Jonah Fisher BBC environment correspondent Jonah Fisher/BBC Between May and July 2025 10,000 tests for water pollution at the Environment Agency’s Starcross laboratory in Devon were cancelled Thousands of water tests to identify potential harmful pollution in rivers, lakes and estuaries in England have been cancelled in the last three months due to staff shortages, […]
Michael Fitzpatrick BBC News NI BBC Willie Hutchinson and Martin Garrity are Northern Ireland Ambulance Service volunteers Kindness, compassion and a free car ride goes a long way when you’re undergoing hospital treatment for health issues, such as terminal cancer or kidney dialysis. Often patients rely on the goodwill of strangers, many of whom become […]
Getty Images The researchers hope their findings could shape future public health guidelines Walking 7,000 steps a day can be enough to boost your brainpower and help protect against a range of different diseases, a major study suggests. It may be a more realistic target than 10,000 steps, which is often seen as the benchmark […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Artwork: The new system predicts missing text from broken inscriptions, their date and original location A new AI tool has the potential to turbocharge our understanding of all human history, researchers say. Artificial intelligence has already been used to fill in gaps in ancient Roman scrolls, but a new system […]
Esme Stallard and Georgina Rannard BBC News Climate and Science Getty Images Storms and tidal surges linked to climate change are causing devastation in low-lying countries, including Marshall Islands A landmark decision by a top UN court has cleared the way for countries to sue each other over climate change, including over historic emissions of […]
President Trump gestures to the press at the end of a reception with Republican members of Congress at the White House on July 22, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP The Trump White House intends to get rid of regulations that artificial intelligence developers see as hindering innovation — including measures related […]
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) chief constable Jon Boutcher has made a hospital visit to deliver a letter of apology for police failings in the case of a Catholic man murdered by loyalists. Eugene Thompson, who is terminally ill, welcomed the development. His brother Paul, 25, was shot dead in 1994 when the taxi […]
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Link et al/Biology Letters The researchers say the terror bird did not survive the encounter Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger predator may have killed it, scientists say. Terror birds […]
A side-by-side of protests from the civil rights movement, versus protests of the 21st century. Jackie Lay hide caption toggle caption Jackie Lay A side-by-side of protests from the civil rights movement, versus protests of the 21st century. Jackie Lay To the casual observer, it might seem like the U.S. has been spent years and […]
Ozzy Osbourne, a trailblazer who rose to fame as a founding force in heavy metal music and later became a reality television icon, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 76. His family confirmed his death in a statement, but did not disclose the location or cause. In recent years, Osbourne had been undergoing […]