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Dec 16, 2024
How to Win an Interstellar War
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: alien life
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Dec 16, 2024
In Photos: See The ‘Cold Moon’ Light Up Christmas Skies In Once-In-18-Years Event
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
The Cold Moon, named for the frigid temperatures of December in the Northern Hemisphere, is also known as the Long Nights Moon, a nod to the extended hours of darkness this time of year.
It’s also called the Moon Before Yule, which refers to ancient Pagan winter solstice celebrations. The Celts also called it the Oak Moon. Native American names for December’s full moon include the Drift Clearing Moon and the Winter Maker Moon.
The next full moon, the Wolf Moon, will rise on Jan. 13, 2025.
Dec 16, 2024
NASA DAVINCI Mission’s Many ‘Firsts’ to Unlock Venus’ Hidden Secrets
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
NASA’s DAVINCI probe will be first in 21st century to brave Venus’ atmosphere as it descends from above the planet down to its surface.
Dec 16, 2024
The Silent Pandemic of Antifungal Resistance
Posted by Arthur Brown in category: biotech/medical
As the world grapples with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, another insidious threat looms large: drug-resistant fungi.
Dec 16, 2024
Histotripsy: Destroying cancer tumors with sound waves
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
“The future of medicine is the medicine of frequencies.” – Albert Einstein.
Imagine a future where cancerous tumors inside the body could be destroyed using only sound waves. Well… the future is now. And it’s called histotripsy.
Histotripsy is a non-invasive process that uses sound waves to completely eliminate cancer tumors. Like radiation therapy, doctors point an ultrasound device at your tumor and “zap it.” But unlike radiotherapy, there is no cancer-causing radiation or heat involved, tumors can be destroyed in one treatment, there is minimal damage to surrounding tissue, a low rate of complications, faster recovery time, and it has been shown to activate immune cells to identify and target any remaining cancer cells in the body.
Dec 16, 2024
Gameto Announces World’s First Live Birth Using Fertilo Procedure that Matures Eggs Outside the Body
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in categories: biotech/medical, health
IVF technology matures eggs in a culture of iPSC (induced stem cell)-derived ovarian cells.
A baby was born in their trial, marking “first ever human birth using using iPSC technology” company claims.
Gameto useds iPSCs, or induced pluripotent stem cells. Same as embryonic stem cell, except made by inducing (forcing) a skin cell or white blood from a donor cell to become a stem cell using a protein cocktail. Dont need embryo to start.
Dec 16, 2024
China: Ampace’s cylindrical lithium battery charges 80% in 10 minutes
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, innovation
A China-based firm has launched a novel energy storage device that tackles the 18650-battery power challenge. Introduced by Ampace, the latest JP30 cylindrical lithium battery is claimed to be capable of delivering breakthrough performance in a compact form.
Themed “Working Non-stop, compact and more powerful”, the new battery is the latest addition to the JP series.
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Dec 16, 2024
Probiotic Delivers Anti-cancer Drug to the Gut
Posted by Natalie Chan in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry
Oral immunotherapy shrinks gastrointestinal tumors in mouse study.
Immunotherapy is a promising treatment that recruits the immune system to help fight cancer, but it has had limited success in gastrointestinal cancers. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have engineered a probiotic that delivers immunotherapy directly to the gut to shrink tumors in mice, offering a potentially promising oral drug for hard-to-reach cancers.
The probiotic cancer treatment, described Nov. 20 in the journal Cell Chemical Biology, establishes a customizable drug delivery system that can be modified to potentially treat other gut diseases.
Dec 16, 2024
ScienceEnergyAmerica Is Building the World’s Biggest Battery—And It Will Run on Rust
Posted by Arthur Brown in category: energy
Built on the bones of a shuttered mill, the battery will store 8,500 megawatt-hours of energy, enough to power about 57,000 homes.