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Researchers have developed comfortable, washable ‘smart pyjamas’ that can monitor sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea at home, without the need for sticky patches, cumbersome equipment or a visit to a specialist sleep clinic.

Misusing police database now over half of all cybercrime prosecutions in the UK [pdf]

Researchers have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the power source

Massive black hole in the early universe spotted taking a ‘nap’ after overeating: « Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is ‘napping’ after stuffing itself with too much food

Scientists have created the most detailed map to date of the human hypothalamus, a crucial brain region that regulates body weight, appetite, sleep and stress

Antibiotics, vaccinations linked to reduced risk of dementia

Brits still associate working-class accents with criminals – study warns of bias

Feeding your good gut bacteria through fibre in diet may boost body against infections

The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new research

System to auto-detect new variants will inform better response to future infectious disease outbreaks

Young Persons Guide to BCPL Programming on the Raspberry Pi [pdf]

Israel-Hezbollah conflict has deepened an education crisis in which children have lost up to 60% of schooling in six years, study shows

A new tool that predicts the behaviour of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops in Africa and Asia.

A third of people from Chicago carry concealed handguns in public before they reach middle age

Researchers deal a blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its surface

Urban trees can reduce pedestrian-level air temperatures by up to 12°C

An MRI-based imaging technique developed at the University of Cambridge predicts the response of ovarian cancer tumours to treatment, and rapidly reveals how well treatment is working…

Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (Textbook)

Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women

People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new research has found

Time alone heightens ‘threat alert’ in teenagers – even when connecting on social media

Scientists warn of ‘invisible threat’ of microplastics as global treaty nears completion

A drug commonly used to treat glaucoma has been shown in zebrafish and mice to protect against the build-up in the brain of the protein tau, which causes various forms of dementia and is implicated in Alzheimer’s disease

Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence

Magnetic field applied to both sides of brain shows rapid improvement for depression

Airbnb rentals linked to increased crime rates in London neighbourhoods

Previously unknown Neolithic society in Oued Beht, Morocco discovered

Personal carbon footprint of the rich is vastly underestimated

Climate change will move and reduce the land suitable for growing food and timber, putting the production of these two vital resources into direct competition, a new study has found