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4 articles from Guardian Unlimited Science

Leaving London was a wrench, but our family life back in Coventry has so much more to offer

Hayley Myers was worried about relocating back to her home city of Coventry after a decade in London, but she hasn’t looked backDuring those seemingly endless days of working from home in the midst of the first lockdown, we decided that enough was enough. My husband and I were squeezed around the dining table, one eye on our laptops and the other on our restless toddler. Pregnant with our second...

Programmers, beware: ChatGPT has ruined your magic trick | John Naughton

The generative AI tool can write code on request, making the specialist skill of programming open to everyoneBenedict Evans, a tech analyst whose newsletter is required reading for those who follow the industry, made an interesting point this week. He had, he said, been talking to generalist journalists who “were still under the impression that ChatGPT was a trivial parlour trick and the whole...

Squirrels live longer in leafier parts of London, air pollution study shows

The closer the rodents live to the centre of the city, the worse their symptoms of lung diseaseDeteriorating air quality is a major threat to health, and scientists have discovered that humans are not the only ones in danger.Grey squirrels suffer worsening lung damage the closer they live to the centre of a city, according to a study in London. It found the lungs of the rodent residents of...

Toddler’s mystery infection traced back to cake-snatching iguana

Three-year-old was on beach in Costa Rica when reptile tried to steal her dessert and bit her handIt could almost be a fable from Aesop, or a story from the Brothers Grimm: the toddler, the lizard and the cake. But for one small child, whose baked treat was snatched by an iguana, it was a tale with a twist.Doctors have revealed that the toddler ended up with an unusual infection after being bitten...