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We all think that gaming is not really good, but what if it told you that you have been lying to yourself this whole time, these are the top 3 facts about why gaming is good for you. First, gaming as a treatment tool. The University of California and San Francisco said that when adults game it help there brain by changing their behaviour and also allows other people to interact with others to help their communication skills. Number 2, gaming as a tool for scientific discovery. We all know when you start a game it is very complicated because you will have to get how to play and learn all the different strategies in order to win. Zoran Popovic a professor of computer science explained that when you play games it helps your brain by problem-solving all the strategies and also learning how to get better. Number 3, Measuring success. When people play games the main objective is to get kills and be the last one standing if you are playing a battle royal game. This helps peoples lives because people will more energetic to play a game and work harder to get there job done. Thanks for listening and I hope you consider playing more games. https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-05-12/your-video-games-may-revolutionize-health-and-scientific-research

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Lake Natron is a very significant breeding place for lesser flamingos. Unfortunately, the lake was under threat from plans to build a soda ash factory at the site. However, in March 2017 the government announced it had abandoned those plans due to the threat they could pose to the flamingos. Plans for the lake are now turning toward ecotourism, which has the potential to both bring in revenue, and keep Lake Natron as the main spot for flamingos for years to come.

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The NDP Goverment in alberta just Announced  that they will be giving 100 million dollars to support the their artificial intelligence sector. This will highly benifit the A.I sector in alberta which they have been needing for a long time now. This could help alberta create more jobs in alberta with the growing need for I.T related jobs.

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The NDP government will spend $100 million over five years to grow the artificial intelligence (AI) sector in Alberta.

Premier Rachel Notley, who made the announcement in Calgary on Wednesday, said the investment is part of a "made-in-Alberta technology diversification plan" aimed at keeping the province at the forefront of the global technology revolution. Alberta is already attracting AI tech talent and investment from around the world - Google DeepMind, the Royal Bank of Canada and Mitsubishi have all opened Edmonton-based research facilities - but Notley said the province needs to support new companies and help them commercialize or risk getting left behind.

"Without investment, we are at significant risk of losing our competitive advantage. Without a long-term commitment and a plan for a diversified commitment, Alberta could easily be surpassed by the Ontarios and Quebecs of the world," Notley said.

An initial investment of $27 million will go to Edmonton-based non-profit Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute). Founded in 2002, Amii is a research institute that works with the global scientific and business community to advance machine learning and artificial intelligence. More than 200 companies - from startups to multinational corporations - around the world have expressed interest in working with Amii.

Amii will use the government funds to open a Calgary office, said CEO John Shillington, and to design new programs offering scientific mentorship and AI educational opportunities to businesses.

"Calgary's clearly got just enormous commercial potential and lots of great opportunities for investing in this sector," Shillington said. "Machine intelligence will be a key driver of innovation across all industry sectors in the future."

The majority of the remainder of the funding will go to Alberta Innovates, to help the provincially funded corporation expand its work in the area of AI and focus on company growth and acceleration, as well as applied research and development.

A small portion of the funding, approximately $5 million, will be spent on a marketing campaign to boost the profile of Alberta's talent pool in geographic locations such as Silicon Valley that have a large number of technology sector companies and investors.

Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous said there are U.S. companies interested in expanding or relocating to Canada right now, in part due to new visa restrictions implemented by President Donald Trump that are making it more difficult to recruit and retain skilled labour.

"When you look at the U.S., you've got companies that are looking at coming into Canada," Bilous said. "So I suspect we're going to see a lot of interest and new investment coming into the province."

The $100 million in AI funding is a followup to the government's announcement last spring that it will spend $50 million to create 3,000 new high-tech training seats at post-secondary institutions across the province.

The government says it expects the two investments combined to result in more than 6,000 trained, skilled Albertans and the creation of more than 140 companies.
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The NDP government will spend $100 million over five years to grow the artificial intelligence (AI) sector in Alberta. Premier Rachel Notley, who made the announcement in Calgary on Wednesday, said the investment is part of a "made-in-Alberta technology diversification plan" aimed at keeping the province at the forefront of the global technology revolution.

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A 19 teen year old boy named Aguilar, builds an affordable, and unique prosthetic arms out of LEGOS pieces. Always loving the toy, Aguilar built his first prosthetic arm out of LEGOS when he was just nine years old. He has created many new models over the past ten years, and has made them more durable. His latest model was so sturdy that he was able to do push ups with it. Now he is studying bio engineering at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Spain and is hopping to continue with his studies and create more durable and cheap prosthetic arms for many other disabled kids allowing them to have the same experiences that he has had with his new prosthetic arm out of LEGO pieces.

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Scientists at Illinois university have artificially engineered a leaf that could help with CO2 emissions. Although they have only tested in labs with pressurized carbon dioxide from tanks they plan to bring these artificial leaves into the environment. They are ten times more efficient than normal leaves in the labs. According to their calculations each leaf will be 1.7 meters long and 0.2 meters wide. Apparently if you had 360 of these leaves covering a 500-meter squared area you will be able to reduce the carbon dioxide by 10%.
This proposed solution for the carbon dioxide problem could greatly benefit our world.

