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An RAF helicopter drops bags of aggregate to shore up the dam and divert water

The world's ageing dams are not built for ever more extreme weather

2 August 2019

A town in the UK has been evacuated after extreme rains eroded a dam’s spillway. It is just one of many ageing dams worldwide not designed for increasingly extreme weather

A person on her phone

It's too soon to tell if DeepMind's medical AI will save any lives

31 July 2019

A DeepMind AI can predict whether someone will get acute kidney injury 48 hours before it occurs, but it's too soon to tell if the tech will actually make a difference

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