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UConn advanced to the Final Four for the 23rd time in program history with an 80-73 win over USC on Monday in Portland, Ore.The third-seeded Huskies (33-5) complete a Final Four that includes No. 1 South Carolina (36-0), No. 1 Iowa (33-4) and No. 3 NC State (31-6). South Carolina and NC State will play at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, with Iowa-UConn following. The games will be played at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland.UConn, which saw its streak of 14 consecutive Final Fours end with a Sweet 16 loss last season, advanced behind Paige Bueckers’ 28 points, 10 rebounds…

Monday is going to be an incredible day for women’s college basketball. Along with an LSU vs. Iowa rematch of last year’s national title game, we’re getting an Elite Eight duel between 11-time national champion UConn and the up-and-coming USC program. The Trojans are playing in their first Elite Eight since 1994, but their Final Four drought is even longer as USC hasn’t competed in the final weekend since 1986, when they won their second national title. That was just a year after Geno Auriemma took over as UConn’s head coach. Auriemma turned the Huskies into a powerhouse, and even though they haven’t…

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Ethereum price faced rejection and dropped from the $3,650 zone. ETH retested the $3,320 support and might start another increase. Ethereum started another decline and traded below the $3,500 support zone. The price is trading below $3,500 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $3,420 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could gain bullish momentum if it settles above the $3,450 resistance zone. Ethereum Price Dips Again Ethereum price struggled to continue higher above the $3,650 resistance. ETH faced rejection and started a fresh…

Key Takeaways Xiaomi took 88,898 orders for its new SU7 in just 24 hours. The base model could take 18-21 weeks to deliver while the pricier version might take 27-30 weeks. Despite delays, Xiaomi’s cash reserves and tech expertise give it a better chance of success. Xiaomi recently launched its first electric vehicle, making it the first smartphone company to have its own car. The Chinese automaker took an incredible 50,000 orders in the first 30 minutes of sales. At a price of about $30,000 (converted from yuan), it’s less than the Tesla Model 3 by a few thousand dollars.…

Astronomers have gotten their best view yet of the magnetic fields around the gargantuan black hole at the center of the Milky Way. A new image reveals that the behemoth, named Sagittarius A*, is encircled by highly-ordered magnetic structures, researchers report in two papers published March 27 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The features are similar to ones previously seen surrounding the galaxy M87’s supermassive black hole (SN: 3/24/21). Using the Event Horizon Telescope, a global collection of radio telescopes working in tandem, scientists captured polarized light coming from around Sagittarius A*, which lies about 27,000 light-years from Earth (SN:…

Much like squirrels, black-capped chickadees hide their food, keeping track of many thousands of little treasures wedged into cracks or holes in tree bark. When a bird returns to one of their many food caches, a particular set of nerve cells in the memory center of their brains gives a brief flash of activity. When the chickadee goes to another stash, a different combination of neurons lights up. These neural combinations act like bar codes, and identifying them may give key insights into how episodic memories — accounts of specific past events, like what you did on your birthday last…

Melissa Red Hoffman was “feeling really stuck” last summer. A 50-year-old surgeon in Asheville, N.C., Hoffman had been struggling with long COVID since getting infected with the coronavirus two and a half years earlier. “Deafening fatigue” was one of her worst symptoms, she says. “I feel tired behind my eyes from the moment I get up to the moment I go to sleep.” She managed to work part time, but much of her work had shifted to administrative tasks that she did from her couch. “I was really at a point where I had tried so many different things myself,…

Scientists studying rocks in South Africa report evidence for the earliest known earthquake triggered by plate tectonics. The temblor struck more than 3 billion years ago. The rocks preserve telltale signs of ancient submarine landslides that tend to occur in response to giant earthquakes set off by some collisions of slabs of the planet’s crust, geologists Cornel de Ronde and Simon Lamb report February 27 in Geology. Finding evidence of such a giant earthquake so early in Earth’s roughly 4.5-billion-year history throws a spotlight on a hotly debated topic in geology: When did plate tectonics, the constant movements of interlocking pieces…

The enemy continues to produce drones and will intensify attacks with Shahed UAVs, according to Natalia Humeniuk, the head of the joint press center of Ukraine’s Operational Command South. “The assembly (of drones – ed.) takes place continuously. They have production facilities. They even boast that they do it on their own territory, marking the drones we find with the letters of the Russian alphabet. The assembly is carried out systematically. And the fact that the drone attacks have become less massive in recent nights may suggest the necessity for a reorientation, a redistribution of the property they have received…