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Artificial leaves mimic photosynthesis -- the process whereby plants use water and carbon dioxide from the air to produce carbohydrates using energy from the sun. But even state-of-the-art artificial leaves, which hold promise in reducing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, only work in the laboratory because they use pure, pressurized carbon dioxide from tanks.

But now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have proposed a design solution that could bring artificial leaves out of the lab and into the environment. Their improved leaf, which would use carbon dioxide -- a potent greenhouse gas -- from the air, would be at least 10 times more efficient than natural leaves at converting carbon dioxide to fuel. Their findings are reported in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

"So far, all designs for artificial leaves that have been tested in the lab use carbon dioxide from pressurized tanks. In order to implement successfully in the real world, these devices need to be able to draw carbon dioxide from much more dilute sources, such as air and flue gas, which is the gas given off by coal-burning power plants," said Meenesh Singh, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the UIC College of Engineering and corresponding author on the paper.

Unhooking the pressurized carbon dioxide supply from these leaves means that they must have a way to collect and concentrate carbon dioxide from the air to drive their artificial photosynthetic reactions.

Singh and his colleague Aditya Prajapati, a graduate student in his lab, proposed solving this problem by encapsulating a traditional artificial leaf inside a transparent capsule made of a semi-permeable membrane of quaternary ammonium resin and filled with water. The membrane allows water from inside to evaporate out when warmed by sunlight. As water passes out through the membrane, it selectively pulls in carbon dioxide from the air. The artificial photosynthetic unit inside the capsule is made up of a light absorber coated with catalysts that convert the carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, which can be siphoned off and used as a basis for the creation of various synthetic fuels. Oxygen is also produced and can either be collected or released into the surrounding environment.

"By enveloping traditional artificial leaf technology inside this specialized membrane, the whole unit is able to function outside, like a natural leaf," Singh said.

According to their calculations, 360 leaves, each 1.7 meters long and 0.2 meters wide, would produce close to a half-ton of carbon monoxide per day that could be used as the basis for synthetic fuels. Three hundred and sixty of these artificial leaves covering a 500-meter square area would be able to reduce carbon dioxide levels by 10 percent in the surrounding air within 100 meters of the array in one day.

"Our conceptual design uses readily available materials and technology, that when combined can produce an artificial leaf that is ready to be deployed outside the lab where it can play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," Singh said.

Journal Reference:

Aditya Prajapati, Meenesh R. Singh. Assessment of Artificial Photosynthetic Systems for Integrated Carbon Capture and Conversion. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019; DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b04969

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For 16 weeks, researchers have been monitoring mice and have come to an idea that green tea can help those with memory impairment, brain insulin resistance and obesity induced by high-fat and high-fructose diets, aka, HFFD diets. In the experiment, one group of mice was fed with a high=fat,high-fructose diet and another group was fed an HFFD diet as well as 2 grams of EGCG (a type of acid found in tea) per liter of drinking water. In conclusion the scientist found that those fed with HFFD had a higher final body weight then those fed with HFFD and EGCG.

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A study published online in The FASEB Journal, involving mice, suggests that EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), the most abundant catechin and biologically active component in green tea, could alleviate high-fat and high-fructose (HFFD)-induced insulin resistance and cognitive impairment. Previous research pointed to the potential of EGCG to treat a variety of human diseases, yet until now, EGCG's impact on insulin resistance and cognitive deficits triggered in the brain by a Western diet remained unclear.

"Green tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world after water, and is grown in at least 30 countries," said Xuebo Liu, Ph.D., a researcher at the College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, in Yangling, China. "The ancient habit of drinking green tea may be a more acceptable alternative to medicine when it comes to combatting obesity, insulin resistance, and memory impairment."

Liu and colleagues divided 3-month-old male C57BL/6J mice into three groups based on diet:

1) a control group fed with a standard diet,

2) a group fed with an HFFD diet, and 3) a group fed with an HFFD diet and 2 grams of EGCG per liter of drinking water.

For 16 weeks, researchers monitored the mice and found that those fed with HFFD had a higher final body weight than the control mice, and a significantly higher final body weight than the HFFD+EGCG mice. In performing a Morris water maze test, researchers found that mice in the HFFD group took longer to find the platform compared to mice in the control group. The HFFD+EGCG group had a significantly lower escape latency and escape distance than the HFFD group on each test day. When the hidden platform was removed to perform a probe trial, HFFD-treated mice spent less time in the target quadrant when compared with control mice, with fewer platform crossings. The HFFD+EGCG group exhibited a significant increase in the average time spent in the target quadrant and had greater numbers of platform crossings, showing that EGCG could improve HFFD-induced memory impairment.

"Many reports, anecdotal and to some extent research-based, are now greatly strengthened by this more penetrating study," said Thoru Pederson, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal.

