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How a simple blood test could help detect heart damage during breast cancer treatment
Researchers are investigating whether blood tests and heart scans can detect hidden heart damage during breast cancer chemotherapy.
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Heartbreaking historical tales, unsettling scenes and shortlisted non-fiction – what to read, watch and see this week
Our picks for this week include a film where internet folklore comes to life, books to lose yourself in and a eerie landscape exhibition.
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UK Home Office to use AI age estimation on asylum seekers – how accurate is the technology?
Leading algorithms now achieve a mean absolute error of less than three years across all ages.
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How businesses with ties to Jeffrey Epstein saw norms – and even share prices – suffer
The more Epstein-connected directors a company had, no matter its size, the more likely it was to have governance problems.
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Child drownings spike during heatwaves – and it’s a serious climate justice issue
As the UK gets hotter, children will seek water to cool down. The real question is why so many have so few places to go.
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Building more renewable energy sources means rethinking land use for agriculture and conservation
Generating solar power requires a lot of land – but which land should it be? And what else can be done on that land?
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What Pennsylvania’s AI chatbot lawsuit teaches us about the psychology behind medical trust
A Carnegie Mellon researcher explains the connection between our brains and AI chatbots – and what a new Pennsylvania lawsuit reveals about the dangers of AI.
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Ebola: vaccines alone won’t stop an outbreak – here’s what else is needed
Events in eastern DRC are a reminder that Ebola outbreaks are rarely controlled by vaccines alone.
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Why sophrosyne, an ancient Greek virtue, matters more than ever in the age of AI
For the Greeks, sophrosyne was an ideal second to none. It’s just as important today, in an age of internet addiction and misinformation – but harder to come by.
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Poetry can give voice to Ireland’s unspoken abortion stories
No poetry collection on the subject of abortion has come out of Ireland.