Craig McLeish: St Mirren manager charged by Scottish FA for criticism of referee in League Cup defeat

St Mirren manager Craig McLeish has been charged by the Scottish FA over comments he made about referee Sean Murdoch.

It followed their League Cup tie against Dunfermline last week, where McLeish was frustrated that a free-kick went against his side in the first half, which resulted in a goal being disallowed, before a penalty was awarded to their opponents in the closing stages.

Joe Root's reappointment as England Test captain criticised as 'retrograde step' by Mark Butcher

Mark Butcher has criticised the decision to reappoint Joe Root as England captain, describing his return to the position as "a retrograde step" for the Test side.

The England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Thursday that Root will reclaim the position he gave up to Ben Stokes in 2022, while former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming was also confirmed as Brendon McCullum's replacement as Test head coach.

Tiny sugar chains act as brakes to control calcium and sodium flow in lysosomes

Sugar brake controls a lysosomal ion channel
A glass microelectrode used in organelle electrophysiology. Using whole-lysosome patch-clamp recording, the researchers directly measured ion currents from individual lysosomes and found that O-linked sugar chains act as a molecular brake on the ion channel TPC2. Credit: Cheng-Chang Chen, National Taiwan University.

Lysosomes are small compartments inside cells that break down and recycle biological materials. Once regarded mainly as cellular waste-disposal centers, lysosomes are now understood to be important signaling hubs for calcium and sodium ions. Through these signals, they help regulate intracellular transport, organelle shape and cellular responses associated with disease.

Leaked Pixel 11 Pro Fold photos also include mysterious new camera bar feature - Engadget

Google's next foldable doesn't look all that different, save for the camera bar.

A Pixel 10 Pro Fold open and displaying two apps.

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Google's next Made By Google event is fast approaching on August 12, and as is tradition, new devices are leaking almost as aggressively as Google's teasing them. Case in point: new marketing images of the Pixel 11 Pro Fold from leaker Evan Blass, which show off one of the upcoming foldable's new colors and a mysterious new camera bar feature Google just hinted at in its own advertising yesterday.

Tiny fossils crack a Cretaceous cold case: Ocean acidification triggered one of the ocean's most severe extinctions

Tiny fossils crack a Cretaceous cold case
Jonathan Chen, the study's lead author, examines foraminifera fossils under a microscope. Credit: Northwestern University

A 113-million-year-old marine murder mystery may finally be solved. Using chemical clues locked inside microscopic fossils, Northwestern University scientists found evidence that ocean acidification drove one of the largest extinction events in the history of planktic foraminifera—tiny shell-building organisms that help regulate Earth's carbon cycle.