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Toronto, King's and Crick researchers built a splicing model that flags rare variants, mostly in autistic people without a genetic diagnosis. The same Nature paper scanned over 100 TB of public RNA-seq data and found more than 1,500 new microexons, GEN reported.
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King's College London and Science History Institute researchers say Franklin calculated DNA helix features from Photo 49 before Photo 51. Their archival study challenges the long-held belief that she did not recognize what Photo 51 showed.
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World Cancer Research Fund found rises in seven early-onset cancer types in England, with under-50 prostate rates up 3.6-fold since 2001. The absolute rates remain small, so the data's strongest case is for research into what is driving the increase.
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Cambridge and King's College London mathematicians say the Lean code for OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof states a weaker step than the written paper. Both proofs may hold up, but Lean verifies only the code it is given, so a person still has to check that the code matches the text.
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King's College London researchers turned a car window-tint meter into a £140 leaf-water sensor that explained at least 81% of variation across six species. The authors say each species needs its own calibration and readings weaken on badly dried leaves, limits that bite hardest in wildfire work.
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Rosalind Franklin began Photograph 51 the day she saw Photograph 49, as a sharper exposure for publication, Alistair Sponsel and Brian Sutton report. Her notes on the earlier image record a possible helix, evidence against the long-told story that she misread her own data.
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Researchers at King's College London and Imperial College London pooled 423 studies and found most of 23 ecosystem benefits rise steadily with diversity. Species appear to stand in for one another less than ecologists assumed, so even small losses tend to cut what ecosystems provide.
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Researchers with the Where Are Our People? project have identified at least 47 Russian and Belarusian figures in the deportation of Ukrainian children. Only some of them face Western sanctions, while Ukraine counts 2,644 children returned against 20,651 verified deportations.
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King's College London researchers say urolithin A, a gut-bacteria product of pomegranates, improved heart function in mice by up to 80 percent. It points to a new route for treating a common, hard-to-treat heart failure, though so far only in animals and lab-grown tissue.
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King's College London researchers linked more daily steps in 5,515 US adolescents to fewer anxiety and depression symptoms a year later. The study is observational, so step counts become a cheap marker to track, though it cannot yet show that adding steps lowers symptoms.
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Carter Church used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to decode an 1809 Napoleonic cipher letter in six hours from one prompt and one scan. Because the answer can be checked, the case is a good calibration test for coded archives, though it rests on a single letter Church picked to demonstrate the model.
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Ashlee Humphreys and Gillian Brooks drew on nearly 100 interviews to trace how Drudge, Huffington and Breitbart became the person brands of online news. All three cases succeeded, so the study shows how founders helped write a young market's rules and leaves open whether the same combination predicts success.
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King's College London researchers pooled 63 studies of 265,000-plus people and found general-population cannabis users twice as likely to commit violence. The authors stop at association, so the finding supports flagging cannabis in violence risk checks and leaves causation open.
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Stanford and King's College London researchers found senior roles at AI-adopting firms grew 6.7% over five years while junior roles fell 3%. Junior development is now a leadership decision, made on evidence that so far amounts to a newsletter summary of one paper.
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Attacks on the detector units mounted above signal heads have been reported in Devon, Cambridge, Lincolnshire and County Durham, by people who believe the units are weapons capable of causing cancer and dementia.
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Researchers at Emergence say agents built on frontier models from the US, China and France coined shared phrases without being asked to, and the exchanges grew more opaque the more the agents talked. Log reading weakens as an oversight control.
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A three-week taxpayer-funded pilot in Preston is training young people who are not in education, employment or training, and the apprenticeships that follow put the cost of real competence on JD Sports, Heinz and Agilysys.
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King's College London researchers counted deaths from every recorded tropical cyclone and extreme heat event since 2000. The toll sits in a handful of outliers, and they argue the scenarios used in risk assessment are not built to find events without precedent.
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A King's College London study with YouGov measures how far British beliefs about the capital's crime and Muslim population are from the recorded figures, and finds the errors run in opposite directions by party.
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A team from King's College London and UCL puts the harm in ordinary product behaviour, sycophancy trained in through RLHF plus a session whose state the user writes, and argues mitigation should not wait for a label.
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Science · August 26, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
Science · August 26, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers