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“You’re going to enjoy this,” Wayne Boardman, a long-serving member of England’s wheelchair side, tells me as I arrive at Calderdale College in Halifax. Boardman’s smile somewhat subtly implies it will be him and his teammates who will enjoy watching Read more
Researchers led by Osaka University have now identified a mechanism by which a lack of insulin may be reported back to the pancreatic cells that produce insulin, identifying a potential new therapeutic target for diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is estimated Read more
U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo will travel to Paris, London and Brussels next week, where he will discuss sanctions on Moscow and continue coordinating the implementation of a price cap on Russian oil, a U.S. Treasury spokesperson said. Adeyemo Read more
Authorities in Michigan are asking the public to be on the lookout for a wallaby on the loose in Monroe County. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that the wallaby has been seen wandering loose in Read more
Another week, another conference. This one was organised by World Rugby and, like the last, which was organised by the Concussion in Sport Group, it was held in Amsterdam. World Rugby’s chief medical officer, Dr Éanna Falvey, explained that the Read more
To find out how different aspects of music influence the body, researchers turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study. By introducing levels of bass over speakers that were too low to hear and monitoring the crowd’s movements, Read more
The chief of Volkswagen’s (VOWG_p.DE) Spanish unit SEAT said on Thursday the subsidies offered by Spanish authorities for a battery factory construction and electric vehicle production “is not sufficient”, but voiced optimism about finding a solution. Speaking at a panel Read more
Slay the Spire looms large over the Roguelike deckbuilding genre. Arguably, it created it, so it’s hard to find a game here that doesn’t copy it. Beneath Oresa copies it. You can feel it in the way you fight, the Read more
A bear paid a visit to a cafe in California and the bruin was caught on camera stealing cookies before being ejected by the police. An employee at the Nestle Toll House Cafe by Chip at Heavenly Village in South Read more
The Washington Commanders announced on Wednesday that the team and its owners have hired Bank of America Securities to “consider potential transactions”, raising the possibility that Dan and Tanya Snyder could sell the scandal-hit franchise. “The Snyders remain committed to Read more