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  • Lights to flag victory for Evans and Jaguar in Berlin E-Prix opener

    Lights to flag victory for Evans and Jaguar in Berlin E-Prix opener

    Jaguar TCS Racing star Mitch Evans delivered a dominating drive in the first race of the weekend in Berlin converting a sublime qualifying run to a champagne spraying victory.

    On Saturday race day, teams faced damp and tricky conditions on a slippery concrete surface at Tempelhof Airport – home to a former aerodrome. Once made for aircraft traffic, the 2.345km layout is now the host for an ABB FIA Formula E World Championship double-header – with all eyes on pole man Mitch Evans who was eager to show his worth after a bitterly disappointing season and the prospect of title hopeful Oliver Rowland (Nissan Formula E Team) securing the crown in the first race of the weekend.

    The opening two thirds of the race was a tactical affair with drivers threading their GEN3 Evo around the damp, but slowly drying circuit in the German capital. Polesitter Mitch Evans got proceedings underway brilliantly, utilising his road position in the spray and deploying an early Attack Mode to hold a commanding position at the front of the race.

    Behind the Kiwi, squabbling enraged between Robin Frijns (Envision Racing), the two championship hopefuls from Tag Heuer Porsche – António Félix da Costa and Pascal Wehrlein as well as Jean-Eric Verne (DS Penske) for the remainder of the podium positions.

    Wehrlein, who started from ninth, was up into the lead fight after a strong Attack Mode period – much to the delight of his home fans. Rowland was out muscled in the opening laps and was in the bottom half of the top ten by the mid stage of the race.
    Two different strategies emerged at the halfway point with most of the grid using an Attack Mode before and after the compulsory Pit Boost. A select few elected for a more aggressive option – led by Taylor Barnard and winner last time out in Jakarta Dan Ticktum, who elected to utilise both Attack options in the latter part of the race – praying for drama up front or a Safety Car to bunch the field back up again.

    A coming together between Sérgio Sette Câmara (Nissan) and David Beckmann (Cupra Kiro) produced a Safety Car with just ten laps left on the counter to go. The biggest moment of the frantic battle to the flag was the retirement of championship leader Oliver Rowland. The British driver, after taking his second Attack Mode, struggled with the grip and outbraked himself in an opportunistic move on Maserati MSG Racing driver Stoffel Vandoorne into the hairpin. Rowland was a passenger, running up the inside, with the contact resulting in a spin and damage leading to the towel being thrown in with no points to show.

    Meanwhile, Mitch Evans continued his march with a blisteringly quick restart – making most of a back marker acting as an unintentional line of defence between him, Wehrlein and the chasing pack – allowing the Jaguar driver to break away once more with an Attack Mode straight from the restart. 

    With a drying track, and opting for a later deployment, Wehrlein set-up a last-lap, grandstand finish with the pair fighting for grip in the run to the line with both cars almost nose to tail at the end of the 41 laps. Evans liftt his 14th first place trophy and a happy Wehrlein, who also snatched fastest lap of the race secured an impressive haul of points – closing up the gap for the championship fight – tightening the screw of pressure throwing the pressure back to Rowland in the second of the German races tomorrow.

    Rounding out the rostrum on the road was Porsche driver António Félix da Costa but the  Portuguese driver received a time penalty – which dropped him down to tenth – allowing the Mahindra of Edoardo Mortara to bank his second podium of the year.

    NEOM McLaren Formula E Team hotshot Taylor Barnard delivered a calculated drive with an excellent use of Attack Mode later on to seal fourth while one of the drivers of the day came from Evans’ teammate and fellow countryman Nick Cassidy who drove from the back of the grid to round out the top five to help Jaguar leap up the teams standings. 

    Maximilian Günther (DS Penske), Sébastien Buemi (Envision Racing), and Nico Mueller (Andretti Formula E) all had quiet races to finish sixth, seventh and eighth respectively, while  Dan Ticktum who was one of the drivers to keep his Attack Modes in his back pocket until late in the could only manage ninth ahead of the penalised Da Costa.

