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Louise Cullen,Agriculture and environment correspondentand Catherine Doyle,BBC News NI Getty Images Anyone who suspects that their animals may have bluetongue must report it to a vet, local divisional veterinary office or to Daera More suspected cases of bluetongue virus (BTV) have been detected in Northern Ireland. Further tests have identified …

“I don’t read it; I protect myself. I don’t watch TV when they are talking about Manchester United, not because I don’t agree – most of the times I do – but it’s a way of me being healthy. “My feeling as a coach is enough. I don’t need other …

How to best defrost a large cut of meat is a hot topic around the holidays, especially if you can’t afford the space and time to let it chill out in the refrigerator over a matter of days.  And contrary to what some armchair problem solvers contend, hair dryers, space …

[ Credit: AI-generated image In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured astronaut to remove a life-threatening blood clot from his brain. The Academy Award-winning movie—later developed into a novel by Isaac Asimov—seemed like …

[ Experimental design and setup. (A) 8–10-week-old C57BL/6 received a sham injury or LFPI (Sham; TBI, N = 5–6) using a model of lateral fluid percussion injury (LFPI). Sham animals receive a 3-mm craniectomy but no fluid pulse. (B) Righting reflex time following LFPI N = 5–6/group. (C) Synchronous wave examples to determine different …

Australia batter Steve Smith has been wearing black strips of tape under his eyes as he prepares for the second Ashes Test against England in Brisbane. The day-night match will feature floodlights and the players will use a pink ball. The patches have been used in the past by former …

Mortuary workers were exposed to “dangerously high” levels of toxic substances from preserved bodies repatriated to the UK following the Air India plane crash, a coroner’s report has revealed. Air India Flight 171 to London Gatwick struck a building shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad in June, killing 241 people on …

[ Supplementation of nutrient cocktails containing zinc, branched-chain amino acids and serine improves social interaction in three different mouse genetic models of autism. Credit: Ming-Hui Lin and Tzyy-Nan Huang (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Researchers led by Tzyy-Nan Huang and Ming-Hui Lin from Academia Sinica in Taiwan report that a low-dose mixture …

Brewing coffee isn’t an exact science. Your personal preference for strength or flavor profile may lead you to one system over another.  If you ask coffee professionals, as I did, there are certain methods that encourage precise brewing and more balanced coffee.  Spoiler alert: It’s not a Keurig.  We’ve spent …

Some of the global pharmaceutical industry’s top executives are to form a new panel with the government aimed at devising a new pricing regime for key medicines. Sky News understands that Whitehall officials and ministers will invite bosses from companies including AstraZeneca and GSK to join the new working group …

If you shoot video professionally, there’s a good chance you’ve salivated over a RED camera at some point. RED has long been one of the top choices for big-budget productions, offering a combination of image quality and flexibility that’s unrivaled by most consumer cameras. They’re also wildly expensive, topping out …

Former Ireland full-back Rob Kearney has told the BBC’s Ireland Rugby Social podcast that he expects “big changes” in rugby union guidelines over the “next three to six months” to improve the game as a spectacle. Talking to BBC Sport NI’s Gavin Andrews and former Ireland team-mate Conor Murray, Kearney …

Apple’s head of artificial intelligence and machine learning has stepped down from the company.  John Giannandrea, the current senior vice president for machine Learning and AI strategy, will be replaced by former Microsoft AI executive Amar Subramanya. Mr Subramanya has overseen the development of Gemini, Google’s AI and spent two …

Children as young as three are “being fed content and algorithms designed to hook adults” on social media, a former education minister has warned. Lord John Nash said analysis by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) suggesting more than 800,000 UK children aged between three and five were already engaging …

[ The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has published a valuable dataset comprising 712 measurements of deciduous teeth from 52 Spanish children belonging to the renowned Ratón Pérez Collection. Thanks to this pioneering citizen-science initiative, Spain now has one of the most extensive and rigorously documented …

Christine RoTechnology Reporter, Hamburg Quest One Quest One’s electrolysers are built by robots in a factory near Hamburg In a spotless, hushed factory near Hamburg in northern Germany, industrial robots stand ready to assemble the components of electrolysers. These devices split water into oxygen and hydrogen. The ones manufactured by …

Weight loss injections have been conditionally recommended for treating obesity by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the first time. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the new guidance “recognises that obesity is a chronic disease that can be treated with comprehensive and lifelong care”. While he said medication can’t …

The US has agreed to spare the UK from threatened trade tariffs on pharmaceutical products. The announcement was made following months of uncertainty over whether exports from the UK, and elsewhere across Europe, would be subject to steep charges. Via the policy update, the UK has become the only country …

Pope Leo XIV probably isn’t the first person you picture when conversation turns to Artificial General Intelligence doomsday scenarios. But last month, AGI researcher John-Clark Levin found himself inside the Vatican on a mission to put those concerns in front of the pope. Levin hasn’t been acting alone. In the …

A major deal between the UK and the US to lower proposed tariffs on pharmaceuticals to zero is expected imminently. Pharmaceutical industry sources have told the BBC that a deal to lower planned tariffs on medicine imports into the US could be announced as soon as today. The deal comes …