A report claiming the number of young people attending church in England and Wales had skyrocketed has been retracted, after the underlying data was found to be flawed. .... which we first debunked in 2025. @ucl.ac.uk tcnv.link/HrJNttq

A British take on an American classic, an absurdist video podcast, stories of displacement, a buggy nightmare and a book about an obsessive friendship.

The tour delivered everything fans have come to expect from the artist: spectacle, innovation and, above all, immersion in a gothic world.

You need to already know what a rewilded landscape should look like, in order to generate a convincing image of one.

We think the human body is fully mapped. In reality, anatomy is still incomplete, and shaped by who was studied, and who wasn’t.

NHS satisfaction has jumped at its fastest rate since 1998, but the evidence suggests politics and media narratives may matter more than actual care.

The New World screwworm parasite can infest livestock, pets and even humans.

The Sex Pistols’ trajectory eventually resembled that of many rock acts they had ostensibly sought to disrupt.

The Middle East conflict is the latest crisis to hit the industry.

Failing to recognise when one has been raped contributes to miscarriages of justice for thousands of victims each year.

The film may look like it’s about open marriage, but it just boils down to men getting into scrapes.

Young people in rural Wales don’t want to leave, but without opportunity or a voice, many feel they have no choice.

Improperly stored leftovers can be a key cause of food poisoning.

Women’s HRT patches control prostate cancer as well as standard hormone injections, but with fewer hot flushes and less bone loss, a major UK trial finds.

More than 1,000 survey respondents suggest that a lot of people might already be thinking about reducing their meat intake when they’re young.

TTP militants in Pakistan have declared themselves part of the Talibans’s emirate in Afghanistan.

Favouring restraint over spectacle, these stories offer intimate portraits of people shaped by history, disappointment, tragedy, grief and the long shadows of secrecy.

Interactive and engaging uses of technology can foster language development.

The jury in Los Angeles delivered a stinging verdict, but its long-term impact on platforms is hard to predict.

Over neatly five decades, Tehran has threatened to close the waterway whenever faced with an international crisis.

UK farmers are struggling with rising prices, as the war in Iran and the closure of the strait of Hormuz starts to affect supply.

The world could be facing an unprecedented energy shock if oil supplies remain choked.

Animals evolved to life on land in several separate waves.

Bugs abound in this terrifying story of scientific ambition.

Scott Pace, the head of the National Space Council during the first Trump administration, talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the launch of Artemis II crewed mission round the Moon.

We live in an age where our houses are more full of stuff than ever. Death cleaning is an act of love that helps makes things for those you leave behind a lot easier

Its arrival creates uncertainty over what viewers are getting, from whom, and at what cost – a confusion rooted in the shared history between HBO and Sky in the UK.

Brittin joins the broadcaster after almost two decades as a Google executive in Europe.

Politicians from all three Abrahamic religions are using scripture to back their positions.

It’s cheaper and quicker to dump waste illegally. At one location, it’s used to support collapsing land – a practice called ‘literal landfilling’.

It’s estimated there are more than 100 types of dementia.

Women report experiencing pressure to birth naturally. This is often overlooked, but can be just as harmful as pressure to have birth interventions.

More people are watching podcasts and more thought is going into visual elements of this audio format than ever.

Iran has used its ability to close the waterway many times over the past 40 years.

For 75 years, the red-and-black–striped troublemaker Dennis the Menace has been delighting children with his unapologetic mischief.

Growing evidence shows that men’s health also plays a vitally important role in pregnancy and child development.

Interest in lithium’s effects on the brain is growing, but the science behind low-dose use and supplements is far from settled.

Eating soil is still practised widely around the globe today.

For many young people, climate change education is disconnected from what they see as helpful to everyday life.

Rising temperatures and shifting winds are changing how dust travels from the Sahara to Europe.

When owners don’t trust vets, it can be disastrous for their pets.

Donald Trump’s revival of a ‘roadmap’ to peace dismissed by Iran in 2025 suggests he is looking for a way out of an increasingly unwinnable war.

Hoppers arrives 17 years after Wall-E, Pixar’s last overtly environmentally themed film.

A meningitis outbreak in Kent linked to a genetically unusual strain has raised urgent questions about why it is spreading among young people.

The BBC’s royal charter is renewed once a decade to make sure the broadcaster keeps up to date with political and technological changes.

Anonymity and secrecy are fundamental to the artist’s oeuvre.

In a clinical trial, this small-molecule drug was found to be superior to semaglutide for lowering blood sugar.

Habermas was unshakeable in his conviction that people have minds of their own and are free to hope for a better future.

Research shows how cocoa farmers in Nigeria are profiting from protecting trees alongside their farms.

Scotland showed the world how to go smoke-free. Finishing the job is proving harder.