Spurs captain said to be target of false pregnancy claim Son is ‘clearly the victim of this incident’, his agency says Son Heung-min has filed a complaint to South Korean police alleging he was the victim of a blackmail attempt, his agency said, after media reports that a woman had...
Colin Harvey: ‘How do you go from being a kid watching Everton to having a statue?’
Elegant player and legendary coach looks back on some of his finest moments at ‘iconic’ Goodison Park Standing outside a pawnbrokers on Goodison Road, waiting for his dad to emerge through the crowd after the match, a young Colin Harvey could not have imagined what lay in front of him....
Toxic wildfire pollution infiltrates homes of 1bn people a year, study finds
Dangerous indoor pollution could be tackled with air purifiers but costs are too high for many, researchers say Toxic pollution from wildfires has infiltrated the homes of more than a billion people a year over the last two decades, according to new research. The climate crisis is driving up the...
AI can spontaneously develop human-like communication, study finds
Groups of large language model artificial intelligence agents can adopt social norms as humans do, report says Artificial intelligence can spontaneously develop human-like social conventions, a study has found. The research, undertaken in collaboration between City St George’s, University of London and the IT University of Copenhagen, suggests that when...
‘Turning point’: claw print fossils found in Australia rewrite story of amniotes by 40 million years
The discovery by two local fossil hunters on a river bank in Victoria has ‘potentially far-reaching implications’, scientists say Fossilised claw prints found in Australia suggest amniotes – the ancestors of reptiles, birds and mammals – evolved about 40m years earlier than thought. The footprints, in sandstone dated 354m to...
My husband and son suffered strokes, 30 years apart. Shockingly little had changed
I was told my husband would never talk again, while physiotherapy was dismissed entirely. My son was failed in similar ways, but for the brilliance of some medical staff who refuse to believe a stroke is the end On the night before the accident, John and I and our son...
Feathered fossil provides clues about how earliest birds first took flight
‘Beautifully preserved’ Archaeopteryx has tertial feathers that appear to have been key to making it aerodynamic An exquisitely preserved Archaeopteryx fossil has delivered fresh insights into how the earliest birds first took flight 150m years ago. The fossil is the first Archaeopteryx in which scientists have been able to identify...
Is it time to try geoengineering? – podcast
Geoengineering, the controversial set of techniques that aim to deliberately alter the Earth’s climate system, may be inching a step closer to reality with the announcement that UK scientists will be conducting real-world experiments in the coming years. To understand what’s happening, Ian Sample is joined by the Guardian environment...