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Your gut doesn’t just respond to your brain – it helps shape your emotions. Professor of Biomolecular Medicine Jon Swann explains why.

According to the figures from the Office for National Statistics, there were 1,012,000 young people classed as Neet between January and March 2026, the equivalent to over one in eight people in that age category. It is an increase of 89,000 compared with the same period last year.

King’s College London researchers hope the chip will help answer previously unanswerable questions about the most important natural processes.

When Ellie Colton was 14, she thought she was dying. But doctors told her it was ‘just bad periods’. After years of debilitating pain she was finally diagnosed with endometriosis, a gynaecological condition that affects around 1 in 10 women. Her story is not uncommon – it takes an average of 8-9 years to be diagnosed in the UK.Ellie explores why it takes so long to be diagnosed with ‘endo’, and meets a woman who had a perfectly healthy appendix removed because she was misdiagnosed. She also meets a scientist working to devise a simple diagnostic test that could help…

A household using a typical amount of energy will pay £221 a year more, under the regulator’s new price cap.

Chompie, one of the world’s tops ethical hackers, says AI like Claude Mythos will make it harder for people like her to compete.

Most cases are in the Northern Territory with some also in Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland.

More people are taking second jobs as rising costs and insecure work reshape how we earn a living.

“Later today, I, and other families who have lost children to social media, will tell the prime minister directly: social media is a product, and like any other faulty product causing the deaths of children, it should be restricted until the companies responsible have fixed it and proven it is safe,” Roome said.

Dawn French discusses loneliness, particularly among older women, on Woman’s Hour.