On March 28th, 2026 with 55 comments
UK startup Pulsar Fusion says it has achieved the first plasma ignition inside a nuclear fusion rocket engine prototype -- a huge step for space travel that...
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On March 21st, 2026 with 24 comments
"Juicier steaks could soon be served up after barley was given the go-ahead to become Britain's first gene-edited crop," reports the Telegraph:
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On March 8th, 2026 with 30 comments
"A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK's first long-distance robotic operation," reports the BBC, "on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400km)...
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On December 4th, 2025 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Almost three in 10 GPs in the UK are using AI tools such as ChatGPT in consultations with patients, even...
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On November 11th, 2025 with 10 comments
The UK and China today signed a new bilateral agreement on scientific collaboration [non-paywalled source], narrowing the scope of their partnership to exclude...
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On October 6th, 2025 with 86 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The heads of UK physics departments say their subject is facing a national crisis as one in four warns...
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On September 13th, 2025 with 146 comments
Surgeons in London report a surge in severe e-bike-related injuries, putting major strain on NHS trauma units. The BBC mentions a couple e-bike accidents...
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On January 28th, 2025 with 99 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Bolstered by Silicon Valley investment, scientists are making such rapid progress that lab-grown human...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 71 comments
Jersey is an island in the English channel, "a self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of northwest France," according to Wikipedia —...
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On August 9th, 2024 with 6 comments
The first therapy that uses gene-editing is to be offered on the NHS in a "revolutionary breakthrough" for patients. From a report: It will be used as a...
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On July 17th, 2024 with 43 comments
Lab-grown pet food is to hit UK shelves as Britain becomes the first country in Europe to approve cultivated meat. From a report: The Animal and Plant Health...
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On March 11th, 2024 with 47 comments
Surgeons in the United Kingdom have performed the first operation in the country using Apple's Vision Pro headset. TechSpot reports: During a recent operation...
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On November 16th, 2023 with 21 comments
Britain's drugs regulator has approved a groundbreaking treatment for two painful and debilitating lifelong blood disorders, which works by "editing" the gene...
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On September 29th, 2023 with 124 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Imagine demanding an "honest" debate over the cost of net zero in a report full of errors that even a schoolboy would be...
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On August 6th, 2023 with 40 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: This is straight out of science fiction. The technology is absolutely incredible..." says a woman who received...
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On June 11th, 2023 with 62 comments
Researchers at a London-based public research university had already discovered that for 5-10% of people with hypertension, the cause is a gene mutation in...
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On May 10th, 2023 with 33 comments
The first UK baby created with DNA from three people has been born after doctors performed a groundbreaking IVF procedure that aims to prevent children from...
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On February 18th, 2023 with 11 comments
A 19-month-old girl named Teddi recently became the first child in the U.K. outside a clinical trial to receive a new gene therapy for metachromatic...
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On January 10th, 2023 with 100 comments
Britain's attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit said...
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On January 9th, 2023 with 24 comments
Britain has conducted its first orbital space launch from UK soil on Monday evening, making it the privately-owned Virgin Orbit's first international launch....
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On January 4th, 2023 with 110 comments
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will on Wednesday announce plans to force school pupils in England to study math up to the age of 18, according to a Downing...
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On November 8th, 2022 with 34 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Draconian licensing rules and a lack of public funding are holding back the emerging field of...
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On July 29th, 2022 with 155 comments
The heat that demolished records in Britain last week, bringing temperatures as high as 104.5 degrees Fahrenheit to a country unaccustomed to scorching...
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On July 6th, 2022 with 183 comments
British scientists and academic researchers have been dealt a blow after 115 grants from a flagship EU research programme were terminated because of the...
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On April 7th, 2022 with 46 comments
A British startup pioneering a new approach to fusion energy has successfully combined atomic nuclei, in what the UK regulator described as an important step...
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On December 24th, 2021 with 131 comments
FFP stands for "filtering face piece." It is a European standard for mask efficiency, ranging from one, the lowest grade, to three, the highest. The Economist...
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On November 23rd, 2021 with 171 comments
Not a single scientist has applied to a UK government visa scheme for Nobel prize laureates and other award winners since its launch six months ago, New...
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On November 4th, 2021 with 92 comments
The first pill designed to treat symptomatic Covid has been approved by the UK medicines regulator. From a report: The tablet -- molnupiravir -- will be given...
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On October 27th, 2021 with 403 comments
AleRunner writes: The United Kingdom's COVID-19 death rate has reached its highest rate since just after the peak of the last lockdown in March. This has been...
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On August 8th, 2021 with 63 comments
The UK's leading funding agency has announced that all research it funds must be freely available for anyone to read.
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