Can Paris Saint-Germain keep up its perfect start to the Ligue 1 season? It has what, on paper, looks like a winnable match with its trip to Brittany to face Stade Rennais, also popularly known as Rennes.
League-leading PSG has gone 8 for 8 to begin its French Ligue 1 campaign. It is already 15 points better than 14th-placed Rennes (2-3-3). The Parisian side is still a ways from matching the record it set in 2018-19 with 14 straight wins to start that season. PSG’s current Ligue 1 winning streak has largely happened without star signing Lionel Messi, who since arriving has missed five Ligue 1 matches due to injury, rest or lack of fitness. Messi’s only two appearances to date in the French top flight have come against Stade de Reims and Olympique Lyon.
Both teams are coming off midweek victories in European cup competition. PSG notched another win, 2-0, Tuesday against fellow UEFA Champions League favorite Manchester City with Messi scoring his first goal for the club. In the UEFA Europa Conference League on Thursday, Rennes got a come-from-behind 2-1 win at Dutch club Vitesse with the game-winner scored by teenager Kamaldeen Sulemana.
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“They have some exceptional players but we’re capable of giving them trouble,” Rennes head coach Bruno Genesio said in the lead-up to the match. “We need to remember what we did to them last season (a 1-1 draw in Rennes). We’ll give everything on the field [Sunday].”
Sporting News will be following the Rennes-PSG match live and providing score updates, commentary and highlights as they occur.
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10th min.: Rennes left winger Kamaldeen Sulemana is getting on the ball a lot and he looks to be the major source of danger. He started a play which finished with a shot by Gaetan Laborde which was right at Donnarumma.
6th min.: Quick turn and burst of acceleration by Kylian Mbappe and it’s Rennes center back Nayef Aguerd who challenges and cuts off his run in the box. Great defensive play.
2nd min.: PSG’s Marquinhos clears an early Rennes corner and a Flavien Tait cross is gobbled up by PSG ‘keeper Gigi Donnarumma.
1st min.: Kylian Mbappe kicks off the match and Rennes come out pressing. The crowd is immediately into it.
6:52 a.m.: There will be a minute of applause before kickoff in memory of former Marseille owner Bernard Tapie, who passed away on Sunday.
6:44 a.m.: Messi getting the friendly reception from the home fans:
6:00 a.m.: The league leaders kick off Ligue 1’s seven-game Sunday slate.
Rennes vs. PSG lineups
Neymar, Messi, Di Maria and Mbappe all get the start in PSG’s final match before the international break for World Cup qualifiers. PSG manager Mauricio Pochettino is only missing a handful of players for the trip to Rennes, as Layvin Kurzawa and Julian Draxler are both out because of illness, while one of the club’s big offseason signings, central defender Sergio Ramos, is still working his way back into shape. He’s somehow managed to cobble together his starting XI:
PSG starting lineup (4-2-3-1, left to right): 50-Gianluigi Donnarumma — 25-Nuno Mendes, 3-Presnel Kimpembe, 5-Marquinhos, 2-Achraf Hakimi — 6-Marco Verratti, 27-Idrissa Gueye — 10-Neymar Jr., 30-Lionel Messi, 11-Angel Di Maria — 7-Kylian Mbappe
Rennes manager Bruno Genesio has his full side available for the match, and he’s starting six of 11 players on short rest after Thursday’s Europa Conference League road win at Vitesse. Belgian teen star Jeremy Doku is out injured.
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The holidays will be here before you know it. If you have kids to shop for this year, now’s the time to get started!
We know what you’re thinking—October just started. There’s still plenty of time before you need to start worrying about Christmas shopping. While the holidays are still a couple of months away, the gifts kids tend to want most typically sell out really quickly. If the kids in your life are into Paw Patrol, LOL Surprise! or anything tech-related, it’s not a bad idea to get your shopping done as soon as possible.
From fun playsets to electric ride-ons, we’ve rounded up all the toys kids will be wanting this year. Check those out below.
White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that the Food and Drug Administration will review data on Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics’ new Covid oral antiviral “as quickly as they possibly can” in hopes of issuing an emergency use authorization.
