After the UK, online age verification is landing in the EU
Five EU countries are set to test an age verification app to protect children online…
Fat may secretly fuel Alzheimer’s, new research finds
Obesity has long been acknowledged as a risk factor for a wide range of diseases, but a more precise link between obesity and Alzheimer’s disease has remained a mystery – until now. A first-of-its-kind study from Houston Methodist found that adipose-derived extracellular vesicles, tiny cell-to-cell messengers in the body, can signal the buildup of amyloid-β…
Touchdown! NFL and Fanatics open Carnaby Street pop-up ahead of big weekend Wembley game
Published October 3, 2025 America’s National Football League and its official retail partner Fanatics have opened an NFL Shop pop-up store in London’s Carnaby Street ahead of the the league’s first international game at Wembley Stadium on Sunday (5 October). Image: Fanatics Located at Nos 5-7, the pop-up store, which will remain in situ until…
French fashion group IKKS enters receivership
Translated by Nicola Mira Published October 3, 2025 The PhoenIKKS hasn’t spread its wings. A few months ago, French premium women’s ready-to-wear group IKKS presented a makeover for its flagship label IKKS, a brand with a rocker vibe founded in 1987. The project, initiated in early 2024 and labelled PhoenIKKS, featured a renewed brand image…
Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong
OpenAI’s August launch of its GPT-5 large language model was somewhat of a disaster. There were glitches during the livestream, with the model generating charts with obviously inaccurate numbers. In a Reddit AMA with OpenAI employees, users complained that the new model wasn’t friendly, and called for the company to restore the previous version. Most…
Endearing photos of bats show clever adaptations like long tongues
These endearing photos of bats are a far cry from how these animals are often perceived – linked to fictional evildoers, or blamed for real-life diseases, most recently covid-19, due to the viruses they harbour. But the mammals deserve far more sympathy and attention, argues ecologist Yossi Yovel, based at Tel Aviv University in Israel,…
20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call
A superb fairy-wren (left) tries to fend off a cuckoo David Ongley More than 20 species of bird around the world use a similar “whining” alarm call to warn birds like cuckoos are around. The call seems to be understood across species, and its specific use hints at how language may have originated. Cuckoos are…
Austrian lingerie house Hanro launches Atelier platform with Arthur Arbesser
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published October 3, 2025 For 141 years, Hanro has been dedicated to crafting high-quality lingerie, nightwear and loungewear. Founded in 1884 in the Swiss town of Liestal, in the canton of Basel-Landschaft (Basel-Land), by Albert Handschin and Carl Ronus — whose surnames gave the brand its name — the company…
Scientists uncover a mysterious Jurassic lizard with snake-like jaws
New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos — two very distant relatives. One of the oldest relatively complete fossil lizards yet discovered, the Jurassic specimen is described in a study, published on October 1 in…
Scientists just cracked the mystery of why cancer immunotherapy fails
In what experts are calling a paradigm-shifting landmark study, scientists from The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) report key findings about the underlying mechanisms of immune system stress response to protein misfolding, launching a new approach to cancer immunotherapy…
Despite Budget Concerns, Three-Quarters of Public Say Congress Should Extend the Enhanced ACA Tax Credits Set to Expire Next Year, Including Most Republicans and MAGA Supporters
More than three-quarters (78%) of the public say they want Congress to extend the enhanced tax credits available to people with low and moderate incomes to make the health coverage purchased through the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplace more affordable, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. That’s more than three times the share (22%) who…