Journal Reference:

Yashi Mi, Guoyuan Qi, Rong Fan, Qinglian Qiao, Yali Sun, Yuqi Gao, Xuebo Liu. EGCG ameliorates high-fat- and high-fructose-induced cognitive defects by regulating the IRS/AKT and ERK/CREB/BDNF. The FASEB Journal, 2017; fj.201700400RR DOI: 10.1096/fj.201700400RR

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Green tea ingredient may ameliorate memory impairment, brain insulin resistance, and obesity: New research identifies potential therapeutic intervention for memory impairment, neuroinflammation, and brain insulin resistance induced by high-fat, high-fructose diet

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A study published online in The FASEB Journal, involving mice, suggests that EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), the most abundant catechin and biologically active component in green tea, could alleviate high-fat and high-fructose (HFFD)-induced insulin resistance and cognitive impairment.

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5 species of frogs have been newly discovered in India. This is good news because it shows that we're making progress in saving the Earth. It shows that we're making progress because amphibians have are more sensitive to pollution. 1 of the 5 species was thought to have gone extinct 100 years ago. We haven't seen one of these species in 100 years.

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Indian researchers have discovered a new species of frog - in a roadside puddle.

Sonali Garg, a PhD student at Delhi University, and her supervisor SD Biju found the new species in the Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot in southern India.

The species belongs to a new Indian frog group or genus which the scientists have named Mysticellus.

The name is derived from Latin and means mysterious and diminutive.

The scientists discovered the narrow-mouthed frog after three years of extensive explorations, and have confirmed that it represents an entirely new species and genus of microhylid frogs.

'Dancing' tadpoles discovered in India

'Extinct' frog rediscovered in India

India's maverick 'frog man'

The new genus is currently known only in a single locality.

"Our discovery of this new frog genus from one of the most explored and researched regions in the Western Ghats indicates that documentation of amphibians in this globally recognised biodiversity hotspot is still far from being complete," says Sonali Garg.

"This frog went unnoticed until now probably because it appears for less than four days for breeding activities and lives a secretive lifestyle for the rest of the year."

A number of new frog species have been discovered in the Western Ghats in the past decade, making it one of the leading biodiversity hotspots in the world.

"At the same time, Indian amphibians face various extinction threats, especially due to habitat loss and degradation. The only known population of the new genus is found in a wayside area disturbed with vehicular movement, plantation activities and human settlements," says Ms Garg.

"Since little is known about the habitat requirements and the distribution range of the new frog, the specific site needs to be preserved to protect this frog."

A new tadpole that burrows through sand was discovered in Western Ghats in 2016, and an extraordinary tree frog thought to have died out more than a century ago was also rediscovered in the same year.

In 2017, four new species of burrowing frogs were discovered in the region.

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Indian researchers have discovered a new species of frog - in a roadside puddle. Sonali Garg, a PhD student at Delhi University, and her supervisor SD Biju found the new species in the Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot in southern India. The species belongs to a new Indian frog group or genus which the scientists have named Mysticellus.

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According to an experiment reported on Jan 29, there can be three photons in two different places without any of them being in the same place. The pigeonhole principle states that, if three pigeons are roosting in two places, one place must contain at least two birds. But in the quantum realm, scientists had predicted that three “pigeons” — technically, quantum particles — could squeeze into two places without any one particle sharing a place with another. In the study, three photons took the place of the pigeons. Rather than crowding the photons into holes, the researchers studied the polarization of the particles, or the orientation of the photons’ wiggling electromagnetic waves, which can be either horizontal or vertical. Since there were three photons and two polarizations, standard math would suggest that at least two must have had the same polarization. When the scientists compared the particles’ polarizations, the team found that no two particles matched, verifying that the quantum pigeonhole effect is real.

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Quantum pigeons don't like to share.

In keeping with a mathematical concept known as the pigeonhole principle, roosting pigeons have to cram together if there are more pigeons than spots available, with some birds sharing holes. But photons, or quantum particles of light, can violate that rule, according to an experiment reported in the Jan. 29 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The pigeonhole principle states that, if three pigeons are roosting in two holes, one hole must contain at least two birds. Though seemingly obvious, the idea helps define the fundamentals of what numbers are and what it means to count things. But in the quantum realm, scientists had predicted that three "pigeons" - technically, quantum particles - could squeeze into two holes without any one particle sharing a hole with another, in what's known as the quantum pigeonhole effect ( SN Online: 7/18/14).

The "quantum pigeonhole effect challenges our basic understanding.... So a clear experimental verification is highly needed," study coauthors Chao-Yang Lu and Jian-Wei Pan, physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, wrote in an e-mail. "The quantum pigeonhole may have potential applications to find more complex and fundamental quantum effects."

In the study, three photons took the place of the pigeons. Rather than crowding the photons into holes, the researchers studied the polarization of the particles, or the orientation of the photons' wiggling electromagnetic waves, which can be either horizontal or vertical. Since there were three photons and two polarizations, standard math would suggest that at least two must have had the same polarization. When the scientists compared the particles' polarizations, the team found that no two particles matched, verifying that the quantum pigeonhole effect is real.

