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Two people have been arrested in Essex for allegedly illegally dumping waste at six different illegal spots across England, the Environment Agency has said. The pair are suspected of trashing spots across Warwickshire, Derbyshire and Buckinghamshire, as the country grapples with a proliferating black market in illegal waste, dubbed the “new narcotics”. Earlier this week, […]

Autism rates are ‘more or less equal for men and women’, according to a study which challenges previous assumptions about its prevalence. While the neurological and developmental ⁠condition is known to be more common in young boys, Swedish researchers found there was a big rise in diagnoses among adolescent girls. And by the age of

Investigators have raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. French prosecutors said they were widening their probe into the platform and had summoned its billionaire owner for questioning. The investigation, launched last month, centres on allegations of algorithm abuse and fraudulent data extractions. It has now been

Houston has a problem. Once again, NASA‘s new mega-rocket has suffered a significant leak of explosive hydrogen propellant during a countdown rehearsal. It means plans to launch four astronauts on a mission around the moon have been delayed until March. Lift-off had been scheduled for as soon as Sunday. But the space agency says the