Title: Used to Gauge COVID Severity, Pulse Oximeters Can Be Inaccurate on Darker Skin
Category: Health News
Created: 2/22/2021 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/23/2021 12:00:00 AM
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The search for extraterrestrial life may not take us very far from home. Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen recently published an incredible study demonstrating there’s a high likelihood the Milky Way is absolutely flooded with potentially life-bearing planets. Published in Science Advances, the team’s paper entitled “A pebble accretion model for the formation of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System,” lays out and attempts to validate a theory that planets are formed by tiny, millimeter-sized pebbles massing together over time. According to the researchers: We show that a pebble accretion scenario for terrestrial planet formation provides explanations for…
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Title: Urinary Incontinence a Common Issue for Older Women, But Treatments Can Help
Category: Health News
Created: 2/19/2021 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/22/2021 12:00:00 AM
IBM, Call for Code, and the Linux Foundation announce new open source projects to combat racism
Feb22
The Linux Foundation last week announced it was hosting seven open source projects in partnership with IBM and David Clark Cause’s Call for Code for Racial Justice. Background: Call for Code for Racial Justice launched late last year to solicit solutions from the global coding community. The goal of the challenge is to come up with novel open source solutions backed by IBM and partner technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. There are currently seven “solution starters” which are now hosted by the Linux Foundation. According to IBM Call for Code director Ruth Davis: These applications emerged from…
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Once, holograms were just a scientific curiosity. But thanks to the rapid development of lasers, they have gradually moved center stage, appearing on the security imagery for credit cards and banknotes, in science fiction movies – most memorably Star Wars – and even “live” on stage when long-dead rapper Tupac reincarnated for fans at the Coachella music festival in 2012. Holography is the photographic process of recording light that is scattered by an object and presenting it in a three-dimensional way. Invented in the early 1950s by the Hungarian-British physicist Dennis Gabor, the discovery later earned him the Nobel Prize…
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