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Breakthrough for teen who lost four family members to inherited condition

Mary Catchpole, 19, has the same life-threatening genetic condition, activated PI3-Kinase delta syndrome (APDS)

The Independent UK

‘Life-changing’ drug for teenager who lost mother, aunt and uncle to condition

Mary Catchpole, 19, suffers from inherited activated PI3-Kinase delta syndrome (APDS), a life-threatening condition

Evening Standard

English universities barred from enforcing blanket bans on student protests

Office for Students guidance urges ‘very strong’ approach to permitting lawful speech on campus

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'Huge surprise' reveals how some humans left Africa 50,000 years ago

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in failure?

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Women issued safety warning over period tracker apps

Many women download period tracker apps when they are trying to get pregnant

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The Guardian launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge

Secure Messaging is a new innovation for confidential story-sharing and source protection, underpinning the Guardian’s commitment to investigative journalism. The Guardian has published the open source code for this important tech to enable adoption by other media organisations.

The Guardian - UK

Sandi Toksvig and Gina Miller hoping to become first female Cambridge chancellor

The University of Cambridge has published the final list of candidates for the election of the institution’s formal and ceremonial head.

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Increasing breast cancer screenings could save hundreds of lives a year, researchers say

Around 700 lives a year could be saved with extra measures, researchers say

The Independent UK

Improved breast screening could detect extra 3,500 cancers a year in UK – study

During a clinical trial using additional scans, an extra 85 cancers were found.

Evening Standard

I don’t eat before noon – but I worry it’s a bad idea

IN FOCUS: Depending on which research you read, breakfast is either the most important meal of the day or something that can be skipped entirely. As she takes up intermittent fasting, Charlotte Cripps digs into the contradictions that surround eating in the morning

The Independent UK

Severe drought helped bring about 'barbarian' invasion of Roman Britain, study finds

A drought helped bring about an invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, researchers wrote in a new paper.

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Teenagers who sleep longer and earlier are likely to do better at tests, study finds

The study showed that those who slept longer and earlier had better reading, vocabulary and problem solving skills than their counterparts

The Independent UK

Youngsters who sleep longer may perform better in tests, study suggests

The group that slept the longest performed the best, the research showed.

Evening Standard

Scientists find 'strongest sign to date' of possible life on a distant planet

The research, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, detected evidence of compounds in the exoplanet's atmosphere that on Earth are only produced by living organisms.

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‘Strongest evidence yet’ found of alien life beyond our planet

A team from the University of Cambridge made the discovery on exoplanet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away from Earth.

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Researchers develop AI tool that could speed up coeliac disease diagnosis

Cambridge study finds algorithm is as effective as a pathologist in detecting disease – and much quicker

Euronews

People will stop making predictions, Professor David Spiegelhalter says

Can probabilities help people prepare for the future? According to statistician David Spiegelhalter, yes—but only if they have been carefully examined through mathematical analysis.

Evening Standard

Cambridge University in row over claims Stephen Hawking benefited from slavery-linked funds

Cambridge is in a dispute with academics after an exhibition linked Stephan Hawking with the slave trade

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New AI is better at weather prediction than supercomputers — and it consumes 1000s of times less energy

The Aardvark Weather machine learning algorithm is much faster than traditional systems and can work on a desktop computer.

Evening Standard

New scanner technique may offer hope for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy

The method could result in more people with the condition being eligible for life-changing surgery.

The Independent UK

AI breakthrough is ‘revolution’ in weather forecasting

Aardvark Weather model can generate forecasts in seconds with just a fraction of the data of traditional systems

The Guardian - UK

AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported

Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems

The Guardian - UK

Stormzy to receive honorary Cambridge University doctorate

Rapper is honoured for his philanthropic work alongside the likes of John Rutter, Angela Davis and Simon Russell Beale

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'Mystery population' of human ancestors gave us 20% of our genes and may have boosted our brain function

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

The Guardian - UK

Promise to phase out lead from UK game shooting has failed, study finds

Vow in 2020 aimed to keep shot out of human food chain but study finds most game carcasses still contain lead

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