightning bolts, the shrouds of dense clouds powering this storm spit one 50 miles upward, far enough to graze the ionosphere, or the edge of space. This violent, backward burst...
Synthetic 'forever chemical' linked to liver cancer
Exposure to a synthetic chemical found widely in the environment is linked to non-viral hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and published in JHEP Reports. The chemical, called perfluooctane sulfate...
Physicists Finally Measure a Long Theorized Molecule Made From Light And Matter
Physicists have just caught light acting the part of 'glue' between atoms, in a kind of loosely bonded molecule. "We have succeeded for the first time in polarizing several atoms together in a controlled way, creating a measurable attractive force between them," says University of Innsbruck physicist Matthias Sonnleitner....
2 No-Brainer Cryptos With More Potential Than Dogecoin
Maybe Dogecoin will go to the moon, but there are other cryptos with much more potential. Cardano holds promise because of its market position as one of the top proof-of-stake blockchains. XRP has attractive long-term growth prospects based on the power and functionality of its payments network. You’re reading...
Quantum critical fluctuations in an Fe-based superconductor
Quantum critical fluctuations may prove to play an instrumental role in the formation of unconventional superconductivity. Here, we show that the characteristic scaling of a marginal Fermi liquid is present in inelastic light scattering data of an Fe-based superconductor tuned through a quantum critical point (QCP) by chemical substitution or doping....
Photos Show Major Damage From Last Week's Rare Flash Flooding In Death Valley
A record amount of rain caused flash flooding at Death Valley National Park. All roads remain closed within the park. Death Valley is the hottest place on Earth and the driest place in North America. Photos show the damage left behind after the flood. Record-breaking rains caused flash flooding...
Austrian Academy of Sciences Publishes NanoTrust Dossier on Advanced Materials
The Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has published a NanoTrust Dossier entitled “Advanced Materials.” According to the dossier, advanced materials are “materials or material combinations with improved, novel or unique functionalities or properties” and represent a broad class of materials...
Jim Norton: I'll just start naming stars
Jim Norton discussed with Greg Gutfeld and other guests the physicist that claimed a picture of chorizo was a star on Twitter on "Gutfeld!" Greg Gutfeld: I...
New information on 'gigantic jet' lightning bursts that reach toward space
A detailed 3D study of a massive electrical discharge that rose 50 miles into space above an Oklahoma thunderstorm has provided new information about an elusive atmospheric phenomenon known as gigantic jets. The Oklahoma discharge was the most powerful gigantic jet studied so far, carrying 100 times as much electrical charge...
In simulation of how water freezes, artificial intelligence breaks the ice
A team based at Princeton University has accurately simulated the initial steps of ice formation by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to solving equations that govern the quantum behavior of individual atoms and molecules. The resulting simulation describes how water molecules transition into solid ice with quantum accuracy. This level...
Strikingly distinctive NH-SCR behavior over Cu-SSZ-13 in the presence of NO
Commercial Cu-exchanged small-pore SSZ-13 (Cu-SSZ-13) zeolite catalysts are highly active for the standard selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NO with NH3. However, their activity is unexpectedly inhibited in the presence of NO2 at low temperatures. This is strikingly distinct from the NO2-accelerated NOx conversion over other typical SCR catalyst systems. Here,...
Forecasters double down on warning of busy Atlantic hurricane season
Government weather gurus have updated their Atlantic hurricane season predictions, and chances remain high that it's going to be unusually active this year. Driving the news: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made predictions Thursday that six to 10 hurricanes will form in...
Everything to Know About August's Sturgeon Supermoon, Including When It Peaks and How to See It
If you missed the first three supermoons of 2022, have no fear because the fourth and final lunar phenomenon is quickly approaching. It's sure to be an exciting night for lunar lovers and star seekers alike due to an immense amount of simultaneous celestial activity on the evening of Aug. 11....
Electronic gap characterization at mesoscopic scale via scanning probe microscopy under ambient conditions
Electronic gaps play an important role in the electric and optical properties of materials. Although various experimental techniques, such as scanning tunnelling spectroscopy and optical or photoemission spectroscopy, are normally used to perform electronic band structure characterizations, it is still challenging to measure the electronic gap at the nanoscale under ambient...
