Scientists have identified a new type of protein in bacteria that could change our understanding of how these organisms interact with their environments.
A new study, published in Nature Communications, focuses on a protein called PopA, found in the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. The protein forms a unique fivefold structure, unlike the usual single or three-part structures seen in similar proteins.
Supported by the Wellcome Trust, BBSRC, ERC, MRC, and EPSRC an international research team, led by University of Birmingham scientists, used advanced imaging techniques to reveal that PopA has a bowl-like shape that can trap parts of the bacterial membrane inside it.
When PopA – an outer membrane protein (OMP) – is introduced into E. coli bacteria, it causes damage to their membranes. This suggests that PopA might play a role in how Bdellovibrio attacks and consumes other bacteria, whilst its ability to trap lipids (fats) suggests a new way bacteria might interact with their surroundings.
Structural analysis and AI-driven searches showed that PopA homologues – found across diverse bacterial species – form tetramers, hexamers, and even nonamers, all sharing the signature lipid‑trapping features. This suggests a widespread, previously unrecognised ‘superfamily’ of proteins.
Lead author Professor Andrew Lovering, from the University of Birmingham, commented: “Our discovery is significant because it challenges what scientists thought they knew about bacterial proteins. The unique structure and function of PopA suggest that bacteria have more complex ways of interacting with their environments than previously understood.
“This could open new possibilities for understanding how bacteria function and interact with their environments – leading to new ways to target harmful bacteria with important implications for medicine and biotechnology.”
The study also identified another new family of proteins that form ring-like structures, further expanding our knowledge of bacterial proteins and suggesting that the mechanism to combine into rings might be more common than previously thought.
Using a combination of X‑ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, and molecular dynamics, the team demonstrated that PopA, previously known as Bd0427, forms a central lipid-trapping cavity which is unusual given that the textbook model of membrane protein formation is centred on excluding lipids.
OMPs perform a wide range of functions including signalling, host cell adhesion, catalysis of crucial reactions, and transport of solutes/nutrients into and out of organelles within the human body. Understanding the natural variability of OMPs may have benefits ranging from antibacterial development to synthetic biology.
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It’s common for patients to schedule an office visit due to symptoms like shortness of breath from doing regular tasks, feeling heart palpitations, experiencing mild chest pain, or feeling weak or unusually tired.
During your assessment, if you determine that the patient has an irregular heartbeat, a family history of cardiac conditions, or believe further testing is warranted, realize that a patient could be fearful of cardiac testing. To ease the concerns of your patients, it’s important to explain how such testing can diagnose the reason they aren’t feeling quite right and how their treatment team can help them feel better.
Start With the Why
Leaving the trusted environment of a primary care office can be daunting for patients, particularly for those who haven’t had cardiac testing before. But explaining why you’re suggesting the tests can help a patient understand.
“The most important step would be to explain how cardiac testing can be important in order to screen for issues before they become serious,” said David Weininger Cohen, MD, a cardiologist with the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami in Florida.
He also suggested recounting what symptoms patients are experiencing and how specific tests can investigate what’s causing them. Also, explaining that some symptoms may not even be tied to cardiac issues could be another strategy to demonstrate the importance of further testing.
“For instance, chest pain is a symptom that becomes a common reason for visits. Most people usually associate chest pain with heart issues, but there are a lot of structures in the chest that can cause pain, not just the heart — cartilage, esophagus, sometimes part of the stomach, skin, and even nerve endings,” he said. “Ultimately, cardiac testing is important because it allows the physician to discriminate between cardiac and non-cardiac causes for the patient’s symptoms.”
In addition, reassuring your patients that these experts can diagnose potential issues may also ease their worries, so articulate how such cardiac tests are performed in a controlled environment with trained staff that can anticipate issues and respond quickly if something goes wrong, Weininger Cohen added.
Understand Patients Are Fearful of Test Results
Some patients are afraid of the results as much as the test.
