World No 2 seals Miami Open final 6-4, 6-4 Sinner won in Indian Wells earlier in March Jiri Lehecka entered his first Masters 1000 final at the Miami Open in the best serving form of his life. He had won every service game in the tournament, a feat achieved by...
New survey finds 91% of fans believe football is better off without VAR
Only 2% thought VAR ‘makes football more enjoyable’ 81% prefer watching games without video technology Football supporters remain thoroughly unconvinced of the merits of video assistant referees (VAR), with new research suggesting as many as 91% of them believe the game is better off without it. More than eight years...
Starwatch: Lynx constellation well placed for northern hemisphere observers
A moonless evening away from streetlights will be the best to track down this celestial feline It will require some patience to track down this faint northern constellation, but it will put another piece of celestial geography into place. Lynx is currently well placed for northern hemisphere observers, stretched high...
Can you solve it? R y clvr ngh t rd ths sntnc?
To see or not to see, that is the question How much information does a sentence need to contain in order to be readable? That’s the idea behind today’s puzzles. Listed below are ten common phrases or sayings in the English language. Each letter is replaced by a box the...
Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
Anatomy of one of least studied human organs could improve outcomes for women who have pelvic surgery Almost 30 years after the intricate web of nerves inside the penis was plotted out, the same mapping has finally been completed for one of the least-studied organs in the human body –...
Down on your luck? How behavioural neuroscience could help
The latest research suggests there’s far more to good fortune than mere accident When the founder of Panasonic, Kōnosuke Matsushita, was asked what quality he valued most in job candidates, his answer baffled everyone: whether they were lucky. Not their credentials, not their intelligence, not their experience. Luck. For years,...
AI has mastered chess, so humans are changing the rules of the game
The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms have reshaped elite play and preparation, so top humans now use a combination of engines, surprise, and psychology to keep classical chess......
Fiber HDMI cables enable full-bandwidth 8K over runs up to 990 feet
The product is an active optical cable (AOC) for HDMI. Instead of relying solely on copper, it carries most of its signal over fiber-optic strands. Inside the cable, HDMI electrical signals are converted into optical signals for the journey between the two ends, then converted back to electrical signals at......
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 arrives as Intel scraps Core Ultra 9 290K Plus
The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 doubles down on AMD's V-Cache formula by equipping each of its two CCDs with stacked cache memory. The design results in a massive 208MB of total cache, a configuration that AMD claims can yield 5% to 10% faster performance in select rendering and content creation workloads......
5 killed after train and van collide in train crossing in rural Mississippi
Authorities say five people were killed when a train and van collided in rural Mississippi