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How is your hospital doing as NHS battles to bring down waiting times?

2 Hits Usman Bashir Jun 26, 2025, 10:39 PM

Use our interactive tracker to see if treatment waits are getting better at your local hospital

Technology

Should we be letting flies eat our food waste?

3 Hits Yuan Wang Jun 26, 2025, 10:38 PM

In Lithuania and Australia, hungry fly larvae are used to process food waste into useful protein.

Science

Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch

6 Hits Prabhu Kumar Jun 25, 2025, 11:32 PM

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a...

Health

I lost £15,000 after going to an IVF middleman

2 Hits Usman Bashir Jun 25, 2025, 9:25 AM

Companies that act as "middlemen" between patients and doctors are not regulated by the fertility watchdog.

Science

India sends its first astronaut into space in 41 years

5 Hits Mariyam Basra Jun 25, 2025, 6:18 AM

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has become only the second Indian to travel to space.

Science

This burger was made from cow cells in a lab. Should it really be served in restaurants?

3 Hits Usman Bashir Jun 24, 2025, 10:48 PM

Lab-grown beef, chicken and even quail are served in restaurants in some countries around the world - and now some cultivated meats could soon be sold in the UK too

Technology

Supercell boss: 'We need to take bigger risks'

3 Hits Yuan Wang Jun 23, 2025, 10:32 PM

The boss of mobile gaming giant Supercell says the industry needs to take bigger risks to compete.

Science

First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope

4 Hits Yuan Wang Jun 23, 2025, 4:04 PM

The telescope should detect killer asteroids and may even find the ninth planet in our solar system.

Science

Killer whales make kelp tools to 'massage' each other

3 Hits Jörg Kastner Jun 23, 2025, 2:44 PM

Orcas have been filmed using kelp as a tool to massage each other

Health

'Our sister died of cancer because of our mum's conspiracy theories'

2 Hits Elizabeth R. Ludwig Jun 23, 2025, 4:22 AM

Paloma Shemirani’s brothers say she refused chemotherapy because of their mother’s beliefs.