ION Storage Systems experts have developed an advanced solid-state battery that can survive over 1,000 charge cycles without degradation.
A 70-year-old man with a history of hypertension and chronic migraine presented with 10 months’ history of progressive generalized muscle weakness and stiffness. He reported a 19-kg unintentional weight loss over the last 7 months. He described worsening exertional dyspnea over the past 3 weeks prior to presentation. He had multiple surgical procedures for joint contractures and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome in the past 5 years. He had no history of smoking or alcohol consumption. Physical examination revealed generalized muscle wasting except for hypertrophy of bilateral shoulder muscles (Figure 1 A) with proximal muscle weakness of the shoulders. The reflexes and sensation were intact in both upper limbs, and there was no distal weakness.
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In a social media post on Friday, Elon Musk said his startup xAI has acquired his social media company X.
Researchers have developed a tiny magnetic robot that can take 3D scans from deep within the body and could revolutionise early cancer detection.
The team, led by engineers from the University of Leeds, says this is the first time high-resolution three-dimensional ultrasound images taken from a probe deep inside the gastrointestinal tract, or gut, have been generated.
It paves the way to transforming the diagnosis and treatment of several forms of cancer by enabling ‘virtual biopsies’ – noninvasive scans that provide immediate diagnostic data. These scans allow doctors to detect, stage, and potentially treat lesions in a single procedure, eliminating the need for physical biopsies.
Wenzhou Medical University and collaborating institutions have identified a population of human neural retinal stem-like cells able to regenerate retinal tissue and support visual recovery.
Vision loss caused by retinal degeneration affects millions worldwide. Conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration involve the irreversible loss of light-sensitive neural cells in the retina. While current treatments may slow progression, they do not replace damaged tissue.
For decades, scientists have explored whether stem cells could be used to regenerate the retina, but the existence of true retinal stem cells in humans has remained uncertain. In fish and amphibians, the outer edge of the retina houses stem cells that regenerate tissue continuously. Whether a comparable system exists in the human eye has been debated for more than two decades.
Well done Gaia & crew. [ https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Star-mapping_space_telesc…t_999.html](https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Star-mapping_space_telesc…t_999.html)
After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into “retirement orbit” around the Sun on Thursday, the European Space Agency said.
Since launching in 2013, the telescope has been charting the positions, motion and properties of nearly two billion stars to create a vast map of the Milky Way, revealing many secrets of the cosmos along the way, the ESA said in a statement.
Gaia uncovered evidence of massive galaxies slamming into each other, identified vast clusters of stars, helped discover new exoplanets and mapped millions of galaxies and blazing galactic monsters called quasars.
After 25 years of smashing gold nuclei together at light speeds, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is hanging up its boots—erm, superconducting magnets.
The collider’s final run—its 25th—kicked off this week on Long Island, in a swan song for the venerable collider that will be succeeded—in fact, transformed into—Brookhaven Lab’s Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Over the course of 2025, RHIC physicists will complete data collection on quark-gluon plasma, the soup of particles that existed in the earliest days of the universe.
“The original idea behind RHIC was to create, for the first time on Earth, a state of matter that existed in the universe a few microseconds after the Big Bang: the quark-gluon plasma, and we did,” said James Dunlop, the associate department chair for nuclear physics at Brookhaven Lab, in a call with Gizmodo. “That’s one of the big legacies—that we actually created it—but the more interesting thing is that its properties were quite different from what we’d expected them to be.”
Fans of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio behind “Spirited Away” and other beloved movies, were delighted this week when a new version of ChatGPT let them transform popular internet memes or personal photos into the distinct style of Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki.