The Jodrell Bank Observatory, which has housed the UK’s largest telescope for nearly 70 years, has lost its funding and could now close, the BBC understands. The observatory and its network of telescopes have been pivotal to the country’s study of distant galaxies and training future astronomers. Scientists have described the decision as “heartbreaking” and…
Andy Burnham has pledged to continue the UK’s “unwavering” support for Ukraine ahead of a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday. Zelensky will become the prime minister’s first international visitor since he took office a week ago, which No 10 said “illustrates the strength of the relationship between the two nations”. They will visit…
101 East meets the doctors using drones to fight tuberculosis and save lives in remote communities in the Philippines. Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death in the Philippines, killing an estimated 98 people each day. The infectious disease is particularly grave in remote communities, where medical services are limited and delayed diagnosis and treatment…
Artificial intelligence software will be used on the NHS app to determine which service is most appropriate for patients in England, the health service has announced. A new triage tool will ask patients a series of questions, and will use the responses to direct them to a GP appointment, pharmacy, A&E, community service or offer…
Published on 30/06/2026 – 15:11 GMT+2 An ancient scroll that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has finally revealed its secrets. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Scientists were able to decipher the fragile scroll without unrolling it. Instead, they used artificial intelligence to uncover what ended up being, rather ironically, a philosophical treatise on ethics,…
Africa’s top health agency offered a grim outlook on the Ebola crisis raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, warning that contact tracing was dangerously behind where it needed to be to end the spread. “If we don’t stop this outbreak now,” Dr. Jean Kaseya, the director general of the Africa Centers for…
The “hydration breaks” that have been added to World Cup matches have not been met with universal acclaim from players and fans, not least because some TV networks are using them to squeeze in extra ads. It’s hot in much of North America in June, and in some places very hot. So it would seem…
As you settle in to watch the world’s biggest sporting event — 39 days, 48 teams, 104 matches and more than 1,200 pairs of pounding, cleated feet — spare a blessing for the grass. FIFA, the international ruling body of soccer, mandates that every World Cup match be played on natural, living turf. Moreover, the…
Scientists have uncovered new clues about how crabs developed their distinctive sideways movement. A new study, released as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, brings together the largest dataset yet on how crabs move. By comparing many species, the researchers traced this unusual walking style back to a shared ancestor that lived roughly 200 million years…
Lifting an earthenware mortar above your head to protect yourself from the rain of fire. It’s an instinctive, desperate, almost primordial gesture. It was one of the last acts performed by a man fleeing during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, now reconstructed thanks to new excavations in the Porta Stabia necropolis in Pompeii….