The companies said their antiviral treatment, molnupiravir, reduced the risk of hospitalization or death for unvaccinated patients with mild or moderate Covid by about 50%. In the phase three clinical trial, which enrolled 775 trial participants who took either molnupiravir or a placebo, eight people who received the placebo died within 29 days. None of the participants who took molnupiravir died, according to the data released Friday.
“You’ve got to make sure you give the FDA time to very carefully go over the data and make the kind of determinations for emergency use authorization,” Fauci told CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” “So I don’t want to get ahead of them. I can’t predict when it will be, but I can tell you one thing: They will do it as quickly as they possibly can.”
Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics also said that 7.3% of molnupiravir recipients in their phase three study were hospitalized within 29 days, while 14.1% of placebo recipients were hospitalized or died. All participants had at least one health condition that elevated their chances for more severe Covid symptoms.
An emergency use authorization from the FDA would make molnupiravir the first oral antiviral to combat Covid. The U.S. has agreed to purchase 1.7 million courses of molnupiravir. White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters at a briefing Friday that the government has the option of buying even more doses if the drug gets approved.
Merck projects that it will have 10 million courses of molnupiravir available by the end of 2021.
When asked whether molnupiravir would eventually be reserved exclusively for unvaccinated people, Fauci said he wanted to avoid speculating before the FDA made its final decision. Fully vaccinated people can still contract Covid, particularly as vaccine effectiveness wanes, but they retain a high degree of protection against severe illness and death.
“I shouldn’t get ahead of what the FDA will be authorizing it for,” Fauci said. “But I would assume that if you’re infected, you’re infected. Doesn’t really matter whether you’ve been vaccinated or not.”
If you’ve ever wanted to play a game with random strangers while standing in the middle of Times Square, well, your prayers were briefly answered on September 8 and 9.
Using the Mega Screen billboard located at 1500 Broadway and West 43 Street in Manhattan, bystanders could scan a QR code with their smartphones to participate as an “interactive spectator” in Streamline Studios’ 2020 co-op game Bake ‘n Switch. Those who did so were able to jump in and play part of the game without having to download or install it.
This was part of a public test of “Project Monarch,” a prototype that combines digital billboards with mobile games via 5G to create what its organizers call “mobile crowd gaming.” With Project Monarch’s technology, billboards could turn into interactive events. Imagine an advertisement you could pick up and play on your phone with three-quarters of a million people, and you get an idea of what this is going for. (Between this and that thing with the hoverboard, Times Square is becoming quite the random tech hub lately.)
With Project Monarch’s technology, billboards could turn into interactive events.
Project Monarch is a collaboration between multiple groups including the following: Streamline Media Group, a Metaverse-focused developer that released Bake ‘n Switch last year through its gaming imprint; Genvid, which produces a toolset to create interactive livestreams; Outfront Media, which owns the Times Square billboard; Intel, which contributed its Smart Edge technology to the project; and Sky Packets, which provided a 5G-connected hot spot that allowed users to connect to Project Monarch.
“Interactivity is dominating virtually every kind of media, and this experiment proves that even the most modern digital billboards can be reimagined,” said Jacob Navok, co-founder and CEO of Genvid Technologies, in a press release. “With our interactive livestream technology and Intel’s advanced 5G network platforms, advertisers and brand sponsors can easily and dynamically provide more engaging, entertaining content that consumers not only remember but even enjoy directly.”
During the test of Project Monarch, up to six randomly chosen participants could be tagged in to help one of the two people playing Bake ‘n Switch, with three interactive spectators on each player’s side. Each round of the minigame being played lasted five minutes, and ended with both players and spectators being able to tap their screens to help drive up a score multiplier.
In theory, as argued by Genvid, Monarch’s technology could be used to turn just about any type of digital broadcast into an interactive event, with viewers being able to jump into the onscreen action and participate.
Genvid claims that a larger-scale deployment of Monarch could have 750,000 concurrent users. By way of comparison, that’s more people theoretically playing an interactive ad than are playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam at time of writing.
Genvid claims that a larger-scale deployment of Monarch could have 750,000 concurrent users.
“Streamline is continuously working toward projects and partnerships that will advance the gaming industry,” said Alexander Fernandez, CEO of Streamline Media Group, in Genvid’s press release. “We believe the digital transformation of business and industry is accelerated best by leveraging video game technology and competencies. Streamline is always ready and able to innovate global consumer experiences with forward-thinking partners.”
