X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less painful
Mammograms can be painful, but they may not need to be Daria Artemenko/Alamy Getting an…
Oracle Identity Manager Exploit Observation from September (CVE-2025-61757)
Searchlight Cyber today released a blog detailing CVE-2025-61757, a vulnerability they reported to Oracle. Oracle released a patch for the vulnerability as part of its October Critical Patch Update, which was released on October 21st. Based on Searchlight Cyber’s blog, the issue is pretty trivial to exploit: All URLs that end in “.wadl” are exempt…
BBC Inside Science – What’s in the wording of the COP 30 negotiations?
Available for 34 days COP 30 delegates from around the globe are about to depart the Amazon city of Belem in Brazil. But not before some very important documents are drawn up. Camilla Born, former advisor to Cop 26 president Alok Sharma speaks to Tom Whipple about the scientific significance of the language negotiators choose…
Lockdown could have been avoided and other key findings
Nick Triggle, Jim Reed, Dom Hughes and Michelle RobertsBBC News Getty Images The long-awaited independent report into how well or badly the government handled the Covid pandemic has been published. Chairwoman of the inquiry, former judge Baroness Hallett, said the UK’s response could be summarised as “too little, too late”. The report looks at whether…
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
Alison Holt,Social affairs editor, Ewan Somerville and Kate Whannel,Political reporter Getty Images Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance or behaviour, new guidance seen by the BBC has said. A code of practice, produced by the equalities watchdog and awaiting ministerial approval, says it…
How Care Access achieved 86% data processing cost reductions and 66% faster data processing with Amazon Bedrock prompt caching
This post is co-written with Michelle Tat, Christopher Penrose, Rasmus Buchmann, and Daniel Hansen from Care Access. Organizations operating in the healthcare industry face a critical challenge as they process large volumes of medical records and face a critical challenge: how to efficiently analyze thousands of medical records daily while maintaining strict security and compliance…
Holiday shoppers boost spending as consumer resilience persists
By Bloomberg Published November 20, 2025 Americans are planning to spend more this holiday season than last year, according to credit reporting firm TransUnion. A shopper carries shopping bags as she walks on a street in Paris, France, June 10, 2022 – Reuters In a sign of consumer resilience, roughly 57% of US shoppers surveyed…
Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day ‘space walk’
This moss grew from a spore exposed to space for nine months Tomomichi Fujita On 4 March 2022, astronauts locked 20,000 moss spores outside the International Space Station and left them exposed to the rigours of space for 283 days. They then rescued the spores and returned them to Earth on a SpaceX capsule so…
Ambulance crews ‘faced crucial delays’ putting on PPE in Covid
Jim ReedHealth reporter, Covid inquiry Mark Tilley Mark Tilley worked as an ambulance technician in south-east England through the first two waves of the pandemic Ambulance crews faced crucial delays trying to save dying patients in the pandemic because of the time it took to put on protective equipment, the Covid inquiry has been told….
Nearly 47 million Americans live near hidden fossil fuel sites
Fossil fuels pollute the air when they are extracted and when they are burned, but the steps between those two points involve far more than familiar scenes of drilling equipment and smoke-filled power plants. These visible operations represent only the beginning and end of a five-stage process that brings fossil fuels from the ground to…
Warning tax rises could force care homes to close
Alison Holt,Social affairs editor and Becky Morton,Political reporter Getty Images The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to exempt social care from the rise in National Insurance. The party said the chancellor had provided extra funding for the NHS and other public sector organisations to cover the cost of the tax rise – but…
