news. scientists working to stop the spread of malaria have developed a new net which could save more thany reduce the lifespan of mosquitoes carrying the disease. a trial of the nets has already reduced the number of children catching malaria in west africa. megan paterson reports. after two decades of decline, malaria rates in some parts of sub—saharan africa are rising. mosquitoes have become resistant to existing insecticides. that is where this new net, treated with different chemicals, will help. it looks like an ordinary net, but it's robust, and most importantly contains the insecticide inside the fibres. and it leeches it out slowly over time. so you can wash this net 20 times, but it still has insecticide on it. it's still protective, it still will protect people against mosquitoes. so this is a very sophisticated piece of equipment. it doesn't look it, but it is. and for you, that would cost about $2 a net, so it is very cheap. the bed nets have already been tested in burkina faso, where they reduced clinical malaria cases by 12% in a group of 2,000 children. we're comparing the

in a recent book on artificial intelligence, new scientist argued that "if it's so easy to break down composers into computer code, that means some of the best human artists are more machinelike than we would like to think." robbie barratt is another ai artist known for his computer—generated landscapes, and as you enjoy them, you might ponder whether the question should no longer be, "are machines capable of creativity?" but rather, "are some forms of creativity machinelike"? creativity machinelike?" maybe this kind of religious appreciation of single pieces is something that will go away with this potential of the machines being able to produce more, and then the question is, yes, what do we appreciate then about them ? oh, and by the way, the music that you've been listening to while you've been watching this piece? well, no, it's not vivaldi. it was created by an artificial intelligence programmed by author, composer and scientist david cope. personally i thought it sounded brilliant, but i'm sure there are those watching who will say that's because you have no taste, spence. fair

news. scientists around the world are trying to develop the technology to allow robots to pick soft fruit,hey trial their latest design. they have been making tiptree jam for more than 130 years, technology speeding up the process as the company grew. but there is one thing that hasn‘t changed in all that time. grab the stem and twist them round. and they're off, ready for the punnet. the company‘s workers pick a billion strawberries a year, and it is all still by hand. it is relatively straightforward. i will look after one of those for you, thank you very much. you are very welcome. such beautiful berries. but it gets more complex, doesn‘t it? it does. looking at the strawberries, the human brain has half a second to make all these decisions. what is the level of ripeness, is it ready, the size of the berry, in which punnet is it put, and also the colour of the berries. humans are really good atjudging the fruit. when you twist it, you can see actually the white shoulder. 0ur hands are great at picking, too. robots, on the other hand, really struggle. so now, a global race is on to devel

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in a new report scientists are warning the earth to be just decades away from what they call a hothousetate. rapid changeally a in climate that could threaten the existence of humanity. to talk more about that is mila spring is richard betts. thank you so much for joining us today. in this study is warning of what it is, a climatic tipping point. what is that? how scared should we be? seriesrare talking about a of tipping points which might have a domino effect. is important to note they are talking about things that would take place i in a longng time s, centuries to thousands of years to fully kick in. although they could start eaearlier than that. thisthey are saying is could set off other events such as the thawing permafrost or forest fires and places around the world, which could lead to a release of more carbon back into the atmosphere. that would feed on warming. over the centuries and beyond a good lead us to the point of no return. host: how much credit to you get to this report and how close are we? >> i don't think we are close to seeing these extreme conditions they are tal

jon sopel, bbc news, washington. scientists is at risk from extremely dangerous levels of climate change despite global efforts to limit emissions of carbon dioxide. it comes as many parts of the world are in the grip of record high temperatures. researchers have added that the most devastating effects of climate change can be averted if global action is taken to cut emissions, plant forests and develop technology to suck carbon from the air. 0ur science editor david shukman reports. an image of apocalypse of the kind you might expect hollywood to conjure up. but this was filmed on a real front line in california over the weekend. record temperatures and bone dry conditions are triggering dozens of wildfires in several american state. we stayed up there as long as we could in our valley. until the flames were truly, they were not 360 degrees around our area, but close enough that we decided to get out. there are similar scenes in europe. in portugal an entire mountainside in the algarve has been burning for three days. fires ar

