Life
Cambridge ‘swimming cap’ brings hope for brain-injured babies
Janine MachinEast of England technology correspondent, in CambridgeBBCTheo is one of the healthy term babies taking part in the trial, but his mother, Stani Georgieva, feels it is important to contribute. "His dad and I are both scientists and...
Life
Grieving families’ despair at care home inspection gaps
Eleanor Layhe, Jemma Woodman and Ella Rule,South WestTrudy PolkinghornThe regulator did not inspect the home until three years after Eileen's death, downgrading it to "requires improvement".A coroner's report in 2023 found the home's manager did not accept many of...
Science
Woodpecker hammering is a full-body affair
Hidden beneath all their rum-pum-pumming, woodpeckers are quietly grunt-grunt-grunting.The birds exhale with each strike, much like a tennis pro groaning through a stroke. Elaborate coordination between those breaths and muscles across the body keep their hammering at a perfectly...
Life
Charting the future of AI, from safer answers to faster thinking
Adoption of new tools and technologies occurs when users largely perceive them as reliable, accessible, and an...
Science
MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene
Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that “boards” a superconducting material...
Environment
A three-legged lion has learned to hunt in a completely unexpected way
A lion that lost one leg to a poacher’s snare has defied the expectations of conservation scientists by adopting...
Space
Digital map lets you explore the Roman Empire’s vast road network
A comprehensive new map of Roman roads has boosted the known size of the empire’s land transport network by...
Environment
How the US cut climate-changing emissions while its economy more than doubled
Countries around the world have been discussing the need to rein in climate change for three decades, yet global greenhouse gas emissions – and global temperatures with them – keep rising.When it seems like we’re...
Environment
William announces Earthshot Prize 2025 winners in Rio ceremony
PA MediaEarlier in the day, Prince William met the 15 finalists during a visit to the Christ the Redeemer statue, where he posed for a photograph on the same spot his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, did 34...
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What we know about the latest Epstein emails referencing Trump
Getty ImagesUS lawmakers have released more than 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of the disgraced financier and...