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UK launches AI sandbox to optimise medicine safety

UK launches AI sandbox to optimise medicine safety

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The UK is preparing to launch a pioneering AI sandbox designed to explore how artificial intelligence can improve medicine safety and accelerate the development of new treatments. Led by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the initiative will create a controlled testing environment where researchers, technology firms and regulators can evaluate emerging AI tools. The programme, backed by the government’s Regulatory Innovation Office, aims to address long-standing challenges in drug development and patient safety. By allowing innovators to test AI systems under regulatory oversight, the UK hopes to identify more reliable ways to predict medication-related risks before treatments reach patients. Officials believe the initiative could help reduce adverse drug reactions, which currently lead to approximately 250,000 hospital admissions across the UK each year and place a financial burden of more than £2bn on the NHS. The project is also expected to provide stronger evidence on the effectiveness of AI in supporting regulatory decision-making. UK Health Innovation Minister Preet Gill explained: “The AI revolution is here, and we want our NHS staff to be …

How to optimise UK home energy efficiency

How to optimise UK home energy efficiency

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The Sustainable Energy Association explains how it is working to help the UK become more energy efficient. Too many households in the UK live in homes that are expensive to heat, uncomfortable, and damaging to health. This can be true even in homes with measures such as double glazing, insulation, and other efficiency features already installed. The Sustainable Energy Association (SEA) has published its bold new plan to address these issues, while driving up standards in the domestic energy efficiency sector. The problem The UK building stock is among the oldest and least efficient in Europe. It’s also highly diverse, with different homes requiring different measures and solutions to help make them fit-for-the-future. Around 28 million homes will require retrofit measures, yet fabric efficiency measures remain a costly option, and do not always deliver the expected results for occupants. Currently, all homes require an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) when they are built, sold, or rented out. When recommending home energy efficiency measures, an assessor relies on EPC data. However, a building’s predicted performance does not …

Aberystwyth University to optimise space weather forecasting

Aberystwyth University to optimise space weather forecasting

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Researchers at Aberystwyth University are leading a new initiative to strengthen space weather forecasting by addressing one of the field’s most persistent gaps: limited understanding of the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The project, known as “CorMag: A magnetic model of the corona with upper boundary observational constraints,” focuses on improving how scientists model the Sun’s magnetic field, particularly in the corona. This region plays a critical role in driving solar activity but remains difficult to observe directly. More accurate modelling of this area is expected to enhance predictions of solar events that can interfere with satellites, communications systems and power infrastructure on Earth. The research is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council and reflects a broader effort within the field to close critical knowledge gaps that have long limited predictive accuracy. What is space weather, and how does it impact us on Earth? Space weather refers to changing conditions in space driven primarily by the Sun’s activity. This includes phenomena such as solar flares, high-speed streams of charged particles, and coronal mass ejections – …