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Hospital staff talk to each other while walking down a corridor

The NHS is using a chatbot to do tedious corporate team-building

18 September 2017

The UK's National Health Service and 10 big firms are experimenting with CoachBot, which replaces "coaching and development" staff with an automated chatbot
Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood

Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood

14 September 2017

Micromachine with two feet and two arms could pick up and deliver drugs in the bloodstream or build chemical compounds, one tiny step at a time
close-up image of folio 16v

History of zero pushed back 500 years by ancient Indian text

14 September 2017

Carbon dating has revealed that the Bakshali manuscript housed in Oxford contains the earliest known version of our modern zero symbol -- and it is nearly 2000 years old

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