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Radio 4,14 Aug 2025,30 mins

AI helps create new antibiotics

Six O'Clock News

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Scientists in the US use AI – artificial intelligence - to invent new antibiotics which can tackle drug-resistant superbugs. Teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland get their A-level, T-level and BTec exam results. President Putin hails what he describes as America's "energetic and sincere attempts" to end the war in Ukraine ahead of his meeting with President Trump in Alaska on Friday.

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