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World Superbike reveals 23-bike entry list for 2023

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Listen to this article Released on Thursday, the list contains no names that weren't already announced by their teams, but does clarify certain riders' number choices, as well as some tweaked team names for the upcoming campaign. Notable by its absence is the Pedercini Kawasaki team, which had even announced its participation in the 2023 season earlier this month as part of a new alliance with Vinales Racing. If Pedercini does not take to the grid next season, it would reduce the Kawasaki presence to four ZX-RR bikes, the two factory machines and single bikes each for Puccetti Racing and Orelac Racing. Yamaha is the best represented manufacturer on the grid with six bikes, as the GMT94 team effectively takes over from the family-run Ponsson Racing effort within the Japanese marque's stable. Ducati has five bikes, with all three of its one -bike satellite teams stayi...

Transfer rumours: Chelsea lead Fernandez race; Real Madrid want Davies

90min  rounds up the latest transfer news, rumours and gossip circulating around the world... Chelsea are ready to pip Manchester United and Liverpool to Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez , and have made a staggering £115m offer to Benfica. ( Record ) The Blues are continuing their pursuit of Monaco defender Benoit Badiashile with the promise of building a team of the world's best young players, but Barcelona have asked him to stay put until the summer so they can submit their own bid for him. Manchester United are also keen. ( L'Equipe ) Shakhtar Donetsk have informed Arsenal they will have to pay a fee to the £85m Manchester United paid to sign Antony from Ajax if they are to land Ukrainian winger Mykhaylo Mudryk this window. ( Goal ) Borussia Dortmund have joined Arsenal , Chelsea and Atletico Madrid in the race to sign Brighton's World Cup-winning midfielder Alexis Mac Allister . ( Football Transfers ) Sergio Busquets is tempted to sign a contract extens...

New Study Discovers 11 Multidimensional Universes Within the Human Brain

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The human brain is capable of creating structures in up to 11 dimension s, according to scientists. According to a study published in Frontiers in Computational Neuro Science , the Human brain can deal and create in up to 11 dimension s. According to the Blue Brain Project, the dimensions are not interpreted in the traditional sense of a dimension, which most of us understand. Scientists found exciting new facts about the intricacy of the human brain as part of the Blue Brain Project. Neuroscientist Henry Markram, director of Blue Brain Project and professor at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, said: “We found a world that we had never imagined. There are tens of millions of these objects, even in a speck of the brain, up through seven dimension s. In some networks, we even found structures with up to eleven dimension s.” Traditional mathematical viewpoints were found to be inapplicable and unproductive once researchers studied the human brain. The graphic tries to depict s...

US small businesses see sales boost after Made in America features with David Muir

For the 11th year, "World News Tonight" spotlights small businesses across the country making and selling American-made products in Made in America Christmas features. For the 11th year running, ABC News' "World News Tonight" is spotlighting small businesses across the country making and selling American-made products in its annual Made in America Christmas series. From personalized books to Christmas tree growing kits, David Muir reports on the U.S. small Business es creating products and jobs. For the 3rd year in a row, Oprah Winfrey got in on the fun by sharing some of her Favorite Things made in the United States. The companies featured all said they saw a boost in Business after being seen -- and that viewers' orders made a big difference on their sales . MORE: Real-life ‘super hero' travels to all 50 states to deliver holiday gifts The company, Buck Mason, who sells tee shirts made of cotton from farms across the country, sold over 3,400 shirt...

At the Edge of Time, Astronomers Accidentally Found Hidden Galaxies

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A team of astronomers has unexpectedly discovered two galaxies that were previously hidden from view at the edge of space and time. Yoshinobu Fudamoto, an astronomer from Waseda University’s Research Institute for Science and Engineering and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), directed the team that made the discovery using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. ALMA is an Astronomy interferometer comprised of 66 radio telescopes capable of seeing through dust and at extremely long distances. Rebels-12 and Rebels-29 have been identified in near-infrared radiation, however, Rebels-12-2 and Rebels-29-2 have not been found, implying that these galaxies are severely shrouded in dust. Image credits: alma (eso/naoj/nrao), nasa/esa Hubble Space Telescope, eso, fudamoto et al. The two new galaxies were discovered while watching two target galaxies known as REBELS-12 and REBELS-29. Bright emissions were detected hundreds of light-ye...

