Report says 100m screenings lost because of pandemic, which had ‘chilling effect’ on researchExperts have warned that Europe faces a “cancer epidemic” unless urgent action is taken to boost treatment and research, after an estimated 1m diagnoses were missed during the pandemic.The impact of Covid-19 and the focus on it has exposed “weaknesses” in cancer health systems and in the cancer...

The fungi are common in homes, with babies and young children most at risk from potential dangersDeath of two-year-old from mould in flat a ‘defining moment’, says coronerMould is very common in homes. It can grow on tiles, fabrics, carpets, wood and other materials when moisture is present. Key spots are around window frames, in bathrooms, anywhere condensation forms, and where leaks and...

The Vascones, an Iron Age tribe from whose language modern Basque is thought to descend, were previously viewed as largely illiterateMore than 2,000 years after it was probably hung from the door of a mud-brick house in northern Spain to bring luck, a flat, lifesize bronze hand engraved with dozens of strange symbols could help scholars trace the development of one of the world’s most mysterious...

Global figures suggest sperm concentration has halved in 40 years – and the rate of decline is acceleratingHumans could face a reproductive crisis if action is not taken to tackle a drop in sperm count, researchers have warned after finding the rate of decline is accelerating.A study published in the journal Human Reproduction Update, based on 153 estimates from men who were probably unaware of...

The Amazon Prime movie, aided by Steven Spielberg, tells the story of a Wall-E-esque rover 15-year mission to MarsOpportunity is quite a character. I’m talking about the star of Ryan White’s crowd-pleasing, Oscar-tipped documentary Good Night Oppy: a Nasa-engineered rover sent on a 90-day mission to Mars in 2003 that surprisingly stretched to 15 years.Opportunity, or Oppy as some...