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Nov 30, 2022

Scientists developed a non-surgical treatment model for carpal tunnel syndrome

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The treatment does not require anesthesia or hospitalization.

A novel non-surgical treatment method could mark an end to the sufferings of carpal tunnel syndrome patients, according to a study that will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a nerve entrapment neuropathy that is caused by pressure on the median nerve and tendons inside the carpal tunnel. Its symptoms, which may include tingling, numbness, or weakness in the fingers or hand, can affect one’s daily life negatively due to a loss of proprioception.

Nov 30, 2022

Once worth $26 billion, Sam Bankman-Fried now has $100,000 to his name

Posted by in category: cryptocurrencies

He does not know what happened to his Twitter stake either.

Former FTX CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was living the living billionaire dream until earlier this month. Then FTX collapsed in a matter of days and the man who held a personal fortune of $26 billion at one time is now down to his last $100,000, Axios.

The rise of SBF was a textbook case of a young entrepreneur who struck gold in a field that was still in its infancy, and most knew little about it. Even today, very few really understand how the world of cryptocurrency works, and where it is headed. But one thing is for certain, SBF won’t be a name that will be featured in successful crypto stories henceforth. He was at the helm of affairs when FTX collapsed and so did billions of dollars’ worth of investor wealth.

Nov 30, 2022

FIFA World Cup’s high-tech ball just invalidated Ronaldo’s ‘record-breaking’ goal

Posted by in category: futurism

The soccer star had claimed his head brushed the ball in Portugal’s opening goal against Uruguay.

FIFA has now provided an explanation for why Portugal’s opening goal against Uruguay was not awarded to five-time Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo.

The 37-year-old, the world’s most recognized soccer player, claimed his head brushed the ball during the opening goal against the opponents in Monday’s encounter of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Nov 30, 2022

Cirq: Cirq is a Python software library for writing, manipulating, and optimizing quantum circuits, and then running them on quantum computers and quantum simulators

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Nov 30, 2022

How tardigrades come back from the dead

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, genetics, life extension

Year 2017 Basically the tardigrade is the most promising set of genes on any creature due to many types of survival genes like going years without food or even genes for radiation resistance which could be used in crispr to augment human genes.


Tardigrades — aka water bears or moss piglets — are perhaps the most resilient creatures on the planet, able to survive complete dehydration, space vacuum and being frozen. However, only recently have scientists begun to unravel the genes that underpin the tardigrade’s biological superpowers. “They’re 0.2mm to 1mm in length and despite being so small they are able to do all these things we cannot,” says Mark Blaxter, a biologist at the University of Edinburgh who has been studying tardigrades for 20 years. “In their DNA, they hold a cornucopia of secrets.”

With Kazurahu Arakawa, from the University of Keio, Japan, Blaxter recently analysed the first true tardigrade genome. The results, published today in the open access journal PLOS Biology, are a first step towards explaining the genetics underpinning the tardigrade’s extraordinary resilience and to pinpoint its place within the evolutionary tree of life. We spoke to Blaxter about his new research and his fascination for this remarkable little animal.

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Nov 30, 2022

‘Holdout Humans’: Chilling Glimpse Into Our Future if We Survive Another Million Years

Posted by in category: futurism

This was an entertaining read for me, maybe some of you will like it too!


Most species are transitory. They go extinct, branch into new species or change over time due to random mutations and environmental shifts. A typical mammalian species can be expected to exist for a million years.

Modern humans, Homo sapiens, have been around for roughly 300,000 years. So what will happen if we make it to a million years?

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Nov 30, 2022

There must be a singularity at each black hole’s center

Posted by in categories: cosmology, singularity

We’ll never be able to extract any information about what’s inside a black hole’s event horizon. Here’s why a singularity is inevitable.

Nov 30, 2022

NASA’s Artemis 1 Delivers a New Pale Blue Dot Image

Posted by in category: space

Lifeboat Earth appears tiny in the immense blackness of space, a compelling and iconic image.


This is Lifeboat Earth, currently, the only known place where life exists in The Universe., and we are putting it at risk.

Nov 30, 2022

Robotic Fish Is Powered by ‘Robot-Blood’ and Has No Battery

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

This little robot fish is 40 centimeters long and is made of a soft, rubber-like material.

It’s propelled by a dual-function fluid that is pulsated through the body of the fish through a simple circulatory mechanism – similar to blood (and otherwise described as “robot blood”).

Nov 30, 2022

Thousands of phages found to have CRISPR gene editing system

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Los Angeles, working with a colleague from Vilnius University, has found evidence of thousands of phages with DNA strands that should allow them to conduct gene editing on other viruses or bacteria. Their paper has been published in the open-access journal Cell.

In 2012, some of the researchers on this same team discovered that CRISPR-Cas9 could be programmed using RNA to edit targeted DNA strands from other organisms (and won a Nobel prize for it). Their work emerged from findings that many types of use CRISPR-Cas systems to defend against viral attacks. Using such systems, bacteria can cut and remove strands of DNA from and store them in their own genomes to combat the same viral strain should it attack again.

Since that time, researchers have found that some viruses have similar machinery, but it was deemed to be rare. In this new effort, the researchers sought to determine actual prevalence.