Getty Images The Covid Inquiry’s second report, into political decisions during the pandemic, will be published on Thursday. In July 2024, the inquiry’s first report said the UK’s flawed preparations had led to more deaths and greater economic damage than there should have been. Just under 227,000 people died in the UK from Covid between…
This post is co-written with Rejin Surendran from Wipro Enterprises Limited and Bakrudeen K from ShellKode. In manufacturing environments, industrial automation engineers face a significant challenge: how to rapidly convert complex process requirements into Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) ladder text code. This traditional, manual process typically requires 3-4 days per query, creating bottlenecks in production…
Chemotherapy appears to activate a stress-sensing system inside immune cells. According to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, this reaction sets off inflammation and nerve injury, which may help explain why many people undergoing cancer treatment experience serious and often long-lasting pain. Up to half of all individuals…
It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time. But he had deep suspicion that if it were to fall under the control of powerful profit-driven forces, humanity would suffer. Musk had…
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive disorder that damages nerve cells in the brain and is one of the main causes of dementia around the world. Current treatments cannot cure the condition. Although antibody-based drugs targeting amyloid β (Aβ) have recently become available, their benefits remain modest. These therapies can also be expensive and may…
Artist’s impression of a field of Population III stars 100 million years after the big bang NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani Distant galaxies may be full of truly enormous stars, which reach masses up to 10,000 times that of the sun. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine these galaxies in the…
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent ‘Too little, too late’: What’s in the Covid inquiry report… in 68 seconds The UK response to Covid was “too little, too late” and led to thousands more deaths in the first wave, an inquiry into government decision-making says. The report also said lockdown may have been avoided if voluntary steps such…
Paul Seddon,Political reporter and Sam Francis,Political reporter PA Media Boris Johnson oversaw a “toxic and chaotic” culture within government that led to poor Covid decision-making, the inquiry into the pandemic response has found. In a much-awaited report, inquiry chair Baroness Hallett said the former prime minister should have responded more urgently to the developing crisis….
Dean Patman’s found-object sculpture of a red underwing moth Dean Patman Penny SarchetManaging editor, London I’ve long wanted to attend the Society of Wildlife Artists’ annual Natural Eye exhibition, and a few weeks ago, I finally did. The art showcase ran at the Mall Galleries in London in October, and it is available to browse…
Introduction Since 1980, the U.S. has had a formal system for admitting refugees and asylees—individuals and their families who are unable to return to their country of nationality due to a well-founded fear of persecution for certain protected reasons. The right to seek asylum is rooted in international law, and the system reflects the U.S.’s…