“In those cases, I like to reinforce why the test is necessary and why we’re doing it,” said Weininger Cohen. “Additionally, I sometimes go through the possible scenarios depending on the results of each test.” Knowing what lies ahead, depending on what the test shows, can sometimes be reassuring — you’re showing patients you know exactly what the next steps would be.
Treat Fears Patient by Patient
Although there are some general practice strategies to ease fear regarding cardiac testing, personalizing your approach is also important.
“The best way to tackle fear of cardiac testing would be to ask the patient exactly what they’re afraid of,” said Weininger Cohen. Some patients are going to be afraid of having pain or discomfort during the test. Some patients are afraid of what the results may be, and some patients are afraid of possible complications.
“Usually, the best way to approach the topic is to explain the reason for the test and then address the specific fear the patient has,” he specified.
For example, the best way to describe an EKG would be to explain that it is a test that is trying to capture the electrical activity of the heart. To achieve that, the person performing it is putting sensors on different parts of the patient’s body to detect the heart’s electrical current from different points, he said. Emphasizing that the test is painless, and that it’s just capturing the natural electrical activity of the heart, should put patients at ease.
How Can You Best Describe an Echocardiogram?
Most patients understand what an ultrasound is, so advising patients that an echocardiogram is simply an ultrasound study of the heart can calm fears. It may also be helpful to share that in some cases, ultrasounds use enhancing agents, referred to as contrast, to get a look at the different structures of the heart, he said.
Some patients could be concerned about radiation.
“Both tests are radiation free, and this is something that some patients are very interested in knowing before proceeding, especially if they have been previously exposed to radiation through other diagnostic imaging tests or radiotherapy for cancer treatment,” Weininger Cohen said. Taking the time to explain both an echocardiogram and an EKG can help your patients understand what to expect and reduce worry and the fear of the unknown.
What to Tell Patients Before Referring to a Cardiologist
Referring a patient to a specialist like a cardiologist could cause fear. So explain why you’re taking this step.
Mustafa M. Ahmed, MD
“Telling a patient why they need to see a heart expert and how they will add to their overall care can be a helpful first step,” said Mustafa M. Ahmed, MD, a cardiologist and professor of medicine, who’s also vice chief of research of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and medical director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at the University of Florida in Gainesville. “Assuring them that they won’t be losing their primary care doctor, but gaining a specialist to consult with both them and the primary care team, is often a good way to frame expectations.”
Lifestyle Tweaks You Might Suggest
In the context of your discussions with patients regarding their symptoms and recommendations for cardiac testing, Ahmed suggested expressing how diet and exercise, as a part of overall lifestyle changes, can be the most impactful way to prevent heart disease.
“Gentle guidance and step-by-step encouragement are often helpful,” he said.
Also, involving other family members and friends in that journey is another strategy. This may include taking walks, preparing meals together, or embracing a healthier mindset overall.
We’re already beyond ridiculous with the full-on ad assault from
Apple as everyone is well aware by now. But the wild thing here — in this full screen pop-up in the Apple TV app — is that it’s
not in-app but links out to the web to pay?!
At least here in the US, if you just opened the TV app on iOS 18 last week, you were presented with this full-screen ad (replete with all those dumb ®’s, despite Apple’s ads for the same thing in the App Store omitting them).
There were two buttons to choose from: “Not Now” and “Buy Tickets ↗︎”. If you tapped the “Buy Tickets ↗︎” button, boom, you just jumped to the F1 The Movie website in your default browser. Kyle Alden, on Threads:
That’s weird, Apple’s new full screen F1 ad in the TV app links
out to the browser to compete the transaction, but for some reason
doesn’t include any full screen interstitials warning of the big
scary web, nor a confirmation dialog that it would open in the
browser? Must be an oversight.
The hypocrisy isn’t that Apple didn’t show a full-screen scare sheet for this link-out to the web. It’s that they require other developers, who are doing it to sell digital content, to show a scare sheet/confirmation.