The mind-bending behavior is the result of a combination of already strange quantum effects. The photons begin the experiment in an odd kind of limbo called a superposition, meaning they are polarized both horizontally and vertically at the same time. When two photons' polarizations are compared, the measurement induces ethereal links between the particles, known as quantum entanglement. These counterintuitive properties allow the particles to do unthinkable things.

While the result isn't the first experimental confirmation of the idea, it improves on previous efforts. "I believe this paper is the best experiment done so far," says Jeff Tollaksen of Chapman University in Orange, Calif., who was part of a team of theoretical physicists that originally proposed the effect in 2014.

The study is the first to confirm that quantum pigeons misbehave only under a specific condition. Tollaksen and his colleagues had predicted that, in order for the effect to occur, the measurement of the polarizations must be gentle, so as not to perturb the delicate quantum particles. The new work confirmed that the measurement has to be weak for the effect to occur.

Quantum mechanics is known for its odd animal-themed paradoxes - typically involving cats. Schrödinger's cat is the star of a famous conundrum in which a feline appears to be simultaneously alive and dead ( SN: 6/25/16, p. 9). And quantum "Cheshire cats" appear when particles are separated from their properties, similar to how the Alice in Wonderland cat's grin separated from its face ( SN: 9/6/14, p. 12). Like the rest of the quantum menagerie, the quantum pigeonhole effect "shows something extremely surprising, if not at first blush seemingly impossible," Tollaksen says.

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In May this year, two new studies found that a drug designed to trigger a patient’s immune system may significantly boost survival for those battling lung cancer. The treatment also drove down the risk of the cancer spreading, added the research team from NYU Langone Health in New York City. This treatment cuts the risk of dying by 50%

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Medical technology is marching ahead, helping doctors cure chronic diseases and conditions. Here are some of the top medical breakthroughs published by Health24 during 2018.
1. World's first baby born from transplanted womb of dead donor 2. Breakthrough in lung cancer treatment cuts risk of dying by 50% 3. Scientists may have discovered a way to prevent peanut allergies 4. Could this be a future cancer vaccine?
Wombs from deceased donors have been transplanted before, but this is the first case where the procedure led to pregnancy and birth. While the process is still experimental and the difference between uterine transplants from live and deceased donors needs more research, this success greatly increases the pool of donors for those in need of a uterus for conception.

5. How the new Apple watch can save your life
In May this year, two new studies found that a drug designed to trigger a patient's immune system may significantly boost survival for those battling lung cancer. The treatment also drove down the risk of the cancer spreading, added the research team from NYU Langone Health in New York City.

Could peanut allergies soon be thing of the past? Researchers may have the answer to help cure peanut allergy, which is one of the most fatal food allergies. A biopharmaceutical company, Aimmune Therapeutics, based in Brisbane, California, said a major study showed that its daily capsules of peanut flour helped desensitise children to nuts.
6. Man with three faces: Frenchman gets second face transplant 7. Three paralysed patients now walk thanks to breakthrough technology
This medical breakthrough of 2018 may be one step closer in the eternal quest to conquer cancer. A shot containing two compounds that stimulate the immune system was injected directly into tumours, killing the cancerous cells.
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And besides that, a further study in April also suggested that researchers may be closer to making this vaccine a reality. Additional trails are planned.

You can now wear an ECG on your wrist and possibly save yourself from cardiac arrest. The Apple Watch Series 4 boasts impressive upgrades, including high intensity sensors that are able to detect when a user falls. Should the person not move for more than a minute, an alert is sent and emergency services are contacted immediately.

The ECG function can detect arterial fibrillation and heart failure through sophisticated sensors.

A second face transplant was performed on the same patient - a medical first. Dr Laurent Lantieri of the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris first transplanted a new face onto Jerome Hamon in 2010. Unfortunately he got ill in 2015 after the anti-rejection medicine was jeopardised by other medicine he was taking at the time. The transplanted face had to be removed. But in January 2018, a second face transplant was successfully carried out.

Swiss researchers reported earlier this year that the science of spinal stimulation has been fine-tuned to such an extent that three formerly paralysed patients can now walk.

Implanted electrodes that provide direct electrical stimulation to the spinal cord have been shown to allow movement of previously paralysed legs. This method is, however, still not seen as a cure for paralysis, but a whole new way rehabilitation can be conducted, said the lead researchers.

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Scientists Are ‘Giddy’ Over Their Historic Visit to One of the ‘World’s Youngest Islands’. A volcano erupted and formed a island in 2014 off the coast of Australia. The island was only meant the last a few months. Researchers say the island will probably last for other 30 years. This island gives scientists a rare chance to better understand how theses islands are formed and what leads there dissolution.

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Each year more than 700,000 Americans suffer from heart attacks. Scientist have have created a spike studded patch that can help people that have developed heart problems from heart attacks. This invention hasn't been tested on humans yet but on rats and pigs. This device has proven to promote healing of scarred cardiac tissue and helps to boost the heart ability to pump blood.

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A spike-studded patch sounds a bit sadistic, but researchers say such a device could someday help doctors save the lives of people who have suffered a heart attack.

