The Apple boss has spoken out.
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What they say about big issues may be a clue to the working environment they run.
Health secretary Matt Hancock understands the importance of technology in healthcare.
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To be sustainable, the NHS needs to invest in AI and other advanced technologies.
A new podcast series from The Conversation exploring the last 50 years of space exploration and the 50 years to come.
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Avoiding certain foods risks malnutrition.
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New study finds food insecurity is negatively linked to learning outcomes in reading, English, maths, and local language vocabulary.
Ant infected and killed by entomopathogenic fungus.
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New research shows teaming fungi with ‘friendly’ viruses could create an environmentally sustaiable and efficient way to protect crops.
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But electric vehicles will pose a significant challenge over the next decade.
A female Anopheles stephensi mosquito bites a human to get a blood meal through its pointed proboscis. A droplet of blood is expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself.
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Researchers are exploring genetic forms of population control called gene drives that spread traits faster that happens naturally. The goal is to curb mosquito-borne diseases like malaria.
PrEP pills.
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Blaming the rapid increases in syphilis cases on PrEP is an oversimplification of a complex problem.
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Research shows that 80% of medical students come from just 20% of the UK’s secondary schools.
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The pioneering legislation is ten years old – and the latest science means it now does not go far enough.
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As coal continues to collapse, large new wind farms are coming online. Electricity generated in Britain is the cleanest it’s ever been.
Drones being used to find survivors after an earthquake in Ecuador in 2016.
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Stand by for drones, robots and sensors to the rescue.
A polio patient in an iron lung, 1940.
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Vaccination is not to be taken for granted.
Africa has focused on tackling undernutrition caused by low calorie diets.
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Policy choices made by Senegal, Ghana, Rwanda, Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Togo over the past 15 years have led to significant reductions in child undernourishment.
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We think of decarbonisation as a “cost”. But what about the opportunity?
New ways to prepare and test nanoengineered particles are helping us understand how they can target diseases.
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The more we learn about bio-nano science, the easier it will be to design nanoparticles that behave like we want them to.
Ten new remote cameras will soon be scouring the British night skies for meteorites.
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The country’s electricity is now the cleanest it has been in 60 years.
Remote mountain regions like the Upper Mustang in Nepal are often neglected by the rest of the world.
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Remote mountain regions are closer to the climate problem than we think, particularly in the context of safeguarding essential ecosystem services such as safe and adequate water.