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Dec 2, 2018

Three astronauts will launch to space on Monday — two months after botched flight

Posted by in category: space

The trio are the first to fly on the Soyuz after it broke apart with two astronauts on board.

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Dec 2, 2018

Black hole BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists ‘REWRITE astronomy textbooks’ with space discovery

Posted by in categories: cosmology, innovation

BLACK holes are the most mysterious objects in the universe, but scientists have come one small step closer to understanding the impossibly powerful phenomena.

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Dec 2, 2018

Screening for Early Lung Cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing

But while screening can be extremely helpful, it also carries some risks. Here’s what you need to know about lung cancer screenings.

How does lung cancer screening work?

Currently, there’s only one recommended screening test for lung cancer: low-dose computer tomography (low-dose CT scan). This test creates images of the inside of the body — or in this case, the lungs — using low doses of radiation.

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Dec 2, 2018

Can Artificial Intelligence Make Doctors Better?

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

Artificial intelligence and machine learning: the next revolution in medicine and cancer research.

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Dec 2, 2018

Cafe in Japan Hires Paralyzed People to Control Robot Servers

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

The OriHime-D can also be used by people involved in childcare, nursing care or other activities that prevent them from leaving home or a certain location.


A cafe with an all-robot staff controlled by paralyzed people has opened in Tokyo.

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Dec 2, 2018

Proton beam failure leaves hundreds of child cancer patients at risk

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government

Hundreds of children with cancer are resorting to inferior treatment because of a failure to open two flagship specialist centres, experts have warned.

NHS officials have admitted that no patient has yet received state-of-the-art proton beam therapy (PBT) at either its new London or Manchester sites, despite a Government pledge to be treating 1,500 a year by 2018.

Leading oncologists have called for transparency after two promised opening dates at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust were missed this year and the deadline quietly pushed back.

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Dec 2, 2018

These Dresses Record Groping Because So Many Men Won’t Believe Women

Posted by in categories: computing, internet

Even after the rise of #MeToo, disbelief is all too commonly the outcome of reporting sexual harassment and assault. Many women describe the experience of having men they trust doubt the severity and frequency of what they have to put up with as painful as the experience itself. Advertising agency Ogilvy wondered if men would be more likely to pay attention to smart clothing than the women in their lives, so they created dresses that keep a record of events.

The dresses have sensors sewn into them that record contact and pressure. Any impact on a sensor is sent via wifi to a computer that not only keeps track of what is happening but translates it into a heat map of location and time of contact with the body.

When three women wore the dresses to a Brazilian party, they were touched non-consensually 157 times in less than four hours – a rate of more than once every five minutes per woman. As the video below shows, this is despite repeatedly telling the men involved to stop.

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Dec 2, 2018

Why the future will forget about meat

Posted by in categories: food, futurism

Food experts are learning to love fake beef. By the 22nd century, the real thing may be a rarity.


Food experts like Michael Pollan are learning to love fake beef. Will the real thing even exist in the 22nd century?

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Dec 2, 2018

Researchers develop painless method to evaluate tumor progression

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

NANJING — Chinese researchers have developed a new evaluating model using medical imaging to help painlessly evaluate tumor progression in patients.

Doctors usually use the biological characteristics of tumors to observe the progress and response to treatment, such as if there are gene mutations or malignant features. Previous studies have shown that identifying the biological characteristics may contribute to better treatment and may increase survival rates.

Traditional methods to get tumor tissue include surgery and puncture, which are invasive, painful and costly.

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Dec 2, 2018

Untangling the Origin of String Theory

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, quantum physics

In the summer of 1968, while a visitor in CERN’s theory division, Gabriele Veneziano wrote a paper titled “Construction of a crossing-symmetric, Regge behaved amplitude for linearly-rising trajectories”. He was trying to explain the strong interaction, but his paper wound up marking the beginning of string theory.

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