The opening three races of the 2026 season offered new track experience for the Alpine driver.
Some highlights from special collections libraries' blogs this week.
Backstage and Beyond with Sesame Street A Look Magazine photographer goes behind the scenes at Sesame Street before its debut.
Conservator as Mediator: Paper Mends on Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Newspapers A look at the repair work necessary to make delicate early newspapers usable for researchers.
Cat Shamans – The Fantastic Felines of Pre-Columbian Pottery
Marie Tharp, the Scientist who Mapped the Ocean Floor Tharp's work took plate tectonics from fringe theory to accepted science.
Backstage and Beyond with Sesame Street A Look Magazine photographer goes behind the scenes at Sesame Street before its debut.
Conservator as Mediator: Paper Mends on Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Newspapers A look at the repair work necessary to make delicate early newspapers usable for researchers.
Cat Shamans – The Fantastic Felines of Pre-Columbian Pottery
Marie Tharp, the Scientist who Mapped the Ocean Floor Tharp's work took plate tectonics from fringe theory to accepted science.
'Gargantuan,' melon-size hail may be more common than we realize. (WaPo gift link)
OUDENAARDE (ANP) - Parijs-Roubaix komt nog te vroeg voor Demi Vollering, zei de winnares van de Ronde van Vlaanderen zondag na afloop van die wedstrijd. "We hebben voor nu ons plan gemaakt en we houden Roubaix in ons achterhoofd voor een ander jaar."
Bij het maken van het koersschema vroeg ploegleider Lars Boom al of ze Roubaix wilde rijden, aldus Vollering. "Hij zei: als je Vlaanderen wint, dan ga je." Maar de renster van FDJ United-SUEZ wil niet meer van haar planning afwijken. "Ik wil het ooit wel doen, maar ik weet niet of dit het jaar is."
De 29-jarige Vollering heeft dit voorjaar laten zien ook in de kasseienklassiekers goed uit de voeten te kunnen. Ze won naast de Ronde van Vlaanderen ook Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Vollering stond voorheen vooral bekend als specialist in de heuvelklassiekers en de grote rondes.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft gezegd dat zijn ultimatum aan Iran om de Straat van Hormuz te openen dinsdagavond afloopt. "Als ze tegen dinsdagavond niets ondernemen, zullen ze geen elektriciteitscentrales meer hebben en zullen er geen bruggen meer overeind staan," aldus Trump in een interview met The Wall Street Journal.
Later plaatste Trump een bericht op sociale media, zonder daarbij Iran of andere details te noemen: "Dinsdag, 20.00 uur Eastern Time!" (woensdag 02.00 uur Nederlandse tijd).
In een afzonderlijk bericht, eerder op zondag, had Trump al gezegd dat Iran te maken zou krijgen met aanvallen op de infrastructuur als het de zeestraat niet tegen dinsdag zou openen. Hij noemde daarbij echter geen specifiek tijdstip.
Plants, toads, and mushrooms "can all produce psychedelic substances," writes ScienceAlert.
"And now their powers have been combined in one plant."
[S]cientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant ( Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced all five compounds simultaneously. As interest grows in psychedelics as potential treatments for illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD, the newly developed system could offer scientists a new way to produce these compounds for research purposes...
[P]rogress in this field remains limited, in part due to regulatory restrictions, underscoring the need for more research. This creates practical challenges for scientists. "Traditionally, the supply of psychedelics relies on natural producers, mainly plants, fungi, and the Sonoran Desert toad," the researchers write. "Harvesting these organisms for their psychoactive compounds raises ecological and ethical concerns, being increasingly threatened by habitat loss and overexploitation..."
[T]he team carefully monitored the plant's production of five psychedelic tryptamines: DMT originally from plants; psilocin and psilocybin from mushrooms; and bufotenin and 5-MeO-DMT from toads. The modified tobacco plants were found to produce all five compounds simultaneously.
The article points out that the researchers "also took it a step further." By tweaking the enzymes they were able to "produce modified versions of the compounds that do not naturally occur in plants, and which may also have therapeutic value."
"And now their powers have been combined in one plant."
[S]cientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant ( Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced all five compounds simultaneously. As interest grows in psychedelics as potential treatments for illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD, the newly developed system could offer scientists a new way to produce these compounds for research purposes...
[P]rogress in this field remains limited, in part due to regulatory restrictions, underscoring the need for more research. This creates practical challenges for scientists. "Traditionally, the supply of psychedelics relies on natural producers, mainly plants, fungi, and the Sonoran Desert toad," the researchers write. "Harvesting these organisms for their psychoactive compounds raises ecological and ethical concerns, being increasingly threatened by habitat loss and overexploitation..."
[T]he team carefully monitored the plant's production of five psychedelic tryptamines: DMT originally from plants; psilocin and psilocybin from mushrooms; and bufotenin and 5-MeO-DMT from toads. The modified tobacco plants were found to produce all five compounds simultaneously.
The article points out that the researchers "also took it a step further." By tweaking the enzymes they were able to "produce modified versions of the compounds that do not naturally occur in plants, and which may also have therapeutic value."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Er is een leven voor en een leven na het moment dat je voor het eerst kijkend door een verrekijker de schoonheid van vogels ontdekt. Vogelaars blijven niet voor niets vaak hun leven lang verslaafd aan hun hobby: van het kijken naar vogels word je gezonder, zowel fysiek als mentaal. Wat is er zo leuk aan?
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In de drugswereld is het gemakzuchtig geld verdienen, zegt het OM. Vader en zoon waren wellicht tussenhandelaren. Toch waren het hun gokfeesten – met dure auto’s, waar „schaars geklede dames” uit stapten – die een inval uitlokten.
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