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BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan Show is facing stinging criticism from the LGBT+ community after it invited two straight cis men and an LGB Alliance representative to debate conversion therapy. Former DUP politician Jim Wells was joined by the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)’s John Stewart to debate the merits of the pseudoscientific practice on Friday morning’s show. In the email, Wilson said practitioners of conversion therapy should be allowed to continue operating – despite the fact that it has been repeatedly denounced by almost every mainstream psychiatric body. Kicking off the de...

Scientists seek to enhance artificial intelligence by integrating brain cells With a new grant from the U.S. Army, a team of scientists will seek to enhance artificial intelligence by integrating brain cells called astrocytes. By encoding a feature of biological intelligence called reinforcement learning, in which we iteratively learn from successes and failures, "deep neural networks" (DNNs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence with spectacular demonstrations of mastery in Chess and Go. But they struggle to deal with the real-world problems encountered daily by humans and other animal...

Gay and bi-sexual men able to donate blood more easily under new rules for Northern Ireland Rainbow hails "incredibly significant and welcome announcement" More people will be able to donate blood under the new rules (Image: Getty) Never miss a thing from Belfast and beyond - sign up for FREE newsletter direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeex...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images image captionThe Department of Health has welcomed changes to blood donation deferral rules to allow more people to donate blood Gay and bisexual men in NI, who have been in a relationship for more than three months, may soon be able to donate blood. Men who have sex with men (MSM) had to wait for a year after their last sexual activity before giving blood before this was reduced to three months. Further changes are expected to come into effect in the summer of 2021, the Department of Health has announced. The health minister said his decision wa...

Robin Swann announces end of controversial 'gay blood ban' Stevie Maginn make history with what is thought to be the first blood donation since the relaxation of Northern Ireland's controversial gay blood restrictions in April. Picture by Hugh Russell. 14 December, 2020 01:00 It follows years of campaigning against Northern Ireland's controversial `gay blood ban'. Picture by PA Photo/thinkstockphotos BLOOD donation rules have been changed to allow gay and bisexual men who have had the same partner for the previous three months to become donors. It follows years...