Wing in doubt after missing training due to a foot issue Andy Farrell has privately picked side to face Wallabies on Saturday The Ireland wing Mack Hansen is expected to miss out on a place in the British & Irish Lions’ team for the first Test against the Wallabies on...
Rise of the machines: amid AI outrage, technology can be a force for good in sport | Sean Ingle
In the fevered environments within sporting arenas, anything that can help an official has to be a good thing We are all suckers for a good story. And there was certainly a cracking two‑parter at Wimbledon this year. First came the news that 300 line judges had been replaced by...
Never mind Bazball, this was Bazbrawl: say goodbye to happy-go-lucky England | Andy Bull
India broke a golden rule in the third Test: don’t try to pick a fight with Ben Stokes There was a large handwritten sign propped against the inside wall of the North Gate of Lord’s. “In affectionate remembrance of Bazball,” it said, the letters drawn in the bacon‑and-egg colours of...
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells...
Four astronauts depart international space station in return flight home
Crew Dragon capsule will parachute into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Tuesday Nasa retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson and three crew mates from India, Poland and Hungary departed the International Space Station early on Monday and embarked on their return flight to Earth. A Crew...
Full-body scans of 100,000 people could change way diseases are detected and treated
UK Biobank project to share 1bn images of organs, blood vessels and bones to help study ageing and ill health Scientists expect to gain unprecedented insights into human ageing and the earliest signs of disease after scanning 100,000 people from head to toe in the world’s largest whole body imaging...