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Screenshot: X/NeuralinkNeuralink, Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup, live-streamed an interview with its first patient on Wednesday. The man in question, a 29-year-old quadriplegic who identifies himself as Noland Arbaugh, said that he has been unable to move his arms or legs for nearly a decade. Using Neuralink’s brain implant, which was inserted in January, the man now seems to be able to play chess as well as the game Civilization by using his mind. The interview, in which Nolan is seen playing the games, was streamed…

Neuralink CEO Elon Musk has reacted to a live stream of a quadriplegic man, the company's first brain implant patient, playing video games and online chess using just his mind.  In the video shared…

It's hard to be optimistic about the world when you see the devastating effects of climate change all around you. It's even harder when you study environmental science and see, first hand, just how far behind we are in implementing the changes necessary to protect the planet. Hannah Ritchie, a University of Oxford data and environmental scientist, says that kind of pessimism gets in the way of progress.What's more, she says, a doom-and-bloom mindset ignores the fact people have made the world a better place to live in,…

Dangling from a thin rope thousands of feet above Yosemite Valley last October, Zuko Carrasco could feel his arms tremble. A paraplegic who had lost the use of his legs eight years earlier in a bizarre accident — a trust fall gone awry — he had spent a week ascending El Capitan, the world’s most famous big wall rock climb, one tiny pull-up at a time.A “good pull” moved him up about 4 inches. He would need to perform something like 9,000 of them to reach the summit.Along the way, he suffered dehydration, searing blisters…

Days after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, an otherwise healthy teenage girl suddenly had trouble breathing. COVID-19 appeared to have paralyzed her vocal cords.The girl needed a surgical tracheostomy – an opening in her windpipe below her voice box – to support her breathing for over a year. According to a new case report on the event, COVID's impact on the nervous system may cause vocal cord paralysis in rare cases.The authors say this is the first case of vocal cord paralysis in a teenager after a COVID-19 diagnosis, though…

We’re still discovering new ways covid-19 can harm us, some four years after the emergence of this complicated viral disease. In a recent report, doctors in Massachusetts describe a teen girl whose vocal cords became paralyzed soon after a bout of covid-19. The girl required a tracheostomy in place for more than a year to help her breathe, though doctors did eventually remove it.With AI Advertising, Nothing is Real | AI UnlockedThe case report, published this week in the journal Pediatrics, was written by doctors from…

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have developed a new spinal stimulator that can help restore lower limb function to paralyzed patients. The tiny device can be non-invasively implanted through a syringe.Spinal injuries interrupt the flow of electrical signals from the brain to the lower parts of the body, reducing mobility and in severe cases leading to total paralysis. Spinal stimulators are devices that can be surgically implanted into a patient’s spine to bypass the injury site and restore some mobility. Unfortunately,…

Actor Daniel Radcliffe shared a behind-the-scenes story of his Harry Potter stunt double. David Holmes, who performed the franchise`s stunts until an on-set spinal injury left him paralyzed from the chest down, is the subject of a new HBO documentary produced by longtime friend Radcliffe, reported People. The documentary `David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived` begins with a clip of the stunt performer, who is now 42 years old, avoiding exploding dragon fire and whirling in midair on Harry`s broomstick. "I used to fly," said…

Jamie Foxx, who has established himself as a multi-talented entertainer and has received critical acclaim for his work in various fields of the entertainment industry. The actor left his fans and followers worried for him since he was hospitalised due to a medical complication. Now the happiness of his fans knows no bounds because he has finally talked about his health and clarified to them that there is nothing to worry about. He shared a heartfelt video and opened up about the challenging time he faced in April when…

When the patient arrives, it can barely move its body. Sometimes it can’t blink. Vibrant green wings falter as the parrot tries—and fails—to fly. A nurse props up the bird’s limp, violet-blue head on a makeshift cushion and slides a bowl of nectar in front of its bright red beak. It is just one of dozens of rainbow lorikeets being treated for a mysterious paralyzing illness at this wildlife hospital in eastern Australia. Thousands of the birds are afflicted every year in the region, where they are a fixture in backyards,…