Lidia Thorpe says Labor and Coalition back hearings while ‘sports organisations need to be transparent about evidence that informs concussion policies’Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA federal parliamentary committee will examine concussion and repeated head trauma in contact sports, with the...

Kate Bingham raises concerns to committee of MPs as head of UKHSA suggests Covid could be on rise againUK politics live – latest news updatesThe UK is not in a significantly better place to deal with a new pandemic, the former vaccine taskforce chief has said, as a leading public health expert suggested Covid infections may be on the rise again.Dame Kate Bingham, the managing partner at the life...

Dating back more than 65m years, specimen’s mobile palate challenges understanding of avian evolutionFossil experts have cooked the goose of a key tenet in avian evolution after finding a premodern bird from more than 65m years ago that could move its beak like modern fowl.The toothy animal was discovered in the 1990s by an amateur fossil collector at a quarry in Belgium and dates to about 66.7m...

Filing is latest action against Elon Musk’s rocket venture as Twitter and Tesla are also roiled by lawsuitsSpaceX has become the subject of another worker dispute just weeks after unfair labor complaints were filed against the company.A former engineer at SpaceX, the Elon Musk-run rocket company, filed an age discrimination complaint against the firm with the state of Washington, alleging he was...

Patients unlikely to receive lecanemab before 2026 and health service does not yet have necessary infrastructureDrug slows cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients, study revealsA reorganisation of NHS dementia care is needed to ensure UK patients can receive a groundbreaking drug that slows the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, doctors say.Detailed results from a clinical trial of...

Recent lecanemab trials are reason for hope. But the NHS and other health services may struggle to deliver these new treatmentsIt is 20 years since the last drug for Alzheimer’s was licensed in the UK. Since then, huge advances have been made in our understanding of the disease’s causes. Better diagnostic tests are available, and we may now be on the cusp of new treatments that could have an...

Living under China’s policy to suppress Covid cases means days are filled with health codes, the constant threat of shutdowns and moments of hopeLife in Beijing these days is spent either in lockdown or preparing for lockdown. Stockpiling food at home, just in case, has become the new norm. Meeting friends is hard because every few weeks one of us is sealed inside their home for days. Carrying...

With digital bioacoustics, scientists can eavesdrop on the natural world – and they’re learning some astonishing thingsScientists have recently made some remarkable discoveries about non-human sounds. With the aid of digital bioacoustics – tiny, portable digital recorders similar to those found in your smartphone – researchers are documenting the universal importance of sound to life on...

A submersible off the coast of Western Australia chanced upon an 45-metre-long deep-sea siphonophore arranged in a feeding spiral, trailing its deadly tentaclesIn 2020, about 600 metres (2,000ft) down in an underwater canyon off the coast of Western Australia, scientists encountered a long gelatinous creature suspended in a giant spiral. “It was like a rope on the horizon. You couldn’t miss...