Brothers’ lives saved by home spit test that could ‘turn the tide on prostate cancer’

Brothers’ lives saved by home spit test that could ‘turn the tide on prostate cancer’

A new spit test for prostate cancer which can be done at home may be better than current testing methods, a study suggests.Experts have developed a simple saliva test which analyses genetic variants in a man's DNA, which appears to perform better than the current method for assessing prostate cancer risk.Currently, the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test is used to check for prostate conditions, including prostate cancer or an enlarged prostate.Routine testing is not currently available on the NHS, but […]

09/04/2025 10

Tech

Six second AI video requires eight times more more electricity than it takes to charge mobile phone

The amount of electricity needed to power the world's data centres is expected to double in the next five years, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA) report.Most of the increase is being driven by the development and use of increasingly powerful AI models.By 2030, data centres could consume 945TWh (terawatt hours) of electricity each year, the report found - three times more than the entire UK.The rise in demand, predicted to be highly concentrated around the world's tech and […]

09/04/2025

World

Inside missile defence base protecting Europe – as residents bordering Russia say ‘scare tactic’ needed

Along the thin strip of beach and woodland known as the Vistula Spit which marks the northernmost demarcation between Poland and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, there is not much in the way of a border.

09/04/2025

US

Trump has finally blinked – but it’s not the stock markets that have forced him to act

Chalk this one up to the bond vigilantes. This is the term used periodically to describe investors who push back against what are perceived to be irresponsible fiscal or monetary policies by selling government bonds, in the process pushing up yields, or implied borrowing costs.Most of the focus on markets in the wake of Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs on the rest of the world has, in the last week, been about the calamitous stock market reaction.This was previously something […]

09/04/2025 14

Politics

‘All options’ on table regarding British Steel’s future, chancellor says

"All options" remain on the table over the future of British Steel, the chancellor has said, as fears mount over the company's plant in Scunthorpe.The government is actively considering nationalising British Steel after Jingye, its owner in Scunthorpe, cancelled future orders for the iron ore, coal and other raw materials needed to keep the furnaces running.The decision has led to fears the Scunthorpe plant, the last blast furnaces left operating in Britain, could be forced to close as early as […]

09/04/2025 11

Tech

‘Concerning’ levels of E.coli found in Thames before Boat Race, campaigners say

E.coli has been traced in multiple water samples from the stretch of the River Thames that will host the famous Boat Race on Sunday, campaigners say.Campaign group River Action, which started testing for the bacteria in the Thames on 10 March, said almost a third of samples (29.5%) exceeded safe limits for entering the water.Water quality would be classed "poor" by official standards if it were a bathing water site, according to the campaigners.In response, Thames Water said rivers were […]

09/04/2025

Tech

Watchdog to investigate ‘suicide forum’ – in first use of power under new online safety laws

Ofcom is investigating whether the provider of a suicide forum has failed to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act.It's the first investigation into an individual service provider under the new laws.The act was passed in 2023 and requires firms to reduce illegal and harmful content, but its protections are only just taking effect through Ofcom codes of practice.The watchdog said it was looking at whether the forum failed to have appropriate measures to protect users from illegal […]

09/04/2025 3

Tech

Girl who thought she had sickness bug ended up with part of skull in stomach

A girl has relearned how to walk, talk and swallow after undergoing an operation rarely carried out on children, in which doctors stored part of her skull in her stomach.Ellie Morris-Davies, who is now 16, had nine surgeries in the space of 13 weeks last year after being diagnosed with a cavernoma - a cluster of abnormal blood vessels that looks like a raspberry - which does not often have symptoms.At one point, she worried she would "never go home" […]

09/04/2025

Entertainment

Universal’s first European theme park to open in UK

A new Universal theme park in Bedfordshire has been confirmed on what Sir Keir Starmer hailed as a "momentous" day for the UK. It will be the first Universal-branded theme park and resort in Europe and is set to open in 2031, when it is expected to become the UK's most popular visitor attraction.The government said it will bring an estimated £50bn into the British economy and will create about 28,000 jobs - nearly 20,000 during the construction phase, and […]

08/04/2025

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