Flint water crisis: How AI is finding thousands of hazardous pipes
22 August 2018
Artificial intelligence is helping to find the thousands of lead pipes responsible for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
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Life may have begun on Earth 100 million years earlier than we thought
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A new timeline of early evolution suggests life on Earth began 100 million years earlier than we thought, while meteorites were still pummelling the planet
Record measles outbreak in Europe reaches 41,000 cases
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The failure of parents to vaccinate their children has contributed to the biggest surge in measles cases Europe has seen in a decade, included 37 deaths
Genoa bridge collapse – what went wrong and are other bridges at risk?
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A large portion of motorway bridge in Genoa, Italy has collapsed killing 43 people. Here’s what we know so far about what went wrong
Genoan bridge collapse shows the importance of structural redundancy
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Signs Genoa’s Morandi motorway bridge needed repair were ignored or missed, but its initial structure didn’t have enough built-in fail-safes anyway
If the cashless dream goes sour, it will be the poorest who suffer
22 August 2018
A few central banks are considering whether to issue digital analogues of cash, but unless done carefully, it could leave the most vulnerable out of pocket
The big slowdown: 6 reasons why UK life expectancy growth is stalling
22 August 2018
Life expectancy has grown massively in recent decades, but in the UK the gains are starting to ease off. Could dementia, austerity, or something else be to blame?
Prehistoric girl had parents belonging to different human species
22 August 2018
A sliver of bone once belonged to “Denny”, the child of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father – the first such first-generation hybrid ever found
More than 350 people in Kerala have died as a result of flooding
22 August 2018
Since India’s monsoon season began in June, more than 200,000 people in the southern state of Kerala have had to abandon their homes and move to relief camps
Bacteria can be used to turn type A blood into universal type O
21 August 2018
A new family of enzymes found in the human gut has been used to quickly turn type A blood into type O - which can be used for transfusions in anyone