The search for potentially habitable planets focuses on exoplanets – planets orbiting other stars, for good reason. The only planet we know there is life is Earth, and sunlight powers life here. But some estimates suggest that there are many more rogue planets roaming space that are not attached to or heated by a star.
Could some of them support life?
The term ‘rogue planet’ is a colorful term used to describe what interstellar objects (ISOs) actually are. But in the case of rogue planets, the ISOs are objects of planetary mass and no less massive objects like ‘Oumuamua or 2I / Borisov, the only two confirmed ISOs that have entered our solar system.
Rogue planets were somehow expelled from their solar systems. Young solar systems are chaotic places where bodies collide with one another and where wandering gas giants can tear smaller terrestrial planets out of their orbits and send them on an interstellar journey. It is also possible for rogue planets to form in interstellar space, much like stars. A planet could grow together from a cloud of gas and dust together with an orbiting lunar system. Sub-brown dwarfs are also considered rogue planets, but since they are just gas, life is unlikely. In any case, rogue planets are not gravitationally tied to one or more stars. You are floating freely.
We don’t know how many there are. If you ask Neil deGrasse Tyson, there are billions of them in the Milky Way, maybe even trillions. Could one of them harbor life? Possibly.
A Florida Tech University scientist investigated the subject. Manasvi Lingam is an assistant professor of aerospace, physics, and space science at Florida Tech and has researched several topics in astrobiology, including the habitability of planets and moons outside of solar systems. Lingam published a book with prolific Avi Loeb called “Life in the Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures”. In 2019, the two published an article in the International Journal of Astrobiology entitled “Subsurface Exolife,” which examined planets with subterranean oceans and their potential for life. But instead of just focusing on exoplanets orbiting other stars, they looked at rogue planets that could do the same.
The Milky Way over the Very Large Array. How many rogue planets are there in the Milky Way? Billions? Trillions? Credit: NRAO / AUI / NSF; J. Hellermann
If, as deGrasse Tyson says, there are billions or trillions of rogue planets in the Milky Way, then it is possible that the exoplanet closest to us is not an exoplanet but a rogue planet. And some of these planets could also be prime targets in the search for life, according to Lingam. “Usually we think of planets attached to stars like Mars that could support life, but in reality these types of life-sustaining planets could just float out there in the vast void of space with rich biosphere,” he said.
In an interview with Discover magazine, Lingam said, “It’s easy to imagine having something bigger than microbes,” Lingam says. “Even if it’s not as complex as the most complex things we see here [on Earth]. “
Rogue planets, floating due to the cold conditions in interstellar space, seem unlikely to support life on the surface anyway. But here in our own solar system there are planets and moons so far from the sun that they might as well be in interstellar space. Take, for example, Jupiter’s moon Europa. Its surface is frozen, but beneath that surface is an ocean of liquid water, making it a prime target in our search for life. Could some rogue planets be like Europe?
What does a rogue planet need to sustain life? A combination of things, probably.
Assuming that life needs liquid water, a rogue planet needs a source of energy to keep the water from freezing. The most likely scenario is a planet similar to the moons Europa, Ganymede, and Enceladus. Strong evidence shows that these bodies have thick layers of ice on their surface, with oceans of water underneath. Europe could even have twice as much water as the earth.
Artist’s impression of the interior of Europe, based on data from Galileo spacecraft. Europe could have twice as much water as the earth. Photo credit: NASA
The heat preventing a rogue planet from completely freezing would come from within the planet. The earth has a lot of geothermal energy emanating from its core. It is reasonable to assume that some rogue planets have the same thing. Of course, only a tiny percentage of Earth’s energy comes from its core. The sun provides over 99.9% of Earth’s energy, so this scenario, while realistic, poses a challenge to life. A rogue planet would have very little energy to work with.
Rogue planets face another problem in the cold darkness of interstellar space. If it started with an atmosphere in its own solar system, that same atmosphere in interstellar space would freeze and fall to the ground. The earth’s atmosphere plays a crucial role in maintaining warmth and mitigating our climate. How could rogue planets do without one?
Maybe they don’t need one. Europe has an extremely weak oxygen atmosphere. Ganymede too. Enceladus has a thicker atmosphere, but nothing like that of Earth. A rogue planet is very unlikely to maintain a gaseous atmosphere capable of trapping heat.
