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AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption
Researchers have peered inside an ancient scroll that was burned to a crisp in the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago.
The scroll is one of hundreds found in the library of a Roman mansion in Herculaneum, a town on the west coast of Italy that was …
Wednesday briefing: What an expert review could mean for the conviction of Lucy Letby
Good morning. When Lucy Letby was convicted in 2023 of the murder of seven babies, she entered a bleak pantheon of the worst serial killers in British history. Since then, as concerns have been raised about the safety of her conviction, they have often been dismissed as the product of …
‘Everyone is on tenterhooks’: Santorini streets empty after days of tremors
On the second day of feeling the ground shake under her feet, Veroniki Balabonidi decided it was to time to leave Santorini. At 4.30am on Sunday she and her two young children were on a ferry bound for the port of Piraeus, surrounded by other families fleeing the Aegean isle.
…‘What happened?’: No peace for Shamikh Badra, who fears for family missing in Gaza since 2023
There is a peace now, fragile and uncertain, but there are no answers.
Shamikh Badra carries on his phone a photo of his brother, Ehab, sitting, smiling with his children. For now, it’s all he has – and it might be all he ever has of the sibling he revered.
…AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years
One of the “godfathers” of modern artificial intelligence has predicted a further revolution in the technology by the end of the decade because current systems are too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars.
Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, said new breakthroughs are …
This ain’t America’s trash, it’s Shakespeare’s | Letters
My father, Donald Gordon, who has died aged 90, enjoyed two successful and influential careers, first in education and then in Roman history, as he put Trimontium, Scotland’s largest Roman fort, back on the map.
Donald established the Trimontium Trust in the early 1990s, following an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to …
DNA of rare mussels found in River Seine raises hopes Paris clean-up is working
Traces of rare mussels sensitive to pollution and thought to be on the point of extinction in France have been discovered in the Seine in Paris, raising hopes that efforts to clean-up the river that bisects the French capital might be succeeding.
The findings were made after Olympic swimming events …
Does AI need all that money? (Tech giants say yes)
UK online pharmacies face stricter rules for sales of weight-loss jabs
Access to weight-loss jabs through online pharmacies is to be tightened up as part of a crackdown on inappropriate prescriptions – although some experts say even more must be done.
Weight-loss injections such as Wegovy, which contains the drug semaglutide, and Mounjaro, which contains the drug tirzepatide, have boomed in …