Social media users have called the luxury Italian fashion brand’s artificial intelligence-made adverts “cheap” and “lazy”.

NCP Chlorchem has embarked on one of South Africa’s biggest private industrial solar deployments.

PayShap adoption grows, but inconsistent bank fees and limited access still hinder its inclusion ambitions in South Africa.

In today’s newsletter: As suppliers get ready to meet policy makers and space agencies at the industry’s largest gathering, a look at the exploration and exploitation of space

Good morning. This week Glasgow hosts one of the UK’s largest ever gatherings of the space industry at Space-Comm. With representatives of Nasa, the UK and Scottish governments and the UK space agency among 2,000 space...

Samsung Electronics has unveiled its first multi-folding smartphone, the Galaxy Z TriFold.

Conch-shell trumpets discovered in Neolithic settlements and mines in Catalonia make tone similar to french horn, says lead researcher

As a child, Miquel López García was fascinated by the conch shell, kept in the bathroom, that his father’s family in the southern Spanish region of Almería had blown to warn their fellow villagers of rising rivers and approaching flood waters.

The hours he spent...

Like the narco-state, a ‘scam state’ refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed the economy

For days before the explosions began, the business park had been emptying out. When the bombs went off, they took down empty office blocks and demolished echoing, multi-cuisine food halls. Dynamite toppled a four-storey hospital, silent...

EU’s Copernicus monitoring service hails ‘reassuring sign’ of progress observed this year in hole’s size and duration

The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic this year was the smallest and shortest-lived since 2019, according to European space scientists, who described the finding as a “reassuring sign” of the layer’s recovery.

The yearly gap in what scientists have called “planetary...

Agreement also calls for NHS to increase net price it pays for new medicines by 25%

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The UK government has sealed a deal with Donald Trump guaranteeing that zero tariffs will remain on the imports of UK pharmaceuticals into the US and commits Britain to higher spending on NHS drugs.

The agreement, announced on Monday, secures continued investment by UK pharma...

WHO urges countries to make drugs such as Mounjaro more accessible to people and asks drugs companies to lower prices

Weight loss drugs such as Mounjaro offer huge potential to tackle soaring obesity globally that will affect 2 billion people worldwide by 2030, the World Health Organization has said.

Their proven effectiveness in helping people lose weight means the medications represent “a...

The label claims Haven’s dance hit I Run was made using AI trained on the award-winning singer’s voice.

Elusive planet will make a pre-dawn appearance as it seems to stray from the sun

We start December with one of the best chances to see Mercury this year, at least for the northern hemisphere. The elusive inner planet never strays far from the sun but this week it reaches the configuration known as the greatest western elongation.

This means that from our vantage point on Earth, the planet...

Labour announces prevention programme as well as efforts to re-engage people who have fallen out of medical care

Ending new HIV transmissions in England by 2030 is within reach thanks to an action plan that will include routine testing at A&Es, the government has said.

The HIV action plan, to be unveiled on World Aids Day on Monday, aims to re-engage the thousands of people who have left HIV...

Understanding the surprising mechanism behind apathy can help unlock scientific ways to boost your motivation

We all know people with very different levels of motivation. Some will go the extra mile in any endeavour. Others just can’t be bothered to put the effort in. We might think of them as lazy – happiest on the sofa, rather than planning their latest project. What’s behind this...

Unique properties of fungi have led to groundbreaking innovations in recent years, from nappies to electronics

From the outside, it looks like any ordinary nappy – one of the tens of billions that end up in landfill each year. But the Hiro diaper comes with an unusual companion: a sachet of freeze-dried fungi to sprinkle over a baby’s gloopy excretions.

The idea is to kickstart a catalytic...

Experts say the deal may put fans at risk as the Catalan club tries to relieve its financial woes.

RFK Jr signed order withdrawing rule that would mandate testing for the cancer-linked toxin in talc-based makeup

The Food and Drug Administration is poised to kill a proposed rule that would require testing for toxic asbestos in talc-based cosmetics, a problem that has been linked to cancer.

Talc is widely used, including in cosmetics, food, medication and personal care products. The order was...

Expert advisers likely to recommend only a few thousand men with genetic variant should be eligible for tests

Prostate cancer screening will not be made routinely available for the vast majority of men across the UK, according to the expected recommendations from a panel of expert government health advisers.

The UK national screening committee is expected to only recommend screening for men...