One of the subtle differences with this particular promotion is that buying movie tickets is not “digital content” — even if they’re just passes in Apple Wallet or saved QR codes in an app like Fandango. You’re purchasing a real-world experience, so it’s not eligible for Apple’s In-App Purchase (IAP) system. This is why when you buy theater tickets in the Fandango app, Fandango charges your credit or debit card directly. Same when you pay for rides in Uber or Lyft. It’s really subtle for something like a movie. Pay for a movie to watch on your TV at home? That’s a digital purchase. Pay for a movie to watch in a theater? Not a digital purchase.
I understand the distinction between digital content (that’s consumed on your Apple device) and real-world goods and experiences (even if you pay for them in apps on your Apple device). But how many iPhone users understand this distinction? Like, if you polled 1,000 U.S. iPhone users who (a) purchase in-game content in games like Candy Crush, and (b) hail rides in Uber or Lyft, what percentage of those iPhone users do you think could give a coherent answer as to why their in-game purchases must use Apple’s IAP system, and why Uber not only doesn’t use IAP to charge for rides, but is not allowed to use IAP for that? I’d bet fewer than 1 percent. (I’d also bet that fewer than 1 percent care, which is why they don’t know.)
Is it inherently confusing to have a button in an app that jumps you out of the app to your default web browser (probably Safari, especially for people who might be confused) to complete a transaction, without a scare sheet or even a confirmation alert? I can see the argument that Apple’s answer is “Yes, it’s potentially confusing for many users”. But I can’t see the argument that the answer is “Yes, it’s potentially confusing for many users, but only if they’re trying to buy in-app content or subscriptions, but not confusing at all if they’re trying to buy, say, movie tickets.”
Over the past two decades, more than one-fifth of the world’s oceans, an area exceeding 75 million square kilometers, have undergone a phenomenon known as ocean darkening, according to groundbreaking new research.
Ocean darkening occurs when changes in water clarity reduce the depth of photic zones, the sunlit layers of the ocean that support 90% of marine life. These zones are crucial for ecological interactions driven by sunlight and moonlight, and any disruption could have far-reaching consequences.
The study, published in Global Change Biology, analyzed satellite data and numerical models to track annual shifts in the depth of the photic zone worldwide. Between 2003 and 2022, researchers found that 21% of the ocean had experienced significant darkening.
Some regions suffered particularly dramatic losses in light penetration:
Over 9% of the ocean, equivalent to the size of Africa, saw photic zones shrink by more than 50 meters.
In 2.6% of the ocean, light penetration dropped by over 100 meters.
At the same time, the researchers observed that around 10% of the ocean had become lighter, illustrating complex shifts in marine ecosystems.
The team, led by scientists from the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, has been studying artificial light at night (ALAN) for over a decade. However, they say ocean darkening is likely due to different factors.
Near coastlines, darkening appears to be linked to agricultural runoff, increased rainfall, and sediment loading. In open ocean regions, shifts in algal bloom patterns and rising sea surface temperatures have reduced light penetration, affecting the ecosystem.
The changes are especially pronounced in climate-sensitive regions, such as the Arctic, Antarctic, and the Gulf Stream. Coastal areas, including enclosed seas such as the Baltic, have also experienced widespread darkening due to excess nutrients fueling the growth of plankton.
The study found varying trends in UK waters:
The darkening was observed in parts of the North Sea, Celtic Sea, and the eastern coasts of England and Scotland.
In contrast, much of the English Channel and waters near Scotland’s northern isles became lighter.
Although the full ecological impact remains uncertain, researchers warn that ocean darkening could disrupt marine food chains, affect biodiversity, and reduce the ocean’s ability to support key ecosystem services.
As climate change accelerates, understanding these shifts will be crucial for protecting ocean health.
Journal Reference
Davies, T. W., & Smyth, T. (2025). Darkening of the Global Ocean. Global Change Biology, 31(5), e70227. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70227
Novak Djokovic overcame an uncharacteristically unsteady start to avoid what would have been his earliest exit at Wimbledon since 2016, coming through for a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 victory over 11th-seeded Alex de Minaur in the fourth round Monday.
