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As a psychotherapist with child and adolescent mental health services, I welcome Wes Streeting’s change of heart on his comments about the “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions, ADHD and autism (I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence, 4 December). Political point-scoring has no place in public health.By setting up this taskforce, Streeting acknowledges the complexity of the picture and that conversations must be led by research, where science and suffering can be held together.The increase in reported mental health problems and neurodevelopmental diagnoses, and services not keeping pace, reflect what many clinicians see…

AFP via Getty ImagesThe thieves reportedly walked into the library during normal opening hoursTwo armed men have stolen eight engravings by French artist Matisse and at least another five by Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari from a library in São Paulo. Brazilian officials say the thieves held up a security guard and an elderly couple who were visiting the library on Sunday, before making off with the artworks on foot.On Monday, authorities said they had found the “escape vehicle”, and several hours later one of the suspects had been arrested, authorities said.The heist comes less than two months after the art…

The 12 teams playing in the college football playoff are set. We discuss the highlights, lowlights and surprises. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: College football playoff is set, and everyone is happy about it. No drama or controversy at all. Just kidding. That is absolutely not the case. This, as a reminder, is only the second year of the current 12-team playoff format, but yet again, it has come under fire over which schools got in and which were left out. NPR sports correspondent Becky Sullivan joins me now. Becky, I thought expanding the 12 was going to solve all these problems.…

Refresh 2025-12-08T23:40:09.924Z See you later The U.S. is signing off for the night, but check back here tomorrow for the latest science news from our U.K. team. 2025-12-08T22:47:42.407Z Old oil learns a new trick Can waste cooking oil be used as an ultra-sticky glue? (Image credit: Getty Images (background) / Mahadas et al. (inset)) What should you do with the leftover cooking oil in your pot after dinner? Pour it down the drain and feed the growing fatberg under your town? Or maybe do what a team of chemists just did, and use it to make a super-sticky adhesive polymer…

Jo Lonsdale and Jane DownsNorth East and Cumbria Investigations BBC Vanessa Corby was quoted £44,000 for a connection to mains electricity Some 2,000 households are thought to be off-grid in the UK, having no access to mains power. With connections quoted at prices up to £478,000, why is it so expensive and why do people stay? On the table in Vanessa Corby’s 19th Century cottage in Northumberland’s Tyne Valley sits a plate of rocky road biscuits. “You don’t have to use the oven to make these,” she says. She is accustomed to playing a daily juggling game with her appliances…

Leonardo DiCaprio is sharing his thoughts on artificial intelligence, and while he admitted it could be an “enhancement tool,” he said it could never be considered art. The Oscar winner recently sat down with Time magazine, which named him entertainer of the year, and discussed the controversial technology. “While he mourns the fact that talented and experienced people could lose their jobs because of it,” Time‘s Stephanie Zacharek wrote, DiCaprio also noted how AI could potentially be beneficial to the industry. “It could be an enhancement tool for a young filmmaker to do something we’ve never seen before,” he said.…

The Indianapolis Colts’ 2025 season is in danger of ending on a sour note, as quarterback Daniel Jones went down with a torn Achilles in Sunday’s loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. With the division and a playoff spot on the line, the 8-5 Colts are considering bringing back the quarterback that started for them the last time Indianapolis made the postseason.According to CBS Sports NFL Insider Jonathan Jones, the Colts are hosting Philip Rivers for a workout this week to see if he could potentially join their roster. Rivers turned 44 years old on Monday, and was named a semifinalist for the…

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James GallagherHealth and science correspondentBBCA therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers in some patients, doctors report.The treatment involves precisely editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting “living drug”.The first girl to be treated, whose story we reported in 2022, is still free of the disease and now plans to become a cancer scientist.Now eight more children and two adults with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia have been treated, with almost two thirds (64%) of patients in remission.T-cells are supposed to be the…

Welcome to Variety Awards HQ! Your weekly command center for the Oscars race. It’s Dec. 8, 2025, and we’re deep in the thick of it. The past seven days have been a whirlwind of major awards season benchmarks, and if anyone thought this year’s race would follow a predictable script, they were proven wrong. The Golden Globe nominations dropped Monday, marking a notably international and genre-diverse field, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” leading all films with nine nominations. Other top contenders included “Sentimental Value,” “Sinners,” “Marty Supreme” and “The Secret Agent,” while films like “Jay Kelly” and…