Older people typically spend their days in the comfort of their homes, resting and relaxing as they pass their time. But John Brooker, who is over 75, decided that he would do something artistic and spent almost 13 years transforming a hedge into a dragon topiary. The dragon topiary “My wife is the gardener, I ...
For a long time, scientists have noted something curious about schizophrenia — there are almost no blind schizophrenics. The latest research now suggests that blindness does indeed protect a person from this psychological condition. Blindness and schizophrenia Researchers looked at data from about 467,945 kids born between 1980 and 2001 in Western Australia. Almost 1,870 ...
Modern manufacturing environments grow more sophisticated by the day thanks to ubiquitous Internet connections, networked sensors, and smart machines and instruments. These networks, collectively known as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), provide the means to control industrial equipment from a distance and gather useful data on their condition and operation. HMIs — human-machine interfaces — ...
The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus has triggered a huge spike in demand for face masks. In places like Hong Kong, supplies of masks have dwindled, putting people at risk. Prices of the masks have also spiked due to the humongous demand. To resolve the issue, a team of scientists from Hong Kong has come ...
A team of scientists from the U.S. has succeeded in genetically editing the immune cells of cancer patients through CRISPR. The results of the experiments were published in the journal Science, and provide hope that the technique might one day be used in patients to effectively treat cancer. Editing cancer cells “Researchers at the University ...
In space, astronauts often live with the risk of being exposed to too much radiation, which could cause severe damage to their long-term health. Researchers have discovered a strain of fungus that might help resolve this issue. This particular fungus, called Cryptococcus neoformans, apparently has the ability to feed on radiation and was discovered at ...
Over 1,000 people have died from the coronavirus COVID-19 infection in China alone. As the virus spreads all across the globe, the international community is worried about whether the infection can be contained or not since there is no known cure for it. As someone trying to keep themselves and their family safe from the coronavirus, ...
An object 500 million light-years away from Earth has been sending signals once every 16 days, baffling scientists. Such signals, called Fast Radio Bursts (FRB), have been detected before. In fact, scientists already know about 100 types of FRBs. But what makes this specific FRB special is that it is the only one to have ...
What we know Numbers continued to climb after the government changed the criteria by which it tracks confirmed cases. China on February 14 reported 5,090 new coronavirus (now renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization) cases and 121 new deaths in the previous 24 hours. The authorities said a total of 63,851 people have been ...
One hundred and three people died from the coronavirus on February 10, a new daily record since the new coronavirus was first detected in December, as the death toll rose to 1,011, said China’s National Health Commission. That new total surpasses the toll from the SARS epidemic of 2002-03, according to official data. The SARS ...
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