Spaniard beat Serbian to complete career grand slam at 22 Alcaraz also youngest man to win seven grand slam titles Novak Djokovic called Carlos Alcaraz a tennis legend at the age of 22 after the Spaniard became the youngest male player in history to complete the career grand slam by...
Familiar tale of two halves haunts Manchester City as Spurs find belated resolve | Jonathan Wilson
City again needlessly threw points away but Solanke showed what Tottenham, with their long injury list, have been missing There are times when football is gloriously silly, times when the logic of your eyes and all your experience tells you one thing is happening, and then it turns out the...
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
João Pedro stepping up for Rosenior, Arsenal frontmen show their teeth and stretched Liverpool are fighting on João Pedro is enjoying life under Liam Rosenior. The versatile Brazil forward was excellent after coming on at half-time against West Ham. João Pedro, who has five goals in his last five games,...
Transfer deadline day: Mateta, Strand Larsen, Jacquet latest and more – live
⚽ Transfer interactive: deals from Europe’s top five leagues⚽ 7pm GMT deadline | Follow us on Bluesky | Email Daniel It’s strange, really, that Liverpool spent so much money on forwards last summer, the part of their team that was working, and ignored the midfield and defence, which were not....
Do you like cat photos? Are you constantly distracted? You’re probably actually quite good at focussing: 10 myths about attention
Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains, which then efficiently prioritise them. We need to learn to work with the process, rather than against it It’s believed that we have about 50,000 thoughts a day: big, small, urgent, banal – “Did I leave the oven on?”. And those...
Catch a falling star: cosmic dust may reveal how life began, and a Sydney lab is making it from scratch
Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain organic matter Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put...
Starwatch: Orion the hunter dominates the February night sky
Straddling the celestial equator, the constellation is visible in both hemispheres Orion, the hunter, one of the most recognisable constellations in the night sky, is well placed for observation from the northern hemisphere during February. Straddling the celestial equator – the projection of Earth’s equator on to the night sky...
‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-life
We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods;...
Engineers just found a way to cool quantum systems using microwave noise
In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, the Chalmers team unveiled what they call a minimal quantum refrigerator. The device operates not by shielding qubits from disturbances but by exploiting controlled randomness – precisely tuned microwave noise – to direct heat flow within superconducting circuits. Read Entire Article
Small brains, big compute: Scientists want to build GPS chips that work like a honeybee’s brain
GPS is more than just a way for us to get from point A to point B. Our smartphones, vehicles, drones, cameras, wearable devices, and countless other technologies all rely on it, and the complex computation supporting it, to enable the modern conveniences we enjoy everyday. Read Entire Article