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PFAS forever chemicals found in English drinking water – why are they everywhere and what are the risks?
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PFAS forever chemicals found in English drinking water – why are they everywhere and what are the risks?

husjur02/Shutterstock PFAS chemicals (per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances), also known as forever chemicals, are rarely out of the news at the moment. The latest concern about this chemical group is their presence in drinking water in England. The Royal Society of Chemistry found that the UK’s drinking water standard is not stringent enough to protect us […]
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How AI 'sees' the world – what happened when we trained a deep learning model to identify poverty
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How AI ‘sees’ the world – what happened when we trained a deep learning model to identify poverty

Visualising wealth and poverty through AI. Authors, CC BY-SA To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people most in need are. In many countries, this is often done with household surveys. But these are usually infrequent and cover limited locations. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created […]
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Honeybees cluster together when it’s cold – but we’ve been completely wrong about why
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Honeybees cluster together when it’s cold – but we’ve been completely wrong about why

Smit/Shutterstock Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because commercial hive designs are based on erroneous science, my new research shows. For 119 years, a belief that the way honeybees cluster together gives them a kind of evolutionary insulation has been fundamental for beekeeping practice, hive design […]
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Why the man-hating feminist is a myth – according to science
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Why the man-hating feminist is a myth – according to science

As part of the “Women Against Feminism” campaign that launched in 2014, social media posts have featured young women holding placards with the message “I don’t need feminism because…” listing various reasons ranging from “I respect men” to “I am not a MAN-HATER”. This perception of misandry – a hatred of men – is perhaps […]
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The vast majority of us have no idea what the padlock icon on our internet browser is – and it's putting us at risk
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The vast majority of us have no idea what the padlock icon on our internet browser is – and it’s putting us at risk

The padlock icon which appears in most internet browser address bars. Robert Avgustin/Shutterstock Do you know what the padlock symbol in your internet browser’s address bar means? If not, you’re not alone. New research by my colleagues and I shows that only 5% of UK adults understand the padlock’s significance. This is a threat to […]
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