SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

OpenAI could now be the world's most valuable startup, ahead of Elon Musk's SpaceX and TikTok's parent company ByteDance, after a secondary stock sale designed to retain employees at the ChatGPT maker. Current and...

Marissa Chase never thought she'd find herself walking into a fertility clinic. But after nearly a year of trying to conceive with her husband and facing mounting disappointment, she realized something wasn't right."You know, it...

New patches to biosecurity screening software can make it harder to produce potentially harmful proteins using artificial intelligence.Around the world, this software monitors processes to artificially make proteins, ensuring that people with bad intentions aren’t producing dangerous proteins, such...

A mysterious "rogue planet" has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second — an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday.Unlike Earth and other planets...

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a...

The ocean hidden under the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus harbors complex organic molecules, a study said Wednesday, offering further evidence that the small world could have all the right ingredients to host extraterrestrial...

A ravenous rogue planet has been caught eating 6 billion tonnes of gas and dust per second. This behaviour...

Music training seems to boost reading skills in young children by enhancing their ability to recognise and manipulate the...

The Conservatives have pledged to scrap the UK's landmark climate change legislation and replace it with a strategy for "cheap and reliable" energy.The Climate Change Act 2008, which put targets for cutting emissions into law, was introduced by the...

BBCLaw firm Brabners says it has obtained data, using Freedom of Information requests that shows UHCW spent more than £3.6m on temozolomide between 2009 and 2024 – more than 10 times that of comparable NHS hospitals.In a statement, UHCW...