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WASHINGTON :The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists puzzled. It mixed snake-like traits and lizard-like traits. So was it an early ancestor of snakes or perhaps just an evolutionary oddball? Whatever the answer, it was a formidable little beast.Researchers said this creature, named Breugnathair elgolensis, possessed teeth that were sharply curved and hook-like, as in snakes. And the way its teeth were implanted into its jaws and the inward-leaning angle of them relative to the jaws also were snake-like. But its body and head proportions were more…

A British e-commerce company which works with retailers including Aldi, Argos and John Lewis has struck a deal to sell itself to an American rival.Sky News understands that Virtualstock, which is chaired by the Moonpig founder Nick Jenkins, is being acquired by private equity-backed Logicbroker in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday. Virtualstock specialises in so-called ‘dropshipping’, which involves it connecting retailers to suppliers to fulfil orders placed online.Established in 2004, the UK company processes more than eight million orders each year with a gross merchandise value of over £2bn.It also counts B&Q and Currys among…

Stockholm — Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. Ramsdell, 64, is a scientific adviser for Sonoma Biotherapeutics in San Francisco. Sakaguchi, 74, is a distinguished professor at the Immunology Frontier Research Center at Osaka University in Japan. Brunkow got the news of her prize from an AP photographer who came to her home in the early hours of the morning. She said she had ignored the earlier call…

Bob Pockrass FOX Motorsports Insider CONCORD, N.C. — The heavyweights have made it through to the next round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.In one corner: Hendrick Motorsports with 2021 champion Kyle Larson, 2020 champion Chase Elliott and William Byron. This organization has 14 Cup titles in its history.In another corner: Joe Gibbs Racing with Denny Hamlin, Christopher Bell and Chase Briscoe. JGR has five Cup titles.And in another corner: Team Penske with three-time (including 2024) champion Joey Logano and 2023 champion Ryan Blaney. Penske has five Cup titles.OK, so that’s three corners. Who comes out of the box —…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Bryce Young called Sunday’s 27-24 come-from-behind victory over the Miami Dolphins a huge boost for the Carolina Panthers in terms of finding their identity.And he may be right.It wasn’t only that the Panthers proved they could overcome adversity by erasing a 17-point first-half deficit, but also the manner in which they did it.Carolina (2-3) didn’t panic down 17-0 with 10:48 left in the second quarter, but it instead stuck with the running game and grinded out 237 yards on the ground behind Rico Dowdle to remain unbeaten at home. Despite missing three offensive…

Tom Cruise’s friends and colleagues may have been given a taste of something unexpected. Los Angeles-based Doan’s Bakery is recalling two cakes, including its White Chocolate Coconut cake, which was popularized after actor Tom Cruise began gifting the dessert to friends during the holidays. The recall stems from a labeling error, according to the FDA.Doan’s White Chocolate Coconut and Carrot Bundt cakes may contain undeclared wheat and milk, the FDA said in an Oct. 1 statement.The bakery voluntarily recalled the cakes because of the undeclared allergens, which pose a risk to people allergic to wheat or milk, who can experience serious…

Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons A missile is capable of delivering more than explosives—it is capable of delivering a geopolitical crisis. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s newest threat to sell Ukraine Tomahawk cruise missiles would represent a “qualitatively new stage of escalation” and shows how weapons technology has become the lever of US-Russia tensions. The threat coincides with Washington deliberating Kyiv’s request for the long-range weapon that can reach Moscow, in addition to intelligence assistance for strikes on Russia’s energy facilities. Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons The 1,550-mile effective range Tomahawk cruise missile flies at…

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not take up a bid by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her 2021 conviction and 20-year prison sentence for her role in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse minor girls with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Maxwell’s appeal to the high court attracted added attention this summer as the Trump administration came under pressure to release more material related to the Justice Department’s investigation into Epstein, who died in federal custody in 2019. Congress also opened its own examination of the federal probe and has obtained and released thousands of pages…

WASHINGTON :The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Europe’s largest software maker SAP to avoid a lawsuit by U.S. data technology company Teradata that accused it of violating American antitrust law.The justices turned away SAP’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that let Teradata pursue claims that its larger German rival violated U.S. antitrust law by tying sales of business-planning applications to the purchase of a key SAP database that can perform transactional and analytical functions. San Diego-based Teradata makes a rival analytics database.Teradata filed its lawsuit against SAP in federal court in California in…

[WASHINGTON] The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased marginally during the last week of September, data from Haver Analytics showed, pointing to a still low level of layoffs even as hiring has stalled.Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased to a seasonally adjusted 224,269 for the week ended Sep 27 from 218,589 in the prior week, Haver Analytics calculated. Official data collection and publication has been suspended because of a government shutdown, now in its sixth day. But states have continued to collect unemployment claims data and submit it to Labor Department’s database, which remains accessible.…