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Rafa review – Netflix’s documentary couldn’t have gotten closer to Spain’s greatest ever tennis player | Rafael Nadal

Rafa review – Netflix’s documentary couldn’t have gotten closer to Spain’s greatest ever tennis player | Rafael Nadal

Published by Sam Flores

There’s a lovely sequence in the second episode of this four-part documentary about the career of Spain’s greatest ever tennis player. It’s 2007 and Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal are walking on to Wimbledon’s Centre Court to play the first of the many finals they would contest. Federer is poised and slightly smug; hair flopping perfectly over his headband, dressed in an immaculate white blazer. Nadal trails behind him, wearing a vest and baggy shorts, shaggy hair flowing and eyes wild, looking for all the world like a beautiful young caveman. It captures his initial appeal perfectly: in his early years, Nadal was elemental, athletic beyond description and impossibly charismatic: equal parts tennis player, action hero and acrobat. It feels like our sporting legends are increasingly reluctant to leave the stage. Lionel Messi (38) and Cristiano Ronaldo (41) will both be at this summer’s football World Cup. One of England’s greatest ever cricketers, James Anderson, turns 44 this year and is still plying his trade in the County Championship. Becoming unsurpassably brilliant at something requires …

Scientists say they may be closer than ever to reversing aging

Scientists say they may be closer than ever to reversing aging

Published by Jenni Sidey

In old age, the liver’s DNA packaging starts to come undone. That breakdown does not change the genetic code itself. What it changes is the way the code is folded, packed, and managed inside the cell, which can decide which genes stay quiet and which ones switch on. A team at Bar-Ilan University now reports that it reversed many of those age-linked shifts in old mice by increasing levels of a protein called SIRT6. The work, published in Nature Communications, points to aging as something more dynamic than simple wear and tear. In the mouse liver, the researchers found that aging loosened chromatin, the molecular structure that organizes DNA, while pushing inflammatory genes into a more active state and weakening gene programs tied to normal metabolism. “As we age, the genome loses its proper organization,” said Prof. Haim Cohen, director of the Sagol Healthy Human Longevity Center at Bar-Ilan University’s Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, who led the study. “Genes that should remain silent become activated, especially inflammatory genes, while genes required for normal liver …

French PM calls for ‘closer coordination’ with EU countries on hantavirus – POLITICO

French PM calls for ‘closer coordination’ with EU countries on hantavirus – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

The World Health Organization, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Spain — which allowed the virus-stricken ship to dock Sunday — and the Netherlands — the home of the ship’s operator — have been leading the public health and logistical effort to contain the outbreak and repatriate citizens. The WHO recommended monitoring passengers and crew, plus any close contacts, for 42 days, in isolation at home or a quarantine facility. So far, 11 cases have been reported, including three deaths. All 11 cases are among passengers or crew, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press briefing Tuesday alongside Spanish premier Pedro Sánchez. The Andes strain, the only variant known to transmit between people, has been identified. “WHO is aware of reports of a small number of patients with symptoms consistent with Andes virus, and we are following up on each of those reports with the respective countries,” Tedros said. Health Minister Stéphanie Rist has already been in contact with other European officials, Lecornu said, and had “shared with them the public …

Departing Iraola targets strong finish as Bournemouth edge closer to Europe

Departing Iraola targets strong finish as Bournemouth edge closer to Europe

Published by Sam Flores

May 9 : Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola said it would be massive to finish his three-year spell in charge on a high after his side’s push for Europe gathered pace with Saturday’s 1-0 win at Fulham in which both teams were reduced to 10 men before halftime. Brazil forward Rayan, 19, struck from long range in the 53rd minute to seal the points at Craven Cottage, taking his tally to five league goals since his January move from Vasco da Gama and three in successive matches. Bournemouth’s Ryan Christie was sent off in the 41st minute for a challenge on Timothy Castagne but Fulham’s numerical advantage proved short-lived as Joachim Andersen was dismissed just before halftime for a heavy tackle on Adrien Truffert. The result leaves Bournemouth sixth on 55 points with two matches remaining, four points behind Liverpool in fourth and three adrift of fifth-placed Aston Villa, who have a game in hand. Brighton & Hove Albion, who beat already relegated visitors Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0, are seventh on 53 points. “I have no rush …

