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    After 60 years, new hidden brain pathway found - How Metformin works.

    Metformin is the most commonly prescribed antidiabetes drug, yet its precise mechanism of action remains controversial. Previous studies have suggested that metformin acts peripherally by reducing hepatic glucose output and altering gut functions. Here, we report a neural mechanism via the...
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    Scientists Unveil New Weapon That Kills Cancer Without the Immune System.

    Challenging Over 150 Years of Immunotherapy.... Two bacteria working in harmony show powerful antitumor effects. The approach could transform treatment for immunocompromised patients. A research team led by Professor Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology...
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    Crocodile Tears and Forked Tongues: Opposition Unity in Fear, Not Principle

    The arrest of Ranil Wickremasinghe has turned the political stage of Sri Lanka into a theatre of irony and hypocrisy. What is unfolding before our eyes is not a story of loyalty or conviction—it is a spectacle of fear. The sudden “unity” of the opposition is not because they cherish Ranil, but...
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    Another Mid-air emergency.

    An AirAsia flight bound for Bali was forced to circle over Rottnest Island after suffering engine issues shortly after leaving Perth. Flight QZ545 departed Perth for Bali at 6.30pm Sunday but veered off over the Indian Ocean, circling Rottnest Island, and burning fuel so the plane was a safe...
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    MAYDAY: Multiple System Failures on A321.

    An American Airlines pilot was heard frantically declaring 'mayday' just moments after takeoff in harrowing air traffic control audio. The Philadelphia-bound flight had departed Boston Logan International Airport at 6.45pm on Sunday but was forced to turn around after just 10 minutes as the...
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    The Drug That Works TOO Well?

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    Alcohol is amazing....

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    The forgotten Genius who defied Euclid.

    János Bolyai - The Father of non-Euclidean geometry. Although he never published more than the few pages of the Appendix he left more than 20000 pages of manuscript of mathematical work when he died of pneumonia at the age of 57. These are now in the Bolyai-Teleki library in Târgu-Mureș. In...
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    A380 software updated - Erroneous Soft Thrust

    Airbus has developed a flight-computer software update for A380s after a training flight incident in which two engines received an erroneous thrust roll-back command just after take-off. The incident involved a “concurrent” thrust reduction to idle after lift-off, says the European Union...
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    United Boeing 787 Dreamliner forced to land due to Engine Failure.

    A United Airlines flight bound for Munich was forced to return to Washington Dulles International Airport shortly after takeoff on Friday, July 25, following a reported engine failure. Flight UA108, operated by a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (registration N27901), had just departed from runway 30 at...
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    Thailand & Cambodia Conflict - Border closed.

    At least 12 people – mostly Thai civilians – have been confirmed killed in clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops on the two nations' shared border, marking an escalation of a dispute which goes back over 100 years, and has been simmering for several months. Artillery and rockets have been...
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    AI 315 tail catches fire after landing at Delhi....

    The tail section of an Air India flight from Hong Kong to New Delhi caught fire at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Tuesday afternoon. All 158 passengers on board were reported safe, and the aircraft has since been grounded. The fire reportedly originated in the Auxiliary Power...
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    Delta 767 Engine on Fire....

    The aircraft landed safely without dumping fuel...
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    AI plane crash preliminary report reveals engine fuel switch changes

    A preliminary report on the Air India crash that killed 260 people in Ahmedabad last month says the plane's engine fuel switches were flipped off within seconds of each other, starving the engines, three seconds after take-off. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner immediately began to lose thrust and...
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    Preliminary report into Air India crash submitted - but may not be made public

    A preliminary report into the doomed Air India Flight 171 that crashed moments after take off has been submitted to Indian authorities - but there is currently no obligation to make it public. The report has been filed by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) and is based on the...
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    Photon Matrix - Chinese startup mosquito zapping laser kills 30 bugs per second

    A Chinese firm has come up with a laser weapon design that it claims can kill up to 30 mosquitoes every second. The gadget – called Photon Matrix – is a “prototype of the first mosquito air defense system capable of identifying and neutralizing mosquitoes using high-specification LiDAR technology.”
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    New Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes could free people from Insulin injections.

    A new therapy for type 1 diabetes could nix the need for insulin injections. Just a single infusion of lab-grown pancreatic cells let patients’ bodies make all the insulin they needed, scientists report. A year after treatment, 10 out of 12 participants no longer needed supplemental insulin...
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    Inhibiting enzyme could halt cell death in Parkinson’s disease - Stanford Medicine Study

    Putting the brakes on an enzyme might rescue neurons that are dying due to a type of Parkinson’s disease that’s caused by a single genetic mutation, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study conducted in mice. The genetic mutation causes an enzyme called leucine-rich repeat kinase 2, or...

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