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79% of Crohn's disease patients in remission after early intervention

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Giving an immunotherapy drug as soon as possible after diagnosis with Crohn’s disease significantly reduces complications,...
Giving an immunotherapy drug as soon as possible after diagnosis with Crohn’s disease significantly reduces complications, including the need for surgery by a factor of 10, a clinical study has found. Compared to conventional treatment, which favors delaying the use of advanced therapies, the results suggest re-thin...

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Priceless barn find: first microcomputers discovered by cleaners

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computer historic history ibm kingston university
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Trillions of tons of buried hydrogen: Clean energy gold rush begins

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There's enough natural hydrogen trapped underground to meet all projected demands for hundreds of years. An...
There's enough natural hydrogen trapped underground to meet all projected demands for hundreds of years. An unpublished report by the US Geological Survey identifies it as a new primary resource, and fires the starter pistol on a new gold rush.The "black gold" oil rush in the US started in 1859, when one Edwin Drake...

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Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes a day

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Small Modular Reactor (SMR) construction shifts into high gear, as UK company Sheffield Forgemasters welds a...
Small Modular Reactor (SMR) construction shifts into high gear, as UK company Sheffield Forgemasters welds a full-size nuclear reactor vessel in under 24 hours instead of the usual 12 months. The rollout of this game-changing tech could be massive.Modular reactors have the potential to revolutionize the nuclear powe...

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ADHD linked to evolutionary success in ancient humans

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While current diagnostic definitions of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are relatively new, the general condition has...
While current diagnostic definitions of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are relatively new, the general condition has been identified by clinicians under a variety of names for centuries. Recent genetic studies have revealed the condition to be highly heritable, meaning the majority of those with the...

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New thermal scope lets snipers see bullets in flight without tracers

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Defense contractor Teledyne FLIR has unveiled its new thermal sniper scope that can see its own...
Defense contractor Teledyne FLIR has unveiled its new thermal sniper scope that can see its own bullets fly by day or night at ranges up to 2,200 m (1.3 miles). First seeing light at the annual SHOT Show in Las Vegas, the ThermoSight HISS-HD allows snipers and machine gunners to engage targets at long range while re...

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28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid

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Minesto's fully operational Dragon 12 looks like some sort of futuristic military drone – but it...
Minesto's fully operational Dragon 12 looks like some sort of futuristic military drone – but it behaves remarkably like a kite underwater. It uses lift generated by tidal flows to fly patterns faster than the currents, harvesting renewable energy.Solar energy is the bedrock of most renewable energy grid plans – but...

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First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing

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3d bioprinting 3d printing brain university of wisconsin
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"Bookfind of the century" sells for $2.23 million

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Nano-scale inks could lighten airliners by hundreds of kilograms

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aircraft color kobe university world's lightest
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Graphene replaces sand to make lighter, stronger concrete

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Lightweight woven helical antenna could replace field-deployed dishes

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antenna stanford university
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Artificial spider gland spins scalable spider silk just like nature

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biotechnology riken silk spiders sustainable
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Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA's new tallest building

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Oklahoma's Boardwalk at Bricktown skyscraper was recently revealed as the upcoming second-tallest skyscraper in the United...
Oklahoma's Boardwalk at Bricktown skyscraper was recently revealed as the upcoming second-tallest skyscraper in the United States. Designer AO is now aiming for even greater heights, however, and has carried out an ambitious redesign in a bid to make it the country's new tallest building.Assuming all goes ahead as p...

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Surprise plant cell discovery unlocks human anti-aging potential

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Scientists have discovered a new contender in the quest to hack the human aging process, and...
Scientists have discovered a new contender in the quest to hack the human aging process, and it’s a little-studied protein within a cell structure that also doesn’t get a lot of airtime in research despite being one of the first organelles identified more than a century ago.The Golgi apparatus, also known as the Gol...

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Busted: Elon Musk admits new Optimus video isn't what it seems

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Elon Musk has Xeeted out a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot folding a t-shirt –...
Elon Musk has Xeeted out a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot folding a t-shirt – which would be great, but then followed up with a second Xeet clarifying that the video is far less impressive than it looks – after being called out by observers.Dozens of companies are now pushing to make 2024 the year when huma...

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X-59 supersonic X-plane gets rolled out by NASA and Lockheed Martin

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One liter of bottled water found to contain 240k plastic fragments

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90-seat Elysian airliner: 800-1,000 km range on batteries alone

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A Dutch startup says everyone's hugely underestimating the potential of battery-electric aircraft – that it's possible...
A Dutch startup says everyone's hugely underestimating the potential of battery-electric aircraft – that it's possible to build large battery-electric airliners covering distances most assume we'll need hydrogen for. Elysian plans to prove it. The company doesn't believe it'll need some giant leap in batteries to do...

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"Millennium Camera" to take a 1k-year long-exposure photo

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Novel helmet liner 30 times better at stopping concussions

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carbon concussions nanotubes traumatic brain injury university of wisconsin
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US Air Force refuels a tanker plane backwards

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In a topsy-turvy bit of military aviation, the US Air Force used a C-5M Super Galaxy...
In a topsy-turvy bit of military aviation, the US Air Force used a C-5M Super Galaxy heavy transport to refuel a KC-10 Extender refueling tanker aircraft, pumping fuel backwards up the boom from transport to tanker instead of the other way around.First conceived in the 1920s, inflight refueling has developed from a ...

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Sniffing women's tears reduces male aggression by 44%, study finds

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behavior chemicals tears weizmann institute
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