Briton in cautious mood before Saudi Arabian GP but maintains Scuderia are ‘greatest team in F1 history’ Weathering the choppy waves of his new career with Ferrari it is still clear that every time Lewis Hamilton climbs into the car the seven-time Formula One champion believes he is taking a...
Slot denies Liverpool dropped Darwin Núñez due to row at training ground
Striker left out of squad for win against West Ham Coach confirms Núñez will be back for visit to Leicester Arne Slot has denied Darwin Núñez was dropped from Liverpool’s win against West Ham because of a training-ground row with a member of his coaching staff. The Liverpool head coach...
It’s complicated: Awkward marriage of Maresca and Chelsea provides great drama | Barney Ronay
Enzo Maresca loves controlled buildup play while Blues fans tend to like forceful football. Conflict seemed inevitable There was a news story this week about a team of a hundred scientists who have spent nine years analysing a single cubic millimetre of mouse brain. The one hundred scientists have finally...
Chelsea get deja vu as imposing Barcelona await in semi-final trilogy
Sonia Bompastor has her shot at ending the European champions’ reign and moving Blues step closer to history As Chelsea’s quest for a quadruple enters its final month, there is no more imposing obstacle to navigate than this. Barcelona, the European champions in three of the past four campaigns, are...
Kyren Wilson: ‘It’s not just me that’s world champion. It’s my whole family’
The 2024 winner reflects on the emotional backstory to Crucible triumph amid major health concerns for his family “‘I still believed in myself but it was quite soul-destroying out there,” Kyren Wilson says in a back room at Barratts Snooker Club in Northampton. The world champion once worked here as...
‘It’s a new world’: the analysts using AI to psychologically profile elite players
Statistics can help assess a potential recruit’s emotional control and leadership, while highlighting red flags “The players didn’t show enough fight.” Listen to any pundit’s post-match reaction and you will hear variations of that soundbite. But can you analyse an athlete’s state of mind, based on their on-pitch body language?...
Doge cuts spark questions as employees supporting Musk space launches spared
Department of Transportation employees who provide support for Starlink and SpaceX launches safe amid job cuts Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) and the Trump administration have spared the jobs of US Department of Transportation employees who provide support services for spacecraft launches by Musk’s companies, SpaceX and Starlink...
The truth about stress: from the benefits of the ‘good kind’ to the exercise that only makes it worse
The authors of a new book explain why understanding the science of stress can help us manage it better True (up to a point)The way stress manifests is very much bodily, centred around hormones such as cortisol and their effect on us. But this process is triggered by the brain...
Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before
Contested discovery achieved by experiment firing laser pulses into eyes, stimulating retina cells After walking the Earth for a few hundred thousand years, humans might think they have seen it all. But not according to a team of scientists who claim to have experienced a colour no one has seen...
Are we alone? New discovery raises hopes of finding alien life
Tentative evidence for life on a distant world is exciting, but unconfirmed. As new telescopes bring exoplanets into sharper focus, is the truth out there? Towards the end of his life, the cosmologist Stephen Hawking was asked about the odds of finding intelligent alien life in the next two decades....