SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

City lights from the Midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise on Oct. 18, 2026. Major urban areas visible in the photograph include Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and the...

NWUHG said 60 clinicians had helped develop the review.The Case for Change argues that falling birth rates, workforce shortages and increasing numbers of women requiring more complex care are making it harder to sustain specialist services at every site.Lesley...

There's nothing new about UK health charities taking on a major role in delivering services. Prior to 1948, British healthcare was provided through a patchwork of local charities, voluntary organisations, local authorities and private arrangements. Many hospitals depended on...

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Yesterday, on November 3rd, the deputy chief designer of China's crewed space program and chief designer of the lunar exploration program (Wang Xiang) unveiled an official statement detailing its plans for...

The number of deaths from cocaine use in England and Wales has nearly quadrupled in a decade, overtaking those attributed to heroin for the first time.Cocaine was linked to more than one in five drug poisoning deaths registered in...

Americans have a lot of plans for the country’s power grid. Some people want to expand renewable energy by building solar and wind farms. Others want to add new coal- or natural gas-fired power plants....

Computational physicist Giulia Menichetti is looking for “dark matter” in our food. In addition to known macronutrients, vitamins and minerals, the things we eat contain a whole world of natural chemicals we have no idea about. And those chemicals...

Problems at two Belfast Health and Social Care Trust buildings could amount to almost £20m in additional costs, the BBC has learned.Newly-discovered issues with the Belfast maternity hospital could add almost £10m to the project's spiralling costs, while the...

MIT researchers will lead a four-year, up to $38 million project, funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), aimed at developing a noninvasive, wearable patch that continually monitors biomarkers of heart disease and sepsis.The project...