8 m. ago Fruit juice costing 10p could slash cholesterol and blood pressure

High blood pressure and cholesterol are two very common health concerns in the UK, but a new study has found that a popular breakfast drink could help keep them at bay

Events

4 h. ago Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prize

Prof David Liu is among the winners of 2025’s ‘Oscars of science’, with honours also going to researchers for landmark work on multiple sclerosis, particle physics and ‘skinny jabs’For the past five years, David Liu – a professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a biomedical research facility in Massachusetts – has marked Thanksgiving by handing over his entire annual salary, after taking care of taxes, to the staff and students in his laboratory.It started as the pandemic broke and Liu heard that students who wanted to cycle instead of taking public transport could not afford bicycles. Given how hard they worked and how little they were paid, Liu stepped in. He couldn’t unilaterally raise their incomes, so emailed them Amazon eGift cards. This ran into problems too, however. “Everyone thought they were being scammed,” he recalls. And so he switched to writing cheques. Continue reading...

Economics

4 h. ago Mahmoud Khalil says his arrest was part of ‘Columbia’s repression playbook’

Green-card holder and activist led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now fighting Trump effort to deport himMahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student activist who led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now resisting the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, has accused the university of laying “the groundwork for my abduction” and called on the student body to continue demonstrations and protests.Khalil, a green-card holder who is in custody in Louisiana as his case moves through the courts, was detained on 8 March. The Trump administration is seeking to deport him under a provision in federal immigration law that permits the state department to deport non-citizens considered to be a threat to US foreign policy. Continue reading...

Events

8 h. ago Scientists may have found the single best diet for ageing well

This 30-year study might have revealed the secret to longevity

Events

9 h. ago Married school dinner lady 'brought teen pupil back to family home for sex acts'

Amy Nicole Wiggington, 41, is being held in jail after police seized her for allegedly taking a teen student back to her home in Alabama and sleeping with him on two occasions

Society

12 h. ago ‘A case study in groupthink’: were liberals wrong about the pandemic?

US political scientists’ book argues aggressive Covid policies such as mask mandates were in some cases misguidedWere conservatives right to question Covid lockdowns? Were the liberals who defended them less grounded in science than they believed? And did liberal dismissiveness of the other side come at a cost that Americans will continue to pay for many years?A new book by two political scientists argues yes to all three questions, making the case that the aggressive policies that the US and other countries adopted to fight Covid – including school shutdowns, business closures, mask mandates and social distancing – were in some cases misguided and in many cases deserved more rigorous public debate. Continue reading...

Events

13 h. ago Blair tells Starmer NOT to hit back at Trump's tariffs as US stocks see biggest 2

Blair was speaking to students at King's College University in London on Friday, just days after President Trump unveiled major tariffs in possibly the biggest shake-up of world economics on record.

Politics

13 h. ago Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests

Revolutionary scanner to be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestationScientists are about to take part in a revolutionary mission aimed at creating detailed 3D maps of the world’s remotest, densest and darkest tropical forests – from outer space. The feat will be achieved using a special radar scanner that has been fitted to a probe, named Biomass, that will be fired into the Earth’s orbit later this month.For the next five years, the 1.25-tonne spacecraft will sweep over the tropical rainforests of Africa, Asia and South America and peer through their dense 40m-high ­canopies to study the vegetation that lies beneath. The data collected by Biomass will then be used to create unique 3D maps of forests normally hidden from human sight. Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago UK's most prescribed drug can actually CUT risk of dementia, bombshell study finds

Researchers have discovered that a medication eight million Brits are prescribed, for another condition, could help lower the risk of dementia - a study involving 571,000 people made the bombshell finding

Events

14 h. ago Girl Scout cookies contain heavy metals beyond safe limits, lawsuit alleges

Suit seeking $5m based on study finding controversial herbicide and lead in most cookies across 25 US statesGirl Scout cookies contain lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum and mercury at levels that often exceed regulators’ recommended limits, as well as concerning amounts of a toxic herbicide, a new class action lawsuit alleges.The suit bases its allegations on a December 2024 study commissioned by the GMO Science and Moms Across America nonprofits that tested 25 cookies gathered from across several states, and found all contained at least four out of five of the heavy metals. Continue reading...

Society

14 h. ago Noel Gallagher leaves his London studio as he gears up for Oasis reunion tour

Noel Gallagher leaves his London studio as he gears up for Oasis reunion tour - while band founder Tony McCarr  Daily Mail

Politics

15 h. ago Revealed: The jobs UK firms can't fill... and the reason why they are rejecting so many applicants

The judgments are outlined in a study showing how companies struggle to attract prospective employees - while aspirants are coming across as too picky.

Politics

16 h. ago Major endometriosis study reveals impact of gluten, coffee, dairy and alcohol

Edinburgh University report authors say dietary changes could benefit women living with the diseaseDietary changes could reduce the pain of endometriosis for half of those living with the disease, a new study suggests. The largest international survey ever conducted on diet and endometriosis, involving 2,599 people, found 45% of those who stopped eating gluten and 45% of those who cut out dairy reported experiencing an improvement in their pain.When women cut down on coffee or other caffeine in their diet, 43% said their pain was reduced, while 53% of women who cut back on alcohol reported the same. Continue reading...

Politics

16 h. ago Lila Moss stuns in a chic halterneck dress as she attends YSL Beauty event in Miami

The lookalike daughter of Kate Moss wore a black fitted midi dress that featured a criss-cross halterneck.

Politics

17 h. ago Liz Hurley shares sweet snaps of lookalike son and pays tribute to 'sunbeam' on his birthday

Actress and model Elizabeth Hurley sent a sweet tribute to her son Damian as he turned 23 and shared a very glam throwback snap of the pair from when he was a baby

Politics

18 h. ago Mark Bonnar: ‘I wanted to be a historian, then a drummer, and then I just wanted to be employed’ | Q&A

The actor on how an aside about sex became big news, getting let off for weed, and crying at advertsBorn in Edinburgh, Mark Bonnar, 56, studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 2017, he won a best actor Bafta Scotland for his role in Unforgotten, and his other TV work spans Line of Duty, Catastrophe and the Netflix series Department Q, which is released in May. His films include Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, Operation Mincemeat and Last Breath, which is out now. He is married to actor Lucy Gaskell, has two children and lives in Hertfordshire.What is your greatest fear? That we’re all going to hell in a handcart and Trump is driving. Continue reading...

Politics

21 h. ago Primark brings back 'lush' £12 bag 'just like' £380 designer version

Primark shoppers have compared the £12 bag to one by designer brand Dragon Diffusion - but there's a huge price difference

Economics

21 h. ago Glenn Hoddle's new perspective on life as he reflects on near

EXCLUSIVE: Almost six-and-a-half years ago, Glenn Hoddle suffered a cardiac arrest in a TV studio and was clinically dead for minutes before being revived by Simon Daniels, a BT Sport sound engineer

Politics

25 h. ago Obama makes brutal admission about Michelle marriage as 'divorce' crisis deepens

Former President Barack Obama admitted he's trying to dig out of a 'deep deficit' with wife Michelle Obama, a quip he made when addressing Hamilton College students Thursday.

Events

28 h. ago HALF of all sick notes are handed out without the patient seeing a doctor, damning government study reveals

The bombshell study also reveals that more than a third (39 per cent) of recipients said it is easy to get one even 'when not really needed'.

Science