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Rotherham Council has confirmed how it will spend more than £4.3m in government funding to offer financial support to people most in need. At a cabinet meeting on Monday, councillors approved a spending plan for the latest allocation of the Household Support Fund (HSF). The fund – £4.387m for the 2025/26 financial year – will […] More

For scientists who want to learn about the geological history of a planet, river deltas are a great place to start. Deltas gather sediment from a large area into one place, which can be studied to reveal climate and tectonic histories or signs of past life. That’s why NASA sent its most recent Mars rover […] More

Adding two weeks of continuous positive airway pressure for preterm infants in the hospital substantially improves lung growth and function, according to new research from Oregon Health & Science University. The study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, found that extending nasal continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, in preterm […] More

A four-goal first-half blitz has secured Melbourne City’s A-League Women premiership title defence and completed an unbeaten regular season. City thrashed Perth Glory 5-1 on the road, taking an immediate grip on the match with goals from Taylor Otto and Bryleeh Henry in the opening six minutes. Though Glory pulled a goal back with a […] More

A new discovery could pave the way for more effective cancer treatment by helping certain drugs work better inside the body. Scientists at Duke University School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and University of Arkansas have found a way to improve the uptake of a promising class of cancer-fighting […] More

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Preamble Hello and welcome to minute-by-minute coverage of the Women’s Champions League semi-final clash between Arsenal and Lyon. Arsenal welcome Joe Montemurro back to the Emirates after his stint at the club from 2017 to 2021. There’s further familiarity between Montemurro […] More

Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects, occurring in about one in 1,050 births in the United States. These defects, which appear when the tissues that form the lip or the roof of the mouth do not join completely, are believed to be caused by a mix of genetic and […] More

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump discussed “ongoing and productive” trade talks, No 10 has said, in their first call since the US president imposed tariffs on UK goods. The prime minister stressed his commitment to “free and open trade and the importance of protecting the national interest”, a Downing Street spokesperson said. They added […] More

Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome. The findings could serve as the […] More

Annabelle Liang Business reporter Getty Images To leave or not to leave? China, home to more than a billion consumers, is Apple’s second-largest market Every iPhone comes with a label which tells you it was designed in California. While the sleek rectangle that runs many of our lives is indeed designed in the United States, […] More

As Chelsea’s quest for a quadruple enters its final month, there is no more imposing obstacle to navigate than this. Barcelona, the European champions in three of the past four campaigns, are once again standing in the way of the English champions as Chelsea strive to lift the only major trophy that has eluded them, […] More

“The players didn’t show enough fight.” Listen to any pundit’s post-match reaction and you will hear variations of that soundbite. But can you analyse an athlete’s state of mind, based on their on-pitch body language? In an era when football is increasingly leaning on data to demonstrate physical attributes, statistics offering an accurate indication of […] More

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California’s High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation record for the Jeffrey pine, which may now be the state’s highest-altitude tree. His serendipitous finding is published in Madroño, a journal of the California Botanical Society. Last September, at timberline along the south slopes […] More

When Ipswich host Arsenal on Sunday it will be one day short of 23 years since, on a sun-dappled afternoon at Highbury, a hefty nail was hammered into the Suffolk side’s relegation coffin. Arsenal were en route to a dazzling league title and their 2-0 victory was routine; with four games left George Burley’s team, […] More

An organisation that began as a Facebook group has expanded to become a “lifeline” for many families. Mamas Bristol, based in an industrial estate in Bradley Stoke, South Gloucestershire, was established in 2018 by Paige Josham when she was trying to redistribute her children’s old clothes. The volunteer-run organisation has extended its services to help […] More

Pain and symptom management are important parts of caring for adults living with cerebral palsy. However, these patients are often treated with medications that may not align with the underlying type of symptom they’re experiencing. This disconnect can lead to adults with cerebral palsy being prescribed medications that aren’t the correct treatment for the source […] More

In the heart of Canada’s Rocky Mountains, an unassuming yet remarkable butterfly has been quietly flying under our scientific radar for years. With a wingspan of an inch to an inch and a half, and wings that are brown on top and greyish brown with black spots below, this population was long thought to belong […] More

Knots are generally understood to form due to twists and turns of long, flexible materials that keep shoes on your feet or frustrate your attempts at hanging holiday decorations. A beam of light doesn’t sound like a material that can create a knot. But it is. Imagine throwing several rocks into a pond all at […] More

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes. Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding successes have been modest. Some of the most […] More

The compound — Ti₄MnBi₂ — becomes only the second known metallic system with confirmed one-dimensional magnetism. A study by researchers from the University of British Columbia’s Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (UBC Blusson QMI) has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in the metallic compound Ti₄MnBi₂, offering evidence into a phase space that has […] More

Clathrates are characterised by a complex cage structure that provides space for guest ions too. Now, for the first time, a team has investigated the suitability of clathrates as catalysts for electrolytic hydrogen production with impressive results: the clathrate sample was even more efficient and robust than currently used nickel-based catalysts. They also found a […] More

Michael Race Economics reporter, BBC News Getty Images Stock markets around the world have been relatively settled this week after a period of chaos, sparked by US trade tariffs. But investors are still closely watching a part of the market which rarely moves dramatically – the US bond market. Governments sell bonds – essentially an […] More

dults younger than 50 years of age had more than double the risk of having a stroke from migraine or other nontraditional stroke risk factors rather than traditional risks such as high blood pressure, according to research published today in Stroke, the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American […] More

It was difficult to put a price on this victory for Sheffield United. Chris Wilder’s side had surprisingly lost their last three games in a hugely damaging blow to their automatic promotion hopes. But Gustavo Hamer’s typically impish first-half opener and Ben Brereton Díaz’s late strike were enough to revive home spirits on a soggy […] More

Hydrogen-based technologies are becoming more of a topic as renewable and clean energy sources are desired. A controversial take in this world is that hydrogen binding energy might not be the first way to go anymore. Conventional thinking holds that the metal site in single atom catalysts (SACs) has been a limiting factor to the […] More

There was a news story this week about a team of a hundred scientists who have spent nine years analysing a single cubic millimetre of mouse brain. The one hundred scientists have finally published their results. And those results are basically: “Whoah, have you seen this stuff?” What they found inside the cubic millimetre of […] More

Arne Slot has denied Darwin Núñez was dropped from Liverpool’s win against West Ham because of a training-ground row with a member of his coaching staff. The Liverpool head coach said on Sunday that Núñez was absent from the 2-1 victory at Anfield having felt unwell during training the day before, although the striker sat […] More