The experimental patch - actually a plastic film filled with living heart cells and studded with microscopic needles - is surgically implanted directly onto the heart. Once in place, it delivers proteins and other health-promoting compounds released by the so-called cardiac stromal cells directly to the damaged muscle.

The patch is at an early stage of development and hasn't been tested in humans. But preliminary research on rats and pigs shows that it promotes healing of scarred cardiac tissue and helps boost the heart's ability to pump blood.

The cell-filled patch represents "an innovative approach [for] delivering therapeutic cells for heart regeneration," the researchers wrote in a paper describing the research, published Nov. 28 in the journal Science Advances.

If the patch can be developed for use in humans, a lot of people could benefit. Each year, more than 700,000 Americans suffer a heart attack. Some of those sufferers quickly succumb, while others go on to develop heart failure, a potentially deadly condition in which the heart's pumping ability is dramatically reduced.

Previous research has shown that injections of cardiac stromal cells can help protect and restore heart function in people who have had a heart attack. But getting the cells to linger inside a patient's body and keeping them alive for an extended period of time has proven to be a difficult challenge. Hearts retain only a tiny fraction of cells that have been injected, according to one report published in 2014.

"I have been working on cardiac cell therapy for a long time," said Ke Cheng, a biological engineer at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and one of the researchers working on the heart patch. "And we find that one of the biggest problems is getting these cells - the therapeutic cells - to stick to the heart. They get lost."

Cheng said the patch - he calls it a "regenerative Band-Aid" - helps the cells from being "washed away."

Other experts have doubts about the patch, which in the case of the animal research involved a heart biopsy to obtain stromal cells and major surgery to affix the device to the heart.

"The concept is incredibly innovative and novel - but the idea to put this into people is in question" because of the risks, said Dr. Douglas Mann, the cardiologist-in-chief at Missouri's Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. For one thing, he said, such a patch might hinder the heart's pumping motion. And he questioned the reliability of the animal tests.

Cheng acknowledged the risks but said there might be ways to mitigate it. For example, he said, it might be possible to develop a patch that could be inserted via a catheter, eliminating the need for major surgery and the risk of complications and infections that it poses.

When might human trials of the patch begin? Cheng wouldn't make a specific prediction, saying only that they could come within a few years. "It'll need to happen a long way in the future," he said. "There's still a lot of basic science that needs to be done."

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A spike-studded patch sounds a bit sadistic, but researchers say such a device could someday help doctors save the lives of people who have suffered a heart attack. The experimental patch - actually a plastic film filled with living heart cells and studded with microscopic needles - is surgically implanted directly onto the heart.

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Researchers swallowed legos for Science.
Kids have swallowed legos in the past. But don't worry, it's OK! Scientist ate some legos and scanned their poop to see if the legos were there...AND THEY WERE! Also, according to Tessa, who is an  emergency pediatrician, was one of the people who ate the legos. FOR SCIENCE OF COURSE! So if your kid eats legos, don't worry it'll come out soon. They are digestive, HURRAY!!!

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Parents rush to the hospital every day after their kids swallow toys. To calm their fears, six brave doctors swallowed Legos for science.

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Super computer predicts the super bowl. Keith Willoughby created a computer program that predicted the outcome of the super-bowl. the super computer predicted that the patriots would win the super bowl by ten points. witch was true and a shock to a-lot of people because this would mean there would be no point in watching it to find out who won because the supercomputer would already tell you.

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For the first time, a computer football predictor built by a "self-confessed sports nut and stats geek" in Saskatoon will take on the Super Bowl, one of the biggest sporting events in the world.

Keith Willoughby is the interim dean at the Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan.

He created the computer model as a way of reaching reluctant students.

"Often our students approach statistics with a blend of fear and loathing," he said.

Willoughby's creation has been predicting the outcome of CFL games for years. It successfully picked the Grey Cup winners in 2014 and 2015 (but didn't fare as well in 2016, when Ottawa claimed the Cup).

It has even been featured on the CFL website - with mixed reviews.

"If the computer model is predicting a bad result for a particular team the fans are usually quite livid in their depiction of the value of the model and using analytics," Willoughby said.

This year, it's Willoughby versus the Super Bowl.

So who will win, according to his computer simulator?

It will be the New England Patriots by 10 points, it says.

Football fans will find out if it's right this Sunday, as the Patriots take on the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl 51.

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For the first time, a computer football predictor built by a "self-confessed sports nut and stats geek" in Saskatoon will take on the Super Bowl, one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Keith Willoughby is the interim dean at the Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Rare black leopard spotted in Africa for the first time in 100 years. This is good news because now we can learn about the nature of this amazing creature. The author quoted  I never get my hopes up, and after the first couple of nights I hadn't got this leopard and I was beginning to think I'd be lucky if I get a photo of a spotty leopard, let alone this black one". In conclusion this is

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Saba. Happy 150th birthday periodic table.

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Saba. Happy 150th birthday periodic table.

