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Guinness Women’s Six Nations Preview: England v Wales – Guinness Women’s Six Nations

The Red Roses defied Sarah Beckett’s early red card to win in Parma in Round 1 and now welcome Wales to Ashton Gate in head coach Mitchell’s first home match. Following their first home defeat to Scotland for 20 years,

Women’s Six Nations: England’s Red Roses make seven changes vs Wales, as Helena Rowland ruled out

John Mitchell has made seven changes to the Red Roses side to face Wales in Round 2 of the Women’s Six Nations, with centre Helena Rowland ruled out.  Rowland started the 48-0 win over Italy in Parma, completing the game

England make seven changes for Wales game

Megan Jones came off the bench in England’s opening victory over Italy and is rewarded with a start Venue: Ashton Gate, Bristol Dates: Saturday, 30 March Kick-off: 16:45 GMT Coverage: Watch live on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer and online; listen

Women’s Six Nations 2024: Wales love being underdogs against England – Joyce

Jasmine Joyce has won 36 caps for Wales [Huw Evans picture agency] Women’s Six Nations: England v Wales Venue: Ashton Gate, Bristol Date: Saturday, 30 March Kick-off:16:45 GMT Coverage: Watch live on BBC Two Wales, BBC iPlayer and online from

Suppressing boredom at work hurts future productivity, study shows

Boredom is more common at work than in any other setting, studies show, and employees are bored at work for more than 10 hours per week on average. Even astronauts and police officers get bored on the job. No occupation

Ancient DNA reveals the appearance of a 6th century Chinese emperor

What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains. The study, published March 28 in the journal

DNA study IDs descendants of George Washington from unmarked remains, findings to aid service member IDs going back to World War II

New DNA sequencing technologies have identified the historical remains of George Washington’s grandnephews, Samuel Walter Washington and George Steptoe Washington Jr., and their mother, Lucy Payne Washington, from unmarked, fragmentary bones left at the Harewood family cemetery in Charles Town,

Familial Alzheimer’s disease transferred via bone marrow transplant in mice

Familial Alzheimer’s disease can be transferred via bone marrow transplant, researchers show March 28 in the journal Stem Cell Reports. When the team transplanted bone marrow stem cells from mice carrying a hereditary version of Alzheimer’s disease into normal lab

Artificial intelligence boosts super-resolution microscopy

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) might be best known from text or image-creating applications like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion. But its usefulness beyond that is being shown in more and more different scientific fields. In their recent work, to be presented

For younger women, mental health now may predict heart health later

Younger women are generally thought to have a low risk of heart disease, but new research urges clinicians to revisit that assumption, especially for women who suffer from certain mental health conditions. A new study being presented at the American