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    Drug trial offers prostate cancer patients new hope.

    Background Enzalutamide and lutetium-177 [177Lu]Lu-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-617 both improve overall survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Androgen and PSMA receptors have a close intracellular relationship, with data suggesting complementary...
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    FR petition filed to halt presidential election

    Colombo, July 03 - A fundamental rights petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an order to prevent the Election Commission from conducting the Presidential Election until the Court decides on the incumbent President's tenure. C.D. Lenawa, a professional entrepreneur, submitted...
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    Nanorobot kills cancer cells in mice with hidden weapon.

    Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed nanorobots that kill cancer cells in mice. The robot's weapon is hidden in a nanostructure and is exposed only in the tumor microenvironment, sparing healthy cells. The research group at Karolinska Institutet has previously...
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    Indian Physicists stumble upon a new Series for π

    While investigating how string theory can be used to explain certain physical phenomena, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have stumbled upon on a new series representation for the irrational number π. It provides an easier way to extract π from calculations involved in...
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    South Korea and Japan study links Covid to lasting neuropsychiatric issues, highlights vaccination benefits.

    Study links COVID-19 to lasting neuropsychiatric issues, highlights vaccination benefits. In a recent study researchers used a large, binational cohort (total n = 4,731,778) to investigate the short- and long-term associations between SARS-CoV-2 infections and subsequent adverse...
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    Tajikistan ban the Hijab...

    The country of Tajikistan is making headlines. The Muslim-majority country’s parliament has passed a law, banning the hijab, terming it as “alien” to its culture. The country of Tajikistan, where over 90 per cent of the population is Muslim, has officially banned hijabs for women. The...
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    Finland to start Bird Flu Vaccinations.

    Beginning next week, Finland will roll out bird flu vaccinations for 10,000 individuals, aged 18 or over, who are at increased risk of contracting avian influenza due to the nature of their work or other circumstances. This comes after the Nordic country culled approximately 485,000 animals to...
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    Some Facts about the Voyager Spacecraft

    Many showed much interest on the Voyager -1 and someone mentioned about the Camera. Here are some facts about the Voyagers. The Voyager -1 took it's last photo the "Solar System Family Portrait" in 14 February 1990. The Solar System "family portrait" is the final series of 60 images captured...
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    Voyager 1 is back online returning data from all four instruments.

    Voyager-1 hass resumed full science operations after a technical issue began creating complications in November 2023. Voyager 1's dogged team was determined to not only figure out what went wrong, but also to fix the problem. And they've succeeded! Controllers identified where the issue was...
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    Another Looming Man made Disaster?

    Defunct satellites burning up in the atmosphere could damage the ozone layer. Communications companies such as Starlink plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites into orbit around Earth over the next decade or so. The growing swarm is already causing problems for astronomers, but recent...
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    A Blood Test to Predict Parkinson's

    Currently there's no definitive way of identifying Parkinson's before the onset of at least a few symptoms. The risk can be asseseed by family history and checking for certain genetic mutations. Before any motor symptoms appears there are other prodromal symptoms can appear years before - eg...
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    Nalanda University reopens after 800 years.

    One of India’s most famous universities from antiquity, Nalanda University, reopened this Monday after a hiatus of over 800 years. Both the ruins of the old Nalanda University and the new Nalanda University are located near Rajgir in India’s Bihar state, an area that has a high concentration of...
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    Geometric Puzzle - 17_06_24

    Easy problem. Can be solved in several ways. Given : The radius of the semicircle is 5 units. Angle ACE = Angle BCD = 60 degrees Find: The length DE
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    Child's Homework Problem

    Below is a daughter's homework problem posted by her father Sir Timothy Gowers. He's a Fields Medal winner (like the Nobel Prize for Mathematicians) and currently Professeur titulaire de la chaire Combinatoire, which translates as the holder of the Combinatorics chair at at the Collège de...
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    Weekend Geometric Puzzle

    The dotted lines are parallel and the green area is a perfect square. Find the area of this square. PS: Please try on your own. It's not difficult.
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    Custody case of a 6 year old in NY

    New York, NY (AP) - A six-year-old boy was at the center of a NYC courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child...
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    Vlada & Yevhenii - Aerial Roller Skate

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