With Roger Federer, an eight-time Wimbledon winner, sitting in the front row of the Royal Box, so little went right at the outset for the 38-year-old Djokovic on the grass below during a breezy afternoon with the temperature in the 60s Fahrenheit (teens Celsius), a week after matches were contested in record-breaking heat.
But Djokovic turned things around enough to grab the middle two sets and then really took control after trailing 4-1 in the fourth. He won the last five games and 14 of the final 15 points.
His bid for an eighth Wimbledon title and 25th Grand Slam singles trophy overall will continue against No. 22 Flavio Cobolli of Italy. Cobolli reached his first major quarterfinal with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3) victory over 2014 U.S. Open champion and two-time major runner-up Marin Cilic.
Djokovic will be appearing in his 63rd Slam quarterfinal.
Against de Minaur, he made mistake after mistake, double-faulting four times in the first set alone. By match’s end, he had faced a hard-to-believe 19 break points.
After entering with 41 holds in 42 service games in the tournament, Djokovic was broken in five of his first seven against de Minaur, a 26-year-old Australian who was supposed face the Serb in last year’s quarterfinals at Wimbledon but withdrew with an injured hip.
Despite producing merely four clean winners of his own in the opening set, de Minaur accumulated nearly twice as many points as Djokovic, 27-14. That’s because Djokovic contributed a whopping 16 unforced errors.
“I can’t remember when I’ve seen him play a worse set than this,” John McEnroe, who won Wimbledon three times in the 1980s, said on the BBC telecast. “I mean, it’s literally been years.”
All in all, Djokovic was discombobulated, chalking it up afterward to nerves. He rushed between points. He reacted to flubbed shots by rolling his eyes or shouting and glaring in the direction of his guest box or putting his arms wide as if seeking explanations from someone, anyone.
At changeovers, he placed an ice-filled towel — usually wrapped around necks by players in steamy conditions — on his stomach, which he complained about during his first-round victory last week. But afterward, Djokovic dismissed the significance of that.
This could have been Djokovic’s soonest setback at Wimbledon since he was eliminated in the third round by Sam Querrey nine years ago. That one was even more shocking, because it ended Djokovic’s 30-match Grand Slam winning streak, which included championships at the preceding four major tournaments in a row, making him the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold each of those trophies simultaneously.
Djokovic won his men’s-record 24th major title at the 2023 U.S. Open.
He’s come close to raising his total, finishing as the runner-up to Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon last year — the second consecutive time they met in the final, with the results the same — and departing each of the first two Slams of 2025 in the semifinals: he stopped with a hurt hamstring at the Australian Open in January and lost to No. 1 Jannik Sinner at the French Open last month.
No man as old as Djokovic is now has won a major championship.
He keeps showing why it’s not preposterous to think he could, though, such as his diving volley winner earlier in the tournament or the way Djokovic broke to lead 2-1 in the second set on a 35-stroke exchange Monday. He put his right index finger to his ear and waved his arms to ask for noise from the spectators.
The comeback officially was on, and soon enough, he was closing the third set with a winner to cap a 27-shot point.
By the very end, it’s almost as though de Minaur was resigned to defeat, knowing he’s only the latest — and perhaps not the last — opponent to succumb to a surging Djokovic.
If being a fast learner is a prerequisite for a potential champion, Mirra Andreeva fits the bill perfectly. Beaten in the first round here a year ago, the 18-year-old Russian defeated Emma Navarro 6-2, 6-3 on Monday to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon for the first time, with the promise of much more to come.
Taking the ball early to deny the American time, she changed the pace, as she loves to do, and manoeuvred her opponent into uncomfortable positions from which mistakes flowed. Andreeva is the youngest player to reach this stage at Wimbledon since the Czech Nicole Vaidisova in 2007 and on her Centre Court debut, with Roger Federer watching from the Royal Box, she was so much in the moment that she didn’t even realise she had won.
“It’s something crazy,” said Andreeva, who will now play Belinda Bencic, the Swiss who also reached her first Wimbledon quarter-final, having become a mother in April last year.