World Superbike: Scott Redding expected more from BMW in 2022

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Listen to this article Redding was signed by BMW to lead its factory WSBK programme on the back of the marque’s first comeback win in 2021 with Michael van der Mark. Although the partnership got off to a nightmare start at Aragon, Redding was soon able to acclimatise himself to an improving BMW M1000RR and score back-to-back podiums at Donington Park and Most in the middle part of the season. However, top-line results proved much harder to achieve after the summer break and, excluding a fortuitous second-place finish in a race from which both Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea retired, Redding broke inside the top-five only once in the final six rounds of the season.  Summing up his first campaign with the German manufacturer, Redding said he was “semi-pleased” with the performance in 2022 but is hoping he and BMW can make further strides next year. “The progression until ...

Ex-MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci secures WSBK move with Ducati

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Listen to this article Petrucci had long been rumoured to make the switch to the production-based series next year after reuniting with Ducati in MotoAmerica, where he finished second in the championship this year. Ducati’s decision to renew the contract of Michael Ruben Rinaldi at the factory team in September appeared to have closed the door for a WSBK move, but Pet rucci has now managed to secure a berth with the Barni Racing Team that runs the same Ducati Panigale V4 R. The Italian rider has a past relationship with Barni, having finished second in the Superstock 1000 class with the squad in 2011 during his last tenure in the WSBK paddock.  In fact, it was his results with Barni that helped him land a seat in MotoGP in 2012. “I’m really pleased to be back with Barni. 2011 was one of my best ever seasons but, more importantly, I couldn’t say no to the chance to race in W...

Danilo Petrucci explains why he chose World Superbike move

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Listen to this article Last week, it was announced that two-time MotoGP race winner Pet rucci will be joining the Barni Racing squad for his rookie WSBK season next year aboard a satellite Ducati V4 R Panigale. Petrucci had represented the Borgo Panigale marque in MotoAmerica this season, finishing runner-up in the standings to Yamaha rider Jake Gagne, and was widely tipped to remain in the category for a second year. However, in the end the Italian rider said what drove him towards the WSBK opportunity was the chance to campaign the V4 R, which won the title in the hands of Alvaro Bautista this year, at its fullest potential with Pirelli tyres, after a season of using Dunlop tyres in the States. "What pushed me more towards WSBK was the fact that I hadn't raced there yet," Pet rucci told  GPOne.com .  "I had this opportunity with a very com Pet itive bike, w...

World Superbike: BSB champion Bradley Ray gets Yamaha seat

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Listen to this article Ray had been tipped to transition to the global stage following his success in BSB with the OMG Racing Yamaha outfit, the 25-year-old Briton winning nine races on his way to the crown. Now it has been confirmed Ray will join the Motoxracing outfit for all of the European rounds on the 2023 schedule, starting at Assen in April, replacing Roberto Tamburini (below) on the team's solo Yamaha R1. He becomes the first BSB champion to make the full-time switch to WSBK since current Kawasaki rider Alex Lowes in 2014. "I'm absolutely delighted that Yamaha have rewarded me with this opportunity to take the next step with the Yamaha Motoxracing WorldSBK Team," said Ray, who made a one-off WSBK outing in 2018 with the Hawk Suzuki team. "I've dreamed of being World Superbike Champion since my race debut at three years old and I'm only t...

World Superbike: Eric Granado lands MIE Honda seat for 2023

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Listen to this article Granado, 26, will race in WSBK on a full-time basis for the first time in 2023, having spent the last two seasons racing in both the Spanish Superbike series and MotoE World Cup. He previously made one outing for the Honda satellite squad at the Estoril round in 2020, scoring a point in the opening race as he became Brazil's first rider in the series since Alex Barros back in 2006. Granado's past achievements include four Superbike titles in his native Brazil and the 2017 CEV Moto2 crown. He also finished runner-up in MotoE this year to Dominique Aegerter, who is likewise racing in WSBK next year. “I’m absolutely delighted to welcome Eric to the MIE Racing Honda Team," commented team boss Midori Moriwaki. "We had the chance to work with Eric when he joined the team for the final round of the 2020 WorldSBK championship season in Estoril. H...

World Superbike: Tom Sykes "pleasantly surprised" at Jerez

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Listen to this article It was announced last month that the 2013 world champion is returning to WSBK next season with the satellite Puccetti Racing team after a season away from the series racing in British Superbike. The two-day Jerez test on December 1-2 also marked Sykes' first outing aboard the ZX10RR since he split with the factory Kawasaki team at the end of the 2018 season in favour of a switch to BMW. Although weather at the Spanish venue limited Sykes' running time, he set a best effort of 1m40.949s, putting him a little over a second of the pace set by his former teammate Jonathan Rea on the works Kawasaki. "I was talking to a friend before the test and he asked me my expectations," Sykes told the official World Superbike website. "I gave him my answer, and we went past that answer. "I am really happy, to be honest, because all things consi...