new allies. an airport ground worker dies after stealing and crashing an empty passenger plane in seattle. and we meet the scientists behind a new type of mosquito net that could save thousands from malaria. hello, and welcome to bbc news. the pharmaceutical company bayer says its monsanto weedkillers are safe. this follows a court ruling ordering them to pay nearly $290 million in damages to a man who became terminally ill after using them. dewaynejohnson, a school groundsman, alleges his cancer was caused by glyphosate in the herbicides. here's our north america correspondent james cook. for dewaynejohnson the verdict was bittersweet, to say the least. at 46 years old, he is dying of cancer, caused — the jury found — by monsa nto‘s weedkillers. thousands more americans claim they too were sickened by the herbicides and their key ingredient, glyphosate. since the beginning of this case, i've received a lot of support, thank you, and a lot of prayers and everything, just getting energy from a lot of people that i don't even know, you know. i'm glad to be here to help with this situation, after i learned about roundu

you're watching news still to come the scientists launch a new project to track animals from the international space station what can they tell us about our planet we'll find out. but first test last plans to go private have run into a snag have you have more on that story that's right so you have to be very careful when you tried to announce something u.s. media reporting that electric car maker tesla has been subpoenaed by u.s. federal regulators that means they will interrogate them the securities and exchange commission is stepping up its investigation into a recent tweets by tesla c.e.o. you were nuts last week he wrote that he had secured enough funds to take the company private now the authorities want to know whether his tweet was factual in the u.s. law companies and their senior level management cannot share misleading information with shareholders publicly traded companies disclose major plans such as in the position to the board of directors and to regulators before making an announcement . and as more and more countries. decriminalize the use and possession of marijuana the market

scientist warnings that the summer heat waves could be the new normal with climate change.et's bring you the focus report, today, going to tokyo where the birth rate is low and people are living longer, the government considering the age -- raising the age of retirement , a popular move with plenty of senior citizens choosing to continue to work. he can only enjoy the nightlife to tokyo from his taxi cab, one of 50,000 men working in the largest metropolis in the world. >> the traffic at this hour. >> he became a taxi driver when he returned -- retired and is now 78 years old and works 14 hours every second day. goes, an idleng mind is a devil's workshop. i will rest when i die. [laughter] i will then have eternal vacations. >> like many japanese come he considers work an absolute term and the private company which employs him as a second family. >> good morning. working,a long night taxi drivers have to clocked out and the overwhelming majority of the employees are grandfathers. no age limit in this sector and the company head is 80. >> are you ok? >> not so good. >> cheer

new yorker. a few scientists at the westinghouse company realized he had made the company possible and gave him a little stipend so he had a room at the hotel new yorker. that was a long answer but up and down on the money front. any other questions? >> i would like to know, tesla is able to see the modern world, do you think he would be surprised or proud? >> i think he would still be looking at the future, thinking about totally new ways of doing things. he looked at the cell phone and said i thought of that and then move on. sending lightning bolts into the earth taking advantage of electricity and getting residence or echoing to make electricity available to everybody in the world so you could plug a plug into the earth outside your home and you have it. i come back to the balance between him making the reality of today and being happy about it but thinking that is not enough. he has to be thinking about tomorrow. >> tesla might be impressed at the technology today. what would he think of the march for science and some of the outcome of the most recent election as reflection of science in soc

the i says doctors will be able to stay one step ahead of cancer tumours thanks to a new technique pioneered by scientistsarlier because artificial intelligence will be able to predict how the disease can evolve in individual patients. let's first deal with the front page story on the times. blocked from honours in secret memo between who? between the very secretive people who decide to get the honours. and the times of got this understanding that it the times of got this understanding thatitis the times of got this understanding that it is not consistent with the honour, and that famous sportsmen who may or may not be using entirely legal systems, that is the important point, to minimise their tax bill had been denied honours. dave mentioned a few, consistently saying that he is not ever minimised his tax bill, that he pays his taxes in full. what i find curious about the story is that i don't know when this deal was struck, but certainly we won't know for example, he got in in the a few years ago, he got one at this year. and i'm wondering how this year. and i'm wondering how this is apparent. because i

news. the foreign office says it has heard from a number of uk holidaymakers trying to flee the devastation. scientiststemperatures and rising sea levels. a fresh row has broken out between the labour leadership and the backbench mp dame margaret hodge, despite the party dropping disciplinary proceedings after she publicly accused jeremy corbyn of being an anti—semite. labour sources said both sides had expressed regret. but lawyers for dame margaret said the party had misrepresented her to save face. theresa may will discuss brexit with scotland's first minister during a visit to the edinburgh festival today. nicola sturgeon has called on mrs may to rule out a no—deal brexit, and what she calls a blind brexit, where the future trading relationship hasn't been agreed. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. as we've heard earlier, a report released today is warning that the world is at risk of tipping into extremely dangerous levels of climate change, which could make some areas uninhabitable. the study comes amid a record—breaking summer heatwave in the uk and massive wildfires in many parts of the w