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The United Nations has designated 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table to celebrate "one of the most significant achievements in science". This is a significant event because the table is organized with metals and non metals with the numbers being the amount of electrons protons and atomic weight. The periodic table is in every lab you go in and you may even see it in classrooms around your school

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"Although moderately mobile, marine cone snails have perfected several strategies to capture prey. Some fish-hunting species release venom into the surrounding water. Within the plume of toxic venom, the fish succumbs to fast-acting insulin that renders it immobile. As the fish flounders, the snail emerges from its shell to swallow the pacified victim whole." Researchers at University of Utah have uncovered a fast-acting insulin derived from the venom the marine cone snail. This discovery is highly beneficial to the livelihood of diabetic patients. The original insulin was made from pigs and cows, so this marine creature has bettered this industry.

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Although moderately mobile, marine cone snails have perfected several strategies to capture prey. Some fish-hunting species release venom into the surrounding water. Within the plume of toxic venom, the fish succumbs to fast-acting insulin that renders it immobile. As the fish flounders, the snail emerges from its shell to swallow the pacified victim whole.

Researchers at University of Utah Health detailed the function of cone snail insulins, bringing them one step closer to developing a faster-acting insulin to treat diabetes. The results of the study are available in the February 12 issue of the journal eLife.

"These snails have developed a strategy to hit and subdue their prey with up to 200 different compounds, one of which is insulin," said Helena Safavi-Hemami, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biochemistry at U of U Health and senior author on the paper. "Every now and then, we learn something unique from nature and millions of years of evolution."

Insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar, consists of two segments called A and B chains. The B cluster forms dimers and hexamers that allow the pancreas to store the hormone for later use. This segment is also necessary to activate the insulin receptors that signal the body to take up sugar from the blood. Insulin must undergo several conversions to decluster before it can lower blood sugar.

A person with type 1 diabetes is unable to produce insulin and requires daily injections to manage their blood sugar. Despite decades of research, the manufactured insulin continues to contain the B chain in order to activate the receptor to lower blood sugar, delaying the drug's effect by 3090 minutes.

Safavi-Hemami and her team examined the function of seven insulin sequences found in the venom from three species of cone snail Conus geographus, C. tulipa and C. kinoshitai. Unexpectedly, each species produces insulin with slightly different structures. Despite these differences, each insulin is fast-acting because it lacks the sticky part of the B chain found in human insulin.

"Evolution may be the driving force to increase the molecular diversity of the toxin molecules that the cone snail species use for hunting prey," said Danny Hung-Chieh Chou, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biochemistry at U of U Health and a co-author on the paper.

The team tested how each of the insulin sequences lowered blood sugar in zebrafish and mice. The model animals were treated with streptozotocin to induce symptoms of type 1 diabetes before the animals were dosed with the different synthesized insulins.

Safavi-Hemami found three of the venom-generated insulin sequences (Con-Ins T1A from C. tulipa, Con-Ins G1 from C. geographus and Con-Ins K1 from C. kinoshitai) lowered blood sugar effectively. Using cell lines, they found the cone snail insulin sequences were able to bind to and activate the human insulin receptor, despite missing the part of the B chain found in human insulin. These sequences, however, are 10 to 20 times less potent than human insulin.

According to Safavi-Hemami, each unique configuration provides the research team a slightly different template to consider when designing new drugs that act quickly and effectively.

"We are beginning to uncover the secrets of cone snails," said Safavi-Hemami. "We hope to use what we learn to find new approaches to treat diabetes."

Journal Reference:

Peter Ahorukomeye, Maria M Disotuar, Joanna Gajewiak, Santhosh Karanth, Maren Watkins, Samuel D Robinson, Paula Flórez Salcedo, Nicholas A Smith, Brian J Smith, Amnon Schlegel, Briony E Forbes, Baldomero Olivera, Danny Hung-Chieh Chou, Helena Safavi-Hemami. Fish-hunting cone snail venoms are a rich source of minimized ligands of the vertebrate insulin receptor. eLife, 2019; 8 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.41574

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Gory, freaky, cool: Marine snail venom could improve insulin for diabetic patients

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Although moderately mobile, marine cone snails have perfected several strategies to capture prey. Some fish-hunting species release venom into the surrounding water. Within the plume of toxic venom, the fish succumbs to fast-acting insulin that renders it immobile. As the fish flounders, the snail emerges from its shell to swallow the pacified victim whole.

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A UK-led expedition to the Weddell sent a Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to go map a wide grid in waters that are 3,000m deep. but at the end of around the 30 hours that the AUV had been in the water the communication link failed. They're not sure why it failed, considering how unlikely given how flat the seafloor is known to be in this region of the Antarctic.

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The attempt this week to find Sir Ernest Shackleton's missing ship, the Endurance, has ended - without success.

A UK-led expedition to the Weddell Sea sent a sub to the ocean floor to look for the sunken polar yacht, but this robot was itself lost in the process.

The team has now withdrawn from the area because of deteriorating weather and sea-ice conditions.

Shackleton and his crew were forced to give up the Endurance in 1915 when frozen floes crushed its hull.

Their escape across the Antarctic sea-ice on foot and in lifeboats is an astonishing story of fortitude and survival.

