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Never a runner or a sprinter, Carl Healey has always loved the sport, so when he took his uncle’s advice to play lawn bowling in 2000, he found his calling and never looked back. Key points: Several Australian team representatives call Cabramatta Bowling Club home The club says its success is due to its facilities, professional culture and retention of senior players and staff The bowling club faces an uncertain future with an aging member base More than 20 years later, Healey represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. “If you take something, and you’re pretty good at it and you have support, you’re more likely to move on,” Healey says. Carl Healey will represent Australia in grass bowling at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. ( Provided: Commonwealth Games Australia ) Looking to take his game to another level, Healey joined the competitive Cabramatta Bowling Club in 2014, the home of a number of state and national representatives. ...

China launched the Wentian lab module for the space station. Photo: Fan Wei/GT Wentian lab module successfully launched. Graphics: GT After moving into the core module of China’s Tianhe space station for more than a month, the crew of three Shenzhou-14 taikonauts are now just hours away from carrying out their first major mission in orbit, accepting the arrival of the Wentian laboratory module and adding it to the China Space Station three modules. With coconut palms shaking on the coastline of the tropical island province of Hainan in South China, the giant Long March-5B Y3 heavy-lift rocket lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site at 2:22 p.m., and successfully delivered Wentian – the first lab module for the station. the country’s outer space – to a predetermined orbit. After a flight of about eight minutes, the Wentian module separated from the rocket body and entered its designated orbit, marking the success of the launch mission, China’s Mann...

Octopus Investment Australia has officially launched a $10 billion renewable energy “platform,” which will seek to finance large solar, wind and battery storage projects and has purchased Australia’s largest operating solar farm. Octopus Australia – a subsidiary of one of the world’s largest investors in clean energy, the Octopus Group – said on Wednesday it had simultaneously closed two full subscription funds co-invested in Australia’s multibillion-dollar renewable energy portfolio. The two investment vehicles are the Octopus Australia Sustainable Investments (Oasis) Fund, open to institutional investors, and the Octopus Renewable Energy Opportunities (Oreo) Fund, open to wholesale investors. Among the institutional investors who have joined the Oasis fund so far are the federal government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation and Australian pension fund Hostplus, which has more than 1.5 million members and $86.6 billion in funds under management. O...

image: Color transmission electron micrograph of mature extracellular Nipah Virus particles (red) near the periphery of infected VERO cells (green). see again Credit: NIAID The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched an early-stage clinical trial evaluating the vaccine being studied to prevent Nipah virus infection. The experimental vaccine was manufactured by Moderna, Inc., (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and developed in collaboration with the NIAID Vaccine Research Center. It is based on platform messenger RNA (mRNA)—the technology used in several approved COVID-19 vaccines. NIAID is sponsoring the Phase 1 clinical study, which is being conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Nipah virus infection is a zoonotic disease, meaning that it is transmitted between animals and humans. Fruit bats are the natural hosts of this virus. The f...