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Nov 22, 2022

How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Improve Medical Processes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI

AI can also be of benefit in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Tools have been created that help diagnose a patient as well as a human would.

AI isn’t a new technology—it’s been researched and developed since the 1950s and is currently present in many of our daily routines. Most of these applications are so common that we don’t even notice them.

Our lives often depend on the healthcare industry. So, having a technology that allows you to speed up patient registration processes and help diagnose more quickly and effectively is essential. Every health center should consider the use of AI for the benefit of its processes so it can adapt to the modern world and its accelerated pace.

Nov 22, 2022

Orion moonship operating in near-flawless fashion, mission managers say

Posted by in categories: energy, space

NASA’s unpiloted Orion moonship, sailing smoothly toward a remote lunar orbit after a spectacular low-altitude flyby Monday, is operating in near-flawless fashion, mission managers reported Monday, out-performing expectations on a flight to pave the way toward the first piloted mission in 2024.

An analysis of the huge Space Launch System rocket that boosted the Orion capsule on its way early Wednesday showed it performed almost exactly as expected, taking off atop 8.8 million pounds of thrust and producing a ground-shaking shock wave that literally blew the doors off launch pad elevators.

The core stage’s four upgraded space shuttle main engines and twin solid-fuel boosters propelled the 322-foot-tall rocket out of the atmosphere and into space almost exactly as planned. At main engine cutoff, the SLS was within 3 miles of its target altitude and within 5 mph of the predicted velocity.

Nov 22, 2022

The Cause of Alzheimer’s Could Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer’s disease isn’t just a disease, it’s an infection.

While the exact mechanisms of this infection are something researchers are still trying to isolate, numerous studies suggest the deadly spread of Alzheimer’s goes way beyond what we used to think.

One such study, published in 2019, suggested what could be one of the most definitive leads yet for a bacterial culprit behind Alzheimer’s, and it comes from a somewhat unexpected quarter: gum disease.

Nov 22, 2022

Electrical stimulation helps paralysed people walk again — and now we know why

Posted by in category: futurism

Detailed gene-activity map could pave way for more precise treatments for many more people with spinal-cord injuries.

Nov 22, 2022

Why we need quantum fields, not just quantum particles

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles isn’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.

Nov 22, 2022

Official Trailer | Year Million | National Geographic UK

Posted by in categories: evolution, innovation

Narrated by Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix, Apocalypse Now, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Year Million brings to life the ideas and innovations that will power our evolution throughout the universe.

Each episode will follow the story of a family as they navigate through the future, one invention at a time.

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Nov 22, 2022

Scientists Created Synthetic Muscle That’s Stronger Than Kevlar

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

Researchers believe that synthetic muscle fibers could be used in a wide variety of sustainable and environmentally friendly industrial applications, including textiles, biomedicine, and tissue engineering. In a world where it takes up to 1,800 gallons of water to produce a single pair of jeans, the development of such environmentally safe processes that provide high-strength materials for industrial applications is a great step forward.


How strong can a muscle ever get? Can it have more endurance than metal? Can it be sturdier than Kevlar? While you might be inclined to answer the above in the negative, please pause, for scientists have succeeded in developing synthetic muscle that’s stronger than Kevlar. How about that for a flex?

The science and other stuff to know

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Nov 22, 2022

Floating Solar Farms Join Other Novel Over-Water Ways to Get to Net Zero

Posted by in categories: food, solar power, sustainability

Solar farms moving from the land to the water.


Large solar arrays on land take up land that can be used to grow food. Solar arrays over water provide significant advantages.

Nov 22, 2022

Cybersecurity 101: How to choose and use an encrypted messaging app

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, encryption, mobile phones

Secure communications provider Wickr has announced that it will shutter its free encrypted messaging app, Wickr Me, next year.


Text messaging has been around since the dawn of cellular technology, and sparked its own unique language. But it’s time to put sending regular SMS messages out to pasture.

If you have an iPhone, you’re already on your way. iPhones (as well as iPads and Macs) use iMessage to send messages between Apple devices. It’s a data-based messaging system reliant on 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi, rather than SMS messaging, which uses an old, outdated but universal 2G cellular network. iMessage has grown in popularity, but has left Android devices and other computers out in the dark.

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Nov 22, 2022

This is what the Earth looks like rotating from the Moon… This is how

Posted by in categories: media & arts, space

It will be the sight of astronauts on the moon, their gaze drawn to the strange movements of planet Earth and its sun, something that is sure to be an amusing sight for future NASA astronauts at the moon’s south pole.

This visualization shows the unusual movements of the Earth and the Sun as seen from the South Pole of the Moon. The animation compresses three months (a little over three lunar days) into two minutes. The virtual camera is on the rim of the Shackleton crater, partially visible in the lower right, and is pointed at Earth. The mountain on the horizon, some 85 miles away, is unofficially known as Mons Malapert.

Here, the Sun glides across the horizon, never more than 1.5 degrees above or below it, while the Earth bobs up and down, never straying from 0° longitude. The Earth appears to be upside down and spinning backward. The Sun’s perpetually low angle casts extremely long swirling shadows over the rugged lunar terrain.

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