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Cardiff University The research could help inform modern conservation efforts Scientists have made a world-first discovery after extracting woolly rhinoceros DNA from the stomach of a wolf dating back to the Ice Age. The 14,400-year-old find offers rare insight into the final days of woolly rhinos, finding that they likely …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new two-year study found that U.S. residents who lived near parks and recreational facilities had small increases in their leisure-time physical activities, but the relationship was stronger in more affluent counties with largely white, non-Hispanic populations. Mikihiro Sato, a professor of recreation, sport and …

Chester Zoo The birth is “incredibly important” for the threatened species, conservationists say The birth of a rare tree kangaroo joey at Chester Zoo is a “major milestone” for the threatened species, conservationists have said. The male Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo joey was born at the zoo as part of an …

Getty Images Hoover’s latest novel, Woman Down – her first since 2022 – was released this week Best-selling author Colleen Hoover has revealed she has been having treatment after being diagnosed with cancer. The US writer, 46, known for It Ends With Us and Reminders of Him, said she has …

Planet Earth has just lived through its third-warmest year on record, EU scientists said on Wednesday. Last year was also the hottest on record for Antarctica, another alarm bell that climate change is even catching up with the remote, ice-covered continent that for decades appeared sheltered from it. Read more: …

[ Cannabidiol (CBD) could become a therapeutic tool to address some of the most frequent and disabling consequences of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), a condition caused by alcohol exposure during pregnancy. This is one of the main conclusions of a preclinical study conducted in mice by researchers at the …

Beth Alaw WilliamsBBC Wales Rhiannon Holland Explicit images of online safety campaigner Jess Davies were created without her consent by Grok AI A Welsh presenter has said quicker action by the UK government could have prevented further victims of deepfake sexual images created by Grok AI. Explicit images of Jess …

It’s a new year, and you’re probably looking to trim costs. If you’re thinking about cutting the cord or you prefer a traditional TV plan, you have plenty of options to choose from. However, live TV streaming services allow you to avoid those annoying contracts. They also offer a variety of channels, …

The Trump administration announced last week that it wants Americans to consume more protein, churning out a colorful illustration of an inverted food pyramid that prominently features a big, red steak, a wedge of cheese, and a carton of whole milk at the top and claiming it’s “ending the war …

Social media platform X is under pressure after reports that its AI chatbot Grok has allowed users to create sexual images of women and children. Images are being generated by X’s AI tool Grok, which manipulates photos of real people, often removing their clothes or making them pose in suggestive …

[ Schematic diagram of data processing workflow of heart-derived fibrils dataset. White arrows indicate multi-protofilament fibrils. Yellow arrows indicate extra densities. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2026). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2515454123 Prof. Liu Cong from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with …

Available for over a year Saunas are popping up all over the country, with many people claiming they relax muscles and help ease stress. But what does the science say? This week, James Gallagher travels to Môr A Sawna in Jackson’s Bay, Barry, where he treats himself to a sauna …

[ Credit: Annushka Ahuja from Pexels Kanagawa University of Human Services-led researchers found short-term BMI reductions after an eight-to-12-week low-carbohydrate diet plus resistance-training program. BMI moved downward across the program while a derived efficiency score predicted BMI change more strongly than the genetic risk score alone. Obesity affects more than …

New research into the health effects of spaceflight has shown astronauts’ brains change position and shape over time. Following spaceflight, the brain shifts “upward and backward within the skull”, with sensory and motor regions showing the largest shifts, the study found. “There are also regional, nonlinear lateral deformations that differ …

The Liberal Democrats have set out a £1.5bn plan to give patients in England a legal right to be seen in A&E within 12 hours, to end what they have called a “deadly corridor crisis”. In a speech, party leader Sir Ed Davey called for a new legal duty to …

The business secretary will this week pledge to “protect” fast-growing UK companies from overseas predators as he claims that the government’s new industrial strategy is already delivering substantial gains for Britain’s economy. Sky News has learnt that Peter Kyle will say at a gathering of bosses in Central London that …

Video shows moment US immigration agent fatally shoots woman US investigators will face a host of thorny questions in determining whether the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal agent in Minneapolis last week was justified, as local and national officials recount drastically different accounts of an incident that …

The death toll in a collapsed landfill in the central Philippines has risen to 11, authorities said, as hopes of finding survivors dim. The landslide occurred at the Binaliw landfill in Cebu City last week while more than 100 workers were on site, officials said. Rescuers have so far pulled …

The UK is bringing a law into force that makes creating nonconsensual intimate deepfake images, like the ones that have proliferated on X because of the Grok AI chatbot, a criminal offense, as reported by the BBC. “The Data Act, passed last year, made it a criminal offence to create …

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