Health data breaches and scientific breakthroughs dominate today's health and medicine news, with cybersecurity concerns alongside space and animal research discoveries.

The confidential health records of half a million British volunteers from the UK Biobank project have been offered for sale on a Chinese website, raising serious privacy concerns about medical data protection.

NASA's Curiosity rover has detected organic molecules on Mars, including chemical building blocks of life that may have been preserved for 3.5 billion years, though scientists cannot yet confirm if they indicate past life.

Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding volcanic lightning, discovering that fine carbon coating on silica particles in volcanic updraughts causes the electrical charges that create spectacular lightning displays.

Gibraltar's macaque monkeys have learned to eat soil to counteract stomach problems caused by consuming salty and sugary tourist snacks, demonstrating behavioral adaptation to human food sources.

The number of commercial child sexual abuse websites has doubled, with criminal gangs increasingly profiting from online exploitation as content spreads across social media platforms.

Researchers studying the 2011 Japan tsunami found that mud-rich coastlines made the disaster far more destructive, as waves changed properties while traveling over mud-rich rice paddies and exerted greater force.