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[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain We owe a lot to tissue resident memory T cells (TRM). These specialized immune cells are among the body’s first responders to disease. Rather than coursing through the bloodstream—as many T cells do—our TRM cells specialize in defending specific organs. They battle viruses, breast cancer, …

[ Master’s student Harry Glazebrook in Mauro Tambasco’s medical physics lab (SDSU). Credit: San Diego State University In associate professor Mauro Tambasco’s lab, researchers at all levels work together to develop innovative approaches to fighting cancer. By creating 3D models of tumors, the lab can better study the intricacies of …

The OnePlus 15 impressed my excellent colleague, David Lumb, with its superb battery life and excellent performance, especially for gaming. I wasn’t as thrilled with the cameras in my early testing, but the proof of its photography prowess comes down to how it stacks up against the competition. In this …

Philippa Roxby,Health reporter and Alison Holt,Social affairs editor Getty Images Details of a new UK clinical trial to assess the risks and benefits of puberty-blocking drugs in children and young people questioning their gender have been announced. It follows the banning of the drugs for gender treatment last year after …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Type 1 diabetes (T1D) impacts nearly two million Americans, and by the time most people learn they have it, most of the body’s insulin-producing cells are destroyed. Now, pinpointing a hidden group of immune “attack” cells in the pancreatic lymph nodes that appear earlier in …

Ruth CleggHealth and Wellbeing reporter BBC In my many years as a journalist, I never thought I would be asking someone how it feels to have trout sperm injected into their face. And yet, here I am. Abby Warnes is lying on a large, black padded chair at a small …

[ Microscopic images showing Aβ deposition in the larval eye disks of Aβ42arc flies that were treated with or without arginine. Arrows indicate Aβ deposition. Credit: Neurochemistry International (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2025.106082 Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is one of the leading causes of dementia worldwide, and currently has …

The UN climate talks are a “nightmare” but the “best process we’ve got”, the UK energy secretary Ed Miliband told Sky News as the COP30 summit ran into overtime, with a showdown on fossil fuels looming. Countries gathered in northern Brazil are still locked in a stand-off over a deal …

[ Credit: CC0 Public Domain Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is one of the world’s most dangerous yet overlooked infectious diseases. Spread by ticks and livestock, the virus causes sudden fever, organ failure, and internal bleeding, killing up to 40% of those infected. Outbreaks have been reported across parts of Africa, …

The Labour MP behind the bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales says she is worried some members of the House of Lords are trying to “frustrate” its passage into law. Kim Leadbeater warned the legislation was approaching a “crunch point” after the number of changes proposed in …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain You know that assignment, message or email you keep avoiding—the one that lingers in the back of your mind even as you scroll, tidy or “just check one more thing”? New research from UC Santa Barbara offers a science-backed way to break that cycle—and it’s …

The “swarm” of tens of thousands of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini earlier this year was triggered by molten rock pumping through an underground channel over three months, scientists have discovered. They used physics and artificial intelligence to work out exactly what caused the more than 25,000 earthquakes, …

The Prime Minister is set to approve plans for a controversial Chinese “super embassy” in central London, Sky News understands. A final decision on the planning application for the former Royal Mint site near the Tower of London is due on 10 December, after numerous previous delays. The proposal is …

Arizona’s economy was once dominated by the “five C’s”: cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate. But a new C has emerged that could grow to overshadow the rest: chips. New semiconductor manufacturing facilities are springing up across the greater Phoenix area, stretching across blocks of new roads with names like …

[ An astrocyte cell grown in tissue culture stained with antibodies to GFAP and vimentin. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / GerryShaw, CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the brains of mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and preserves …

[ Researchers identified shared genetic architecture across diseases, enabling improved prediction using multitrait polygenic risk scores in the Han Chinese population. Credit: Academia Sinica / Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (adapted from Fig. 2 in the Nature article). Researchers at Academia Sinica have developed the first population-specific polygenic risk score (PRS) …

Priti GuptaTechnology Reporter, Mumbai Getty Images Beautiful but delicate, cardamom is a demanding crop “People often think cardamom is a lucrative crop – it may be. But it’s also the toughest crop a farmer can cultivate,” says Stanley Pothan, who has been farming cardamom in the southern Indian state of …

How best to summarise how badly the government fumbled the UK response to the COVID pandemic? Baroness Heather Hallett, the chair of the inquiry, chose to highlight one truly damning statistic: 23,000. That’s the number of deaths that might have been prevented if Boris Johnson had followed his peers in …

The United Nations climate talks in Brazil were shut down on Thursday after a fire broke out on site – disrupting last-minute efforts to strike a global deal. Just as the host nation was desperately trying to corral more than 190 countries towards unity at talks in Belem, delegates ended …

[ Association of BMI with primary and secondary outcomes after adjusting for age, sex, index of multiple deprivation (for the United Kingdom data), primary surgical indication and American Association of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score. Credit: Valsamis EM et al., 2025, PLOS Medicine, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Higher BMI is not linked to …