SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

In a strange reversal of the usual seller/customer dynamic, Google is now giving buyers the power to send out their own robocalls. It's...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which extends...

Available for over a yearThis week the UK government set out its vision for a world where the use of animals in science is eliminated in all but exceptional circumstances. Animal experiments in the UK peaked at 4.14 million...

“MIT.nano is essential to making progress in high-priority areas where I believe that MIT has a responsibility...

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsVictoria Gill/BBC NewsDomestication: An ancient mysteryDogs were the first animals to be domesticated. There is evidence that humans have been living closely with canines for at least 30,000 years. Where and why that close association...

Wishing for an extra hour in the day is a common refrain throughout the industrialized world. And every fall, in places where the clocks fall back an hour, that wish reaches fruition. Yet many people still wind up feeling...

Getty ImagesResident doctors in England are going on strike between 14 and 19 November, in their 13th walkout since March 2023.The doctors' union, the British Medical Association, is in a long-running dispute with the government over pay for the...

The NHS waiting list in England has fallen after three months of consecutive rises.At the end of September, it stood at 7.39 million, down from 7.41 million the month before.Of those waiting, 61.8% of patients had been waiting less...

If you resort to mentioning Adolf Hitler, some say, you have lost the argument. If you resort to sequencing...

Gareth Lewis,Wales political editor and Steffan Messenger,Wales environment correspondentBBCA first-of-its-kind nuclear power station is to be built on Anglesey, bringing up to 3,000 jobs and billions of pounds of investment.The plant at Wylfa, on the Welsh island's northern coast,...