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‘Devastating’: Malawi left in dire straits by Trump’s decision to freeze aid
The freezing of funds from USAid, the
world’s biggest development agency
, has sent shock waves through the southern African country of Malawi, one of the world’s most aid-dependent states.Elon Musk, the US president Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser, last week
From ribbon cutting to real-world impact: how William and Kate are treading a fine political line
In William Wyler’s classic 1953 film
Roman Holiday
, Audrey Hepburn’s princess character breaks down in tears before briefly escaping the constraints of royal life.“Please let me die in peace,” she cries, lamenting her stifling schedule of gladhanding, platitudes and plaque unveilings. The Oscar-winning romantic comedy was released in …
Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people
Anti-ageing jabs – they can rejuvenate mice, but will they work on humans?
At St Jude children’s research hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, an unusual clinical trial is under way that, if successful, could have wider ramifications for the vast field of age-related chronic diseases. At first glance, childhood cancer survivors may seem like an unusual population in which to study ageing, but as …
Proper care for people who are struggling isn’t ‘soft’ – it saves cash
AstraZeneca, Whitehall, and a failed £450m deal for the next generation in vaccines. What went wrong?
At a tense meeting with senior civil servants on the afternoon of 29 January, the chair of AstraZeneca, Shaun Grady, pulled the plug on a planned £450m expansion of its childhood flu vaccine factory in Merseyside – bringing a year and a half of negotiations to an abrupt halt.
The …
Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man’s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed - or terrified?
Noland Arbaugh’s life changed in a fraction of a second in June 2016. He was a 22-year-old student, working at a kids’ summer camp in upstate New York, when he went swimming in a lake. He can’t tell me exactly what happened, but thinks one of his friends must have …
AI is developing fast, but regulators must be faster | Letters
The recent open letter regarding AI consciousness on which you report (
AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved, says research, 3 February
) highlights a genuine moral problem: if we create conscious AI (whether deliberately or inadvertently) then we would have a duty not to …‘Strong reasonable doubt’ over Lucy Letby insulin convictions, experts say
The claim that Lucy Letby definitely poisoned babies with insulin has “no scientific justification whatsoever” and there is a “very strong level of reasonable doubt” about the convictions, according to the authors of a 100-page study on the case.
Prof Geoff Chase, one of the world’s foremost experts on the …
My friend Michael Brennan, who has died aged 80, was a teacher and activist, and also tried to unravel the mathematical basis of Celtic interlace – the ornamental knot patterns found in Irish art.
As a youth Mike had assisted his father in his work as a monumental sculptor. He …