Alireza Firouzja, the Iran-born 18-year-old who emigrated to France due to Tehran’s punishments for playing Israeli opponents, has become the third youngest Candidate in chess history, with a chance of…
Month: November 2021
A new risk score to help predict possible contrast-associated kidney injury after percutaneous coronary intervention
A new, updated risk score can help predict possible contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), Mount Sinai researchers report. They said the simple and…
Insurers plan to up ramp up private market investments, BlackRock says
Insurers plan to increase their allocations to private markets to 14% from 11% over the next two years in the hunt for yield, as they add more money to environmentally…
FuboTV crosses 1 million subscribers six years after launch
Sports-focused streaming TV service FuboTV has surpassed 1 million subscribers, the company announced today. The news came as part of FuboTV’s third-quarter financial earnings report: it ended Q3 with 944,605…
The Best Way to Eliminate Procrastination is Easier Than You Think, Says New Research
New research from the University of Otago has found that if you want someone to help you out with something, it is best not to set a deadline at all.…
What Aston Villa will expect from Steven Gerrard as he starts repair job
Steven Gerrard’s most obvious and urgent task in his new job is to make sense of Aston Villa. The club have big ambitions and trumpeted a vague plan for this…
A digital reconstruction of the brain’s power source
The EPFL Blue Brain Project has created the first digital reconstruction of the Neuro-Glia-Vascular Architecture providing a new framework to study brain function in health and disease. The study, published…
Asking prices for UK homes slip in November
Asking prices for British homes slipped by 0.6% this month as the market entered its usual lull ahead of the Christmas holidays, but they are expected to resume their rise…
Ecobee’s new home security service has a professional monitoring option
Ecobee now gives you the option to pair its smart home monitoring devices with a professional security service. With the company’s new Smart Security service, which replaces the Haven service…
Sisters Recreate Adorable Photo – With Daughters Stepping into Roles That Dreamed of Motherhood
Two sisters got pregnant around the same time—enabling them to recreate this adorable childhood photo of them, when they were dreaming of becoming mothers, and placed balloons under their nightgowns.…