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Your article (Millions of Britons face higher risk of heart failure due to dirty air, study suggests, 8 September) is just the latest reminder that toxic air is a public health crisis. The evidence is piling up. There’s also fresh evidence that air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia.Left unchecked, toxic air will keep shortening lives and worsening health everywhere. But the good news is that solutions are at hand. Academics at Princeton University have recently shown that cutting pollution in the US could save thousands of lives each year.At the global scale, cleaner air would avert millions of premature deaths each…

Easy’s Waltz, the new film from True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, makes good on about half the promise of its title. Pizzolatto keeps his film light on friction, ambling at an easy, lackadaisical pace. I’m not sure the movie ever really waltzes, though. That would require more grace and timing, which Pizzolatto’s script and direction only exhibit on occasion. Still, there is something charming in the way the film refuses to up its ante. It’s like running into someone at a bar who’s too tired to get up to say hello, so they wave you over to their table and…

1Postecoglou returns to north LondonAnge Postecoglou never won a north London derby while in charge at Tottenham, drawing one and losing three, so starting life in the Nottingham Forest dugout away to Arsenal might not be the ideal situation. It has been a whirlwind week for the 60-year-old who has replaced Nuno Espírito Santo and it will be fascinating to see what changes are made to the team’s style. Nuno is a cautious coach and would have plotted a counterattacking approach at the Emirates Stadium, but there are no guarantees with Postecoglou. Pragmatism is a word rarely associated with the…

September 11, 20254 min readMagic Mushroom Edibles Found to Contain Undisclosed Ingredients—And No PsilocybinResearchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edibles. None contained psilocybin, but most contained undisclosed ingredients, including synthetic drugs whose safety hasn’t been tested in humansBy Allison Parshall edited by Dean VisserMagic mushrooms (Psilocybe cubensis). Researchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edible products sold in Portland, Ore., and found no trace of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound that gives magic mushrooms their name. Instead seven of the products contained at least one undisclosed active ingredient. Such ingredients included cannabis extract and synthetic psychedelics whose effects and safety have not been formally…

Poland closest to open conflict since World War Two, warns PMSeveral Nato members are sending troops, artillery, and air defence systems to secure its eastern flank after what Poland called an unprecedented Russian drone incursion into its airspace.In the early hours of Wednesday, three Russian drones were shot down after crossing into Polish airspace. Other drones crashed to the ground and were later found across eastern Poland. Poland has requested a UN Security Council session about the incident, which will take place on Friday at 19:00 GMT.In response to the drone incursion, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic said they…

Priti GuptaTechnology ReporterHarpal DagarHarpal Dagar has been farming under solar panels for five years”As a farmer, you’re always at the mercy of weather,” says Harpal Dagar who has a farm on the outskirts of Delhi.”So many times, we lost our produce due to unpredictable conditions,” he says. But five years ago he was approached by Sun Master, a Delhi-based solar power firm, with a deal that would give him a much more predictable income.Sun Master proposed building solar panels above some of Mr Dagar’s fields, with the panels high enough off the ground, that he could continue to farm underneath…

As OpenAI attempts to restructure itself and eventually go public, a hurdle for the startup, recently valued at $500 billion, is its increasingly complicated partnership with Microsoft. On Thursday afternoon, the two companies released this joint statement about an agreement they’ve reached.Microsoft & OpenAI:Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the next phase of our partnership. We are actively working to finalize contractual terms in a definitive agreement. Together, we remain focused on delivering the best AI tools for everyone, grounded in our shared commitment to safety.Microsoft has invested $13 billion in OpenAI since 2019,…

The San Diego Intl. Film Fest kicks off Oct. 15 with Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield. The festival, which runs through Oct. 19, features films from 29 countries and 24 world premieres selected from a record-breaking 3,500 submissions. The festival, strategically positioned in mid-October as awards season revs up, includes, in the Gala and Narrative Competition, Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, Hikari’s “Rental Family,” with Brendan Fraser, Cole Webley’s “Omaha,” starring John Magaro, Marie-Elsa Sgualdo’s “Silent Rebellion,” toplining Lila Gueneau and Grégoire Colin, Max Walker-Silverman’s “Rebuilding,” with Josh…

Arsenal make contract offer to defender William Saliba, Benfica want Manchester City’s Bernardo Silva and Besiktas close in on signing Jota Silva from Nottingham Forest. Arsenal have offered France defender William Saliba a five-year contract extension as talks continue with the 24-year-old, whose current deal runs out in 2027. Real Madrid are monitoring the centre-back’s situation. (FootMercato – in French), external Liverpool are confident they are leading the race to sign England defender Marc Guehi, 25, next summer when the Crystal Palace defender’s contract expires and are looking at an £87m deal to sign Bayern Munich and France winger Michael…

Three scientists have won a $250,000 award for their contributions to developing a life-saving therapy for the genetic disease cystic fibrosis (CF).The prize, called the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, went to Dr. Michael Welsh of the University of Iowa, Paul Negulescu of Vertex Therapeutics and Jesús (Tito) González of Integro Theranostics. It’s one of this year’s Lasker Awards — biomedical-research prizes established in 1945 that are often called the “American Nobels.””It’s super gratifying,” said González, who was formerly the senior director of biology at Vertex Therapeutics. “It’s very rare to actually have something [in medical research] that goes all…