“Cholera is spreading fast, yet it can be stopped. Why haven’t we consigned it to history?”
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Vaccine production must be expanded to combat this ancient disease, especially in Africa. But a lack of political will is holding us back Hakainde Hichilema is president of Zambia. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is director general of the World Health Organization The last outbreak of cholera in Britain was in 1866; in the United States there has not been an outbreak since 1911. And yet today people
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Oxfordshire: One minute you’re looking at an old, wet tree stump, the next you’re looking at some veiled poisonpie or smoky polypore My local nature reserve used to be a Victorian rubbish dump, but now it is full of wildlife. And if you look closely on old logs on a mild, damp day you will probably see some wonders: fungi. I went to visit last week. The brightly coloured leaves were painted acros
Deal between Airbus, Leonardo and Thales is expected to create company with annual revenue of £5.6bn Airbus, Leonardo and Thales have struck a deal to combine their space businesses to create a single European technology company that could rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX . The deal is expected to create a company with annual revenue of about €6.5bn (£5.6bn). The French aerospace company Airbus will own
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A new wave of socially engaged movies is storming the box office and changing how we think about the genre It should surprise no one to learn that 2025 is being hailed as a golden year for horror films . All horror movies are a reflection of their time, and ours are pretty scary. Tech dystopianism means that Frankenstein’s monster has become a byword for AI, while Bram Stoker’s Dracula has always
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Successive governments criticised for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to reduce risk in decade since cancer link found Bacon and ham sold in the UK should carry cigarette-style labels warning that chemicals in them cause bowel cancer, scientists say. Their demand comes as they criticise successive British governments for doing “virtually nothing” to reduce the risk from nitrites in the decade since the
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Scientists warn of ‘insidious risks’ of increasingly popular technology that affirms even harmful behaviour Turning to AI chatbots for personal advice poses “insidious risks”, according to a study showing the technology consistently affirms a user’s actions and opinions even when harmful. Scientists said the findings raised urgent concerns over the power of chatbots to distort people’s self-perce
Analysis of DNA from teeth of troops buried in mass grave suggests soldiers had paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever When Napoleon ordered his army to retreat from Russia in October 1812, disaster ensued. Starving, cold, exhausted and struggling with sickness, an estimated 300,000 soldiers died. Researchers now say they have identified two unexpected diseases among soldiers who died in the retre
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Bharatiya Janata party launches first test flight as brown haze blankets city after Diwali – but experts decry ‘gimmick’ The Delhi regional government is trialling a cloud-seeding experiment to induce artificial rain, in an effort to clean the air in the world’s most polluted city. The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has been proposing the use of cloud seeding as a way to bring Delhi’s air pollution
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Dating of rock formation in New Mexico casts doubt on theory that species was already in decline Dinosaurs would not have become extinct had it not been for a catastrophic asteroid strike, researchers have said, challenging the idea the animals were already in decline. About 66m years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, a huge space rock crashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that w
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Study of the drink beloved by Hollywood reveals chemical difference in beans passed through civets’ digestive system It is a coffee beloved by Hollywood and influencers – now researchers say they have found an ingredient that could help explain the unique flavour of kopi luwak. Also known as civet coffee, kopi luwak is produced from coffee beans that have passed through the digestive system of th
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Humans have been selectively breeding animals for millennia. If we can help species survive by tweaking their DNA in a lab, I say bring it on Do you think we should genetically modify wildlife? What if we could make seabirds resistant to the flu that has been exterminating them en masse , just by tweaking their DNA a smidgen? Or make fish that can shrug off pollution, or coral that can survive wa
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The NHS warns against using GLP-1s while breastfeeding – for the baby’s sake as well as the mother’s. But how much does that count when they’re so readily available and there’s so much pressure to ‘bounce back’? Lydia* first started thinking about weight-loss drugs during pregnancy. “Everyone was talking about them and the advertisements were everywhere,” she says, as her baby son naps upstairs.
An electronic eye implant half the thickness of a human hair has helped people with incurable sight loss to see again, opening up a potential ‘new era’ in tackling blindness. Madeleine Finlay hears from Mahi Muqit, a surgeon from Moorfields eye hospital in London, about what this implant has meant for his patients and what the future could hold for vision-loss therapies Clips: BBC Continue readin
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Scientist whose research into transuranic elements revised the understanding of nuclear fission Darleane Hoffman’s research into superheavy radioactive elements at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and, prior to that, at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, enhanced and extensively revised our knowledge of those elements and, consequently, our un
Semaglutide study suggests such drugs could have wider benefits, though researchers find shrinking waistlines linked to better heart outcomes The weight-loss drug semaglutide cuts the risk of heart attack or stroke regardless of how many kilograms people lose, the largest study of its kind has found. However, shrinking waist size – a sign of less belly fat – was linked to better heart outcomes, a
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Notable variations between different medications were found in weight gain or loss, heart rate and blood pressure People taking certain types of antidepressants can gain up to 2kg (4.5lbs) in weight within the first two months of treatment, while patients taking other drugs can lose the equivalent or more, according to a major review of potential side-effects. The research, led by academics at Ki
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Gene-edited animals remained healthy when exposed to highly contagious deadly disease Pigs that are resistant to a deadly viral disease have been created by scientists at Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute. The gene-edited animals remained healthy when exposed to classical swine fever (CSF), a highly contagious and often fatal disease. The virus was eradicated in the UK in 1966, but there have been sev
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In writing about my mother, Jenny Cox , I mentioned that she was refused permission to do her botany PhD research on the island of South Georgia purely because she was a woman. Though she saw this as an injustice for the rest of her life, she never revealed any details of what happened. The efficient archive service at the British Antarctic Survey have now made available a letter from Sir Vivian
