A new guarantee that the Tote win dividends will at least match starting-price returns will be a 'game changer' for pool betting in this country, it has been claimed.

Popular chaser Un De Sceaux has been retired after sustaining a ligament injury.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: ITV are in danger of losing the live rights to televise horse racing as the broadcaster are refusing to guarantee will be shown on their main channel.

Racing experts Robin Goodfellow, Peter Scudamore, Jane Mangan and Ken Pitterson share their top tips for day one of the Cheltenham Festival featuring the Champion Hurdle.

Racemail tipsters made a superb start with three winners including Epatante in the Champion Hurdle. Robin Goodfellow, Peter Scudamore, Ken Pitterson and Jane Mangan share their tips for day two. 

Champ's breathtaking finish to win the RSA Novice's Chase at Cheltenham left social media dumbfounded after the horse emerged from third 25 yards from the finish to take the win. 

Jane Mangan and Formcast (Nigel Taylor) continued their brilliant start to Cheltenham with a host of big-race winners on day two. Our racing experts share their tips for day three.

Sportsmail's racing experts Robin Goodfellow, Peter Scudamore, Ken Pitterson and Jane Mangan share their tips for day four of the Cheltenham Festival featuring the Gold Cup.

Racing in England will continue as normal despite most other sports closing down because of the coronavirus risk. The only limit in Scotland with meetings behind closed doors.

On Tuesday, just days after the Cheltenham Festival had reached a conclusion, it was announced there will be no more racing in Britain until at least the beginning of May.

Racing Post will temporarily stop publication of their daily newspaper for the first time since its inception in 1986 due to impact on the sport from the deadly coronavirus pandemic.  

Racing has faced criticism for staging Cheltenham just before the coronavirus shutdown, but the sport should be 'proud' if it is the first to re-start when restrictions are eased by the Government..

The sport has held discussions with figures in the Government about resuming action, and BHA chief Nick Rust has claimed racing is 'ready to go' whenever they are given the green light.

Contact tracing reduces the time taken to isolate people with COVID-19 by nearly two days, making it key to controlling the spread of coronavirus, a new study claims.

Before you jump on the bandwagon, it is worth remembering that a company's fortunes - especially one so closely linked to its boss - Elon Musk - can change quickly.

Professor Christophe Fraser, from Oxford University's Big Data Institute, said 60 per cent of the UK population - or 40 million - would need to download the app.

Residents on the Isle of Wight today claim they are unable to use the new NHS contact tracing app on phones which are more than two years old.

Developers from Google and Apple have been brought into the fold to provide technology that will overcome incompatibility issues with some mobiles reported on the Isle of Wight.

The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI is in negotiations with several unnamed federal agencies and three US states to provide contact tracing services during.

Displaying extraordinary grit, courage and openness to change, women from some of the most feudal communities in Rajasthan's villages are changing the rules forever and leading development and local governance at the grassroots. Abha Sharma brings us their tales.

A fairly straightforward yet key process, contact tracing is attempting to determine every person that an infected individual has come into contact with. It is a crucial tool to help identify those people who are infected or might potentially be infected to ‘flatten the curve’.

The proposed solution will work in two stages. The first are the APIs that are now available on iOS for iPhones and Android OS for Android phones. The second will be an integration of contact tracing tech within Android and iOS.

Aiisma is a company that specialises in dealing with user data, and may hence be well placed to highlight the aspect of privacy in contact tracing.

Apple and Google said privacy and preventing governments from using the system to compile data on citizens was the primary goal

They say that the Aarogya Setu app is designed to collect a user’s location at certain points in the process.

Stirling Moss, who was affectionately known as 'Mr. Motor Racing', died peacefully at his London home following a long illness.

Lewis Hamilton paid a tribute to Stirling Moss, who was regarded as one of Formula One's greatest drivers.

The 22-event F1 season has been decimated by the coronavirus with nine races either cancelled or postponed.

Lewis Hamilton said there was a big void in his life right now since he is unable to race due to coronavirus shutdown.

Formula One legend Ayrton Senna died in a horrific crash on this day in 1994

A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Asha Menon set aside the order of a single judge which had dismissed the woman's plea against Aurobindo College (Evening), where she had been working for five years.

A European coalition is forming around an approach to using smartphone technology to trace coronavirus infections which, it's hoped, will enable borders to reopen. Joe Davies reports.

The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to launch an app this month to enable people in under-resourced countries to assess whether they may have the novel coronavirus, and is considering a Bluetooth-based contact tracing feature too, an official told Reuters on Friday.

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The multinational companies, which hold the largest market shares in the sphere of technology, have decided to put their joint efforts in developing technology that will help world governments to cut the spread of the virus and save lives

Speed, glory, electrical fires: The new Power Racing Series pits overclocked minimobiles in tiny but heated competitions.

The Drone Racing League is gearing up for a massive 2016 debut. Tim Moynihan explores the technology and design behind the racing drones.

It’s a new industry, but the world of drone racing is quickly becoming a popular sport. Watch to learn about the tech behind it and find out what the Drone Racing League is all about.

On the Evidence interviewed Mathematica’s Matt Stagner about his upcoming APPAM presidential address, his work on child welfare, and his reflections on public policy research. This interview is part of a series of episodes produced by Mathematica in support of the APPAM conference in November.

Mobile phone applications that trace the new coronavirus could help decide whether business travelers and vacation-goers get to meet clients or visit their favorite beaches this summer. But politics and disagreement over what system to use threatens to thwart that solution.

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Tackling the role of early fetal brain development in autism; daily news stories with David Grimm.

Listen to stories on lizard stripes that trick predators, what a tiny jaw bone reveals about ancient “hobbit” people, and the risks of psychology’s dependence on online subjects drawn from Mechanical Turk, with online news intern Patrick Monahan.   Brian Ciruna talks about a potential mechanism for the most common type of scoliosis that involves the improper flow of cerebral spinal fluid during adolescence with host Sarah Crespi.   [Image: irin717/iStock/Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week we hear stories on sunlight pushing Mars’s flock of asteroids around, approximately 400-million-year-old trees that grew by splitting their guts, and why fighting poverty might also mean worsening climate change with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks with cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France in Paris about consciousness—what is it and can machines have it? For our monthly books segment, Jen Golbeck reviews astronaut Scott Kelly’s book Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: NASA/Goddard; Music: Jeffrey Cook]​

As part of a special issue on chemicals for tomorrow’s Earth, we’ve got two green chemistry stories. First, host Sarah Crespi talks with contributing correspondent Warren Cornwell about how a company came up with a replacement for the popular can lining material bisphenol A and then recruited knowledgeable critics to test its safety. Sarah is also joined by Beate Escher of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the University of Tübingen to discuss ways to trace complex mixtures of humanmade chemicals in the environment. They talk about how new technologies can help detect these mixtures, understand their toxicity, and eventually connect their effects on the environment, wildlife, and people. Read more in the special issue on chemicals for tomorrow’s Earth. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF)