The day before Eliud Kipchoge’s first attempt at a sub-two-hour marathon in 2017, a Nike vice-president described it to me as “a moonshot”. Now, though, the track and field equivalent of landing on Mars is apparently just 3min 59.37sec away. That was the startling conclusion of a study in the Royal Society Open Science journal … Read more
Bompastor bemoans Chelsea’s ‘intentions’ Chelsea dropped points for only the second time this season in Sunday’s toe-to-toe battle with Brighton at Broadfield Stadium. The league leaders and reigning champions trailed 2-1 at half-time against opponents who played with flair and skill. But Mayra Ramírez came to the rescue when her shot on goal was deflected … Read more
Fifa’s new 16-team Women’s Club World Cup could be delayed beyond its previously-proposed 2026 launch, the Guardian has learned. The tournament is understood to maintain widespread backing within the governing body, as well as across the confederations, but discussions are ongoing regarding the possibility of the inaugural staging of the event being pushed back by … Read more
England arrived in Pakistan thinking pace was the play, but they left with masala omelette on their faces. Attacks with more variety and left‑arm angles have largely prospered in this Champions Trophy, while Jos Buttler’s team – the worst of the eight on show with nil points – found their exclusively right‑arm attack struggled for … Read more
The Olympic silver medallist Liz McColgan has hit out at the “demeaning and abusive comments” received on social media by her daughter, Eilish, the reigning Commonwealth Games 10,000m champion. Liz, who also won the 1991 world 10,000m title and coaches Eilish, used screenshots in a post on X to highlight comments attacking her daughter’s body … Read more
What links Jack Robson, Lal Hilditch, Herbert Bamlett and Ruben Amorim? They’re the only permanent managers in Manchester United history with a career negative goal-difference. Other than Amorim, the other three worked between 1914 and 1931. Sunday’s FA Cup exit against Fulham, admittedly, did not contribute to that. It was possible, even, in the aftermath … Read more
This April 2024 image provided by NASA shows the SPHEREx telescope at a facility in Boulder, Colorado, in the US. | Photo Credit: AP NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after the Big Bang that initiated the universe and to search the Milky Way … Read more
An interim report released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has raised concerns about the potential link between high levels of selenium in wheat and increased hair loss. The report, which is based on preliminary findings, suggests that excessive consumption of wheat with elevated selenium content could contribute to hair loss in certain … Read more
Planetary parades are not particularly significant to scientists but they can create a visual spectacle. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In a small window of time around February 28, people on the earth were in for a visual treat as seven planets, plus the moon, lined up in the night sky. These events are called … Read more
Nicknamed ‘Ghost Riders in the Sky,’ the mission comes just over a year after the first-ever commercial lunar landing and is part of a NASA partnership with industry to cut costs and support Artemis, the program aiming to return astronauts to the Moon. | Photo Credit: AFP After a long journey through space, a U.S. … Read more