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How Jianyu Yang traveled from Boston to Lubbock to star for three professional sports teams. creator Jianyu (Jay) Yang, a recent PhD graduate in Fine Arts (Arts Administration) from Texas Tech University’s JT & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts (TCVPA), often feels awe at the life he lives today. He wakes up every morning excited for his job: creating compelling content for the National Football League’s Arizona Cardinals. While his path to this role was anything but traditional, he’s eternally grateful for the opportunities he’s been given. Jay earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Boston University.…

Clonal invader ants tending to the larvae (Cronauer Laboratory) Genetic diversity is essential for a species’ survival. Maintaining genetic diversity is easy when a species reproduces sexually: an egg and sperm combine the genetic material of two organisms together to form genomically robust offspring with two distinct versions of the species’ genome.Without a combination of different genetic makeups, asexually reproducing species typically suffer from a lack of diversity, limiting their population on Earth. One such animal is the clonal raider ant, which produces successive genetically identical daughters directly from unfertilized eggs through parthenogenesis, a method of asexual reproduction in which…

According to the machine’s developer, Shanghai-based fusion energy company Energy Singularity, HH70 also sets another record: the fastest development and construction of a superconducting tokamak machine.The HH70 fully high-temperature superconducting tokamak device has just achieved its first plasma, but will this achievement ignite the global fusion energy race? Photo: Energy SingularityIn a recent interview with state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN), Energy Singularity co-founder and CTO Guo Houyang said the HH70 is smaller, cheaper to build and was built in just two years.This is an achievement that is mainly driven by China’s vibrant industrial chain and engineering strength. The HTS…

ISLAMABAD: Shabana Mahmood, a British-Pakistani member of parliament from Birmingham, was sworn in as the UK’s new Justice Minister at a ceremony at the Royal Courts of Justice in London this week, making her the first Muslim woman to head the Ministry of Justice. The 43-year-old Labour lawyer has been the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood since 2010 and held various shadow deputy ministerial and shadow cabinet roles under party leaders Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman and Keir Starmer between 2010 and 2024. “It is an honour to take the oath of office as Lord Chancellor today,” Mahmood, 43, said…

Harshavardhan Reddy, of Mount Pleasant, is doing an internship with a Tennessee-based technology company. (Courtesy photo) A Central Michigan University student majoring in applied statistics and analytics has landed an internship with a Tennessee-based silicone and polymer technology company. Harshavardhan Reddy, of Mount Pleasant, who will graduate in December, is doing an internship at Wacker Chemical Company in Charleston, Tennessee. Wacker is a pioneer in silicon and polymer technologies and a leading provider of polysilicon for the semiconductor and photovoltaic industries, as well as an innovator in biotechnology applications for food/nutritional and pharmaceutical. Wacker spokesman James Burns said company executives…

CNN  —  CNN’s team is fact-checking the first night of the Republican National Convention. We will continue to update this list throughout the night. The Republican National Convention played a video in which former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to use “every appropriate tool available to beat the Democrats,” including voting by mail. 20788998 58:01 Trump relentlessly disparaged mail-in voting during the 2020 election, falsely claiming it was rife with fraud, and he has continued to sharply criticize it during the current campaign But Trump’s comments in the convention video also included some of his regular false claims about elections. After claiming he would “once and…

More information is still emerging about the shooting that occurred at former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, but while the full picture is yet to emerge, there are ways to think about the political and social climate we live in and how it may have influenced the violence. The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, is known to have been a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, about a 75-minute drive from Butler, where the rally was being held. He was a Republican (but had also donated $15 to progressive groups), carried out the attack with an AR-15-style rifle…

Audazzio was recently tapped to broadcast the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming presented by Lilly at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Transforming a football field into three swimming pools is an ambitious feat, but with Audazzio, USA Swimming was ready to push not only the limits of Lucas Oil Stadium, but also the limits of connecting with swimming fans across the country. Audazzio’s technology allows content creators to modify content in real time on mobile devices, in full coordination with broadcasts and live events. The Audazzio Live QR algorithm encodes data as high-frequency sounds that are inaudible…

27 minutes agoThe Dow Jones Industrial Average hits new intraday highThe Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new intraday record on Tuesday, driven by a big gain in the blue-chip index, which saw the 30-stock average rise by more than 500 points at its peak.See the chart…Dow, 1 day35 minutes agoSmall caps surge, rising again TuesdaySmall cap stocks are the hottest deals on the stock market right now.The group’s benchmark, the Russell 2000 Index, rose 1% on Tuesday after hitting its highest close since January 2022 on Monday. If the index rises another 1% on Tuesday, it will mark just…

The Pakistani government has announced plans to ban the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party led by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan and to bring sedition charges against him and former President Arif Alvi, who is seen as close to Khan. The controversial decision drew criticism and raised concerns about its impact on the country’s political stability, but was likely triggered by the PTI’s ongoing conflict with state institutions, particularly the powerful military. The PTI’s anti-military rhetoric has even directly targeted the military’s top leadership through social media platforms. These attacks have intensified since the February 2024 general elections. The PTI…