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Splashing tales from British watersports have won both categories of the 2021 Football School/Guardian Young Sportswriter of the Year award. James Sarfas, age nine and from Reading, Berkshire, won the category for children aged from seven to nine for an Read more
In habituation, an organism gets so used to a ubiquitous sight, smell, sensation or sound that it virtually disappears. Runa Hamid of the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India, and colleagues have identified a transporter protein in Read more
German vertical farming start-up Infarm said on Thursday it had raised $200 million from investors to help expand its presence and products, achieving a valuation of over $1 billion. The Berlin-based company, which currently focuses on indoor production of herbs Read more
Nvidia has teamed up with Warner Bros. Pictures and professional PC builders to deliver three custom gaming rigs that embody The Matrix — and it’s giving them all away as part of the lead-up to The Matrix Resurrections’ release on Read more
Charlotte McCarthy thought she wouldn’t be able to ever have kids due to the injuries she sustained in a horrific crash, but she has once again thanked heroic NHS workers A new mum who thought she would never be able Read more
Eleanor May Simmonds. Some may call her a swimmer, some may call her a Paralympian but I call her my hero. Ellie Simmonds has completed many amazing things in her life so far: she is the youngest British swimmer to Read more
A common gene mutation for Parkinson’s disease drives mislocalization of iron in activated microglia, according to a new study publishing December 16th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, by Mark Cookson of the National Institute on Aging and colleagues. The Read more
Tax preparation company H&R Block Inc(HRB.N) on Thursday sued payment company Block Inc(SQ.N), previously called Square Inc, saying the new name infringed its trademarks. Block’s chief executive, Twitter Inc(TWTR.N) co-founder Jack Dorsey, announced the name change earlier this month as Read more
Long before the metaverse became the premier destination of tech companies and newlyweds, there was Minecraft. It is a platform that started as a video game about dodging explosions from hissing cactus-shaped creatures and became the blank canvas on which Read more
A mum starved herself to death rather than have her family endure weeks of torture as cancer claimed her life. MSP Elena Whitham has recounted the harrowing ordeal and the final stages of her mum Irene’s struggle before she died, Read more