Westminster Council approved a controversial Soho licensing policy on September 17, 2026, despite only 7% of consultation respondents supporting it. The policy encourages seating over vertical drinking but does not ban standing in pubs.
Christelle Randall's 18-month-old daughter Elsie has a RARB gene mutation, a condition so rare only 100 cases exist. Now home, she fights for therapies and care.
A genetically modified pig kidney kept a 66-year-old man alive for a record nine months, acting as a bridge to a human transplant in a world first, according to the Lancet.
John Hall, the influential geologist and climate scientist who pioneered the study of past climates through ice cores, has died aged 88, his family announced.
Alex Ungar, senior lecturer in pharmacology at Edinburgh University and former editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology, has died aged 91. He published over 60 articles and was chief medical adviser to Norgine.
UK science funding cuts threaten the world's most intense pulsed muon source at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, while experts urge balanced reporting on AI-designed bacteriophages for medicine.
Nasa pilots will fly a WB-57 at 50,000ft along the eclipse path to extend totality to nearly 3 minutes, capturing images of the sun's corona to understand space weather.
A 1864 bottle of Guinness recovered from a shipwreck off Dover may help scientists recreate the original recipe, with DNA analysis underway at KU Leuven University.
Police issue new appeal on Sarjit Kaur Mann's 70th birthday; she vanished in Antibes in 1976. A mysterious caller claimed she drowned, but she's never been found.
Tony Jones, former Q+A host, premieres Sentient, a documentary on animal testing, at Sundance. He discusses empathy, ethics, and his life with Sarah Ferguson.
Scientists have created the first AI-designed viruses, a breakthrough for phage therapy but raising urgent biosecurity questions, as experts call for governance.
Scientists found a new metal alloy in Hiroshima fallout, formed in the 1945 nuclear fireball. The material has a unique atomic structure unlike anything on Earth.
Anthony Fauci's newly released diaries criticize News Corp journalist Sharri Markson's COVID-19 'lab leak' reporting as 'nonsense,' ahead of his Senate hearing subpoenaed by Rand Paul.
First patients enrolled in record-breaking Ebola treatment trial in DRC, testing remdesivir and MBP134 against Bundibugyo strain with no approved vaccine or treatment.
Study finds differences in unhealthy cholesterol and blood pressure between obese and healthy-weight adults have narrowed or disappeared in over-40s, largely due to statins.
AI analysis of 1,722 patients shows those with denser chest and back muscles are 31% less likely to have a heart attack and 39% less likely to die prematurely.
Scientists at Duke University have used lab-grown retinal cells to restore vision in mice, offering new hope for treating blindness and vision loss in humans.
Dr Matthew Dryden highlights how astute diagnosis and international collaboration averted a hantavirus outbreak from the MV Hondius cruise ship, stressing the value of UKOTs programme.
Experts question government-funded study on kidney cancer rates near a Pfas factory in Lancashire, advising residents not to eat local produce within 1km.
A writer shares how an AI health tool flagged a deadly blood clot, urging regulation and collaboration between doctors and AI for safer healthcare.
A Louisiana jury awarded $1.1 billion to Pamela Lockridge, who sued her late stepfather for childhood sexual abuse under the state's 'lookback law,' sending a message of accountability.
Five lupus patients in England are in remission after a groundbreaking NHS trial of CAR T-cell therapy, offering hope of a cure for the chronic autoimmune disease.
A new test claims to measure biological age and predict time to death. But knowing too much about your mortality might be bad for your health, argues science writer Helen Pilcher.
Michael Davies, 57, strangled Tracy Davies, 48, at their home in Bridgend, Wales, after fearing she would leave him. He denies murder but admits manslaughter.
Pat Brogan, diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2021, sees tumors shrink by 30% after smart drug trial, now planning to walk his daughter down the aisle.
Two mothers battled UK bureaucracy to get cannabis medicines for their children, but most patients face costly private treatment. A podcast explores the ongoing barriers.
A daily pill, daraxonrasib, doubled survival time in advanced pancreatic cancer patients with fewer side effects than chemotherapy, experts call it a 'gamechanger'.
A new cancer jab, amivantamab, shows unprecedented results in eradicating tumours in early-stage trials, with 42% of patients seeing tumour shrinkage and 15 complete responses.
A new cancer jab, amivantamab, shrank or eradicated tumors in over a third of patients with head and neck cancer in an international trial, offering hope for those resistant to standard treatments.
A trial of a multi-cancer blood test involving 142,000 NHS patients did not achieve its primary aim of reducing late-stage cancer diagnoses, researchers report.