Student suicides in Japan reached a record 538 deaths in 2025, with school-related problems accounting for nearly half of identified motives, as doctors and survivors warn that the return to school after
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday issued a health advisory warning about three contaminated cough syrups produced in India, urging governments worldwide to report any detection of the medicines and remove
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Would dogs be better off without us? This may be a difficult question to consider if you live with a dog, love dogs, and find beauty in the enduring loyalty of the
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Thirty years ago this week, astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a groundbreaking announcement: they had discovered the first planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi, a discovery later published in
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Billions of pounds were added to the value of British and global pharmaceutical companies on Wednesday as investors welcomed the Trump administration’s latest plans on drug pricing and tariffs, The Times reports.
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Scientists have taken a major step toward a fertility breakthrough that could one day allow infertile women and gay men to have genetically related children. In a study reported by The Times
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A one-time gene therapy may significantly slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, raising hopes for the first treatment capable of altering the course of this rare, inherited brain disorder. In a small
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Scientists are exploring an innovative approach to treating brain disorders by replacing microglia, the immune cells that patrol and maintain the brain. Recent studies suggest that microglia replacement could one day help
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In a city that might have hosted a rival to Cambridge 800 years ago, a small but ambitious institution is challenging the traditional model of UK higher education. The New Model Institute
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A New York judge has ruled that cutting-edge DNA sequencing technology can be used as evidence in the trial of an alleged serial killer, marking a potential turning point for forensic science
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will contribute $912 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, co-founder Bill Gates announced Monday, warning that steep government aid cuts threaten
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A large international study has found that children born to mothers with gestational diabetes face a higher likelihood of developing attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research, presented
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A groundbreaking artificial intelligence model, Delphi-2M, can forecast a person’s risk of developing more than 1,000 diseases — in some cases providing predictions up to 20 years ahead. The study, published today
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Brazil is taking an ambitious two-pronged approach to combat dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that kills thousands in South America each year and is spreading rapidly across the region. Health authorities are deploying
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Scientists have detected a surprising geological shift thousands of kilometres beneath Earth’s surface, near the boundary between the planet’s core and mantle. The change, which occurred between 2006 and 2008, was only
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This week, leading researchers are meeting in Manchester to discuss whether to impose limits on experiments that could one day produce “mirror life”: synthetic cells made entirely from molecules that are mirror
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