Health
A £2,400-a-year fitness chain shut every studio by email, and instructors found out the same way
Common Bond, which runs Barrecore, Boom Cycle and Kobox, told customers all its London studios were closed "until further notice"…
Tanmay Das
World
A Texas farmer lost a cabbage crop to hail in one night. His land now earns from the sun as well
Steve Cargil’s family have farmed near Uvalde since 1953. After a hailstorm destroyed months of work overnight, his son questioned whether…
Health
The Dutch word for labia translates as "shame lips". A dictionary has just added an alternative
Dikke van Dale will add a neutral word for the labia beside the traditional one. Campaigners say a word that carries shame ends up on…
World
A 100MW data centre holds about 400 tonnes of copper. The industry is now betting on light instead
About 400 tonnes of copper goes into a typical 100MW facility, 20 of it in the wiring between servers. Replacing that wiring with light is…
Health
Eyes that cannot close: surgeons warn about cheap eyelid surgery bought abroad
Oculoplastic surgeons say a concerning number of patients are returning from cheap blepharoplasty abroad with open wounds and eyelids that…
Health
A sleep expert’s advice to new students: forget the early night, fix the morning
Late nights, noisy flatmates and a strange new bed. A psychotherapist who specialises in student sleep says forcing an early night does not…
Health
Children as young as 13 are losing bladder function to ketamine, and the first NHS clinic for it has had 100 referrals
Doctors at Alder Hey describe patients "peeing a jellyfish" — shedding the bladder’s protective lining. Prolonged damage can mean…
Technology
A 1.2-metre robot sailboat just crossed the Atlantic with no one aboard, 129 days and 5,400 km after leaving Gran Canaria. Nobody had managed it in 16 years of trying
Plymouth start-up Oshen's solar-powered C-Star beat the US Navy, the French Navy and 30 other teams to the Microtransat Challenge. Its day…
Health
A phone number on the wall of every A&E in England, because a family’s concerns were not listened to
Martha Mills died at 13 of sepsis after her parents’ worries were dismissed. The rule named after her lets patients and families trigger an…
World
Spain’s biggest recorded wildfire burned 80,000 hectares. One farmer lost two-thirds of his land and 20 cows
Juan Ángel Izquierdo’s family have farmed the Gredos mountains for 200 years. July’s fire merged with two others, burned around 80,000…
Health
The Kent meningitis bacterium borrowed genes from harmless neighbours — and that is what made it deadly
UKHSA and Oxford sequenced the bacterium behind Britain’s worst MenB outbreak. It had picked up genetic material from bugs that normally…
Technology
A quantum computer just proved two geometry theorems. Why that is bigger than it sounds, and what it is not
Researchers at Zhejiang and Tsinghua ran Wu's 1978 theorem-proving method on a 121-qubit processor and got two correct proofs, the first…