MultiVersus’ new patch makes leveling up harder

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Nile Rodgers Just Got an Asteroid Named After Him for His 70th Birthday

Around 300 million miles from Earth, Nilerodgers (191911) is orbiting the sun. "It's so ... out of this world," hitmaker says.

Ed Sheeran Transformed Ibiza Club Into a Karaoke Party With Surprise Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys Covers

The singer also performed "Shape of You" and Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline"

Irish budget: Finance minister unveils tax 'giveaways'

Paschal Donohoe says he is in a position to do so because the country has a large budget surplus.

Physically active lessons in school can enhance pupils' learning and motor skills, study finds

Sports scientists at Nottingham Trent University examined how bouts of physically active math lessons for eight hours per week affected children aged 6–7 during their first two years of school, by comparing them with another group which studied the usual way.

Crypto lender Nexo gets U.S. bank charter after buying stake in regulated bank

Nexo's bank license will bring users enhanced legal safeguards and help it expand its footprint in the U.S., the company said.

New herbicide solution inspired by cholesterol medicine

Curtin University researchers have discovered a promising new herbicide target site in plants with the potential to provide new solutions for growers dealing with the increasing problem of herbicide resistance.

New strategy to precisely target subtypes of key protein

Cyclosporine is one of the most common and effective immunosuppressant drugs used to treat chronic diseases like arthritis and psoriasis, but it comes with a risk of serious side effects. Scientists think that may be because the drug broadly targets cyclophilins, a family of 17

Turning the polymerization process on and off using a switchable template

Regulating the polymerization process is of great interest for both industrial and medical applications. In an article published in Angewandte Chemie, TU/e researchers show they not only can control the process and are able to switch it on and off, but they can also control the

Improving performance for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is a promising green technique for renewable hydrogen production. To construct a practical PEC system, it is of great significance to develop efficient photoanodes. BiVO4 has been identified as the most promising photoanode material

Nord Stream: Kremlin says sabotage could be behind leak

The cause of three mystery leaks in Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Europe is currently unclear - however, Kremlin authorities have not ruled out sabotage.

Novavax Stock Is Rebounding After Covid-19 Vaccines Launch in U.K.

Syria Insight: How the Ukraine war has impacted on Russia

While Russia's war in Ukraine grinds on, we look at the consequences the invasion has had on Moscow's influence in Syria.

Watch Run The Jewels’ Ecstatic Kimmel Performance With Greg Nice & DJ Premier

Every once in a while, Jimmy Kimmel Live moves its whole operation from Los Angeles to Brooklyn for a week of shows. We’re in one of those weeks right now. Kimmel kicked off a Brooklyn week last night with Amy Schumer, Charlamagne Tha God, and musical guests Run The Jewels.

Color composition preferences in art paintings are determined by color statistics

A research team led by Professor Shigeki Nakauchi of Toyohashi University of Technology conducted an experimental study of the color composition preferences of 31,353 participants, for a total of 1,200 paintings with artificially manipulated color compositions. The group also

UN rights team: Ukrainian POWs face systematic mistreatment

U.N. human rights investigators say Ukrainian prisoners of war appear to be facing “systematic” mistreatment — including torture — both when they are captured and when they are transferred into areas controlled by Russian forces or Russia itself

AMD's new Ryzen 7000-series processors are now available to buy

The wait is officially over for Zen 4.

Two rare super-Mercuries discovered in the same star system

While observing the star system HD 23472 with the ESPRESSO spectrograph (ESO), a team led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço's (IA3) researcher Susana Barros (IA & Dep. de Física e Astronomia—Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto), found three

Jordan working on Arab-led process to end Syria war, says FM

Jordan's foreign minister said his country is working on gathering support for an Arab-led peace process for war-torn Syria.

Deep learning uses stream discharge to estimate watershed subsurface permeability

Subsurface permeability is a key parameter that controls the contribution of the subsurface flow to stream flows in watershed models. Directly measuring permeability at the spatial extent and resolution required by watershed models is difficult and expensive. Researchers

Finding the ship that sent out a warning to the Titanic

The ship that sent an iceberg warning to the RMS Titanic before the ocean-liner sank has been identified lying in the Irish Sea.

Syrian regime 'detains survivors from migrant boat tragedy'

Following the death of at least 94 people in the sinking of a migrant boat off Tartous last week, the Assad regime has reportedly detained several Syrian and Palestinian survivors.

Ending a 50-year mystery, scientists reveal how bacteria can move

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators have solved a decades-old mystery about how E. coli and other bacteria are able to move.

[Ticker] Hungary says sanctions 'harming Europe more than Russia'

EU sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and plans for further energy sanctions have prompted skyrocketing energy prices, Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács tweeted on Tuesday. "It has become clear that the sanctions which have been introduced are doing

Capitol Music Group Names Orlando Wharton Executive Vice President and President of Priority Records

Orlando Wharton has been named executive vice president of Capitol Music Group and president of Priority Records. The announcement was made by CMG chair & CEO Michelle Jubelirer, to whom Wharton will report. According to the announcement, in his new position, Wharton will sign

New Thai rules allow abortions up to 20th week of pregnancy

Thailand will allow abortions up to the 20th week of pregnancy under new regulations issued by the Public Health Ministry

Probiotic combination drastically improves oyster larvae survival

Oyster larvae survival rates were significantly boosted by treating them with specific combinations of probiotics, Oregon State University researchers found in a recent study published in Aquaculture.

