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The final two UFC title defenses of 2025 are set to go down on Saturday at UFC 323 in Las Vegas. In the main event, bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili will look to pick up his fourth win of the year when he faces former champion Petr Yan in a rematch.If Dvalishvili can defeat Yan, he would set the record for the most consecutive bantamweight title defenses at four and become the first champion to defend a title four times in a calendar year. Yan is a dangerous opponent, with sharp boxing and strong takedown defense, but sits as a +330…

Archaeologists digging at a Mesoamerican site in Mexico have discovered an unusual, cube-shaped human skull. It is the first evidence that people in this area practiced a unique form of head-shaping, scientifically known as cranial modification, around 1,400 years ago.The skull was unearthed near the archaeological site of Balcón de Montezuma (Balcony of Montezuma) in the east-central Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Various Mesoamerican ethnic groups lived in the area between 650 B.C. and A.D. 1200. Around A.D. 400, a village sprang up, eventually encompassing around 90 circular houses in two plazas, according to the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and…

Nerida HansenAt 6ft tall and plus-size, shop-bought clothes had never fitted Maree O’Connor well.Sewing offered her a solution – allowing her to use beautiful fabrics to make garments that fit just right.One day, while on the lookout for colourful prints to make new dresses, she spotted some “amazing” fabrics being sold online.Enticed by a yellow floral pattern and another black-and-white abstract design, she splashed out $600 (£450, A$900) on three orders.Months later, none had arrived.Chris Hopkins/BBCMaree O’Connor wondered if other buyers had also been waiting for their purchasesIt was October 2024, and tired of waiting, the legal studies teacher from…

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is reporting that Johny Srouji, senior vice president of hardware technologies, told Tim Cook he is “seriously considering” leaving Apple for another company in the near future. It was reported in October that Srouji was “evaluating his future at the tech giant.” While nothing is confirmed, it seems the executive is leaning towards not having a future at Cupertino.If Srouji leaves, he would be just the latest in a string of high-profile shakeups in the company’s C-suite. COO Jeff Williams announced his retirement in July, which led to some shifting of roles. But things have only accelerated…

Margot Robbie has come out in defence of Emerald Fennell’s new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, in which she is playing Cathy opposite Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff.Despite being months away from release, the film has attracted criticism for its casting as well as alterations that Fennell has made to the characters. In an interview with Vogue magazine, Robbie said: “I get it … there’s nothing else to go off at this point until people see the movie.”Much of the controversy has stemmed from the casting of Elordi as a character described by Brontë as “dark-skinned” and a “lascar” (a colonial…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Meet the German hairy snail (Pseudotrichia rubiginosa): a tiny mollusk with a hairy shell that lives along the River Thames in England, among other places. Researchers believe that its signature hairs help the strange creature live in its damp, riverside environments by enabling it to sweat off moisture. By wicking off that excess moisture, the slime gets more sticky, so the snail can hold onto the slick riverside debris and the plants it eats.  However, the snail needs some extra support. The German hairy snail is…

The detachable controllers go a long way towards making the device more portable and usable. The screen has a hefty flip-out kickstand on the back, so I’ve found it more comfortable to park the console on the table or bar in front of me, and hold the controllers at lap level. The upside to the substantial build is that the controllers have comfortable built-in grips, with smooth magnetic Hall effect sticks, and buttons that have a soft, yet distinct touch.There are also two minor inclusions here that I think do a lot for the user experience. The first is the…

My answer to the pertinent question put by Helen James in her letter (Was JMW Turner’s mother really ‘mentally ill’?, 27 November) is that whatever illness Mary may have had would have been greatly increased by the frustration that she must have felt with her circumstances in the mean lodging in Covent Garden, which her husband lacked the ambition to better. These contrasted with the comfortable Islington home in which she grew up and with the even more prosperous circumstances of her relations. I have discussed those in the Genealogists’ Magazine, the British Art Journal and now in my publication…

Dua Lipa paid tribute to Selena in Mexico City Friday during the singer’s final stop of her Radical Optimism World Tour. Throughout the globe-spanning trek, Lipa has delivered surprise regional covers at every show. That trend continued for the tour’s final leg, a run through Latin America that found Lipa performing the covers in Spanish and Portuguese.  After nearly nine months on the road, the tour concluded Friday night at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros, where Lipa honored one of the country’s most beloved singers with a rendition of “Amor Prohibido.” “I chose this song because I feel a very…

Liverpool let a two goal lead slip as they draw 3-3 with Leeds after a late equaliser from Ao Tanaka.