SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Detecting cancer in the earliest stages could dramatically reduce cancer deaths because cancers are usually easier to...

Theo LeggettBusiness CorrespondentGetty ImagesIndustry discounts for electric vehicles are "unsustainable", a major motoring group has warned, as the number of new cars registered in the UK exceeded two million last year for the first time since the pandemic.Nearly 500,000...

BBCIn 2018, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) reviewed screening for SMA and decided against adding it the list because, at the time, treatments and robust evidence on cost-effectiveness were limited.In February 2025 the UK NSC approved an...

In elementary school, Sean Luk loved donning an oversized lab coat and helping her mom pipette chemicals...

Nick TriggleHealth correspondentGetty ImagesThe new NHS online hospital service being launched in England next year will initially focus on menopause, prostate and eye conditions.The NHS has selected nine different conditions in total for the service which will be available...

What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most...

An overhaul of US childhood immunisation guidelines has dropped the number of diseases children should be vaccinated against from 17 to 11.The new list of recommended vaccines, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, includes...

A pill form of weight-loss drug Wegovy, manufactured by Danish drugmaker...

“On the spectrum.” These three words have become synonymous with autism, yet behind them lies a common misunderstanding. The...

A young galaxy cluster in the early universe is defying our understanding of how these huge structures formed and...