Reuters Victor Ambros (l) and Gary Ruvkun (r) share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on microRNA. Their discoveries help explain how complex life emerged on Earth and how the human […]
Pace bowling was key to England’s success here two years ago, so a fresh-looking attack came under the spotlight in the run-up to this match. Woakes has a terrible record overseas, Atkinson had not played away before, Carse not anywhere before. England lacked experience and assistance. The ball barely swung or turned, offering next to […]
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Michael Jordan expressed confidence Sunday in the outcome of the antitrust lawsuit his 23XI Racing team recently filed against NASCAR in federal court, telling The Athletic, “I wouldn’t have filed it if I didn’t think I could win.” Jordan made his comments before Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway, sitting atop the pit […]
The average UK house price came close to reaching a record high last month as falling mortgage rates helped to boost confidence among buyers, according to Halifax. The UK’s largest mortgage lender said the average price hit £293,399 in September, just short of the record £293,507 reached in June 2022. Prices have now risen for […]
Supplied Tim Chan says that without the tool, he wouldn’t be able to live his life to the fullest For Tim Chan, who is unable to speak, facilitated communication is “a lifeline” that allows him to do things he once thought impossible, such as socialising, or studying for his PhD. “I was presumed incompetent, and […]
Scotland’s health boards have paid up to £837 an hour for locum psychiatrists to help cope with a deepening staff shortage crisis in mental health services. They have been charged more than £130m by dozens of private health care companies to provide temporary psychiatrists over the past five years, including one firm now owned by […]
Reports of antisemitic incidents in the US have reached a record high since last year’s Hamas attack in Israel, according to a preliminary report from the Anti-Defamation League Center for Extremism (ADL). The group found more than 10,000 incidents from 7 October 2023 to 24 September of this year, more than a 200% increase compared […]
Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Oct 6, 2024, 05:20 AM ET Defender Dani Carvajal suffered an ACL rupture in Real Madrid’s 2-0 LaLiga win over Villarreal, the club confirmed on Sunday, while forward Vinícius Júnior has been diagnosed with a cervical injury. Carvajal was stretchered off in tears in added time at the Bernabéu — and […]
A little over a month after their historic first Test cricket series loss against Bangladesh, Pakistan are set to host a traditionally tougher opponent, England, in a three-match cricket home series from Monday. The last time England toured Pakistan in 2022, they returned with a 3-0 whitewash in the bag and with the so-called Bazball […]
BBC News Alex Green in now in remission from his cancer Alex Green is clear – without immunotherapy, he would have died in 2019. His advanced melanoma skin cancer was only stopped by the revolutionary treatment that recruits the body’s own immune system to fight the disease. But unfortunately at the moment the majority of […]