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People are being urged to take a free hepatitis C test amid fears thousands may have unknowingly contracted the disease abroad. While NHS bosses hope it will be wiped out in England by 2025, some 70,000 adults may still have the disease without realising, according to healthcare company Preventx. The blood-borne virus can be picked

An air traffic control boss has confirmed it was “unreliable” flight data that caused the technical failure behind disruption to thousands of flights this week. Martin Rolfe, chief executive of National Air Traffic Services, said an initial investigation found the collapse of the system was caused by flight data which its system did not understand

A woman who was experiencing forgetfulness and depression has had an 8cm-long parasitic roundworm removed from her brain. The 64-year-old English woman, who was living in New South Wales, Australia, was admitted to hospital in January 2021 after three weeks of abdominal pain and diarrhoea, followed by a dry cough and night sweats. By 2022,

This week offers the chance to see August’s second supermoon. Stargazers were treated to a lunar spectacle right at the start of the month, and it will close with an even more spectacular showcase on Wednesday night – peaking at around 2.35am on Thursday in the UK. This blue moon will be even closer to

Novak Djokovic has raised eyebrows at this year’s Grand Slams by revealing a mysterious metal disc strapped to his chest. The tennis star had the coin-like device taped between his pectorals at the French Open and Wimbledon, and could wear it again when the US Open starts on Monday. His first opponent is Alexandre Muller,

Gut issues such as constipation, IBS and difficulty swallowing could be early warning signs for Parkinson’s disease, a new study has found. Alzheimer’s disease, brain aneurysms and strokes have been linked to poor gut health – but until now there has been no clear relationship with Parkinson’s. Researchers from the US and Belgium compared the

NASA is exploring the potential for a supersonic jet that could take commercial passengers from London to New York in 90 minutes. The US space agency’s Quesst mission was launched in 2016, primarily to design an aircraft with technology that reduces the loudness of a sonic boom: that’s what we hear on the ground when

Scientists have come up with a list of 11 risk factors, from lifestyle choices to illness history, for a person getting dementia. They are age, education, history of diabetes, history of depression, history of stroke, parental history of dementia, deprivation, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, living alone and gender. The list was whittled down from

Nearly four years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugged the director of India’s space agency who was reduced to tears after losing Chandrayaan-2 – his country’s first attempt to land on the moon. Today, it was tears of joy. This isn’t just a huge triumph for Indian scientists and engineers. As Chandrayaan-3 touched down

A Chinese spy used LinkedIn to target thousands of British officials and attempt to mine secrets, according to a report. The investigation, published in The Times, suggests an intelligence officer for Beijing’s main spy agency used aliases on the platform, which is the world’s biggest professional networking site, to try to bribe civil servants and

Lawyers for the controversial cryptocurrency trader Sam Bankman-Fried have said he is subsisting on bread, water and peanut butter ahead of his fraud trial because the jail he is being held in has not provided vegan meals.  Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was extradited from the Bahamas in December after prosecutors said he

Besides a Cricket World Cup final win over Pakistan, it’s difficult to envisage anything generating more excitement in India than its historic moon mission. In what would be a landmark achievement for not just the country’s space programme, but humanity’s efforts to explore the cosmos, Chandrayaan-3 will attempt to land on the lunar south pole.

Microsoft lashed out in April when the UK’s competition regulator blocked the biggest gaming takeover in history. The tech giant suggested that the decision showed the UK was not a place to do business. But after the deal was approved in the EU and attempts to block it were stifled in the US, the CMA

The original voice of Mario in Nintendo’s video games is stepping down. Charles Martinet has been in the role for 27 years – dating back to Super Mario 64 in 1996. He also provided the voices of Mario’s twin brother Luigi, and their nemesis Wario. Twitter This content is provided by Twitter, which may be

Russia has reported an “abnormal situation” at its moon-bound spacecraft which launched earlier this month. Luna-25 is an unmanned robot lander and the country’s first mission to the lunar surface in almost 50 years. It’s targeting a historic touchdown at the moon’s south pole on Monday, but appears to have run into unspecified trouble while

ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence chatbot, shows a significant and systemic left-wing bias, UK researchers have found. According to the new study by the University of East Anglia, this includes favouring the Labour Party and President Joe Biden‘s Democrats in the US. Concerns about an inbuilt political bias in ChatGPT have been raised before, notably