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[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Proteins circulating in the blood can reveal what’s happening in the body, from how we process energy to how diseases develop. Unlike genetic testing, which shows fixed risk factors from birth, protein analysis provides a real‐time picture of health and disease. Research published in Circulation: …

A new financial scheme to support eel fishermen on Lough Neagh should be “urgently” reconsidered, according to a seventh generation fisherman. The Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister Andrew Muir announced the £100,000 package to support fishermen after the eel-fishing season was abandoned in Summer 2025, for the first time …

Trump Media — yup, the parent company of Truth Social — is the latest entrant in the near century-long race to develop a nuclear fusion power plant. It announced a merger agreement with fusion company TAE Technologies on Thursday, and a bold plan to break ground on the first utility-scale …

[ Visual abstract. Credit: JAMA Network Open (2025). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.48884 Big Health Inc, along with paid academic investigators, reports higher remission rates and lower anxiety symptom scores with their smartphone-delivered digital cognitive behavioral therapy, DaylightRx, compared with an online psychoeducation, also created by Big Health Inc. Generalized anxiety disorder involves …

To get this far, Morocco has invested heavily, especially in football infrastructure, including two of Africa’s most advanced facilities – both of which bear the King’s name. Together, the Mohammed VI Football Academy and Mohammed VI Training Complex host youth and senior national teams – men and women – combining …

[ Examples of healthy (top) and sick (bottom) face stimuli. Credit: Evolution and Human Behavior (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106803 Most people have either been told that they don’t look well when they were sick, or thought that someone else looked ill at some point in their lives. People often use nonverbal …

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re going to change your life. Optimizer will be taking a break for the holidays and will be back January 9th. …

There’s a new boy band on the scene, but there’s just one problem – they’ve never all performed together in person. Boy Throb have been campaigning to get one million followers on TikTok so fourth member Darshan Magdum can secure a US visa. He’s currently, in his words, “stuck in …

Life-saving tools worth about £50,000 have been stolen from three rural fire stations. Stations in Brant Broughton, Billinghay and Metheringham were broken into between 11 and 14 of December, with officials believing a gang is operating in the county. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said the equipment included cutters used to …

TikTok is being threatened with legal action over cuts to its UK online safety teams. In August, the social media company announced more than 400 workers would lose their jobs, with AI replacing some of the workers and other jobs being rehired abroad. TikTok is being accused of threatening those …

Koh Ewe,Singaporeand Hosu Lee,Seoul Getty Images President Lee suggested that national health insurance cover hair loss treatments South Korea’s well-coiffed president is on a mission to help the country’s balding residents. In his crosshairs: the national health insurance scheme, which he suggests should foot the bill for hair loss treatments. …

A mysterious object that a controversial scientist claims could be an alien battleship reaches its closest point to Earth on Friday. The object, known as 3i/ATLAS, will speed by at 130,000mph, at a distance of 170 million miles, roughly twice as far away as the sun. While there is near …

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that would expand access to cannabis, a long anticipated move that would mark the most significant shift in US drug policy in decades. The order is expected to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I narcotic, to a Schedule III drug …

Jim Reed,Health reporter, Wesley Stephenson,BBC Verifyand Nick Triggle,Health correspondent Getty Images The NHS remains on high alert over flu, health bosses say, but there are clear signs the surge in the virus has come to an end for now at least. Community spread appears to have stabilised, the UK Health …

The firm behind President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform is merging with a Google-backed energy company in a deal valued at more than $6bn (£4.4bn). Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and TAE Technologies announced the plans on Thursday in a joint statement, which said the move would “create one …

Hospitals across the UK are seeing high levels of flu cases this winter. The NHS in England has said it is on “on high alert” after seeing the highest ever number of flu cases in hospital for this time of year, in the week ending 14 December. You can use …

Chris VallanceSenior technology reporter Getty Images One in three adults in the UK are using artificial intelligence (AI) for emotional support or social interaction, according to research published by a government body. And one in 25 people turned to the tech for support or conversation every day, the AI Security …

[ Credit: Pixabay/Pete Linforth. An experimental drug developed at Northwestern University has demonstrated further promise as an early intervention for Alzheimer’s disease. In a new study, Northwestern scientists identified a previously unknown highly toxic sub-species of amyloid beta oligomers—toxic clusters of peptides—that appear to drive several of the brain’s earliest …

[ A research team led by Félix Viana, co-director of the Sensory Transduction and Nociception laboratory at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint research center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has demonstrated that the body uses different molecular mechanisms to …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Frailty is a syndrome resulting from age-related decline across multiple organ systems. A new study, conducted at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, shows that slower reaction time and lower response accuracy in cognitive tasks are associated with higher levels of frailty. Notably, this association can …