Georgina Rannard Climate and science correspondent Gwyndaf Hughes/BBC Scientists have developed a honeybee “superfood” that could protect the animals against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 times more baby bees that grew to adulthood. Honeybees are a vital part of food…
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions, January 20, 2025 Purpose: Initial rescissions of Executive Orders and Actions issued by President Biden. Among these orders are several that addressed LGBTQ+ equity including “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation” (Executive Order 13988) and “Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay,…
In fast-moving cloud environments like AWS, security teams face an uncomfortable truth: not every EC2 instance is being scanned, existing tools don’t work across a diverse environment that includes long-lived and ephemeral assets, and visibility is never complete. Qualys research found that over 30% of virtual machines have high or critical vulnerabilities, and with blind…
President Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025 a budget reconciliation package (formerly called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) that will make significant changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that, relative to its estimates of insurance coverage prior to the law being enacted,…
Katy Prickett BBC News, Cambridgeshire Family handouts Anne Martinez (left) and Karen Starling died the year after undergoing double lung transplants at the hospital A hospital trust has paid a “six-figure settlement package” in the case of nine patients following an outbreak of a bacterial infection linked to its water supply. Three patients died and…
Last year, filmmaker Paul Schrader—the director of Blue Collar, American Gigolo, and First Reformed, and writer of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver—issued what seemed like the last word on artificial intelligence in Hollywood filmmaking. A few days after the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two, Schrader asked his Facebook followers: “Will Dune 3…
Julie McCullough BBC News NI BBC Danny, 13, who was diagnosed with myopia when he was seven, is not able to use his NHS voucher towards treatment for the condition Children with short-sightedness are being stopped from using NHS vouchers to help pay for new treatment unlike in other parts of the UK, Northern Ireland…
Meg Elliott BBC Shropshire Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands Getty Images Kevin Braddock said the question for many was how to start A gym set up with a focus on the wellbeing of body and mind has been awarded a £14,000 lottery grant to develop its work. The Soma Space in Oswestry was established…
Key Takeaways Across a range of measures, former NFL players from the 1988 season report being in worse health and experiencing more frequent pain and higher levels of disability compared to men their age in the general population, even when controlling for race. Former players are about three times as likely as other men their…
The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard—like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman wearing a white shirt and black skirt is always livestreaming, boasting about the various features of different office printers. She has a phone in one…
