SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is facing calls to set a national waiting-time target for dementia care in England.An Alzheimer's Society proposal to set an 18‑week referral‑to‑treatment target has been backed by Professor Sir Mike Richards, England's former national cancer...

Even Americans with health insurance are piling up medical debt, according to a new analysis. One in three Americans with health coverage through their employer, the Affordable Care Act marketplace or the private market say they...

Across Appalachia and the Rust Belt region, including throughout the city of Pittsburgh, former industrial sites are being transformed into new neighborhoods, research centers and technology hubs.But another transformation has been taking place beneath...

Agency 17/09/2026 119 views 1 likesOn 16 September at its Industry Space Days 2026 event at ESA–ESTEC in the Netherlands, the European Space Agency (ESA) honoured three space companies with this year’s prestigious awards for excellence and innovation.  European industry is...

The BBC understands that the drug companies Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca have not substantially lowered their prices since the drug was first rejected.The reason NICE has reversed its decision is largely because of a trade deal with the USA,...

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Our world is full of processed food, for better or worse. It would be easy for me to sit at my keyboard and...

MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) is launching a pilot artist-in-residence program to facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogue between art, science, and the public. MKI is a world-leading institution for research in astrophysics, combining more than 60 years of...

MIT researchers have created a new computing platform that could be used to develop intelligent and adaptive next-generation electronics that can simultaneously perform multiple functions, like computing and memory, all within one extremely compact, energy-efficient device.Such a platform opens...

The human brain is made up of billions of cells, interconnected in millions of circuits, making it difficult to understand its development and what exactly is happening – at the cellular level - when things go wrong.While this research...