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Scientists have taken a major step toward understanding cancer in cats, opening what researchers once described as a genetic “black box.” In a large international study published in Science, researchers genetically analyzed cat cancers on a scale that had not been attempted before. The work could improve cancer care for cats while also helping scientists better understand how some cancers develop in humans and other animals. The researchers also created a freely available resource that other scientists can use to study the genetics of feline cancer. Cancer is one of the leading causes of illness and death in cats, yet…

World News Day has grown since it began in 2018, and its message that “trusted journalism matters” aims to highlight the role of news providers in investigating and explaining important events.It comes against a backdrop of what the recent Reuters Institute report described as “anxiety, disengagement, and cynicism” towards news among the public, “but also openness to new sources and formats, and continued belief in what news at its best can offer”.Social media and video networks overtook news organisations’ own websites and apps as the main source of online news last year, but are trusted less, the report said.In another…

Free speech will be a big concern for voters at the next general election, with the government’s current approach on the issue perceived by many to be bad for Britain, polling suggests.Three in five people said a political party’s position on free speech would affect how they voted at a general election. The human rights organisation Liberty, which commissioned the polling from More in Common, claimed the results showed that Labour’s failure to protect free speech could cost it votes.A significant proportion of those polled felt certain policies and rhetoric by politicians had been detrimental for free speech. For example,…

If you were to ask me what game or game series I’ve sunk the most time into, the answer would be easy: Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP). I have spent roughly 2,300 hours, according to Steam, playing various editions of the game. OOTP isn’t like MLB The Show or Super Mega Baseball. It’s not graphically impressive. It’s not a blast of simple arcade fun. It is basically a spreadsheet pretending to be a video game. It’s fantasy baseball, but without having to wait six months to see how disappointing that sleeper draft pick will be, because you can plow…

Commercial real estate is facing a historic reset, and Grant Cardone is using it to stack Bitcoin. The Cardone Capital founder explains how high interest rates are pushing properties below replacement cost and how he fills that gap with Bitcoin on the balance sheet. He breaks down his goal of 25,000 apartments and 25,000 BTC, and why he calls real estate his “Trojan horse” for Bitcoin. Chapters:00:00 Grant Cardone on the Commercial Real Estate Reset and 6.4% Rates00:51 How Cardone Capital’s Bitcoin Real Estate Deals Work02:23 Why REITs Can Never Own Bitcoin: Cardone’s Competitive Moat04:26 From 3,000 to 25,000 BTC:…

When archaeologists uncover adults and children buried together in medieval graves, a natural assumption is that they belonged to the same family. New research from Stockholm University, published in Science Advances, suggests that was often not the case. Scientists analyzed DNA from 142 people who lived during the late Viking Age and Middle Ages. The group included more than 60 children and adolescents recovered from multiple graves at Sigtuna, near Stockholm, Västerhus in Jämtland, and Fjälkinge in Skåne. Shared Graves Were Often Not Family Graves The genetic evidence revealed that close biological relatives were surprisingly uncommon among people placed in…

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that he expects talks with Iran to resume in the coming week, despite his rejection of a truce proposal put forward by Tehran. Iranian officials brought with them to the UN General Assembly in New York a plan for a seven-day truce followed by the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz shipping channel. Trump dismissed the plan and has mused on resuming full-scale air strikes on Iranian targets, but he told the news platform Axios that he expects negotiations to resume.  “They want to make a deal, but it is not the deal that I want to make,” Trump told Axios.…

As Labour heads to Liverpool this week, Andy Burnham has promised to deliver “stability” in the public finances; but the economic backdrop is anything but stable.The longer the US-Israeli war on Iran persists, the more likely it is that UK consumers will have to swallow higher mortgage rates and energy bills – just as the government is wrestling with its own surging borrowing costs.We are only a few weeks into the three-month period tracking energy price moves that the regulator for Great Britain, Ofgem, will use as a basis to set the energy price cap in January – but it’s…

In recent weeks there has been much speculation in some parts of the media that Andy Burnham would call an early general election. Speculation that existed largely in the heads of those writing the stories, as even the most favourable polls suggest Labour would lose its huge majority and become the largest party in a coalition government. But to stop the chatter dominating his party conference, Burnham made it clear there would be no early election. His reward? Headlines in the rightwing press that he had bottled it. By not calling an election he had never planned to call. Sometimes…

Child predators are arguably the most reviled demographic in society.So when someone like Chris Hansen, the former NBC Dateline journalist and host of the To Catch a Predator series, decides to take up the mantle of exposing them to the public, he is naturally praised as a hero.But, as is revealed in Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime—a dramatized snapshot of Hansen’s life at the show’s peak—it’s not as simple as that. Exposing allegedly bad people for public entertainment brings up a lot of ethical concerns and unintended consequences. And while many of the vigilantes carrying out these sting operations claim they are…