“I was super-nervous, playing first time on Centre Court. I really tried my best not to look in the box because I knew that I would lose focus, as I did, at 4-1 [in the second set], [when] I saw Roger and Mirka [his wife]. It’s been one of my dreams to see you in real life, so when I saw both of you, I got really, really nervous. But I’m super-happy I managed to stay focused.”
The great thing about young players is that they seem to improve almost week on week, improvements in their game appearing from one tournament to another. Coached by Conchita Martínez, the 1994 singles champion, Andreeva has been tipped for the top for a while but has really hit her stride this year, winning the Masters 1000 title in Indian Wells.
Her serve has also become a real weapon. She dropped only two points on first serve in the opening set, giving her the platform to show off her full game, from drop shots and angles to power and lobs. Tennis IQ, they call it. She was 5-1 up before Navarro knew what had hit her and she closed it out two games later.
A brilliant point, which ended with a flicked forehand pass, gave Andreeva the break in the opening game of the second set and though Navarro broke back immediately, the Russian broke twice more to open up a 4-1 lead. The American nabbed one of the breaks back but Andreeva then broke to love for victory, even if she didn’t know it at first.
“I just kept telling myself I’m facing break points, tried to tell myself I’m not the one who’s up in the score,” she said. “I think that helped me to stay focused and in the end I completely forgot the score. I’m happy I did it because I think I would be three times more nervous on a match point.”
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Belinda Bencic acknowledges the crowd after beating Ekaterina Alexandrova. Photograph: James Marsh/Shutterstock
It’s a little over 14 months since Bencic gave birth to her daughter and on Monday, the Swiss beat the No 18 seed, Ekaterina Alexandrova, 7-6 (4), 6-4. It’s her fourth major quarter-final in all but first since 2021 and her first away from the US Open.
“Finally I managed to do the next step to go to the quarter-finals,” Bencic said. “I think it’s just really a result of the work we put in and also the mindset that I have now. Of course, you could see I’m trying my best to win. I’m fighting with everything I have on the court. I still want to win very badly. It’s much different now and I am surprised, but of course, I’m not going to complain about it.”
Liudmila Samsonova is also through to her first Wimbledon quarter-final after beating Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 7-5, 7-5. The Spaniard had a set point at 5-4 in the opener but 19th seed Samsonova came through.
The emission spectrum of WASP-19b in terms of brightness temperatures (grey), derived from the observed emission spectrum shown in Figure 1 (from Eureka! reduction). The best-fit free-chemistry model from our retrieval analysis is shown, along with its residuals, as well as the best-fit retrieved models excluding each detected species. These models were used to statistically assess the significance of each detection. Key spectral features from each detected molecular species are highlighted for reference. — astro-ph.EP
Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) offer exceptional opportunities for detailed atmospheric characterization via emission spectroscopy.
Here we present a comprehensive analysis of the dayside atmosphere of WASP-19b—one of the shortest-period UHJs—using archival JWST NIRSpec/PRISM observations spanning 0.6-5.3 μm. We report robust detections of H2O (16.44 σ), CO (5.47 σ), and CO2 (10.72 σ), along with marginal detections of CH4 (3.76 σ) and C2H2 (2.45 σ).
The retrieved composition reveals a highly carbon-rich atmosphere with a tightly constrained super-solar C/O ratio of 0.94±0.03. Elevated abundances of carbon-bearing species provide strong evidence (11.69 σ) for disequilibrium chemistry.
We also detect condensate clouds, likely Al2O3(c), at high significance (17.28 σ), and constrain the atmospheric metallicity to 1.7+1.2−0.7 × solar. These results establish a precise benchmark for modeling dayside conditions in extreme irradiated atmospheres and demonstrate JWST’s transformative capabilities for exoplanet science.
Suman Saha, James S. Jenkins
Comments: 32 pages, including 11 figures and 3 tables. Under review—comments are warmly welcomed!
