Prolonged grief disorder affects around 1 in 20 people, and we're starting to understand the neuroscience behind it For most people, the intense sting of grief eases with time. For some, however, persistent and painful grief remains, developing into prolonged grief disorder. A new review of the condition, which affects around 5 per cent of bereaved people, sheds light on how it develops. This could help doctors predict which recently bereaved people will benefit from extra support. The decision to include prolonged grief disorder (PGD) in the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual in 2022 sparked intense debate over whether it was pathologising a normal human response to loss and imposing an arbitrary timeline on what constitutes "normal" grief.

Back in 2012, Canadian freelance writer Joshua Barbeau tragically lost his fiancée, Jessica, when she succumbed to a rare liver disease. Eight years later and still struggling with his grief, Barbeau came across a curious website called Project December, billed as'the world's most super computer'. Powered by an early version of OpenAI's ChatGPT, for just 5, Project December let him recreate an AI version of Jessica if he typed in details of what she had been like. After typing'Jessica?', the AI version of his deceased girlfriend told him: 'I miss you every single day' and'I am the girl that you are madly in love with.' Speaking on a new BBC documentary'Storyville: Eternal You', Barbeau, now 36, found the eerie tech'uncannily' similar to his loved one. He says: 'It really felt like a gift, like a weight had been lifted that I had been carrying for a long time.'

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display