Saudi Arabia set to host 2034 World Cup (bbc.in)
Saudi Arabia is in line to host the 2034 World Cup after Australia decides against bidding hours before the deadline.
Got a Mouse in Your Apartment? These Scientists Will Take It. (www.nytimes.com)
A research study is examining how mice that live in cities, close to humans, may have evolved differently from their country cousins.
Grand plan to drought-proof India could reduce rainfall (www.nature.com)
The major engineering scheme aims to interlink several Indian rivers to support irrigation....
Scientists deliberately gave women Zika — here’s why (www.nature.com)
‘Human challenge’ results suggest that such trials could be used to test vaccines when Zika incidence is low....
New initiative aims to sequence half a million genomes of people with African ancestry for health studies (www.science.org)
An industry-academic initiative announced today aims to create the largest ever database of genomes exclusively from people with African ancestry. Four biopharma companies contributing $80 million have teamed up with Meharry Medical College to launch the effort, which hopes to recruit up to 500,000 African Americans and people...
New initiative aims to sequence half a million genomes of people with African ancestry for health studies (www.science.org)
An industry-academic initiative announced today aims to create the largest ever database of genomes exclusively from people with African ancestry. Four biopharma companies contributing $80 million have teamed up with Meharry Medical College to launch the effort, which hopes to recruit up to 500,000 African Americans and people...
New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (www.nature.com)
New clinical-trial data suggest that an antiviral pill called ensitrelvir shortens the duration of two unpleasant symptoms of COVID-19: loss of smell and taste. The medication is among the first to alleviate these effects and, unlike other COVID-19 treatments, is not reserved only for people at high risk of severe illness.
Greta Thunberg detained at Fossil Free London protest (bbc.in)
The Swedish climate campaigner was with other activists at a protest outside a central London hotel.
Belgium v Sweden abandoned after Brussels shooting (bbc.in)
Belgium's Euro 2024 qualifier against Sweden is abandoned at half-time for security reasons after two Swedish people are shot dead in Brussels.
UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years (www.bbc.co.uk)
The JET laboratory, the focus of European fusion experiments for decades, carries out its last test.
The fastest ever human-made object keeps breaking its own speed record (www.popsci.com)
The Parker Solar Probe's new top speed could get you from NYC to LA in just 20 seconds. It's not done yet.
Hubert Reeves, astrophysicien et grand vulgarisateur, est mort (www.lemonde.fr) French
Spécialiste de l’histoire du cosmos, le chercheur a su mettre la science à la portée de tous, multipliant livres et conférences. Il est mort à Paris le 13 octobre, à l’âge de 91 ans.
Teacher fatally stabbed in school attack in northern France (www.reuters.com)
A knifeman fatally stabbed a teacher and wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday and the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office.
80-year-old Russian woman found to have lived her whole life with needle in brain (www.independent.co.uk)
Unnamed octogenarian may have survived a failed infanticide attempt by her parents....
New Gaia release reveals rare lenses, cluster cores and unforeseen science (www.esa.int)
Today, ESA's Gaia mission releases a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Among other findings, the star surveyor surpasses its planned potential to reveal half a million new and faint stars in a massive cluster, identify over 380 possible cosmic lenses, and pinpoint the positions of more than 150 000 asteroids...
How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing (www.nature.com)
A world of AI-assisted writing and reviewing might transform the nature of the scientific paper.
Tired of aggressively amorous males? These female frogs play dead (www.science.org)
Spring is a dangerous time to be a female European common frog. After a winter-long hibernation, these amphibians congregate in shallow ponds to mate and lay eggs. The gatherings can turn ugly fast; male frogs, which vastly outnumber females, will regularly harass, intimidate, and coerce their counterparts into mating....
Medical imaging fails dark skin. Researchers fixed it. (hub.jhu.edu)
Traditional medical imaging works great for people with light skin but has trouble getting clear pictures from patients with darker skin. A Johns Hopkins University–led team found a way to deliver clear pictures of anyone's internal anatomy, no matter their skin tone....
The Soviet spacecraft cemetery in the Pacific (www.bbc.com)
Point Nemo has become the final resting place for hundreds of spacecraft. What will future archaeologists make of it?
Gene therapies for rare diseases are under threat. Scientists hope to save them (www.nature.com)
As industry steps aside, scientists seek innovative ways to make sure expensive treatments can reach people who need them.
Your brain finds it easy to size up four objects but not five — here’s why (www.nature.com)
Neuron activity shows that the brain uses different systems for counting up to four, and for five or more....
How to spot October’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse across the Americas (www.newscientist.com)
An annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse because of the way the sun and moon line up, will be visible in the US, Central America and South America on 14 October...
Guide stars found as Euclid's navigation fine tuned (www.esa.int)
Euclid has found its ‘lost’ guide stars as a software patch has solved its navigation woes and the next six years of observation schedules have been redesigned to avoid stray sunlight: it’s the end of an interesting commissioning phase and Euclid will now undergo its final testing in full ‘science mode’.
US science agencies on track to hit 25-year funding low (www.nature.com)
Last year, lawmakers in the United States passed bipartisan legislation intended to maintain US competitiveness with countries such as China by boosting funding for science and innovation. But concerns are mounting that the US Congress will fail to deliver on its promises....
A sixth basic taste may join sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami on the tongue (dornsife.usc.edu)
Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste — in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter — in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community officially agreed with him....
