Network Rail World's first solar powered train line is turned on in Hampshiredailymail.co.uk - By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline A solar farm of more than 100 panels in Hampshire has been plugged into a stretch of track in Hampshire in a world first. Today, a stretch of track …
We Could Be Getting Closer to the First Flying TaxiPopular Mechanics - By David Grossman• German company Volocopter has unveiled the VoloCity, an electrical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) that could be the first flying taxi. • Volocopter has been working on its eVTOLs since 2011. years
Biomarkers New Blood Test Could Help Predict One's Risk of Death in The Next 10 YearsScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill Nobody can see into the future, but the blood that courses through your veins may hold some important secrets about your future health – or lack …
Calcium Physicists Have Built The World's Smallest Engine, And It's Seriously TinyScienceAlert - VICTOR TANGERMANN It's not like the one in your car, but a team of physicists at Trinity College Dublin have built what they claim is the world's smallest engine. The …
Science Scientists are building a real-life version of the Starship Enterprise's life scannerFox News - LiveScienceWhen the crewmembers of the Starship Enterprise pull into orbit around a new planet, one of the first things they do is scan for life-forms. Here in the real world, researchers have long been trying to
Technology FDA to trial innovative computer-assisted heart surgeries this fallEngadget - Igor BonifacicOPTIMA creates a virtual model of a patient's heart so doctors only need to operate once. Starting this fall, the FDA plans to trial an innovative new computational medicine approach to heart surgery 160
CRISPR The next trick for CRISPR is gene-editing pain awayMIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado A family of street performers could walk on coals. Here’s how the secret of why they felt no pain could benefit others. The street performer was only …
World News Ashkenazi Jewish women should be screened for breast cancer genesjpost.com - MARCY OSTER/JTA That’s the recommendation by a U.S. task force announced in an editorial this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (JTA) — …
Tumors Pancreatic cancer disappeared in 70% of mice treated with cannabis compounddailymail.co.uk - By Natalie Rahhal Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.com Cannabis could hold a key to fighting pancreatic cancer - one of the deadliest forms - suggests recent Harvard University research. Scientists there …
Technology A doctor and medical ethicist argues life after 75 is not worth livingMIT Technology Review - Stephen S. Hall Ezekiel Emanuel questions “whether our consumption is worth our contribution” in old age. In October 2014, Ezekiel Emanuel published an essay in the …
Medicine Researchers building glove to treat symptoms of strokestanford.edu Strokes often have a devastating impact on our hands. Now, Stanford researchers are collaborating on a vibrating glove that could improve hand …
Science Can New Species Evolve From Cancers? Maybe. Here’s How.Quanta Magazine - Christie Wilcox Researchers agree it’s a long shot, but transmissible cancers could theoretically evolve into independent species. Certain weird parasites might be …
Facebook Facebook is funding brain experiments to create a device that reads your mindMIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado Big tech firms are trying to read people’s thoughts, and no one’s ready for the consequences. In 2017, Facebook announced that it wanted to create a …
DeepMind DeepMind’s algorithm can predict serious kidney injury 48 hours before it happensMIT Technology Review - Charlotte Jee It’s only accurate a little more than half the time though, raising questions over if and how it could be used in real-life settings. The news: …
Mobile Technology A Japanese “flying car” has successfully made its first test flightMIT Technology Review - Patrick Howell O'Neill Companies around the world are racing to be the first to launch self-flying vehicles. The news: Japanese electronics giant NEC tested a drone-like …
Vaccines A Vaccine For Cat Allergies: Here Is The LatestForbes - Bruce Y. LeeGuess what, cats? There may soon be a vaccine for you. But it's for a problem that humans have. (Photo: Getty Images) Hey, cats. You know how about 10% of the humans in the U.S. start coughing, wheezing,
Cancer Cells The power of electromagnetic energy on breast cancer cellsMedical News Today - By Lauren Sharkey Cancer's ability to spread throughout the body can turn a curable case into an aggressive and sometimes fatal one. A team of engineers and cancer …
Candida Auris Candida auris: The new superbug on the blockbbc.co.uk - James Gallagher The drug-resistant fungus, Candida auris, was only discovered 10 years ago, but is now one of the world's most feared hospital microbes.
Science Looks Like We Have a New State of MatterPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanA team of physicists from New York University, University of Buffalo, and Wayne State University have discovered a new state of matter, which they say has the potential to increase storage capabilities
Animals This newly discovered leech lurked in plain sight for decadesPopular Science - Marion RenaultResearchers found a new species of medicinal leech in swamps along the eastern seaboard. Recoil or rejoice: Scientists discovered a new medicinal leech in North America. The about three-inch-long species,
Medical Research Stroke sufferers make full recovery after revolutionary injection extends 'golden hour'The Telegraph - Henry BodkinPeople who have a stroke could have the chance of a full recovery thanks to a stem cell injection that extends the “golden hour” to a day and a half for most patients. Regulators in Europe and the US fast-tracking
Brain-computer interface Will we ever control the world with our minds?BBC Future - Mark PiesingFor decades, controlling computers by thought was the stuff of science fiction. But now we are tantalisingly close to a breakthrough. The question is, does it create more problems than it solves? Science-fiction
Public Health New treatment approved for drug-resistant tuberculosisCNN - By Katie Hunt, CNN(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new treatment for highly drug-resistant tuberculosis, offering new hope in the fight against the world's most deadly infectious disease. TB most the
Science Scientists Say They've Found a New Organ in Skin That Processes PainGizmodo - Ed Cara It’s not common that researchers discover what could be an entirely new part of the human body. But a team in Sweden claims to have uncovered an …
Play buttonHumanity Creating Hallucinations Without Any Drugs Is Surprisingly EasyScienceAlert - Bec Crew The human brain is a remarkable thing. It can do things our primate relatives are thousands - maybe even millions - of years of evolution away from, …
The Brain Alzheimer's Appears to Attack The Neurons That Keep Us AwakeScienceAlert - Carly Cassella Alzheimer's is an insidious disease. Long before even the earliest symptoms begin to show, plaques of amyloid beta proteins and tangles of tau …
Health The Deadliest Type of Tuberculosis Has a New FDA-Approved TreatmentScienceAlert - YASMEEN ABUTALEB The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved a new drug for highly drug-resistant tuberculosis, the world's leading infectious …
Wisconsin Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of TuberculosisThe New York TimesDr. Pauline Howell tended to a patient suffering from a particularly virulent strain of tuberculosis at Sizwe Tropical Diseases Hospital in Johannesburg. Tsholofelo Msimango in her home in Tsakane. She
Play buttonEbola Researchers Have Finally Found an Effective Treatment for Ebolasmithsonianmag.com - Lila Thulin As the second-largest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus reached its one-year mark in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a group of public health …
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