India defeated Afghanistan by 47 runs in the T20 World Cup Super Eights match. Jasprit Bumrah's outstanding performance led to Afghanistan being bowled out for 134 while chasing 182. Former cricketer Mohammad Kaif praised Bumrah's skills and impact on the game. On a slow-paced Barbados wicket, Bumrah took three wickets for just seven runs in his four-over spell.
Objects may have been used for sewing tough fabrics—or possibly as ornaments
Matt Reynolds, Wired
In 1996 the United States hit peak potato. Americans were eating 64 pounds of the vegetables each year—more than at any point since modern records began in 1970. A...
Former President Donald Trump is raising his debate expectations for President Joe Biden after spending months describing him as a weak, mentally unfit leader.
Long build up is seen in the Bank Nifty Futures, where Open Interest rose by 7 per cent(Prov) with Nifty rising by 0.75 per cent
I wrote about the passing of the great Willie Mays yesterday. This paper asked me to do that in the name of a personal relationship I had with the man, and because it all seemed to cry for an immediate response.
Isaac Schultz, Gizmodo
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Hannah Devlin, The Guardian
George Murray Levick, an explorer with the Scott Antarctic expedition, spent the summer of 1911-12 taking detailed notes on the breeding cycle of Adélie...
Jess Thomson, Newsweek
While being attractive can have its perks, better-looking people may be more likely to develop problems with alcohol.
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Stuart Vyse, Skeptical Inquirer
It began at lunch with a professor in the Physics Department. I mentioned that I'd just taught a lesson about the moon illusion—the apparent larger size of...
Daniel Clery, Science Magazine
Living on one of the seven Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system would be strange indeed. Looming ominously in the sky is an enormous red star, prone to...
The Oilers center has sparked two consecutive wins as the Florida Panthers on Friday will try for a third time to win the NHL championship
Chris Kirkland, The Conversation
Our planet was born around 4.5 billion years ago. To understand this mind-bendingly long history, we need to study rocks and the minerals they are made...
Max G. Levy, Sequencer
Ferris Jabr's sense of the world changed when he learned about rain in the Amazon. It's no surprise that rain and the world's most voluminous river feeds the world's...
Aylin Woodward, WSJ
In the universe of Frank Herbert's
Ethan Siegel, Big Think
When you think about the idea of time travel, you likely think about the fantastic possibility of going backward in time to an event in the past, rather than our...
Andrey Feldman, Live Sci
A peculiar cluster of stars swirling around the violent center of the
Joanne Silberner, Undark
Last June, an anti-noise advocacy group, Quiet Communities, sued the Environmental Protection Agency for
The treatment plant is now $3 billion over budget, or about five times its original price tag.
Two illegal immigrants from Venezuela have been charged with capital murder in the death of a young Houston girl who was strangled to death and left in a creek.
American Museum of Natural History
Personal accounts of jumping leeches have shown up in field notes for more than a century, written by explorers who would encounter these parasites in rain...
University of Exeter
Scientists have discovered a new cause of why people who lack a specific blood group are genetically predisposed to be overweight or obese.
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University of Exeter
A devastating hurricane transformed a monkey society by changing the pros and cons of interacting with others, new...
