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Novel dementia vaccine on track for human trials within two years

Posted in Medicine on 2nd Jan, 2020
by Alex Muller

The researchers suggest this "dementia vaccine" is now ready for human trials, and if successful could become the “breakthrough of the next decade.”

Review of intermittent fasting research suggests broad health benefits

Posted in Medicine on 1st Jan, 2020
by Alex Muller

A new analysis of current intermittent fasting research suggests the dietary strategy could soon be incorporated as standard medical health and diet advice.

Finding Over 100 Million Exoplanets By 2050

Posted in Science on 30th Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller

The cumulative number of exoplanets that have been discovered has been following power law scaling for the past 25 years and if this continued to 2050 then we would find about 100 million exoplanets.

Battery-free biosensor is the smallest one yet

Posted in Hardware, Medicine on 29th Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller

Designed to continuously monitor various bodily processes, externally-powered biosensors are not only smaller than their battery-packing counterparts, but they also don't have to be surgically retrieved for battery-changes.

Japanese satellite sets low altitude record

Posted in Hardware, Science on 28th Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller

The TSUBAME mission was designed to test the feasibility of placing satellites in super-low altitudes between 200 and 300 km (120 and 190 mi), where they can capture high-resolution images.