County Championship: Yorkshire v Somerset in the balance after day two
Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Headingley (day two)
Yorkshire 212 & 128-6: Hill 50*; Overton 2-17
Somerset 201: Overton 64, Pretorius 58; Cliff 8-76
Yorkshire (3 pts) lead Somerset (3 pts) by 139 runs
County Championship: Warwickshire beat Essex to go top of table
Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford (day two)
Essex 134: Bamber 6-26 & 189: Walter 42; Suthar 5-75
Warwickshire 191 & 138-2: Malik 51
Warwickshire (19 pts) beat Essex (3 pts) by eight wickets
County Championship: Nick Gubbins ton helps Hampshire build lead over Leicestershire
Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Uptonsteel Grace Road, Leicester (day two)
Hampshire 214: Brown 80*; Holland 6-38, Gilchrist 4-54 & 255-3: Gubbins 124*
Leicestershire 244: Shaikh 63, Scriven 53*; Abbott 4-58
Premier League: What are the rules for academy players, and are they paid?
In England, the academy system sees all participating clubs graded from Category 1 to Category 4.
Clubs in a higher category have the right to sign any player from a lower category for a structured compensation fee.
Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells
The effort to mix the brain tissues of distant species is being reported today in the journal Nature by a team at Stanford University, led by neuroscientist Sergiu Pașca.
Pașca’s group previously showed that human brain “organoids”—small blobs of neural tissue—could survive, and even function, after being injected into the heads of baby rodents.
Scientists recreated what mice saw from brain activity alone
Scientists have reconstructed short videos using only brain activity recorded from mice, effectively allowing researchers to recreate what the animals were seeing. The study, led by researchers at University College London (UCL), offers a new way to investigate how the brain transforms visual input into an internal representation of the world.
The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.
What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of uncertainties. So she started with a “remarkable fact” that is not in question: a handful of so-called hyperscalers are investing huge amounts of money to build AI data centers.
Grace Ballinger column: The Blaze seamer ranks her favourite grounds
In her latest column The Blaze and Manchester Super Giants seamer Grace Ballinger takes a look at her favourite county grounds.
In England, we are blessed with a plethora of world-class cricket grounds and stadiums.
Kyle Glasgow, 16, makes Tony Docherty's first Scotland Under-21s squad
Former Dundee manager Docherty has replaced Scot Gemmill and takes charge for the final two fixtures in European Championship qualifying.
The young Scots must beat Azerbaijan at Rugby Park on 30 September and Bulgaria away on 6 October and hope Czech Republic drop points in order to usurp the Czechs into the play-off spot, with leaders Portugal on course for automatic qualification for next year's finals in Albania and Serbia.
Amazon's next move could reshape how America shops — all over again
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