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    Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?

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    World's Highest Jumping Robot

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    Unkillable Water Bears

    The recent thread on Irukandji Jellyfish that mentioned about Turritopsis dohrnii, the 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish. This reminded me of another creature that's virtually indestructible - The Water Bear. Water Bears, or Tardigrades, are chubby little anomalies that are damn near...
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    Self-Boosting vaccines are on the Horizon.

    Multiple usage of vaccine doses are usually needed to properly prime the immune system. Administering a single patient with multiple doses at different times is a tedious, time consuming procedure. So far we do not have a method to overcome this problem. However, a research team from MIT's Koch...
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    Dead woman 'addresses' her mourners.

    AI & Death....... :oo:
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    Covid, MonkeyPox & HIV together.

    The first instance of all the above diseases together has been reported. An Italian who had a short 5 day holiday in Spain had a headache on June 29, which was 9 days after he returned. On July 2, he tested positive for COVID-19, and he noticed a rash on his left arm later that afternoon. On...
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    A New Era in Powered Prosthetics

    All currently available lower-limb prosthetics are either unpowered or underpowered. For transfemoral (above-knee) amputees, the muscles and joints in the hip, back, and sound limb are tasked with providing all of the energy that would typically be provided by the amputated limb. This transfer...
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    The Saga of the Covid Vaccines.

    The Covid-19 virus gets auto updated quite frequently, but the sad story is the vaccines never got really updated. It was only the last July 28th an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration met to discuss whether vaccine developers should update their jabs to include a portion...
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    BioEngineered Corneal Implants.

    With corneal blindness affecting an estimated 12.7 million people worldwide, novel treatment approaches are required. Corneal transplantation is the current gold-standard treatment option for corneal blindness. When corneal transplants fail, prosthetic devices can be used in the most severe...
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    The Despot President Was Replaced By A Tyrant In Sri Lanka

    Prof. Sunil J Wimalawansa As demonstrated over the years, the current politicians have no interest in the welfare of constituents and the country. Hardly anyone seems to put the country first. Instead of proper planning and developing the country and bringing legislation to support it, the...
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    New method for the detection of aggressive Prostate Cancer

    A team of researchers from thw CHUM Research Center in Montreal has a new method that could herald a new turning point in the treatment of prostate cancer. They applied a combination of 'Raman microspectroscopy' with machine learning techniques to obtain results. They were able to collect Raman...
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    MonkeyPox- Human to Dog Transmission reported

    More than 80 countries where monkeypox is not endemic have reported outbreaks of the viral disease, The total confirmed cases crossed 32,000 and non-endemic countries reported their first related deaths. There has been evidence of monkeypox transmission in prairie dogs in the United States, as...
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    Gullfoss - Iceland - Europe's Largest by Volume

    Gullfoss (translated to ‘Golden Falls’) is one of Iceland’s most iconic and beloved waterfalls, found in the Hvítá river canyon in Southwest Iceland. This falls is about a two hour drive from Reykjavik, but along the normal tourist route, called the "Golden Circle" route. It's very close to...
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    Why English Is So Hard?

    On oldie back in circulation.... :P We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural...
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    What is π squared

    We all know that π is the area of a unit circle. What is π^2 (pi squared) ?
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    Potential good news for Asthma sufferers.

    Allergic asthma is an incredibly common and widely researched disease, with over 339 million people affected worldwide. Asthma is characterized by the presence of airway remodeling, such as increased smooth muscle accumulation around the airways, collagen accumulation within the airway wall...
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    Can We Throw Satellites to Space?

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    Flashback 14 September 2021 - The Perfect Storm.

    An article that was initially published on the 14 September 2021. Penned by Prof Janek Ranatunga. The Collapse of Lebanon–Lessons for Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has seen its own exodus of economic refugees, especially after the ethnic conflict in the north. This, coupled with the demographic...
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    Recent eruption - Volcano in Iceland.

    We were at this place exactly a month ago... (a bit too early visit :( )
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    UCI develops a test that detects specific SARS-CoV-2 variants with 100% accuracy

    University of California, Irvine researchers have developed a COVID-19 test that detects and identifies specific SARS-CoV-2 variants with 100% accuracy. REVEALR (RNA-encoded viral nucleic acid analytic reporter), a rapid and highly sensitive DNAzyme-based detection system, functions with perfect...
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