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    WHO declares mpox Emergency.

    The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the deadly new form of mpox spreading through parts of Africa a global health emergency. An emergency committee convened by the WHO said mpox now amounts to a public health emergency of international concern, which is the highest alert level...
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    Our Aging Immune System...New Clues.

    A WEHI study ( Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) could help solve a long-standing mystery into why a key immune organ in our bodies shrinks and loses its function as we get older. The thymus is an organ essential for good health due to its ability to produce special immune cells that are...
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    Zebrafish use surprising strategy to regrow spinal cord.

    Zebrafish are members of a rarefied group of vertebrates capable of fully healing a severed spinal cord. A clear understanding of how this regeneration takes place could provide clues toward strategies for healing spinal cord injuries in people. Such injuries can be devastating, causing...
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    Newly found star 30 times the size of the sun has an unexpected chemical composition.

    Astronomers have discovered a new star that is 30 times larger than the sun and could force a major rethink of stellar evolution theories. The star, designated J0524-0336 and located around 30,000 light-years from Earth, has a shockingly high concentration of the element lithium when compared to...
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    Inclusion overrides Fairness.

    Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo will be the first trans athlete to run in the Paralympics...Valentina Petrillo is visually impaired, and it's true. However, Petrillo won a whopping 11 national titles in visually-impaired categories as a man. Last summer, the runner took bronze in both the...
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    Blood On Fire....Fever is Actually Awesome.

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    Oceans of Water on Mars

    But far too deep to tap. Geophysicists have found evidence for a large underground reservoir of liquid water — enough to fill oceans on the planet’s surface. The data from NASA’s Insight lander allowed the scientists to estimate that the amount of groundwater could cover the entire planet to a...
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    Weekend Geometry Puzzle - 10_08_24

    In the triangle ACE, CD is the perpendicular dropped from C to AE. The angle CAD is bisected by AB. Given: DAB = CAB = 10 Deg, BCE = 40 Deg. Question: What's the angle marked θ ? (angle BED)
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    De novo gene synthesis by an antiviral Reverse Transcriptase.

    Bacteria encode hidden genes outside their genome. Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes have seemed like an open book. By reading and decoding our chromosomes as linear strings of letters, like sentences in a novel, we can identify the genes in our genome and learn...
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    Primary School Math Problem

    This is suposedly a question for 8 year olds in Singapore. The two scales show the weights of the cubes & spheres. Find the weight of a sphere. PS: 8 year olds haven't possibly got a knowledge about algebra. So can you think how a child could solve this?
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    A.I. ‐ Humanity's Final Invention?

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    Weekend Geometry Puzzle... 04_08_24

    A 12cm x 12 cm piece of cardboard is maked as shown below. The dotted lines are drawn from the bottom left corner to the mid-points of the two opposite sides. Now, the cardboard is folded along the dotted lines and position the white triangles upwards so they touch, you get a pyramid with height...
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    Hamas Leader Killed by an IED...

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    Crazy Idea - Getting Therapeutic Drugs into the Brain using a Parasite.

    Current methods of delivering therapies to the brain often produce unpredictable results or have a hard time penetrating the protective shield known as the blood-brain barrier. Shahar Bracha, a bioengineer and neuroscientist at MIT has a novel method. As a graduate student at Tel Aviv...
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    Canadian Beaches now Multicultural....

    Canadian beaches are now becoming like Indian beaches.... :unsure:
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    Maglev Powered Titanium Heart Transplant.

    The Texas Heart Institute (THI) and BiVACOR®, a clinical-stage medical device company, announced today the successful first-in-human implantation of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) as part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Early Feasibility Study (EFS) on July 9, 2024...
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    VFS (Visa Fraud & Scam) Local.....

    An interesting video....by Dr Rohan Pethiyagoda.
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    Find Happiness in Every Situation..

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    An excellent 12 sec clip - On risk mitigation and asset management.

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    Weekend Puzzles...27_07_24

    Here are a few puzzles for the weekend to think about. Some are quite easy. The Ducks. - There are two ducks in front of two ducks, two ducks behind two ducks and two ducks in between. What is the minimum number of ducks? What four-digit number reverses itself when multiplied by 4? As...

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