Harley spinoff LiveWire’s stock surges in NYSE debut

Keir Starmer: Truss government has 'lost control of UK economy', says Labour leader

Sir Keir Starmer's speech to Labour's annual conference comes as an opinion poll gives the opposition its largest lead over the Conservatives in two decades.

UN nuclear watchdog restarts 'dialogue' with Iran

Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Monday that 'dialogue' with Iran on outstanding issues - such as Tehran's uranium enrichment - 'has restarted'.

NASA's DART mission hits asteroid in first-ever planetary defense test

After 10 months flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration -- successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency's first attempt to move an asteroid in space.

[Opinion] The UN's Uyghur report must push EU into China sanctions

The UN report's findings should be met by the EU with a more principled and human rights-centred approach to China — urging the UN Office on Genocide Prevention to conduct an assessment of atrocities.

Who sword fights better: House of the Dragon or The Rings of Power?

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Secret Service took phones from 24 agents involved with Jan. 6: report

Senior leaders at the Secret Service reportedly confiscated the cell phones of 24 agents who were involved with the Jan. 6, 2021, response and delivered the phones to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general. NBC News reported the phones were handed to Inspector

The Second Palestinian Intifada in retrospect

Twenty-two years after the outbreak of the Second Palestinian Intifada, Emad Moussa reflects on the grassroots resistance movement that emerged and the failure to harness the revolutionary potential of the moment.

Shakira Ordered to Stand Trial in Spain on Tax Fraud Charges

Spanish judge confirmed the case would head to court, but a trial date has not yet been set

Evidence of the use of baby carriers 10,000 years ago

It seems logical enough: even in their earliest history, humans must have needed something to carry their babies around in as they moved from place to place. But because little hard evidence of this exists—no infant-sling fabrics discernible in archeological digs, and very few

Arctic lakes act as 'reactors' or 'chimneys' for carbon dioxide

Many lakes are found at high-latitudes in arctic areas. As they receive and process terrestrial organic carbon, these lakes link terrestrial and aquatic carbon cycles, while emitting CO2 to the atmosphere. Yet, their remote location and long winter periods make studying these

Chinese astronomers discover more than 1,600 new star clusters

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the China West Normal University have detected 1,656 new star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was presented in a research paper published September 18 on the arXiv pre-print repository.

Premature Evaluation: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs never had a plan; things just worked out for them. The trio arrived in the exact right place at the exact right time to create a deafening hype-storm, but the three musicians at its center never seemed to be contriving that hype-storm. The skronky, horny

Symbiotic fungi suggest biocontrol implications for pest beetles

A recent study in Japan has found that reared ambrosia beetles, Euwallacea interjectus, can have symbiotic fungi different to those found in the wild. These findings suggest biocontrol implications for pest beetles that damage valuable crop trees such as fig trees.

Take-Two Ditches Outriders Developer's Latest Action-Adventure Game

Developer People Can Fly has just received another blow of bad news. After learning earlier this year that the studio didn’t see a penny of profit from Outriders during 2021, it’s now been revealed that Rockstar and 2K Games parent company Take-Two has made clear its intent to

Iran protests: Death toll rises to 76 as crackdown intensifies - rights group

Activists accuse security forces of firing live ammunition at protesters as a crackdown intensifies.

Meta says it disrupted network of fake accounts originating from China ahead of midterms

Meta said on Tuesday that it had disrupted a network of fake accounts from China that were targeting U.S. domestic audiences ahead of the midterm elections. The Chinese network was the first that Meta has identified focusing on U.S. domestic politics leading up to November’s

Dome Keeper review

Mine for your life in this smart, condensed roguelike.

Eurovision Update: U.K. Shortlist Whittled Down to Two Candidates for Host City

The host city for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in the U.K., is one step closer to being announced. Last month the shortlist was unveiled, with Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield all in the mix. Cardiff was also

Taliban deputy calls for reopening schools for Afghan girls

The Taliban deputy foreign minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, has called for middle schools and high schools to be reopened for girls in a gathering of senior hardline leaders in Kabul.

[Ticker] France aims to start building new nuclear reactors by 2027

France wants to start building its first new-generation 'European Pressurised Reactors' nuclear reactor before May 2027, Reuters reported on Tuesday. French president Emmanuel Macron plans to build at least six new reactors as part of efforts to put his country on the path

Traditional Taoist festival returns to Thailand.

Thailand resumes its vegetarian body piercing festival after a hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Women still less likely to be hired, promoted, mentored or even have their research cited

It's 2022 and women in science are still less likely than their male peers to be hired and promoted. Women are less likely to be mentored by eminent faculty, they publish in less prestigious journals, have fewer collaborators, are underrepresented among journal reviewers and