this may become the new normal. scientists are try to figure out exactly what is driving this new pattern in blooms. dsey have linked it to perio of heavy run fall -- heavy rainfall, which increases nutrient runoff. programonal algae bloom expires in just over one month, on september 30. fornt to voice my support the harmful algal bloom control act, which would reauthorize this crucial program. i have worked with colleagues to include amendments to this bill to ensure we are not only studying these harmful events, but are arming local communities with the tools to address their water quality challenges. th the senate has taken action and pass the bill, and now we need to get it across the finish line. we need to acknowledge and act on the urgency of our national harmful algae boom crisis. i look forward to hearing from our expert witnesses about the increasing challenges and what we can do to best respond from the local to the national level.o thank you. >> thank you, senator baldwin. we have the ranking member of the entire c

news, lombok. rajini: scientists are a rare breed in the u.s. congress. in fact, there is only onehd physicist in the house of representatives. but that cdeld soon change nding on how things go in november's midterm elections. enraged by what some see as the trump administration's lack of respect for science and denial of climate change, more scientists are runni elected office than ever before, . laura trevelyan reports. >>is the administration roken. just like when we woundedsk the , we have an interest in healing tissue and our nation. >> the united states greernment, theyot making sound policy because they are not using science toake policy. >> i feel very much lonely and overloaded as the only scientist in congress. laura: very few of our elected leaders are scientists, but this year more scientists are running for office than ever before. >> truth is lacking in the national politics and at the state level. but also i think there is a concern about the support urr science ination. >> i believe in climate change. that is like asking if i believe in gr

new research is warning that dries in temperatures could destructive ecosystems. the scientistswarn that the planet could get too hot even if the object of the paris accords on met. coming up ahead in german ryanair pilots have voted to to live off the job on friday joining a european wide strike affecting thousands of peak season travelers. that's coming up shortly. is going to. change you know the banks create. the language of. speaking the truth. matters.

new allies. an airport ground worker dies after stealing and crashing an empty passenger plane in seattle. and we meet the scientistshousands from malaria. hello, and welcome to bbc news.

as waters warm, unprecedented in events like this may become the new normal. scientists are trying to figure out exactly what is driving this new pattern in blooms, and they have linked it to areas with heavy rainfall, which increases nutrient rich runoff. climate change will only make things worse. the national harmful algae bloom and hypoxia program expires in just over one month, on september 30. i want to voice my support for the harmful algae bloom and hypoxia research and control act, which would reauthorize the official program. i work with my colleagues to include commitments to this bill to ensure we are not only studying these harmful events, but we're arming local communities with the tools to address their water quality challenges. the senate has taken action and passed this bill, and now we need to get it across the finish line. we need to acknowledge and act on the urgency of our national harmful algal bloom crisis. i look forward to hearing from our expert witnesses about the increasing challenges of harmful algal blooms and what we can do to best respond

for kayakers and hikers as the waters warm unprecedented events like this could become the new normal. scientists are trying to figure out exactly what is driving this new pattern withe the blooms looking at heavy rainfall which increases nutrient rich runoff climate change will only make things worse. the national harmful algae bloom program expires in just over one month september 30. i want to pledge my support for the research and control act which would reauthorize this crucial program and i want my colleagues to include amendments to ensure we are not only studying these harmful events that arming local communities with the tools to address their water quality challenges. the senate has taken action to pass this bill now we need to get this across the finish line we need to knowledge and act on the urgency of the national harmful algae crisis. with those increasing challenges of blooms and what we can do to best respond at the national level. >> inserting into the committee records that will document the extent of the harmful algae blooms that have suddenly enveloped to a green slime that t

and with every new scientist mining this data in search of answers to the important biomedical questions the more that promise will be realized. this is ground breaking. this exciting progress along with many other advances in biomedical research is being made possible because of the vision of you and your colleagues. so thank you for your investment in the 21st century cures act as well as your ongoing support of nih. we could not do this without you. my colleagues and i really look forward to your questions. thank you. >> thank you, dr. . collins. dr. gottleib: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. ranking member and members of the subcommittee. almost two years ago the members of this committee held the passage of cures as a potential game changer for patients. i agree. i provided a comprehensive list of our cures activities in my written statement, but i'd like to focus my remarks on one cross-cutting priorities and that's modernizing clinical trials. fda has embraced testify trial designs in the patient center trials envisioned by the cures act. our aim is simple, innovative advanced evidenc

