Iran faces ‘greatest financial offensive ever’, says US treasury secretary
Scott Bessent says the US will sever all economic ties with the country and that any nation partnering with Iran financially will also be isolated.
Sonya Massey’s killer Sean Grayson dies in US prison
The former police officer, whose crime reignited the debate about US police brutality, was undergoing treatment for cancer.
New Zealand to introduce bill for under-16s social media ban
The government faces opposition to its proposals from MPs who believe a ban will not work.
Russia’s second-biggest online retailer targeted in Ukrainian strikes
Ozon says its warehouses across southern Russia, including in Dagestan and Krasnodar, were hit in the overnight strikes.
Stream the entire BBC iPlayer Attenborough collection anywhere with this top-rated VPN deal
Heading abroad doesn’t mean missing out on legendary natural history programming. With a top-rated VPN, you can unlock streaming access to the BBC’s complete Sir
Front face of a stela: A 1,300-year-old carving of a powerful Maya ‘Lady Supreme Warlord’ that weighs over 2 tons
A limestone carving depicting the Maya queen known as Lady K’abel. (Image credit: Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1967.29)
Yeast-based nanoparticle vaccine could make annual flu shots obsolete
The world mostly relies on an 80-year-old method for producing flu vaccines from chicken eggs – a slow, costly process that struggles to quickly adapt
Cheap wall tiles ‘inspired by flowing streams’ could fix one of superfast 6G’s biggest problems
Future 6G networks promise blistering speeds , but there’s a catch. The wireless channels they’ll rely on can’t pass through walls. But now, engineers have
Book reframes pregnancy loss as a natural trial-and-error process
According to a new book from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign anthropology professor Kate Clancy, pregnancy is necessarily fraught, involving a series of tests of egg
Fruit fly brain inspires energy-efficient scent classification algorithm
In the animal kingdom, energy conservation is essential for survival. That’s why our brains have evolved to be extremely energy and resource efficient at storing
Nanoparticle vaccine offers long-lasting protection against multiple flu strains
A new, nanoparticle vaccine could one day grant patients immunity to the flu with fewer trips to the doctor and without health officials correctly guessing
‘Doctors said I was ‘too young’ to have endometriosis’
Grace is just 14, but has to spend days in hospital each month due to her endometriosis.
Disrupted brain-immune signaling may help drive neurodegeneration
A Cell perspective argues that neurodegeneration can emerge from disrupted communication between neural and immune networks, with peripheral immunity, microglia, and gene-regulatory programs all shaping
Why is it so hard to find an NHS dentist? Find out how many have closed where you live
Nearly 600 practices in England have withdrawn from NHS dentistry over the last 10 years, as the service heads towards a two-tier system.