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An AI was designed to predict when people are at risk of having a mental health crisis, based on their health records, but plans to extend the project with mobile phone data seem to have been scrapped

E-cigarettes may be more effective than nicotine patches as a tool for quitting smoking during pregnancy, suggests a UK study

Since 7 May, the UK Health Security Agency has announced three cases of monkeypox, two of which required hospital care

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In Glasgow, 196 countries promised to "revisit and strengthen" their plans for curbing emissions, but there is little sign of this happening before the next talks in November

Beautiful floating organisms called neuston are gathered up by the same ocean currents as plastic pollution, and they may be endangered by clean-up efforts

The new-to-science Chiriquí fire salamander was found by a Panamanian team that has been investigating one of the least-explored regions of Central America

Poorly supported assumptions about typical levels of lung function among Black men in the US are leading medics to miss cases of emphysema

A supersolid is an exotic state of matter that behaves like both a solid and a fluid. It was first predicted 60 years ago, but has only recently been created in the lab

Neuroscientists measured 75 volunteers’ physiological responses while they watched eight countries’ performances to predict which songs will do well in the popular vote

The gel, which was implanted alongside a pancreatic cell transplant in monkeys with type 1 diabetes, releases a protein that kills overactive immune cells, preventing the pancreatic cells from being rejected

Brewers could create new recipes that produce beers with desired properties using AI, and it will even work if you are missing some ingredients

A sweater containing tubes filled with a liquid metal alloy can charge up wearable electronic devices

A study looking at more than 55,000 pairs of words has found why word pairings like "funk fungus" and "gnome bone" seem to be more amusing than their constituent parts

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Neither ARIA's chief executive nor its chair have been appointed yet, though announcements are expected imminently

E. coli bacteria modified to act like electronic components called memristors can be set up to act as a simple neural network and trained to play noughts and crosses

A seminal research lab that has revolutionised our understanding of the minds of rooks and jays is set to be closed down as funding dries up

A system for trapping sunlight as thermal energy within molecules and then converting it to electricity could be a portable replacement for batteries

Now that the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released its image of the Milky Way's black hole, the team is focusing on making movies of the two photographed black holes and finding other distant black holes large enough to study