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Let’s be frank, in China the UK is not seen as a particularly big or important player. It’s seen as a middling power at best, one that does have some advantages to offer, particularly in the service and knowledge economies, but one that has a greatly diminished global impact, particularly …

One of the first people in the UK to use Elon Musk’s brain chip says it “feels magical” and believes it could transform the lives of those with severe paralysis. “It is a massive change in your life where you can suddenly no longer move any of your limbs,” said …

Airports across Asia have put urgent steps in place to stop the spread of a highly lethal virus. Temperature screening has been set up by authorities in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia after two cases of Nipah virus were detected in India in late December. The Indian health ministry said in …

How restaurants and retailers use behavioural science to get us to increase our spending. BBC News

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For decades, microscopic robots lived mostly in our imagination. Movies like Fantastic Voyage convinced us that tiny machines would one day cruise through the human body, fixing problems from the inside. In reality, that future stayed frustratingly out of reach.  The reason …

Scotland’s health secretary has assured MSPs that he has “no doubt” the scandal-hit Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is “safe” after being repeatedly questioned during a Holyrood debate. It comes as the super hospital remains under intense scrutiny amid long-running infection concerns as the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry continues. In closing submissions …

A startup called Fauna Robotics has revealed a new humanoid robot called Sprout it’s been developing over the past two years. Standing around 3.5-feet tall, Sprout’s design, featuring a soft padded exterior, a wide head, and expressive mechanical eyebrows, was inspired by some of science fiction’s friendlier robots like Baymax …

Beyond Meat just launched a new product that’s even further from meat than ever before: a protein soda. Beyond Immerse is the company’s first product that makes no attempt to replicate meat whatsoever, marking a sharp shift in Beyond’s business model. It might seem like it comes out of left …

LISBON — Healthcare is being made available to Beaver Local students through a new partnership with the Akron Children’s Mobile Unit. District Superintendent Eric Lowe shared the new opportunity with the Board of Education during the January board meeting. Lowe thanked school nurse Kathy Boggs for her work on the …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Prince Harry’s so-called “Spare” curse, royal experts say, seems to have followed the Duke of Sussex to Hollywood. Multiple royal watchers have claimed the prince has struggled to move beyond the fallout of his dramatic exit from royal life six years ago, …

Robbie MeredithEducation and arts correspondent, BBC News NI BBC Javed Love is understood to be the first teacher in Northern Ireland in at least a decade to take the action A primary school teacher has used a conscience clause in a 40-year-old law to withdraw from teaching religious education (RE). …

An international team of researchers has devised a futuristic tool to examine the footprints left by dinosaurs in our ancient past. The AI-powered app, Dinotracker, can identify dinosaur footprints in moments. The research comes from a joint project by the Helmholtz-Zentrum research center in Berlin and the University of Edinburgh …

There is no shortage of explanations for why the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its metaphorical “Doomsday Clock” up by a whopping 4 seconds Tuesday, to 85 seconds to midnight. For instance, world leaders are openly talking about testing and using nuclear weapons, and the US is taking the …

The colossal winter storm that swept across 34 states left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. Bitterly cold temperatures lingering after Winter Storm Fern are still testing power grids, already under stress from a rush of new AI data centers. Over the weekend, wholesale electricity prices soared in Virginia, …

Marathon is the next game from Bungie, the acclaimed studio behind the Halo and Destiny franchises. The developer’s new game was originally set to come out last September, but the lukewarm reception it received from players who tried out the game’s alpha test led Bungie to delay the release to …

Vienna Tourist Board/Martin Morscher Almost half of the village’s residents travelled from Dull to Vienna Residents of the Scottish village of Dull have enjoyed an all-expenses paid weekend in Vienna as part of a stunt to prove the Austrian capital is anything but dull. All 84 residents of the Perthshire …

The threat to shipping posed by GPS jamming and other interference is growing and there is a “real risk to life”, experts have warned. Hundreds of vessels are being affected every day, with disruption posing urgent risks to maritime safety. The issue of interference to global navigation systems has rocketed …

Bridget McCormack is used to correcting judges’ work. As the former chief justice on the Michigan Supreme Court, it was her job to review complaints about how judges at the lower courts failed to consider key evidence or rule on certain aspects of a case. In her current job, McCormack …

Women face a significant loss of grey matter in the brain after menopause, which may explain why they are more likely to suffer dementia than men, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at 124,780 women to examine the effects of menopause on the brain and whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT) …

Ellen Roome began campaigning for a change in the law after her 14-year-old son died. She couldn’t understand why her teenage boy, Jools, was no longer with her. “When Jools took his own life, we assumed we’d turn up at the inquest and be told why and what happened,” Ms …