SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

(This is Part 4 of a series on what we can actually find on an exoplanet. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 first.) All of that from a single dot....

Prof Peter Johnson, National Clinical Director for Cancer at NHS England, told the BBC's Today Programme it was an exciting development. "Most of the cancer immune treatments we have been using up til now have been about cutting the...

Some support is available. Young carers are entitled to assessments from their local council to look at the impact on their health, education and wellbeing."When young carers get these it can make a real difference," said Andy McGowan, the...

Vaping could lead to health harms in children and young people and should be made "less attractive" to them, doctors have said.The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has reviewed about 81 studies into vaping and said...

Lindsay Clancy is accused of killing her three children in Massachusetts in 2023. Her defence says she was suffering from severe postpartum mental illness, including psychosis, while prosecutors argue she acted deliberately. Postpartum psychosis has become a key focus...

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Lee esta historia en español aquí.Some of Earth’s microbes likely to hitch a ride to space with human explorers could survive in the shaded nooks and crannies of the Moon’s South Pole region, NASA scientists say. Published on Aug....

Drugmaker Moderna's stock more than doubled on Wednesday morning after the company announced a successful experimental mRNA vaccine to treat melanoma, the deadly skin cancer from which more than 8,500 people in the U.S. are expected...

The vaccination of commercial hens against common salmonella strains, which began in the mid-1990s in the UK, has been a "major public health success" and has "substantially reduced egg-associated salmonella infections," according to Dr Charlotte Hammer at the University...

On Wednesday 19 August, media representatives were invited to a media briefing ahead of the launch of the next Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2). The satellite is set to be launched on an Ariane 6 from Europe’s Spaceport...