news. >>> as wildfires burn across california and other parts of the west, scientists are taking a new approach to studying the effects on our health. right now the largest and most comprehensive attempt as measuring and analyzing smoke is taking place in boise, idaho. scientists are using planes which are more like flying laboratories to determine how the wildfire smoke is affecting the climate and our bodies. >> i think everyone in the west is finding out their skies are smoky all the time. our goal is to understand, what does that smoke do to the air quality? how is it impacting people's health, how is it impacting the weather? >> here's how it works. this four-engine cargo airplane carrying special equipment flies into the smoke and pulls it right into the aircraft, measuring it in real time. researchers say they picked boise because it gave them the best access to a variety of fires in the west. as for their findings, the preliminary results will be out in the next few months. speaking of poor air quality, certainly really tough for people who have respiratory issues. >> absolutely. >> it

scientists take a new approach in the war on waste. a fuel to cut carbon emissions.opular family cars are unable to use it. i'll have the details. in sport, harry kane sets spurs on their way to a thumping win and heaps more misery on manchester united.

and we meet the scientists behind a new type of mosquito net that could save thousands from malaria.

forming 20% of the israeli population which the new israeli state law says they are not equal with the otherjews to are citizens of the state of israel. scientistsore than a million lives. the teams from durham, liverpool, switzerland and burkino faso have created a new bed net treated with insecticides which reduce the life span and reproduction of mosquitoes carrying the disease. a trial of the nets has already reduced the number of children catching malaria in west africa. megan paterson reports. after two decades of decline, malaria rates in some parts of sub—saharan africa are rising. mosquitoes have become resistant to existing insecticides and that is where this new net, treated with different chemicals, will help. it looks like an ordinary net but it's robust, and most importantly contains insecticide inside the fibres. it leeches it out slowly over time, so you can wash this net 20 times, but it still has insecticide on it, it still will protect people against mosquitoes. so this is a very sophisticated piece of equipment. it doesn't look it, but it is, and for you that would cost about $2 a net, so it is very cheap. the bed nets have a

wind which can throw satellites off course and disrupt the power grid on earth scientists have developed a revolutionary new heat shield to protect the probe from the sun's extreme temperature. the spacecraft is named after a physicist eugene parker who predicted the existence of solar wind sixty years ago nasa has one point five billion dollar mission is being described as one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by the u.s. space agency. this is a mission solar physicists could only dream of for sixty years. a space probe the can approach the sun close enough to enter its atmosphere. the objective is to examine how solar flares formed. when currents of electronically charged particles hit the earth they threaten sensitive electronics and satellites that's why scientists want to be able to forecast devastating solar storms. the parker solar probe will gather the necessary data with four instruments this means coming closer to the sun than any other space probe as before. and to be successful it has to survive being showered by energy particles and extreme radiation this extremely hostile environm

wind which can throw satellites off course and disrupt the power grid on earth scientists have developed a revolutionary new heat shield to protect the probe from the sun's extreme temperature. the spacecraft is named after a physicist eugene parker who predicted the existence of solar wind sixty years ago nasa is one point five billion dollar mission is being described as one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by the u.s. space agency. this is a mission solar physicists could only dream of for sixty years. a space probe the can approach the sun close enough to enter its atmosphere. the objective is to examine how solar flares formed. when currents of electronically charged particles hit the earth they threaten sensitive electronics and satellites that's why scientists want to be able to forecast devastating solar storms. the parker solar probe will gather the necessary data with four instruments this means coming closer to the sun than any other space probe as before. and to be successful it has to survive being showered by energy particles and extreme radiation this extremely hostile environme

the scientists hope these new nets will stop increase of the disease and help in its eradication.ies between their peoples, follows a meeting of their political leaders in april. and the game was good natured, as rhodri davies reports. a simple game of football. but it has been a while since these neighbours, from north and south korea, went for a kickabout. here in seoul, workers from the north, in red, played counterparts from the south, fulfilling on their three—day trip perhaps every amateur football player's dream — to play in a world cup stadium. the message all around it — "red unification", and the friendly game is part of an objective to improve korean civilian exchanges, born from the leaders' summit in april. and, while political tensions persist, here there was only sporting goodwill. translation: i hope there will be more events like this, even if they are not organised by the government, but rather by civilian groups. i hope we will soon achieve independent unification, so that the south and the north can be together. as you can see, i came here to cheer them on. ten

