My heartbeat quickens just a little as the cab approaches. It's a bizarre sight, one that I thought I wouldn't see in my lifetime. The cab has no driver. It stops in front of me and invites me to unlock its door with my phone - before whi...
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When Goldman Sachs entered the credit card space in 2019 with a partnership with Apple, many consumer banks were concerned that a new competitor had emerged. But just four years later, the firm is pulling back. The banking giant’s move from Wal...
The nights are drawing in, the schools are going back and a new Covid variant is circulating. It all sounds very familiar. But we are a long way from the autumn of 2020 when the coronavirus dominated our lives and there were different &qu...
Deaf scientists and sign language experts have created hundreds of new signs for British Sign Language (BSL). Expanded BSL vocabulary now includes climate-related terms like "greenhouse gas" and "carbon footprint", for...
In the eras before air-conditioning, southern China's skywells played a key role in keeping people's homes cool. Could they do it again today? Ru Ling loves spending time in skywells. To her, these courtyards of old Chinese houses are the perf...
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A visual timeline recounting the events that led up to the disappearance of the Titan submersible....
Warnings over the safety of OceanGate's Titan submersible were repeatedly dismissed by the CEO of the company, email exchanges with a leading deep sea exploration specialist show. In messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate C...
Tim Cook says Apple Vision Pro will change how people engage with tech...
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A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer has shown real promise in a major NHS trial, researchers say. The test correctly revealed two out of every three cancers among 5,000 people who had visited their GP with suspected symptom...
Did you see Penny Mordaunt carrying a huge sword at the coronation? Matt Chorley has been chatting to her about what it all means....
Paolo Sebastian Designer Gets Married...
Ambitious targets to halt the decline in nature may already be slipping out of reach, a study suggests. Scientists say the effects of climate change and habitat loss on animal populations have been underestimated. They say bringi...
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Dr Talia Cohen Solal sits down at a microscope to look closely at human brain cells grown in a petri dish. "The brain is very subtle, complex and beautiful," she says. A neuroscientist, Dr Cohen Solal is the co-founder...
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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history, took place over less than 48 hours. Customers withdrew $42 billion -- nearly a quarter of the bank's total deposits -- within a single day last week...