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Memories leave lasting physical changes at the synaptic level. Although stable, larger spines are thought to support memory, the high turnover of dendritic spines and the drifting of neuronal representations after memory formation suggest alternative …

MMA’s pound-for-pound king, Islam Makhachev, makes his first Octagon appearance of 2026 on Saturday night, putting the UFC welterweight championship at stake against Ian Machado Garry in the main event of UFC 330 at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia.Makhachev defeated Jack Della Maddalena to claim the 170-pound title in November and has not lost a bout since his second UFC fight in October 2015. He would set a record for the longest UFC winning streak with a win Saturday.Machado Garry enters the fight with one loss in 10 Octagon appearances. In his two 2025 contests, Machado Garry earned unanimous decision…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Saturday Night Live writer/performer John Higgins, member of the Please Don’t Destroy comedy group, has joined the cast of ABC’s Scrubs for a major recurring role in the upcoming second season of the revival, Deadline has learned. He will play Grant, the new Chief Resident, who is envisioned as a thorn in J.D.’s side the way he himself once was for Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley), I hear. Donald Faison alluded to the casting at D23’s “Scrubs: Scrubbing Back” panel Saturday moderated by Scott Foley — who is returning to the show next season as Sean Kelly — and…

The Defence Headquarters has disclosed that its official X account has been compromised in an attempted unauthorised access. The DHQ, in a statement on Saturday by the Director of Defence Information, Maj Gen Samaila Uba, said the incident was being treated as a cybersecurity matter, with technical measures activated to secure the account. The statement read, “The Defence Headquarters wishes to inform members of the public, the media and all stakeholders that it has detected an attempted unauthorised compromise of its official X (formerly Twitter) account. “The incident is currently being treated as a cybersecurity matter, and appropriate technical measures…

Rescue teams in Indonesia have been searching for survivors of Saturday’s major earthquake which left at least 47 people dead.The magnitude 7.7 quake struck the island of Flores shortly before 05:00 (22:00 GMT on Friday) and had a depth of 15km, Indonesia’s meteorology and geophysics agency stated.Preliminary reports indicate hundreds of buildings have been severely damaged by the quake and the dozens of aftershocks that followed.However, the full scale of the disaster is still unclear, and news of a second earthquake of magnitude 6.9 at the other end of Indonesia served as a reminder of why they call this region…

By Udeme Akpan, Energy Editor Nigeria’s crude oil production, excluding condensate, fell by 37,000 barrels per day, bpd, to 1.546 million bpd in July 2026, from 1.583 million bpd in June, according to the latest report by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC. The decline, based on secondary sources cited by OPEC, represents a 2.3 per cent month-on-month reduction in the country’s crude oil output. The figures were contained in OPEC’s latest Monthly Oil Market Report, which showed that Nigeria remained one of Africa’s major crude oil producers despite the July decline. OPEC’s data showed that Nigeria’s production…

Police in Scotland have issued a stark warning about the need for “robust security measures” to stop proposed AI datacentres from being attacked by protesters.There has been mounting opposition to AI infrastructure globally, including in the US where such projects have become a significant political rallying point.Police Scotland said “a great deal of public opposition is likely” to a datacentre planned in Larbert, about 30 miles west of Edinburgh, in a letter submitted as a part of a planning consultation this month.The letter encouraged the datacentre’s developer to liaise with the police to prevent “unplanned incursions for the purposes of…

Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite vaccines, in which parasites are attenuated at the liver stage, provide high efficacy but require complex manufacture and intravenous administration of high sporozoite doses. We found that a single low-dose P. berghei …

Scottie Scheffler will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the FedEx St Jude Championship in Memphis as he looks to complete his first win since January.The three-stroke advantage the world No 1 had carved out at halfway after a second-round, course-record 61 was trimmed by one as he bogeyed his penultimate hole at TPC Southwind on Saturday before signing for a two-under 68 and closing on 13 under. Sam Burns carded a sizzling, bogey-free eight-under 62 while Sungjae Im shot a three-under 67 with those players the leader’s closest challengers on 11 under. But Scheffler is now…

Slipknot is officially parting ways with Sid Wilson, who had been part of the group for nearly 30 years. “Effective immediately, Slipknot will no longer be associated with Sid Wilson,” the band posted on its Instagram account in a post that has since been taken down. “We wish him the best in his future endeavors.” The DJ and keyboardist had been part of the heavy metal group since 1998, a year before Slipknot’s first studio album was released. News of Wilson’s departure was first reported by TMZ in late July, although the reason that Slipknot decided to kick him out…