SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

The U.S. government is in full retreat from its efforts to make vehicles more fuel-efficient, which it has been waging, along with state governments, since the 1970s.The latest move came on July 29, 2025, when...

Matthew HillWest of England health correspondentBBCAn NHS report in 2024 highlighted the difficulties of nursing teenagers on hospital wards alongside younger children.The South West director of the Royal College of Nursing, Susan Masters, said it is a national problem,...

BBCAfter a successful pilot, Cosmic is funding and delivering the post-PICU service on a permanent basis. It involves providing parents with a booklet containing information and coping mechanisms, a follow-up telephone call by trained staff, and ongoing referral for...

Esme StallardClimate and science reporter, BBC NewsNipah Dennis/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesPlastic production has exploded in the last century - to some it has been a miracle product while to others it is a pollution nightmare. Scientists have estimated that there are...

People coming off obesity jabs like Wegovy and Mounjaro should have check-ups for at least a year to make sure they don't pile weight back on, new advice for the NHS says.It's not uncommon for people to regain most...

Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UKEarth planning date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025The day started with a little celebration of NISAR, a new Earth observation satellite that made it successfully into orbit...

The small satellite was to map lunar water, but operators lost contact with the spacecraft the day after launch and were unable to recover the mission. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer ended its mission to the Moon on July 31. Despite extensive...

It seems that you can lose weight while eating ultra-processed food – but to a lesser extent than if...

A mysterious disease has been turning sea stars into goo since 2013. Now, there’s a leading suspect behind the killings — a bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida, researchers report August 4 in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Knowing the identity of the killer could help...

Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war. By the end of that year, approximately 140,000 people had...