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The long read: Cochlear implantation is controversial in ways that parallel medical situations - such as artificial limbs and cornea transplants - are not. Why does this issue provoke such fierce debate?

Study suggests rate of disease among young adults is rising for first time and England has one of the fastest increases ...

UK's AI research body's 'ability to be a serious scientific organisation' is in danger, 90 staff tell trustees ...

Researchers find that varying stiffness and speeds at which skin grows lead to 'mechanical' formation of inward folds ...

As Apple Intelligence rollout continues, linguists say tools to rewrite texts and emails add 'extra layer of inauthenticity'

Company and investors to buy up to $1.25bn of stock at $185 a share, up from $112 a few months ago ...

The technology, which enables a gene to spread itself through a population, might prove a significant tool for disease prevention ...

The disease killed 600,000 people amid 263m cases globally in 2023, says WHO, calling for nations to address funding shortfall ...

UN health body says patients could have more than one disease as unidentified illness continues to cause alarm ...

I tried Sora, OpenAI's new tool, and it just left me sad. Are we ready for a world in which we can never tell what is real, asks journalist Victoria Turk ...