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Wildlife trappers were summoned to an airport in India when workers found themselves in a situation of life imitating art: a snake on a plane. Kolkata Airport officials confirmed a baggage handler for airline IndiGo was preparing the plane for Read more
College football rosters are huge. Pro football rosters are finite. First-time NFL coach Urban Meyer, who soon will trim his roster from 90 to 53, has devised a technique for giving out roster spots. Via Michael DiRocco of ESPN.com, Meyer Read more
Fasting before and during exposure to Salmonella enterica bacteria protects mice from developing a full-blown infection, in part due to changes in the animals’ gut microbiomes, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens by Bruce Vallance and colleagues at Read more
Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the United States, is partnering with a sports betting company – the first deal of its kind for a major U.S. newspaper publisher. In a 5-year deal worth over $100 million, the publisher of Read more
Intel executives may be good at overseeing technological innovations, but sometimes they share their enthusiasm on social media and unintentionally reveal bits about ongoing projects that aren’t supposed to be public yet. Such is the case of Gregory M. Bryant, Read more
An Ohio library said a former patron mailed in an E.E. Cummings poetry collection that was more than 50 years overdue — just weeks after a Bob Dyan record was returned 48 years late. The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library Read more
Jerod Mayo has made a quick rise since moving from playing football for the Patriots to becoming part of their coaching staff. Mayo was hired as the inside linebackers coach in New England in 2019 and became the team’s defensive Read more
An immune signal promotes the production of energy-burning “beige fat,” according to a new study publishing August 5th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Zhonghan Yang of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, and colleagues. The finding may lead to Read more
China’s months-long regulatory crackdown on a range of private companies has left tech upstarts and decades-old firms operating in a new, uncertain environment. Late last week, the State Council, or cabinet, imposed unexpectedly stringent requirements on the private tutoring sector, Read more
Facebook is reportedly building a team that’ll be tasked with learning how to analyze encrypted data without decrypting it. Given the company’s rocky history with user privacy, this seems like the last sort of thing they’d want to have anything Read more