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Calico, a miniature relocatable wearable system with fast and precise locomotion for on-body interaction, actuation and sensing. Calico consists of a two-wheel robot and an on-cloth track mechanism or "railway," on which the robot travels. The robot is self-contained, small in size, and has additional sensor expansion options. The track system allows the robot to move along the user’s body and reach any predetermined location. It also includes rotational switches to enable complex routing options when diverging tracks are presented. https://smartlab.cs.umd.edu/publication/calico What are any possible applications? What do you think?
More than 100 medical journals, including The BMJ and the Lancet, have issued an urgent call for the elimination of nuclear weapons, warning that the “danger is great and growing.” https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1786.full
Interesting! NASA is elevating its digital platforms for the benefit of all by revamping its flagship and science websites, adding its first on-demand streaming service, and upgrading the NASA app. With these changes, everyone will have access to a new world of content from the space agency. With an enhanced digital presence, NASA will share science, research, exploration, and innovation with the world through cohesive platforms. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-launches-beta-site-on-demand-streaming-app-update-coming-soon
The City of Hope-developed investigational small molecule selectively disrupts DNA replication and repair in cancer cells, leaving healthy cells unaffected, a new study reports. a really interesting new paper in Cell Chemical Biology, which is also getting some pickup in the wider press. It’s about a molecule designated AOH1996, which seems to have a unique mode of action in tumor cells, one that might make it more more selective for those as compared to normal ones. The researchers tested AOH1996, a small molecule PCNA inhibitor, in more than 70 cancer cell lines and several normal control cells. They found that AOH1996 selectively kills cancer cells by disrupting the normal cell reproductive cycle. It targets something called transcription replication conflicts, which occur when mechanisms responsible for gene expression and genome duplication collide. The investigational therapy prevented cells with damaged DNA from dividing in G2/M phase and from making a copy of faulty DNA in S phase. As a result, AOH1996 caused cancer cell death (apoptosis), but it did not interrupt the reproductive cycle of healthy stem cells. https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/fulltext/S2451-9456(23)00221-0?rss=yes Any comments?
Super-heated seawater off the Florida Keys has grown so perilous to the world's third-largest barrier reef that scientists are now removing samples of coral from ocean nurseries to place in cooler land-based tanks. https://www.sciencealert.com/florida-is-so-hot-scientists-are-taking-coral-out-of-the-ocean
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While Concorde may have offered supersonic transatlantic flights, startups like Destinus and Hermeus have ambitions to ferry passengers hypersonically at 5 times the speed of sound. That would enable you to travel from Sydney to Frankfurt in 4 hours as opposed to 20. But right now the companies are still building small models and testing engines. https://youtu.be/N57oXfwEoxo So will hypersonic flight ever be a reality?
At Carnegie Mellon University, scientists managed to get their robots to learn to do everyday household chores by watching videos of people doing the same tasks. https://robo-affordances.github.io/ This way, robots can be trained to do daily tasks.
Ecologists in Africa grant provides support of up to £8,000 for ecologists and researchers in Africa to carry out innovative ecological research. Applications for round 2 are now open and will close on August 30th, 2023. For more information, please visit https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/funding/ecologists-in-africa/
This is how our brain perceives silence. Traditionally, the silence was believed to be just the absence of noise, indicating a quiet environment. However, scientists have now found evidence suggesting that the brain actively perceives silence. The finding could explain why we tend to pay significant attention to moments of silence, such as awkward conversation pauses or the tense gaps between thunderclaps. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301463120
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