    If that race wasn’t enough, the Berlin double-header will reach its conclusion tomorrow with the second of two races billed for tomorrow (Sunday 13 July).

    Mitch Evans, No. 9, Jaguar TCS Racing:

    “I wasn’t expecting that today, it’s been difficult for us since São Paulo. There were tricky conditions and I was managing some stuff towards the end of the race with the brakes which wasn’t easy. I was quite happy with a bit of a gap, but nonetheless the car was competitive throughout the race and there were some good strategy calls from the team. My guys did so well. There’s always some work to do, but this is a nice reward for everyone back at Jaguar TCS Racing.”

    Pascal Wehrlein, No. 94, TAG Heuer Porsche said:

    “It was an important day and a good race, starting from P9. Finishing second is a good result, but we had a small taste of the victory. I think pace-wise, we were the quickest, so I tried really hard and it was close in the end. I think we can be happy with today – good points for the team, good points for the championship, and tomorrow is another chance. Every race is all-in and we try to maximise every one.”

    Edoardo Mortara, No. 48, Mahindra Racing said:

    “I think that the race actually went quite well for us, we kept one ATTACK MODE towards the end – I think that was the key actually to pass quite a few cars after the Safety Car. I’m happy with a second podium in a row, it looked good for us to take that – it’s taken quite a bit of time to actually chase a podium, and now there’s another moment, it’s very positive for the team.”

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  • “Forever our number 20”: Liverpool retires Diogo Jota’s shirt number

    “Forever our number 20”: Liverpool retires Diogo Jota’s shirt number

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    “Diogo Jota: Forever our number 20”. Liverpool FC confirmed Friday, in a statement on their official platforms, that they will be retiring the number 20 jersey from all the club’s squads “in honour and memory” of Diogo Jota.

    The Premier League club that the Portuguese footballer represented made the decision after “consulting his wife, Rute, and his family”. It will also cover the LFC Women and Academy teams.

    The club said the initiative is “recognition of not only the immeasurable contribution our lad from Portugal made to the Reds’ on-pitch successes over the last five years, but also the profound personal impact he had on his teammates, colleagues and supporters and the everlasting connections he built with them.”

    “What Jota meant – and continues to mean – to teammates, colleagues and supporters has been evident in the tributes that have followed since he and his brother, André, passed away,” the statement reads.

    In the club’s words, 20 was “the number [Jota] wore with pride and distinction”, having led the team “to countless victories in the process”.

    Remembering the man who, the statement said, “was not only an outstanding footballer” but also “an outstanding human being”, Liverpool FC also pledged to”stand alongside” Diogo’s family and his brother, André, who also lost his life in the early hours of 3 July.

    Diogo Jota, 28, and André Silva, 25, died following a road accident in the province of Zamora in Spain.

    According to preliminary data from the Guardia Civil investigation, wheel problems combined with speeding may have caused the Lamborghini Huracán they were both driving to crash, which was eventually consumed in a fire that resulted from the accident.

    They were both pronounced dead at the scene.

    André Silva was also a professional footballer and played for FC Penafiel, a club in the second division of Portuguese football.

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  • AI tool maps cancer in 3D detail

    AI tool maps cancer in 3D detail

    Imagine trying to describe a city using only drone photos, or judging a restaurant based on the menu font. That’s how scientists have long been forced to study cancer: peering through microscopes, crunching datasets, trying to understand cells by viewing one layer at a time.

    Now, a new deep-learning tool called CellLENS is flipping that model inside out, and zooming into cancer cells with unprecedented clarity.

    Developed by a powerhouse team from MIT, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and University of Pennsylvania and led by Bokai Zhu of the Broad Institute and Ragon Institute, CellLENS (Cell Local Environment and Neighborhood Scan) merges three perspectives into one:

    • What genes a cell expresses
    • Where does it live in the tumor
    • What it looks like under the microscope

    The tool creates a 3D atlas of the tumor, grouping cells not by first impressions, but by behavior and biology. That means two identical-looking cells can be accurately separated if one’s quietly suppressing the immune system while the other’s mounting an attack.

