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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Pete Alonso was having a rather disappointing evening in what could have been his final game for the New York Mets.Then everything changed with one swing of the bat.The slugger broke out of a prolonged slump by smashing a three-run homer off closer Devin Williams in the ninth inning to put the Mets up for good in a 4-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday in the decisive third game of their NL Wild Card Series.That made Alonso the first major leaguer to hit a go-ahead homer when his team was trailing in the ninth inning…

Green LFA? Hell yeah, dude. Green LFA. This one-of-two “Fresh Green” Lexus LFA is up for sale at DK Engineering in the UK. Perhaps disappointing to our American audience, it’s right-hand drive, but still, just look at it. Making this one even more striking is its red-and-black Alcantara interior, which you’ll probably either love or hate. With so many LFAs seen more subtle colors, or the occasional yellow or orange, this one really doesn’t look like any others. DK Engineering says that in pictures the paint looks like Porsche’s Viper Green, but in real life, it’s much more fluorescent.   …

While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling internet access and cell phone communications around the globe, they’re also posing a threat to radio astronomy, a new study suggests. In some wavelength bands, unintended leakage of electromagnetic radiation from the latest generation of the satellites is more than 30 times brighter than emissions from previous versions, Cees Bassa, a radio astronomer at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy in Dwingeloo and his colleagues report September 18 in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Because the latest generation of Starlink satellites will orbit as many as 100 kilometers lower than earlier satellites, they’ll seem even brighter…

Coyotes turn out to have face muscles that look capable of making that big-eyed, sad-puppy face that dogs have used to melt human hearts for eons. That discovery supports a rethink of humans’ history with dogs, say biologist Patrick Cunningham of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and colleagues. Maybe it’s not all about us. He examined a little facial muscle called the LAOM at the upper, outer side of each eye in 10 coyote cadavers from Texas. The LAOM of the coyotes looks substantial enough to pull the top eyelids upward, Cunningham and colleagues report October 2 in Royal Society…

When scientists discovered the world’s oldest preserved cheese smeared on the necks of ancient mummies in China, it raised a lot of questions. Now DNA analysis is answering some of them. It solidified that two of the three curdled samples of kefir cheese are likely made from cow milk, while a third came from goat milk. And a closer look at bacteria in the cheese offers new insights into the origin story of Asian dairy fermentation, revealing how kefir culturing techniques spread across the continent, paleontologist Qiaomei Fu and colleagues report September 25 in Cell. The samples were first found…

As dust from the Sahara blows thousands of kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean, it becomes progressively more nutritious for marine microbes, a new study suggests. Chemical reactions in the atmosphere chew on iron minerals in the dust, making them more water soluble and creating a crucial nutrient source for the iron-starved seas, researchers report September 20 in Frontiers in Marine Science. Dust clouds settling on the Atlantic can spawn phytoplankton blooms that support marine ecosystems, says Timothy Lyons, a biogeochemist at the University of California, Riverside. “Iron is incredibly important for life,” he says. Phytoplankton require it to convert carbon…

Kamala Harris calls Liz Cheney endorsement ‘profound honor’Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailPresident Joe Biden said he did not know if November’s election would be “peaceful” given Donald Trump’s “dangerous” rhetoric, in a surprise appearance in the White House briefing roomHowever, the president told reporters that he is confident the election will be “free and fair”.Biden was also asked if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was delaying a diplomatic agreement regarding the Gaza conflict to influence the election. He said that no administration…

With the Mets down to their last two outs and trailing by two runs, struggling slugger Pete Alonso launched a three-run homer to lift New York to the National League Division Series. All the Brewers could do was grimace.FOX Sports MLB writers Deesha Thosar and Rowan Kavner offered their top takeaways from Thursday’s thriller.What’s cooler than cool? The Polar BearPete Alonso, after scuffling through September and the first days of October, finally got his moment. Entering the biggest at-bat of his career, Alonso had two options. He could end his 2024 campaign (and perhaps his Mets career) on the sourest of…

President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program can proceed after a judge Wednesday let a temporary restraining order on the plan expire.It’s a minor victory for the Biden administration just weeks ahead of the presidential election. The lawsuit was brought in September by seven GOP-led states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Dakota and Ohio — against Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.U.S. District Judge Randall Hall wrote in his order, filed in the Southern District of Georgia, that Georgia lacks standing to challenge the plan “because it failed to show an injury that is concrete, particularized, actual, or…

In a surprising turn of events, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is coming to PC, over eight years after the game was first released. Galaxy of Heroes was first released for mobile devices in late 2015 when the hype around Star Wars was enormous thanks to The Force Awakens, and at last, it’s coming to a new platform. It’s been a strong few years for Star Wars video games. 2023’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was a critical and commercial success, and the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws looks extremely promising ahead of its release sometime this year. Recently, the Star Wars:…