As the isolation period comes to an end for those caught up in the outbreak on a cruise ship, let’s celebrate a good news story
passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship where the hantavirus outbreak first occurred finished their isolation periods this past Sunday. This is a public health success story worth celebrating, because so many worse results were possible. We heard so much about what...
Three-day-old moon will be about its own width away from luminous planet in constellation of Cancer
A silver sliver of moon joins the bright beacon of Venus this week for a delightful twilight conjunction. The moon will be just over three days old and only 11% of its visible surface will be illuminated.
Venus will be burning brightly and less than a moon’s width away from our natural...
Geochronologists say Antrim coastline’s basalt columns developed over 5.5m years – 8m less than thought
For centuries, the tale has been passed from generation to generation: how the Irish giant Finn McCool built the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland to fight Benandonner, his Scottish rival, by hurling chunks of the Antrim coastline into the sea.
Leadership hopeful to also say tax revenues from new North Sea oil and gasfields should be used to cut energy bills
Wes Streeting’s pitch to be the next Labour leader will include a plan to increase high-skilled immigration to the UK, arguing that Donald Trump is telling scientists and AI experts they are not welcome in the US.
In a speech this coming week, the former health secretary will also...
Poolbeg Pharma to test the treatment in NHS hospitals and says it is also developing a GLP-1 weight loss pill
A London-based startup is about to trial a drug at six NHS hospitals that could stop people on cancer immunotherapy getting a life-threatening side-effect.
Poolbeg Pharma said its oral drug POLB 001 could make treatment for blood cancer safer by preventing cytokine release syndrome...
A U.F.C. fight on President Trump’s birthday will now double as a capstone for Paramount’s successful effort to secure Justice Department approval for a mega media merger.
OpenAI said that a coalition of states had opened an investigation over a wide range of its practices, including its handing of user data, safety of minors and advertising activities.
The company’s response to the launchpad blast has become a key test for Artemis III
As Blue Origin tells it, the most spectacular launchpad explosion in recent memory, which destroyed its pioneering New Glenn space rocket last month and severely damaged almost everything around it, was merely a blip.
“We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter,” Dave Limp, the...
Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain
I live in the Norfolk countryside, and what irritates me most about living here is the deluge of litter that gets thrown out of car windows in the lane outside my house. It is always from junk food outlets, so the question arises as to which way round things are: does junk food...
Photosynthesis does not always result in wood growth, a key factor in carbon dioxide sequestration
Trees may not be able to store as much planet-heating carbon as hoped, a study suggests, with researchers finding photosynthesis does not always lead to wood growth.
Scientists studied 137 sites across the US and found trees stopped growing months before the point in the year at which...
The San Francisco company said on Friday night that the federal government ordered the suspension of the two A.I. systems, citing national security concerns.
Technique that examines fragments of foetal DNA in mother’s bloodstream could limit need for invasive screening, according to researchers
A new maternal blood test that can detect thousands of serious genetic conditions in the developing foetus could limit the need for invasive screening during pregnancy, according to scientists.
The test, to be described at the European Society for Human...
