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Aug 3, 2021

Hackers Hit Las Vegas Hospital, Stealing And Sharing Personal Data

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The hacker group posted proof of the breach at University Medical Center by sharing images of people’s drivers licenses and more. In other news, a new report says Georgia skipped infection-control inspections of hospitals during the pandemic.

Aug 3, 2021

Airlines like United and American are dedicating billions of dollars to fly a new type of aircraft that won’t require pilots

Posted by in category: transportation

The two airlines aim to be at the forefront of a burgeoning industry but the greatest hurdle might be getting travelers to fly on the new aircraft.

Aug 3, 2021

This 40sqm sustainable tiny home built using repurposed materials features a 30-degree solar-paneled roof!

Posted by in categories: habitats, sustainability

Built with an angled roof, the galvanized clad tiny home accommodates travelers near and far who want to get closer to rural Australia.

Aug 3, 2021

Hubble captures 3 galaxies caught in a gravitational tug of war

Posted by in category: space

A new image hints at the cosmic fate of the Milky Way.


Astronomers on the Hubble Team captured a three-way tug of war between galactic siblings as their gravitational force pulled on one another.

Aug 3, 2021

Israeli doctor uses tiny, robot ‘hands’ to untrap urethra

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

For the first time in Israel, a doctor at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva has used a da Vinci robot to perform the complex surgery of untrapping a man’s ureter from behind his vena cava — the largest vein in the body that carries blood to the heart from other areas.

Last month, a 41-year-old patient checked in to Beilinson suffering from the effects of retrocaval ureter, a ureter that abnormally encircles the inferior vena cava. Only one in 1500 people are born with this deformity, which worsens over decades until eventually it leads to sepsis.

With a retrocaval ureter, the ureter passes behind the large vein instead of in front of it or right by it. The only way to cure the person is to perform a complex operation to move the ureter.

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Aug 3, 2021

Forget Wheels, NASA Seeks University Students’ BIG Ideas for Robots

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Aug 3, 2021

High-energy laser weapons move quickly from prototype to deployment

Posted by in categories: chemistry, military, robotics/AI

High-energy #lasers are moving quickly from prototype to deployment for the #USArmy and #USNavy. We’ve helped make that happen.


A brief history of high-energy lasers.

The U.S. military has had electromagnetic spectrum weapons in mind since the 1960s. Throughout the 1980s, industry and military laid the groundwork for figuring out how to reach practical power levels, beam control and adaptive optics. The Department of Defense officially recognized lasers as a plausible future weapon in 1999, marking the beginning of formal research and development.

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Aug 3, 2021

Cracking one more layer of genetic code will finally enable personalized medicine, researcher says

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, genetics

When the Human Genome Project reached its ambitious goal of mapping the entire human genome, it seemed the world was entering an era of personalized medicine, where evidence from our own specific genetic material would guide our care.

That was 2003, and nearly a generation after that spectacular collaborative achievement, we are still waiting for that promise to materialize. We may know that a person carries a gene associated with breast cancer, for example, but not whether that person will go on to develop the disease.

New research by McMaster University evolutionary biologist Rama Singh suggests the reason is that there is another, hidden layer that controls how interact, and how the many billions of possible combinations produce certain results. That layer is composed of largely uncharted biochemical pathways that in cells through chemical reactions.

Aug 3, 2021

FDA authorizes first Covid antibody treatment to prevent infections

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

😃 yay.


The unvaccinated or people with weak immune systems at high risk of severe disease can receive an injection if exposed to an infected person.

Aug 3, 2021

Hands to print | Russian tech firm gifts kid with 3D-printed arms

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, cyborgs

A Skolkovo tech company presents its 3D printing production technology for prosthetic limbs.

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