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Left-arm fingerspinner R Sai Kishore has signed to play for Surrey in Division One of the County Championship. Sai Kishore, 28, will be available for two first-class games towards the end of July.
His first game, set to be in Scarborough, could see Sai Kishore come up against his former Chennai Super Kings team-mate Ruturaj Gaikwad, who has signed with Yorkshire. Sai Kishore will end his short stint with a game against Durham in Chester-le-Street, which will run from July 29 to August 1.
“I’m really excited to be joining Surrey for the next two County Championship matches,” Sai Kishore said in a statement. “Surrey are one of the most prestigious clubs in the world and I have heard great things about the set-up from lots of different people in the game.”
Alec Stewart, Surrey’s high-performance advisor, welcomed Sai Kishore into the team. “I’m delighted to bring the highly rated Sai Kishore into our squad for the next two Kookaburra games,” Stewart said. “All the reports I have received from people I respect in the Indian game have spoken highly of him. His four-day record for Tamil Nadu is very good and he brings leadership experience to the group.”
This will be Sai Kishore’s first appearance in county cricket. He has been on a steady diet of T20 cricket from March, emerging as the second-highest wicket-taker among spinners in IPL 2025, with 19 strikes in 15 games at an economy rate of 9.24 for Gujarat Titans. On Sunday, he had led his club to their maiden Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) T20 title.
During the IPL, Daniel Vettori, the former New Zealand captain and current Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach, delivered a glowing appraisal of Sai Kishore’s skills.
“Sai Kishore has been the pick [of the spinners],” Vettori said at a press conference. “He’s been fantastic, and I think he was a guy we looked very closely at in the auction and wanted him in the team. He’s very brave, his ability to turn the ball and change his pace and angle from over and around the wicket.
“I think it sort of sets up a template for other spinners to see how you can actually compete and succeed, and he’s done it on good batting wickets as well. I know he came to Hyderabad and bowled exceptionally well. I think he’s been incredibly impressive.”
Sai Kishore’s red-ball numbers are also impressive: 192 wickets in 46 first-class games at an average of 23.51 and economy rate of 2.76. In the 2023-24 Ranji Trophy season, Sai Kishore was the highest wicket-taker with 53 strikes in nine games at an average of 18.52 in Tamil Nadu’s run to the semi-finals.
He has since slipped down the pecking order in red-ball cricket for the national side, with Manav Suthar and Harsh Dubey winning call-ups for the India A tour of England. The stint with Surrey is a chance for Sai Kishore to push his red-ball case and tune up for the 2025-26 domestic season in India.
Sai Kishore has already had a taste of English conditions as a reserve player with the visiting India side in 2022. He bowled 14 overs against the Indians, coming away with the wicket of Cheteshwar Pujara for 22 in a tour game at Grace Road in Leicester.
Sai Kishore has played three matches for India, all T20Is. After playing county cricket, he may turn out for Tamil Nadu in the pre-season Buchi Babu tournament in the lead-up to the Ranji Trophy. Under his leadership, Tamil Nadu have reached the knockouts in the last two seasons of the Ranji Trophy.
Having won three county championship titles in a row, Surrey are eyeing a four-peat this season. Sai Kishore’s long-time team-mate at GT and Tamil Nadu, B Sai Sudharsan, was a part of Surrey’s title-winning campaigns in 2023 and 2024.
England U19s ended their youth ODI series against India on a high with an impressive seven-wicket victory at Visit Worcestershire New Road.
The tourists took the series by a 3-2 margin but England deservedly won the final game after an excellent bowling display restricted India’s power-packed batting line-up to 210 for nine. A strong collective effort saw all six bowlers take wickets with Ralphie Albert (two for 24) and Alex French (two for 37) most impressive. Only RS Ambrish (66 not out from 81 balls) passed 40.
England then cruised to 211 for three with 113 balls to spare. Ben Mayes (82 not out ,76 balls) and Thomas Rew (49 not out, 37) saw their side home at a canter after Ben Dawkins (66, 53) laid the platform with his third successive score in the sixties.
