SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

The most dramatic and tragic natural phenomenon Spain has seen in recent years were flash floods that killed 237 people in the east of the country in October 2024, centred on the Valencia region.Spanish meteorological research group Climatoc-Lab described...

Prof Aidan Fowler, national director of patient safety at NHS England, said the expansion of Martha's Rule would give families and NHS staff "a critical new lifeline" to help improve care and save more lives.Staff can themselves ask for...

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Partners of women going through the menopause are being invited to experience one of the symptoms at a forthcoming support event.At the Menopaus'ull Support Network event in Hull next month, health group Over The Bloody Moon will be taking...

“For many of the systems we’re developing, we need power, and we power the system through different ways,” says Giovanni Traverso, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an associate member of...

Science & Exploration 21/09/2026 579 views 14 likesThe European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will return to Earth on 28 September, with flight controllers guiding the spacecraft close to our home planet to alter its speed and direction...

Accusations that those growing up today are a snowflake generation are wrong, the head of an independent review into mental health, ADHD and autism has said. Prof Peter Fonagy told the BBC that there had been a real rise...

As we age, some of the cells in our body enter a state of senescence, in which they stop dividing but do not die. Those senescent cells can contribute to age-related disorders such as cancer, tissue degeneration, and inflammatory...

If we ever intend to send crewed missions to Mars, as NASA and China plan for the coming decades, several criteria must be met. Some of the most pressing are the...

As a 75-year-old lesbian, Mindy Meleyal has lived through every major milestone in the modern LGBT rights movement, from the start of decriminalisation in 1967 to the first same-sex marriages in 2014.But now she says this important part of...