Women less likely to receive CPR
29 May 2019
An analysis of more than 5700 cardiac arrests in the Netherlands has found that only 68 per cent of women received a resuscitation attempt from a bystander
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AI can diagnose childhood illnesses better than some doctors
11 February 2019
Artificial intelligence has now been used to sort through medical history, lab tests, and symptoms and find a diagnosis for common and life-threatening paediatric diseases
There’s a weird new type of magnet that shouldn't be able to exist
7 February 2019
Take a form of uranium that shouldn’t be magnetic, mix it with antimony and cool it down, and you get a new kind of magnet that could speed up computers
Recommended gap between smear tests could increase thanks to HPV test
6 February 2019
A more sensitive way of screening for cervical cancer will be introduced in the UK this year, and could allow women to safely wait longer between tests
Mouse toes partially regrown after amputation thanks to two proteins
5 February 2019
Two proteins could help regenerate limbs. When applied to amputated toes, the proteins encouraged both bone and joint growth in mice
Australia has been home to hopping kangaroos for 20 million years
6 February 2019
It was thought that kangaroos evolved to hop when Australia’s climate dried out, but it now seems their relatives were hopping much earlier
Just one tiny piece of plastic may be enough to kill a baby turtle
19 September 2018
Post-mortems show that some sea turtles die from eating just one fragment of plastic – and it's post-hatchlings that seem to be particularly vulnerable
Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star
21 November 2018
After years of searching, a planet several times larger than Earth has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star – the closest star to Earth after the Alpha Centauri system
CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons
5 September 2018
We've never accelerated electrons to high enough energies to smash them apart before, but a new machine at the home of the Large Hadron Collider is a step towards doing so
Mechanical neural network could enable smart aircraft wings that morph
19 October 2022
A neural network forms the basis of many modern artificial intelligence set-ups, and now the concept has been applied to a purely mechanical calculating machine