Apple’s second-generation HomePod will start arriving to customers and launch in stores this Friday. Ahead of time, the first reviews of the smart speaker have been shared by select media publications and YouTube channels. Priced at $299, the new HomePod features a virtually identical design as the full-size HomePod that Apple discontinued in March 2021, … Read more
Based on a Google algorithm technique, researchers showed a new way of organizing data that has wide-reaching implications for the medical field. Credit: Big Data Mining and Analytics, Tsinghua University Press A medical knowledge graph is a specific way that researchers can organize and display information for use in medical research and clinical applications. The … Read more
In a recent study scheduled to be published in the journal Icarus in March 2023, a team of researchers led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeled a potential correlation between an ancient freezing ocean with cryovolcanic flows and surface canyons on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. Their hypothesis was that when Charon’s interior ocean froze … Read more
MALVERN, Pa., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — LifeScan, a world leader in blood glucose monitoring, today announced that the peer-reviewed Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology (JDST) has published Improved Glycemic Control Using a Bluetooth Connected Blood Glucose Meter and a Mobile Diabetes App: Real-World Evidence From Over 144,000 People With Diabetes, detailing results from … Read more
The addition of maintenance olaparib (Lynparza) to bevacizumab (Avastin) appeared to elicit better progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with BRCA-mutant high-grade ovarian cancer, with particular benefit observed in those with mutations located in the DNA-binding domain (DBD) of BRCA1/2, according to findings from an exploratory subgroup analysis of the phase 3 PAOLA-1/ENGOT-ov25 trial (NCT02477644). No … Read more
(a). Flowering plants, (b). Underground part of the plant, (c). The rootball. As indicated by the arrowheads, the root tips are easily recognizable. Scale bar: 3 cm (a), 1 cm (b), 5 mm (c). Photographed by Hideo Shimada (a) and Kenji Suetsugu (bc). Credit: Suetsugu, K., Hirota, SK, Hsu, TC. et al. Monotropastrum kirishimense (Ericaceae), … Read more
A 46-year-old man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court for the capital murder of a garda in Co Roscommon two-and-a-half years ago. Stephen Silver from Aughavard, Foxford in Co Mayo, has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter. Garda Colm Horkan, 49, was shot dead with his own Garda issue … Read more
Christian Eriksen has been ruled out until April at the earliest, after being forced off in Manchester United’s FA Cup win over Reading. The midfielder, who was caught by a tackle from Andy Carroll, left Old Trafford on crutches after the 3-1 win on Saturday and now looks set to miss a significant amount of … Read more
Crash safety improvement is an ongoing process for NASCAR, not necessarily tied to particular race cars or seasons. The sanctioning body has empowered its safety engineering team, based in Concord, North Carolina, and led by managing director John Patalak, to pursue improvements wherever it identifies a potential safety benefit. Nevertheless, an all-new race car design … Read more
Comets are enigmatic objects. They are loose aggregates of dust and water-ice infused with a complex mix of trapped gases which get released when warmed by the Sun to produce massive tails that can stretch for millions of kilometers – although you could pass right through them without even noticing. Throughout history and across cultures … Read more
