England is trying to bring back golden eagles after 150 years away.
The Victorians hunted them out of existence by the 1870s. A new £1m feasibility study has mapped eight places where they could plausibly come home.
Read the full story →Two or three cups of coffee a day linked to better mental health in a 460,000-person study.
Researchers tracked participants for thirteen years and found that moderate coffee drinking was associated with meaningful mental health benefits, particularly for men. Both the very light drinkers and the heavy ones missed out. The middle held up.
An AI tool can now predict which bowel cancer patients won't benefit from a rough chemo drug.
Bevacizumab helps some patients and wrecks others with side effects, and until now there was no reliable way to tell which group a person was in before treatment. Researchers say the new tool could spare thousands of patients from chemo that was never going to work for them.
England is scrapping daily sugary snacks from school lunch menus for the first time in a decade.
The new standards ban deep-fried food, limit grab-and-go options like sausage rolls and pizza, and put fruit front and center. They take effect in September 2027, and a recent Department for Education poll found that three out of four parents think the change is overdue.
Record Store Day turns 19, and Robert Plant got named a Legend.
On April 18, thousands of independent record shops around the world opened early for the diehards. The advice from one veteran DJ was to bring a list. By lunchtime, the best stock is usually gone.
U.S. road deaths in 2025 hit their second-lowest level on record.
The total was still 36,640 people, which is not a small number. But it was down 6.7% from the previous year, and experts credit the decline to street safety programs that started getting federal funding in 2022.
Our research uses advanced AI methods to pull together large amounts of complex data, helping us to spot patterns that would otherwise be impossible for a human to see.
— Prof. Anguraj Sadanandam, Institute of Cancer Research
The UK will give away free electricity this summer — as long as you use it at the right time.
Longer days, more rooftop solar, and more wind capacity mean the grid now produces more electricity in summer than it can use. Rather than waste the surplus, the National Energy System Operator is letting suppliers reward customers who run appliances during peak generation hours. British Gas, Octopus, and Equiwatt are in.
England is restarting its women's health plan after three years of it sitting on a shelf.
The updated strategy includes new standards for pain relief during invasive procedures, better escalation paths for patients whose concerns are dismissed, and a push to cut wait times for endometriosis diagnoses. Advocates welcomed the news but warned that commitments without a delivery roadmap tend not to survive contact with reality.
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