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It even comes with straightforward meat probes that display their readings in the app, taking the guesswork out of doneness and making overcooked brisket a thing of the past.

She said treatment had often felt "like guesswork".

The work is personal for Chan, who recalls craving more precise treatments for serious pediatric illnesses rather than the educated guesswork she often encountered as a physician.

Predicting these things at the start is always a bit of guesswork - winning the Champions League comes down to fitness and form in key moments.

"Breakthroughs in this very difficult field have tended to rely on the memory, the subjective judgement and the hunch/guesswork of individual scholars, supported by traditional, encyclopaedic databases. Aeneas opens up entirely new horizons."