https://www.newsweek.com/alzheimers-spread-humans-dead-body-corpse-transplants-1864925

Alzheimer's Accidentally Spread to Several Humans via Corpse Transplants

'Miraculous birth' expected from stingray with no mate, possibly impregnated by shark

https://wlos.com/news/local/stingray-miracle-birth-expected-team-ecco-shark-lab-hendersonville-aquarium-parthenogenesis-possibly-impregnanted-shark-no-male-mate-clone-female-charlotte-jurassic-park

7000 pound Rivian pickup versus guard rail at 60 mph

https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/50074-a-crash-test-the-likes-of-which-you-have-never-seen?m=1421&utm_source=TBTV&utm_medium=email&utm_c ampaign=20240212&oly_enc_id=2248I7804912B0W

^^^That was amazing. I don't understand the engine sound. Sounded like one of the GA planes over my house (200 a day). Aren't Rivians electric? The sound quit the instant the truck hit.

The way it took out the K rail was insane. I guess that was more of the point than how well the truck survived.

Lots of little tricks here:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7RBCXCV-T-4&listen=false
Superglue, a lot, can be used with baking soda-graphite-sand to repair plastic. Drop your moto? You can fix it with all the pieces.
A screen and soldering iron to embed can do the same.
Refill WD-40 or spraypaint cans with a compressor and tire stem.
All kinds.

https://interestingengineering.com/news/strongest-metamaterial-3d-printed-australi

The researchers used a 3D printing approach called laser powder bed fusion to achieve this metamaterial design. This approach uses a high-powered laser beam to melt layers of metal powder into place.

The double lattice design ensured that it halved the stress at the weak points in the design, and any cracks in the design were also deflected along the structure, thereby improving its toughness.

The team tested a titanium lattice cube made using this approach. It was 50 percent stronger than the cast magnesium alloy WE54, the strongest alloy known to humanity and used widely in aerospace applications. The team is still working on perfecting the metamaterial and hopes that it can improve its temperature-bearing limit to 1,112 Fahrenheit (600 degrees Celsius) and potentially add more applications to its list.

Just heard on the radio that UF is doing trials on a kit that uses paper test strips and saliva like a glucose monitor to detect cancer markers

I believe in some cases that these sorts of crashes are performed by the vehicle being dragged by a cable, so the sound that you heard was likely the cable running over pulleys with gear and motor noise.

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I don't know, maybe it's just me, but every time I hear of a dam removal it makes me feel like civilization and progress are reversing. Makes me fear a return to the cave...

Watching again it sounds like a plane overhead. I did hear a clinking chain like noise as you pointed out.

Amazing stuff!
A tunnel into Alaskan permafrost
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Side note, apparently the girl that makes the Physics Girl videos got married, got covid and has been VERY ill for the past year.

I love seeing new tool innovations. Some are actually affordable and practical enough to buy.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mt1b8nGUX7Y&listen=false
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-HKNIrrcxFA&listen=false

edit: Zeke I especially liked the overhead belt/backpack crane wire tool balancer oddly enough.
Combined with a spring hip/knee/foot enhancements a man could pick up a bale of wet hay and walk around all day. Hah.
What a weird idea. The Army has looked into it but the idea goes back to 1980's Japanese battle space suit cartoons and before.
Always been fascinated with natural robotic prosthetics and exoskeleton enhancements from early on.

The chainsaw bark remover on an extension was pretty cool as well. Gets one thinking.

john70t, there are some great tools in those vids. Some are not that new and some are silly, but overall very good. I especially liked the wine cork gizmo.

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Over looking that it's the NY Post this is cool.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/first-human-with-neuralink-brain-chip-demonstrates-moving-cursor-with-his-thoughts/

Here is a hopeful energy research effort.

https://theconversation.com/magma-power-how-superheated-molten-rock-could-provide-renewable-energy-67725

To View Alien Creatures, just go off the Kona Coast of Hawaii and you swim at night seeing indescribable Larval "things" that come up from the 6000+ foot depths to feed in the pitch black.

https://youtu.be/UiOGX8Aix9U?t=33

Unfrickenbelievalbe scuba diving. done it a couple times. Called Black Water diving.

ASCO 2024: New ultra-sensitive blood test predicts recurrence of breast cancer, months or even years before relapse

Molecular residual disease was detected in all 11 patients who relapsed. The median lead time to clinical relapse in this group of patients was 15 months, an increase of over three months, compared with current tests in all types of breast cancer. The longest lead time to clinical relapse was 41 months.