    This smart system blends two AI superpowers: convolutional neural networks and graph neural networks, to create a detailed digital snapshot of every single cell. Even if two cells look like identical twins under the microscope, the AI can spot if one is acting like a hero at the tumor’s edge while the other is just blending in quietly. It doesn’t just group cells by looks, it groups them by biology, behavior, and social scene.

    “Before, we’d just say, ‘Here’s a T cell,’” Zhu explains. “Now we can say, ‘Here’s a T cell, and it’s engaged in battle at this specific tumor border.’”

    It’s not just cell spotting, it’s cell storytelling.

    Many cancer treatments stumble because they target cells without understanding their spatial strategy. For instance, immune therapies often miss their mark if the target cells only huddle at the tumor’s edge. CellLENS fills in those blanks, revealing who’s where, doing what, and why it matters.

    Applied to healthy tissues and cancers like lymphoma and liver tumors, CellLENS uncovered rare immune cell types and decoded their silent choreography, showing how their positions in the tissue shaped their roles in either fighting disease or quietly fueling it.

    “I’m extremely excited by the potential of new AI tools, like CellLENS, to help us more holistically understand aberrant cellular behaviors within tissues,” says co-author Alex K. Shalek, the director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), the J. W. Kieckhefer Professor in IMES and Chemistry, and an extramural member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, as well as an Institute member of the Broad Institute and a member of the Ragon Institute.

    “We can now measure a tremendous amount of information about individual cells and their tissue contexts with cutting-edge, multi-omic assays. Effectively leveraging that data to nominate new therapeutic leads is a critical step in developing improved interventions. When coupled with the right input data and careful downstream validations, such tools promise to accelerate our ability to positively impact human health and wellness.”

    Journal Reference:

    1. Bokai Zhu, Sheng Gao, Shuxiao Chen et al. CellLENS enables cross-domain information fusion for enhanced cell population delineation in single-cell spatial omics data. Nature Immunology. DOI: 10.1038/s41590-025-02163-1

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  • Honor X70: Future Android battery-life leader backed to deliver solid build quality

    Honor X70: Future Android battery-life leader backed to deliver solid build quality

    The X70. (Image source: Honor)

    Honor asserts that the X70 will become a new class-leader in terms of Android smartphone battery life on its imminent debut. The device is also backed to beat even the highest-end handsets in terms of official durability ratings. Then again, it is also still predicted to crumple in other ways.

    Honor has just confirmed that it will unleash the Android smartphone market’s biggest battery yet in just a few days from today (July 12, 2025).

    It will be available in the X70, the design of which has also now been revealed. While that will be less novel, it will present its series’ classic Star Ring camera hump in new Bamboo Green, Moon Shadow White, Phantom Night Black and Vermillion Red colorways.

    They are backed to stay in mint condition for longer with dust and water resistance touted to go up to IP69K levels. The X70 has also apparently achieved an SGS “Gold Label Triple-Proof” drop-resistant certification.

    For all those potential killer features, the X70 is also projected to be held back in certain ways – chiefly its performance, which might be hampered by its integration of the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 SoC.

    In addition, it might fail to live up to its durability hype over time, should the plastic mid-frame predicted by the prodigious leaker Digital Chat Station indeed be made manifest on its July 15, 2025 debut.

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  • WHERE TO WATCH THE IFSC CLIMBING WORLD CUP CHAMONIX 2025

    WHERE TO WATCH THE IFSC CLIMBING WORLD CUP CHAMONIX 2025

    SCHEDULE AND RESULTS

    The schedule of the event in Chamonix is as follows:

    Friday, 11 July:
    19:00 – Speed qualifications

    Saturday, 12 July:
    9:00 – Lead qualifications
    21:00 – Speed finals

    Sunday, 13 July:
    10:00 – Lead semi-finals
    20:30 – Lead finals

    News and updates about the event will be available on the IFSC website and on the Federation’s digital channels: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, and exclusively for the Chinese audience, Douyin, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu.


