Texas flash flood claims at least 24 lives

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At least 24 people have died and about 20 children are missing after a catastrophic flash flood in Texas.  The Guadalupe River that runs through Hill Country in central-south Texas rose by 26ft (8 metres)…

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Frozen light switches: How Arctic microbes could revolutionize neuroscience

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold groundwater in Finland. As cold and beautiful these are, for the structural biologist Kirill Kovalev, they are more importantly home to unusual molecules that could control brain cells’ activity. Kovalev, EIPOD Postdoctoral Fellow at EMBL Hamburg’s Schneider…

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