The idea of finding the remains of the Endurance has captivated maritime historians and archaeologists for decades.

"As a team we are clearly disappointed not to have been successful in our mission to find Endurance," said Mensun Bound, the director of exploration for the Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 group.

"Like Shackleton before us, who described the graveyard of Endurance as 'the worst portion of the worst sea in the world', our well laid plans were overcome by the rapidly moving ice, and what Shackleton called 'the evil conditions of The Weddell Sea'."

Search for Shackleton's lost ship begins

New map traces Shackleton's footsteps

What happened during the search this week?

The team, on its South African ice-breaker, the SA Agulhas II, arrived at the last-reported position of Endurance on Sunday.

The researchers immediately set about putting down an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to go map a wide grid in waters that are 3,000m deep. But just as this submersible was coming to the end of its more than 30-hour dive, the communication link to the Agulhas failed.

It is not clear if this was the result of just the difficult sea-ice conditions, or component failure on the sub, or even the robot colliding with an obstruction. Although the last possibility seems very unlikely given how flat the seafloor is known to be in this region of the Antarctic.

It is conceivable of course that by the time of the break in communications, the sub had already captured images of Endurance in the Weddell sediments - but that will never be known. An AUV has to be recovered first for its scan data to be pulled off and examined.

The US company Ocean Infinity ran the AUV dive. Its representative Oliver Plunkett said: "Everyone at Ocean Infinity is deeply disappointed that at the eleventh hour, we were not able to produce the images of what is without doubt the most challenging shipwreck in the world to locate.

"We understood the risks of pushing the boundaries of what's been done before with technology operating in the harshest environment on the planet. Our team worked tirelessly throughout and are rightly entitled to celebrate what they achieved in advancing knowledge and understanding."

Why is the team not too downhearted?

The search for Shackleton's ship was an "extra" for the Weddell Sea Expedition 2019. Its main purpose for being in the region was to study the nearby Larsen C Ice Shelf, which in 2017 calved the monster iceberg known as A68.

Understanding the climate interactions in this part of the world is imperative, and the Larsen investigation, completed at the end of January, is said to have been hugely productive, with an AUV acquiring remarkable imagery of the seafloor under the shelf.

Expedition chief scientist Prof Julian Dowdeswell commented: "Through the scientific data gathered during the expedition, we have deepened our knowledge and understanding of Antarctic oceanography and ecosystems, and our observations on the glaciology and geology will play a critical role in our understanding of Antarctic ice shelves and sea-ice and, importantly, the changes that are occurring here today."

The story of Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition has become the stuff of legend, and is even used at business schools in examples of different approaches to staff management.

The Irish-born explorer had wanted to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. He knew it would be tough, which prompted the now famous crew recruitment advert:

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."

The expedition never got to begin its traverse because the Endurance was captured by the Weddell's thick floes in early 1915.

The 44m-long steam yacht drifted for nine months before the pressure of the ice holed the hull and floodwater took it under.

Shackleton and his 27-man crew made their escape northwards, dragging their lifeboats across the pack ice in those places where they couldn't sail on the sea surface.

They managed first to get to Elephant Island, at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from where Shackleton then set off with five others to try to reach South Georgia to get help.

He succeeded, despite having to navigate across 1,000km of the Southern Ocean in a tiny boat.

Even when Shackleton arrived at the British Overseas Territory, he had to climb a set of mountains because the whaling stations that would come to his aid were on the far side of the island.

Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

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The attempt this week to find Sir Ernest Shackleton's missing ship, the Endurance, has ended - without success. A UK-led expedition to the Weddell Sea sent a sub to the ocean floor to look for the sunken polar yacht, but this robot was itself lost in the process.

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It is good news because because all the probes are operational.

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The US space agency's (Nasa) InSight mission has positioned the second of its surface instruments on Mars.

Known as HP3, the heat-flow probe was picked up off the deck of the lander with a robot arm and placed next to the SEIS seismometer package, which was deployed in December.

Together with an onboard radio experiment, these sensor systems will be used to investigate the interior of the planet, to understand its present-day activity and how the sub-surface rocks are layered.

The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) is a German-led instrument.

It incorporates a "mole" to drill down up to 5m below the surface.

The French-led SEIS system will be listening for "Marsquakes" and meteorite impacts. This is information that can be used to build a picture of the planet's overall structure - from its core to its crust.

But SEIS will also be monitoring HP3 when its burrowing activity gets going, because the local vibrations will say something as well about the underground materials in the immediate area.

Mars sensor gets its protective 'hat'

Touchdown triumph for Nasa's Mars probe

'Space snowman' appears squashed

The Nasa mission landed on Mars on 26 November.

Touchdown occurred on flat terrain close to the equator in a region referred to as Elysium Planitia.

The mission's experiments will run initially for one Martian year (roughly two Earth years).

Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

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The US space agency's (Nasa) InSight mission has positioned the second of its surface instruments on Mars. Known as HP3, the heat-flow probe was picked up off the deck of the lander with a robot arm and placed next to the SEIS seismometer package, which was deployed in December.