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  • Pet Mutations in Grow a Garden explained

    Pet Mutations in Grow a Garden explained

    Pet Mutations are a new feature added to Grow a Garden in the Pet Mutation update.

    These new mutations work similarly to the mutations you might find on crops, but are for pets instead, giving them access to a new pool of abilities and passive traits.

    In this guide, we’ll run through everything you need to know about what Pet Mutations are, as well as all Pet Mutations listed.

    Pet Mutations in Grow a Garden explained

    Pet Mutations are a new feature added in the Pet Mutation update that allows you to modify and upgrade your pets to give them new abilities, boost their stats and more.

    To engage with this system, you’ll need to use the dedicated machine for the feature, which can be found next to the Pet Eggs and Gear vendors.

    The Pet Mutation machine can be seen on the left – the green pod. This is what you’ll interact with to begin the process. | Image credit: Eurogamer/The Garden Game

    Should you want to set one of your pets up with a mutation, you’ll first need to let the pet reach a level of 50, and then you’ll be able to interact with the Pet Mutations machine. It should be noted however that using this feature will reset the pet’s age back to 1, and the process takes somewhere around an hour to complete.

    As for the Mutations that will take effect, we’ll list them below – but you should also know that there are varying chances for which mutation your pet will get afflicted by. We run through all of this below, so be sure to keep reading for the info.

    All Pet Mutations and odds in Grow a Garden listed

    There are twelve Pet Mutations as part of the new feature, and each of them have varying odds and effects.

    Here are the full list of all Pet Mutations, their effects, and the odds:

    Pet Mutation Ability Odds to receive
    Shiny Provides a 15% boost to XP earned by the pet every second. 32.15%
    Inverted Provides a 30% boost to XP earned by the pet every second. 16.08%
    Windy Provides a 20-30% chance that, after 30-300 metres, nearby fruits obtain the Windstruck mutation. 9.65%
    Frozen Provides a 20-30% chance that, after 0.5-5 metres, nearby fruits receive the Frozen mutation. 9.65%
    Golden Boosts the pet’s passive ability. 6.43%
    Tiny The pet becomes tiny, slowing their hunger rate down by 20% and gains an additional 5-30 XP every second. 6.43%
    Mega Pet becomes massive, increasing the hunger rate by 20% and gaining an additional 10-40 XP every second. 6.43%
    IronSkin Has a 35-45% chance to recover any fruit that is stolen. 3.22%
    Radiant Every 20-30 metres, the sunlight it emits quickens the growth of a plant by 24 hours. 3.22%
    Shocked During Thunderstorms, every 45-60 seconds the pet has a 25-30% chance to attract lightning srikes, shocking nearby crops. 3.22%
    Rainbow Provides a larger boost to the pet’s passive ability. 3.22%
    Ascended Every 300-360 metres travelled, there’s a 75-90% chance to apply the Dawnbound mutation to crops. 0.32%

    There are many strong mutations in this list, and essentially all of them will help you in some way. However, it’s hard not to recommend the Ascended mutation if you can get it. Even some of the other mutations such as Frozen, or IronSkin especially will help you make more Sheckles, and secure you farm from any crop-stealers.

    Image credit: Eurogamer/The Garden Game

    Best of luck getting the mutations you’re looking for.

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  • Study reveals dopamine sends precise signals rather than broad brainwide messages

    Study reveals dopamine sends precise signals rather than broad brainwide messages

    A new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has upended decades of neuroscience dogma, revealing that dopamine, a neurotransmitter critical for movement, motivation, learning and mood, communicates in the brain with extraordinary precision, not broad diffusion as previously believed. This groundbreaking research offers fresh hope for millions of people living with dopamine-related disorders, marking a significant advance in the quest for precision-based neuroscience and medicine.

