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The wearable robot helps patients who are afraid of needles.

A recent study in Japan has revealed that a hand-held soft robot can improve the experience of patients while undergoing medical treatments, such as injections and other unpleasant therapies or immunizations.

Inspired by vaccinations during Covid

The research was inspired in part by the numerous needles people had to endure while being vaccinated against Covid-19. Some people had an aversion to these needles, which led to less people getting vaccinated, reducing the rates. Although there have been numerous studies explaining patients’ pain and anxiety during treatment, there have been few solutions studied or discussed to help patients.

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It can download 230 million photographs in one second.

We all want more internet power and now we may just get it. A single computer chip has transmitted a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fiber-optic cable.

230 million photographs downloaded in one second

That amount exhibited enough bandwidth to download 230 million photographs in that time. The initiative was led by Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen.

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Knowing a meteorite’s origin is key to understanding the universe.

An international team of scientists has been exploring the samples of asteroid Ryugu brought back to Earth in 2020 by Hayabusa2 and may have stumbled upon their source, according to a press release published by the Natural History Museum on Thursday.

An extremely rare group of meteorites

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The new research saw scientists follow 100,000 participants in the UK Biobank national cohort.

Smartphones could soon be used to predict populations’ mortality rates, according to a press release by PLOS Digital Health.

Previous studies have used measures of physical fitness, including walk tests and self-reported walk pace, to predict individual mortality risk. Now scientists are taking it a step further.

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It enables us to make extraordinary leaps of imagination.

We all have to make hard decisions from time to time. The hardest of my life was whether or not to change research fields after my Ph.D., from fundamental physics to climate physics. I had job offers that could have taken me in either direction — one to join Stephen Hawking’s Relativity and Gravitation Group at Cambridge University, another to join the Met Office as a scientific civil servant.

I wrote down the pros and cons of both options as one is supposed to do, but then couldn’t make up my mind at all. Like Buridan’s donkey, I was unable to move to either the bale of hay or the pail of water.

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Royal Caribbean International has revealed illustrations of the highly anticipated Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, according to a press release by the firm published on Thursday.

The record-breaking ship is set to arrive in late 2023 ahead of its January 2024 debut.

Raising the bar in the travel industry

Among its many features, the cruise ship will boast a beach retreat, a resort escape and a theme park adventure, giving guests access to all kinds of fun and entertainment for all ages.

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If you’ve never heard of molten salt reactors before, prepare to have your mind blown. These cutting-edge pieces of technology might well be the answer to freeing our species from its addiction to fossil fuels.

First constructed and operated in the 1960s, molten salt reactors are an interesting and promising energy technology. There’s a variety of different designs for these reactors, but they all, in essence, primarily utilize molten fluoride salts kept under low pressure as the primary coolant for the reactor.

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Hey everyone! I upgraded a previous redstone build to support 3D Wireframe Rendering! Thanks everyone who suggested this, it was a lot of fun! bigsmile

!!! WATCH PART 1 HERE!!!
https://youtu.be/vfPGuUDuwmo.

0:00 Introduction.
1:00 Defining a Wireframe.
1:36 Building UI and Vertex memory.
3:31 Deriving the Rendering Equations.
8:15 Python Simulator.
9:09 Building the Renderer.
13:32 First successful render!
14:34 Python Schematic Generator.
16:02 Building the Frame Buffer.
17:25 Rotation time!
21:21 Vertex Rotator.
23:06 Final Assembly.
23:49 Showcase.

Big thank you to @Sloimay for miscellaneous help, and of course for writing MCSchematic.

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A titanium robotic exoskeleton is helping an eight-year-old boy in Mexico learn to walk after being wheelchair-bound for most of his life.

The boy, David, suffers from cerebral palsy, a group of neurological disorders that surfaces during early childhood and hinders a child’s ability to control their muscle movements. In effect, it makes it extremely difficult for an affected child to walk and maintain their balance and posture.

As you can imagine, rehabilitating a child with cerebral palsy is a long and arduous process. But now, David’s speeding up his rehabilitation with the help of the battery-powered Atlas 2030 exoskeleton, developed by award winning Spanish roboticist Elena García Armada.

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