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MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Japanese outfielder Seiya Suzuki is joining the new-look Chicago Cubs, finalizing an $85 million, five-year deal…

People seeking relief from stress may find it by "switching off" specific brain cells, researchers at Osaka University in Japan said in an article published Friday by Science Advances.

Interest in the potential benefits of application programming interfaces (APIs) has spiked in recent months as businesses and their financial institutions (FIs) or banking partners look to retool their payments processes to stay competitive in the payments ecosystem. In fact, one recent study found that half of all business-to-business (B2B) payments will be sent via […]

Poppy Playtime has announced that an officially-licensed plush toy version of Huggy Wuggy is now available for purchase, complete with velcro paws.

by Chelsea Bennett, Reference Department The vernal equinox, also known as the first day of spring, falls on March 20 this year in the Northern Hemisphere. Spring equinox and autumn equinox are the only two days of the year on which “the Earth’s axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun.” [1] This […]

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the...

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MARK Sykes is being lined up to play as a No 10 for the Republic of Ireland after receiving his first call-up this afternoon.

An elderly patient is transferred out of an ambulance at Princess Margaret hospital in Hong Kong on March 16. This month, Hong Kong faced the highest death rate from Covid-19 of any part of the world, despite earlier success in controlling cases. | Marc Fernandes/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Why countries with strong Covid-19 policies are now getting hammered.

There are many, many American fast food chains that operate in Russia, several of which have closed their doors because of Russia’s unrelenting and unprovoked attacks on Ukraine. But a few chains are continuing to operate in the Russian market, and the reason has to do with the convoluted way that certain franchise…

To hear TikTok tell it, banana peels are an amazing fertilizer for your garden due to their high potassium content and the fact that you get them basically for free (assuming that you eat bananas). The reality is a lot less exciting.

“Spot,” the nascent Terminator on four legs invented by Skynet, er, I mean, Boston Dynamics, has landed its next public safety gig: firefighter.

The practice of mindful eating has gained traction in recent years, and now mindful drinking is picking up steam, with the goal of recognizing the intent behind imbibing.

The Gemini baby dislikes being alone. Luckily, there are two of them.

The health and wellness platform syncs up to Apple Watch for an even more personalized program.

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RSL welcomes Nashville in the midst of an eight-game road trip. Ben Wright of Broadway Sports Media gives us a tour.

Most of Turkey's industrial infrastructure is in Kocaeli and Izmit Bay. However, most of the factories remained inside the city because of the rapid growth of the population in recent years, and thus moved to new places. Today, the abandoned areas by the factories offer new opportunities to overcome the accessibility problems of the coastal zone and the lack of public space. This process is first started with SEKA park stage 1 project in 2007 and the SEKA park Stage 2 project in 2009, both of... Читать дальше...

With new releases from Akwaeke Emezi, Geoff Dyer, Margo Jefferson, Hernan Diaz, and more.

Warner Bros. has officially, successfully rebooted the Batman franchise with “The Batman,” which has earned glowing notices from audiences and critics alike and is dominating the box office. And while it will surely be some time before a sequel is ready to go before cameras let alone unleashed on the public, there are plenty of films that influenced “The Batman” that should whet audiences’ appetites – and may expand their cinematic horizons in the process.

“Windfall,” the buzzy new Netflix thriller starring Jesse Plemons, Lily Collins and Jason Segel, is a contained, Hitchcockian thriller, one that will leave you on the edge of your seat for the entirety of the svelte, 92-minute runtime and whose ending will leave you talking long after you’ve switched over to “Love Is Blind.”

Although this shouldn’t have to be newsworthy, you have to give it up to the House of Representatives for continuing to fight for the rights of people of color to wear their natural hair.

NEW ALBANY, Ind. – Former Grenadier baseball standout Matt Monahan has signed a professional contract with the Joliet Slammers of the Frontier League for the 2022 season.

The OPEC+ group continues to severely underperform in its oil production levels compared to the target in the pact, with February output at more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd) below the collective quota and compliance rate jumping to 136 percent, Reuters reported on Friday, quoting two sources.   In January, the overall compliance rate at OPEC+ producers was 129 percent, also indicating that the members of the pact haven’t been able to pump to their collective quotas. The compliance rate has... Читать дальше...