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Staff at the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence have warned that its credibility is in “serious jeopardy” and raised doubts over the organisation’s future amid senior departures and a cost-cutting programme.

More than 90 staff at the government-backed Alan Turing Institute have written to its board of trustees expressing …

It sounds like a conundrum that Rudyard Kipling would have explored in his Just So Stories, but researchers say they have the answer to how crocodiles get the scales on their heads.

Many animals, from turtles to birds, have scales – hard plate-like structures that form on the skin.

But …

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX and its investors have agreed to buy shares from its employees, valuing the business at $350bn (£275bn).

The US business, in which Musk owns a 42% stake, and its backers are buying the stock at $185 a share, up from $112 a few months ago, …

Last month Headingley got a new cricket venue. It doesn’t have a lot in common with the long-established and much more famous one down the road – this one tends to be drier, warmer and significantly more attractive to young people. In October a similar venue arrived in Bristol, both …

Good morning. There are certain phrases in news stories about government, aren’t there, where your eyes glaze over like you’ve just wound down the window and asked someone for directions. Autumn statement; early day motion; fiscal rules; white paper; ping pong, weirdly. They’re definitely all very important, but it would …

The

Arctic

This drastic shift is …

A leading academic publisher is reviewing its decision to publish research papers by the late British professor Richard Lynn, an influential figure in the discredited field of “race science” who argued western civilisation was threatened by genetically inferior ethnic groups.

Elsevier provides access to more than 100 papers by Lynn, …

Ireland has allowed itself to become a “data dumping ground” for big technology companies such as Amazon and Meta which are monopolising clean energy generation for their datacentres, campaigners claim.

They say the growth of the cloud storage sector in Ireland is so rapid it is threatening the country’s legally …

The rebel leader now running much of Syria,

Ahmed al-Sharaa

“We will …

Good morning. Of all the horrific symbols of the deposed Assad regime, few carry the notoriety of Sednaya, the most feared node in the Syrian government’s repressive prison system. About 30,000 people were killed there between 2011 and 2020, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimated, more than in any …