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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...
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
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...
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Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circle
The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming.
The architects of Stonehenge may have had the heavens in mind when they built the...
Rachel Reeves’s statement was thrown into chaos after journalists were able to access the document early.
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
In the early hours of 28 May 2005, Isabelle Dinoire woke up in a pool of blood. After fighting with her family the night before, she turned to alcohol and sleeping tablets “to forget”, she later said.
Reaching for a cigarette out of habit, she realized...
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Patrick Vallance, the minister for science, research and innovation, recently unveiled a plan to cut animal testing through greater use of AI and other technologies, with the eventual aim of phasing it out altogether. To understand how this will affect research and what could be used in place of animal models, Madeleine Finlay hears from science editor Ian Sample, Prof Hazel Screen of Queen...
He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.
This year’s high-end models from Apple and Google raise the bar for mobile photography, but users should take the time to learn the settings and features.
The world’s most valuable company said it was still “a generation ahead of the industry”.
Cause of oxygen fluctuations that drove explosion of weird and wonderful inhabitants 500m years ago linked to changes in Earth’s orbit
Just over 500m years ago life on Earth got souped-up, going from simple single-celled organisms to sophisticated multicellular lifeforms. The Cambrian explosion produced an array of weird and wonderful new inhabitants, such as the five-eyed opabinia and the...
As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry’s influence.
Lead singers in bands fare better than solo artists, but fame – rather than lifestyle or job itself – seems to be major factor
For those who hanker for the limelight, be careful what you wish for: shooting to stardom as a lead singer really does raise the risk of an early death, researchers say.
Their analysis of singers from Europe and the US found that those who rose to fame died on average...
Astrophysicist Prof Tomonori Totani says research could be crucial breakthrough in search for elusive substance
Nearly a century ago, scientists proposed that a mysterious invisible substance they named dark matter clumped around galaxies and formed a cosmic web across the universe.
What dark matter is made from, and whether it is even real, are still open questions, but according to a study,...
The International Association for Cryptologic Research – created to study secure communication – said it was an “honest human mistake.”