A £1.65 million treatment has been approved for use for some NHS patients, offering some with an inherited blood disorder hope of a cure. Campaigners reacted with joy as health officials approved a gene-editing therapy for certain children and adults with severe sickle cell disorder.

In his Inaugural Address, Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom, an achievement credited by many to pioneering physicist Ernest Rutherford of New Zealand.

An early love of construction toys led the Scottish chemist to thread molecules together, opening up a new field of chemistry.

Man walked 250,000 steps in a week to see what it would do to his body

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