8 h. ago Scientists make huge dementia breakthrough with everyday activity that may slow or even prevent disease

Incredible new research has uncovered an effective tool that could help slow the progression of dementia and potentially reduce the risk of developing the disease altogether.

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2 d. ago Voices: Whitehall isn’t working – here’s how the PM can fix it

Keir Starmer complains that the government machine is slow to crank into life when he demands action. To prevent his ‘mission-driven’ domestic agenda from being doomed to failure, the prime minister should first get rid of the Cabinet Office, says Andrew Grice

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1 week ago King's Birthday Honours list 2025: The UK community heroes, charity champions and campaigners recognised

Charity founders, activists and campaigners are among the everyday heroes recognised in this year's list

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1 week ago A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas?

Investment is pouring into companies promising to geoengineer a rapid change in the pH of our waters – but critics are concerned at the speed at which unproven methods are being adoptedIn October 2024, a US company called Ebb Carbon announced the world’s largest marine carbon removal deal to date, signing a multimillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to try to help fix a very real problem in the world’s seas: ocean acidification.Ebb plans to use a method called electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) to mimic the natural process of ocean alkalisation – in other words, it wants to add huge amounts of alkaline materials to ocean waters that scientists now know are acidifying at an alarming rate. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Caribbean beaches blighted by record masses of stinking seaweed

Scientists puzzled by huge amounts of prickly sargassum suffocating shorelines from Puerto Rico to GuyanaA record amount of sargassum has piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, and more is expected this month, according to a new study.The brown prickly algae is suffocating shorelines from Puerto Rico to Guyana and beyond, disrupting tourism, killing wildlife and even releasing toxic gases that forced one school in the French Caribbean island of Martinique to temporarily close. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Over 100 new dementia drugs could be 'start of cure' as experts hail breakthrough

A global review reveals over 100 new dementia drugs which could halt or even reverse the disease are going through clinical trials - including repurposed weight loss injections

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3 w. ago Scientists identify key shift that led to huge rise in bedbugs

Scientists believe the bedbugs were humanity’s first pests

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3 w. ago Three 'hidden' asteroids hurtling towards Earth would cause blast far stronger than atom bomb

Scientists have warned three huge asteroids capable of wiping out entire cities could be hurtling towards Earth within weeks and we wouldn't even know about it because we can't see them

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