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Scientists to use AI to analyse 1.6m brain scans to develop tool predicting dementia risk

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Researchers will use artificial intelligence to match image data of patients from Scotland with linked health records Scientists are to analyse more than a million brain scans using artificial intelligence with the aim of developing a tool to predict a person’s risk of dementia. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Dundee will examine CT and MRI scans of patients from

Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr review – our planet: a living, breathing, mutating miracle

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The US-based journalist has fashioned a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of how everything from microbes to mammoths transformed our world into a living organism Why read popular science? The best books manage to entertain, educate, astonish and even galvanise the reader, bringing an appreciation of new realms of knowledge. They expand awareness, not just of the beauty and complexity of t

What is the evolutionary purpose of blushing?

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Peter Walls, Liverpool Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com . A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading...

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Bacteria helping to extract rare metals from old batteries in boost for green tech

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Team at University of Edinburgh using microbes to recycle lithium, cobalt and other expensive minerals Scientists have formed an unusual new alliance in their fight against climate change . They are using bacteria to help them extract rare metals vital in the development of green technology. Without the help of these microbes, we could run out of raw materials to build turbines, electric cars and

I love Springsteen and my daughter is a huge Swiftie – and that’s created a bridge between us

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How our mutual love of music – and interest in each other’s tastes – brought my daughter Laila and me closer together It is a cloudy Saturday evening in Edinburgh in early June and I am in a rugby stadium surrounded by young women who are wearing glitter and homemade friendship bracelets. Pink stetsons and shiny bodysuits abound, middle-aged men in TK Maxx less so. This is not my tribe – I am her

Africa to finally receive first batch of vaccines for deadly mpox virus

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The continent will belatedly get 10,000 shots amid criticism of delays to the process caused by WHO red tape Africa’s first batch of mpox vaccines will this week finally reach the continent , weeks after they have been made available in other parts of the world. The 10,000 shots, donated by the US, will be used to tackle a dangerous new variant of the virus, formerly known as monkeypox, after a 2

Britain could be a sci-tech superpower – if the Treasury stopped holding it back | Will Hutton

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The UK has the research base, the startups, the venture capitalists, but its presence in the global market is pitiful. The chancellor must step in Just how bad is the economy? The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, warns that hard choices on tax, spending and borrowing need to be made on 30 October when she delivers the first Labour budget since 2010, so poor is the economic legacy. Phooey, respond those

‘Real hope’ for cystic fibrosis patients as NHS rolls out life-changing drug

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Campaigners hail decision to give thousands of sufferers access to new set of drugs known as ‘modulators’ Alix Oxlade was 30 weeks into her pregnancy when scans showed fluid building up in the stomach and bowels of her unborn son, Rufus. The cause was unclear, though there was an early suspect: cystic fibrosis. One of the most common inherited illnesses in the west, cystic fibrosis is caused by a

Nasa says astronauts stuck in orbit to return with SpaceX crew in February, not on Boeing Starliner

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Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams and Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since 6 June Nasa has decided that the two astronauts currently stuck on the International Space Station will return next February on a SpaceX-crewed Dragon flight where two seats have been made available for Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore. Space agency officials said there was “too muc

Riots, shootings, sadism… blame it on the boredom of social media | Martha Gill

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It’s a dangerous emotion that makes us crave drama, and one exacerbated by the modern world ‘The age of boredom… has now passed”. So begins On Boredom , a 2021 essay collectionthat claims the likes of TikTok and YouTube have driven it to extinction. These days, “the time needed to be bored is no longer available”. This view, that boredom has been blotted out, is widely held – so much so that psyc

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‘The liberating truth is: they’re probably not thinking about you’: Oliver Burkeman on how to quit people-pleasing

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In an extract from his new book on making the most of our finite time on Earth, the writer argues that worrying about how friends and colleagues are feeling is an agonising way to live “Great news! I found the cure for my anxiety!!” the author Sarah Gailey once announced on social media. “All I need is for everyone I know to tell me definitively that they aren’t mad at me, once every 15 seconds,

Never take health tips from world’s oldest people, say scientists

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Scientists still trying to work out why some people live beyond 100, but agree it is best to avoid taking advice from centenarians themselves The death of the world’s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, at the age of 117 might cause many to ponder the secrets of an exceptionally long life, but scientists say it could be best to avoid taking advice on longevity from centenarians themselves. Accor

Actor Gillian Anderson on female desire, singer Chappell Roan’s slow and steady rise, and how to stop people-pleasing – podcast

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Actor Gillian Anderson on prudes, powerful women, and collecting secret fantasies; How singer-songwriter Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom; and Oliver Burkeman tells you how to stop being such a people-pleaser. Continue reading...

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