India on brink of 'worst water crisis': Some 600 million Indians are facing an acute shortage of water, a new government report says.
Source: bbc.co.uk
APOD: 2018 June 13 - Red Cloudbow over Delaware
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APOD: 2018 June 4 - Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano
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Can a community news platform serve as “technology that protects our minds and replenishes society”? "In 2004, a team of Medill School of Journalism grad students tried to save democracy, newspapers, and local communities. The threat? The internet. Our response? A website called GoSkokie for the...
Source: niemanlab.org
APOD: 2018 May 19 - Reflections of Venus and Moon
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RCGP calls on government to facilitate 'social prescribing' for all practices
Source: rcgp.org.uk
APOD: 2017 December 10 - In Green Company: Aurora over Norway
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APOD: 2017 November 20 - Curiosity Rover Takes Selfie on Mars
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Could analysing personalised learning be better matched if physicians are first classified into competency groups? Using latent class analysis to identify physician competency reveals four distinct subgroups in this cross-sectional study in China. The survey tool is large at over 100 items long but included...
Source: biomedcentral.com
The Red Roads to Timbuktu : Image of the Day: Iron-rich laterite give the roads to this remote city in central Mali a distinctive color.
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APOD: 2017 October 10 - Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Australian Pinnacles
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Government 'failed to clean up air': New figures show the UK government failed to reduce illegal levels of air pollution in the 18 months after a court ordered it to clean up the air.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Britain flouting duty to protect citizens from toxic air pollution – UN: Exclusive: Special rapporteur’s mission finds government has violated obligation to protect people’s lives and health
Source: theguardian.com
Offshore wind cheaper than new nuclear: Figures from the government are seen as a milestone in the advance of renewable energy.
Source: bbc.co.uk
UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed an ‘entirely new industry’ in AI-based diagnostics and mint billions for tech companies, strategic review reveals. "Sir John Bell, a professor of medicine at Oxford university...
Source: theguardian.com
Science funding: Will 'picking winners' work? - BBC News: Why has the government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned in the 1980s?
Source: bbc.co.uk
The impact of video games on training surgeons in the 21st century. - PubMed - NCBI
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APOD: 2017 August 23 - The Crown of the Sun
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Theresa May could be paving the way to change her policy on foreign students: The Government will today pave the way for a climbdown over Theresa May’s controversial policy of counting foreign students as migrants in official immigration statistics. Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, will ask her independent...
Source: independent.co.uk
The burden of triumph: meeting health and social care needs. Andrew Dilnot, Lancet 15 August 2017. "Life is getting longer. Death is not defeated, but it takes longer to win than it used to. The increases seen for most people in life expectancy are surely a matter for great rejoicing. References to...
Source: thelancet.com