it's now on a seven-year journey to provide scientists with new information about our sun.he probe will get within 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface, the closest ever by a spacecraft. it's built to withstand heat and radiation. >>> brooks koepka holds up tiger woods, and a college football coach is under scrutiny. >>> "the baltimore sun" reports the university of maryland launched an external investigation into the treatment of student athletes. the school put head coach d.j. durkin and three others on leave on saturday. they're accused of abusive behavior. it follows the death of defensive lineman jordan mcnair who died from apparent heatstroke after a workout. >>> the "star-telegram" reports on body camera video of a school resource officer handcuffing an autistic 10-year-old boy. a video shows the 10-year-old swinging a computer mouse. he became disruptive. officer eric coulston is shown pinning him to the ground before putting handcuffs on him. they found coulston violated no laws or policies. >>> npr says utah is sending a new statue to represent the state to the

new yorker. he was supported only because a few scientists at the westinghouse company realized he made the company possible and gave them a stipend for his room at the hotel new yorker. any other questions? >> i would like to know in modern times the technology that we have used was do you think you'd be surprised or do you think he would be proud? >> i still think you'd be looking at the future thinking of totally new ways of doing things. he would probably look at the cell phone and say yeah i thought of that and sort of move on and think well maybe i really can't think of a new way of sending lightning bolts into the earth taking it vanish of the earth's natural alert for city getting some residence off of echo and making electricity available to everyone in the world so you could just simply plug a plug-in to the earth outside of youre home and you have it. i come back to this balance between him making the reality of today and being happy about it but always thinking that's not enough. he would have to be thinking about tomorrow. >> fromhe -- tesla might be impressed that the technology today

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the i says doctors will be able to stay one step ahead of cancer tumours thanks to a new technique pioneered by scientistsxpress leads with the same story claiming patients will be treated earlier because artificial intelligence will be able to predict how the disease can evolve in individual patients. that is where we will begin as its toll on the front page of the i. cancer treatment revolution. is it i? we don't know the exact details but this does seem to be the way medicine is going and the big question about artificial intelligence is, can eat model how a human brain operates? that's is what eve ryo ne human brain operates? that's is what everyone is talking about. chess for example, it's been modelled effectively and why computers keep beating humans. what we are doing with cancer treatment is modelling how these cells grow to try it out with them and as we have on the front page of the i, you can see how we create these advanced algorithms on how the cells grow and try to be one step ahead of them. the whole thing about al is to try to predict behaviour. if we can model how cancer cells grow, that

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the scientists hope these new nets will stop increase of the disease and help in its eradication.as been inundated with holiday postcards following an appeal. staff at cedar court in derbyshire asked for holiday stories from the public last month. they've now received about 1,000 to share with residents. caroline moses reports. more holiday reading for cedar court. hello. but these aren't books. 0h, postcards, thank you. in an age of online posts, these are the old way of recording travel memories. it followed an internet appeal from the care home last month for people to send in traditional postcards from their holidays in the hope that among other things, it would help residents here recall their own family breaks. what they didn't expect was that around 1,000 would arrive in the post. # sending a postcard, i don't care who sees what i've said...# the response has been phenomenal to the postcard appeal. we're just overwhelmed by it, it really has touched all our hearts, we've had them from hawaii, new zealand, china, loads of different places, america and all around the uk as we

in a new swiss study, scientists say it may lead to it an increased risk of insolence resistance especially in the early stages of the diet. >>> we did the early show from the coliseum last night. one a's player told me every series it feels like a playoff series. last night was no different. a nailbiter from start to finish against the dodgers in front of 32,000. mike byers making his a's debuts. the fiers came out on fire, striking eight out in the first inning, for its in a five and a third, very impressive frames. 17 and, chris taylor blue on into the bermuda triangle. belanger says we are number one, but not for long. chris davis, grounder to third, throws coming on, it is there, he is out, but wait. drop the baseball. the a's win 3-2 where they increased their game to three games over seattle in the wildcard race. tonight on kpix5, the 49ers will open their preseason schedule at home against the cowboys. the first game for the rookies. check it out, the fifth round draft pick, dj reclaims he has never even seen the field. >> i honestly have not seen it. [laughter] i honestly don't, ha