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08/02/2025

‘Ionic wind’ vortex ring launchers extinguish fires cleanly and safely.

Fighting fire usually involves water or foam, but they can be messy and environmentally destructive. Engineers at Ohio State University have now developed handheld tools that cleanly extinguish fires with ‘ionic wind’ and vortex rings....

More: https://weirdnews.info/2025/02/07/ionic-wind-vortex-ring-launchers-extinguish-fires-cleanly-and-safely/

07/02/2025

Preventing immune system burnout when fighting chronic illness & cancer
"Scientists have uncovered a mechanism for reinvigorating the immune system to stop it from flagging when it’s fighting long-term conditions like chronic infections and cancer. The discovery could make treatments more effective and improve clinical outcomes......"
More: https://weirdnews.info/2025/02/05/preventing-immune-system-burnout-when-fighting-chronic-illness-cancer/

05/02/2025

“Injectable bone” gel may be a radically better treatment for osteoporosis
https://weirdnews.info/2025/02/03/injectable-bone-gel-may-be-a-radically-better-treatment-for-osteoporosis/

01/02/2025

The FDA has approved a novel first-in-class analgesic. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of a novel painkiller as an effective treatment for short-term moderate-to-severe pain in adults. …

https://weirdnews.info/2025/01/31/fda-approves-new-class-of-painkiller-the-first-in-more-than-20-years/

30/01/2025

Trillion-dollar disruptor: China’s DeepSeek upends AI World Overnight

DeepSeek’s open-source model shows that the US way is not the only AI way. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Jan 27 – The US AI giants got a wake-up call this week, when fledgling Chinese firm DeepSeek wiped a record-breaking trillion dollars off the value of heavyweights like Nvidia an...

29/01/2025

Ghost in the machine: The race toward conscious, sentient AI

Canadian startup Nirvanic hopes to prove quantum consciousness theories by creating sentient AIs and robots. And yes, this is a company to be taken seriously. Nirvanic Consciousness Technologies – View 6 Images – By Loz Blain 2025 Jan 22 – As science wrestles with the thorny job of proving, de...

28/01/2025

WEIRD SCIENCE: Self-balancing, omnidirectional big red balls bike

The completed omnidirectional self-balancing bike built by James Bruton. XRobot View 7 Images – By Joe Salas 2025 Jan 25 – James Bruton is a serial crazy-contraption inventor, from a Lego longboard to a self-balancing mecanum-wheeled “Screw bike.” Now he’s done it again with what might be ...

25/01/2025

A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% accuracy, and it is even able to distinguish whether the abnormalities are due to pneumonia, COVID-19 or other conditions.....
More: https://newatlas.com/medical-ai/ai-lung-disease/

A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% accuracy, and it is even able to distinguish whether the abnormalities are due to pneumonia, COVID-19 or other conditions.

01/01/2025

2024 saw smaller models and new guardrails for language AIs. pagadesign/E+ via Getty Images – By Published: 2024 Dec 20 – I research the intersection of artificial intelligence, natural language processing and human reasoning as the director of the Advancing Human and Machine Reasoning lab at th...

01/01/2025

An existing ADHD medication can help people quit methamphetamine. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 Dec 27 – New research has found that an existing ADHD medication greatly reduced the number of days people with a methamphetamine dependence used the drug. With no current drug treatment to ass...

01/01/2025

Researchers have developed a way of guiding stem cells’ development. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 Dec 26 – Researchers have created a way to guide and control the development of stem cells into specific tissues and organs, opening the door to developing a means of one day tackling comp...

01/01/2025

A new study shows that adding sugar to coffee can have a surprising effect on circadian rhythms. Depositphotos – By Michael Franco 2024 Dec 24 – A new study turned up a surprising effect of having caffeine with a sweetener. For some java drinkers, it could be a way to get more out of the beverag...

01/01/2025

OLaLaMerkel / Shutterstock – Published: 2024 Dec 24 – Authors Michael Timothy Bennett PhD Student, School of Computing, Australian National University and by Elija Perrier Research Fellow, Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology, Stanford University – A new artificial intelligence (...

01/01/2025

A trade card promoting a holiday sale at the ‘Bee Hive’ store on Dec. 10, 1879, in New York City. Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images   Author Valerie M. Fridland, Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno Published: 2024 Dec 12   Everyone has heard of Santa Claus, that chubby, whi...

01/01/2025

Strawberries are just one food packed with kaempferol, a flavonoid that reduces inflammation Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 Dec 21 – New research has found that a chemical abundant in fruits, vegetables and plant products can suppress the immune response seen in food allergies. It paves th...

01/01/2025

An illustration of K’awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA – By James L. Fitzsimmons, Professor of Anthropology, Middlebury Published: 2024 Oct 03 – The ancient Maya believe...

01/01/2025

This shows how the I-Xray software works, from capturing the image to aggregating the data. AnhPhu Nguyen – By Joe Salas 2024 Oct 02 – In what might be described as a real-life Black Mirror episode, a Harvard student uses facial recognition with $379 Meta Ray-Ban 2 smart sunglasses – to dig up...