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Category: Science
Artificial pancreas is “life-changing” for children wit...
An app that wirelessly links to an implanted glucose sensor and insulin pump can automatically regulate blood sugar levels in chil...
Antibiotic resistance killed more people than malaria o...
About 1.3 million deaths were directly caused by drug-resistant bacterial infections in 2019, a global study estimates
Gene-edited food 5 years from sale in UK, says governme...
The UK passed a law to help researchers do trials of gene-edited crops, and the chief scientist at the UK's Department for Food, R...
Pristine coral reef discovered in deep water off the co...
A spectacular coral reef has been found between 35 and 70 metres below sea level near Tahiti, and it seems to be in good health de...
Fix the Planet newsletter: The weird and wonderful riva...
As Scotland announces the building of 17 enormous wind farms off its coast, we look at the novel solutions for storing the electri...
Genetically modified pig kidneys transplanted into a br...
In an experiment paving the way for clinical trials, two pig kidneys produced urine for 77 hours after transplantation into the bo...
Covid-19 news: Joint flu and covid-19 vaccine could be ...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
AI learns to create images from text descriptions by de...
A fresh approach to generating images based on text descriptions with AI, called a diffusion model, effectively un-destroys new im...
Phage therapies for superbug infections are being teste...
Bacteria-killing viruses can be used to treat antibiotic-resistant superbugs, and the approach has been tried in more than 100 peo...
Living with covid: How can the pandemic end and what wi...
For some, the phrase “living with covid” means removing all restrictions. But the actions we take now will determine how many more...
First fully programmable quantum computer based on neut...
Most quantum computers are based on superconductors or trapped ions, but an alternative approach using ordinary atoms may have adv...
Will 5G mobile networks in the US really interfere with...
AT&T and Verizon plan to turn on 5G networks across the US on 19 January, but airline bosses warn that potential interference ...