By: Sean Crose
David Benavidez lost his WBC super middleweight title to the weight limit on Friday. Still, the 22-0 fighter, who had come in almost three pounds overweight on the scales, entered the ring at the Mohegan Sun arena Saturday night hoping to earn a win over the 26-1 Alexis Angulo regardless.
The scheduled 12 rounder started with Benavidez zipping his powerful jab out in the first. Angulo was more aggressive in the second, throwing hard against his taller opponent. Читать дальше...
A special accommodation facility with more than a dozen positive COVID-19 cases will be investigated by the supported residential services regulator after vulnerable clients were seen breaching quarantine and wandering in the community without face masks.
More than a dozen COVID-19 cases are connected to Hambleton House, after residents were said to be entering businesses and on the streets during an outbreak.
Vladimir Putin has offered to help ensure Belarus's security, according to its president Alexander Lukashenko, as pressure builds on the strongman leader and opposition protesters prepare for a show of force Sunday.
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While shutterbugs took vantage positions to photograph the discharge of water from KRS reservoir earlier this month, a 21-year-old youth from Mysuru f
The agreement does not commit Israel to halting of plans to further extend Israeli sovereignty over Palestinian territories and its people
Maddie Stone, Slate
Solar panels are an increasingly important source of renewable power that will play an essential role in fighting climate change. They are also complex pieces of technology that become big, bulky sheets of electronic waste at the end of their livesand right now, most of the world doesn't have a plan for dealing with that.
Richmond have implemented a novel measure to prevent players from giving away 50-metre penalties.
Richmond have implemented a novel measure to prevent players from giving away 50-metre penalties.
Madrigal & Meyer, The Atlantic
Michael Mina is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, where he studies the diagnostic testing of infectious diseases. He has watched, with disgust and disbelief, as the United States has struggled for months to obtain enough tests to fight the coronavirus. In January, he assured a newspaper reporter that he had absolute faith in the ability of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to contain the virus.
Alex Berezow, ACSH
Nationalism is all the rage these days. Following decades of globalization, the pendulum has begun to swing back the other direction, triggering fears that nationalist policies will lead to a breakdown in international cooperation and a destabilization of the world order.
Richard Van Noorden, Nature News
Scientists who get too many references to their own work inserted in others' papers whether by prior arrangement or by asking for extra references during peer review might leave telltale fingerprints in the citation record, say two researchers who have developed a way to detect what they call citation hacking.
Megan Molteni, Wired
At 8:30 am on Monday, Mark Licht was sitting in his home outside of Ames, Iowa, on a conference call with other agronomists and meteorologists from around the state. Iowa had been having a dry spell, the western half of the state stricken with severe drought.
Ethan Siegel, Forbes
In our Solar System, there's one overwhelming source of mass that all the planets orbit around: our Sun. Each planet has its own unique system of natural satellites that exist in stable orbits around it: moons. Some moons, like Saturn's Phoebe or Neptune's Triton, are captured objects that were once comets, asteroids, or Kuiper belt objects. Others, like Jupiter's Ganymede or Uranus's Titania, formed from an accretion disk at the same time the planets of the Solar System formed.
Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica
Electric vehicles have come a long way in terms of going a long way on a charge. But everyone is still seeking the next big jump in battery technologya battery with significantly higher energy density would mean more range or lower costs to hit the current range. There is always some room for incremental progress on current lithium-ion battery technology, but there is a lithium holy grail that has remained out of reach for decades: ditching its graphite anode to shrink the cell.
Stuart Ritchie, L.A. Times
Science is suffering from a replication crisis. Too many landmark studies can't be repeated in independent labs, a process crucial to separating flukes and errors from solid results. The consequences are hard to overstate: Public policy, medical treatments and the way we see the world may have been built on the shakiest of foundations.
Solution of this task will require time and probably changes in currently effective laws
Katie Jennings, Forbes
In May 1886, Margaret Danley Stetter gave birth to a child in a shelter dug into a hill in Western Nebraska. She came from a long line of homesteaders, who tried to tame the prairie into farmland, some with more success than others. Her husband, John, was away earning his living as a cowboy and it took several telegrams to finally persuade him to come home to meet his first-born daughter, Leta.
Caleb A. Scharf, Nautilus
Once upon a time there was a molecule. That molecule, when it reacted with other molecules, set in motion a story that would result in the universe making another molecule almost exactly like that first one. Then that new molecule, when it reacted with other molecules, set in motion a story that would result in another molecule almost exactly like it. And all across the galaxy there were molecules setting stories in motion.
Geoffrey Kabat, RCSci
On July 22nd CNN published an article under the title: Plastics and pesticides: Health impacts of synthetic chemicals in US products doubled in last 5 years, study finds. The CNN report was referring to a long paper in the journal Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology titled Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: implications for human health.