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When H5N1 bird flu began infecting U.S. dairy cattle in early 2024, veterinarians struggled to identify the cause. The virus was difficult to recognize because it behaved very differently in cows than it does in other mammals. Rather than primarily infecting the lungs, H5N1 caused severe infections in the udders while leaving the respiratory system largely unaffected. Now, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health have uncovered the biological reason behind this unusual pattern. Their findings, published in Science Advances, provide the first detailed explanation for why bird flu took such an unexpected form in cattle. The…

North deserves his farewell given that he will go down as one of Wales’ modern-day greats.From the moment he scored two tries on his international debut as an 18-year-old in 2010, against South Africa who had star wing Bryan Habana in his pomp, North was a force on the international stage for more than a decade.As well as his Wales exploits, he toured with the British and Irish Lions in 2013 and 2017, playing three Tests and scoring two brilliant tries in the series win against Australia.After club stints with Scarlets, Northampton Saints and Ospreys, he has spent the past…

Amazon Prime Day is delivering steep discounts for channel add-ons, including Paramount+, Apple TV, and Starz If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale might be best known for discounts on tech, home goods, and wardrobe essentials, but there’s another side to the sale event that some shoppers might not know about: streaming deals. Unlike most streaming services, Prime Video allows its subscribers to add other streaming services to their account as “channels.” It’s a great way to get all of…

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has officially concluded the return airlift phase of the 2026 Hajj exercise, marking the successful completion of one of the country’s largest annual religious operations. The final batch of Nigerian pilgrims, comprising pilgrims and officials from Zamfara State, departed Jeddah aboard MaxAir flight VM2014 on Tuesday, 23 June, at 2:10 p.m. local time and is expected to arrive in Gusau later in the day. According to data from the commission’s Command and Control Centre, the concluding flight conveyed 149 pilgrims and 28 officials from Zamfara State, bringing the total number of pilgrims and…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked off a visit to the Middle East by saying that “no country” could charge ships for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, drawing a bright line on a key negotiating point with Iran that has major implications for global commerce.Mr. Rubio arrived in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, for the first of three stops in Gulf Arab capitals as leaders there and around the world try to decipher murky, often conflicting accounts of the negotiating positions Washington and Tehran have taken after a first round of peace talks in Switzerland…

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has said that President Bola Tinubu is considering an enhanced welfare package for the information personnel of the Ministry of Information and National Orientation and its agencies. Idris said the measures was aimed at improving the welfare package of personnel within Nigeria’s information sector as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen the public service and enhance service delivery. The minister, in a statement issued by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Dr Suleiman Haruna, disclosed this on Tuesday during the second day of activities marking the 2026 Civil Service Week Celebration…

Legal practitioners have been urged to embrace artificial intelligence, strengthen their negotiation skills and adopt strategic networking practices, to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving legal and business environment.  The call was made on Monday, at the opening of the 20th Annual International Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) in Abuja. The Conference, themed “Beyond Reforms – Measuring Policy Impact”, brought together legal professionals, business leaders and policy experts, to examine emerging trends shaping legal practice and commercial transactions.  Leading the opening session on negotiation, Mr Ayuli Jemide challenged conventional assumptions about deal-making, arguing that…

After a slower start than its major rivals, Toyota has been making up for it with a flurry of new electric vehicles for the North American market. Its first attempt, the bZ4x, was an also-ran, but a new battery pack, more efficient motors, and a NACS charging port transformed the face-lifted bZ into an EV I happily recommend. Then, earlier this year, it followed up with some bZ-related variants. For those who miss the vibe of a station wagon, there is the bZ Woodland, and an all-electric Highlander is nearing the showroom, too. But today’s focus is the C-HR, and…

The leader of a group of protesters accused of being members of the far-left movement antifa was sentenced on Tuesday to 100 years in prison after a jury found him and seven other demonstrators guilty of supporting terrorism while taking part in an armed assault last summer against an immigration facility in Alvarado, Texas.The extraordinary sentence against the protester, Benjamin Song, was only one of the harsh penalties meted out in the case during separate hearings in Federal District Court in Fort Worth by two judges who castigated the defendants for using violence and attacking the democratic process during the…

The problemDear Nature,I am an early-career researcher of Asian heritage working in an engineering research group in western Europe.Some laboratory members who grew up in Western Europe, including ones in senior positions, seem to have higher expectations of me and my Asian colleagues than they have of others. We’re expected to perform better academically and we have to follow strict rules to receive the same level of respect as other team members. The general sense is that we should clean the lab more, and achieve more, than others.International lab members are routinely referred to as “a problem”. For instance, when…