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[ Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh discovered a promising new biomarker of “complicated” mild to severe pediatric traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Unlike a concussion—which usually resolves within weeks—complicated TBI requires at least an overnight hospital stay, signaling a …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain St. Hedwig Hospital and Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin researchers report that repeated mornings spent under dim indoor light in healthy young adults raised afternoon and evening cortisol and reshaped sleep in ways known from depressive illnesses. Urban life in dim light Depressive disorders are often linked with …

Shaimaa Khalil,BBC News, Tokyoand Flora Drury,BBC News, London AFP via Getty Images After a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck north-eastern Japan on Monday, authorities again warned of the possibility of a future megaquake. It means that thoughts in Japan are turning to the “big one” – a once-in-a-century quake. In September, …

Four people have died and another is missing after a powerful wave dragged a group of swimmers out to sea on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The bodies of a man, 35, a woman, 55, and another person, about whom no information was given, were recovered after a major rescue …

Patients with a previously untreatable form of blood cancer are now living disease-free after a world-first gene therapy. Alyssa Tapley, 16, became the first patient with an aggressive form of leukaemia to have the experimental treatment in 2022. She was considering options for palliative care, but is now healthy. New …

Alex Bish & Jonathan EdenSouth East investigations team Adele the sniffer dog searches lorries and coaches for small boats smuggled into Europe More than 1,600 miles (2,574km) from the white cliffs of Dover is one of the world’s busiest land borders. Customs staff use an English pointer called Adele to …

Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent Getty Images A key UN report on the state of the global environment has been “hijacked” by the United States and other countries who were unwilling to go along with the scientific findings, the co-chair has told the BBC. The Global Environment Outlook, the result of six …

Kathryn Torneyand Ciarán McCauley,The State of Us podcast BBC Cocaine is widely present in the water of some of Northern Ireland’s major lakes and rivers, a new study has found. Scientists found the Class A drug, and its by-product, in 91% of almost 140 water samples collected in different locations …

[ From microplastics to heavy metals and forever chemicals, people are more aware than ever of the potential dangers lurking in food, water and household items. But thanks to researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS), the answer to these concerns may be right …

James GallagherHealth and science correspondent BBC A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers in some patients, doctors report. The treatment involves precisely editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting “living drug”. …

A new strain of mpox has been discovered by scientists in England. The new strain was found in a person who had recently travelled to Asia, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said. Officials said they had identified a “new recombinant mpox virus” – meaning it has genetic material from …

[ The Neural Operator with Biologically-informed Latent Embeddings (NOBLE) framework. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.04536 Cedars-Sinai investigators worked with a multi-institutional team to develop a new artificial intelligence framework that can accurately, quickly and efficiently create virtual models of brain neurons. The achievement could accelerate discoveries in brain function research …

[ Vaccination with the IgE kinoid (IgEK) reduces extravasation during IgE-mediated cutaneous anaphylaxis in mice. Credit: Dr. William Worrall Researchers led by the Institut Pasteur, Université Paris, have developed a vaccine that elicits anti-Immunoglobulin E antibodies in humanized mice, protects against Immunoglobulin E-mediated anaphylaxis, and shows no detectable adverse reaction …

A former councillor has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for his role in a Just Stop Oil protest. Michael Dunk was elected to represent the Green Party in the Frome West division of Somerset in May 2022. Southwark Crown Court was told Dunk climbed gantries on …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Children who spend a significant amount of time on social media tend to experience a gradual decline in their ability to concentrate. This is according to a comprehensive study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Pediatrics Open Science, where researchers followed more than 8,000 children from …

Children as young as seven are being referred to Britain’s national cybercrime intervention programme, the Money team can reveal, as companies reel from multimillion-pound hacks. The average age of referrals to Cyber Choices, which receives people committing or intending to commit entry-level cybercrime, is just 15 this financial year, with …

Housing Secretary Steve Reed has admitted there will need to be a sharp surge in housebuilding to meet Labour’s promise to build 1.5 million new homes. The government is currently forecast to narrowly miss its target, after the number of new homes started fell from 207,000 to 139,000 after Labour …

Phoebe AmorosoBusiness reporter, Tokyo AFP via Getty Images Some hope that the election of Japan’s first female prime minister will open doors for other women In October Japan got its first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi. Her rise has been hailed as a ground-breaking moment for Japanese women, but some …

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Framed photos with presidents, princes and even the pope adorned the many homes of Jeffrey Epstein. The disgraced New York financier’s most lucrative currency was people. He made a career out of connections with world leaders in politics, business titans and science’s most lauded brains. The man formerly known as …