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Science/Tech

The ‘remarkable’ implant that can restore sight – podcast

23 October at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

An electronic eye implant half the thickness of a human hair has helped people with incurable sight loss to see again, opening up a potential ‘new era’ in tackling blindness. Madeleine Finlay hears from Mahi Muqit, a surgeon from Moorfields eye hospital in London, about what this implant has meant for his patients and what the future could hold for vision-loss therapies

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Weight-loss drug cuts heart attack risk regardless of kilograms shed, study finds

23 October at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

Semaglutide study suggests such drugs could have wider benefits, though researchers find shrinking waistlines linked to better heart outcomes

The weight-loss drug semaglutide cuts the risk of heart attack or stroke regardless of how many kilograms people lose, the largest study of its kind has found.

However, shrinking waist size – a sign of less belly fat – was linked to better heart...

Darleane Hoffman obituary

22 October at 18:17 PM, via The Guardian

Scientist whose research into transuranic elements revised the understanding of nuclear fission

Darleane Hoffman’s research into superheavy radioactive elements at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and, prior to that, at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, enhanced and extensively revised our knowledge of those elements and, consequently,...

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft

22 October at 18:08 PM, via New York Times

In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.

Antidepressants differ in side-effects such as weight gain, UK research finds

22 October at 17:23 PM, via The Guardian

Notable variations between different medications were found in weight gain or loss, heart rate and blood pressure

People taking certain types of antidepressants can gain up to 2kg (4.5lbs) in weight within the first two months of treatment, while patients taking other drugs can lose the equivalent or more, according to a major review of potential side-effects.

The research, led by academics at...

Scientists create pigs resistant to classical swine fever

22 October at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Gene-edited animals remained healthy when exposed to highly contagious deadly disease

Pigs that are resistant to a deadly viral disease have been created by scientists at Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute.

The gene-edited animals remained healthy when exposed to classical swine fever (CSF), a highly contagious and often fatal disease. The virus was eradicated in the UK in 1966, but there have been...

Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap

22 October at 17:00 PM, via New York Times

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.

Meta Plans to Cut 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs

22 October at 16:05 PM, via New York Times

The cuts will not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The layoffs are focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.

Letter: Jenny Cox obituary

22 October at 14:25 PM, via The Guardian

In writing about my mother, Jenny Cox, I mentioned that she was refused permission to do her botany PhD research on the island of South Georgia purely because she was a woman. Though she saw this as an injustice for the rest of her life, she never revealed any details of what happened.

The efficient archive service at the British Antarctic Survey have now made available a letter from Sir Vivian...

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