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Technology

Microsoft app helps people with ALS speak using just their eyes

A smartphone app called GazeSpeak uses eye movements to predict the words you want to say, allowing people with motor disabilities to communicate faster

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A nurse using the SEND medical app that sends early warning alerts based on patients' vital signs

Technology

NHS to start prescribing health apps that help manage conditions

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Rahim Esfandyarpour

Technology

Printed ‘lab on a chip’ costs a penny and catches disease early

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Technology

Blind people ‘see’ microscope images using touch-feedback device

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A woman lying down wearing a cap covered in electrodes

Technology

Completely paralysed people use thoughts to say they are happy

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Technology

Recycled eggshells can be used for next-gen data storage

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Technology

How Trump’s erratic nuclear posture could spark a new arms race

Insight

A hand with a stretchy transitor tattooed on the knuckle of first finger

Technology

Transistor stretchier than skin for ultra-flexible wearable tech

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Health

Simple blood test can detect genetic diseases early in pregnancy

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Health

Is historic Soviet radiation health data too hot to handle?

A series of secret nuclear disasters has spawned a unique database about the effects of radiation. But health researchers must think hard before using it

Leader

Health

Exclusive: First visit to Russia's secret nuclear disaster site

Features

Life

Quantum solar cells could explain why plants are green

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Life

Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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Technology

Brexit puts Europe's nuclear fusion future in doubt

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