Taiwan has suspended semiconductor export restrictions against South Africa, according to a report.

Cape Town’s Atlantic seaboard welcomes Dear Jean, Quorum Holdings’ latest lifestyle investment project.

Study monitored 500,000 women from Sweden and found 32% did not attend first mammogram appointment

Women who miss their first breast cancer screening appointment have a 40% higher risk of dying from the disease, according to a new study.

Experts at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden analysed data for about half a million women across Sweden, with the findings published in the British Medical...

Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown.

In its latest annual assessment, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said ocean acidity had crossed a critical...

Tests on Maria Branyas Morera, who was world’s oldest person before she died last year aged 117, gave doctors a trove of discoveries

The nonagenarian actor Dame Joan Collins may have been on to something when she declared “age is just a number”.

The deepest dive yet into the biology of a supercentenarian has revealed that even extreme old age can be reached without the brain necessarily...

Botanist says new Japanese species of dogbane is first evidence of plants copying ants

It’s a stark demonstration of nature at its most devious: researchers have discovered a plant that attracts pollinating flies by mimicking the odour of half-eaten ants.

The species of dogbane is the first plant known to boost its chances of reproducing by copying the scent that ants release as an alarm call...

In a televised press conference on Monday, Donald Trump and health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr made a series of unproven claims about autism and its links to paracetamol use in pregnant women, and about childhood vaccinations. The comments were immediately refuted by scientists and health agencies around the world, but many expressed concern about the impact of this misinformation being...

Surgical procedure to treat devastating illness slowed progress of disease by 75% in patients after three years

Huntington’s disease, a devastating degenerative illness that runs in families, has been treated successfully for the first time in a breakthrough gene therapy trial.

The disease, caused by a single gene defect, steadily kills brain cells leading to dementia, paralysis and ultimately...

Reform UK leader says he has ‘no idea’ if US president is right to tell women to avoid drug during pregnancy

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Nigel Farage has refused to criticise Donald Trump’s claims that paracetamol, sold in the US as Tylenol, could cause autism, saying “science is never settled” and he would never “side with” medical experts.

The Reform UK leader said he had “no idea”...

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a man in his forties was arrested in West Sussex.

Lenacapavir described as ‘next best thing’ to an HIV vaccine will cost $40 a year for each patient in 120 countries from 2027, funders say

Cheap supplies of a groundbreaking twice-yearly HIV prevention jab will be available in many poorer countries within two years, funders have promised.

Lenacapavir will cost $40 (£30) a patient a year in 120 low- and middle-income countries from 2027, under...

Medical professionals, pregnant people and those caring for people with autism note guidance’s disconnect from reality

Medical professionals, pregnant people and readers with a relationship to autism are furious about Monday’s announcement from the Trump administration involving Tylenol and its alleged connection to autism.

Within hours of the Guardian publishing a call for responses to the...

Neeraj Ghaywan’s film benefits from excellent lead performances, strong cinematography and an apparent mentorship from Martin Scorsese

Having screened earlier this year at the Cannes film festival, this Indian drama has already drawn inevitable comparisons with All We Imagine As Light, an Indian film at Cannes the year before – but they are only glancingly similar. Payal Kapadia’s woozy,...

The South African president wants the tariffs that US President Trump is imposing on South Africa reduced.

WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new feature that lets users translate messages inside the app.

Ministers say software developed by the Cabinet Office has helped to ramp up fraud detection.

Growing desertification is putting traditional livelihoods at risk in western Africa and encouraging the search for rare stones

By night, Lamine Hanoun works as a hospital guard in Bir Moghrein, near Mauritania’s border with Morocco-occupied Western Sahara. By day, he twiddles his phone, checking TikTok and Facebook, which he uses to sell meteorites to the rest of the world.

In this former...

The data has been released to coincide with the launch of a new group of MPs representing creators and influencers.