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How should we prioritize patients waiting for kidney transplants?

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Mouse study suggests a common diabetes drug may prevent leukaemia

Metformin, a widely used and affordable diabetes drug, could prevent a form of acute myeloid leukaemia in people at high risk of the disease, a study in mice

Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study

Mouse study suggests a common diabetes drug may prevent leukaemia

Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals

Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health

Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health

Harmful effects of digital tech – the science ‘needs fixing’, experts argue

Scientists create 'metal detector' to hunt down tumours

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VOA

Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy

Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane

'Watching the Grass Grow' Is Not Fun

MIT

Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language

Equipping living cells with logic gates to fight cancer

New study reveals how cleft lip and cleft palate can arise

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Samples from the moon reveal scary risks to astronauts

Arsenic in brown rice may put young kids at risk

‘Power bars’ could keep bees thriving without pollen

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‘Heavy metals’ contaminate 17% of the world’s croplands, say scientists

How does your brain create new memories? Neuroscientists discover ‘rules’ for how neurons encode new information

AI-controlled fighter jets may be closer than we think — and would change the face of warfare