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Sleep gadgets: 19 top technologies to help you nod off

Don t have the luxury of a lie in? If you want to feel refreshed when you wake up here s our pick of the best sleep gadgets for getting a good night’s rest. ....

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The side of science we don't talk about - BBC Science Focus Magazine

BBC Science Focus Magazine
When we see science in the news, itâs usually at the endpoint â the analyses have been run, the paper published, the lab tidied up in preparation for the next experiment. But what happens before a study hits the headlines?
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Iâm a psychologist, and at the moment Iâm running a project on the relationship between gambling problems, mental wellbeing, and how we spend money in video games through mechanisms called loot boxes. But this isnât about the results of that research. Just as important as knowing what a study has found out is understanding the journey that scientists go through to get to that point. ....

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Prof Daniel Freeman on using virtual reality to treat mental health problems

Read the full transcript of our Science Focus Podcast interview with Prof Daniel Freeman – listen to the full episode at the bottom of the page. ....

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A level results: Why algorithms aren't making the grade

BBC Science Focus Magazine
When the UK government decided to cancel school exams due to the coronavirus pandemic, they gave examination regulators Ofqual a challenge: allocate grades to students anyway, and make sure the grades given out this year are equivalent in standard to previous years. Ofqual’s solution was to create an algorithm – a computer program designed to predict what grades the students would have received if they had taken exams.
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Unfortunately, when the computer-generated grades were issued, 40 per cent of A-Level students got lower grades than their teachers had predicted. Some of them several grades lower. Promised university places were withdrawn. Lawyers offered to take legal action against Ofqual. Angry teenagers took to the streets with placards saying ‘F k the algorithm’. ....

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We, Robots free extract by Simon Ings: an ancient history of robots - BBC Science Focus Magazine

BBC Science Focus Magazine
In this extract from
We, Robots, we journey into the past, experience the present, and ponder the future of science fiction, and of artificial intelligence.
It appeared near the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday 9 December 1868. It looked for all the world like a railway signal: a revolving gas-powered lantern with a red and a green light at the end of a swivelling wooden arm.
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Its purposes seemed benign, and we obeyed its instructions willingly. Why wouldn’t we? The motor car had yet to arrive, but horses, pound for pound, are way worse on the streets, and accidents were killing over a thousand people a year in the capital alone. We were only too welcoming of of anything that promised to save lives. ....

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