Sarah Knapton

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sarah Knapton

"It's a very emotional thing," said Prof Freddie Hamdy of the University of Oxford, who has spent years researching the benefits of prostate cancer screening. "You have celebrities who come up, and the obvious example is Chris Hoy, who was diagnosed at the early age of 48 with a disease which is seemingly not curable, and that triggers a lot of emotions, 'We must find all these cancers'.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sarah Knapton

Malta is one of the most remote islands in the Mediterranean, lying around 62 miles off the coast of Sicily, to which it had previously been connected by a hypothesised land bridge that was submerged around 13,000 years ago. It had been assumed that Malta was too small and remote to support human populations before the dawn of farming, which also brought the development of more advanced seafaring technologies.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sarah Knapton

Sarah KnaptonWed, April 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM UTC3 min readThe true face of the tiny primate “Lucy”, who proved that our early human relatives walked on two legs 3 million years ago, has been revealed. The 3.5ft skeleton, named after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, was discovered in Ethiopia by Donald Johanson, an American palaeoanthropologist, in 1975.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sarah Knapton

"Seeing Lucy's face is like glimpsing at a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution," said Mr Moraes. "The reconstruction, blending science and art, allows us to imagine what she might have looked like 3.2 million years ago, enriching both public and scientific understanding of our ancestors.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sarah Knapton

Hearing loss raises the risk of heart failure by nearly a third, a study suggests. Data from the UK Biobank, a long-running research project on the health of Britons, found those who struggled to hear a bit had a 15 per cent increased risk of heart failure, while those with poor hearing had a 28 per cent higher chance. Even wearing a hearing aid failed to lower the risk substantially, with people still 26 per cent more likely to have heart problems.