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mental health

An AI can now tell how malnourished a child is just from a photo

Technology

An AI can now tell how malnourished a child is just from a photo

A company in Kenya has devised a system that uses artificial intelligence to detect a child’s level of malnutrition from a photo, without bulky equipment or examinations

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Plastic in Space

Earth

Salvaged plastics imitate bizarre and beautiful sea life

Regulars

How tech bugs could be killing thousands in our hospitals

Health

How tech bugs could be killing thousands in our hospitals

Features

Lady refusing a glass of wine

Health

Let’s all heed the health benefits of a month without alcohol

Leader

Whale swimming past plastic

Earth

Plastic waste is a problem – but some solutions are even worse

Leader

plastic bags

Earth

Fixing planet plastic: How we'll really solve our waste problem

Features

Driving past a lorry

Humans

Let’s hear it for psychology, a better than average science

Leader

Self-repairing organs could save your life in a heartbeat

Health

Self-repairing organs could save your life in a heartbeat

Features

Hope for herpes vaccine after it wipes out virus in monkeys

Health

Hope for herpes vaccine after it wipes out virus in monkeys

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photo of Mark O'Connell

Technology

Evading death and mind-uploading: The ambition of transhumanism

Transhumanists could not stop for Death but they kindly stopped for Mark O'Connell, who has captured their beliefs and anxieties in his Wellcome Book Prize winning travelogue

Culture

Humans

Superhuman: What human extremes mean for today and tomorrow

Culture

Health

Creative people are 90 per cent more likely to get schizophrenia

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Humans

People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

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Health

First US death due to romaine lettuce as E. coli outbreak widens

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