A "groundbreaking" £1.65 million treatment has been approved for use on the NHS, offering patients with severe sickle cell disease some hope of a cure.

The Scottish government is "unlikely" to meet its 2030 climate change target to reduce car use due to a "lack of leadership", according to public spending watchdogs.

Plans to develop the UK's largest untapped oilfield have been frustrated in a major climate court case.

A new method for detecting bowel cancer is more than 90% accurate at predicting which higher risk people will develop the disease, research found.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed it is closely monitoring an asteroid the size of a football pitch that could hit the Earth in a little over seven years.

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Calorie labels on menus could be making eating disorders worse, according to new research.

Rachel Reeves is supposedly someone who understands tight budgets.

The great-granddaughter of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst described the sentences given to several climate protesters as "heavy-handed and disproportionate".

A simple blood test that could revolutionise dementia diagnosis has started trials in NHS clinics.

Climate change did not ignite the recent blazes that engulfed swathes of Los Angeles this month. But it did make them worse in at least one key way, a rapid analysis has found.

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde.

The Doomsday Clock has been moved closer to midnight than ever before - symbolising that we are edging towards a global catastrophe.

People across the UK have been warned about the risk of "storm clustering" in the weeks ahead - after Storm Eowyn caused widespread disruption and damage.

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford.

A 66 million-year-old vomit fossil has been discovered in Denmark.

Amazon plans to begin launching drone deliveries in the UK as part of a trial.

The arrival of a previously little-known Chinese tech company has attracted global attention as it sent shockwaves through Wall Street with a new AI chatbot.

Based on the limited numbers of comparisons made so far, DeepSeek's AI models appear to be faster, smaller, and a whole lot cheaper than the best offerings from the supposed titans of AI like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

Donald Trump thinks the Chinese startup DeepSeek, which claims it has a technical advantage over US rivals, should be "a wakeup call" for American AI firms.