None of the 60 women in whom ctDNA remained undetected, relapsed throughout the follow-up period. Three patients had ctDNA detected in follow-up but had not relapsed by the end of the study – the researchers didn’t have samples to analyse beyond the study follow-up period. Median survival for ctDNA detected patients was 62 months and not reached for the patients in whom ctDNA was undetected.

https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-archive/asco-2024-new-ultra-sensitive-blood-test-predicts-recurrence-of-breast-cancer-months-or-even-years-before-relapse#:~:text=01,treatment%20for%20early%20breas t%20cancer.

July 5, 2024
Earth’s core has slowed so much it’s moving backward, scientists confirm. Here’s what it could mean
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-ve-confirmed-slowdown-earth-100054337.html
They say that Mars was once like the Earth, then it's core stopped, cooled and then the atmosphere was lost.


https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/sun-space-weather/earth-magnetosphere#:~:text=Without%20the%20magnetospher e%2C%20Earth%27s%20layered,Earth%20wouldn%27t%20be %20possible.
It was fun while it lasted.

July 9, 2024
Person in Colorado infected with bubonic plague. Here's what to know
https://www.yahoo.com/news/person-colorado-infected-bubonic-plague-155934816.html

The description in the comments section by "D" is especially colorful.

No idea when this happened to one of Jupiter's moons.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/486466497396198

Jupiter has lots more moons left. 95 at last count.

I've known about these things for awhile now... saw a bit about them on the Weather Channel or Discovery. Wild stuff... and beautiful.

https://imgur.com/gallery/i-keep-seeing-this-photo-pop-up-newsfeeds-2OBjV9K

Not "cool" exactly.

Forget about cocaine bear, now you've got to worry about cocaine sharks!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thirteen-sharks-test-positive-for-cocaine-off-the-coast-of-brazil-180984765/

Very cool. If anyone wants a BIG (8256x5504px) version...
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/iss071e170351.jpg
It was shot by a Nikon Z 9 using a Nikkor 50mm f1.2 lens.

pretty good evidence , all in one rock, of ancient microbial metabolism on mars...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7v_xuCDwnM

^^^ cool stuff! I wonder how long it will take to regularly/effortlessly send rovers to Mars to follow up on new findings that the current rover(s) find. That rock at the end I am very keen to see here on Earth.

Asteroid 2024 RW1 Just Hit Earth.
That’s a Good Thing.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/luzon-asteroid-2024-rw1

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/redirecting-an-asteroid-with-a-nuclear-bomb-should-work/

I never heard of this cool bit of hardware

Perhaps someday we’ll have a bigger version in orbit fairly far from the Earth, ready to deflect killer asteroids.

When I was a kid, I studied mathematics. My dad was a mathematician, although he later moved to aerospace engineering. I got my BA in mathematics, then changed direction. Today i remember algebra, trig, some calculus, and that is about it.

Anyway, as a child I also read a lot about the history of mathematics. When I ran across this article, I immediately recognized the guy's name. Ramanujan is one of the most mysterious, improbable, and romantic figures in the field. You don't need to follow the math discussed to appreciate how remarkable his story is.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/

He's a reminder that unimaginable talent exists in the most obscure places, almost all of which goes wasted. Some big famine or civil war in Africa that kills millions - multiple talents like Ramanuian will be among the dead and we'll never know what was lost. Individual talent needs collective civilization to flourish. Ramanujan had to get to England to make his contributions.

Reminds me also of Philip Jose Farmer's "Riverworld" scifi books, there is a place where all the greatest composers of history are celebrating a man no-one ever heard of, who never composed a note, but as it turns out had more talent than any of them.

If affordable, this could change a lot of lives.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a64188957/human-tooth-regrowth-trials-japan/

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This may not be on the level of discovering a new moon orbiting Saturn but . . .

My boy did receive a Special Award from the United States Navy Office of Naval Research for his science fair project on the effectiveness of HEPA filters and HEPA filters with carbon inserts. He also won third prize in the LA County Science Fair.

All the students had pretty impressive projects, there may be hope for us as a race after all.

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/infrared-contact-lenses-let-you-see-in-the-dark/

Passive infrared night vision via contact lenses. Very cool. Early in development, I wonder how good this will get and how quickly. Note the alternative of injections into eye.

Very, very cool! Congrats to Shant and you on the great work. So what was the end result, are HEPA filters effective?