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New clinical trial data show that a drug developed in Japan reduces the duration of loss of smell and taste. An important advantage is that it can be prescribed to people with mild symptoms. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, about 40-50% of those infected had a loss of sense of smell and taste. […]
Scientists from the United States have presented a very elegant solution to fight the tumor: they killed cancer with bacterial therapy, using the power of all vaccines injected into the body earlier in life. The first tests showed a very high effectiveness of this method, and it also reliably protects against cancer recurrence. The idea […]
Researchers from Nankai University in China have created a prototype of an almost perpetual electricity generator that does not require fuel. It generates electricity through one of the fundamental phenomena of our world – the Brownian motion of molecules. That is, to start the generator, you only need to place it in a glass of […]
Artificial intelligence was first used to detect and classify supernovae without human intervention. Scientists from the international team developed an AI tool called Bright Transient Survey Bot (BTSbot) using machine learning on more than 1.4 million images from nearly 16,000 sources. This new tool automates the process of detecting starbursts, improving speed and preventing errors, […]
One of the problems associated with lunar missions is fine dust or regolith. Once in a low-gravity environment, tiny charged particles hang in space and pose a serious danger to the operation of Earth’s mechanisms. New research has shown that regolith can be turned into smooth roads by directing a laser at it. The strength […]
Researchers at Microsoft Research’s Cambridge lab have developed a revolutionary way to use glass to store massive amounts of data, helping to save resources and space in a world where the influx of digital information requires ever larger data stores. As scientists write on the official website of Project Silica, if we continue on the […]
Scientists have presented a prototype of a smart scalpel that opens up opportunities for creating automated surgical devices. Tests have shown that it helps medical students cope with tasks at the level of experienced doctors. A team from the University of Edinburgh has presented a prototype of a smart scalpel with built-in touch sensors to […]
A negative rental situation can accelerate your aging. Renting a home leads to faster biological aging than owning your own home or living in social housing. According to the authors of the study, being a tenant is more harmful to health than being unemployed or a former smoker. This is due to both poor living […]
One of the biggest challenges for space agencies planning to establish bases on the Moon is dust. After all, it damages spacesuits, clogs mechanisms, interferes with the operation of scientific instruments, and makes it difficult to move. This is stated in a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. Scientists have discovered a possible solution […]
An international team of astronomers has observed for the first time a thermal afterglow resulting from the collision of two icy exoplanets. The cloud formed by the cataclysm led to a change in the brightness of the star. The described events took place in the vicinity of the sun-like star ASASSN-21qj, which is located at […]