Category: Business

Peak District pilot scheme combines satellite data with sensors on the ground to measure particle pollution Researchers have created a system to detect and measure the impacts of moorland fires, which will form part of a response to government proposals on heather and grassland burning in England. Dr Maria Val...

Liquid biopsy, initially for lung and breast cancer patients, can rapidly match treatment to specific tumour Thousands of cancer patients in England are to benefit from a DNA blood test that saves lives by fast-tracking them on to personalised treatments. In a world-first, the NHS will offer patients with lung...

Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team US politics live – latest updates Robert F Kennedy Jr’s flagship health commission report contains citations to studies that do not exist, according to an investigation by the US publication Notus. The report exposes...

‘Extinction-level cuts’ to space agency’s spending means labs will close and deep-space missions will be abandoned Some of the greatest mysteries of the universe, such as the possibility of life on Mars or Venus, may never be solved because of Donald Trump’s proposed “extinction-level” cuts to Nasa spending, scientists are...

Scientists say device could alert workers such as pilots and healthcare staff when they are feeling the strain Whether it is doing sums or working out what to text your new date, some tasks produce a furrowed brow. Now scientists say they have come up with a device to monitor...

Artificial intelligence tool determines best candidates to take abiraterone, which can halve risk of death from disease Doctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict which men with prostate cancer will benefit from a drug that halves the risk of dying. Abiraterone has been described as a “gamechanger”...

Minuscule fossils from 73m years ago are oldest evidence yet for birds nesting in polar regions The Arctic might evoke images of polar bears and seals, but 73m years ago it was a dinosaur stomping ground. Now fossil hunters say these beasts shared their turf with a host of different...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a request from an inmate set to die next month for more information on the firing squad after concerns about the last execution by bullets in April

President Donald Trump has pardoned former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction

Philadelphia's mayor has honored actor and producer Quinta Brunson with a key to the city in a ceremony dedicating a separate mural at Brunson’s alma mater, which was the inspiration for her award-winning show “Abbott Elementary.”