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Stem cell transplants may be able to repair damage caused by stroke, according to researchers at the University of Zurich. In experiments with mice, the treatment helped generate new neurons, restore movement, and trigger several other forms of brain repair, offering a promising step toward regenerative treatments for neurological damage. Stroke is extremely common, affecting about one in four adults over a lifetime. Roughly half of those who experience one are left with lasting problems such as paralysis or difficulty speaking. These disabilities can occur because a stroke deprives parts of the brain of oxygen or causes bleeding that destroys…

Dutch thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) manufacturer Strohm has, in a joint industry program (JIP) with Petrobras and Shell, completed a qualification and field trial program for its ultra-deepwater TCP flowline technology.Source: Strohm The completion of the full-scale qualification and offshore field trial represents the final step before Petrobras installs and starts operating a pilot flowline in a Brazilian pre-salt field, on schedule in early 2027. “The project has great strategic relevance for the subsea sector in Brazil and beyond, as it decisively solves one of the major pipeline integrity challenges identified in recent years: the risk of stress‑corrosion cracking in…

The announcement of a deal regarding the future of Greenland hopefully ends a period of tension between the United States, Denmark, Greenland, and other European allies. U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed a triumphant deal, but the whole thing has been an exercise in pointlessness. Though more details, including the full text of the agreement, need to be released, much of what the purported deal accomplishes was either already the case or could have been achieved through diplomacy and without the threats of coercive action. Trump has had a fascination with Greenland since his first term, when he explored options to buy…

Overnight missile and drone attacks hit several Ukrainian regions as world leaders gather in New York for the UN General Assembly.Published On 22 Sep 202622 Sep 2026Russian forces have launched widespread attacks targeting industrial sites and critical energy infrastructure across several regions of Ukraine, killing at least three people and knocking out power to nearly 100,000 residents, Ukrainian officials said.The strikes overnight hit industrial facilities simultaneously in the Dnipropetrovsk region, including Dnipro, Pavlohrad and Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, regional Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on Telegram on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThree people were…

One of the more dramatic moments in a Liberal Democrat conference otherwise short of them came late on Sunday, when the party frontbencher Lisa Smart told the polling veteran John Curtice that, in effect, he no longer understood modern politics.Curtice had warned the Lib Dems they risked being left behind, with the lack of a coherent national message seeing them all but ignored outside a few electoral strongholds. Smart’s response? In the new era of five- or six-party politics, and mass tactical voting, this does not matter.It was a distillation of the largely underground debate which has dominated the gathering…

Good morning. Andy Burnham is at the United Nations general assembly today and in a speech to the world (or, technically, to people in the hall and anyone watching on TV at around 2am UK time), he will say that Britain is not “on the slide”.Speaking to reporters on the plane to New York, Burnham said: double quotation markThe plan for Britain is about ‘what is our direction over the next 10 years and how do we make life more affordable for people’. That is my main priority, that’s what people are looking for. I hear people saying the country…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Friedrich Merz’s political woes have plunged the EU agenda into doubt as Brussels braces for months of uncertainty over the fate of the German chancellor.The most immediate concern is the bloc’s proposed €2tn budget, a seven-year agreement that will force difficult choices on everything from defence to farm subsidies. Without Germany, the EU’s biggest member state, firmly behind the compromise — and ideally helping to steer it — a deal by year-end becomes much harder.Four officials involved in the talks said heavy…

The Netherlands’ ASML is possibly the biggest name in lithography, using its machines to etch patterns onto silicon wafers inside a computer chip factory known as a fab. Fellow Dutch company Morphotonics is smaller and works in a different corner of the same field: nanoimprint lithography, or NIL, a process used to manufacture the displays in AR glasses and other optics. It said it has benefited from ASML’s supply chain and uses many of the same vendors. Morphotonics has spent 12 years developing that technology, largely under the radar. Now, as demand for smart glasses and other optics surges, the…

Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta’s Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app, security researcher Patrick Wardle has shown in a proof-of-concept released on September 21. It works by changing a hidden setting so that when the user taps the microphone and dictates a prompt, the words go to the attacker instead of Meta. The flaw is in the Mac version of Muse, and it only works if an attacker can already run code as the logged-in user. It cannot break into a Mac on its own. But Wardle told…

The Senate fell short of advancing the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, when a 49-50 cloture vote failed to reach the 60-vote threshold. Six days later, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Stand With Crypto had surpassed four million members.Armstrong wrote in a post that “the 2024 election proved the importance of the crypto voter,” adding that voters would remember who supported them.The Senate vote concerned whether to begin considering H.R. 3633, not final passage or the effectiveness of one group. Their proximity instead put Stand With Crypto’s political challenge in converting a large supporter list into the bipartisan votes needed to…