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Plan to feed phone data of NHS mental health patients to AI mothballed
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
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Vaping may be an effective way to quit smoking during pregnancy
E-cigarettes may be more effective than nicotine patches as a tool for quitting smoking during pregnancy, suggests a UK study
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How serious is monkeypox and what are the symptoms?
Since 7 May, the UK Health Security Agency has announced three cases of monkeypox, two of which required hospital care
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Covid-19 news: Just 7 per cent of 5 to 11-year-olds in England jabbed
A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic
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COP26: No countries have delivered on promise to improve climate plans
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
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is packed with floating life
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
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Red salamander found in Panamanian forest is a new species
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
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Emphysema missed among Black men in US due to race-adjusted lung tests
Poorly supported assumptions about typical levels of lung function among Black men in the US are leading medics to miss cases of emphysema
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Strange state of matter made into a pancake-shape for first time
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
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Which countries will do well at Eurovision 2022 – according to science
Neuroscientists measured 75 volunteers’ physiological responses while they watched eight countries’ performances to predict which songs will do well in the popular vote
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Protein gel could help treat type 1 diabetes
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
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AI suggests how to make beer with whatever ingredients you have
Brewers could create new recipes that produce beers with desired properties using AI, and it will even work if you are missing some ingredients
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Sweater includes a wireless charger to keep your gadgets topped up
A sweater containing tubes filled with a liquid metal alloy can charge up wearable electronic devices
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Why some words become funnier when paired together
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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Covid-19 news: US records over 1 million coronavirus deaths
A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic
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Launch of UK 'moonshot' ARIA research agency delayed until end of year
Neither ARIA's chief executive nor its chair have been appointed yet, though announcements are expected imminently
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Genetically engineered bacteria have learned to play tic-tac-toe
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
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Clever birds forced to find new homes as Cambridge lab faces closure
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
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Device that stores liquid sunshine could one day power your phone
A system for trapping sunlight as thermal energy within molecules and then converting it to electricity could be a portable replacement for batteries
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What's next for Event Horizon Telescope after its black hole pictures?
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
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