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Prostate cancer messaging may hamper early detection, scientists warn | Science & Tech News
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Public health messaging around prostate cancer places a misleading focus on urinary symptoms and may be hampering efforts of early detection, scientists have warned. Cambridge University researchers said there was “no evidence of a causal link between prostate cancer and either prostate size or troublesome male urinary symptoms”. However, public health guidance regularly promotes this…
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Rocket debris found on Australian farmland was from SpaceX mission, agency confirms | World News
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Experts have confirmed debris found in New South Wales is from a craft built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. People have also been warned by Australian officials to “not attempt” to handle any other debris which could be from the craft amid predictions more items “could still be found”. Two farmers discovered what seemed to…
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Prostate scan could save thousands of unnecessary biopsies, charity says | Science & Tech News
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A new imaging technique could potentially help thousands of men avoid invasive tests to check if they have prostate cancer, a charity has said. A study published in the journal Radiology found a new type of MRI scan could help doctors rule out prostate cancer more regularly, potentially saving thousands of men from undergoing unnecessary…
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Sadiq Khan issued with legal challenge after ‘terrifying’ number plate camera decision | UK News
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If you drive in London, chances are a camera will see you. The city uses a network of Automated Number-Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras to scan the roads for vehicles entering and leaving its road-charging zones. The UK road system is carpeted with these cameras. Every day, around 13,000 capture 55 million “reads”, as number plate…
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South Korean researchers develop nanotech tattoos as health monitoring devices | Science & Tech News
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Researchers in South Korea are developing a new health monitoring device in the form of an e-tattoo that can automatically alert the wearer to potential health problems. The team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have created an electronic tattoo ink made of liquid metal and carbon nanotubes that effectively functions as…
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Ewe-ston we have a problem: Shaun the Sheep named as astronaut aboard NASA lunar mission | Science & Tech News
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Ewe-ston we have a problem? The European Space Agency (ESA) has named its first astronaut to fly on its NASA’s Artemis I lunar mission: Shaun the Sheep. No stranger to outer space following his exploits aboard a UFO in his big screen caper Farmageddon, the space-sheep will be going further than any farmyard friend (or…
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Remote surgery robot to be tested aboard International Space Station | Science & Tech News
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A miniature robot designed to help conduct remote surgeries could be tested on board the International Space Station before the end of 2024. Eventually, the surgical robot could be used to repair “an astronaut’s ruptured appendix on a mission to Mars”, say the researchers behind it. NASA has awarded the University of Nebraska-Lincoln $100,000 to…
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Conjoined twins who shared fused brains successfully separated in Brazil | World News
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Conjoined twins who shared fused brains have been successfully separated after 33 hours of operations. Bernardo and Arthur Lima underwent several surgeries in Rio de Janeiro, under the direction of UK-based paediatric surgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani from London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital. The three-year-old boys had a total of seven operations, involving more than…
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Catastrophic effects of climate change are ‘dangerously unexplored’, experts warn | Climate News
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More research is needed into climate change leading to societal collapse or human extinction, researchers have said, warning such potentially catastrophic results are “dangerously unexplored”. A team of international experts led by Cambridge University said not enough research had gone into the possible worst case scenario, despite “ample reasons to suspect that climate change could…
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Suspected debris from SpaceX capsule crashes into farmland in Australia | Science & Tech News
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Part of what is suspected to be a SpaceX capsule has crashed into farmland in Australia, according to farmers and an astrophysicist. After being startled by a bang at about 7am on Saturday, two farmers discovered what seemed to be space equipment scattered across their sheep paddocks. Sheep farmer Jock Wallace initially called Australia’s civil…