The human brain is so complex that scientific brains have a hard time making sense of it. A piece of neural tissue the size of a grain of sand might be packed with hundreds of thousands of cells linked together by miles of wiring. In 1979, Francis Crick, the Nobel-prize-winning scientist, concluded that the anatomy […]
It’s started. At 12.01am EST (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday, United States President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” trade tariffs kicked in. And no country has been hit worse than China, which now effectively faces a 104 percent levy on the goods it sells to the US. Even as Washington moved to start negotiations with other trading partners […]
A growing number of UK lenders are cutting mortgage rates as the fallout from US tariffs continues to fuel forecasts of deeper than expected interest rate cuts. Coventry Building Society became the largest mortgage provider to cut its two-year fixed rate to below 4% on Wednesday as several others also cut rates. Financial markets and […]
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 Masters Tournament. To know how Scottie Scheffler plots his way around Augusta National is to understand how a handyman tackles a leaky pipe. “It’s kind of like he’s got a toolbox, right?” says Randy Smith, Scheffler’s swing coach since he was 7. “OK, you’re going to go […]
In Lesotho, the small southern African nation that is among the countries hardest hit by President Trump’s new tariffs, business owners were meeting on Wednesday to strategize their response. For a country with an economy worth just $2.1 billion, few options are on the table. Mr. Trump imposed a 50 percent tariff on Lesotho, owing […]
For 20 years, Rj LaMendola found peace while paddling in the water on his surfboard. But last month off the coast of Southern California, the ocean turned hostile after a sea lion lunged at him, bit him and dragged him off his board. “It looked possessed,” Mr LaMendola wrote in a Facebook post, saying the […]
India’s central bank has cut interest rates by 0.25% amid a spate of downgrades to growth following Donald Trump’s tariff announcements. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced repo rates from 6.25% to 6%, a second cut since February when rates were brought down after nearly five years. The repo rate is the level at […]
US President Donald Trump says he will soon announce “major” tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals, a move that could end decades of low-cost global trade in medicines. For years, most countries, including the US, have imposed few or no tariffs on finished drugs, thanks in part to a 1995 World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement aimed at […]
Former Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic has said the club was not as focused on “winning” as their rivals during his five-year spell at Old Trafford. Matic, who plays for Lyon, faces a reunion with his former side in the Europa League quarterfinals on Thursday. Speaking to the Athletic in an interview published on Wednesday, […]
Getty Images The infected blood inquiry is holding two more days of hearings amid concerns about the government’s response on compensation, with campaigners warning they are “losing faith”. It comes nearly a year after the final report was published into the scandal – said to be the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the […]