Synergistic use of gradient flipping and phase prediction for inline electron holography
Inline holography in the transmission electron microscope is a versatile technique which provides real-space phase information that can be used for the correction of imaging aberrations, as well as for measuring electric and magnetic fields and strain distributions. It is able to recover high-spatial-frequency contributions of the phase effectively but suffers...
Montana wildfire update for August 8
While weekend moisture helped with several fires in Montana, fire activity was still present. Another fire started in the Flathead Agency, the Redhorn Fire, and was caused by a lightning strike. The fire is northeast of St. Ignatius, Montana, and has burned 343 acres since late Sunday morning. The fire has...
Programmable zero knowledge proofs using zk-SNARKs: part 3
This post was first published on Medium. Previously, we have showed how to construct zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) for the following statement, using a technique called ZK Key-Statement Proof (ZKKSP). Basically, it proves not only the prover knows a secret key to a given public key, but also the secret...
Soil carbon stocks in forest-tundra ecotones along a 500Â km latitudinal gradient in northern Norway
As shrubs and trees are advancing into tundra ecosystems due to climate warming, litter input and microclimatic conditions affecting litter decomposition are likely to change. To assess how the upward shift of high-latitude treeline ecotones might affect soil organic carbon stocks (SOC), we sampled SOC stocks in the surface layers of...
Decoherence and revival in attosecond charge migration driven by non-adiabatic dynamics
Attosecond charge migration is a periodic evolution of the charge density at specific sites of a molecule on a timescale defined by the energy intervals between the electronic states involved. Here we report the observation of charge migration in neutral silane (SiH4) in 690"‰as, its decoherence within 15"‰fs and its revival...
Superfluid stiffness of a KTaO-based two-dimensional electron gas
After almost twenty years of intense work on the celebrated LaAlO3/SrTiO3system, the recent discovery of a superconducting two-dimensional electron gas (2-DEG) in (111)-oriented KTaO3-based heterostructures injects new momentum to the field of oxides interface. However, while both interfaces share common properties, experiments also suggest important differences between the two systems. Here,...
Troubling new research shows warm waters rushing towards the world's biggest ice sheet in Antarctica
Warmer waters are flowing towards the East Antarctic ice sheet, according to our alarming new research which reveals a potential new driver of global sea-level rise. The research, published today in Nature Climate Change, shows changing water circulation in the Southern Ocean may be compromising the stability of the East Antarctic...
The ‘Kobe Bryant’s championship teammates’ quiz
Can you name every player to win a championship with Kobe Bryant? Take this Lakers quiz! New quizzes emailed daily.
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Heat 2 Co-Author Meg Gardiner On Writing The Epic Crime Saga [Interview]
Meg Gardiner tells us about working with Michael Mann to craft this prequel/sequel to his 1995 crime movie classic,
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Energy bills crisis puts lives at risk – the government must act, says Martin Lewis
Energy bills crisis puts lives at risk – the government must act, says Martin Lewis
SOARING energy bills are turning into a Covid-scale national crisis and putting lives at risk, a consumer champion claims. Martin Lewis said its advance was akin to
Robin Williams’ Kids Remember Late Actor in Loving Tributes 8 Years After His Death
Robin Williams' children are honoring the late comedian eight years after his death. Thursday, the Mrs. Doubtfire actor's 39-year-old son, Zak Williams, took to social media to share a photo of his father as he reflected back on his legacy of kindnes
Atlas
Your world, rendered by National Geographic cartographers
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GM Mike Elias: Orioles will ‘significantly escalate’ payroll during offseason
Even if it looks like the O’s may have turned the corner already amid a surprising resurgence, the club definitely wants to make winning a habit going forward, and a payroll increase will come along with that planned return to contention.
Previewing upcoming club-option decisions: National League
A number of contracts around MLB have club options for 2023. Some of them will be easy calls for their respective teams one way or the other, while there are others that’ll be more borderline.
Assessing RB Ronald Jones’ job security with Chiefs
Jones still has a place in the NFL. However, he doesn’t seem to have a clear role in Kansas City, and that fact could ultimately earn him his walking papers by the end of the preseason.
Five NHL teams having sneaky-good offseasons
Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman has been wheeling and dealing, as has Pat Verbeek of the Ducks. Detroit and Anaheim are among the teams that have improved via under-the-radar deals.