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The robot that learned how to skate on ice

robots can walk and climb, but they have now made robots learn how to skate! Professor at the Computational Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich says that the robots skate can behaved on the ice, and that it was free to move in the direction of the blade. They say that all it needs to do now is now where it legs need to be to balanced in order to steer. They think that the robots will one day be used for useful activities!

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Robots can walk, climb, and even open doors. But can they iceskate?

Well, it seems now they can.

Stelian Coros, a professor at the Computational Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, says the only thing his team did was to tell the robot how one skate behaved on the ice, and that it was free to move in the direction of the blade.

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If school would start later teens are more energized and ready to learn. Students wore writ activity trackers that pinpointed when they woke up and when they fell asleep. teenagers need 8-10 hours of sleep and some only get 6-7 hours. students who sleep in later get better grades. there median scores increased from 77.5-82.0. Kids can't learn as well early in the morning than they do later with more sleep.

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adolescent Someone in that transitional stage of physical and psychological development that begins at the onset of puberty, typically between the ages of 11 and 13, and ends with adulthood.

average (in science) A term for the arithmetic mean, which is the sum of a group of numbers that is then divided by the size of the group.

biology The study of living things. The scientists who study them are known as biologists.

body clock (also known as biological clock ) A mechanism present in all life forms that controls when various functions such as metabolic signals, sleep cycles or photosynthesis should occur.

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Later school starts linked to better teen grades

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Scientist were inspired by dessert ants as they created the first Ant Bot. It can explore its environment without a GPS and go home automatically. Human eyes are insensitive to ultraviolet light and radiation where as  Cataglyphis desert ants in particular can cover several hundreds of meters in direct sunlight in the desert.  Their extraordinary navigation talent relies on two pieces of information: orientation and simply counting steps.

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Desert ants are extraordinary solitary navigators. Researchers were inspired by these ants as they designed AntBot, the first walking robot that can explore its environment randomly and go home automatically, without GPS or mapping. This work opens up new strategies for navigation in autonomous vehicles and robotics.

Human eyes are insensitive to polarized light and ultraviolet radiation, but that is not the case for ants, who use it to locate themselves in space. Cataglyphis desert ants in particular can cover several hundreds of meters in direct sunlight in the desert to find food, then return in a straight line to the nest, without getting lost. They cannot use pheromones: they come out when the temperature would burn the slightest drop. Their extraordinary navigation talent relies on two pieces of information: the heading measured using a sort of "celestial compass" to orient themselves using the sky's polarized light, and the distance covered, measured by simply counting steps and incorporating the rate of movement relative to the sun measured optically by their eyes. Distance and heading are the two fundamental pieces of information that, once combined, allow them to return smoothly to the nest.

AntBot, the brand-new robot designed by CNRS and Aix-Marseille University (AMU) researchers at ISM, copies the desert ants' exceptional navigation capacities. It is equipped with an optical compass used to determine its heading by means of polarized light, and by an optical movement sensor directed to the sun to measure the distance covered. Armed with this information, AntBot has been shown to be able, like the desert ants, to explore its environment and to return on its own to its base, with precision of up to 1 cm after having covered a total distance of 14 meters. Weighing only 2.3 kg, this robot has six feet for increased mobility, allowing it to move in complex environments, precisely where deploying wheeled robots and drones can be complicated (disaster areas, rugged terrain, exploration of extraterrestrial soils, etc.).

The optical compass* developed by the scientists is sensitive to the sky's polarized ultraviolet radiation. Using this "celestial compass," AntBot measures its heading with 0.4° precision by clear or cloudy weather. The navigation precision achieved with minimalist sensors proves that bio-inspired robotics has immense capacity for innovation. Here we have a trio of advances. A novel robot has been developed, new, innovative and unconventional optical sensors have been designed, and AntBot brings new understanding on how desert ants navigate, by testing several models that biologists have imagined to mimic this animal. Before exploring potential applications in aerial robotics or in the automobile industry, for example, progress must be made, for instance in how to operate this robot at night or over longer distances.

This work received support from the Direction Générale de l'Armement, CNRS, AMU, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and from ANR under the Equipex/Robotex project.

* -- This compass is composed of only two pixels topped by two polarized filters that turn to be equivalent to an optical sensor composed of two rows of 374 pixels. Turning the filters mechanically is an innovation that has reduced the sensor's production cost quite considerably, from over 78,000€ to only a few hundred euros, within the constraints of the biomimetics.

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The first walking robot that moves without GPS

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Desert ants are extraordinary solitary navigators. Researchers were inspired by these ants as they designed AntBot, the first walking robot that can explore its environment randomly and go home automatically, without GPS or mapping. This work opens up new strategies for navigation in autonomous vehicles and robotics.

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Currently Silicon rules the electronics industry. Gallium Nitride could change the world for a whole new generation of miniaturized tech. Gallium Nitride could be the silicon of the future. It is a really good conductor because it makes items like chargers into smaller objects. Electric cars, use only gallium nitride which makes them much more efficient than normal cars.

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Rare black leopard spotted in Africa for the first time.