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Researchers have built a miniature human bladder with urine flowing through it, and the device has offered a concrete explanation for something millions of people experience as a personal failure: a urinary tract infection that comes back weeks after antibiotics supposedly cleared it.The answer, in this laboratory model, is that some of the bacteria were never reachable in the first place.A team led by University College London with the University of Oxford and the University of Leicester engineered a three-dimensional micro-bladder that reproduces the flow conditions of the human urinary tract. When they introduced the bacteria responsible for most urinary…

Dawn Vogel, a Republican county supervisor in rural Iowa, doesn’t have a lot in common with the leading democratic socialists in Congress. But on this bit of policy they agree: Data centers are proliferating across the American landscape too fast.Vogel voted earlier this year for a moratorium that temporarily bans data centers from setting up shop in her heavily Republican county, which favored President Donald Trump 63%-35% in 2024.“I don’t think this is a Republican or Democratic issue,” Vogel said on the sidelines of the Iowa State Association of Counties’ annual conference in late August, adding that she hasn’t talked…

Washington: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth decided in early 2025 to spike General Christopher T. Donahue’s nomination to be the top US military officer in Europe.Hegseth believed that President Donald Trump wanted heads to roll for the deaths of 13 US service members in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Donahue was not responsible for security at the bombing site. But he was a top commander at the airport, and so Hegseth decided he needed to go.It fell to Joe Kasper, Hegseth’s chief of staff, to try to convince Hegseth that…

Tony is A24’s biopic about celebrity chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain. Unlike many biopics, such as the recent Michael or Bohemian Rhapsody, Tony elects to focus its biopic on a very specific moment in Bourdain’s life, a period long before fame. Does this coming-of-age story work, or would focusing on Bourdain’s bigger struggles have been a wiser idea? Let’s find out. Directed by Matt Johnson (who is having a bit of a year, having also directed Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie earlier this year, Tony stars Dominic Sessa as the titular lead, an egotistical, troubled, and academically…

If it feels like Michigan can’t do much of anything without inviting controversy, you’ve just been paying attention for the past two years. Add to that list the seemingly phantom single second of time Big Ten officials found on their clock but not the game clock — the one all of us can see — that allowed the Wolverines to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. All official parties accept the result. College football fans are a different story.But now the Wolverines get Oklahoma — a program which has more talent, a better defense and a better quarterback coming to…

A magnitude 3.2 earthquake struck near the city of Compton early Sunday morning, delivering light shaking to the southern Los Angeles area.The temblor jolted the area at 12:13 a.m., with an epicenter about three miles south-southeast of Compton. People reported feeling shaking as far away as Santa Clarita, according to the United States Geological Survey. No damage or accidents were reported.It occurred about eight miles beneath the Earth’s surface.The epicenter near Compton sits directly over the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone, one of Southern California’s most prominent urban fault lines, running from Culver City southeast through Compton, Long Beach and south into…

Note: Today’s bonuses might be repeats, my records got a little messed up. I apologize if this is the case! Greetings gentle readers and welcome to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today it’s a film about isolation, resilience and the power of love, Exile: and next week’s film, Blade Runner: Reviews of Exile: Letterboxd says: This is a really solid existential art film, leant a stolid, windswept heft by it’s exquisite cinematography that revels in craggy Tasmanian coastline, and offered considerable ballast by its cast – about the best to be found in this country at the time.…

Alcaraz hasn’t dropped a single set in four matches at the US Open after a win over Tommy Paul in the last 16.Published On 6 Sep 20266 Sep 2026Carlos Alcaraz beat American 20th seed Tommy Paul 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 in a high-voltage tennis hit-fest on Sunday to reach the US Open quarterfinals and remain firmly on track for back-to-back titles at Flushing Meadows.The seven-time Grand Slam champion hit top form in New York after nearly five months out with a right wrist injury, and extended his major match-winning streak to 18 with a stunning display of shotmaking against a fellow…

Medora, North Dakota, is positively cuckoo for Theodore Roosevelt. Want to slumber like the 26th president? Stay at the Rough Riders Hotel on Third Avenue. Craving the hearty breakfast of the founder of the Bull Moose Party? Brunch at TR’s Tavern in Theodore’s Dining Room. Need an eponymous souvenir? Shop at Teddy’s Bears near the Point to Point amusement park. Seeking to emulate TR’s rugged outdoor adventures? Set out on the miles of bison-filled trails traversing Theodore Roosevelt National Park.