Brain scans reveal ‘number line’ that’s used to mentally compare values
Picture a number line, with the values running from the smallest to the largest. New research shows that the human brain uses a similar system
I thought I was dying but it was health anxiety – here’s how to recognise the signs
Hollie Sharman shares her experience of health anxiety and a doctor advises on how to manage symptoms.
Private care home investors a risk to public sector, regulator says
US investors are buying up UK care homes – a situation regulators say they are “watching carefully” in case it threatens plans for a National
Give more people weight loss jabs on the NHS, say MPs
Current plans for 6% of eligible patients to get Mounjaro by 2028 unambitious, say MPs.
Powerful earthquake hits Tibet killing 16 people, reports say
The quake hit a mountainous, sparsely-populated region in north-eastern Tibet.
Surveillance and ‘constant paranoia’: Western diplomats tell BBC of life in war-time Moscow
Officials compare working in Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine to the Cold War era.
Hospitals deliberately targeted by Sudan’s RSF fighters, BBC investigation finds
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk says the multiple attacks may amount to war crimes.
L’Oreal says weight loss drugs are impacting beauty and skin care sales
The beauty giant’s CEO says the use of GLP-1s is “a very important phenomenon for us”.
A.I. Discovered a Critical Vulnerability in PHP, a Coding Language Behind Many Websites
The disclosure heightened concerns about A.I.’s potential to upend cybersecurity unless shortcomings are addressed.
British man, 21, who founded his own country receives award from the United Nations
Daniel Jackson (left) has been recognised by the United Nations (Picture: SWNS) A Brit who declared himself president of his own country after claiming land
Your Questions Answered: How Data Centers Erode Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
ACLU experts break down how data centers negatively impact communities, violate civil liberties, and how we can respond.
How Technologies Move From Empowering to Imprisoning
Transportation expert’s warning on self-driving cars captures the way technologies move from empowering options to disempowering requirements
Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4
eMudra, the certificate authority that issued eight intermediate TLS credentials so weak that anyone could mint certificates for any website or mail server—one had a
Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer gives a taste of what we’re all missing
Those mourning yesterday’s shuttering of highly praised and influential developer BioWare also had to deal with the cancellation of the next Mass Effect game, which