Group administrators have reported receiving automated messages which incorrectly say they have violated the rules.

Parent company Aylo hasn’t spelt out what the age checking methods will be, but say they will be introduced within a month.

It has been 25 years since Bill Clinton announced one of humanity’s most important scientific achievements: the first draft of the human genome. At the time, there was a great deal of excitement about the benefits that this new knowledge would bring, with predictions about curing genetic diseases and even cancer. To find out which of them came to pass, and what could be in store over the next...

Proportion of women giving birth after fertility treatment up by more than a third in a decade, figures reveal

The proportion of women giving birth after fertility treatment in the UK has increased by more than a third in a decade, with the equivalent of one child in every classroom now born as a result of IVF, figures show.

One in 32 births in 2023 were the result of in vitro fertilisation, up...

UK health officials launch study into side-effects of weight loss drugs after increased reports of acute pancreatitis

Hundreds of people have reported problems with their pancreas linked to taking weight loss and diabetes injections, prompting health officials to launch a study into side-effects.

Some cases of pancreatitis reported to be linked to GLP-1 medicines (glucagon-like peptide-1...

Evolutionary change driven by intensive fishing led cod to ‘shrink’ from average 40cm length in 1996 to 20cm in 2019

Overfishing has led to a collapse in the eastern Baltic cod population, but over the past three decades the size of the fish themselves has also been dramatically and mysteriously shrinking.

Now scientists have uncovered genomic evidence that intensive fishing has driven rapid...

About the mass of Saturn and 110m light years from Earth, TWA 7 b provides insights into an infant planetary system

The James Webb space telescope has captured unprecedented direct images of a planet beyond our own solar system in its first exoplanet discovery.

The observations reveal a planet, called TWA 7 b, carving its way through a disc of glowing dust and rocky debris in orbit around a...

Countries send first astronauts in decades into space on Axiom Mission 4, along with US commander

A US commercial mission carrying crew from India, Poland and Hungary blasted off to the International Space Station on Wednesday, taking astronauts from these countries to space for the first time in decades.

Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:31am...

The phone operator said it was “aware of an issue affecting voice services” and apologised for disruption.

A US court has ruled Anthropic was not breaching copyright rules when it trained its AI model on books.

While figures like Steve Bannon have exploited the issue, scientists have done themselves no favours by shutting down legitimate inquiry

More than five years after the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, its origins remain a subject of intense – and often acrimonious – debate among scientists and the wider public. There are two broad, competing theories. The natural-origins hypotheses suggest...

Women and older adults most likely to suffer dog walking injuries such as finger and wrist fractures, research says

Walking your dog may be good for you and your canine companion, but research shows it can also be dangerous.

While the health benefits are numerous – encouraging increased activity levels and physical exercise, improving cardiovascular health and weight – researchers found...

The Winston Red, one of only 24 red diamonds of more than one carat publicly recorded, is on display in Washington DC

Red diamonds are some of the rarest gems on the planet: only 24 stones of more than one carat (200 milligrams) have been publicly recorded.

Now, one of the finest red diamonds – the Winston Red – has gone on public display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural...

A not-for-profit warns cheap, quickly disposed of gadgets could become the new “fast-fashion”