New York Yankees slugger Ben Rice, who leads the team with 25 home runs, will be swinging for the fences during the Home Run Derby in Philadelphia on July 13.
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Read article →The Lakers continue to pursue unrestricted free agent wing Jonathan Kuminga, but they have not yet given him an enticing enough offer to commit, sources told ESPN.
Read article →Six-time All-Star Kyle Lowry has retired after signing a one-day contract with the Toronto Raptors, where he spent nine of his 20 NBA seasons and won an NBA championship
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Read article →Democrat Graham Platner has denied allegations of sexual assault leveled by Maine resident Jenny Racicot as calls for him to exit the pivotal race mount.
Read article →Between April 19th and 21st, temperatures that dipped into the low 20s harmed fruit operations across swaths of Pennsylvania and other states.
Read article →President Donald Trump has focused on the ballot count in Fulton County, Georgia, to promote claims that he actually won the 2020 election
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Researchers published a landmark study in Nature Neuroscience demonstrating for the first time that chronic pain can be objectively measured using brain signals recorded in daily life rather than relying solely on patients' subjective reports. Using brain implants in four patients with chronic pain conditions, scientists identified biomarkers in low-frequency activity of the orbitofrontal cortex that reliably tracked each individual's reported pain intensity over months of normal activity outside a clinical setting. The breakthrough matters because chronic pain has historically been impossible to verify objectively, complicating diagnosis, treatment decisions, and clinical trials for new therapies. The findings are part of an effort to develop personalized brain stimulation treatments that could help the estimated 51.6 million Americans living with chronic pain conditions for whom existing treatments remain inadequate.
Read Full Story →An NCAA medical committee formally recommended removing cannabis from the organization's list of banned substances in June 2023, arguing that marijuana does not enhance athletic performance and that disciplinary enforcement belongs at the school level rather than through national testing. The Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports called for a harm-reduction approach emphasizing education and support over punitive suspensions for student-athletes who use cannabis.
Read article →The quest to calculate pi spans more than 4,000 years, beginning with crude approximations in ancient Babylon and Egypt before Archimedes developed his polygon-based method of exhaustion in the third century BCE, bounding pi between inscribed and circumscribed shapes to achieve accuracy to two decimal places. This geometric approach dominated for over a millennium until 17th-century mathematicians introduced infinite series that converged far faster, enabling calculations of dozens and then hundreds of digits by hand.
Read article →The American office has cycled through radically different organizing philosophies over the past century, from Frederick Taylor's factory-inspired surveillance floors designed for maximum output to the open campuses of Silicon Valley built around collaboration and employee satisfaction. A pivotal moment came in 1964 when Herman Miller's Action Office was introduced as a flexible humanist alternative to rigid rows of desks, only for corporations to reduce its principles to the cramped cubicle farm that came to define corporate life by the 1980s.
Read article →Scientists achieved a long-sought breakthrough in agricultural genetics by engineering hybrid rice plants to reproduce clonally through seeds, a process called apomixis that plant biologists had described as a "holy grail" for decades. The technique uses specific genetic mutations to produce more than 95% clonal seeds from commercial hybrid varieties, potentially eliminating the expensive helicopter-based pollen transfer methods currently used to produce hybrid rice seed at scale.
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