The UK government has closed 2025 with major developments in cyber security policy, skills and industry engagement, highlighted by the introduction of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and new evidence on the economic impact of cyber attacks.
Europe has taken significant steps in its space capability and strategic resilience with the successful launch of two Galileo satellites aboard an Ariane 6 rocket.
As the NHS grapples with unprecedented demand, workforce pressures and growing elective backlogs, agentic automation is emerging as the key practical lever of choice.
Afon Technology, a medtech company in Wales, aims to transform diabetes management with its non-invasive glucose monitoring device, GlucowearTM. The company recently partnered with Sony UK Technology Centre for manufacturing, a key step towards bringing the device to market.
Although many people are choosing to have children later in life, biological fertility limitations remain unchanged. Innovations in biotechnology, such as egg quality therapeutics, womb transplants, show promise as alternatives to address reproductive longevity.
Imperial College London researchers are celebrating a huge milestone after their magnetometer instrument successfully recorded its first data in space aboard NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission.
The UK will rejoin the European Union’s Erasmus student exchange programme from 2027. This comes as part of the post-Brexit education policy and the restoration of a scheme that many young people saw as one of the biggest losses of the UK’s departure from the EU.
Prebo Barango, Co-chair of the UN Joint Action Group for the Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative at the World Health Organization (WHO), and Nicholas Banatvala, Head of the Secretariat for the UN Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, discuss the challenges and progress in the efforts to eliminate cervical cancer.
The European Commission has launched the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Staff Exchanges 2026 call, opening on 16 December 2025 with a submission deadline of 16 April 2026.
Rezina Hakim, Senior Policy Adviser for Digital at NHS Confederation, emphasises the crucial role of digital infrastructure in enhancing the effectiveness of neighbourhood health teams (NHTs) and supporting timely, coordinated, and person-centred care.
