As World Cup fever builds ahead of Monday’s middle-of-the-night match, businesses are scrambling to work out how they handle the day after. Employees who are hoping to stay up late for England’s clash with Mexico – which kicks off at 01:00 BST – will want to know what their options are. While some industries such…
Modern weight loss medications have transformed obesity treatment, helping many people lose significant amounts of weight. But these drugs often come with an important drawback: They can also reduce muscle mass. Now, researchers have uncovered a biological mechanism that may one day help address that challenge while also boosting the body’s ability to burn fat….
Keir Starmer has stepped down and Andy Burnham is, in all likelihood, about to walk through the door of No 10. I have had the rare privilege of working closely with both men. For five years I served as a chief prosecutor while Keir Starmer was director of public prosecutions (DPP). And for much of…
Probably not, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. In a new working paper, Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober, a former UCR graduate student who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon, argue that conscious beings may be possible even if they are built from…
When the pandemic came to an end, many people who had been working from home assumed they would be allowed to maintain that habit at least a few days a week. But today in the U.S., a third of companies have forced everyone back to the office full time and have banned remote and hybrid…
The team shuffles onto the bus outside their senior living community in Tulsa, Okla., wearing game-day jerseys that feature an American flag with white pins and a red bowling ball. They are the U.V. Okies, a local sensation. Just a half-mile down the road await the underdogs, the Burgundy Place Strikers, who are angling to…
Lawyers for Nick Reiner, who has been charged with the murder of his parents, filed legal papers on Monday requesting money from a trust fund of more than $1.5 million to help finance his defense. Mr. Reiner, the younger son of the Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, pleaded not guilty to the…
Scott Pelley worked at CBS News for 37 years, including as White House correspondent, anchor of the “CBS Evening News” and “60 Minutes” correspondent until he was fired on Tuesday. His departure came after the editor in chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss, dismissed several of his colleagues and hired a new “60 Minutes” executive…
The New World screwworm, a flesh-eating fly that preys on livestock and other animals, has staged an unwelcome return to the United States, 60 years after the parasitic pests were officially eradicated from the country. The infestation was found in a 3-week-old calf in Texas, federal officials announced on Wednesday night. An aggressive decades-long eradication…
Popular GLP-1 drugs including Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound have already transformed the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity. Now, new research suggests these medications may also help prevent and treat addiction across a broad range of substances. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that GLP-1 medications were associated…
