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Meet the company leveraging AI-backed physics tools for drug discovery

The start-up aims to use AI to drastically reduce the time and money it takes to develop new drugs.

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Teens with high screen time more likely to be depressed, sleep poorly

Teenagers in Sweden tend to use their devices for far longer than national health guidelines recommend.

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Baby with rare disorder treated with personalised gene-editing therapy

The child will need to be monitored throughout his life, but researchers said the treatment’s success indicates that other patients could someday benefit from the approach.

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YouTube launches new AI-powered feature to place ads at ‘peak’ moments

The initiative is YouTube’s latest foray into using AI to maximise advertising potential.

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Girls who eat healthier may get their periods later, study finds

Early menstruation has been linked to health issues later in life, making the time around puberty important for long-term well-being, researchers said.

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How Ukraine's medevac programme helped save a severely burned boy

Coordinated by Ukraine's Ministry of Health with the support of the WHO and EU states, the programme has helped over 5,000 patients since its launch.

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Why is Meta's new 'optional' AI tool causing such a stir?

Some users are irritated at the bright blue and pinkish circle now omnipresent in Meta's applications, primarily because of data protection issues.

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How long could it take a hacker to crack a password in 2025?

An eight-character-long password made of numbers can be cracked instantly, according to the IT firm Hive Systems.

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Warnings amid rise in child abuse content hosted in EU countries

A rise in child sex abuse material has been linked to websites hosted in EU countries, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).

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France probes pscychological impact of TikTok use with national survey

The consultation is part of a parliamentary commission of inquiry probing the platform and its impacts on young users in particular.

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What is double pneumonia and how did it impact Pope Francis' health?

Pope Francis, who had part of his lung removed as a young man, recently spent several weeks hospital due to a respiratory infection.

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Will the world's blood supply be the next casualty of climate change?

Donors would be impacted by blood-borne diseases and extreme weather, while demand for blood could surge, a new study has found.

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The UK’s new ‘microwave weapon’ takes down drones. Here’s how it works

A new weapon successfully took down over a hundred drones using radio frequency in UK tests.

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Could this simple action help remove harmful microplastics from water?

Boiling water before drinking it could be "a viable long-term strategy" for reducing global exposure to microplastics, researchers said.

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New antibiotics discovery could turn tide against drug-resistant bugs

Lariocidin was efficient against strains of E. coli, including drug-resistant ones, according to the new study.

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Is your workplace coffee machine hurting your health?

Samples taken by a Swedish team of researchers show how daily coffee drinkers may be at risk of higher cholesterol levels and cardiovascular disease.

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Scientists find drug that makes human blood poisonous to mosquitos

"One way to stop the spread of diseases transmitted by insects is to make the blood of animals and humans toxic," according to researchers.

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This company has a cunning plan to stop AI bots from stealing content

"We wanted to create a new way to thwart these unwanted bots, without letting them know," Cloudfare said of its "honeypot" for web crawlers.

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How common herb rosemary could be used to fight Alzheimer’s

The mice tested with the drug showed cognitive improvement and less harmful protein build-ups in the brain.

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Experimental drug may slow dementia onset for rare form of Alzheimer’s

The drug targets amyloid plaques that build up in the brain years before symptoms appear.

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