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Louise CullenAgriculture and environment correspondent, BBC News NI BBC Niamh Carmichael from CEDaR says earthworms are “a really important group” for conservation in general They are the farmer’s friend, but data on the earthworms of Northern Ireland is thin on the ground. A team of scientists is hoping to plug …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The “California sober” trend, which involves ditching alcohol in favor of cannabis, is gaining momentum, spreading from Hollywood to health influencers to homes across America. Among the motivations for many adopters is to reduce alcohol use, and a new study on the causal effect of …

Violent extremists are using AI to evade social media moderation, according to the leader of one of Europe’s leading violence prevention task forces. Speaking at TikTok’s Trust and Safety forum in Dublin, Judy Korn, managing director of the Violence Prevention Network, said the nature of extremism was changing along with …

Raghvendra RaoBBC Hindi, Bihar Seraj Ali Lalmunni Devi, who lost her husband to toxic liquor in 2022, says alcohol abuse upended her life Nine years after imposing a statewide alcohol ban to curb addiction, domestic violence, and financial ruin among its poorest families, Bihar – India’s poorest state – still …

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing the Trump administration for more information on potential plans to “prop up” major AI companies with money from taxpayers. In a letter to David Sacks, the White House special advisor for AI and Crypto, and Michael Kratsios, the director of the Office of Science …

Lee BottomleyWest Midlands Google Police, fire and paramedics were called to Biddulph High School on Tuesday morning Five people have been taken to hospital following reports of a chemical spill at a school in Staffordshire. Six people in total were exposed to a chemical substance at Biddulph High School in …

Laura CressTechnology reporter Southern China Weekly A Chinese man who cryogenically froze his dead wife has sparked an online moral debate after Chinese media revealed he had been dating a new girlfriend as his former partner lay preserved in liquid nitrogen. As a sign of his devotion, Gui Junmin decided …

Social media platform X was down for thousands of users, according to Downdetector. More than 5,600 people reported issues with the social media platform on Tuesday morning. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, also had problems impacting other services. It is unclear whether the outages were related. “We are working to …

James GallagherHealth and science correspondent Imperial Dr Andrew Edwards researching antibiotics in the laboratory The UK is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle the rising numbers of infections that have become resistant to treatment. The project – a collaboration between the Fleming Initiative and the pharmaceutical company GSK – …

At the age of 18, I graduated from the pediatrician I’d seen since birth and entered the world of adult health care. It was the last time I had a consistent primary care doctor. I still get a physical every year, but it’s usually with a new doctor each time, …

Faisal Islam,Economics editor and Rachel Clun,Business reporter Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai has warned of some “irrationality” in the current AI boom Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC. Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar …

On December 11th, 2010, Jeffrey Epstein was fretting about what came up if you Googled him. By this time Epstein had already pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution with a child and was a registered sex offender, and just a few days earlier he had been photographed in Central Park taking …

US film superstar Tom Cruise has received his first-ever Oscar statuette. Cruise, 63, accepted an honorary Oscar at the annual Governors Awards in Hollywood alongside singer-philanthropist Dolly Parton, choreographer Debbie Allen and production designer Wynn Thomas. “Making films is not what I do, it is who I am,” the four-fold …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michael J. Fox’s family has been his superpower throughout his battle with Parkinson’s disease. The actor attended the “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s” event in New York City on Saturday, where he opened up about how his …

Getty Images Catatonia’s song Mulder and Scully, celebrating the character played by David Duchovny, was released in 1998 The X-Files star David Duchovny has finally heard the tribute song to the hit TV show by ’90s pop band Catatonia – and given it his approval. The actor starred as Agent …

[ Professor Debbie Hay from Otago’s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, working on drug discovery for migraine management. Credit: University of Otago Often dismissed as a minor ailment, migraine is a debilitating neurological disease affecting hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders. At the University of Otago’s School of Biomedical Sciences, …

[ Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study by researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School has revealed that almost all community-dwelling older adults with advanced dementia in Singapore experience at least one potentially burdensome intervention in their last year of life. The findings highlight an urgent need for new strategies to …

8.8/ 10 SCORE GoPro Max 2 360 Camera Pros Great out-of-camera photos and videos (for an action camera) Easy-to-use app Replaceable lenses Cons Lacks some of the features of the Insta360 X5 Poor low-light performance An update for sure, but not a huge one The GoPro Max 2 is a …

Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is the eternal optimist, and for good reason. He has long pushed the European Union to roll back its lofty goal of phasing out new internal combustion engine cars, arguing that weakening the rules was a return to pragmatism and not capitulation to opponents of Europe’s …

Getty Images China has financed tens of billions of pounds’ worth of investment in UK businesses and projects this century, some of which gave it access to military-grade technology, BBC Panorama has learned. The spending spree – worth £45bn ($59bn) at 2023 prices – was at its height following a …