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Researchers say the target significantly reduces risk of dying and lowers likelihood of cardiovascular disease Older people who only walk 4,000 daily steps once a week still reduce their risk of dying early by a quarter, a study suggests. Staying active is known to bring a wide range of health benefits. But many people in their 60s, 70s and beyond may struggle for a variety of reasons to maintain
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After overdoses left them with brain injuries and lasting complications, Americans are struggling to get proper care. Experts call it another epidemic A day in the life of caring for an overdose survivor John-Bryan “JB” Jarrett was supposed to be fishing on the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend, September 2020. Over dinner the night before, he told his mom, Jessica, he wanted to be on the wat
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Scientists are using DNA from sediments to learn more about Earth’s past, including new revelations about the woolly mammoth Fossilisation is rare. Most living things disappear without trace, recycled back into planet Earth. But in some environments the DNA from living things binds to the soil and rock, leaving a marker of their existence for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. Conti
SpaceX owner said Sean Duffy was ‘trying to kill Nasa’ after acting head said agency would reopen contracts for Artemis mission Elon Musk attacked Sean Duffy, the US secretary of transportation, on Tuesday in a series of posts on X, accusing him of trying to “kill NASA”, suggesting he should be fired and calling him “Sean Dummy”. The posts intensified a long-running feud between Duffy, who is als
Theoretical physicist who won the Nobel prize for his work on the forces acting on fundamental subatomic particles Chen-Ning Yang, the Chinese American theoretical physicist, who has died aged 103, won the Nobel prize in physics in 1957. It was during a period at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1950 that Yang (also known as CN Yang, or Frank Yang) befriended another
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Iida Turpeinen’s novel has been a sensation in her native Finland. On the eve of its UK publication, she talks about her compulsion to tell of the sociable giant’s plight Iida Turpeinen is the author of Beasts of the Sea, a Finnish novel tracing the fate of a now-extinct species: the sea cow . Similar to dugongs and manatees, the sea cow was only discovered in 1741 by the shipwrecked German-born
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As biodiversity declines, locating and conserving the planet’s plant life is becoming more important. The Millennium seed bank in Wakehurst, West Sussex, has been doing just that for 25 years, collecting and storing seeds and keeping them in trust for countries all over the world should they ever be needed. To mark the anniversary, Patrick Greenfield took a tour of the site. He tells Madeleine Fi
Expected reduction in contributions by wealthy countries likely to cost millions of lives and billions in lost growth Slashed contributions from wealthy countries to an anti-malaria fund could allow a resurgence of the disease, costing millions of lives and billions of pounds by the end of the decade, according to a new analysis. The fight against malaria faces new threats, including extreme weat
Unrelated cases mark first time clade I of disease formerly known as monkeypox has spread within US, officials say Three California residents have been infected with clade I mpox , a more severe strain of the virus formerly known as monkeypox – marking the first time this type of mpox has spread within the US, health officials said on Friday. The unrelated cases, identified in Long Beach and Los
Nasa head said agency is opening up contracts for crewed lunar program Artemis after SpaceX had to delay timelines Nasa is looking to contract with other companies for its crewed lunar program as Elon Musk’s SpaceX is “behind” on its timeline, the space agency said on Monday. In an interview with CNBC, Sean Duffy, transportation secretary and interim head of Nasa, said the agency was “not going t
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Sight of 84% of people with form of age-related macular degeneration restored after being fitted with device An electronic eye implant half the thickness of a human hair has helped people with incurable sight loss to see again, opening up a potential “new era” in tackling blindness. Doctors who implanted the sim card-shaped prosthetic devices say they have helped many of the 38 elderly patients i
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Exclusive: Data shows gen Z could miss out on new treatments because so few sign up for trials and studies in England ‘I wish I took part sooner’: how a medical trial transformed a young person’s life Millions of young people risk missing out on new treatments for health conditions and having to use medicines that are unsafe, ineffective or inappropriate because so few take part in medical resear
Early birds on the east coast will have the best chance of seeing this annual astral light show Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Early rising stargazers in Australia will be in prime position to catch a glimpse of the Orionid meteor shower, which will this week pass through our atmosphere. Those who tend to wake be
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This hybrid documentary about the Cree astronomer offers evocative, poetic insight into a formidable community leader For Cree astronomer Wilfred Buck, the stars hold an immense power that extends beyond the realm of science. Coming from an Indigenous group whose stories have been systematically effaced by official narratives, he looks to these clustered dots of light as both historical document
The speed of the shower creates swift, bright streaks across the night sky, at a typical rate of 20 meteors an hour As seasoned meteor spotters will tell you, each meteor shower has its own peculiar characteristics. Earlier in the month, the Draconids were characterised by their slow-moving meteors. The Orionids, on the other hand, are zippy. Barrelling into the atmosphere at about 66 km/s, they
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Why are the online far right so successful in shaping our political language? With Dr Robert Topinka At a press conference in September, Reform UK announced a seismic policy proposal – the end of indefinite leave to remain for immigrants. This change, which would drastically transform the UK immigration system, was justified by a supposed need to tackle the “Boriswave”. At first glance, the Boris
Burning object made of carbon fibre discovered on desert road near mine site close to Newman on Saturday Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Burning space debris that crashed to Earth in outback Australia is likely part of a Chinese rocket that launched in September, according to leading space archaeologist Alice Gorm
Triple-action therapy drug amivantamab could be given as an injection to help treat recurrent or metastatic cancers Doctors have hailed “incredibly encouraging” trial results that show a triple-action smart jab can shrink tumours in head and neck cancer patients within six weeks. Head and neck cancer is the world’s sixth most common form of the disease. If it spreads or comes back after standard
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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Snails and worms seem to have been successful using that method for sharing genes between any
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