The evolution of the anus may have driven the body plan of all advanced animals, including humans MattLphotography / Alamy The anus is a wildly successful innovation, but how did it evolve? A genetic analysis suggests it probably began as an opening used to release sperm that later fused with the gut – an example…
Catherine Burns Health Correspondent BBC The number of people taking ADHD medication is at a record high – and the NHS is feeling the strain as it tries to diagnose and treat the condition. Since 2015, the number of patients in England prescribed drugs to treat ADHD has nearly trebled, and BBC research suggests that…
James Melley and Alison Holt BBC News, Social Affairs Family handout Alice’s family say she had a big personality and a passion for art Warning: This article contains upsetting details and reference to suicide There didn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary when Jane Figueiredo spoke to her daughter that night on the…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Oil markets have shrugged off Israel’s threat to topple the Iranian regime, with crude exports from the Middle East so far unaffected by the escalating conflict. Financial Times analysis of ship-tracking data shows there has…
Errors tend to crop up in AI-generated content Paul Taylor/Getty Images AI chatbots from tech companies such as OpenAI and Google have been getting so-called reasoning upgrades over the past months – ideally to make them better at giving us answers we can trust, but recent testing suggests they are sometimes doing worse than previous…
Many millions of years after the big bang, a point of light arose in a dark universe. This first star began to blast out radiation, which knocked electrons off the surrounding fog of hydrogen. More stars formed, turning nearly all the neutral hydrogen atoms, which had previously absorbed some wavelengths of light, into a fully…
Hideki Matsuyama, Sepp Straka, Russell Henley and Justin Thomas are among those who have won signature tournaments this year heading into the 2025 U.S. Open. Matsuyama and Thomas are already major champions, while Straka and Henley are looking for their first at the U.S. Open 2025. Play for the 125th edition of the tournament begins…
Outdated tech stacks are more than annoying; they’re driving top developers out of the industry Developers tie their identity to tech stacks, and they’re quitting when they feel embarrassed by them Modern innovation can’t happen when devs are trapped in outdated frameworks and dead-end systems A growing number of developers are rethinking their careers due…
In April, book authors and publishers protested Meta’s use of copyrighted books to train AI Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News Billions of dollars are at stake as courts in the US and UK decide whether tech companies can legally train their artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books. Authors and publishers have filed multiple lawsuits over this…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep. Darrell Issa is blasting elected Democrat officials in his home state of California over their response to the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles after he called for a congressional investigation into the response time of local law enforcement. “These are the same people that tell…
