Robot can beat elite players at table tennis

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Jesse Lingard interview: Former Man Utd man on Neymar, life in Brazil and his trophy target

It is no surprise Lingard is following developments at Manchester United closely, and he reflects on an “amazing chapter” at his boyhood club. Lingard spent 20 years at United, leaving in June 2022 when his contract expired. He joined Nottingham Forest the following month. “We achieved amazing things,” he says. “But there’s going to be…

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Genome-wide sweeps create ecological units in the human gut microbiome

Isolate genome collection A total of 19,837 publicly available isolate genomes were collected and consisted of the entire data in the Unified Human Gastrointestinal Genome (UHGG) catalogue45 (v.1.0, 10,648 genomes) and 4 large-scale culturomic studies28,46,47,48. Furthermore, a group of 186 isolates from Austrian individuals were newly collected and sequenced. A total of 50 patients undergoing…

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