Introduction: A Medical Revolution in the Making lab-grown kidneys: Sign up for a world that no one has to die because of a lack of an organ, as long as physicians have the right ingredients to grow a unique organ that fits the patient. That is no longer a sci-fi of the future. Hope exists […]
Suppose a range of mountains nearly as lofty as the Alps, to be found away at the bottom of the ocean, where no sign of it ever showed itself in print, till lately. Earlier this year alone, mapping the world ocean disclosed over 19,000 previously uncharted under-sea mountains, or seamounts, thus radically transforming our knowledge […]
The Shrinking Giants of AI Neural network compression tools: The ability to train AI models, with billions of parameters, was once a far-away possibility requiring a warehouse of GPUs whooping day and night. This compute requirement bottled this power into the glass tubes of hyper data centers. There is a marvelous thing that is going […]
MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD: MDMA or ecstasy was relegated as a potentially lethal party drug during decades. However, in a shocking twist of events, the FDA may soon be passing it as an acceptable form of treatment of PTSD with a final judgment coming as early as 2025. This is not some other experimental drug […]
Agility has transcended the phase of being a buzzword and has become a threshold in a world where the slightest sniff of turbulence in the business world can set businesses off the track. However, to companies with large volumes divided into international teams, Agile shift is not an easy task. Welcome to the Scaled Agile […]
Over the centuries, explorers and scientists treated the Amazon as green desert- it could not support huge complex civilizations. The oral reportings of indigenous people of lost great cities being consumed by the jungle lacked evidence and was attributed to myth. But now, courtesy of LIDAR ( Light Detection and Ranging ) we are scooping […]
Can Machines Grow Like Living Organisms? Imagine if a robot could change, adapt and grow just like a living creature when it interacts with its environment. This describes the potential behind morphogenetic robotics, an area that takes ideas from biology to produce robots able to adjust and coordinate without human intervention. Formation of an organism’s […]
Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Threat in Australia’s Gyms Dark side of gym culture: When you visit many gyms in Australia, you’ll notice weight racks, lively music and people pushing for better well-being. But behind the gloss of their operations, criminal groups are becoming more active and the majority of members don’t know. Previously, fitness […]
And Its Clean Energy Promise Bacteria that breathe electricity: There is a unique buzz happening in the labs at Rice University and it’s quite literally electric. It has been found by researchers that some types of bacteria do not need oxygen to live. Rather, these animals get energy from chemical reactions that transfer electrons to […]
The Silent Virus That’s Still Spreading in 2025 There’s no doubt about it; Hepatitis C doesn’t capture the headlines as much as COVID or monkeypox have. Most people have hepatitis C without knowing it, until the infection causes serious damage to the liver. WHO data indicates that more than 58 million people worldwide currently have […]