Bone

Andrey Kurkov’s latest novel to be translated into English, The Silver Bone, has begins in dramatic fashion. Its hero, Samson Kolechko, is walking in the streets of revolutionary Kyiv. It is the spring of 1919. Suddenly, two Russian Cossacks appear. They chop off his ear with a sabre before riding off. “Hot blood poured down his cheek and seeped under his collar,” Kurkov writes. Samson’s unfortunate father is cut down and killed.The severed right ear – recovered and placed in a tin – plays a central role in Kurkov’s…

Matthew Miller/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe H2O Audio Tri Pro, they are now the perfect bone conduction headset for my needs and, possibly, for yours too.View at Amazon With Playlist Plus enabled, the headset will load content that you play on your smartphone into an offline folder on the headset with 8GB of space available. You can turn on the Playlist Plus capture via button presses on the headset or via the H2O Audio smartphone app. Matthew Miller/ZDNETMy preferred way to get my Spotify playlists over to the…

Gary Sinise’s only son, McCanna “Mac” Sinise, died last month after a 5½-year fight with a rare bone cancer, the veterans activist and “Forrest Gump” actor announced Tuesday on his foundation’s website. “Like any family experiencing such a loss, we are heartbroken and have been managing as best we can,” the actor wrote. “As parents, it is so difficult losing a child. My heart goes out to all who have suffered a similar loss, and to anyone who has lost a loved one.”Mac Sinise was 33 when the cancer chordoma took his life…

The Soundcore Aerofit Pro headphones clipped to the adjustable headband. Jack Wallen/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe Anker Soundcore Aerofit Pro headphones that outdo any pair of bone-conducting headphones I've tried to date.View at Amazon One of the more fascinating pieces of music on my playlist is Ministry's "TV 5/4 Chan." This piece of music shifts between channels in an almost violent fashion and the AeroFit Pro headphones delivered it to the point where I had to skip through the track.Coal Chamber's "Rowboat"…

The Soundcore Aerofit Pro headphones clipped to the adjustable headband. Jack Wallen/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe Anker Soundcore Aerofit Pro headphones that outdo any pair of bone-conducting headphones I've tried to date.View at Amazon One of the more fascinating pieces of music on my playlist is Ministry's "TV 5/4 Chan." This piece of music shifts between channels in an almost violent fashion and the AeroFit Pro headphones delivered it to the point where I had to skip through the track.Coal Chamber's "Rowboat"…

By The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) February 17, 2024A groundbreaking development in bone regeneration has been achieved with the creation of a piezoelectric scaffold by a KAIST-led research team. Utilizing hydroxyapatite (HAp) to generate electrical signals under pressure, this scaffold mimics the natural environment of bone tissue, showing promising results in promoting bone growth through both laboratory and animal studies. This advancement opens new pathways for biomaterial design and…

NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli is pictured inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module opening a science freezer that hosts research samples for preservation and analysis. Credit: NASAStem cell research carried into Friday as the Expedition 70 crew members worked to wrap up an experiment that began earlier in the week. As science continued aboard the International Space Station, a cargo craft is currently in orbit preparing to approach the orbiting laboratory for an…

Matthew Miller/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe Suunto Wing. And they're fantastic.View at Amazon Two buttons are found on the underside of the headphones, controlling power and volume up/down. With a quick configuration on the smartphone app, you can then long press the volume down button to toggle the LED lights on and off, which makes things very convenient when you need more safety.Matthew Miller/ZDNETAnother unique feature of the headphones is the head movement control functionality. Again, this can be toggled…

Really old artifacts are always fascinating, acting almost like time machines in the way that they let us peer back through hundreds or even thousands of years of history – and archaeologists have just discovered a tube-shaped bead in Wyoming that is thought to be some 12,940 years old.The bead is the oldest ever found in the Western hemisphere: it's just 7 millimeters (0.28 inches) long and 2.9 mm (0.11 inches) in diameter. According to the team that identified it, it has a lot to tell us about personal ornamentation in…

An ancient bone dating back thousands of years is the first solid evidence that humans in Europe were collecting and storing a powerful and dangerous drug.Deliberately hollowed out and plugged with birch tar, the bone – originally from a sheep or goat – was found to contain a large number of seeds of a plant called black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger).A trio of researchers from Germany and the Netherlands have argued the plant material was being kept for a specific purpose.In even small doses, black henbane, common…