    For years, scientists thought of dopamine as a kind of chemical “broadcast system,” flooding large areas of the brain to influence behavior. But new research, published today in Science, found that dopamine acts more like a finely-tuned postal service, delivering highly localized messages to specific nerve cell branches at exact moments in time.

    Our current research found that dopamine signaling and transmission in the brain is much more complex than we thought. We knew that dopamine plays a role in many different behaviors, and our work gives the beginning of a framework for understanding how all those different behaviors could all be regulated by dopamine.”


    Christopher Ford, PhD, Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine and lead author

    Using advanced microscopy techniques, researchers found that dopamine is released in concentrated hotspots which enable targeted, rapid responses in nearby brain cells, while broader signals activate slower, widespread effects. This dual signaling system allows dopamine to simultaneously fine-tune individual neural connections and orchestrate complex behaviors like movement, decision-making, and learning.

    The implications are far-reaching. Dopamine system dysfunction plays a central role in a wide range of brain disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, addiction, schizophrenia, ADHD and depression. Current treatments largely focus on restoring overall dopamine levels but this research suggests that the precision of dopamine signaling may be just as crucial.

    “We are really only at the tip of the iceberg in trying to understand how dysfunctions in dopamine contribute to diseases like Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia or addiction,” said Ford. “More work is needed to grasp how these specific changes in dopamine signaling are affected in these different neurological and psychiatric diseases. The goal, of course, would then be to build on those findings to come up with new and improved treatments for those disorders.”

    Source:

    University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

    Journal reference:

    Yee, A. G., et al. (2025). Discrete spatiotemporal encoding of striatal dopamine transmission. Science. doi.org/10.1126/science.adp9833.

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  • U.S. port operators seek delay on expected 100% tariff on Chinese cargo cranes

    U.S. port operators seek delay on expected 100% tariff on Chinese cargo cranes

    U.S. port operators are urging the federal government to allow more time before implementing steep tariffs—potentially up to 100%—on ship-to-shore cargo cranes, amid rising expectations that the Trump administration will move ahead with plans to effectively bar the import of the vital port machinery.

    Earlier this year, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) proposed the tariffs in response to China’s dominant hold over global maritime manufacturing, seen as part of a broader strategy to gain commercial and military leverage at sea.

    Chinese state-owned Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) has become the leading global supplier, providing around 80% of the ship-to-shore cranes used across nearly two dozen U.S. ports, including key hubs in Los Angeles, Houston, and New York. Each crane typically costs between $10 million and $20 million.

    Carl Bentzel, president of the National Association of Waterfront Employers (NAWE), said U.S. officials have expressed in private meetings their intent to halt purchases of the Chinese equipment altogether. “I’ve been operating under the position that [100% tariffs] are the floor,” Bentzel said. “This is essentially a ban on the use of Chinese-manufactured cargo equipment.”

    Neither the White House nor the USTR offered immediate comment on the status of the decision.

    Trump’s effort follows earlier initiatives by past administrations. President Joe Biden, for example, imposed a 25% tariff on Chinese cranes in 2024, after multiple federal agencies—including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI, and NSA—raised alarms about potential cyber vulnerabilities embedded in port equipment.

    U.S. authorities have warned that software, modems, and other integrated systems in Chinese cranes could be exploited for espionage or even used to disable port operations in a conflict scenario.

    Despite these warnings, port operators have continued to source the more affordable cranes from China, prioritizing short-term cost savings over national security concerns. “The resistance from the port operator community overlooks the long-term risks,” said William Henagan, a Council on Foreign Relations fellow and former National Security Council director for critical infrastructure under the Biden administration.

    In response, ZPMC and several U.S. port authorities submitted letters to the USTR in May, disputing the severity of the alleged security threats. They also cautioned that sweeping tariffs could burden the industry with billions of dollars in unexpected costs, potentially delaying modernization efforts crucial for U.S. port competitiveness.

    Today, NAWE and other trade bodies are working behind the scenes to soften the blow. They are requesting exemptions for cranes already on order and advocating for a phased implementation of the new duties to avoid operational disruption.

