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Keep Your Old Laptop Alive by Installing ChromeOS Flex

Keep Your Old Laptop Alive by Installing ChromeOS Flex

You’ll then be prompted to insert your USB drive and choose it from the drop-down list on screen. Do make sure you select the correct USB drive, and not an external disk that has information on it that you need. Eventually, you’ll be told your USB installer drive is ready: The necessary downloading and installing took 30 minutes or so …

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Clay Holmes leads combined one-hitter to keep Mets’ season alive

Clay Holmes leads combined one-hitter to keep Mets’ season alive

MIAMI — In need of a hero, the Mets found an unlikely one in Clay Holmes on Saturday. Holmes, who had lasted six innings in a start only once since June 7, was taking the mound after getting thrust into a relief appearance three days earlier following a Sunday outing. The Mets were, and remain, desperate. The veteran right-hander delivered …

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Padres eliminate Diamondbacks, keep alive hopes of hosting wild-card series

Padres eliminate Diamondbacks, keep alive hopes of hosting wild-card series

The Padres accomplished some significant positives on Friday night, things they can feel good about going into the postseason. Fernando Tatis Jr. returned from his three-day bout with a flu-like illness and hit a grand slam. Luis Arraez and Ryan O’Hearn continued to hit. Xander Bogaerts began to hit. So did Gavin Sheets and maybe Manny Machado. And for at …

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Fenway crowd came alive for Red Sox’ clincher with a promise of more to come

Fenway crowd came alive for Red Sox’ clincher with a promise of more to come

BOSTON — Since spring training, Alex Cora has been preaching about the importance of the Red Sox again making Fenway Park a tough place for visiting teams to play. That hadn’t been the case in recent seasons, as the Red Sox weathered three straight years in which they failed to finish with a winning record. Too often, either the ballpark …

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A “Masterpiece” – For the First Time, Scientists Keep a Mammalian Cochlea Alive Outside the Body

A “Masterpiece” – For the First Time, Scientists Keep a Mammalian Cochlea Alive Outside the Body

In his final breakthrough, A. James Hudspeth’s team sustained a living sliver of mammalian cochlea ex vivo and recorded its hallmark mechanics in real time. The platform lets researchers watch the active process at cellular resolution and offers direct support for a long-sought, unifying biophysical principle of hearing. Credit: Stock Researchers have captured the living mechanics of hearing for the …

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These Desert Lizards Have to Sneeze Salt to Stay Alive : ScienceAlert

These Desert Lizards Have to Sneeze Salt to Stay Alive : ScienceAlert

Work at Boston’s Museum of Science isn’t always glamorous. Someone’s gotta clean the lizard boogers. In a new behind-the-scenes video, a museum employee cheerfully shares their experience cleaning snot from the glass of Rocky the chuckwalla’s enclosure. The white stuff they are mopping up is no ordinary nasal mucus. When the chukwalla ‘goes achoo’, it sneezes out salt. If the …

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After 44,000 years under the ice, this wolf looked almost alive

After 44,000 years under the ice, this wolf looked almost alive

In Siberia’s frozen ground, a predator from the Ice Age has been waiting to be found. Local residents came across the wolf’s body in 2021, sealed in the ice along a riverbank. Unlike most discoveries that are just bones or fragments, this wolf was almost whole. Its skin, fur, and even internal organs had survived tens of thousands of years …

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US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

Tim Andrews leaving hospital in January after he received a genetically modified pig kidney.Credit: Kate Flock/Massachusetts General Hospital A 67-year-old US man is still alive more than six months after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. This is the longest a pig organ has survived in a living person. Researchers say the outcome is a landmark case of …

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