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US Teen Wins Top Prize For Inventing a Soap to Fight Skin Cancer
A 14-year-old US scientist has developed a soap that could help the body's immune system 'wash away' skin cancer.
The soap has won him the top prize in the Young Scientist's Challenge, an annual competition aimed to encourage children and adolescents to innovate solutions to everyday problems.
https://www.sciencealert.com/us-teen-wins-top-prize-for-inventing-a-soap-to-fight-skin-cancer #soap #SkinCancer #invention #teen #imidazoquinoline

Amazing Tiny Brain Implant Translates Brain Signals Into Speech
In a new breakthrough, scientists have now crammed a huge array of tiny sensors into a space no larger than a postage stamp, to read this complex mix of electrical signals, in order to predict the sounds a person is trying to make.
The 'speech prosthetic' opens the door to a future where people unable to speak due to neurological conditions can communicate through thought.
https://www.sciencealert.com/amazing-tiny-brain-implant-translates-brain-signals-into-speech #implant #translate #brain #signal #speech #thought

High Metabolism – Scientists Uncover New Early Sign of Alzheimer’s Disease
New research has revealed that an increase in hippocampal metabolism is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease, offering a potential early diagnostic indicator and new avenues for intervention. This discovery could lead to early treatments that target cellular energy and waste management processes to slow the disease’s progression.
https://scitechdaily.com/high-metabolism-scientists-uncover-new-early-sign-of-alzheimers-disease/ #high #metabolism #parkinsons #marker #hippocampus #mitochondria #intervention

Viral Epidemics Could Kill 12 Times as Many People by 2050. Here's Why.
outbreaks reported from a selection of four devastating viruses with animal hosts rose by nearly 5 percent a year between 1963 and 2019, with deaths jumping annually by an astonishing 8.7 percent.
At that rate, the researchers predict, we could expect the total number of fatalities from these four diseases alone to be at least 12 times greater in 2050 than records showed for 2020.
https://www.sciencealert.com/viral-epidemics-could-kill-12-times-as-many-people-by-2050-heres-why #viral #epidemics #outbreaks #animalhosts #Pathogens

Doctors perform 1st-ever whole eye, partial face transplant
This is the first whole-eye transplant performed in a person, and it was completed alongside a partial face transplant.
https://www.livescience.com/health/surgery/doctors-perform-1st-ever-whole-eye-partial-face-transplant
#first #eye #face #transplant #stemcells #opticnerve

The oldest continents in the Milky Way may be 5 billion years older than Earth's
Several exoplanets at the edge of our galaxy could have formed continents — and advanced life — 5 billion years earlier than Earth, new research suggests.
https://www.livescience.com/space/exoplanets/the-oldest-continents-in-the-milky-way-may-be-5-billion-years-older-than-earths #Astrobiology #planets #continents #life #exoplanets #tectonics

Carbon Dating Reveals the Timing of Puerto Rican Cave Art
New dates from cave art pigment add to evidence that Indigenous Puerto Ricans inhabited the island for millennia.
https://eos.org/articles/carbon-dating-reveals-the-timing-of-puerto-rican-cave-art #PuertoRico #CaveArt #precolumbian #BCE #petroglyphs #pyroglyphics #pictographs

Chimps use military tactic only ever seen in humans before
Scientists have discovered that chimps living in Côte d'Ivoire carry out surveillance on each other to avoid or incite conflict — much like in human military operations.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/monkeys/chimps-use-military-tactic-only-ever-seen-in-humans-before #chimpanzees #military #tactic #conflict #surveillance #reconnaissance #elevated #terrain

Ketamine Can Ease Depression And PTSD Within 1 Day, Study Finds
The drug ketamine can reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and symptoms of depression in patients as early as a day after injection.
https://www.sciencealert.com/ketamine-can-ease-depression-and-ptsd-within-1-day-study-finds #ketamine #injection #depression #PTSD #treatment #metaーanalysis #symptoms

World’s Oldest Pyramid Found Not in Egypt or Americas, But in Indonesia
It’s not just an oddly shaped hill, after all.
Humans began sculpting a small hill into a larger pyramid almost 25,000 years ago, and then building layers of sand and rocks on top of that.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-pyramid-indonesia #GunungPadang #WestJava #pyramid #megalith #celestial #calendar

NY AG issues $450k penalty to US Radiology after unpatched bug led to ransomware attack
One of the nation’s largest private radiology companies agreed to pay a $450,000 fine after a 2021 ransomware attack led to the exposure of sensitive information from nearly 200,000 patients.
https://therecord.media/new-york-attorney-general-fines-radiology-firm-after-ransomware-attack #radiology #ransomware #attack #fine #exposure

Comparing Global Population Projections to 2100
When will the world reach its peak population?
According to data from the United Nations’ 2022 Revision of its World Population Prospects, we could see a peak of over 10.4 billion people sometime in the late 2080s.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/when-will-the-global-population-reach-its-peak/ #infographic #population #peak #estimate

This Photo of Earth Was Captured by a Lens Smaller Than the Edge of a Coin
The portrait of Earth was shot from an altitude of around 3,730 miles (about 6,000 kilometers) using an “extremely miniaturized camera” that is about the same size as the edge of a 20-cent Euro coin, which is 0.08 inches (2.14 millimeters) thick.
https://petapixel.com/2023/11/08/this-photo-of-earth-was-captured-by-a-lens-smaller-than-the-edge-of-a-coin/ #tiny #lens #Earth #photo miniaturized #camera

Bear linked to multiple attacks in Japan found dead alongside its final victim
Japanese officials found the body of a missing student alongside the corpse of a brown bear that likely killed him. The bear is also suspected of attacking several other people in the area.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/bears/bear-linked-to-multiple-attacks-in-japan-found-dead-alongside-its-final-victim #BrownBear #victim #attacks #hokkaido #acorns

Photo Researcher Discovers the True Origin of Iconic Rock Album Cover
https://petapixel.com/2023/11/08/photo-researcher-discovers-the-true-origin-of-iconic-rock-album-cover/ #LedZeppelinIV #photograph #located #ErnestFarmer #LongLot

One brain area helps you to enjoy a joke — but another helps you to get it
Seinfeld episodes help scientists to distinguish between the brain regions involved in understanding and appreciating humour.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03400-z #psychology #brain #humour #processing #jokes #dorsalstriatum #ventralstriatum

Underwater volcanic eruption gives birth to new island in the Pacific
A volcanic eruption off the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on Oct. 30 led to the formation of a new 330-foot-wide island just north of the explosion site.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/underwater-volcanic-eruption-gives-birth-to-new-island-in-the-pacific #japan #volcano #island #IwoJima