After India chose to bat, England’s rejigged seam attack began superbly with French and Matt Firbank each striking in their first over. Ayush Mhatre’s unproductive series concluded with a careless flick to mid on off Firbank before French added the big wicket of Vihaan Malhotra. Scorer of a high-class century in the previous game, Malhotra edged a superb delivery to wicketkeeper Rew.
Fourteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi, 322 from 162 balls in the first four games in the series, this time lacked fluency. He smote Firbank for successive sixes but was well-contained apart from that before, on 33 from 42, slicing Sebastian Morgan to deep third.
Leicestershire seamer Alex Green maintained the pressure and was rewarded with the wicket of Rahul Kmar, well-caught on the long leg rope by Dawkins. When England turned to spin, Albert soon ousted the dangerous Harvansh Pangalia (24, 37) lbw, sweeping,
Albert added the wicket of Kanishk Chouhan, slickly stumped by Rew having been lured down the wicket, and it was left to Ambrish to ensure the innings filled its 50 overs. He did so with a skilful half-century, shepherding the tail.
England’s reply took an early hit when Joe Moores bottom-edged a pull at Deepesh Davendra to wicketkeeper
Pangalia, but Dawkins and Mayes broke the back of the chase with a stand of 107 in 13 overs. Dawkins batted with increasing authority until, in pursuit of his fourth six, he lifted Naman Pushpak to long on where Chauhan took an excellent running catch.
When Pushpak turned one through the gate of Rocky Flintoff, India had a glimmer of hope, but captain Rew reached the crease with the equation still very favourable to England – 90 needed from 31 overs. Mayes reached his half-century from 48 balls and stayed strong to unfurl an immaculately organised innings while Rew ended the match with a flurry of boundaries against a flagging attack in an unbroken stand of 90 from 73 balls..
England batter Ben Mayes said:
“Coming off the back of the disappointment of losing the series a couple of days ago, it was nice to get a relatively comfortable win from which we can take the momentum into the Test matches in a week or so’s time. Absolute credit to our bowlers today. After a great Indian batting display a couple of days ago, we came back really strong to keep them to 210.
“They pack a big threat. especially the lefty up top and to keep him to a run a ball today showed how well they bowled.
“Then with the bat Ben Dawkins up top was brilliant and it was nice to get a few myself. There was a little bit of nip with the new ball and they have got some good seamers who extracted movement out of the pitch but Dawks put the pressure right back on them and then after we lost a couple of wickets, Rewy came in and played it perfectly.
“It was a pretty complete performance and we can’t wait for the Test series. These game have shown how close these two teams are so it should be a great series.”.
Match Summary
England Under-19s vs India Under-19s, 5th Youth ODI
iPadOS 26 beta 3 was just released, and alongside some design updates and new wallpaper options, Apple has given the iPad’s cursor a fun feature inspired by the Mac.
iPadOS 26 cursor now supports ‘shake to find’ feature
10 years ago in macOS El Capitan, Apple added a convenient and fun new feature for the system cursor.
Shake the cursor back and forth rapidly and it would enlarge, making it easier to locate.
This “shake to find” feature comes in handy when you’re not sure where your cursor is at any given moment.
And now in iPadOS 26 beta 3, the same feature is coming to the iPad.
The iPad is already getting a more Mac-inspired cursor in iPadOS 26. It now looks like a proper pointer, rather than the circle that was available in iPadOS 18.
It makes sense, then, that just as Apple makes the iPadOS 26 pointer more Mac-like than ever in its precision, it’s also going to become easier to lose due to the new design.
Bringing “shake to find” to the iPad’s cursor, then, is an especially timely addition.
Beyond the updated cursor design, iPadOS 26 packs a ton of other productivity and multitasking enhancements.
A new app windowing system, more powerful Files app, the menu bar, and an upgraded dock are among the highlights.
Currently iPadOS 26 is only available in developer beta, but a public beta will launch some time in July. The full public release for all users is expected in September.
What do you think of the iPad’s new cursor in iPadOS 26? Let us know in the comments.
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