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Dec 27, 2021

A Mother Built a Solar-Powered Unit To Save Infants From a Common Disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

A small box glowing with a brilliant blue light has saved the lives of numerous babies since its inception, and it’s only getting started.

This innovative box is called Crib A’Glow, and it’s a low-cost phototherapy solution for treating newborn babies with neonatal jaundice, a condition in which a baby’s skin and the whites of the eyes appear yellow due to excess bilirubin. When untreated, this ailment, which is extremely common as newborns haven’t developed the liver function to properly process the bilirubin, can cause hearing loss, blindness, brain damage, and even death, which is why instant treatment is recommended. This is where the novel phototherapy unit comes in.

Crib A’Glow was developed by Virtue Oboro 0, a mother and graphic designer from Nigeria, after her son’s experience with jaundice. Shortly after giving birth in 2015, Oboro noticed the classic yellow hue commonly associated with the disease in her son, and right after, he was diagnosed with jaundice. However, due to a lack of available phototherapy units in the hospital, his health deteriorated to the point that a blood transfusion was needed immediately. Her son survived the incident; however, Oboro was a changed woman after that.

Dec 27, 2021

China Allegedly Launched Three Warships. In Just One Day?

Posted by in category: military

Apparently, China has managed to launch three new ships in a day.

According to sources like the Alibaba Group-owned South China Morning Post, Chinese ship makers managed to launch three new warships on Christmas Eve 2021. Destined for Thailand, Pakistan, and their own fleets, these ships are some of the country’s most advanced vessels.

Almost a mockery of the Christmas hymn I Saw Three Ships\.

Dec 27, 2021

China Steps In the Metaverse with Baidu: Meet Xi Rang

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones, virtual reality

Meta surely won’t have a free run.

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has launched its own version of the metaverse, called Xi Rang, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported. A video released by the media outlet shows users experiencing the metaverse through virtual reality (VR) headsets and handheld controllers.

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Dec 27, 2021

Language modelling at scale: Gopher, ethical considerations, and retrieval

Posted by in category: futurism

We are publishing a detailed study of a 280-billion parameter transformer language model called Gopher, a study of ethical and social risks associated with large language models, and a paper investigating a new architecture with better training efficiency.

Dec 27, 2021

A 62-Year-Old Paralyzed Man Sent Out His First Tweet With Brain Chip

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

When technology allows you to do things by just thinking, it provides a massive boost to people whose functional independence has been taken away.

Dec 27, 2021

The Evolution of Robotics- The Story Behind and it’s Future

Posted by in categories: physics, robotics/AI

As robotics is growing, tech enthusiasts are looking beyond the story of the evolution of robotics and learning deeply about what is robotics. This article deals with the robotics evolution.


A magnetic field can be used to switch nanolasers on and off, shows new research from Aalto University. The physics underlying this discovery paves the way for the development of optical signals that cannot be disturbed by external disruptions, leading to unprecedented robustness in signal processing.

Dec 27, 2021

Using magnets to toggle nanolasers leads to better photonics

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A magnetic field can be used to switch nanolasers on and off, shows new research from Aalto University. The physics underlying this discovery paves the way for the development of optical signals that cannot be disturbed by external disruptions, leading to unprecedented robustness in signal processing.

Lasers concentrate light into extremely bright beams that are useful in a variety of domains, such as broadband communication and medical diagnostics devices. About ten years ago, extremely small and fast lasers known as plasmonic nanolasers were developed. These nanolasers are potentially more power-efficient than traditional lasers, and they have been of great advantage in many fields—for example, nanolasers have increased the sensitivity of biosensors used in medical diagnostics.

So far, switching nanolasers on and off has required manipulating them directly, either mechanically or with the use of heat or light. Now, researchers have found a way to remotely control nanolasers.

Dec 27, 2021

This Boiling Liquid goes in your MONITOR — Facility Tour!

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, quantum physics

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Dec 27, 2021

Meet iRonCub, a small humanoid robot that can fly

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

IRonCub is equipped with jet engines that will help make it fly.

Dec 27, 2021

Ancient DNA study reveals large-scale migrations into Bronze Age Britain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest such analysis published to date, scientists examined the DNA of nearly 800 ancient individuals.

The new study, led by the University of York, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Vienna, shows that people moving into southern Britain around 1300‒800 BC were responsible for around half the genetic ancestry of subsequent populations.

The combined DNA and suggests that, rather than a violent invasion or a single migratory event, the genetic structure of the population changed through sustained contacts between mainland Britain and Europe over several centuries, such as the movement of traders, intermarriage, and small scale movements of family groups.