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A rather interesting report was shared by Allstate Protection Plans. The company says that a ton of Americans damaged their smartphones in the last year (both Android & iOS), 78 million of them, to be exact. This survey was conducted in May and December 2023, and it gathered 1,004 responses. Just to be fully transparent. A lot of Americans damaged their smartphones in the last year While this number is quite high, it’s lower than in 2020. Back then, 87 million Americans damaged their smartphones. Since then, however,…

Confocal imaging demonstrating the dense network of capillary blood vessels in the lung that allow oxygen to move into our bloodstream. This complex vascular network can be severely disrupted upon viral infections like influenza and COVID-19, which greatly contributes to disease severity and mortality. Credit: Gan ZhaoRecent research reveals a breakthrough in lung repair, showing how delivering VEGFA via lipid nanoparticles can significantly repair damaged blood vessels, akin to plumbing repairs. This method, validated in…

Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight went through the petrifying ordeal of flying mid-air in an aircraft with a damaged wing.The Boeing 757-200, which was heading to Boston from San Francisco, made an emergency landing in Denver on Monday before all the 165 passengers were safely put on another flight to their destination.Kevin Clarke, a passenger on the damaged plane, recalled the harrowing moment of looking out the window and seeing parts of the plane’s wing missing.“I immediately opened the window, looked out…

Humble-Brilliant-654 / Reddit CableMod’s adapters were meant to fix the problem of melting connectors on Nvidia’s top GPU, the RTX 4090, but it appears that things didn’t go as planned. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a notice that the CableMod 12VHPWR angled adapters are being recalled due to fire and burn hazards. More than 25,300 adapters are to be returned, and the affected customers are eligible for a full refund. The connectors on the RTX 4090 have been melting ever since the GPU hit the…

Kauwe, Pareja-Navarro et al. identify a KIBRA-dependent mechanism to repair the plasticity at synapses that is dysregulated in neurons underlying the loss of memory in tauopathy. The art depicts the recovery of the functional plasticity at synapses on neurons despite tau-induced toxicity in the brain. Credit: Larissa BrownA groundbreaking study presents a novel Alzheimer’s treatment strategy focusing on memory restoration through the repair of damaged synapses, leveraging the critical role of the KIBRA protein. This…

A study has found that playing a soundscape to a common, plant-promoting fungus found in soil caused it to grow more rapidly than fungi that weren’t exposed to sound. The novel ‘eco-acoustic’ approach has the potential to restore damaged ecosystems.Sound is a fundamental aspect of the environment and critical to ecosystems. Research has found that plants perceive sound as a mechanical stimulus that can encourage the flow of nutrients, promote growth, and strengthen their immune systems. Now, a new study by Flinders…

January 17, 20243 min readThe Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted in January 2022 with the force of an atomic weapon. The disaster has launched dozens of new studies about global warmingBy John Fialka & E&E NewsTonga. 15th Jan, 2022. Still capture of a video released to the media by NASA on Jan. 15, 2022 of one of the most potent volcanic eruptions in decades has obliterated a small, uninhabited South Pacific island known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai. CLIMATEWIRE | Scientists around the world are exploring…

Researchers have taken a big step forward in the quest to regenerate the pancreatic beta-cells damaged by type 1 diabetes. Using FDA-approved drugs usually given to patients with rare cancers, they reprogrammed pancreatic cells to produce and secrete insulin in response to glucose. The discovery could mean that, one day, diabetics won't need to take multiple daily insulin injections.Pancreatic beta-cells synthesize, store and release insulin. But, in type 1 diabetes (T1D), the immune system selectively destroys these…

‘Honestly I’m terrified,” says Paul Simpson. “I don’t know what I’ve written and I’m far too close to it.” The singer, musician and frontman of cult 1980s Liverpool group the Wild Swans is speaking from a residential room in the Rubrics, in Trinity College, Dublin, where his partner, the theatre director Gemma Bodinetz, is currently working. The oldest residential building in Ireland and also, by many accounts, the most haunted building in the country, it is a suitable setting in which to discuss his book Revolutionary…

Nov. 21, 2023 10:00 am ETFaded baby photos. Cracked wedding pictures. Water-damaged graduation shots. Old family photos don’t always survive the test of time. AI can help revive them. In the past, photo restoration was complicated and costly, often requiring an artist to fix the images by hand. Adobe Photoshop and other advanced graphic-design tools shifted the work to computers, but such programs can be too complicated for the average person. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…