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British Farming Awards Lizzie Walker runs the farm with her husband Steven and her parents and children A Lancashire farming family has said it is “such an honour” to have been named the family farming business of the year. The Walker family won the accolade at the annual British Farming …

Today’s Decoder episode is a special one: I’m talking to Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, and we chatted live onstage at the TechFutures conference here in New York City. You’re almost certainly familiar with Zocdoc — it’s a platform that helps people find and book appointments with doctors. It’s a classic …

On August 19th at 7:07PM, Tyler Johnston received a message from his roommate. A man, the text said, was knocking on their door with legal documents to serve. Johnston is the founder and sole employee of The Midas Project: a nonprofit that monitors the practices of “leading AI companies to …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every year, thousands of families sit in hospital rooms hearing words no one wants to hear: “We have done everything we can.” What happens next, whether doctors stay engaged or step away, can transform one of life’s most difficult moments for patients and their families. …

A major internet outage has affected websites, online games, including Amazon, Snapchat and several banks. Downdetector, a website that tracks complaints about outages, showed thousands of problems on Monday morning. The issue originates from Amazon Web Services, which describes itself as “the world’s most comprehensive” cloud service. Follow live updates …

Fergus WalshMedical editor Sheila Irvine, who is registered blind, punches the air with joy at being able to read again A group of blind patients can now read again after being fitted with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye. A surgeon who inserted the microchips in five …

[ Leptin-sensing neurons in the lateral hypothalamus (colored green) help to overcome anxiety to enable adaptive behavior. Input from prefrontal cortex is shown in red. White lines show the activity of individual neurons. Credit: Rebecca Figge-Schlensok How do mammals manage to eat in situations that cause anxiety, step into exposed …

Dozens of websites, banks and apps are being affected by a major internet outage.  The problem, which started on Monday morning, appears to be related to an issue at Amazon Web Services (AWS). As of 9.20am, there were more than 2,000 reports of the Amazon Web Services outage in the …

A pair of once-in-a-lifetime comets will rocket through our skies this October, and it’s a rare treat because they won’t be back for hundreds of years. The comets, C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN), look similar from our perspective.  You can spot these green gaseous globes and their streaming …

[ The famous Ebbinghaus illusion, named for its discoverer, the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909). Despite appearances, the two orange circles are the same size. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Mond-vergleich.svg Have you ever looked at two circles of exactly the same size and sworn one was larger? If so, …

Bereaved families are calling for a public inquiry into what they say are “repeated failures” by the UK government to protect vulnerable people from a website promoting suicide. A report by the Molly Rose Foundation says departments were warned 65 times about the online forum, which BBC News is not …

Rebecca MorelleScience Editor and Alison FrancisSenior Science Journalist Tony Jolliffe/BBC News Cate Blanchett has teamed up with Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank She’s a Hollywood A-lister, with a mantelpiece groaning under the weight of awards. But Cate Blanchett has taken an unexpected diversion from her day job – to immerse herself …

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has a tricky purple category, but that almost always goes without saying. If …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ibuprofen is a household name—the go-to remedy for everything from headaches to period pain. But recent research suggests this everyday drug might be doing more than easing discomfort. It could also have anti-cancer properties. As scientists uncover more about the links between inflammation and cancer, …

[ Elias Sayour (left) works in the lab. Credit: UF Health/Jackie Hart Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine, researchers have found. The observation by researchers …

Jeremy BallEast Midlands social affairs correspondent BBC Bilal Ahmady says he understands several languages and is learning more Farsi Bilal Ahmady laughs as he explains why his family’s weekly video calls around the world are so challenging. They involve sitting around a dinner table in Leicester, speaking to relatives who …

I haven’t had a consistent primary care doctor since I turned 18 and moved on from the pediatrician I’d seen since birth.  Though I get a yearly physical, it’s typically with a new doctor every time, depending on my location, who’s available, my insurance and which office picks up the …

Nardine Saad and Christal HayesBBC News, Los Angeles Getty Images D4vd performed at Coachella music festival months before a body was discovered in the trunk of his car The day after a body was found in his car in Hollywood, singer D4vd was belting his TikTok hit Romantic Homicide – …

Ministers have unveiled their flagship plan to train and recruit workers for the booming clean energy sector, which it is hoping to supercharge in the next five years. Up to £18m of new money has been pledged by the UK and Scottish governments specifically to move those working in the …

Getty Images The first Asian hornet sighting in Northern Ireland was confirmed on Monday DAERA This Asian hornets’ nest was successfully removed in Dundonald on Saturday Why is the Asian hornet a concern? Tom Williamson, a former senior bee inspector for Northern Ireland, said if the nest was releasing queens, …