There is at least one exception. An extremely dense hydrogen atmosphere could resist freezing and possibly trap heat. It could trap enough heat to prevent surface water from freezing. We don’t know if there are rocky planets with hydrogen atmospheres, and if so, they are extremely rare. However, experiments show that at least some organisms can live in a hydrogen atmosphere.
A rogue planet with a massive moon might have better chances of sustaining life. A moon of sufficient mass could cause the planet to be heated by the tides. Tidal warming does not seem to be uncommon, although in our own solar system the gas giant Jupiter in the moon Europa provides tidal warming. So maybe something similar can happen in a rogue planetary system with its own moons: The moon stays warm and has an underground ocean instead of the planet.
Images from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft show the intricate details of Europe’s icy surface. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Lingam says there is another option. If a rogue planet is near the galactic core and the galaxy has an active galactic core (AGN), it is theoretically possible that it will receive enough light for photosynthesis to take place. According to Lingam, there is enough energy to support photosynthesis less than 1,000 light years away from an AGN.
We know that life can exist without sunlight, at the bottom of an ocean. The earth is home to entire biological communities in the vicinity of hydrothermal springs on the ocean floor. These openings are called black smokers and produce a stream of minerals that serve as nourishment for chemosynthetic bacteria. These bacteria attract other organisms that feed on them. These organisms, in turn, attract predators and an entire food chain manifests itself. Geothermal rogue planets could have similar communities.
Life without energy from a star could rely on hydrothermal sources. Image credit: NOAA
If some rogue planets carry life through interstellar space, they may play a role in panspermia. Panspermia is the idea that either the ingredients for life or life itself can spread across a galaxy by hitchhiking on interstellar objects. Rogue planets appear to be ideal candidates for vehicles for panspermia. Our solar system will have sent its own rogue planets and ISO into interstellar space. Perhaps they are spreading life across the galaxy.
Rogue planets with frozen surfaces and subterranean oceans might have an advantage on planets like Earth: They are protected by an icy shield. Europe has a layer of ice that is between 10 and 30 km thick. Think of it as an asteroid shield. We know that asteroid strikes can have devastating effects on a planet, cause mass extinctions and change the entire course of evolution. Would an impactor the size of the Chicxulub impactor be able to disrupt life on a rogue planet as it did on Earth? Maybe not.
So far, much of it is guesswork. How can we find out more about rogue planets?
First we have to put our eyes on some. The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will specialize in the search for transient objects and phenomena. The Rubin Observatory has a 10 year mission and has been able to find up to 50 ISOs, including rogue planets, during that time.
Once we find some, we need to find a way to visit one. Manasvi Lingam and colleagues raised this problem in a paper entitled “Interstellar Now! Missions to and sample returns from nearby interstellar objects. ”The authors of this paper say that in situ exploration of these objects is the next step. It is the only way to study the composition of a rogue planet and its chemical and isotopic structure. They talk about possible options for rogue planets soaring past and even for the lander to come to the surface.
Ruby Observatory at sunset lit by a full moon. Photo credit: Rubin Observatory / NSF / AURA
But what we really need is a pattern. For lower mass ISOs, similar to ‘Oumuamua’, a high speed impactor could be used. It could blast material from the surface that is collected by a spacecraft during a flyby and returned to Earth. But for an object the size of a planet, that’s probably impossible. It is not clear how we could collect a sample from a rogue planet. That may be technically unattainable, at least for the time being.
ESA has a plan to send a space probe to an ISO if it enters our inner solar system. It’s called the Comet Interceptor and would launch before it knows what its target is. The spacecraft would be parked at point Sun-Earth L2 where it would wait. Once a suitable ISO was found, the spacecraft would be sent on a rendezvous with it. The idea focuses on long-period comets, but could be adapted to ISOs, at least interstellar comets. It’s not hard to see how it could evolve to visit a real rogue planet.
NASA is working on a similar mission called Extrasolar Object Interceptor and Sample Return. NASA envisions launching a spacecraft towards Jupiter and waiting for an ISO to approach. Then it would be directed to the ISO to collect a sample and return it to Earth.
We cannot travel to another star system. Maybe one day in our science fiction future, but not anytime soon. But thanks to rogue planets and other ISOs, other star systems are sending us the evidence we need. We just have to find a way to study it.
