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Young girls in UK drink, smoke and vape 'more than boys'
on April 24, 2024 at 4:15 pm
Young girls in the UK drink, smoke and vape more than boys, a major study suggests.
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TikTok and its possible US ban - what happens next?
on April 24, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Only two months ago Joe Biden joined the social media platform TikTok with a video captioned "lol hey guys". Now, the US president is poised to sign a bill that could ban the popular app - unless its parent company sells it.
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Meta shares take $125bn hit as Facebook owner raises spending forecasts
on April 24, 2024 at 3:46 pm
Shares in Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, have fallen sharply after the company revealed it had raised its cost forecast for the current year.
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Woman has world-first combined surgery
on April 24, 2024 at 1:48 pm
A US woman has become the first person in the world to undergo a pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted.
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'We aren't going anywhere' - TikTok vows court fight as new US law threatens to ban it
on April 24, 2024 at 4:33 am
TikTok has promised a court battle over a new law that threatens to ban it in the US - with the app's boss saying "we aren't going anywhere".
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Music legend becomes first passenger in KleinVision flying car
on April 23, 2024 at 3:09 pm
Jean-Michel Jarre is no stranger to pioneering technology - so it was fitting he has become the first passenger to take off in KleinVision's flying car.
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Take-at-home brain cancer treatment for children will soon be available on NHS
on April 23, 2024 at 2:37 pm
Children with brain tumours will soon have access to drugs they can take at home, the NHS has announced.
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NASA's longest-running spacecraft back in touch with Earth after five months of silence
on April 23, 2024 at 9:19 am
NASA's longest-running spacecraft Voyager 1 is sending information back to Earth again for the first time since November.
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Three-year-olds being 'manipulated into sexual abuse online'
on April 22, 2024 at 1:41 pm
Children as young as three are being manipulated into "disturbing" acts of sexual abuse, according to a report by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
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Will TikTok be banned in US - and could same thing happen here?
on March 13, 2024 at 8:51 am
The US Senate has voted in favour of legislation that could ban TikTok in the country - if its Chinese owners refuse to sell.