Новости за 16.08.2023

1. Ben Stokes: England all-rounder set for Cricket World Cup after ending ODI retirement  BBC
2. Ben Stokes returns to England one-day squad ahead of Cricket World Cup  The Guardian
3. Ben Stokes makes decision on Cricket World Cup return as England announce ODI squad  The Mirror
4. Ben Stokes: England all-rounder to come out of ODI retirement for Cricket World Cup  BBC
5. Ollie Pope and Mark Butcher REACT to Ben Stokes' potential World Cup return! ????  Sky Sports Cricket
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Ben Stokes will be part of England's World Cup squad after reversing his decision to retire from one-day international cricket.

Ben Stokes will be part of England's World Cup squad after reversing his decision to retire from one-day international cricket.

Interns in Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski's office doggedly tracked down all 100 senators, and took a selfie with them. Here's how they described some of those encounters.

Adrianne Drazin was on a long overseas flight with her baby and two young children. After she exited the plane, she noticed a family nearby waiting for something.

Jason Musgrove has been in agony for more than a week. He's had no contact from his 69-year-old mother, who has mobility issues. She was last seen escorted out of her apartment building on Aug. 8.

The NDRF teams have rescued several people in the villages of the Nangal and Anandpur Sahib divisions of the Ropar district since Tuesday evening following the flooding of more than 15 villages in the area due to the release of water by BBMB from the Bhakra and Pong dams downstream in the Satluj River.

England have included Ben Stokes in their ODI squad to face New Zealand after the Test captain reversed his decision to retire from the format.

Alasdair Gold has revealed that it is Tottenham’s data-driven approach to recruitment that has led the club to Gent’s Gift Orban. Orban has produced some unbelievable numbers in front of goal since his move to the Belgian top flight back in January, and it has been widely reported over the last few days that he […]

CDC officials are working to overhaul laboratory operations to try to keep from repeating mistakes. But it's a big job, observers say. And the stakes are high.

Manchester City accept an undisclosed offer from Al-Nassr for Spain defender Aymeric Laporte.

The tech giant is evaluating tools that would use artificial intelligence to perform tasks that some of its researchers have said should be avoided.

EXCLUSIVE: An eagle-eyed traveller spotted a 'massive erect penis' after glancing out of the plane window while travelling on an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to London

Artificial intelligence could give rise to a "neoclassical futurist" architecture style and will become "an everyday tool of necessity", says designer Tim Fu in this interview for our AItopia series. Architectural designer Fu, who works extensively in artificial intelligence (AI), showed his project The AI Stone Carver – a collaboration with stone mason Till Apfel

Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert and Patrick Mahomes lead UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's Top 20 fantasy football quarterback rankings for the 2023 NFL season.

"It all started with a problem.“ This is how track manager Niek Oude Luttikhuis describes the first talks with Formula 1 about a possible return to Zandvoort. And that is the story of this problem, an extraordinary idea and its implementation. Or in a nutshell: How the F1 track in Zandvoort got its steep curves.Such a thing had not yet been a topic in 2018, but when Zandvoort first put out its ...Keep reading

We're one year into the biggest investment ever in turning the tide on climate change. The Inflation Reduction Act includes big savings on EVs, solar panels, battery storage and more.

New video by KarenWoodard: In Tyrol, Austria the state-owned hydropower company TIWAG is planning to "expand" the Kaunertal hydropower plant by building three new hydro schemes. This threatens the world-famous Oetz River as well as the water supply to the farmers in the Oetz Valley. Through the voices of environmental experts, conservationists and local residents who will be impacted by this hydro project, this eight-part series from WET helps explain why the Kaunertal Expansion... Читать дальше...

Bernstein Research analysts declare an end to the tech jobs recession. Some big tech companies are even rehiring laid-off workers.

My emotional response to this news had nothing to do with skin cancer per se.

A few years ago, amid lockdown boredom, it seemed like everyone was perfecting their sourdoughs. A simple, fermented mixture of flour and water, the bread is powered by microbes that provide its one-of-a-kind tangy flavor. For over a hundred years, sourdough bread has been synonymous with San Francisco, where today, scientists will report that they've identified and quantified 21 key chemical compounds that make this bread taste and smell so unique. They've also compared the levels of the compounds in different breads.

With Labor Day approaching, many people are preparing to go tubing and swimming at local streams and rivers. These delightful summertime activities seem innocuous, but do they have an impact on these waterways? Today, scientists report preliminary results from the first holistic study of this question, which shows that recreation can alter the chemical and microbial fingerprint of streams, but the environmental and health ramifications are not yet known.

Can you recognize someone you haven't seen in years, but forget what you had for breakfast yesterday? Our brains constantly rearrange their circuitry to remember familiar faces or learn new skills, but the molecular basis of this process isn't well understood. Today, scientists report that sulfate groups on complex sugar molecules called glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) affect "plasticity" in the brains of mice. Determining how GAGs function could help us understand how memory and learning work in humans... Читать дальше...

Pouring flecks of rust into water usually makes it dirtier. But researchers have developed special iron oxide nanoparticles they call "smart rust" that actually makes it cleaner. Smart rust can attract many substances, including oil, nano- and microplastics, as well as the herbicide glyphosate, depending on the particles' coating. And because the nanoparticles are magnetic, they can easily be removed from water with a magnet along with the pollutants. Now, the team is reporting that they've tweaked... Читать дальше...