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18 Aug

This Code Breaker Is Using AI to Decode the Heart’s Secret Rhythms

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Roeland Decorte grew up in a nursing home in Belgium, where he learned to spot the subtle early signs of mental decline in small changes to how residents walked or talked. When Decorte was 11, his father, who owned and managed the care home, started waking up in the middle of the night with chest pains and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.He went to two doctors, who briefly listened to his heartbeat through their stethoscopes and diagnosed him with anxiety. But the symptoms persisted, and it was only when he underwent a full set of scans at a private…

14 Aug

The FDA Just Rejected a Bid for MDMA to Treat PTSD

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The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a first-of-its-kind proposal to use the psychedelic drug MDMA, also known as ecstasy or Molly, as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.Drugmaker Lykos Therapeutics had asked the FDA to approve the drug in combination with talk therapy. The company said Friday that the regulatory agency has requested an additional Phase 3 trial so that the safety and efficacy of the therapy can be further studied. The decision comes after an FDA advisory panel in June concluded that there wasn’t enough evidence to recommend its approval.Lykos said it plans to request a meeting…

14 Aug

Near-future dystopian fiction and a new approach to explaining life’s origin

New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.Hum by Helen PhillipsRobots have become a regular fixture of the workforce, and humans are losing their jobs to AI. Climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet. It’s getting harder and harder for the average person to make ends meet. Facial recognition technology is being used for surveillance. Sound familiar? In her new novel, , author Helen Phillips paints a picture of what our near-future could look like. Its main character, May, has lost her job after technology made her role obsolete, and, desperate for money to support her…

12 Aug

NASA Still Hasn’t Decided How to Get the Boeing Starliner Astronauts Home

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During a news conference on Wednesday, NASA officials for the first time publicly discussed divisions within the agency about whether the Starliner spacecraft is really reliable enough to return two veteran astronauts—Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams—back to Earth from the International Space Station.The space agency also confirmed key elements exclusively reported by Ars over the past week, chiefly that NASA has quietly been working for weeks with SpaceX on a potential rescue mission for Wilmore and Williams, that the Crew-9 mission launch has been delayed to September 24 to account for this possibility, and that Starliner is unable to undock…

09 Aug

Public Health Experts Want Coca-Cola and the Olympics to Break Up

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Since then, every Summer and Winter Olympics has adopted a strict smoke-free policy and, since 2010, a complete tobacco-free policy. Smoking is not permitted at any Paris 2024 venues except in designated areas—a rule that extends to vaping.Alcoholic beverage companies are another category of controversial Olympic sponsors, from Molson Brewery at the 1976 Montreal Olympics to Heineken at the 2004 Athens games.Though the IOC is partnered with AB InBev, the world’s leading brewer, Corona Cero—a zero-alcohol drink—is the global beer sponsor of the Paris Olympics. The Olympic Committee says this highlights both organizations' “commitment to responsible consumption and a better…

09 Aug

Fifth of medicines in Africa may be sub-par or fake, research finds | Africa

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A fifth of medicines in Africa could be substandard or fake, according to a major research project, raising the alarm over a problem that could be contributing to the deaths of countless patients.Researchers from Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia analysed 27 studies in the review and found, of the 7,508 medicine samples included, 1,639 failed at least one quality test and were confirmed to be substandard or falsified.Claudia Martínez, the head of research at the Access to Medicine Foundation, an Amsterdam-based non-profit group, described the finding as a major public health concern.“If patients are getting medicines that are substandard or…

08 Aug

Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the World

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While immersed in fieldwork earlier in life, Goodall recognized that lifting people out of poverty was integral to preserving biodiversity in the national park. Hence, she initiated the Tacare program, which offers microloans to kick-start sustainable businesses, scholarships for girls previously deprived of secondary education, and family-planning counseling. Additionally, farmers receive advice on chemical-free, sustainable farming practices, such as permaculture.“I realized the reason the trees were cut down was because people were struggling to survive,” reflects the scientist. “Their families were growing, and they couldn’t afford to buy food from elsewhere. Their own farmland was infertile with overuse. And so…

06 Aug

Tuariki Delamere’s Somersault Could Have Launched a New Era in the Olympic Long Jump

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However, since this force is applied at the feet, far from the center of mass (r > 0), it's going to produce a torque. In this case, the torque would cause a forward angular acceleration, tending to deposit the jumper face down in the sand.So athletes use a few different techniques to counter this rotation. The first is to lean back in the jump—this moves the center of mass closer to the contact point of the foot, thus reducing torque. But it also slows you down. Another is the hang technique, where the jumper extends their arms and legs like…

05 Aug

Boeing eats another $125 million loss over Starliner woes

Boeing has revealed that it has taken another $125 million in losses as a result of its Starliner spacecraft's delayed return from the ISS. As SpaceNews reports, the company has revealed the losses in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, along with more details about its earnings for the second quarter of the year. The company already posted $288 million in losses "primarily as a result of delaying" the Crew Flight Test mission in 2023. The first crewed Starliner flight took off in June with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams on board. Boeing's spacecraft was…

10 May

Black Holes 101: Origins of Marvel and Mystery

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Formation: Birth from Stellar CollapseEvent HorizonSingularityBeyond the Event HorizonDiscoveries and Breakthroughs: Unveiling the Secrets of Black HolesTheoretical ChallengesObservational TechniquesAstrophysical SignificanceFuture Frontiers Formation: Birth from Stellar Collapse Black holes, the cosmic behemoths of the universe, owe their existence to the dramatic finale of massive stars. In the grand cosmic ballet of stellar evolution, stars are born from vast clouds of gas and dust, and they spend their lives fusing hydrogen into helium through the process of nuclear fusion, which generates the energy that sustains them. However, for stars with a mass many times greater than that of our sun, this process…