Everton finished one place above Liverpool in 2004-05, leading the Goodison Park faithful to christen their rivals’ manager ‘Rather Beneath-us’ but there can be no doubt about the current balance of power in Merseyside. Rafael Benitez is now in the Everton technical area and is under immense pressure after a run of two Premier League…
Chelsea’s forwards are misfiring in the Premier League due to their defensive workload, manager Thomas Tuchel said on Tuesday, but the German manager trusts his team to get them back to their goal scoring best. League leaders Chelsea have scored 31 goals this season – second-best behind Liverpool’s tally of 39 – but they have…
It has been a cold, calm November in southern England. Every few days, the autumnal murk has been punctured by skies of frigid, high-blue brilliance. And on these days, inflatable rubber boats—gray or black, sometimes as many as a few dozen—have set off from the wide, sandy beaches of northern France and chanced a course…
Chris Cuomo’s business is media. Andrew Cuomo’s business is politics. The line between them is clear, except when it isn’t. “I’m trying to help my brother,” Cuomo told investigators working for the New York attorney general’s office during a six-hour deposition in July, a transcript of which was made public on Monday. “But I’m not…
The first case of the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, also known as B.1.1.529, was detected in southern Africa this month. Just a few weeks ago, South Africa, where the most Omicron infections have been detected, was recording around three hundred coronavirus cases a day—one of its lowest averages of the pandemic. Since then, cases have…
Little is known about the Omicron variant, which was first detected in Southern Africa, but the nature of its mutations and its seemingly rapid emergence have concerned governments around the world. Scientists are currently working to decipher how contagious and how deadly the new variant is—and to what extent it is able to evade any…
As the woman watched the slide show, the scanner tracked patterns of activation among her neurons. These patterns would be analyzed in terms of “voxels”—areas of activation that are roughly a cubic millimetre in size. In some ways, the fMRI data was extremely coarse: each voxel represented the oxygen consumption of about a million neurons,…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers in Brazil and Belgium have developed a molecule of pharmaceutical interest from collinein-1, a protein found in rattlesnake venom. They used a technique called PEGylation to make the molecule, now called PEG-rCollinein-1, more stable in the organism and resistant to the immune system, obtaining a drug candidate to modulate blood…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wheat and barley growers know the devastating effects of Fusarium head blight, or scab. The widespread fungal disease contaminates grain with toxins that cause illness in livestock and humans, and can render worthless an entire harvest. As Fusarium epidemics began to worsen across the eastern U.S. in the 1990s and beyond,…
A laboratory dish containing bacteria, some of which (dark spots) have been infected and killed by phages. Bacteria fight infection by means of defense mechanisms similar to those used by infected plants. Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science A brown blotch on a plant leaf may be a sign that the plant’s defenses are hard at…