A Closer Look at watchOS 26.5’s New Luminance Watch Face

A Closer Look at watchOS 26.5’s New Luminance Watch Face

Published by skeptic

With watchOS 26.5, Apple is introducing a Pride Luminance face, and it’s one of the most versatile and customizable watch faces. There are pre-configured color options, but the face also supports custom colors. You can select 1 to 12 colors from a palette that has every color of the rainbow, some in-between shades, and black, white, brown, and gray. The colors you pick are distributed across the watch face in a gradient, available in either radial or linear styles. The first style looks like a starburst, while the second style is a series of rectangular lines. The dial can be set to Rectangle for edge-to-edge color, or Circle for a smaller dial that supports four complications. As with most of Apple’s faces, the Luminance face is animated. When the wrist is down, it shrinks into slim lines of color on a black background, but when the wrist is raised, the full color palette is displayed. Colors will also shift slowly. Apple’s pre-selected colors represent different Pride flag colors, but with the deep customization options, the …

Perovskite breakthrough brings self-charging screens closer to reality

Perovskite breakthrough brings self-charging screens closer to reality

Published by Jenni Sidey

A display that quietly gathers energy from room light sounds a bit like science fiction, but the underlying physics has pointed in that direction for years. The basic idea is not hard to grasp. A good semiconductor can emit light efficiently, as in an LED, and absorb light efficiently, as in a solar cell. In principle, one material should be able to do both. In practice, though, engineers have kept running into the same roadblock: the kind of structure that makes one function work well usually weakens the other. A new study in Joule reports a way around that problem. In work led by Michael McGehee at the University of Colorado Boulder and Jixian Xu at the University of Science and Technology of China, researchers built a reciprocal perovskite diode that performs at a high level in both roles. Used as a solar cell, it reached a certified stabilized power-conversion efficiency of 26.7%. Used as a light-emitting diode, it achieved about 31% external quantum efficiency. Those numbers would stand out even if the device had …

Leeds edge closer to Premier League safety after 3-1 Burnley victory

Leeds edge closer to Premier League safety after 3-1 Burnley victory

Published by Sam Flores

LEEDS, England, May 1 : Leeds United continued to move clear of relegation danger with a 3-1 home win over Burnley on Friday, which saw them climb to 14th in the Premier League standings. Leeds advanced to 43 points from 35 games, with three fixtures still to complete, nine points clear of 18th-placed Tottenham Hotspur. Anton Stach netted with a low long-range shot into the bottom corner in the eighth minute, catching visiting goalkeeper Martin Dubravka scrambling to get into position to give Leeds a positive start. Two goals in four minutes soon after the break saw them make sure of the vital points. Noah Okafor added the second after Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s clever back heel put Jayden Bogle free on the right to provide the pass in the 52nd minute, and Calvert-Lewin scrambled home the third in the 56th minute after Dubravka parried Ao Tanaka’s shot. Burnley had the ball in the net in the 68th minute but Lucas Pires’ effort was chalked off for offside after a VAR check. But within three minutes Frenchman …

East Africa’s Turkana Rift may be closer to splitting than scientists thought

East Africa’s Turkana Rift may be closer to splitting than scientists thought

Published by Jenni Sidey

A long, low basin in eastern Africa has spent millions of years collecting some of the most important clues to human origins. Now it is offering another kind of evidence, this time from far below the surface. Beneath the Turkana Rift, which stretches across Kenya and Ethiopia, researchers say Earth’s crust has thinned much more than scientists realized. In places along the rift axis, it is only about 13 kilometers thick, down from more than 35 kilometers farther out. That degree of thinning places the region in a critical stage of continental breakup known as necking, when crust weakens, narrows and becomes more likely to split apart. The study, published in Nature Communications, argues that the Turkana Rift is the first identified active continental rift now undergoing this phase. The finding matters for geology because it offers a rare chance to study a stage of rifting that usually has to be reconstructed from ancient, buried margins. It also matters for paleoanthropology, because the same tectonic changes may help explain why the Turkana Rift preserved such …

Can Turning Off Your Phone Bring You Closer to God?

Can Turning Off Your Phone Bring You Closer to God?

Published by José Betancourt

John Mark Comer can be a hard man to find. He’s one of the most famous pastors in America right now, an author whose books have together sold more than 1 million copies, but he’s not the most reachable guy. He has a professional website but no contact page. He rarely travels. And as I reported this story, I began to learn his habits: Sending him a text early in the day was a wash, for instance, because he doesn’t check his phone until after morning prayer time. Once, when I reached out by email, I got an out-of-office response that he had set before Christmas explaining that he was observing “rhythms of rest” and asking that I try him again after his return in mid-January. Incoming messages sent in the meantime would be deleted. Explore the May 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More I had first seen Comer in October, at a service for Church of the City New York, held inside a …