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A porn company has just been handed the largest fine ever issued under the Online Safety Act. 8579 LLC, a pornography provider with a clutch of popular sites, was fined a record £1.35m for not having age checks in place, plus £50,000 for failing to respond to an information request. Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator

A clinical trial into puberty blockers has been paused after the medicines regulator raised “new concerns directly related to the wellbeing of children”, the government said. It comes after campaigners, including Harry Potter author JK Rowling, launched legal action against the government over the trial, which Ms Rowling described as “an unethical experiment on children

A new medical tampon may be able to detect the earliest signs of ovarian cancer, scientists have said. Researchers in Southampton are to carry out a trial of the new device, which identifies biological signals in vaginal fluid. There are around 7,600 new cases of ovarian cancer in the UK each year. Many of them

NASA is planning to send astronauts to the moon next month for the first time in more than half a century.  The Artemis ⁠II mission, which aims to send four crew members to orbit around the moon and then return home, could launch as early as 6 March, it was announced on Friday. Jared Isaacman,

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two NASA astronauts “stranded” in space, came close to catastrophe because their spacecraft wasn’t ready to fly, according to a scathing report by the space agency. The investigation classed the incident as a life-threatening “Type A mishap”, putting it on a par with the two fatal Space Shuttle disasters

Donald Trump has said he will direct the Pentagon and other US agencies to release “government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life”. In a post on Truth Social, the US president claimed his decision was “based on the tremendous interest shown” and called the matter “extremely interesting and important”. He wrote: “Based on the