Smoke from more than 800 blazes has filled major cities from Toronto and New York, to parts of the US Midwest and Great Lakes.
Read Full Story →Japanese AI-linked stocks tumbled as a fresh rout in U.S. semiconductor shares spread across Asia after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's outlook failed to reassure investors.
Read article →President Trump gave a primetime address Thursday night in which he spoke about the integrity of U.S. elections — a topic he has spread disinformation about for much of his political career.
Read article →Pat Riley and Giannis Antetokounmpo said they would love for LeBron James to return to the Miami Heat.
Read article →Jonas Valanciunas signed a two-year contract with Zalgiris Kaunas, the Lithuanian club announced Wednesday
Read article →The NBA will not punish the Heat's Bam Adebayo for striking former teammate Tyler Herro at a Las Vegas gym last Friday, a league spokesperson told ESPN's Shams Charania on Thursday.
Read article →John Moolenaar's comments follow Alibaba's designation by the U.S. government as a "Chinese military company"
Read article →The NBA is investigating a four-year, $64 million deal between Gary Trent Jr. and the Bucks for possible salary cap circumvention, a league spokesperson told ESPN.
Read article →Lionel Messi has a message for Argentina's detractors: "Nothing was handed to us."
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Chronic pain can be objectively measured from brain signals recorded in daily life, scientists demonstrated for the first time in a study published in Nature Neuroscience in May 2023. A team led by Prasad Shirvalkar, a neurologist and pain medicine specialist at UCSF, used deep brain stimulation implants to monitor four patients with uncontrollable chronic pain, three recovering from strokes and one with phantom limb syndrome, over three to six months.
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 stretches back nearly 4,000 years, beginning with early approximations in Babylon around 3.125 and ancient Egypt near 3.1605 that both landed close to but short of the true value.
Read article →The modern American office traces its open plan roots to idealistic modernist architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, who saw interior walls as social barriers and believed removing them would break down division.
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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