For the first time, Texas will open a college football season ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25. The Longhorns hardly have a mandate in the poll: They edged out Penn State by just five points in the closest preseason vote since 1998. Texas received 25 first-place votes and 1,552 points to give the Southeastern Conference the preseason …
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New York, get ready to shave some minutes off your Boston and D.C. escapes: Amtrak’s fastest train yet is officially pulling into service. On Thursday, August 28, the first of the long-awaited NextGen Acela fleet will debut on the Northeast Corridor, connecting Washington, D.C., New York City and Boston at top speeds the U.S. hasn’t seen before. (According to Amtrak, …
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The coaches have weighed in on “who should start where” as the college football season opens, with Texas, Ohio State, Penn State, Georgia and Notre Dame filling the top five spots in the coaches’ preseason top 25 poll released Monday. It likely will not stay that way for long, as the No. 1 Longhorns will visit the No. 2 Buckeyes …
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A new stem cell treatment could eliminate the need for insulin therapy in people with type 1 diabetes, a disease where the pancreas doesn’t produce insulin, according to a study authored by University of Pennsylvania doctors. In early clinical trial results, the ability to produce insulin was restored in 10 out of 12 people with type 1 diabetes treated with …
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A breakthrough by Penn State student Divya Tyagi has brought new life to a century-old mathematical problem, offering a fresh solution with major implications for wind turbine design and renewable energy. Tyagi, a graduate student in aerospace engineering, has refined an equation originally introduced by British aerodynamicist Hermann Glauert, which could reshape the future of wind energy. Revamping a 100-Year-Old …
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Just over a week after a “bad batch” of drugs sent dozens of people in West Baltimore to the hospital, police and medical personnel responded to multiple overdose calls in the Penn North neighborhood Friday. Five people were taken to nearby hospitals, all in serious condition, Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace said at a news conference. Two people refused additional …
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