    “We’ve chosen to work with them,” Bentzel added, underscoring the industry’s current focus on finding middle ground amid growing uncertainty over the policy’s final form.

     


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  • Lowest EVER price on the Canon EOS R50 V with a lens! This content creation camera is slashed by $205

    Lowest EVER price on the Canon EOS R50 V with a lens! This content creation camera is slashed by $205

    Amazon’s Prime Day sale ended yesterday, but the summer Walmart Deals are rolling through till Monday – and they include the biggest reduction there’s ever been on Canon’s newest camera!

    You can buy the Canon EOS R50 V with 14-30mm Power Zoom lens for just $724.99 – that’s its lowest ever price, with a huge saving of $205!

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  • HPV16 and 18 nearly eliminated in vaccinated Danish women but other high risk types persist

    HPV16 and 18 nearly eliminated in vaccinated Danish women but other high risk types persist

    Among the more than 100 types of human papillomavirus (HPV), at least 14 are considered as ‘high-risk’ types which can cause (cervical) cancer. After breast cancer, cervical cancer is the most common cancer in Europe among women aged 15–44 years.

    Before HPV vaccination among teenage girls started in Denmark, high-risk HPV was found in all cervical cancers. HPV types 16/18 accounted for around three quarters (74%) of cervical cancers. These two types are covered in the 4-valent HPV vaccine offered to girls since 2008 as well as the 9-valent vaccine which has been in use in Denmark since November 2017. One third (26%) of cervical cancers prior to the HPV immunisation campaign were caused by high-risk types that are not covered by the 2- and 4-valent vaccine.

    In their research article published in Eurosurveillance, Nonboe et al. examined the HPV status of cervical samples over time among women (22–30 years) at screening age for cervical cancer who were vaccinated as girls.

    They tested up to three consecutive cervical cell samples per participant provided by the contributing pathology departments in Denmark for HPV. In total, 17,252 women with at least one cervical cell sample were registered between 1 February 2017 and 29 February 2024. During the seven years of the randomised “Trial23” study (cervical cancer screening starts at age 23 in Denmark), 84% of women in the study had at least one cell sample taken. The authors compared HPV prevalence, persistence and incidence among vaccinated and unvaccinated women.

    “Strong indication” of population immunity against high-risk HPV types 16 and 18

    Based on the data gathered during the study period, HPV16/18 has been almost eliminated among vaccinated women in Denmark: prevalence of these two types in the samples decreased to < 1% in 2021 from 15–17% before vaccination of girls. In addition, prevalence of the types 16/18 in women who had not been vaccinated against HPV remained at 5% which, according to the authors, “strongly indicates population immunity”.

    Despite the evidence of protection through vaccination, about one third of women screened during the study period still had HPV infection with high-risk HPV types not covered by the offered vaccines – and new infections with these types were more frequent in vaccinated than in unvaccinated women

    There was a low prevalence of HPV16/18 during the 7-year study period and women who have been vaccinated against HPV as girls are expected to have a considerably lower risk of cervical cancer compared with previous generations. Therefore, the authors also assessed whether the current cervical screening strategies in the country could be adjusted accordingly or even stopped entirely.

    The study results showed a remaining high prevalence of high-risk HPV infections in women that are not covered by the HPV vaccines and that had been detected both in vaccinated and unvaccinated women during the study period. At the same time, the authors noted a significantly higher incidence of non-vaccine high-risk HPV types among vaccinated women than in unvaccinated women.

    Based on this, Nonboe et al. thus conclude that “less intensive screening seems reasonable until women vaccinated as girls with the 9-valent vaccine reach screening age, at which point screening should be reconsidered.”

    Source:

    European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

    Journal reference:

    Nonboe, M. H., et al. (2025). Human papillomavirus prevalence in first, second and third cervical cell samples from women HPV-vaccinated as girls, Denmark, 2017 to 2024: data from the Trial23 cohort study. Eurosurveillance. doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2025.30.27.2400820.

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